Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

John 8:1-

When the accuser comes, and in some form He will come, there is complete forgiveness in the presence of the savior.

Condemned

Christ Teaching was Condemned

Jesus came to teach and make the Father known.

John 8:1-2

Accusers, and by way of reality hypocrites, love to interrupt truth with distraction.

It is usually a ploy to distract from their own issues.

She was Condemned

John 8:1-

John 8:3

It was early in the morning, and they brought this woman out to destroy her and to destroy Jesus.

Adultery is not a sin one commits in splendid isolation: one wonders why the man was not brought with her.

Either he was fleeter of foot than she, and escaped, leaving her to face hostile accusers on her own; or the accusers themselves were sufficiently chauvinistic to focus exclusively on the woman.

Christ was Condemned

The pharisees sought to distract with their agenda.

They had no love for Christ, just hatred!

They begin to flatter Him by calling Him Master.

Exalting Christ to lure Him into their trap.

Their desire had nothing to do with what was right, just to destroy.

This is how agenda driven people operate.

It is not about Christ, His Word and His will.

It is about theirs.

So consequently to what level have they elevated themselves?

In attempt to spiritualize their hatred for Christ, they bring in the law of Moses.

Jesus was trapped either way!

Jesus response was to ignore them.

See how far they wanted to take this.

Christ Was Condemned

Christ’s Teaching Was Condemned

Confronted

John 8:7

They continued asking and pressing Christ for an answer.

Truth always brings a person face to face with their sin.

Hypocrisy hates truth about themselves.

Here, Christ does not even need to list out their sin.

It is clear that they are guilty of the same sin and unable/unqualified to punish this woman.

This is a direct reference to Deuteronomy 13:9; 17:7 (cf.

Lv. 24:14)—the witnesses of the crime must be the first to throw the stones, and they must not be participants in the crime itself.

Jesus’ simple condition, without calling into question the Mosaic code, cuts through the double standard and drives hard to reach the conscience.

Most accusers cannot handle their own sin.

Conviction came through what they already knew about themselves.

Many manuscripts specifically say that the accusers were ‘convicted by their own conscience’ (AV), but their stunned departure testifies as much.

Those who had come to shame Jesus now leave in shame.

When

Even a hypocrite can respond to conviction.

When confronted with our sin, it should cause us to abandon pursuing other’s sin.

Dealing with other people’s problems and not your own, just causes massive implosions throughout your life.

Completely Forgiven

Who is Left to Condemn?

Are you condemning yourself?

Regardless of the exigencies of the law of Moses, in this instance Jesus says neither do I condemn you.

The confidence and personal absoluteness of Jesus’ words not only call to mind that Jesus came not to condemn but to save (3:17; 12:47), but prompt us to remember the Synoptic accounts that assign Jesus, like God himself, the right to forgive sin (Mt.

9:1–8 par.).

The proper response to mercy received on account of past sins is purity in the future.

NIV’s leave your life of sin establishes the point directly, even if the expression almost paints the woman as an habitual whore (though the Greek bears no such overtones).

Conclusion

I John 3:

There are two types of religious people:

Hypocritical accuser

Contrite and humble follower of Christ.

No matter which you are, God is confronting you.

Will you respond by walking off and being the same you were before?

Or will you respond by having a humble and contrite heart before the Lord?

When the accuser comes, and in some form He will come, there is complete forgiveness in the presence of the savior.