God Of A Second Chance

The God of a 2nd Chance. John 8:1-10

I wonder, is there any person here who has been in a situation in which you really wanted something to work out but it didn’t? You felt like if I just had a second chance, I know I could make this thing work. (I Wonder am I talking to anybody in here). When we look back over our life, at some of the situations that we have been involved in and some of the choices that we have made, we think, if only I had a second chance.

If only I had a second chance, I wouldn’t have married who I married. If only I had a second chance, I wouldn’t have moved where I moved. If only I had a second chance, I would have finished school. If only I had a second chance, I wouldn’t have gotten involved in the things that I was involved in.

Webester describes the word 2nd as one that is next after the first. (think about it). The spiritual significance of the number 2 in the bible denotes a difference. When we think about 2 or 2nd in the bible we know that it is different from the first.

We notice that #1 excludes all differences. (When you have 1 of something you have nothing to compare it with). When you have 2 of something, there has to be a difference. One has to be first and the other has to be second. They can be equal in all aspects, but they can never be the same.

#2 is the first number in which we can divide another. When the earth lay in chaos, it’s condition was ruin and darkness. The 2nd thing recorded in connection with the creation was the introduction of a 2nd thing which was light. When the 2nd thing came into being, immediately there was a difference and a division. The bible says that God divided the light from the darkness and the light he called day and the darkness, he called night.

The 2nd person of the trinity took on 2 natures, perfect God and perfect Man. There are 2 testaments, the old and the new. There are 2 natures, the sin nature and the son nature.

Sometimes when we make a mistake in life it feels so final. When you make a serious mistake you might think its all over for you. I want to let you know this morning CHURCH that the game of life isn’t like a game in which you only have 1 chance to win before it’s over. I want to let you know that when you make a mistake in this life, with God you get a 2nd chance.

The bible that I read tells me that the God I serve is a God of mercy. The word mercy means to extend help to the lowliest or the most undeserving. It implies compassion that overshadows punishment. Even when justice demands it. (You see, justice demanded that each and everyone in here should have been dead, but mercy stepped in and said, not so.

Mercy is a word we throw around. We use it often in our prayers. We sing it in our songs. We talk about it in our Jargon, “There by the grace of God go I.”

Justice demanded that you and I should die, but mercy stepped in and said not so.

So great is God’s mercy that it is almost inexpressible. God’s mercy knows no limit. There is none who is beyond his saving power. His mercy reaches to the highest mountain and flows to the lowest valley. I love that song, “Your Grace and Mercy, brought me through, I’m living this moment, because of you.” For if it had not been for the Lord who was on my side… I was a wrech undone… Satan was getting ready to celebrate. Satan thought he had me but I got away.

The bible says that God is a God of mercy and compassion and that his mercies are new every morning.

John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us all our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrightesousness. In order for us to walk day by day in fellowship with our Bros. And Sis., we must confess our sins. Sins of commission, omission, sins of thoughts works or deeds. Sins of acts, secret sins, and public sins.

We got to drag our sins out into the open before God. Stop trying to cover up your sins, drag them out into the open, call them by their names, take God’s side against them and forsake them. He will forgive you and cleanse you from all ungrighteousness.

Today is a new day, yet many folk’s lives will remain the same. Ain’t nothing changing in their lives. Their attitudes, habits and lifesyles will be unchanged. That’s because they fail to realize that there is new life in Christ Jesus. He alone can wipe away the old and bring in the new. He alone can give folk a new start in life. He alone can give anyone a 2nd chance.