Jesus is popping up everywhere on Ebay these days.  If you do a search on Ebay for the word Jesus, you will see that there are over 8,800 items listed for sale that have to do with Jesus. Items such as this Got Jesus magnet  are all for sale for a price. He has shown up on a dental x-ray, a rock, and of all things, a fish stick! Shouldn’t seem too strange since he hung out with fishermen.

In his book The Ultimate Priority John MacArthur reflects on a story in the Chicago Tribune about an amazing tortilla. A New Mexico woman was making tortillas when she noticed that the skillet marks on one of the tortillas looked like Jesus. She showed it to her husband and neighbors, and they all agreed that Jesus’ face was burnt into the tortilla.

She took the tortilla to have it blessed by her priest. She testified that the tortilla had changed her life, and her husband agreed that she had been a happier, more peaceful and submissive wife since the tortilla had arrived.

After the reluctant priest blessed the tortilla, she took it home, put it in a glass case with piles of cotton to make it look like it was floating on clouds, built an altar for it and opened the shrine to visitors. Within a few months more than eight thousand people made pilgrimages to worship at the shrine of the Jesus of the Tortilla. Everyone agreed that the burn marks on the tortilla looked like Jesus, except for one anti-religious newspaper reporter who thought it looked like former heavyweight boxer Leon Spinks.

Is Jesus for sale? Can he be bought and sold as a keepsake? Of course we know the answer to that is no.  But, there is one aspect of Jesus’ life that dealt with being bought with a price.  That aspect of His life is you. The Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians 6:19-21 (NIV), "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body."  The price was Jesus’ life.

I have to admit the dental X-ray of Jesus is pretty impressive!