Month: March 2020

Just For You

This evening I felt the Lord taking me back to the woman that broke the letter of the law by committing adultery and was sitting between a wall of men with rocks in their hands ready to stone her to death and on the other side one man left with the final word of her judgment.

I see the woman in her village with all the people knowing her life style. When she walks down the street all the eyes look upon her with shame. She enters the store for supplies and she can feel the air is filled with rejection.

On the surface many people hated her for her getting away with her crimes against the letter of the law, but no one did anything about it, but deep in heart she knew the day would come. No one escapes from the seeds they have sown in life. What goes around comes around.

People only saw her face and body that was given over to the men of the town. The women saw a woman to hate for her actions. The men saw a woman they could use. She was nothing to them, but an object to use. Who cared what she felt or thought?

Could it be she hated herself, hated the life style she lived, and felt trapped with no way out. Could it be she felt there was no forgiveness in the many people around her nor any forgiveness in her own heart. There was no one to reach out to her other than for her to perform and serve them.

She could feel that ominous feeling her day of judgment will come and there will be no one who cares. People only saw her body and did not see her sadness, loneliness, and sorrow in her heart. No one sees me, the real me. No one cares about the real me inside this body.

Jesus stopped in this town to go to the temple to teach. Could it be just like the woman at the well. Jesus sent all of his disciples away just for her to meet him alone at the well. Could it be being God inside that man Jesus knew this woman’s time was at hand.

Could it be Jesus knew that woman felt the day would come for her to pay for her sins because there was no one to help her or forgive her. Could it be all the woman desired with all her heart was for someone to stand up for her and forgive her to set her on the path of doing right.

When the men broke into the room where she was breaking the letter of the law of adultery. She knew her time had come. As they were pulling her along seeing them picking up good size stones. She knew this was it and no one would help her. All she knew they were taking her to a place to stone her to death.

When the men pushed her down she expected them to speak her sentence and the stoning would begin. The day she knew would come was here. The men began to speak, but it was not to her. It was to a man in front of her laying out all the proven evidence before him asking him for the final word of judgment. The truth was breaking her spirit in shame.

All of them could only see a criminal woman of adultery physically laying there on the ground, but there was one man that could see her thoughts and her heart. The tears pouring out of her eyes was not the fear of death, but tears of repentance. She knew she deserved to die and no one would or should forgive her. She was sorry as daughter before God.

God has and always will be multitasking for the souls of His children. Could it be Jesus purposely stayed to teach in the area for not just the people, but the one lady who needed someone to forgive her and others needed to see no one is without sin except God and mercy needs to be practiced.

JUST FOR YOU

Sure the people needed to hear the living Spirit side of the letter of the law. Sure the men with the stones needed to realize all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. They all were blessed. Could it be God was after that one lost sheep in the midst of the 99 sheep who did not need repentance, but understanding? Could His eyes be looking at her with love unspeakable saying, “Just for You“? As we all know we will pull from this scene God’s love for us.

Ready for the stones to start hitting her with the end near the one man says, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” She heard the words, but shock had frozen her mind. What is this? I am going to die. I knew this day would come. Through her tears, no one will forgive me and I am so sorry I have lived this way. I cannot forgive myself.

The stones slowly started hitting the ground instead of hitting her. Silence began to surround her as her brokenness inside continued to crumble. No one can forgive me. No one can forgive. No one will forgive me. I am alone.

In the silence a shadow covered her from the burning hot sun cooling her condemned skin and a soft voice of the one man said, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?“. At the sound of his voice with her body trembling she began to slowly open her eyes cautiously looking around for her accusers. They were all gone. She said to Jesus, “No one, sir“.

In that moment of realization her ears heard the words, “Then neither do I condemn you.” The words of forgiveness overflowed her heart that not just someone, but THE anointed man containing God’s presence spoke these words. She felt the release of condemnation of her past when he said, “Go now and leave your life of sin“. I can start a new life.

JUST FOR YOU is a love only you can see when God goes out of His way to set up the moment to reach out to you when no one else does. He waited for the woman at the well who had six husbands and the one she had presently was not her own. He was there JUST FOR YOU.

Do we see when He sets up things JUST FOR YOU? Did the woman at the well see later it was JUST FOR HER, but spilled over to the people around her? Did the woman who was ready to be stoned to death later see it was JUST FOR HER? the Bible is loaded with people God went there JUST FOR THEM.

If you and I were to really think we could find things God was doing JUST FOR US. The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus was JUST FOR YOU.

This message God returned me to this woman and her village was JUST FOR YOU. Will you let this spill over from you to others?

Between Death and Life

Every day we all find ourselves between things. We are in the middle of
choosing this one or that one. We are always between choices. You and I are always in the middle of something whether we are aware of it or not.

As a child you had to make choices. Some choices were fun and some were no fun at all. Parent(s), siblings, neighbors, teachers, coaches, relatives, and many others put you in a place between choices.

The sad part about choices is once you have decided the results could be bad and you had to find out the hard way it was a bad choice. Good choices have a glow about them with a feeling it was a divine plan that was meant to be falling into your hands.

Some things we are between we have a choice and in others we have NO choice. Having the freedom to choose is great, but you don’t know how great that freedom is until you are between something and the choice lies in others.

The Scene: John Chapter 8

In one country they had strict laws. People were to follow the letter of the
law. If anyone broke the letter of the law they were to be punished according to the level of the law they broke. Husbands and wives were to have intercourse with no one else, but their spouses.

A teacher was born into this country with God anointed understandings of the letter of the law God gave the people. The religious leaders did not like his interpretation of the letter of the law because it was pure and a side they had never seen in the letter of the law.

The God sent teacher was at the temple when a group of religious leaders of men brought a woman throwing her down at the teacher’s feet. The men told the teacher this woman was caught in the act of adultery and the letter of the law says she should be stoned to death for breaking it.

I can see the teacher God sent on one side and the group of men with rocks in their hands on the other side. The woman is the one that got my attention. She was in between them. She had made her choices in life of which side she would choose. She is now in the middle of Death or Life.

Now, she is in between two sides with her choice in their hands. She had
already heard the one side giving their choice of stone her to death according to the letter of the law. She is waiting to hear the response of the God sent teacher.

What they all did not know this teacher from God was the letter of the law in flesh and much more. This man on the other side of this woman was the Word made flesh (Jn. 1:14). He was and is the living letter of the law come to complete the law for mankind. He was and is the Word in the beginning of creation. He was the letter of the law of the order of things here on earth and in the heavens above.

This man teacher in the flesh had the Spirit of the Almighty God that stood on one side of Adam and Eve with the devil on the other side. The Spirit of God was the letter of law of order and protection, if you eat this one particular fruit you will surely die. This man before the woman was the letter of the law with flesh and blood.

The devil was there saying kill them the letter of the law demands it. God
knew it had to be done, but not right at that moment. Death and sin was passed onto all mankind through Adam and Eve, but the execution was not at that very moment. God inserted into the birth channel of mankind a promise of one day returning to fulfill the letter of the law’s requirements for His children.

This is what was on the other side of the woman waiting to be stoned to
death for her guiltiness of adultery. We all have experienced people condemning us and very few seeing past our regrets and wishes we had never done what we had done or said.

She was in the middle of death on one side and unknown of the other side. The teacher/master began to speak as the woman hearing the words pass over her to the men with stones. He said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” The death side had words to think about from the other side, which is revealed to be the side of life for the woman.

She was between the choices of Death or Life with no control on what the
final outcome will be. She was sitting between the letter of the law from the Old Testament and the spirit of the law in the New Testament of God. She was between the devil calling for her death and God saying not death right now, but life.

I see her as I do see us today between the Old Testament of the letter of
the law and the New Testament of Jesus Christ fulfilling the Law for us. All of us are born under the letter of law that demands a payment of death – a letter that killeth if you will, but on the other side of us is the Spirit of Jesus offering the payment in our place through him unto eternal life.

The woman hearing the words of Jesus had to realize no one there was without sin to cast the first stone, but still what choice will they make. Will they defy the words of Jesus, the teacher of God? She hears one stone drop, but there are many men. One stone could still be the death of her. It must be all of them with a unanimous choice for her to live. The stones started dropping one by one from the oldest man in the group down to the youngest.

All was quiet around the woman until she heard the one man who had no sin and the right to through the first stone say to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She looked around to see none of her accusers, only the stones meant for her death on the ground. (11) She
said, “No one, sir“.

The wall of men demanding the letter of the law that killeth to be fulfilled
were gone and the one man from the other side said to her, “Then
neither do I condemn you. Go now and leave your life of sin“.

I see all of us in the middle between these two eternal forever set in place
laws that will be executed. Adam and Eve’s situation has not changed to this day for the letter of the law of death to be fulfilled, but not right now. We have time to choose the other side with Jesus stepping in our place fulfilling the law through himself setting us free to eternal life.

All we have to do is to leave our life of sin turning against it in a
repentful way, be baptized/submerged in water in Jesus name applying his blood of atonement/forgiveness on us, and receive the power of his Spirit inside of us (Acts 2:38 the plan of salvation). The stones of death will be dropped to the ground around us and we will walk away with life and life more abundantly.

We are free to make choices everyday no matter if they are good or bad. We are in the same position like that woman between death and life, but the difference is we have the choice right now to choose eternal life joining the side of Jesus or wait until death visits us later with an unchanging eternal sentence of death.

Choose Jesus and your accusers have no power to inflict upon you their
decisions and look up to see only Jesus with all the death tools lying on the
ground with no power.

We are all in the middle. I want you to feel the forgiveness I have felt. Whom do you choose?