Have you ever believed the lie that your sin makes you unlovable to God?

I think we all have at one time or another.

We'll look today at the story of the woman caught in Vildray.

For some reason, every time I read this story, it surprises me again.

God is oftentimes different than we expect, much kinder in fact. May today be no different.

I pray that you are met by a generous, kind, merciful savior as you open your heart to him.

Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse for today comes from John 8, verse 7.

Scripture says, let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her. The story of the woman caught in adultery is one of the most powerful

depictions of God's heart to meet with man in the midst of sin and show his

grace. Scripture says the and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery.

And placing her in the midst, they said to him,

Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.

Now the law Moses commanded us to stone such women.

What do you say?

This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him.

Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

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.

And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.

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.

Jesus stood up and said to her,

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