Prison Prison These cells of the familiar I want to take you on a journey of sorts take you inside a real prison let you walk The cat walk in B house the other four cell blocks were round this one could have passed for a haunting Looking structure in an old horror flick it had ten tiers I can’t speak of Attica or Quentin though my army Buddy lived on the dead end street with the prison at the end so I knew by sight and the preacher that Worked in Quentin he almost convinced me it was more dangerous than Statesville in Joliet it’s a tossup like the Old inmate well into his seventies he was called a crank they housed them on the bottom tier called Cranks because they wouldn’t work in the prison because of their attitude it wasn’t his seventies he Wouldn’t work when he was fifty he still had respect because he was part of the Saint Louis mob but he Told one day it was different than in the old days he said it used to be you had to do something to get Killed now they would **** you for a slice of bread or for a lot less as one guard found out on the other Side on the tenth tier a guy went to walk this guy to the infirmary not the hole the inmate walked Straight out of his cell stuck the guard with a homemade knife or prison lingo a shieve they said that Wouldn’t have killed him but when he dumped him over the rail and he fell ten floors and hit the Cement He was finished senseless unexplained violence it could be he didn’t like the food that day. That Was one reason you got vacation after six months the stress was incredibly high unlike the old prison Movies you were not even given a night stick when chow was called you had to frisk every one before they Went back to their cells a spoon rubbed against concrete soon gets a deadly point so you stand there as Two hundred inmates sneer at you as they pass going down the corridor to the mess hall if you had any Kind of protection they could just take it and beat you to death with it. I was taking twelve of them from One location to another one I didn’t give any thought to the Dingo boots with square toes I was wearing Then one of them said you could really stomp someone to death with those couldn’t you I felt like Bob Hope delivering a hyper joke in one of the old road shows I didn’t snarl like bob there wasn’t a camera Running I tried to give him my best tough guy stone face answer yea you never knew what they said if it Was heading somewhere but in this case he just enjoyed the thought of stomping someone to death. I could go on and give you some details that are hair raising and more brutal than the scenes in Fargo but I want you to be able to sleep without the light on I started as I said to take you on a journey What has been said thoroughly gives you all you need or should hear about those places. But at the Beginning I said the cell of my familiar not a dungeon but in the most emphatic truth that I can use we Are closed up here it does play out as a dungeon darkness plagues the human family truly disturbing Darkness surrounds us we separate form society those who can’t live lawfully and house them in Prisons I have at different places written about the price Christ paid for our freedom he loves and sees Present needs and future terror that the lost face for no other reason did he subject himself to the Horrors of Rome’s cruel brutality and the agony of the death on the cross your house is filled with your God given blessings and they are to be your comforts give you pleasure that’s loves provision but most Of us know Henry Storemin his cell of the familiar with the help of an electric appliance turned all that He knew into a death trap he couldn’t get out of a place he knew for years and neither can we exit sin And Death on our own nothing is wrong yes like the girl at the lake picture of wealth and health but as I Told I Saw the real situation pierce the obvious I told you I got in trouble when I tried to write about the Death of Candy Jack out home I was probing deeper and deeper visualizing her in death and then the Awful realization of death without any flowers or doctoring I started touching the true realness of death It wasn’t rosy it was and can be out done only by hell as being scary I recoiled and fled our cell of the Familiar is taken us to deaths door and if you don’t have a true walk with God hell will follow. People Don’t realize the cross was the means of deliverance and payment but it was God’s living expression of How dangerous the situation is for you without salvation the beams of light are striking your window Panes it is being mixed and missed as natural light it is your escape from an eternal lake of fire the Broken figure marred beyond recognition who can argue at judgment I didn’t get it liar you see what it Cost this was irrefutable proof you need to heed such evidence of God’s displeasure and of the lengths He has gone to protect and reach you I’m sure I will lose some or all today from this but one who does Less than this is less than a friend and is also a prisoner in the cell of the familiar. God’s love bids you to Come the enemy says be a fool and die with me and join me in the fire it was created for me and my Demons but you make your selves guilty and bring the same punishment on yourself. Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.