Jesus Came to Take Out the Trash

On my way to my Bible study today I drove to our Church and just as I was turning off the busy highway a trash truck turned in ahead of me.

I laughed and said out loud, “Now there’s a sermon in that. Jesus comes to take the trash out of our hearts and lives. All we have to do is ask him.”

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23 King James Version (KJV)

When Adam and Eve sinned, death entered the world. There was no longer access to the Tree of Life and trash overtook the heart of humanity.

In our modern society without trash removal our world would be a terrible place to live. Garbage would pile up; flies would swarm as maggots ate away at the mess. Parasites, worms, infections rot and putrid water, would bring disease; the smell would be horrific. I remember one year when one of our U.S. cities had a garbage strike and the streets were covered in garbage. It was terrible!

We as mankind needed a Savior to come and remove the garbage from our lives. God sent Jesus. It took the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus to remove the trash. Years of trash build-up covered everyone and everything, we couldn’t see it because we were dead in trespasses and sin. We could see the effects of it though, the stench, the cesspool of hate, bitterness, anger, jealousy, gossip, murder, war, godlessness and perversions, etc… Without Jesus, trash piled high. It’s horrific and rampant on the streets, where, the love of God is absent.

We needed a trash truck to come and remove it to the dump so it could be destroyed. I know it may seem a little crude to think of Jesus as the trash truck driver but it gets the point across. Garbage stinks, and is nasty and if not dealt with causes death!

Where dead things are left uncleansed; there can be no life. It took the cleansing, unblemished, unwrinkled, son of God to wash away all of the filth and garbage. Someone needed to take out the trash…that someone is Jesus Christ. It is only by his sacrifice that we can live trash free!

Do you need your trash removed today? Call on Jesus he’ll take it in a heartbeat! The stench of death will disappear and a sweet-smelling fragrance with appear. He’ll remove all the fear of death and sin, and replace it with new life, new breath, He is the living, cleansing son of God!

Psalm 113:7-8 The Passion Translation (TPT) He promotes the poor, picking them up from the dirt, and rescues the needy from the garbage dump. He turns paupers into princes and seats them on their royal thrones of honor.

Ephesians 5:26-27 New King James Version (NKJV) that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

1 Peter 1:18-19 The Passion Translation (TPT) For you know that your lives were ransomed once and for all from the empty and futile way of life handed down from generation to generation. It was not a ransom payment of silver and gold, which eventually perishes, but the precious blood of Christ—who like a spotless, unblemished lamb was sacrificed for us.