{"id":1589,"date":"2015-08-17T15:34:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T20:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2017-02-09T14:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:37:06","slug":"the-bag-of-beans-color-tract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=1589","title":{"rendered":"The Bag of Beans&#8211;Color Tract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Send the text of this tract to a friend today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=1589&amp;wp_email=1\" title=\"Email This Post\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-EmailIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-email\/images\/email_famfamfam.png\" alt=\"Email This Post\" title=\"Email This Post\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=1589&amp;wp_email=1\" title=\"Email This Post\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email This Post<\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"su-document su-u-responsive-media-no\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?embedded=true&url=http:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bag-of-Beans-41203-web.pdf\" width=\"480\" height=\"680\" class=\"su-document\" title=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat\" style=\"font-size:1.5em\">A<\/span> depressed young man had been living for his next party. A friend convinced him to hear a well-known gospel preacher. It may have been only curiosity, but he found himself seated in the congregation. The evangelist read, \u201cWe are not ignorant of his devices,\u201d from the Bible. Then he abruptly proceeded:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was walking along the street the other day, and I saw a group of pigs following a man. This made me curious, because pigs are hard animals to lead. If you want them to go one way, they invariably take another. But this man seemed to have no difficulty; the pigs eagerly followed jostling and grunting after him. I followed them and to my surprise I found they were going to the slaughterhouse. They went in, and the door closed behind them. I waited till the man came out and asked him how he had managed to lead them so easily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Secret Trick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man laughed and said, \u2018Maybe you didn\u2019t see the bag of beans under my arm. I knew I\u2019d have a hard time getting those pigs there if I didn\u2019t humor them a bit. So I got some beans they like and dropped them along the road. And you saw how they scampered along picking up the beans, never thinking they were going to the slaughterhouse.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this is the way,\u201d continued the preacher, raising his voice and turning his penetrating glance right on the pew where the young man sat, \u201cthat the devil is leading some of you captives at his will down to hell. He knows full well how to please you and lead you. He drops his beans right along the road, and very soon you will pick up the last bean; then the gates of hell will close behind you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The story of the beans, with its application to the ways of the devil in ruining souls, convicted his soul. The next day he left for New York. Anxiously his friend waited for news of his arrival.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Surprise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soon, to his delight, his friend heard, \u201cI\u2019m glad to tell you that I\u2019m converted. The message of that speaker, especially his opening words about the devil\u2019s beans, grabbed me and woke me up. I saw where I was going, how Satan was luring me on, and what my destiny would be. By the grace of God I\u2019m saved to follow a better Leader and walk in a new path. I will always thank God for that good man\u2019s words, by which I was led to the Saviour, just before I lost my soul forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Are you being led on to death and hell by the devil\u2019s beans?<\/p>\n<p>Someday you will taste the \u201cpleasures of sin,\u201d often very delicious, for the last time. Then hell\u2019s door will close behind you, and the doom of the damned will be your portion forever. Today a God of love intensely longs for you and wants to save you. Christ is able, ready and willing. \u201cTurn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them\u201d<br \/>\n(2 Corinthians 4:3-4).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life\u201d (John 3:16).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/gospel-tract-the-bag-of-beans-full-color-warning-hell\/pd41203?find=41203\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#0e0e0e;background-color:#c4551f;border-color:#9d4419;border-radius:8px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#0e0e0e;padding:7px 22px;font-size:17px;line-height:26px;border-color:#d68863;border-radius:8px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-shopping-cart\" style=\"font-size:17px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i> Purchase or Free Printable Version<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Send the text of this tract to a friend today. &nbsp; depressed young man had been living for his next party. A friend convinced him to hear a well-known gospel preacher. It may have been only curiosity, but he found himself seated in the congregation. The evangelist read, \u201cWe are not ignorant of his devices,\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=1589\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Bag of Beans&#8211;Color Tract&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-tracts","category-newstips","category-tracts-standardsize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}