5th Sunday of Lent 2025

John 8:1-11. "Neither do I condemn you. Go, (and) from now on do not sin any more."

The Importance of Trying to Follow Christ

John 3:17; For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

John 3:17 - "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him."

John 12:47 - "If anyone hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world."

Luke 9:56 - "For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." (Some manuscripts include this verse)

Does that mean that Jesus will not judge us? That it is okay to sin? No

John 5:22 - "For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son."

John 5:27 - "And He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man."

Acts 17:31 - "Because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead."

2 Timothy 4:1 - "I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom."

Romans 2:16 - "On the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus."

John 9:39 - "And Jesus said, 'For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.'"

Revelation 19:11 - "And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war."