Monday, March 26, 2012

"Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again"

John 8:1-11

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?" This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." And once more he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus looked up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again."

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Andam ba kita modawat na bag’ohon kita nadto sa pagka-balaanon ni Christ?

Dili magpanuko si God na ihatag Nija an Ija grasya dato kay an Ija waya’y paglubad na gugma sanan kalooy permi man bag’o kada adlaw.

Pinaagi nan gasa sanan grasya nan Holy Spirit, puwede kita magbalhin sanan magbag’o kan Christ.

Sa ebanghelyo, tagpakita lamang dinhi ni Jesus na an paghusga sa isa ka makasasaya dili kon para sa tawo kay an tawo mismo, dili man kon segurado sija na limpiyo sija, kondili si God ra gajud.

Tagpakita ni Jesus an Ija kalooy sa makasasaya na babaje sanan, an importante dinhi na tagbilinan Nija sija na dili mag-otro pagpakasaya sanan hinulsulan sanan talikd’dan na nija an pagpakasaya sa ija kinabuhi.

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“God our Father, we find it difficult to come to you, because our knowledge of you is imperfect. In our ignorance we have imagined you to be our enemy; we have wrongly thought that you take pleasure in punishing our sins; and we have foolishly conceived you to be a tyrant over human life. But since Jesus came among us, he has shown that you are loving, that you are on our side against all that stunts life, and that our resentment against you was groundless. So we come to you, asking you to forgive our past ignorance, and wanting to know more and more of you and your forgiving love, through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

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