Law fulfilled!

 I've been sticking close to home during "allergy fest" these days, and as I was flipping through the channels this morning looking for some good Christian programming, I caught the last 5 minutes of Reinhard Bonnke while waiting for the next program to come on. I'm glad I did. I love it when God reveals a truth when we least expect it!

He was talking about the woman who was caught in the act of adultery. (John 8:3-11) He asked the question, "Why did Jesus not have her stoned for her actions? The law stated that she must be put to death for her act of adultery. It's in our Bibles today!"

Leviticus 20 :10 says: " If a man commits adultery with another man's wife- with the wife of his neighbor-both the adulterer and adulteress must be put to death." It was the law of Moses!

I always thought as the story goes, when Jesus said, "Let he who is without sin, let him cast the first stone", that was the answer. We're all guilty of something, so who are we to condemn anyone?

But Jesus was guilty of nothing. Is it possible that He did not have her stoned as the Pharisees requested, because He knew He was on His way to the cross to pay for her sin?  Not only her sin, but all of our sins! In doing so He knew He would fulfill that law, taking her place and ours in His death.

( I wonder too, and this is just pure conjecture on my part, if what He bent down to write in the sand that day could have been the sign of the cross...)

Jesus said in Matthew 5:17,  "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."

That's why believers are not condemned by that law today. Jesus fulfilled it for all of us with His death on the cross! The law still stands as our school master, teaching us right from wrong, but we're not condemned by it anymore.

Praise God for His amazing love!