Welcome to our new project, the Daily Bible Devotional. The goal is to help you understand and apply

scripture as you go through a New Testament Bible read five days a week, Monday through Friday,

as we move from Matthew straight through to Revelation. In under four minutes each morning, we will recap the chapter,

make some application, present thought questions for the day, and offer a prayer together.

I'm excited about exploring God's word with you, so let's get started. Welcome to our study together

today from John chapter 8. Jesus is teaching in the temple

when Jewish leaders bring him a woman who has been caught in adultery. They ask him what should

be done to her. He asks the one who has no sin to cast the first stone. Slowly all the men leave.

He then explains there is no testimony against her

and sends her away telling her to, quote, sin no more. This opens a discussion about testimony

concerning Jesus, including his own words and works, along with the prophecy and proclamations of his

father. He teaches eternal life with the father,

and that unbelievers will die in their sins,

for the devil is their father.

The men try to claim Abraham is their father,

but Jesus enrages them when he says, quote,

before Abraham was, I am.

Things are heating up between Jesus and the Jewish leaders. He is teaching in their temple and embarrassing them with his wisdom. In the case of the adulterous woman,

the men's motives are faulty, and they leave in shame. But the guilty woman is given a pardon by

the mercy of the Lord. Jesus has

proven his glory and his right to be obeyed, and those who will not believe will die in their sins.

To claim God as Father is to follow Jesus. We must understand this. To follow the world is to have

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