Handling the text

Motives

Just a simple read of the text shows us that her community had some inconsistencies.

They understood sex outside of the covenant of marriage is sinful. Yet they were selective on who required judgment. They are possibly displaying a bias towards gender and maybe classism (speculation)

Regardless they seemed more interested in catching Jesus in an hellacious position.

They didn’t minister to her.

By bringing her to Jesus the both displayed their awareness of what’s right and their own blindness.

What type of person puts another’s sin on display to

Are we trying to beat others or win others?

Beating a strategy to, disrupt, confuse, humiliate, highlight others err, promote yourself

We study tape on the opposition. We look for cracks in their armor.

1 pet 5:8 Be sober-minded, be alert. Your adversary the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.

Their motives were more like the devil.....

Truth

Truth: Love without truth is a bootleg version of love (Num 5)

5 In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” 6 They asked this to trap him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse him. Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with his finger. 7 When they persisted in questioning him, he stood up and said to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her

-Jesus doesn’t call the community to forgive her.

-Jesus doesn’t dismiss her sin

-Jesus actually agrees with the truth of the harm of sin and the necessity of payment for sin

-Jesus was unmoved by their need to accuse him (we wasn’t trying to dodge the hot seat)

-Jesus was saying clearly sin needs to be dealt with (She qualified for death)

-Jesus caused them to understand something we fail to understand.

We are all unqualified to change others with the penalty for sin.

Unscheduled appontments (walk ins)

Jesus takes walk ins This enteraction with Jesus was ment to discret his ministry, by way of ending this womans life and allowing thr religiouse leaders to continue walking in darkness.

12 Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

The problem with playing with the light is you might get lit up....

Waking away scratching your head.

Ask Jarius

Ask the woman with the issue of blood

Ask the thief on the cross

Ask Paul

He even takes drop ins and drop outs

Ask parilzed man

Luke 5:17–39 (ESV)

On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal. And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus. And when he saw their faith, he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.” And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, “Why do you question in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed—“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.” And immediately he rose up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went home, glorifying God. And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.”

After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.

And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’ ”

1. Truth and Forgiveness (8:1–11) a.

The charges (8:1–6a) b.

The response (8:6b–9) c.

The verdict (8:10–11)