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See also Fall :- The effects of
See also Guilt
See also Satan
See also Temptation
See also The Old Man
C.H.Spurgeon
"See the greatness of your sins which required so vast a sacrifice."
Would you settle for 99.9%, then....
~ $761,900 will be spent in the next 12 months on tapes and compact disks that won't play.
~ $9,690 will be spent each day and into the future on unsafe sporting equipment.
~ 1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunications services every minute.
~ 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly this year.
~ 107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed today.
~ 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped this year.
~ 12 babies will be given to the wrong parents every day.
~ 14,208 defective personal computers will be shipped this year.
~ 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled in the next hour.
~ 2 million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
~ 2,488,200 books will be shipped in the next 12 months with the wrong cover.
~ 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written in the next 12 months.
~ 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next 60 minutes.
~ 268,500 defective tires will be shipped this year.
~ 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly this year.
~ 3,056 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of three sections.
~ 5,517,200 cases of soft drinks will be shipped flat this year.
~ 55 malfunctioning automatic teller machines will be installed in the next year.
~ 811,000 faulty rolls of 35mm film will be loaded this year.
~ 880,000 credit cards will be produced with incorrect magnetic strips.
Clean Laugh
A guy goes into a restaurant, orders supper and is waiting for his meal, when he hears, "You look great!"
He looks around -- there's nobody near him, so he just keeps drinking his water.
A few minutes later, he hears the voice again. "Sharp tie!" it says.
The guy looks around again, and again there's nobody around.
After another couple of minutes, he hears, "Is that a new shirt or something?
You are absolutely glowing!"
He realizes that the voice is coming from a basket of bread on the table.
"Hey!" the guy calls to a waiter, "What's with the bread?"
"Oh," the waiter says, "it's complimentary."
- The Bible altough Bread is not Complimentary about Mankind
Warren Wiersbe
"To sin against the law is one thing, to sin against grace is quite something else."
"Though God will forgive Sin repented of, He will not condone Sin persisted in."
"We must not sin that Grace may abound, but when we do sin we should make use of the Abounding Grace."
Clean Laugh
A Veterinarian was feeling ill and went to see her doctor. The doctor asked her all the usual questions: what were the symptoms, how long had they been occurring, etc.. Suddenly, she interrupted him: "Hey look, I'm a vet - *I* don't need to ask my patients these kind of questions: I can tell what's wrong just by looking." She smugly added, "Why can't you?" The doctor nodded, stood back, looked her up and down, quickly wrote out a prescription, handed it to her and said, "There you are. Of course, if that doesn't work, we'll have to have you put to sleep."
"Taking Aim"
One particular day, Sally walked into seminary and knew they were in for another fun day. On the wall was a big target and on a nearby table were many darts. Brother Smith told the students to draw a picture of someone that they disliked or someone who had made them angry . . . and he would allow them to throw darts at the person's picture.
Sally's friend (on her right), drew a picture of a girl who had stolen her boyfriend. Another friend (on her left), drew a picture of his little brother. Sally drew a picture of Brother Smith, putting a great deal of detail into her drawing, even drawing pimples on his face. Sally was pleased at the overall effect she had achieved.
The class lined up and began throwing darts, with much laughter and hilarity. Some of the students threw their darts with such force that their targets were ripping apart. Sally looked forward to her turn, and was filled with disappointment when Brother Smith, because of time limits, asked the students to return to their seats.
As Sally sat thinking about how angry she was because she didn't have a chance to throw any darts at her target, Brother Smith began removing the target from the wall.
Underneath the target was a picture of Jesus . . .
A complete hush fell over the room as each student viewed the mangled picture of Jesus; holes and jagged marks covered His face and His eyes were pierced out.
Brother Smith said only these words, "In as much as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me."
"And the King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.' Matthew 25:40
The unknown danger
A man travelling down a country road was forced to stop before a giant puddle covering the entire road. Looking to the side of the road, the man noticed a farmer leaning on a fence. "Think it's safe to cross?" the man asked.
"I reckon so," replied the farmer. The car was immediately swallowed by the puddle as the man drove in. In fact, it was so deep that he had to roll his window down to swim out of his car back to the surface. As his head broke the surface the man said to the farmer, "I thought you said I could safely drive through this puddle!"
"Well, shoot!" said the farmer, scratching his head. "It only come up chest-high on my ducks!"
Application :- We may see others indulging in sin, and think its safe for us. The fact is its worse for them because they are now comfortable in deep water. You should never become comfortable with sin.
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