🌿Breathe Truth🌿
“Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”
They kept demanding an answer, so He stood up and said “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone.” —John 8:4, 7
🌿Believe Truth🌿
The Pharisees took deliberate steps to bring this woman to Jesus. An entrapment. If Jesus answered wrongly, He would discredit Himself.
To the Pharisees, this woman was an experiment and nothing more. To Jesus, this woman needed unvarnished truth and much, much more.
Surprising turns, tender mercies, and unexpected dust fill the void that is missing in this woman’s life. What Jesus did for this woman, He does for all. He can do for you and I.
Jesus meets us where we are.
After the woman’s accusers departed from the scene, it was just Jesus and her. “And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.” (John 8:9) The Greek Word for standing is hestimi. Hestimi also has a figurative meaning, to set or to place. It is likely that the woman was situated on the ground, placed there by her accusers. In a lowly position imparted to her by the Pharisees. But what does Jesus do? He stoops down to the ground and remains there. Jesus physically meets her where she is. He identifies with her position.
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Jesus meets the condemnation against us with mercy.
The accuser will thrust our sin into a public setting and let others unjustly judge us with often limited information. Jesus addresses our sin privately, understanding our fraility, judging with mercy, and with full knowledge of the circumstances that led us to compromise. While the Pharisees brought her before a crowd of people to shame her, Jesus waited until all the Pharisees had left to talk to her. He identifies with her insecurity.
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Jesus meets the gap between the sin and the sinner.
In our most difficult seasons. In the hardest times in our lives, He finds us. Jesus places Himself between our transgression and ourselves. To intercede for us. To stand before our accusers. To give us a fresh start. He is able to do this by dying on the cross in our place. Jesus stays with the woman until all the Pharisees have left. As protector and defender. He tells her to leave her life of sin. Release the old life and move forward with a new one. Jesus confronts her sin in private. He identifies with her vulnerability.
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The Pharisees failed in their experiment to derail Jesus’ ministry and destroy this woman’s life. To get to His child, the adulterous woman, the Pharisees had to go through Him. If Jesus is for us, who can be against us?
Jesus is the ultimate Incercessor and Defender. Trust in Him. Let His Real Truth fight for you.
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