Just like us, all pumpkins are different. But there is something the same about every one of them – that yucky, slimy pulp on the inside!
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| From October 2008 |
The yucky, slimy pulp is like the sin that’s in us. Romans 3:23 says: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” That’s every single one of us.
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| From October 2008 |
So we clean out our pumpkin like the way Jesus cleans us out when we confess our sins.
God has made a way that all our sin can be forgiven and washed away. God even says He’ll cast them as far as the East is from the West. Romans 5:8 says: “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
After cleaning out the pumpkin, we give the pumpkin a new face! The Bible says God can make us a new creation too.
2 Corinthians 5:17 says: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”
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| From October 2008 |
Then comes the really special part. The light is placed inside the pumpkin and it glows for all to see!
2 Corinthians 4:6 says: “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”
And Matthew 5:16 says: “In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”
So we can become like that pumpkin – a glorious sight for others to see the love of Jesus!
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| From October 2008 |
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| From October 2008 |
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| From October 2008 |
the paquettes 