What everyone had thought was a two-dollar painting at a flea market actually contained one of the original one hundred copies of the Declaration of Independence printed on July 4, 1776. When he got home he opened it up and out tumbled a neatly folded sheet of paper. It was torn and faded, but the guy liked the frame so he bought it.
It was only a couple of bucks, this dusty print of a country church. Perhaps you read about the fellow in Philadelphia who went to the flea market and found a frame he liked. "Anything you did for even the least of my people here, you also did for me," ( Matthew 25:40) is the plan. Instead of giving him a direct answer, Jesus points to the messianic signs and wonders he has performed: Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. "He rewards those who truly want to find him," ( Hebrews 11:6) is the promise. He was driving home to Houston from the Baptist General Convention of Texas on Wednesday morning when he had to cross the bridge over Trinity River in a cloudburst. If we want to see God we must go among the broken and beaten and there we will see him. Well in 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life written by Don Piper we find the story of Don Piper who died in a car accident, went to heaven, and came back to earth. He has taken up residence in the ignored. After a few steps he turned to look again at the leper, but no one was there.įor the rest of his life, he believed the leper was Jesus Christ.
He passed him, then stopped and went back and embraced the diseased man.
Mark 3:6 reads, So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians as to how they could assassinate him. He soon encountered a leper on the side of the road. For example, see Mark 2-3:6 what do these various accounts have in common One can notice that they are all different stories that relate to the conflict that Jesus had with the Jewish leadership. When Francis of Asissi turned his back on wealth to seek God in simplicity, he stripped naked and walked out of the city.
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