The sign read "Climb aboard the sin train-- free rides" It will promise you pleasure, and it will deliver, but much more than we think! It promises a pleasant ride, and delightful journey, but it leads to disaster, the Sin Train. It has a promise of fun, but there is a stinger in there.

Hop aboard! It will take you for a ride! It will take you further than you wish to go-keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost much more than you really want to pay-The Sin Train!

Oh, I know you won't ride long, you'll jump off before it goes too far! They all say that! The train, once you're on, picks up momentum as it goes, increasing its speed so rapidly that it is soon too late to jump off! It is just going too fast, this Sin Train. 
Once you're aboard, you go where it goes, not often where you want to be. The Sin Train will not stop when you pull the cord, you will not get off at the next station; this is the nature of the Sin Train. 
The sin train has got you! With a full head of steam the Sin Train carries you along-you cannot control the train. It has gone too fast, too far to get off anyway, one would get hurt by trying to jump off a fast-moving train. 

Yea, she's wining and dining you now, in her dining car; she has got you in her clutches, and you think you are going to enjoy the ride! She is turning on the charm, until you find yourself not trying to disembark; as if there was nothing back here for you anyway! You're on the Sin Train! Yea, when she does stop, you have been seduced to the extent that you do not want to get off-yet! Oh, you're free to do whatever you want, as long as you stay on the train! You have your freedom there, but it is a confined, controlled freedom, a "mock freedom" if you will. Hop aboard the Sin Train!

Ride her for awhile; enjoy her delights, her pleasures for a season, but she'll take you where SHE wants to go, and leave you off somewhere in a wilderness of sin. "I won't fall for that junk, I have been around too long for that" you say, but don't forget, you're on the Sin Train. IT decides where you go, and what you do, and makes you think you like it! This same train has carried many to their doom, forsook them in the most desperate times of their lives, The Sin Train is like that. 

Many great men have ridden her, and they have left in total defeat. Are you greater than Alexander the Great? Are you perhaps greater than Moses? Or what about Abraham Lincoln? Napoleon? Hitler? You get the point? They have all ridden the Sin Train, and they have all regretted it afterwards. You're headed for a rocky road on the Sin Train. Stay off the sin train! Satan runs it! He has deceived every man that has ever lived since the beginning of time, except Christ. What chance have you of out smarting the devil? 
The Sin Train has enjoyed great success. Everyone has ridden her at one time or another, and none has gotten off until it stopped at the Depot of Calvary. Only by deliberately calling on Jesus and asking Him to save you, can you get off the Sin Train. Many have done so, and found rest, but the train started running again, picking up more passengers every day. It stops when you call on Christ as your Savior, and then chugs on again, carrying its' victims through the mountains of doom, carrying poor sinners into hell. 

Yea, the sign is still there, a billboard on the road to life; still urging us, still beckoning us, still offering us joy, and delivering sorrow-The Sin Train! You see, you cannot stop the Sin Train, only Jesus can. Without Him, you ride to your death-to an eternity in hell. It is time to stop the Sin Train! Yes, it is time to look to Jesus, and accept His sacrifice on your behalf. Don't obey the sign! Don't get on the Sin Train! It is bigger than you are; more powerful than you can imagine; and trickier than you ever thought it could be. It's the Sin Train, and it is stopping at Calvary station, for you; will you get off there? Will you be seduced into riding her? It is totally up to you, the helm is in your hands. "Now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation." (2 Corinthians 6;2).

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