Go on and throw it.
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Illustration: the misapplication of judgment passages.
Illustration: the misapplication of judgment passages.
Verse 2: Everywhere he goes, people are following him.
Verse 2: Everywhere he goes, people are following him.
Jesus has developed a crowd at this point. For good reason, he is an interesting person.
He heals sick.
He creates food for people to eat.
He is claiming to be the Son of God.
His teaching, according to , is not like any teaching that they have ever heard.
They desire to be around Jesus.
Jesus sat down in the temple and began to teach them.
Jesus sat down in the temple and began to teach them.
Luke tells us this very same thing.
And all the people would get up early in the morning to come to Him in the temple to listen to Him.
Now to be clear, Jesus is on the temple grounds, but he is but in the outer court.
It was customary in this time for scribes to come and teach with their students and listeners all gathered around them.
Jesus is a Rabbi.
Jesus used this same method, except there is a difference in their teaching.
The Scribes borrow authority.
Jesus has inherent authority. He doesn’t have to borrow it. Because he is God he can say things like, “I say to you...”
The Scribes say things like “God says to you...”
The Scribes cannot and shouldn't say things like that.
The Scribes say things like “God says to you...”
Now, this doesn’t mean that the scribes couldn’t or shouldn’t teach.
In fact a good teach
Right now, I am borrowing authority.
I don’t speak on my authority, I speak on the authority of God because he has given us his word and I speak from it.
My job as your pastor is not to come up here and preach to you what ive got on my heart, my jobis to get up here and to proclaim to you whats on God’s heart.
I don’t have the right to speak from my own authority.
As a side note, be very cautious when you hear a pastor or preacher or anyone for that matter say things like:
“I’ve got a new word from God.”
“God told me to tell you.”
“Listen to me, because I’m God’s anointed.”
Understand, this is the Word from God.
God tells us to preach His Word that he has already given us, we don’t need a new one.
Jesus is God’s anointed.
Good preachers and teachers preach on borrowed authority.
The only preacher allowed to teach on his own authority is Christ Himself.
In verse 2, He does just that.
he sat down and began to teach them.
We don’t know the content of his teaching, but i can say with confidence that it was better than any teaching you have ever heard. From me or anyone else. The author of the Scriptures is explaining them.
No one knows the story quite like the author.
Just think for a moment at the questions Jesus could answer for you.
Just think for a moment at the insight on the creation story, the flood story, the plagues in Egypt.
Jesus controlled all of that.
A Rude Interruption.
A Rude Interruption.
Jesus is teaching his followers. Perhaps the Scribes and Pharisees didn’t have the following that they used to because, now they have become the police.
Their goal in this interruption is to trap Jesus, to trick him. They have come up with a plan, and the purpose of the plan is to publicly embarrass Jesus, to publicly stump him.
And here we see the story unfold.
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court,
They bring a woman. Apparently they have had some type of arrest, where they have taken this woman and brought her over to Jesus.
They caught her in adultery. We will learn a little more about this in the next verse, but suffice to say it is clear that she has broken one of the well known Ten Commandments.
“You shall not commit adultery.
So they have caught her in adultery and they now bring her to the center of the temple court.
This shows their lack of sympathy and wisdom here.
They bring this woman to the center of the court.
they dont pull jesus over to the side and seek wisdom. their plan is to trap him.
they dont want his privste wisdom they want his public humiliation
This is a public accusation and a public dilemma for Jesus.
And they know this.
Look at verse 4
they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act.
In other words, there is no doubt of her guilt.
She is guilty of the sin of adultery, and these Pharisees are sure of it, and now everyone else is too.
Jesus is then put on the spot, and their motivation is to have Jesus on public microscope.
They begin their trial.
HOW IS JESUS GOING TO RESPOND?
“Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?”
First are they correct?
Yes and no.
‘If there is a man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, one who commits adultery with his friend’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
“If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Couple observations from these two verses.
One is the holistic viewpoint of the Law of Moses and the selective viewpoint of the Scribes and Pharisees.
Adultery, especially adultery that is “caught in the act” is not a sin that is committed in isolation.
So we have to ask: Where is the man? Where is the one with whom she was caught?
He is either an elusive adulterer, able to escape the grasp of these temple leaders, or perhaps they really don’t care about upholding the Law and more concerned with the entrapment of Jesus.
second observation is that their is no such command to stone. the command is death but no mode of killing is mentioned.
third observation is that the sin of adultery does warrant death according to the Old Testament.
We may look at this an shudder, maybe even ask the question : Does that really deserve death?
And here we see our vast inconsistency.
do we believe this next verse?
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The rightful punishment for any broken Law of God is death.
we do not see sin as we ought to see it.
Ive got to move on from this, but this woman does deserve death. they are correct at least partly. according
So Here is their logic.
If Jesus says “no do not stone her.”
Then they accuse him of breaking the Law and speaking in contradiction of the Law of Moses.
If He says yes, stone her, then they start accusing him of being unmerciful and ungracious. One pastor said that they probably would have brought up all the other sinners that Jesus had been acquainted with.
So what will He do? imagine people being on the edge of their seats listening to what Jesus will do.
They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.
He has a decision to make. He knows the guilt of this women. He knows her heart. He also knows the heart and lives of ever Scribe and Pharisees.
SO he starts writing on the ground.
Many people have many different theories.
Some have suggested that he begins writing names of people that some of the Scribes/Pharisees may have sinned with.
Some suggest he was writing Scriptures.
We really don’t know.
What we do know is what he says next.
But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”
A few observations:
Jesus does not deny this woman’s guilt.
Jesus upholds the Law’s demands.
Jesus also implies the guilt of all those holding the stones.
Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.
He stoops again and begins to write again.
Interestingly enough, the accusers now withhold their punishment.
When they heard it, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the center of the court.
Verses 10-11 is where we get to the meat of this text.
Jesus is left with this woman alone in the center of the temple court.
The older ones leave first.
Perhaps they had more sins to think about.
She sees everyone of her accusers leave and she stays to talk with Jesus.
the sinner stays to speak with Jesus.
Jesus stand up, and sees the woman there alone
Straightening up, Jesus said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?”
John 8:
none of them stone her, but none of them stay to get their sin dealt with.
The sinner stays because not only has he saved her life, she knows that he must save her from her sin.
Jesus asks her this question and she answers.
She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on sin no more.”
No one Lord.
Don’t gloss over what she calls Him.
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
You hear the faith in her voice?
Jesus says, I do not condemn you either.
And here it seems that we may have an issue.
Her guilt is sure.
She is a sinner.
Her sin deserves death.
Jesus frees her from that.
How?
‘The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.’
who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
And here is the question we have to ask:
How can God (Jesus) be just and this guilty woman go free?
Again
Her guilt is sure.
She is a sinner.
Her sin deserves death.
Jesus frees her from that.
Jesus forgives and pardons.
Jesus forgives and pardons.
He withholds rightful wrath on this woman, because i believe he knows he will take the wrath of God for her in just a few days.
So what about us?
the Law of God must stand. and this woman is guilty.
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Application
Application
He knows you intimately
you are guilty.
you deserve death.
He can save.
He commands you to go free.
Sin no more.