Amazing Grace

Published: April 19, 2020, 10 a.m.

Amazing Grace
\u2014How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost\u2014But now I\u2019m found.
Was blind, but now I see.

Twas grace
that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.

Lyrics written John Newton 1772

John 8:1-11 NLT
Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.

4 \u201cTeacher,\u201d they said to Jesus, \u201cthis woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?\u201d

6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, \u201cAll right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!\u201d 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.

9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, \u201cWhere are your accusers? Didn\u2019t even one of them condemn you?\u201d

Paul Writes to Ephesians
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
(Ephesians 2:1 NIV)

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[fn] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.(Ephesians 2:3 NIV)

But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much,(Ephesians 2:4 NLT)

that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God\u2019s grace that you have been saved!)(Ephesians 2:5 NLT)