Devil's Bag of Tricks (Restoration)

   This prop can be easily made using two paper bags of the same size.  Open one bag as wide as possible.  Then cut the front of the other bag out with scissors. 

 

Make sure you cut out the pleat as well which will give your pocket more room.

Glue this front piece inside the first bag forming a pocket.  You may want to cut some off from the top of the piece to be glued on so that it does not show inside the other bag.  Drop the pieces into the pocket rather than inside the bag. 

You can now see the pocket inside the paper bag.

When it comes time to show the clean soul, close the pocket with your fingers closing the pocket.  When you want to show the sins had the person had not accepted Christ, turn the bag completely upside down and shake vigorously making the pieces fall to the floor or table.




    This empty paper bag represents the life of a child.  See that it's empty.  Well the Devil thinks that it is so ugly like this so he starts adding sins into the life represented by these pieces of paper (or cloth).   By the way who can tell me what sins are?  That's right, they are those things that we do that hurt or displease God.  First one, then another, the sins begin to enter into the perfectly clean life. (Drop the pieces of paper or cloth into the pocket inside the bag.)  Let's see, there's lying, stealing, cheating, cursing, drinking, drugs and the list goes on and on.  Oh my, (look into the bag) that life certainly isn't clean anymore.  Over a period of a lifetime this life becomes full of ugly sins and the Devil loves it!!!!!
    Let's say that this person wants to change his life and clean it up.  Can he do it?  NO!  No matter what does there is no way humanly possible for him to clean up his life and get rid of all that sin.  But notice that I said "Humanly Possible."  That means that there is a way but it has to come from a mightier power than us.  There's one and only one way to do this and that's by accepting Jesus Christ into your heart and asking Him to become your personal Lord and Savior.   And once you do a wonderful miracle takes place.  Your life and soul become cleansed from all that ugly sin that had accumulated over a lifetime.  So let's say that this person with all his ugly sins accepted Jesus.  Do you want to take a look at those sins now?  Well we can't.  Do you know why?  (Show the inside of the bag.)  Because they are all gone.  His soul been washed by the blood of Jesus Christ.  They are now gone forever and ever.
    But what if this person never had accepted Jesus into his heart and soul?  Well the sins would have remained there like this (Pour out the pieces of paper or cloth.)  And more importantly this person would never spend eternity in Heaven.  What an awful, awful, shame.
    So if there's sin in your heart today, why not invite Jesus to come into your heart and soul so that He might cleanse you from all your sins?  You can do it here, today, right now.  All He's waiting for is an invitation.