Today I am going to repeat myself! This came up again in today's Bible Reading Plan, so I am going to bring some things to your remembrance! Like Peter (2 Pete 1:12-13), I want to stir you up to remember the things of God! In John 8 we read the account of the WOMAN caught in adultery. The last time I heard, this sin takes two people, but THAT is for another post! The scribes and Pharisees brought this woman to Jesus to see what He would say to her. We all know that Jesus told those without sin of their own to cast the first stone. One by one they went their way, their own sin convicting them. Then Jesus said THIS to that woman who had been singled out by the self-righteous in verses 10-11:
10 When Jesus raised Himself up, He said to her, Woman, where are your accusers? Has no man condemned you? 11 She answered, No one, Lord! And Jesus said, I do not condemn you either. Go on your way and from now on sin no more.
He told her to sin no more so that something worse would not happen to her, here, in THIS life! (You can see that He said this very thing to someone else in John 5:14). SIN will NOT keep you out of Heaven when you leave this earth! The only sin NOT covered by the precious blood Jesus is the sin of rejecting Him. Every other sin (a selfish decision to do things my own way instead of God's way) will keep us from walking in God's richest and best here on earth, and CAN hinder our work of the ministry here, but they will NOT keep us from the Heaven of the Bible! SO, since Jesus refused to condemn this woman for sin committed, WE must do the same! John 3:17 tells us that Jesus did NOT come in to the world to judge or condemn the world, but to become the means of our salvation! WE are to "seek and save the lost" so that we can bring them to HIM! AMEN! Refuse to condemn anyone and refuse condemnation FROM anyone! Focus, instead, on the goodness of God (Romans 2:4) and on the work that He has called YOU to do! AMEN! Here is Hillsong United with "In The Mystery":
Shalom in Him
