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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 49 views
Think what an injury and injustice would be inflicted upon all the honest men in London if the thieves were never punished for their roguery. It would be making the innocent suffer if you allowed the guilty to escape. God, therefore, not out of arbitrary choice, but from necessity of rightness, must…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 59 views
He who is dead is free from the law. Take a man who has been guilty of a capital offense: he is condemned to be hanged, he is hanged by the neck until he is dead—what more has the law to do with him? It has done with him, for it has executed its sentence upon him. If he can be brought back to life again…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 13 views
You may have seen a deep mountain lake that has been filled to the brim by innumerable streamlets from all the hillsides round about. Here comes a torrent gushing down, and there trickles from the moss that has overgrown the rock a little drip, drip, drip, which falls perpetually. Great and small tributaries…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
“Do the crime and pay someone else do the time” was the Headline in Sydney’s newspapers. In May 2009, a wealthy 20-year-old was drag-racing through the city streets of Hangzhou, China, when his Mitsubishi struck and killed a pedestrian at a crossing. This crime can be the death penalty for some. When…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Nick Smith was the name drawn in a charity raffle. The prize was the opportunity to hit a 3 inch wide hockey puck into a 3 1/2 inches-wide hole 89 feet away. The payoff for a successful shot was $50,000. However, when the announcement came, Nick was outside and thus not eligible to take the shot. His…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
Steve Scheibner is an American Airlines pilot. On the American Airlines website, he scheduled himself to pilot AA Flight 11, from Boston to Los Angeles on September 11, 2001. On the afternoon of September 10, a senior pilot, completely within his rights, bumped Scheibner from the flight. Steve was safe…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
SUBSTITUTE A 43-year-old grandmother in western India recently gave birth to her own grandchildren, because she chose to act as a surrogate mother, taking the place of her own daughter. The names of everyone involved are not being released, but doctors say the woman chose to act as a surrogate because…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 21 views
Value Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? Mark 8:37 (NKJV) Value is not always determined by how much something is worth. Almost ten years ago, two friends and I took my 14-foot boat out on the lake. Actually, it was the very first time I’d launched the boat after moving to New Mexico.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
VICARIOUS SUBSTITUTION Denival Santos, an unemployed baker’s assistant spent three months in prison posing as convicted robber Rene Coelho Honorato. Santos told police he had wrecked Honorato’s motorcycle and decided to impersonate him to cover the $275 dollars for repairs. While Santos sat in prison,…
Thomas Bevers • Illustration • • 7 views
Chuck Swindoll reports that a seminary student in Chicago faced a forgiveness test. Although he preferred to work in some kind of ministry, the only job he could find was driving a bus on Chicago's south side. One day a gang of tough teens got on board and refused to pay the fare. After a few days of…