Get the Garbage Out

Scripture Memory

Rebuilding Your Life

• Face What's Broken (1)
• Ask What You Need (2)
• Survey the Damage (2)

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So what does all this mean? What do we learn from this?

1. It often takes many people to do God's important work

So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up
(Ephesians 4:11-12)

2. Sometimes you get the nasty job, but it turns out to be an essential job

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work...

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
(I Corinthians 12:4-14)

3. In order to rebuild your life, it's essential to get the garbage out

Transformation happens when we change our environments, not just our minds

Learning the lessons ...

Garbage to Get Out:

• Toxic PEOPLE

Do not be deceived: 'Bad company ruins good morals.'
(1 Cor. 15:33)

Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.
(Proverbs 22:24-25)

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
(Proverbs 13:20)

One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
(Proverbs 12:26)

Garbage to Get Out:

• Toxic people
• Toxic THINGS

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
(Matthew 5:30)

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.
(Hebrews 12:1-2)

Garbage to Get Out:

• Toxic people
• Toxic things
• Toxic THOUGHTS

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.
(Philippians 4:8)

Therefore, I urge you, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
(Romans 12:1-2)

Get the Garbage Out