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elders, het die Joodse Raad Mattias saam met Jesus jou al gedring om te
uitgesonder en hom voor die hof doen?
gebring. Hulle het geëis dat hy Jesus Die God van ons voorvaders het jou
en die krag van Sy opstanding moes uitgekies om Sy wil te ken, die
verloën. Toe hy weier, het die hoë- Regverdige te sien en Sy Stem te
priester verklaar: "Dan is dit jou eie hoor, want jy sal vir alle mense Sy
skuld dat jy gaan sterf, want jou eie getuie wees van wat jy gesien en
mond het jou beskuldig." gehoor het. En nou, waarom nog
Mattias is eers aan 'n kruis opgehang wag? Kom, laat jou doop en jou
en gestenig. Toe hulle sien dat hy nog sondes afwas nadat jy Sy Naam
nie dood was nie, is hy afgehaal en aangeroep het.
onthoof. - Ananias aan Paulus
Mattias se omswerwinge saam met (Hand. 22:14-16).
Jesus het hom gedring om Sy Uit: Fanaties vir Jesus, Volume II, dc
Evangelie te bly verkondig, ongeag die Talk en The Voice of the Martyrs, CUM,
gevare. Wat het jou omswerwinge 2004.

uring April, a Sunday School teacher rock had moss on it, and moss
asked all eight children in her class to hide was new life. The teacher
Dwithin an empty container a small object agreed.
that represented life in the Spring. A butterfly flew from the third
Not wanting to embarrass eight-year-old container, and another child
Stephen, whose mental retardation was bragged that her choice was
becoming more manifest, the teacher suggested best of all.
that the children all place their unlabelled The fourth container was empty.
containers on her desk. Since she feared that "That has to be Stephen's,"
Stephen might not have caught on, she decided thought the teacher, quickly
that she should open them. reaching for the fifth.
The first had a tiny flower. "What a lovely sign of "Please, don't skip mine!'
new life!" "I brought that one!" the donor Stephen interjected. "But it's
exclaimed. Next came a rock. "That must be empty." "That's right," said
Stephen's," the teacher thought, since rocks do Stephen. "The tomb was empty,
not symbolize new life. But Billy shouted that his and that is new life for every-
one."
Later that summer, Stephen's
condition grew worse, and he
died. On his casket at the
funeral, mourners found eight
containers. They were ALL
EMPTY!