Crazy Criminals

There was a criminal who was condemned to die in the electric chair. The courts had appointed a lawyer on behalf of the criminal, and he had worked hard to get him a reprieve. Finally, it came through, signed by the Governor himself. The excited lawyer delivered it by hand to the criminal, but he refused to look at it, and instead began insanely raving about his grandparents being monkeys and arguing about who made the prison in which he was incarcerated. Charles Spurgeon said, “All men are under the Law by nature, and consequently they are condemned by it because they have broken its commands; and apart from our Lord Jesus men are only reprieved criminals, respited from day to day, but still under sentence and waiting for the appointed hour when the warrant shall be solemnly executed upon them.”