Everyone wants a great bargain. Pay close attention to the real deal you get in this national donut store chain ad:

“FREE! 3 Muffins when you buy 3 at the Regular Half-Dozen price.”

Unless there’s a typo in that, it sounds like you can buy 6 donuts at the price of 6 donuts. But the double-talk makes it seem like another deal altogether.

Its kind of like that with Satan’s deceptions. He makes it sound like its a special deal to do this or that. Then in the end, we pay much more than we thought, and the bargain ceases to become a bargain. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23) and there is no way around it except to repent.

Tags: bargain, deception, repentence, sin