They slipped away one by one

I was in worship singing and praising, and I had this vision of the pharisees and the adulterous women. Then I was asked a question by Holy Spirit.. Who do you think that women is going to remember? Jesus or pharisees? Then in the vision I was that women, and I was looking up at Jesus, and I saw the glory around Him. It was this bright light. This was a face this women would never forget. It was a bright light she would never forget, and the memory of those pharisees disappeared out of her mind.

God was revealing something to me about these passages in the bible.. I was having a discussion with a friend a week before this, and I was thinking about these passages and what they meant.. What they mean for us, what they mean for new believers, what they mean for unbelievers.. It is amazing because this vision showed me the progression of what life is like when you grow up surrounded by religious people whether you are a believer or not.. Religious people want to stone the saved, and unsaved.. What life is like when you are a true follower of Jesus.. What life is like when you are saved by Grace, by Jesus!

This women was a sinner. She knew she was a sinner. She knew the consequences of her sin by the Jewish law. She wasn't unaware of it. She was on her way to death at the hands of religious people.. People who had no compassion because they thought they were zealous for the law although they made themselves believe they were zealous of God, but in fact they weren't zealous for God at all.. They honored God with their lips, and not their hearts.

She was at deaths door, and here comes this man named Jesus, who saved her. He rescued her from her own sin. He was quiet, and humble when He approached them. He didn't say anything at first, but then when the pharisees kept demanding answers He convicted them, and He rescued her from death. He saved her from death at the hands of religious people who thought they were better then her.. She had an encounter with His amazing love. He saved her by His Grace.. She looked up at Him, and seen His glory. She experienced His glory! He told her after to sin no more.. He confronted her on it after He saved her.. After He rescued her from death. He didn't condemn her to die like the pharisees did. In the book of Exodus when Moses was talking to the Israelites about going to experience God, and hear Him they said  "Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die." Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may remain with you, so that you may not sin.". 

God had already rescued the Israelites from the Egyptians and now He was wanting them to experience Him so they would fear Him, so they would keep themselves Holy. Keeping the law doesn't keep you holy.. Knowing God, and His love is what keeps you Holy. It is what keeps you from sinning. Fear of disappointing someone you love so much will you keep you convicted, it will keep you holy.. The Holy Spirit has the job of that, not us.


The pharisees slowly disappeared one by one out of the sight our Savior. They didn't experience the love, they didn't see the glory, instead they were no longer in the presence of Jesus.. That is what pride does.. It takes you away from His presence. It takes you away from His glory, and His love.. Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor. But he gives us even more grace to stand against such evil desires. As the Scriptures say, "God opposes the proud but favors the humble. 

God favors people who love Him, not people who are proud that think they have it all together..

Through this, I am still thinking about theses scriptures and how we should be as Christians. I want to be like Jesus, not like pharisees. I want people to see Gods Glory in me, and encounter Gods love that pours out of me. I want to be quiet and humble. I don't want to be afraid to encounter people who don't have it all together. I don't want to think I am better then people who are swallowed up in sin, because I know that just one encounter of Gods love is what changes a person. Condemnation doesn't change a person.. When you are condemning someone you are sentencing them to die.. I am not the creator of life. I am not the one who gives life, I am not the one who takes it away either.. I am not the judge of who lives and who dies. Jesus didn't condemn this lady to die, but instead He gave her life..

Pride takes you away from Him.. Pride is evil.. Jesus didn't walk away but it was the pharisees who walked away, they left the presence of God. They slipped away one by one..  Pride leads to destruction, and arrogance to downfall..


 Slipped and Fallen away from God because of Pride..