AM Worship-Caught Without Excuse

This is the recording from the livestream from AM Worship 3/15/26.

This live stream includes our worship service with music that is used under CCLI Live stream license 22169281 and CCLI license 2023223. This sermon is presented by Pastor Steven Larrabee

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This powerful message invites us into one of Scripture's most compelling moments of mercy and transformation found in John 8:1-11, where a woman caught in adultery stands before Jesus, awaiting certain death. What unfolds is far more than a simple story of forgiveness. We discover that this encounter was actually a carefully laid trap by religious leaders attempting to force Jesus into an impossible choice between mercy and law. Yet Jesus, with divine wisdom, refuses to play their game. The profound moment when He stoops to write in the sand may reference Jeremiah 17:13, possibly recording the names of those who have forsaken God, turning the accusers' attention inward. When Jesus finally speaks, His words cut through the hypocrisy: let whoever is without sin cast the first stone. One by one, the accusers leave. What remains is breathtaking: a guilty woman receives not what she deserves, but mercy, grace, and a life-changing commission to go and sin no more. This is the heart of the gospel. We stand guilty, deserving judgment, yet Christ offers us transformation instead of condemnation. The message challenges us to examine whether we have truly experienced this transformational power or are merely going through religious motions. True freedom comes not from escaping consequences, but from receiving the Holy Spirit's power to live differently, to become new creations unrecognizable from our former selves.