Take Out The Trash

My pastor has some of the most unique analogies I have ever heard and they stick with you too. He was talking about have anyone ever tried to throw away an old garbage can. You sit it out there with the rest of your garbage and its split down the middle and torn. The garbage men come to pick up the trash and they take everything but that torn up garbage can. Then the next day you sit it out there again and they leave it yet again. Day after day you could sit that trash can out there and the garbage men wont pick it up. Why? Thats what garbage is supposed to go into so they wont pick it up. You literally have to tear the garbage can to pieces and put it in a trash bag in order for them to take it. Isnt that how it is with us as chritians. We keep playing on the edge of sin day after day and then come to church on sundays like that garabage can that never got picked up. You cant let the sins of your past or present to keep coming back. You have to let God scrape, tear, and demolish all that sin thats in your heart so that it can be taken away like the trash can that was broken.