Larry the leper was cleansed by Christ,
This man had suffered his whole life.
Jesus healed him from his head to his toe,
His skin now had a healthy glow.
But when the new Larry went back to town,
Won’t nobody happy they all did frown.
“He might look clean,” is what they all said,
“but nobody is really healed from this disease we dread.”
They had no faith in what Christ can do,
Their mind was on the past; they couldn’t see the new.
They feared for their children, feared for their kin,
They figured Larry was a leper because of his sin.
And sin can’t be fixed, for it’s deep within a heart,
And no one could ever fix that inner hidden part.
If he had it once, it is bound to return,
So, Larry who was a leper everybody did spurn.
They just didn’t get it, that Jesus could heal,
Didn’t live by their faith, but what they did feel.
Poor old Larry he had brand new skin,
But the fear of the people makes him an outcast again.
Maybe it’s them who have a great affliction,
For their words and their actions are a real contradiction.
Love your brother like you love yourself,
But they put old Larry up upon the shelf.
It surely is a pity, it surely is a shame,
What they call faith is really quite lame.
Do you know a Larry that Christ has healed of sin?
Then treat him like a brother, treat him like a friend.
For Jesus will protect you if in Him you trust,
But we all must receive His children we can, we must!
Tertius
To this they replied,
“You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!”
And they threw him out.
John 9:34
1 John 4:18, John 8:7, James 2:10, Luke 8:37, 2 Kings 5:14,
2 Peter 1:9, Matthew 25:45, Luke 10:16, 2 Corinthians 5:17
A note about “The Great Affliction”: I left the church where I am a member because they were letting fornicators join and become members. Is this my opinion or my judgement call? Not at all, the abomination of doing this is clearly defined in I Corinthians 5. I have the same disgust with a church that will not allow one who has claimed repentance and by all accounts has turned from a life of sin, into the fellowship because of their past. Granted a child molester shouldn’t be allowed to teach a children’s Sunday School class and a thief shouldn’t be given the job of counting the offering money too quickly, but as responsibility is shown, trust should be grown. How often we forget the Words of our Lord, “As you have done unto the least of my brothers you have done unto me.”