The message at church on Sunday was about the Adulteress woman who was put before Jesus. The Pharisees were trying to catch Him in the act of Hypocrisy. They knew He believed in forgiveness, but they also knew that He believed in the Law of Moses, which says:
"If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
22 If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel."
Deuteronomy 22:20-22
They thought that Jesus would agree to stone her, but instead He said:
7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9 But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10 Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”
John 8:7-11
How amazing is that?
Many times I feel like Mary Magdalene, the prostitute thrown before Jesus to judge. I always deserve to be "stoned" for whatever my sins have been, but every time Christ frees me from that bondage of sin and forgives me without condemnation. I am so grateful to serve a Master that is as forgiving as He is loving. With that said, I can never forget the wrath that God does have against those who disobeys Him with no repentance.
I can never get to comfortable living in my sin.
KELSEY
