Sermon Notes
You may feel like a useless, dirty rag, but no one is useless to God. He turns dirty rags into royalty to reach and save the lost. He wants to save, wash, and use you to reach someone in the same pit you were in.
Key Scriptures:
Jeremiah 38:9-13; Isaiah 64:6; Luke 2:12
Key Points:
- Your best works are dirty rags to God. Even the most religious efforts you have made on your own are filthy rags apart from Christ. You were a filthy rag when God found you, but He saved and washed you.
- God wants you to tell your story. Some people will never be reached unless you share your torn, stained, and dirty past as a testimony. God wants to use the dirty rags of your past to reach someone else.
- What the world calls a stain, God calls a testimony. Satan and the world will throw you into a rotten rag pile, but God sees you as clean. There’s nothing too dirty that God can’t make worthy. You’re not worthless; you’re washed.
- God uses dirty, busted people to reach the lost. Everyone God used in the Bible was dirty. Don’t let your pain be in vain. Your testimony has the power to reach someone no one else can reach. Don’t let fear interfere with the open doors God gives you.
- The more the enemy attacks, the tighter you must stay together. When the devil attacks your family or church, don’t let it pull you apart, but let it pull you together, making you even stronger
Final Thoughts:
When Jesus was born, he was wrapped in dirty rags. He is still held by the dirty rags of sinners saved by the blood of Jesus. You may feel like a dirty rag, but Jesus is wrapped and lifted up by your filthy, stained, and torn testimony. If you ever want to find Jesus, you will not find him amongst religious people who pretend they’re perfect, but amongst dirty, rotten rags that he uses to reach down into someone else’s dungeon.
