Truly Amazing Grace

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I just don’t understand it. In fact, a year ago, I would have completely avoided this subject, because I didn’t want people to misuse it. Now, it just brings me tears of joy, because I cannot comprehend why in the world this is the truth. But it is that, the truth.

I’m just going to let the Scripture speak for itself:

John 8:
1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 Now *early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the
people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them.
3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in
adultery. And when they had set her in the midst,
4 they said to Him, “Teacher, *this woman was caught in adultery, in
the very act.
5 Now *Moses, in the law, commanded us *that such should be stoned.
But what do You *say?”
6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which
to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His
finger, *as though He did not hear.
7 So when they continued asking Him, He *raised Himself up and said to
them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her
first.”
8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 Then those who heard it, being* convicted by their conscience, went
out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus
was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10 When Jesus had raised Himself up *and saw no one but the woman, He
said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers *of yours? Has no one
condemned you?”
11 She said, “No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go *and sin no more.”

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