As I was driving in my car, I became deeply convicted to write about:  The Rules of Accusation…..

 

And not long after that, I became deeply convicted to write about:  The Rules of Being Accused…..

 

John 8 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women.  Now what do you say?”6  They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

11 “No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

 

So what are the Rules of Being Accused?

 

The enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy.

 

He is the one who wants nothing more than to bring us to our knees in shame.

 

He is the very one who tempts us….Come on–this will be fun.

And then follows that up with….You Idiot!  What were you thinking?

He is the one who brings us shame and lies to keep us trapped….It is TOO LATE TO GO BACK NOW.

 

But Jesus doesn’t give us those points:

He wants us to deal in TRUTH.

 

When people are accusing you—-it is very important to ask that question:  Is What They Are Saying True?

 

If it is, we need TO CHANGE.  If they are accusing us of something that we are guilty of—we need to not be afraid to face the truth.

 

That being said:  ANYTHING THAT ATTACKS YOUR CHARACTER OR WHO YOU ARE…..that is a lie.  And it is a lie from the pits of hell.

You are God’s kid. He put His claim on your and He has seen you as you were knitted together in your mother’s womb.  

He saw you AS SO VALUABLE that He decided to DIE ON A CROSS TO SAVE YOU! You are His prize!

 

God wants us to be real.

 

He does want us to work on our “stuff”….and we all have “stuff” that truly needs to be fixed.

 

But we are not to let others tell us that “our stuff” is who we are…..it isn’t.  It was killed on the cross 2000 years ago.

 

Jesus came for us.  He came for us so that we might not just be forgiven of our sin but that we might deal with our sin.

He hasn’t called us to be holier-than-others-hypocrites and He doesn’t want to us to be perfect.

 

Are you accused?

Cry out to God.  Cry out to Him and ask Him heal you.  

Ask Him to come and fix what’s broken and heal what’s scarred.  

Ask Him to be the One thing in your life that’s right even if everything else is wrong.

Ask Him to be YOUR God.

 

In The Name Of The Father And The Son And The Holy Spirit.

Amen.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaT8Jl2zpI

 

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J