2025-03-16_Sunday 2nd Service: Impartation of Uncommon Justice. By Rev. Dr. Simon Mwangi

What happens when divine justice collides with human condemnation? The story of the woman caught in adultery reveals a revolutionary truth: God's justice looks nothing like ours.

Standing in the public square of shame, surrounded by accusers ready to stone her, this woman faced certain death under Mosaic law. Yet when Jesus enters her story, everything changes. Through this powerful narrative from John 8:1-11, we discover three dimensions of God's uncommon justice flowing through the blood of Jesus.

Justice that redeems pulls us from the deepest pits where we feel trapped and condemned. Like Job who declared "I know my Redeemer lives," we witness the divine hand reaching into seemingly hopeless situations – financial crises, depression, public humiliation – and lifting people to safety when no human solution exists.

Justice that restores doesn't just forgive but completely heals our brokenness. While we may present composed exteriors, many of us carry deep internal wounds that money, education, or status cannot fix. "By his wounds we are healed" isn't just scripture – it's a promise of complete restoration for those broken in body, mind, or spirit.

Most remarkably, we discover justice that commissions. After Jesus dispersed her accusers with the challenge that only the sinless could cast stones, he didn't just pardon the woman – he commissioned her for a new life. This mirrors countless biblical examples where God takes people society has discarded and entrusts them with divine purpose.

When facing situations where people have given up on you or where shame threatens to define your story, remember this: the blood of Jesus carries uncommon justice capable of transforming your worst moments into testimonies of redemption. Your second chance isn't just possible – it's waiting for you now.

Have you experienced God's justice overruling human judgment in your life? We'd love to hear your story of redemption, restoration, or divine commissioning.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to the Woman Caught in Adultery
• 4:42 The Blood of Jesus Carries Uncommon Justice
• 15:33 Justice that Redeems from Every Pit
• 25:13 Restoration Through Christ's Blood
• 40:46 Justice that Commissions for New Purpose
• 50:37 Altar of Uncommon Justice and Prayer

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

I want to bring us God's Word from John, chapter 8, verse 1 to 11. It's a story we are very familiar with and it's about the woman who was caught in the act of Adetaru. We have just sung about the river of the blood Kijito Chautakaso Natamani ni zamishwe kule alafu nini Hallelujah, hallelujah Ni takasikes, indio. And therefore, as we are celebrating God's justice that is carried by the blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus is a carrier of uncommon justice. The blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus, is a carrier of uncommon justice. And the blood of Jesus is able to do extraordinary, supernatural things, and we thank God that this flow of the blood is so close to every one of us and for that reason our sins can be cleansed just like that, even when we are not deserving. And so I bring us the word from John, chapter 8. I'll read from verse 1 to verse 11. John, chapter 8. But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. This is just to remind us. Jesus had a devotional, you know, routine in terms of life. He would go to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts. That means he was probably there the whole night, at the Mount of Olives, where all the people gathered around him and he sat down to teach them. It was now time to minister.

Speaker 1: 1:35

The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group. In other words, they paraded her in a public square and made her stand throughout and say to Jesus teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery In the law of Moses commanded us. The law of Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now, what do you say? They were using this question as a trap in order to have a basis for accusing him, but Jesus bent over and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them let anyone of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her. Again, he stooped down and wrote on the ground. At this, those who heard began to go away, one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left. That's interesting.

Speaker 1: 2:48

With the woman still standing there, jesus straightened up and asked her woman where are they? Has no one condemned you? No one, sir. She said Then. Neither do I condemn you. This is a very powerful statement. Neither do I condemn you. Jesus declared go now and live your life of sin. Father, in the name of Jesus, I commit us and those who are following this service online into your hands, even as we share.

Speaker 1: 3:22

Inspired by John, chapter 8, verse 111, which is your word and Father, we pray that there would be a visitation here, an impartation of uncommon justice that flows from the blood of Jesus, and therefore, lord, speak to us In Jesus' name. We pray Amen. We may have our seats. So, like I said earlier, pastor Ambrose, I'm happy to be back. Yesterday we had a beautiful forum. We call it the Shepherd's Forum. We had a Holy Spirit visitation in that forum and we were meeting here in the youth sanctuary where all the leaders from ministries, departments, trustees, council pastors and deacons board. We gathered and we just waited and tarried before the Lord and there was a sense of visitation and also encouraging and a starting up by the Holy Spirit for all of us as leaders to go forth and I can declare our future is bright in Jesus' name. Hallelujah, it is bright, it is very bright.

Speaker 1: 4:26

So there are three areas I would like us to consider. One is justice that redeems. Secondly, justice that restores. And thirdly, justice that commissions. Impartition of uncommon justice.

Speaker 1: 4:42

Jesus serves this woman with an uncommon justice. It is not something she was expecting, because truly she was not deserving, and what was routine in those days, according to the law, was that if one was caught in the act of adultery, then the prescription of the law was clear and it was that they were to be stoned to death, and that's what she was really expecting. But God has a way of turning tables and God has a way of giving us something so different and something that we would not be expecting, and this is the nature of God's justice. I want to say that there's somebody in this service, also online, who feels that you don't quite deserve that something God is about to give you. I want to say through the sermon today that you should receive. Stretch your hand out to God because God is about to give you something, not because you deserve it, but because he is God. Let's give him a hand clap, not because you deserve.

Speaker 1: 5:54

You may even have come to the public square where you are publicly ashamed because of something, maybe a debt you owed something. Letters were written left, right and center. It was probably put in newspapers, and I have seen some cases where even pictures are posted of a person in the newspapers so that they can suffer maximum harm or maximum shame. You know the court of public opinion, the justice of public opinion, and we find that this lady has actually been thrust into such a square. It happens in life and you might be the subject of some discussion or conversation in places, even at the workplaces or other places, and I thank God for this text that I've just shared Regarding this woman who was caught in the act of adultery and how Jesus serves her uncommon justice, serves her divine justice.

Speaker 1: 6:57

I said earlier that this justice is capsulated in the blood of Jesus. When Jesus shed that blood, it's so that we, our restoration, our becoming members of the family of God, our deliverance and salvation would actually be possible, and salvation even from places where we think no one can get this person from here. Because, you see, these people have arrested this lady in the act of adultery and they are justified. They are actually justified in bringing her to that square in the temple. They are really justified and she is there and they. You know it's like no one can get this lady from where she is, but I want to say that God has a salvation plan, hallelujah. You know it's like no one can get this lady from where she is, but I want to say that God has a salvation plan, hallelujah. God has a deliverance plan. God has a plan to get us out of trouble and I thank God for how this plan works out in terms of his uncommon justice, number one, justice that redeems and this justice flows in the river of redeeming grace. There is an anointing here and it is the anointing that redeems.

Speaker 1: 8:15

Job, in his own words in Job, chapter 19, verse 25, said some words that are very, very powerful when he was going through a very difficult situation. It was so hard for Job. In 19, verse 25, he said I know that my Redeemer lives and that in the end he will stand on the earth. I would like us to read this scripture together. Let's go, let's read I know that my Redeemer lives and that in the end he will stand on the earth. Now, he said it in first person. It is a confession of faith, it is a statement of conviction. And he's not saying I guess. No, he is saying I know. He is saying I know those words, I know those are very special words. It's experiential. He's saying from a first person.

Speaker 1: 9:12

I know that my redeemer lives and I want somebody to know who is probably right now in a very difficult space where people think I want somebody here to know that the Redeemer lives, hallelujah, and the shelf life of that situation is just about over. I'm saying to somebody the shelf life of that situation is about over, and the reason why it's about over in fact it's ticking time off, it's about over. And the reason why it's about over, in fact it's ticking time off, it's about over. The reason it's about over is because the Redeemer is in the square, the Redeemer is in the house and, although the lady caught in a doubt is there, the Redeemer is also here and therefore, the shelf life of that space you are in right now that may be bringing you shame and where people feel you can never get yourself out of that place, I want you to know and I decree that shelf life is over. Is somebody connecting with me right now in the name of Jesus? And it doesn't matter how that space looks like it might be a financial space, it is debt Letters are coming from every side and you are so, so squeezed, in fact, you are feeling like you are in a hole.

Speaker 1: 10:38

It's like you are inside a hole and this hole is like nobody can fetch you out of that hole. Somebody is feeling very lonely, somebody is feeling very depressed, somebody is feeling dark in a space that is very, very dark and you are almost like at the grip of death. It's like a step because the next activity ought to be stoning. For this woman, the next activity ought to be stoning. Apart from public ridicule, the next step ought to be stoning. But God has an intervention plan. He is the redeemer and even in the 11th hour, it is never late. Never give up. Hallelujah, never give up. It is never late. God is coming through and even those holes, those deep spaces where sometimes we end up, the hand of God is there In Psalm 103, verse 1,.

Speaker 1: 11:32

I'll read those verses 1 to 5. Praise the Lord, my soul, all my inmost being. Praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Who does what? Who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases? Who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion? Who satisfies your desires with good things, so that you're, you this, renewed like the, the eagles. Let's give a hand clap to god. This is what god is able to do, and I'm sensing that the redeeming hand of god is doing a work this afternoon in this service and also online, lifting somebody from a pit where they are at.

Speaker 1: 12:19

And let me say this this redemption happens because it is paid for, and the blood of Jesus carries the price of redemption. When Jesus came, he became a human being, he died, he shed blood on the cross. That blood was not in vain. It was so that your redemption would be switched on. It's so that your redemption would actually be activated. This redeeming grace has a price, and that price is the blood of Jesus Christ. This redeeming grace has a presence, and that presence is Jehovah, shama, jehovah, emmanuel, jehovah, who is there, the one who never leaves you, never forsakes you.

Speaker 1: 13:04

Joshua 1.5. Joshua was feeling like Moses has gone. I'm now left alone. I am grieving, I don't know what to do, but God comes to Joshua in chapter 1 and verse 5, the latter part of that verse, and he says I will never leave you, I will never forsake you. These words are very, very important and even when you feel alone in that hole, I want you to know the redeeming presence of God is there and all you need is to connect with that redeeming offer. The redeeming offer, it is a hand of redemption and it is stretched out like this you know it's a hand of victory, the victorious right hand of righteousness. Isaiah 41, verse 10. Fear not, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I'll uphold you with my victorious right hand. And that hand of God is stretched out to somebody right now, in this service and also online, and God is saying I am getting you out Of that public square of shame when they have thrust you and where they are baying for your blood and where they just want to stone you and finish you.

Speaker 1: 14:17

God is able to redeem. His name is Redeemer and there is no case he has ever dealt with that he couldn't handle. You know there's no human being or person that he could not get out of trouble, and that's why you find the lady there ends up in a space that needs redemption. There is a space that needs redemption, and that redemption will not come from man, because you will look around and you'll hear them. All they are saying is stone her, stone him, finish this one. That is the chorus you are hearing if you look around, that redemption is not coming from man, that redemption is coming from God and that redemption is carried in the precious blood of Jesus Christ. And therefore, today I plead the blood of Jesus over somebody's life and that blood will redeem you, that blood will deliver you. That situation that looks impossible. They are laughing at you, they are gossiping about you, they have given up on you.

Speaker 1: 15:24

What justice is there for somebody who has committed adultery, for somebody who has been condemned and people are saying they are justly condemned? What justice is there for such a person except in the blood of Jesus? It's only in the blood of Jesus, in the blood of Jesus, it's only in the blood of Jesus that you can get this kind of justice that is redeeming. That is uncommon. You cannot find it in the common courts, even if you go to the high court, you go to the supreme court, you go to all these courts, you will not find it there.

Speaker 1: 15:58

Now, this kind of justice is found in the blood of Jesus, and their reign is your redemption, their reign is your deliverance and their reign is your salvation and their reign is your hope. And I thank God for Jesus, that he shed his blood so that a guy like me can actually have hope. Did you know that if you pray and you ask God to forgive you, god forgives you immediately? Did you know that if you pray and you ask God to forgive you, god forgives you immediately? Did you know that? And not only does he forgive the sin, he also takes it far away from you? In Psalm 103, verse 12, it says who else can do this? It's only the blood of Jesus that is able to achieve that kind of fit.

Speaker 1: 16:50

Now, secondly, justice that restores. Jesus is present in the square, the square of shame, the square of public, you know. Shame, I mean of pain, that particular space. Jesus is there, his redeeming hand is functioning and reaching out to this lady. But secondly, there is a whole program of restoration. Not only does God, you know, redeem and lift from pits, he also fixes the brokenness.

Speaker 1: 17:28

And oftentimes the brokenness we see is the external one. But let me tell you, this woman is going through a lot. She's broken mentally, she's broken emotionally, she's broken in many ways, more ways than we can actually see. And oftentimes you look at people and externally they look okay. I have a tie, I have a suit, and I think I'm looking okay. By my own estimate. I think I'm looking okay, I'm Ajay, yeah, but you can look at people from outside and they look okay, but on the inside they are broken. On the inside they are broken. On the inside they are dying. Let me tell you that again, the blood of Jesus is the only one that can truly, truly put together broken pieces in the life of a person, in the life of your marriage, in the life of your children, in the life of your career, in the life of your business, whatever that is. Only the blood of Jesus can actually put things together. And the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world and restores, is actually right there in that public square of shame where this woman has been thrust so that she can be humiliated. This Jesus, this Lamb of God, whose blood takes away the shame and the sins of the world, he is there and he's able to restore and restore completely.

Speaker 1: 19:01

There is a scripture on restoration Psalm 126. I would like us to read Psalm 126. If you can give me that one on the screen Psalm 126. When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations the Lord has done great things for them. The Lord has done great things for us and we are filled with joy. Restore our fortunes, lord. It's a prayer like streams in the Negev those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy, and those who go out weeping carrying seed to sow will return with songs of joy, joy carrying sheaves with them.

Speaker 1: 19:45

I am seeing a picture here and I'm decreeing the same picture upon somebody listening to me today. God is putting things together, the hand of God is putting things together, whatever it is, last week, the beginning of this year, up to today. That transaction must be transacted today because the blood of Jesus carries your restoration and God is saying I am putting something together and the restoration that God will do will be so powerful it can only be described as laughter. I mean the demeanor. Everything will change. Even your neighbors will say something has happened in the life of this particular individual.

Speaker 1: 20:30

Is somebody connecting with this declaration, the Psalm 126, kind of restoration? And I can see this lady standing there and finding one who is calm and quiet In the midst of the din of the noise and all the accusations, there is one who is calm and peaceful and I find her drawing strength from this man who is different from the rest. There was a woman who had an issue of blood for 12 years and then she had Jesus passing by and with the last reserve of strength she was able to find her way through the crowds and eventually she found her way and space up to where Jesus was. And you know the story. She touches just a part of the garment and the Bible says that flow of blood, that hemorrhage, stopped suddenly and you know she never bled again and she knew she sensed the suffering. The hour of suffering and anguish is actually over.

Speaker 1: 21:38

I want to say that the justice of God is one that restores and doesn't matter how you look, doesn't matter your history, it is different from the justice of God, is one that restores and it doesn't matter how you look, it doesn't matter your history, it is different from the justice of this world. It is one that reaches to a broken person, completely broken, completely pushed aside, and begins to do a work that fixes that brokenness. And this woman, totally sorted out. Jesus asks who touched me. It's that brokenness, and this woman, totally sorted out. Jesus asks who touched me? Because he felt also virtue or strength get out of him, deposited in this woman, because there is a river that flows and this is healing unction. It is also in the blood of Jesus. It is restoring, it is fixing something. And Jesus felt something get out of him and the lady owned up and she was blessed by the Lord. And I'm saying there is somebody here who has been struggling inside there and you have carried a pain and a burden, and I want to say that the restorer par excellence is here and that restoring grace is flowing. Is somebody connecting with what I'm saying? Restoring grace is flowing.

Speaker 1: 22:46

In this place I am seeing somebody who say, pastor, you don't understand my tears, you don't understand the depth of the pain I have gone through. They have misunderstood me, they have misread me. Even at the workplace I almost have nowhere to settle. In fact, although I'm dressed nicely, I'm not settled inside. My emotions are everywhere, my mind is everywhere, my spirit is disturbed. Pastor, you know, I am in this church externally looking okay, but on the inside something needs fixing. I see this lady finding comfort in one who is quiet and calm and his name is Jesus and I want to say that his presence is very restoring. His presence is very calming, and I want to say that his presence is very restoring. His presence is very calming and I want to assure somebody here that in the blood of Jesus is the fullness of your restoration, and I ask for that restoration now, in the name of Jesus that through his blood and pain he took on the cross for you and me, you'd be restored.

Speaker 1: 23:52

In Isaiah 53, from verse 4 to 6, isaiah 53, verse 4 to 6, I just want us to see something, how this is comforting. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering. Yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our ingressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought us peace was on him. So through what he did, by his stripes, I get healing, I also get peace, and by his wounds we are healed. Then the next verse we all, like sheep, have gone astray. Each one of us has turned to our own way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Why don't we appreciate our Lord, jesus, for taking this position here?

Speaker 1: 24:46

And therefore, like I said about redemption, your restoration is not in money. You can have billions of shillings, but they'll not fix it. Your restoration is not in your education. You can have all the education there is, it won't fix it. You'll still go to that bed and wrestle this way and wrestle that way and sleep the other way. Leave that bed. If you have three bedrooms and five beds, go to a second one, go to a third one, go to a fourth one. I understand there's a gentleman who used to stay in different bedrooms, pastor Ambrose. I won't say the name here and would not know peace. But move from this bed to that bed, from this room to the other room.

Speaker 1: 25:33

I tell you, your stature will not fix it, but there is one who is, I say, consummate restorer and his name is Jesus Hallelujah. And in that blood is the fullness of your restoration, your salvation, your deliverance, your healing by his stripes. The Bible says we are healed by his wounds. We are healed, and when he was pierced he took up our transgressions and he also took up our pain. It's all taken up and Jesus is here. It's just like Psalm 46, verse 5 that says because of the presence Psalm 46, verse 5, god is within her. She will not fall. God will help her at break of day. So that you know restoration is not coming from man or from anything. It is coming actually from God. Psalm 121, verse 1, says I look up to the hills. Where does my help come from? You know, I lift up my eyes to the mountains. Where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. I want us to read that part together my help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. Let's give a hand clap to the Lord Restoring grace. God will fix it. All that you have lost and is gone apart as far as your life is concerned, that you have lost and is gone apart as far as your life is concerned. God is saying I am putting it together and I'm raising that altar of restoring grace here.

Speaker 1: 27:20

Justice that restores, but thirdly, justice that commissions, justice that commissions. I will read from John, chapter 8, verse 10 and 11,. John, chapter 8, verse 10 and 11,. Jesus straightened up and asked her woman where are they? Has no one condemned you? No one, sir. She said then, neither do I condemn you. Jesus declared go now and live your life of sin. So justice that commissions. Not only is it a justice that redeems and gets me out of the pit. Not just the justice that fixes me, I mean sorts out my brokenness, even when I don't deserve. It's a justice that Also honors me With a cap of service, to say that God has a confidence in a person who the world would not have confidence in. And God would have confidence in this person to the extent of saying I will give them an assignment, I will commission them. This is a second chance and I want them to go live their life another time. I want them to go there, serve the children, serve the husband, serve the community. I want them to go out there and make a difference. And this kind of justice, also coming from the blood of Jesus, is a powerful justice because it also empowers and gives somebody capacity to begin to do something.

Speaker 1: 28:53

There's a gentleman who was called Paul. He used to be called Saul of Tarsus and Paul of Tarsus in Acts, chapter 9, verse 3 to 6. This is a guy who used to cause a lot of mayhem everywhere and he carried out murderous threats and he was going to Damascus to pick people of the way, christians and have them imprisoned. That was his mission. But look at this justice impartation of uncommon justice, because you look at a guy like this and you say, surely, god, are you okay? Well, I mean, how do you pick somebody of this nature and how can they have another chance of life? They've messed it up. God, what are you doing?

Speaker 1: 29:41

But I want to say today, for somebody who is here, that the justice of God is different from the courts of men, hallelujah, very, very different. Let me just read. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him Saul, saul, why do you persecute me? Who are you, lord? Saul asked I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. He replied Now get up, listen to this commission also, which is here, and this is a criminal, a former. You know a criminal, and God is assigning, is just giving you know, something very powerful to this guy Now get up and go into the city and you will be told what you must do.

Speaker 1: 30:28

The way God works, the kingdom of God works, is very different from the way the kingdoms of this world actually work. This world rewards the deserving, but we have a God who can see you at the back of that line. And you're wondering shall I ever my head, shall it ever rise above the ground? Because I'm so far, I'm so deep, I'm so lost. But we have a God who finds those ones.

Speaker 1: 30:59

In fact, in Luke, chapter 15, there is a whole story with three parables. One of them is the lost coin, the second one is a lost sheep and the third one is a lost son. Three parables and the whole story there is about how the 99 are left, the ones who think they are okay and they are righteous, and the one that is lost. All the investments are made to find that one Because he is somewhere far in the mountains. But we shall use billions of dollars to find that one. We shall leave everyone else, and that is the nature of God. He will leave nothing to the side to be able to reach you where you are. And it doesn't matter your background, it doesn't matter your history, god will lift you.

Speaker 1: 31:50

In 1 Peter 2, verse 9 and 10, you can see what God is able to do as he changes destinies and reworks and fixes things that are broken. But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, god's special possession that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Now listen to verse 10. Once you are not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. There is something God is doing, and this lady, who was in the courtyard of shame and imminent death, all of a sudden is being propelled by God into a place of usefulness and being given a second chance. We serve a God of a second chance and there is hope for everyone. There is hope for everyone. There is hope for everyone. Are you hearing what I'm saying? There is hope for everyone. Kingdom justice and common justice grants hope for everyone. Kingdom justice and common justice grants hope for everyone.

Speaker 1: 32:58

Where everybody has said this one is a write-off, god is saying this one is the one that I need. And so, while the self-righteous people were all around there waiting for the green light, maybe from Jesus, so that they can start stoning the self-righteous people, jesus was quietly loving this woman. You know, john 3, verse 16, says, for God so loved the world that he did what he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have what Eternal life. But let us look at verse 13. I mean 17,. The next one, verse 17, the next one. Let's go to the next one. Why don't we read this one together? For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. This is a powerful verse. The mission of Jesus is being fulfilled.

Speaker 1: 33:56

Right there, in that public square, while everybody else is condemning the lady, there is one who is on a mission, not a condemning mission, but a love mission, a mission to free and a mission to empower, and a mission to make somebody rise a second time, surrounded by many condemnatory sounds. Suddenly there is one who will stand up. He will. You know he was stooping like this. The lady is still here and you know she's still standing the public square. There is one who will stand level with her and there is one who will say words that are liberating that's the justice of God to this woman. And John 8, 36 says whoever the Son of God says free is free. Indeed, it's like you're in chains, something breaks, something falls, and you just want to jump and throw your hands up. You know, up in the space and in the air and have an experience you never had before. There were so many voices here, self-righteous people, pharisees and religious teachers, but Jesus stoops, he begins. You know he writes.

Speaker 1: 35:06

And I said in the first service, I asked the question in the first service what do you think Jesus was writing on the ground? I challenged one who was sitting there Brian Now I think I have Mike Panther, my brother. What do you think Jesus was writing there? I also don't know, but I think open to imagination. What I think is that because he stooped the first time, then he came up, stooped the second time, what he was doing and remember before that he had said let him who has no sin throw what? The first stone. I think imagination that he was writing their names and that he was beginning to list the sins Because he said let him who has no sin do what? Throw the first stone, and so with the ones with the most sins, the older ones. So you can imagine.

Speaker 1: 36:12

Epaphras is looking from there and says that's my name. I hope nobody else is seeing that my name has been written there. And then he starts writing sin number one, sin number two. Epaphras is reading sin number one, sin number two. He realizes if I allow him to continue, something will happen here. Epaphras just sneaks out through the crowd and disappears. Then he writes the name of the other guy. The other one goes and he keeps writing and he keeps writing. By the time he is through, everybody is gone. Let me say this and Edith you quoted our righteousness is like filthy rags and all that righteousness means nothing. Jesus is the ultimate authority and he's just writing.

Speaker 1: 37:00

Instead of them asking for forgiveness, they have come beating their chest, thumping their chest and behaving righteous. You know better than everybody else and better than this woman. I am better and you know there is that general philosophy and principle you feel better because there's somebody else who's not as good as you, and so there is that scenario there and they are feeling this person makes us feel better. It's kind of cathartic. This person makes us feel better because they have been caught in adultery. I have not done it, that one has done it, and so we can enjoy this one, we can enjoy this one, but you know, jesus writes their names and this is my imagination and their sins, and they go one by one. Is there anyone in this church without sin? Raise your hand. That's more or less what Jesus was actually challenging on that particular day. And he's saying if you don't have sin, then you are qualified to take up a stone and then stone this lady. But one by one, they all disappeared.

Speaker 1: 38:09

And you know what Jesus comes up, finds it's only the lady and says no one condemned you. He says neither do I condemn you. Those are powerful words, you know. Jesus came not to condemn but actually to seek and save the lost. And Romans 8, verse 1 says there is therefore no condemnation to everyone who is in Christ Jesus. There is therefore. Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. And so, in Christ, then we are not condemned, because when God looks at us, he sees his son in me. I become the righteousness of God, the justification. Or when I'm declared clean, it's because Jesus is in me and the father, looking at me, sees Jesus. Because if he was to see me, then I would not be justified, then I would not be sanctified and then I wouldn't be glorified. So the whole stream of God's justice is in the blood of Jesus and the lamb is here.

Speaker 1: 39:23

John, chapter 1, verse 29. Behold the lamb of God. John, chapter 1, verse 29. Who takes away the sins of the world? That's what John was saying and calling people to look at Jesus, look at the cross, look at the lamp, don't look anywhere else. So Jesus is there, the lady is there, it's just the two of them, and eventually it's going to be the two of you, me and Jesus, you and Jesus, and our case rests there.

Speaker 1: 39:51

The final word is heaven. Heaven's word is the final word. Jesus holds the key to the final word, and your destiny is in the hands of our Lord, jesus Christ. And what destiny is this? It's a good one. Jeremiah 29, 11 says I know the plans I have for you. There are plans for good and not For evil. To do what? To give you a future and a hope? And what God has in store for the nations is very good. But the nations go everywhere else except come to the cross and except come to the blood, where uncommon justice can be found. When you are not deserving, there is one who will give you what you need. Even when you are not deserving, you come praying in Jesus' name, plead the blood, even over your needs, and then the Father honors that kind of prayer. And so this woman is a beneficiary of a very powerful moment, and that's why I picked this passage, pastor Ambrose, as I thought about uncommon justice and this lady just popped up and I thought she did not deserve the end that we have here.

Speaker 1: 40:58

It was supposed to be a tragedy. God turns it into a comedy Because it is God who is able to flip what looks like it's over. Somebody is saying it's all over and God says it's not over yet. In fact, he gives that person a new beginning 2 Corinthians 5, 17. If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old is gone and the new is here. Let's give a hand to the Lord. The old is gone, the new is here. And also Isaiah 43, verse 18 and 19. Forget the former things. Do not dwell on the past. God is saying see, I'm doing a new thing, don't you perceive it? And even where there is a wilderness and dryness, god can do a miracle there and something can pop up Streams of water, living water can begin to flow in that family where there has just been dryness and nothing. In fact, the justice of your neighborhood have ruled you out, but the justice of heaven is saying a second chance. The justice of heaven, which is uncommon justice, is a second chance for this particular family.

Speaker 1: 42:09

As you leave this sanctuary today. I want you to know that the Jesus who was present in the life of that woman in John, chapter 8, he is present with us today. And the Bible says in Hebrews 13, verse 8, he is the same yesterday and today and forever. Another hand clap to Jesus. That's the nature of Christ. And so these things we read in the Bible are not just supposed to be for the first century, they are supposed to be for the 21st century and they are supposed to find their dynamism and life in people, real people in real time.

Speaker 1: 42:49

On a day like today, when you're in this service, there are those who are in the pavilion and you're also somewhere watching online. What happened then Is happening again. We have a God of signs and wonders and there is nothing impossible with him. He is the redeemer, he is the restorer. You know he will redeem, he will restore and he is the one who commissions. He will pick you from the pit, fix the broken pieces and then trust you with his assignment and say this vessel, although it has come from the fire, literally and although it has a messed up background, I am picking it for my own, I am cleaning it up and then I'm putting my spirit inside this vessel and this vessel will serve me to the ends of the earth and that's what he did with the Apostle Paul In the first service.

Speaker 1: 43:46

I say this gentleman you see here was a member of a gang in those early days as a young person here in Nairobi. And it is these street gangs I've shared this before and you know ours. We didn't have gangs. If it was today we would be having those ninis, but that time we had Fayas Catapult. That's what we had and my gang was good with catapult.

Speaker 1: 44:16

And there are certain spaces where we terrorize people. Sometimes I take my children, I show them those spaces, hallelujah, and we would get together and plan our day. We take our spots and identify the clients. You know, you have a fair, you have a. We used to call it opochi, the kiepo. There's a seed that we put in the fair and as somebody is walking past, you know happily they're coming from work or something we are all set and we release. Now some of that hits the head, hits everywhere, and while the person is very confused and wondering what is going on, who is visiting me like this? We are there, poraring I mean that is French poraring pulling everything, everything Poraring, pulling everything, everything, leaving the person there dazzled, wondering which direction they should go, and oftentimes they wouldn't go the same direction because they are dazzled. They'll just keep walking another direction and we disappear. We used to gather at Central Park. You know, there's Uhuru Park and there's Central Park and that is where we would divide the spoils and call it a day.

Speaker 1: 45:40

You know, you know, this grace I'm talking about found this gentleman, hallelujah, hallelujah. This grace, this uncommon justice, found this gentleman and that life took off. I was given a new life. Now I'm seriously a preacher, chasing the devil out everywhere in the name of Jesus Christ and trusting God for nations, millions of people to come to Christ, because the power of the blood is able to save every person on planet earth many times over. That is the power of the blood of Jesus.

Speaker 1: 46:28

And this uncommon justice available to this woman in John, chapter 8, is available to us today. You don't have to be deserving. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. And that background the Lord can sort it out, and that same energy he can use it properly, you know, for his glory. And so I am happy that God has chosen to operate different from man, because the courts of this world like at the temple that day, those guys, pharisees, teachers of the law they were lawyers, by the way and the whole place was set like a court. The verdict is death. This woman must die.

Speaker 1: 47:13

Romans 3.23 says the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God I mean all have sinned, rather, and fallen short of the glory of God. But Romans 6.23 says the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus, our Lord. Now they have set a stage to destroy this woman, but Jehovah, god in Jesus' name, sets a stage to lift her to the next level. Hallelujah. What is intended to destroy you? That space with God in that place, you'll get another lease of life. You're going to get a second chance. You'll hear the words go you are free, you are not condemned. The prison doors are open. Now enjoy your life and you can grow to the next level.

Speaker 1: 48:01

I want to pray with somebody here today who feels like life is unfair. I mean like life is unfair. I mean like life is unfair and like things are not just. And I want to say once again based on the laws of the land, it is true, it can be unfair. It may not be just. I want to pray with somebody here who has been feeling either mistreated or pushed in the wrong place because the protocols in your office have decided you're the black sheep. I mean somebody who is really feeling things have really gone south, even in my family. I feel this way, or I feel the other way.

Speaker 1: 48:40

I want to pray with someone because the blood of Jesus carries your salvation, your redemption in that situation, your restoration, and that blood of Jesus carries the power that commissions you. I want to pray with this person that God may grant you uncommon justice. What that means, though? There is the law and there is the unfairness. There is one who is able to overrule. Are you getting me To overrule that system and deliver to you that which the world cannot, and deliver to you that which even your job cannot deliver? There is a God in heaven. Look up to him, stop looking this way. Look up today, and God, through his son and the precious blood in that blood, the justice of God, the uncommon justice, is carrying and delivering everything you need right now, whether it's salvation, it's healing, it's deliverance.

Speaker 1: 49:38

The woman in the text benefited from that moment. It is your time, it is my time to benefit from this moment, and so you may be in the pavilion, following online. I am just saying the justice of God, which is uncommon, is coming to redeem you, it's coming to restore you and it's coming to really place you, give you a second chance. That's the God I preach, that's the Jesus we preach in this place, and I want to pray with somebody who is in that kind of scenario. You know yourself and I have this faith. I have this faith. There's something in me saying God is about to break something in somebody's life. Fix, sort things out and just like overnight, and suddenly, like for this lady, give you a new lease of life and you'll start enjoying because the thief comes to steal, to kill and to destroy, but Jesus came that we might have life. And you'll start enjoying because the thief comes to steal, to kill and to destroy, but Jesus came that we might have life and have it abundantly. I'll ask us to stand as we pray together. Praise.

Speaker 2: 50:37

Praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, praise Grace, that is greater than all my sins.

Speaker 1: 51:04

I want us to sing that song together. It's a simple song, it's a beautiful song. It's a beautiful song. It's about grace, god's grace that is greater than all my sin, as Brother Cassina and the team lead us Just once more.

Speaker 2: 51:17

Grace. Grace, god's grace. God's grace, grace that will pardon and cleanse within Grace. Grace, god's grace, grace that is greater than all our sin. Amen. God's grace, grace that will guard and cleanse within Grace. Grace raised. God's grace, grace that is greater than all our sin.

Speaker 1: 52:20

Hallelujah With every eye closed. I have raised an altar that is serving and common justice, that this altar has been set up by Jesus Christ and by what he did on the cross and he shed that blood that implements uncommon justice, that blood that represents the price paid for this justice, that blood that can cleanse every sin, is greater than any sin. I have raised that kind of altar today, the altar of uncommon justice that flows through the river of the blood, and earlier we sang the Swahili song Kijito, and we are being invited ourselves to immerse ourselves in that river of the blood so that the justice in the blood may become our push. You know your journey in life and maybe you are in that space, like that lady, where you have been put in the public square, where you are supposed to experience humiliation and experience shame. Jesus knows it, he has been there and Jesus feels with you and I thank God he was there in time and on time for that woman and he is here in time and on time for you. You know your scenario and in your situation where you feel nobody can get me out of this, I am saying there is a redeeming hand and God is here. There is a redeeming hand and God is here. His presence is here and he's ready to intervene very, very powerfully. The altar of uncommon justice.

Speaker 1: 54:14

The whole of the month of March, the altar of uncommon justice, and God is doing things for people who are not even deserving. By this prayer, I am inviting you to trust Jesus, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, that he will come through for you and that he will pull you out of that hole of that space, in that area. You have been made a black sheep and they have even pushed you aside. God is saying from this altar in my own way, you don't have to deserve it. I am coming through for you and I'm pulling you out of that pit. As I pray this prayer, I'm reminded of Daniel in Daniel 6, who was in the lion's den, but God sent angels to shut the mouths of the lions and they did not touch him and the next day he was able to get out of that den. Our God is able. I don't know what it is in your life and you're in that space of shame, space where you have been almost rejected and there are voices condemning you all around. God is saying I am coming to you in that situation and I'm going to pull you out now.

Speaker 1: 55:36

If you're in that situation where you feel you are really in a hole and unless God comes through, I want to pray with you. I want to pray with you. I want to pray with you and I want to invoke the redeeming hand of God, the restoring hand of God. I just want to invite God in his strength and also power, commissioning hand. I want to pray with you. If you can raise your hand, if what I'm describing speaks to you, just raise up your hand. I want to pray with you. I thank God for all these hands. I'm praying. Keep your hand up, my father. I thank you for the faith exercised by the raising of hands. And God, I thank you because you have a powerful hand that is also now stretched from heaven and is reaching out to the hand that is actually raised, because you have a powerful hand that is also now stretched from heaven and is reaching out to the hand that is actually raised. And, my God, I pray that your redemption Lord will descend, your restoration and commissioning Will descend upon the people who have raised their hands right now In the pavilion, watching online and even here, and God do a work unprecedented, do a work uncommon, do a work that people will look at and say it's God who has done this. Glorify yourself. So, whatever situation that is, you can, in your heart, pray and speak and say this is not my portion. I invite the power of God now and the hand of God in my situation, that grace that redeems in my situation, and I ask that this situation be now sorted out, because the battle is not yours, the battle is the Lord's, and God's hand is stronger than your hand, his grace is more powerful than any other grace and it doesn't matter, you don't have to be deserving, and God's hand is stronger than your hand, his grace is more powerful than any other grace and it doesn't matter, you don't have to be deserving. God is able. You can trust him. You can just simply say God, take over In your heart, simply take over, and I can assure you, as I pray from this pulpit of uncommon justice, just like for that lady, something is going to happen today, this week, god is coming through for somebody and so, lord, I thank you for the answers. Thank you for the answers. Thank you for the answers that are coming and the breakthroughs that are coming. I bless you, my God.

Speaker 1: 57:56

Before I finish praying, there could be somebody else who is here and maybe you have been sick in the body. It's a disease physical in the body, or a disease mental or emotional. You have been sick. The Bible says by the stripes, the wounds of Christ, we are healed. You can raise your hand, either on behalf of somebody you know. You can raise your hand, father, in the name of Jesus. We just read the power in the blood and that by your wounds we are healed. My God, I ask open the heavens and release healing action and healing anointing To touch those spaces in our bodies that are not well, but also the people, our friends, who are out there In hospitals. You are watching online in our hospital. May this anointing come upon you, wherever this person may be. We are releasing the same anointing there and I decree and declare be healed now. Be healed now in the name of Jesus.

Speaker 1: 58:59

But finally, just as our eyes are closed, there could be somebody who's saying Pastor, I've never known Jesus as Lord and Savior and today I'm encouraging you. The blood of Jesus carries your salvation and God will fix and restore and also commission and lead you. Today you can receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, just raise your hand. If you are that one who wants Jesus in their heart to get saved today anyone downstairs upstairs just raise your hand, I'll see it. I'll see it, yeah, thank you. Thank God for that hand. Any other hand, any other hand Receiving Jesus right now as Lord and Savior? Yes, right here. God bless you. God bless you Any other hand. Don't allow the Lord to pass by as he's passing here. The precious blood of Jesus is doing its work and there's a grace that is flowing in this place. Let me thank God for those ones who have raised their hands and after the service. Pastor Kiniti is here. He's downstairs for the one, I think, who was upstairs. I think both were upstairs. Pastor Kiniti is here. He's downstairs for the one, I think, who was upstairs. I think both were upstairs. Pastor Keniti is here. Yeah, pastor Keniti is here. You can connect with him.

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Father, in the name of Jesus, I want to thank you so much for the ones who have accepted you as Lord and Savior by the act of raising their hand. It takes faith to do that and we know salvation is by grace, through faith and Lord. They have exercised their faith by raising their hand. My father, thank you for salvation that's coming through their gates and in your heart. In your heart, you can also pray and say Lord Jesus, I realize I'm a sinner. Wash away my sins, come into my heart, make me a new creation, fill me with the Holy Spirit and, from today, commission me to serve you. I will serve you with the rest of my life. And I want you to know, when you pray that prayer, you are under new management. The old is gone, behold, the new has come.

Speaker 1: 1:01:05

Because we've prayed all these prayers that we have prayed In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and we all say let's give a hand to the Lord. Our God is faithful. Let me remind us because it's beautiful to say this that you are blessed. I'm just reminding you. You are blessed.

Speaker 1: 1:01:29

You are blessed on Monday, blessed on Tuesday, blessed on Thursday, wednesday, blessed on Thursday, blessed on Friday, blessed on Saturday, and you are coming back next Sunday with a testimony because you are blessed. You are blessed. May God open the heavens and bless the work of your hands. You will work and get returns this week. You will get triple returns in the name of Jesus, simply because God has blessed the work of your hands. You are blessed.

Speaker 1: 1:02:04

When you go out, you are blessed. When you come in, you are blessed in. You go out, you are blessed. When you come in, you are blessed in the city and you are blessed in the countryside. Your home is blessed, your sitting room is blessed, your bedroom is blessed, your compound is blessed. All these cars are blessed inside out, they are all blessed. The ones that we have here In the name of Jesus, and so we are walking blessed. The ones that we have here in the name of Jesus, and so we are walking, blessed because the blood assures in the covenant that we are blessed. And therefore let's say surely, goodness together, surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever and ever. Amen, thank you.