BLESSED BY THE INNER LIGHT

My Dear Precious Child, When Jesus walked in the earth and was thought by many people to be the Messiah, there were controversies related to that belief because of His actions toward obvious sinners according to religious Law. His dealing with the woman who was caught in adultery is a prime example. According to religious Law she was supposed to be stoned to death in the city streets by the priestly hierarchy of the temple. In fact, that is why the Pharisees and scribes had brought her to Jesus, to test Him to see if He would obey their religious Laws. They reminded Jesus Christ about the law, hoping to accuse Him of refusing to follow the Laws in order to prove Him of being a phony instead of the Messiah. Instead of accusing the woman of adultery, as the hypocritical Pharisees expected, Jesus knelt on the ground and wrote with his finger in the sand the sins of the Pharisees and scribes. Upon rising from the ground Jesus said that if there was a person in their midst who was not a sinner also, let him be the person to throw the first stone in the woman's stoning. Each Pharisee and scribe, upon seeing what Jesus wrote in the sand with his finger, became stricken with a guilty CONSCIENCE himself and they began leaving the expected "stoning" one by one, the oldest to the youngest. In His conversation with the woman, Jesus revealed His opinion about sinning by asking the woman where all of her accusers had gone, seeing that there were no men left there to condemn her. Jesus called attention to that fact, that all of her accusers had left the scene of what was considered to become a possible stoning of the woman who was accused. What happened next was amazing to the observers according to Jewish Law. Jesus Christ, Himself, said to the woman who was obviously caught in adultery that He also did not accuse her either. He also told her to go and not to sin anymore. Then Jesus turned and addressed the crowd of people saying, "I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not walk in darkness but will have the Light of Life in him or her." In that statement He disclosed that there was no darkness in Him, that there was only the Light of Life. The hypocritical Pharisees who remained told Jesus that He was giving His own opinion, not the opinion of the Jewish Law. Jesus answered that even if He did speak from His own authority, His testimony was true and reliable. He told them that He knew where He came from and where He was going but they didn't know Him or where He was going. Then Jesus Christ revealed to the hypocritical Pharisees and scribes that they judged according to their flesh but that He judged no person. He said that even if He did judge, He said that His judgment was sound because the Father sent Him and that the Father was in Him. He reminded those Pharisees that the Law says that the testimony of two witnesses made a testimony valid. Jesus said that it might be apparaent that He testified on His own, but that it was really the testimony of the Father who sent Him who was a witness, too; to which a Pharisee asked Jesus where was His Father? Jesus answered that they didn't know Him so they couldn't know Me. He assured them that if they truly knew Him that they would have known Me, His Father, as well. This entire scenario took place in the Treasury in the temple, but nobody arrested Him because the time had not come for him to be crucified. He told them again that He was going away and they would be looking for Him. He told them that they would die in their sins and where He was going it was not possible for them to come, to which they asked among themselves if He was going to kill himself? Jesus told them that they were from below and He was from above; that they were of the world and He was not; to which they asked who he was, anyway, Jesus said that He was wasting His breath to try to explain because He was whom He said He was from the beginning. His gracious, merciful treatment of the woman who was caught red handed in the act of adultery was diametrically opposite to the way the Pharisees, scribes, chief priests, priests and elders of the temple treated women who were adulterers. Forgiveness was not even considered because mercy was not in their religious Law. To be good Jewish citizens and a good religious official, they must follow the Law and its punishment. The Jewish law was for the flesh. Jesus Christ showed that My attitude toward all sin was to forgive the people who committed the sins. Jesus knew that sin was committed by people in answer to the temptations of the devil, so the guilty entity was the devil and his demons. In speaking to the woman to go and sin no more, there was so much power in His words that she began to believe and follow Him. The religious laws punish people but Jesus Christ and I forgive people and give My children the power to be rehabilitated. In a small capsule, that's the difference between the religious old covenant and the new covenant of the Holy Spirit. It's all identified in Jesus' treatment of the woman caught in adultery. Your Father of Love and Forgiveness