WEEK 2 – PURSUIT OF RESTORATION

Day 2 – Restoration of our Innocence
Read John 8:1–11
What? (describe what happened in the story in your own words)

Restoration of our Innocence
No one knows what it was that Jesus wrote. People speculate that maybe He wrote each of the sins the men standing before Him had committed. No one really knows what He wrote. What we do know is that this woman was caught in the act of adultery, so she was probably naked and definitely ashamed. The law required that BOTH parties involved in the adultery must be brought forward, but they only brought the woman. This tells us that the Pharisees didn’t care about the woman; they only cared about trapping Jesus. But He didn’t fall for it. Instead, He said something so profound a gaggle of angry men dropped their stones and left the woman alone. No one stood to accuse the woman.

Romans 8 claims that there is “no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” That means there is no one left to throw stones at those who have put their faith in Christ. It does not matter what sins you have committed in the past; the blood of Jesus covers you and restores you to the innocence humanity had before the fall. When Christ died on the cross, all the sin and dirt that was on us was removed and placed on Christ. But it goes beyond that … if we were just given a clean slate, we would dirty it again. We were then given the perfect slate of Jesus Christ, one that could never be soiled or stained. Now, for those of us who are in Christ Jesus, when God looks at us, He sees the perfect righteousness of Jesus. And He is pleased.

Study Questions:
In verse 6, John says that the Pharisees were “testing” Jesus. Why do you think they were testing Him?