Sermon Illustrations
What's That Guy Doing With My Wallet?
A YouTube poster who goes by the name DennisCEETv wanted to film a social experiment by posing a simple question: what would people do if they found a lost wallet? In the first part of the video, Dennis drops his wallet and is saved by a Good Samaritan. But on the second take, a man with a prosthetic leg picks up the wallet and goes on a shopping spree at the local mall with what looks likes Dennis' credit card. Then the alleged thief comes out of the mall and starts combing through the wallet looking at Dennis' driver's license.
Dennis keeps following this guy until it dawns on Dennis that the subject of his experiment is actually headed to Dennis' own neighborhood. Finally, (and spoiler alert!) the guy walks up to Dennis' house and knocks on his door, to return his wallet. This man went to all the trouble to return something that was lost.
It turns out the man has the same colored credit card as Dennis, and the whole time they were filming the shopping spree he was using his own card. Just when you think you have someone all figured out … well, life is filled with surprises, isn't it?