Jesus carried out the trash

I don't know about you, but I'm guessing it's the same for everyone - once that trash can starts to fill up, it starts to smell very unpleasant. As soon as that yucky odor hits my nose, it's time to take it out! When things begin to rot, they start to smell really bad. And when you have a large load of trash to remove, it's anything but fun.

I don't know how populated your area is, but here in Florida it's overpopulated. And wherever there's lots of people, you'll get lots of trash, needing many garbage trucks. I used to live in a small town where I only saw one garbage truck and I never really paid that much attention to it. After all, it's a garbage truck right? But now -eight years later I'm noticing that there's several, and they actually come twice a week!

More people...more garbage...more trucks to haul it away. So what am I getting at? This may or may not sound "normal" to you but the Lord showed me a picture similar to this concept. I could see Him carrying all the weight of the masses of sin and the stench of death- to hell and dumping it there, leaving it all behind. When He was on the cross the bibles says that He carried all our sins.

Can you imagine carrying every disease, every pain, all the agonizing toil, every disgusting sin? Along with the burden of ALL the weight of the guilt of ALL mankind compounded onto His shoulders...something unbearable to think, yet He did. He took away EVERY ounce of weighty sorrow, every ugly injustice, every fear inducing threat, as well as the intimidating sting of death itself! What an incredible load!

Without Christ REIGNING in our hearts we can accumulate lots of
"spiritual trash" inside that will indeed, begin to stink. If it goes on too long it becomes especially heavy and hard to bear. The weight of sin is heavy. The weight of guilt is really heavy. When you combine past hurts with jealousy, unforgiveness, anger, and bitterness, you come up with some messy, burdensome, baggage that needs to be taken out. Also known as, just plain old garbage that pollutes the soul. Thank God we don't have to carry it anymore!

Nobody wants a rotten heart. Everyone enjoys a clean slate. Think of how baking soda works. You put it in the refrigerator, or in the trash can to alleviate the smell because it helps absorb the bad odor. Well, Jesus is better than baking soda or bleach! He's removed our polluted sins, along with all condemnation, weighty guilt and pain of eternal death.  And the best part, He didn't just "cover up" the stench, there's not a hint of it left. IT'S TOTALLY GONE.

I pictured all the garbage trucks in the world lined up filled with the worlds trash, sin upon sin, mistake piled onto mistake, pain smashed with pain, guilt topped with guilt, sorrow upon sorrow seeping out the back. followed by the most horrific smell imaginable, unbearably pressing, deadly weight accumulated as it took every last trace to hell and dumped it all off and drove away clean, as if there had never been anything contaminated it it before. As a matter of fact there is a sweet fragrance in it's place.

That's what Jesus did for us! He took away our trash, our garbage, our sin, our baggage, and our curse. He carried the heavy cost of sin and death by becoming sin...IN OUR PLACE.

HERE'S THE BEST PART: 

JESUS TOOK OUT THE DEVIL!!! 

JESUS TOOK OUT THE TRASH~

THE ENEMY HAS BEEN DEFEATED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yA2K0kiLew