A stranger in town
Just touched a guy with
nasty skin
And it went away.
Huh?
It just went away.
My friend's mom was sick
And that same guy came over;
All of a sudden
She got up and fixed us
some grub.
What's with that?
Don't know, but those tacos
were tasty.
A dude at the mall who couldn't
walk
Was told by this same healer
guy
To get up and walk
And he did, right out the
front door.
He just got up?
Walked right past security.
I heard he healed this guy's
hand at church,
I didn't see it myself,
But friends I trust saw
it
And told me his hand was
like new.
Who is this guy?
Not sure, but people are
starting to follow him.
Then things started to get
weird.
He made a really big storm
stop.
The clouds went away, the
winds died
And the sun came out.
He just told the storm to
stop?
And it did. It just stopped.
Freaked us all out.
For the longest time,
We just stared at him.
Storms don't do what people
say?
I know, right?
Thousands listened to him
talk at least twice,
But instead of sending them
home to eat
He made food practically
out of thin air,
With huge piles of leftovers.
What do you mean?
Only one or two people brought
food,
So he took that and fed
everyone with it,
Until they were full.
How could he do that?
Later some little girl died
at home,
But he said she was just
sleeping.
He told her to wake up,
And she did, like nothing
was the matter.
Was she dead, or just asleep?
She got up and started playing.
Everyone sure thought she
was dead.
A very sick woman on the
side of the road
Touched the hem of his clothes
As he walked past, going
somewhere else,
And her bleeding stopped.
Bleeding?
Yeh! Some kind of never-ending
period
For so many years,
Even the healer stopped
in his tracks.
I don't think he even knew
she was there.
I was on the boat when he
told us
To go ahead to the other
side of the lake,
That he'd catch up with
us later.
And he did, walking right
across the waves.
He walked on water?
Yep! Just like he was on
a road.
Came right out to us.
We thought we were seeing
a ghost.
Are you sure?
He even told evil spirits
to leave the possessed.
One time they went into
livestock feeding nearby
And jumped off a cliff and
drowned in the sea.
Folks there were so scared
They begged him to leave.
He raised a man four days
after he died,
And he didn't smell bad
at all.
The guy got up when he called
his name
And came out, blinking in
the sunshine.
Oh, hey, now wait! After
four days?
Dead, buried, and quite ripe.
You could've heard a pin
drop.
No one said a word.
By this time the government
had enough
And they took the healer
prisoner,
Tried him in a kangaroo
court,
And killed him for his crimes.
Crimes? What crimes?
That's what we all wondered.
Something about being an
enemy of the state
Or saying he was God.
God? He said he was God?
I don't know, I didn't hear
him,
But his miracles said all
I needed to hear.
And here's the gospel truth:
Three days later
He himself rose from the
dead.
Hundreds and hundreds saw
him after
Just walking around, eating
and drinking
Just like before his execution.
This is unbelievable. I have
no words.
I don't know what to think.
I don't know what to do.
Finally, he said he was going
to leave us,
But that he'd be back someday,
And then he went right up
into the sky
Like it was nothing, like
he did it all the time.
What?
Not like flying, mind you,
But like being lifted up,
And then he just waved goodbye.
It's not like we're going
to forget him
Now that he's gone.
His spirit and what he taught
us
Are still here, deep inside.
And now we wait for the day
When he'll return, that
is
All of us who believe
He was more than a man,
To take us up to be with
him,
The miracle of miracles,
The best for last.
John 6:2
"A massive multitude continually
followed Jesus
because they were constantly
seeing the mighty
signs He was performing...mighty
deeds that auth-
enticated the fact that
God was with Jesus, that
God was Jesus in human form." |