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I wonder how many of you can tell me what a garage sale is? What's a garage sale? Something that you have and then you sell it. And who has ever gone to a garage sale - like with their mom? It's kind of fun for awhile, isn't it? There are usually a lot of garage sales in the spring - people do spring cleaning. We gather together all kinds of things that we probably don't need anymore. And other things that are just sort of in our way. We get some tables and put them up in our garage. Then we hope that people will come over and buy all those things we don't want anymore.
It's kind of fun, but you know there's one thing I don't like. I hate it when the garage sale is done and you still have a whole bunch of stuff left. Now what do you do with it? Stuff you really don't want for yourself anymore, and it seems like nobody else wanted to buy it either. Some people say "put it back down in the basement and we'll try to sell it next spring". Some people say, "a friend of mine is going to have a garage sale next week, and we'll take it over there". Or, maybe we think, why don't we take it to the Salvation Army or someplace where they'll just give it to somebody who needs it.
Now I want you to use your imagination for a minute. I want you to imagine that you and your family had a garage sale at your house and lots of people bought things, but you still have lots of leftovers. You're wondering what to do with it and just then Jesus comes to your house and He knocks on your door and says, "I need some clothes for some people who don't have any. And there are some boys and girls that I love and they really need some toys. I wonder if you could give some to Me?" What would you do?
Will you say, "Jesus, you're so lucky you came right now. We've got lots of leftovers in our garage. Help yourself. Anything that we don't need anymore you can have." Or, do you say, "Yes, Jesus, come right in. Come into my bedroom, open up my closet--you can have any of my clothes that you want. You can have my newest Nike shoes--my favorite toys. You deserve the best!" Will you give Him your best, or will you give him leftovers?
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