Title:- A Chosen Sign
Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death,
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Of course, our much sought after ‘Club Plan’ still offers the ever popular, almost speedy, slightly seedy, choices of: stroke, or heart attack, and all the available accidental death options at present, (with or without dismemberment of course.)
Still too expensive for your wallet? Well, in our ‘Mid Range’ package we consistently beat our competitors on such exits as, debilitating disease, typhoid, Aids, and of course the ever common, cancer.
“Finances still a little tight? Well, for those of you with both little taste and little money, then have we a couple of suprises for you! First then, our 'Budget Plan', which still remains the same since its inception, still offering starvation, small pox, plague, and decrepit age; but if that still doesn’t reach out and grab you, then finally, for the not so fortunate amongst us, our ‘Plebeian Plan.’ A little drawn out maybe, crude maybe but ultimately effective! It still stands tall among the milling masses, offering such choices from hacking genocide, to brutal and individual tortuous murder.
‘Choice,’ always our watchword, is especially available in this final ‘Plebeian’ category, providing a not so neat or subtle selection of gory and undesirable ends. What’s your poison today?! Ha ha ha ha!….. We've got it all! Strangulation, gassing, electrocution, burning or might it be, could it be, should it be, that careful cross beamed, brutal bleeding, callous tearing crucifixion? Crucifixion! Now there’s a crowd pleaser if ever there was one! Ultimate pain for the participant, and ultimate pleasure, for those who hate so extensively. Frankly, Crucifixion is our biggest bang for yer buck!
So, whatever your affordable choice, make ‘Death Valley Products’ the company to provide your chosen exit from this ever weeping, sucking, seeping, sorry vale of tears.
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Friends, in the awesome and terrible sovereignty of God two great mysteries are most terribly intertwined. First, that the Cross-was the chosen instrument of Christ’s tortuous death for us. Imagine that! His execution was not a choice of the Romans, but it was a choice of the Father. Think about that! He who was hanged upon a tree was cursed by God for all to see; cursed by God, for me, for thee; cursed by God to set us free. Second, that we, the brutally self righteous, took Him and with lawless hands we put Him to death. May God have mercy upon us, each and every one.
Listen: - “If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Deut 21:22
Pray: - Jesus Lord of Life. Thank You for taking my sin. Thank You for dying in my place. Amen.
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