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by Sandy Shaw
Some years ago a horrendous railroad crash in America took a dreadful toll of life.
A train, filled with young people returning from school, stalled on a suburban track.
Another fast train was due soon.
A flagman was sent down the line to warn the driver in order to avert a collision.
Thinking all was well, the young folks laughed and chatted while the rail employees worked to secure the situation.
Suddenly the whistle of the fast train was heard, and on it thundered, crashing into the one in front, with tragic results.
The driver of the fast train saved his own life by jumping.
Some days afterwards he was brought into court to account for his part in the crash.
A curious discrepancy in testimony occurred.
He was asked, “Did you not see the flagman warning you to stop?”
He replied, “I saw him waving a yellow flag, and took it for granted all was well, and so continued, but slowed down.”
The flagman was called. “What flag did you wave?”
“A red flag, but he went by me like a shot.”
“Are you sure it was red?” “Absolutely!”
Both insisted on the correctness of their testimony. Neither was colour-blind.
The judge asked that the flag be produced as evidence.
The mystery was explained.
It had been red, but it had been exposed to the weather so long, that the red was bleached out, and it was a dirty yellow!
Lives can be eternally wrecked by preaching yellow ‘bloodless gospels’, in which the blood of Jesus Christ is removed, thereby sending hearers to their doom instead of stopping them on their downward road!
Compromise the Gospel of Jesus Christ on the grounds of compassion or culture, and the consequences can be death.
Sandy Shaw
Nairn Christian Fellowship
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