SINNERS & THE SAVIOR
When Jesus dealt with the woman caught in the act of adultery, after her accusers had disappeared, he asked her, “Where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?” Then he proceeded to say to her, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and don’t sin anymore.” Philip Yancey summarizes, “This tense scene reveals a clear principle in Jesus’ life: he brings to the surface repressed sin, yet forgives any freely acknowledged sin. The adulteress went away forgiven, with a new lease on life; the Pharisees slunk away, stabbed to the heart.” Yancey continues, “Perhaps prostitutes, tax collectors, and other known sinners responded to Jesus so readily because at some level they knew they were wrong, and to them God’s forgiveness looked very appealing. As C. S. Lewis has said, “Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God; the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.” — John 8:1-11…
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