TITLE: Junk Yards
TEXT: Psalm 40:1-3
PROPOSITION: Christians are recycled junk.
QUESTION: How?
KEY WORD: Descriptions
SCRIPTURE READING: Same

INTRODUCTION: Camp song – "Down in the dumps I’ll never go,

Boy – "What’s so bad with dumps? Lots of neat stuff there."

Reclaimed

1. Recognize their value and worth
2. Prodigal Son – from pig pen
3. Many people are in junk yards – delinquent members, lost, discouraged
4. Make a list – think of ways to reclaim them for useful service
5. There is lots of neat stuff (people) to be reclaimed
6. 2 Timothy 2:20-21 "vessels useful for the Master"

Redeemed

1. Buy junk and make something good of it.
2. Redeem = "buy back" – Remember green stamps?
3. After seeing the worth – We must PAY THE PRICE.
4. Boy with boat – made it, lost it, saw it for sale in store –
   "Twice mine – I made you and I bought you."

Recycled

1. Newsprint, Coke cans, Glass bottles, plastic
2. We are recycled to:

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   1. Ephesians 2:8-10 good works
   2. 2 Corinthians 5:17 all things are new
   3. Philippians 3:21 new body
   4. 2 Corinthians 15:51-52 raised from the dead