Today we continue our series on why they had to do it, First week we looked at they had to do it because he made them choose, last week we said you gave the people hope today I want to look at why they had hope. It was because He came with a new message than the leaders had a message of grace and not law. Again we will look at one story from His time on earth and as we talk about it, we will see how everyone Jesus came in contact with was showed grace.
John 1:17
‘The law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ’
John 8:1-11
Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. “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 were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust. When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?” “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”
- Grace’ in the Bible simply means ‘a free gift’, or ‘unmerited favor
- Showed grace when they attempted to get him to condemn self.
- Showed grace with words.
- By saying let him who is with sin cast the first stone
- Jesus was not too busy in his teaching time to show grace to a woman
- She was in need,
- He dealt with her accusers,
- Gave her attention.
- Her response is greater than the leaders with two word, no Lord The Pharisees called Him ‘Master’, what did she call Him? ‘Lord’. She recognized, ‘This is a man unlike any other man I have ever met’ – do you know that?
- John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
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