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1. Thanks for joining me today for “A Little Walk with God.” I’m your host Richard Agee.
2. We have a choice to condemn or show grace when someone wrongs us. Which will you do?
3. Scripture
   1. John 8:11
   2. Jesus: Well, I do not condemn you either; all I ask is that you go and from now on avoid the sins that plague you.
4. Devotional
   1. The doctor asks, “Does it hurt when you move your arm like this?” You reply, “Yes, it does.” His expert treatment. “Then don’t move it that way.”
      1. We would think the doctor is a little crazy wouldn’t we?
      2. Sometimes he’s right.
      3. Humans are the only animal that do things the body isn’t built to do.
      4. Try to build safety gadgets instead.
      5. Bone structure built to withstand hitting something at the speed you can run
      6. Cheetah, dog, elephant, human
      7. We wear ride motorcycles at 90 mph and wear helmets and leather jackets for protection
   2. Critics dismissed by asking the one without sin to cast the first stone.
      1. Caught in the act, witnesses to attest to crime
      2. The law said she should be stoned for her adulterous actions
      3. But wait, where was the guy?
      4. Doesn’t it take two?
      5. If she was caught in the act, wasn’t he caught in the act also?
      6. Didn’t the law apply to both? Why, yes it did!
   3. Jesus wrote in the sand
      1. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what He wrote?
      2. Maybe a list of everyone’s secret sins
      3. Maybe He began to put names to the violations of God’s laws
      4. We’ll never know what Jesus wrote in the sand that day, but no one threw a stone
   4. Then Jesus taught us something we should all remember
      1. He told us He came to extend grace and forgiveness to all those who believed in Him
      2. He also told us to show grace and forgiveness to those who wrong us
      3. He demonstrated it in more ways that we ever could
      4. Jesus gave His life as a demonstration of that grace and forgiveness
   5. When I’m quick to judge or condemn others for their actions, maybe I need to stop and remember this scene in the streets of Jerusalem. Jesus didn’t condemn but asked that the woman caught in adultery avoid sinning again. He extend grace and forgiveness to her. I expect He changed her life forever just like He can change mine and yours. All we have to do is ask and then let Him empower us to live the way He wants us to live.
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