Object: A garbage bag.

 

Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever worked with one of these? (Hold up garbage bag.) Do you know what we call one of these? (Let them answer.) That's right, a garbage bag. A garbage bag is something we use when we want to get rid of something. We throw our trash, food that we cannot eat, and other things that we want to get rid of into the bag. That's the way we use a trash or garbage bag.

Saint Paul was forced to get rid of a lot of other things, and he tells us about them in the book of Philippians. Paul had to give up a lot of things that we thin…