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 will look today at the story of the woman caught in adultery.

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 you're met by a generous, kind, merciful savior as you open your heart to him.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

Our scripture for today comes from John 8, verse 7.

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 grace. Scripture says, early in the morning he came again to the temple.

All the people came to him, 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 in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women.

So 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.

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