| Religious Leaders |
| Our religious leaders are human just like you and me. They get colds and their nose needs blowing, just like you and me. They say words wrong sometimes, just like you and me. Our religious leaders sins sometimes too, just like you and me. Sometimes they get mad when they shouldn't; that's a sin. Sometimes they tell bad things about someone; that's a sin. Sometimes they laugh at someone who is hurt; that's a sin. Jesus is the only one to ever live without sin. Not a single sin his whole life! For everyone else, that is impossible. There was a lady who started out good. She went to the Temple and learned all about God when she was young. But she started mixing her good life with a bad life. There were some religious leaders at the Temple who started out good. But when the young lady came to them to learn about God, they liked her too much. They liked her in the same way they did their wives. After awhile, she was acting like a wife to several of the religious leaders at the Temple. No one tried to stop it. It made God very, very sad. He wanted good religious leaders. These religious leaders did not like Jesus. Jesus always told people what their sins were so he could help them stop doing those things and make God happy. They also hated Jesus because too many people liked him and followed him around. They were afraid Jesus would make them quit being religious leaders. So one day when Jesus was at the Temple in Jerusalem, they decided to trap Jesus and make people hate him. Jesus always talked about peace and love and they didn't like that. The religious leaders took the woman to Jesus who had been acting like a wife to many of them when they already had wives. "The Law of Moses says we must stone her to death," they said. Jesus wondered why they didn't admit they were acting too much like husbands to this woman. It wasn't fair to punish just her. The men got scared Jesus would tell everyone they had been bad. So they slipped away and decided not to hurt the woman. Forgiveness means you pretend a person never did a bad thing. If they never did it, then they don't need punishing. Jesus forgave the woman. When you do bad things, even if you go to church, just ask God to forgive you. He wants to. He can forgive you for anything and everything. Then, to God you are perfect. |