John 8:1-11 (NIV)
Read by: Tammy Eckhart
So far in John’s gospel we’ve seen many signs--healings, miracles of food transformation and multiplication--events that reveal what it looks like when God’s space and human space overlap. Abundance and wholeness. In today’s passage, we see yet another picture of what God’s kingdom on earth looks like. Isaiah spoke of it as valleys being lifted up, and the mountains being made low. It’s a level playing field, a place where both self-righteousness and self-hatred have no welcome. It’s a place where the singular standard of perfect justice exposes our sin, covers our shame, and calls us into humility and repentance.
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1. What word or phrase stood out to you in the passage?
2. Have you been ashamed, exposed by a situation you got caught up in--or felt a fear of exposure? Can you hear the words of Jesus for you today? What shame do you need to lay at his feet today? Where in your life do you need to experience his redemption?
3. The pharisees are trying to entrap Jesus. In an effort to catch Jesus defying the law they break it themselves by failing to bring the man who was also caught in the act of adultery. Then they pretend to be motivated by holiness, but it’s really just about destroying Jesus' reputation. Have you ever been caught in a situation where if your motives were exposed, you would be the one dropping the stone and walking away?
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