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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 30 views
If we can be saved by our own merits, we need justice, but we certainly do not want mercy. A man who can go into court with a clear case and a bold countenance does not ask for mercy from the judge, and the offer of it would insult him. “Give me justice,” he says, “give me my rights,” and he stands up…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 5 views
This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston , Tennessee , by school Principal, Jody McLeod. "It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country."…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 44 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 • • 4 views
Turn to Acts 12, where you have the record of Peter lying asleep in the prison, watched by soldiers. And yet at the dead of night, an angel of the Lord came into the prison, smote Peter on the side, bade him bind on his sandals and gird himself, and follow him. Peter went through all the doors of the…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 26 views
I saw the other day a remarkable picture, which I shall use as an illustration of the way of salvation by faith in Jesus. An offender had committed a crime for which he must die, but it was in the olden time when churches were considered to be sanctuaries in which criminals might hide themselves and…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 55 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 • • 18 views
As the workman when his six days’ work is over goes up to his master’s pay table and waits for his wage, we believe that the meritorious work by which heaven is procured for us is all done. Therefore, we are waiting in the name of Jesus to take the reward that as a matter of justice is due to Him, and…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 66 views
We never find Adam afraid of God or of any manifestation of Deity while he was in Paradise an obedient creature. But no sooner had he touched the fatal fruit than he found that he was naked, and hid himself. When he heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, Adam was…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 210 views
As Abraham was less than Melchizedek, for without doubt the less is blessed of the greater, so also Levi was less than Melchizedek, for he was in the loins of Abraham when Melchizedek met him. As Levi was in the loins of Abraham and paid tithes to Melchizedek, so we were in the loins of Christ and paid…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Justice and Righteousness are very closely related in the New Testament. Often, the same root word is the source of their translation. As believers we should be concerned about both. Pastor Charlie Dates was speaking at an MLK conference in Memphis when he said about young Americans. “They are fascinated…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Danielle Reno said she only got out of her car for a minute to pick up her daughter, but when she did, someone jumped into her car and drove away. Reno said she filed a police report but decide to do some detective work on her own. The thief had also taken her credit and debit cards because her wallet…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A Chinese physics professor provided traffic police with a two-page report filled with complicated equations and diagrams to prove he could not have caused a traffic accident. Police admitted they were baffled by the physics, and turned to a simpler technology. They said the professor was driving a black…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos is the main supervillain. His goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones that he places on his gauntlet. Once he obtains all six infinity stones, he will have the ability to wipe out half existence in the entire universe. His home planet was overpopulated and depleted…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
The Me Too movement started when actress Alyssa Milano asked anyone who has been a victim of sexual harassment to tweet “Me Too.” The results were overwhelming. “She woke up the next morning to 55,000 replies and the hash tag trending No 1 on Twitter.” Her tweet has propelled a movement that is reshaping…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Akitoshi Okamoto, a 71-year-old Japanese man, was arrested recently for apparently calling a phone company 24,000 times to complain. He was taken into custody for inundating KDDI Corporation’s customer service department with toll-free phone calls over an eight-day period. Apparently, he wanted an apology…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
In 2017 Netflix released a highly anticipated Marvel series: The Punisher. Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, lost his family in the hands of a murderous group. To avenge his family's death, Castle went on a bloody rampage, killing everyone who was in or involved with the group responsible for the deaths…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
The old quote says that “nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Fair enough. Looks like there is something else that applies to all—even the powerful: jury duty. Former President Obama just got a summons to serve. And just like everyone else, he will rack up $17.25 a day for his service.—Jim L.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In June 2009, Asia Bibi and her family were the only Christians living in her small village in eastern Pakistan. Her Muslim neighbors were upset at having to share the village well with non-Muslims and demanded she convert to Islam. She responded, “I believe in my religion and in Jesus Christ, who died…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Police Chief Joshua Potvin lost his law enforcement license after the Main Criminal Justice discovered that he had an officer text him while he was in a meeting. He created a cover story by entering a false entry about a suspicious person at the Fryeburg fairgrounds, using a fairgrounds employee’s license…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
In one morning, New York courts threw out more than 640,000 old warrants for people ticketed for minor offenses. The move was an effort by city officials to promote what they believe is a more fair and workable approach to low level offenses. They said many of the people were unaware of the warrants…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
More than two dozen ships that were sunk during a famous battle in World War II have been raised to the surface by an underwater volcano. Helicopter footage from a Japanese news agency shows 24 ships washed ashore on the western side of the island of Iwo Jima, which is about 750 miles south of Tokyo.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In this unusual atmosphere of Covid19 shutdowns, there have been some strange orders instituted by State governors. In Nevada, the decision to close churches while allowing casinos to operate was challenged in court. It has made it all the way to the supreme court where the court allowed the state to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Bruce McConville, a 55 year-old Canadian businessman, from Ottawa, Canada, used a very creative excuse to avoid paying his wife spousal and child support, as part of their divorce settlement—he burnt it! He told a judge in the Ottawa Supreme Court that he withdrew 1 Million Canadian Dollars ($750,000),…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Claudy Charles was on trial in a Miami courtroom for arson. He allegedly set his car on fire to collect insurance money. His defense attorney, Stephen Gutierrez, argued the vehicle had spontaneously combusted. Gutierrez had just begun his closing argument when smoke started billowing from his right trouser…