Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, February 28th.

If you try to measure up to God's standards on your own, you'll always come up short.

But today, you'll hear how God has provided a way for you to be given the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

For people who look at their past and still feel the pangs of guilt and somehow

think in their hearts there'll never be a time in their life and they'll ever feel free and clean again,

this is a message of hope. The passage of scripture I want to deal with deals with this very

issue of how God looks upon our life,

not in condemnation, but love and forgiveness and cleansing and freedom and a whole new beginning.

And the title of this message is simply this, the offer of a second chance.

There somebody says, well, now, how can God give me a second chance?

I want you to see it in this passage.

God's offer of a second chance.

If you'll turn to John chapter 8.

The scripture says beginning in John chapter 8 verse 1.

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives, and early in the morning he came again into the temple,

and all the people were coming to him, and he sat down and began to teach them. And the scribes

and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the midst, they said to him,

Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery in the very act now in the law of moses it commands her to be

stone that is the stone such women what then do you say they were saying this testing him

in order that they might have grounds for accusing him but jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the

ground. But when they persisted in asking him, he straightened up and said to them, he who is without

sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her. And again, he stooped down and wrote on the

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