{"id":45919,"date":"2007-11-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/no-fishing-out-hotel-windows\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T00:00:00","slug":"no-fishing-out-hotel-windows","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/no-fishing-out-hotel-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"No Fishing Out Hotel Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haddon Robinson writes about something the apostle Paul could certainly identify with, namely, the tendency of the law to put ideas in our heads:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The law can prompt us to sin. I am told that several years ago a high-rise hotel was built in Galveston, Texas, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, they sank pilings into the gulf and built the structure out over the water. When the hotel was about to have its grand opening, someone thought, <em>What if people decide to fish out the hotel windows?<\/em> So they placed signs in the hotel rooms, &quot;No fishing out the hotel windows.&quot; Many people ignored the signs, however, and it created a difficult problem. Lines got snarled. People in the dining room saw fish flapping against the picture windows. The manager of the hotel solved it all by taking down those little signs. No one checks into a hotel room thinking about fishing out of the windows. 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