Several years ago, I received a card that
informed me that I won one of several gifts.
The gifts included a brand-new ford Bronco, a big screen TV, $2000 cash,
or a two-week vacation on the
You will never guess what happened! I won!
I gave them the number on the card and the voice on the other end said,
“Congratulations Mr. Hopper, you won the New Ford Bronco.” He wanted to know my name and address and the
information was in the mail. It would be
the information on the Bronco. He wanted
to know the nearest airport where he could send tickets for my wife and me to
exotic
All kinds of visions danced in my
head. I had never won anything. I needed a car. I could not believe that Bobby’s ship finally
came. I said, “To heck with that rich
uncle and his box of money.” I had a new
Bronco.
All the excitement was the best thing that
could have happened to the Hopper family.
Then, the voice on the other end of the line asked, “Mr. Hopper are you
acquainted with New Lifestyle vitamins?”
He said the gifts were part of a promotional for the vitamins. He said that it would be great if I actually
used them. I did not know about them, so
he asked if I would purchase some. Me
being the man of integrity I am, I decided that I would buy some. I asked him how many I needed to buy. He said a year’s supply. I said okay, how much? He said $650.
That was a lot of money for me working for minimum wage at
the
Before the camera and vitamins arrived,
the voice from
I called
I called
Not long after this film-flam, I read an
article in the Area Magazine, the rural electric cooperative mail-out. They told of several people who had been
snookered. The article said beware, but
they already got me. The article said to
contact the better business bureau or state attorney general.
I called
Romans
7: 14-17. For we know that the law is
spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but
what I hate, that do I. If then I do
that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin
that dwelleth in me.
Paul
says that he was sold on sin. That means
that he was sold an idea, but he got something he really did not want. I know the feeling Brother Paul.
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