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John 8:1-11
Stephen Caswell © 2005
Breaking The Law
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Hurrying an 11-year-old girl to school, a mother turned right on a red light where it was prohibited.
/Uh, oh, she said, realizing her mistake.
I just made an illegal turn./
*/It's all right, her daughter said.
The police car behind us did the same thing./*
Introduction
/How should believers respond to sinners?
Should we charge them according to the Law?/ /Should we ignore them or withdraw from them?
Should we condemn them for their sin?
/Tonight we will look at how Christ applied the Law to a sinful woman.
The Law declares God's righteous standard for mankind.
But since no one has ever kept the Law, God responds to man with both mercy and truth.
Tonight I want to look at Jesus’ response to the woman caught in adultery.
We should show mercy to sinners as Christ did.
If we don't show mercy to others, God won't show mercy to us.
Tonight we will see 3 things; */The Characters, The Charges & The Conclusion./*
/Firstly,/ The Characters
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The Savior/
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*John 8:1-2:* /But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them/.
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/Firstly, /we are introduced to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Just prior to His ministry in the temple Jesus had spent some time on the Mount of Olives.
Most likely He spent much of the night there in prayer and fellowship with His Father.
The Lord often prayed before crucial times in His life.
No doubt the Spirit led Him there to pray.
The Lord Jesus lived in obedience to His Father's will.
In fact He said that He always did those things which pleased His Father.
Early in the morning Christ came to the temple.
He came to teach the people.
They came to Jesus, a great Teacher, to be instructed.
/Jesus sat down and taught the people.
Rabbis would sit when teaching their disciples./
Jesus taught with authority unlike the religious leaders who quoted other rabbis or writings.
/The people loved to listen to Jesus because they knew that He loved them./
Although He taught them through simple stories and parables, His teaching was profound.
The Lord loves all people, even the ones that the religious leaders disapproved of.
He showed no favoritism but accepted all men.
He was accused of eating with tax collectors.
In fact He became known as the friend of sinners.
So the Pharisees asked Jesus/, didn't He care that sinners had broken God's holy Law?/ Yes He did care!!
In fact He taught that all men were sinners and that all needed a Savior.
But that didn't stop Him from receiving them.
Jesus loves all sinners.
/He taught God's Word in order that He might save us, not condemn us.
Jesus still reaches out to lost sinners./
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DL Moody’s Ministry
In his early years DL Moody preached how much God hated sinners.
He taught that men needed to repent and be saved from their sins.
Then an English evangelist came to America.
He was the preacher at a crusade that lasted 1 week.
He preached for 7 days using the same text; John 3:16.
He preached that God hated sin but loved sinners.
Moody’s heart was captured by the message and it marked a turning point in his ministry.
From then on he preached that God hated sin but loved sinners.
As a result, God used DL Moody mightily to reach thousands for Christ.
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The Scribes & Pharisees/
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*John 7:45-49:* /Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, why have you not brought Him?
The officers answered, no man ever spoke like this Man!
Then the Pharisees answered them, are you also deceived?
Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? *But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.*/
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The Scribes and Pharisees thought that they were the most holy men of all.
They knew God's Law well and even taught it.
They believed that they were right with God through keeping the Law.
/But did they really keep the Law?/
No!! */They failed miserably on the two most important commandments.
They didn't love the Lord with all their heart, soul, mind and strength.
Or else they would have loved and obeyed God's Son.
And they didn't love their neighbor as themselves./*
/Or they wouldn't have despised the common people./
The Scribes and Pharisees were proud and full of conceit.
They were a self righteous group that used their religious position for their own gain.
Jesus called them hypocrites./
/They weren’t righteous, but full of sin./
Today we have people like the Pharisees with us.
They are strong on rules and weak on love and holiness./
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The Sinner/
*John 8:3a:* /Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery.
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Verse 3 declares that this woman was a sinner.
From the Gospel account there is no denying that the charge was true.
She was caught in the very act.
We know nothing about the background of this woman.
She represents millions more men and women who have fallen into this kind of sin.
Her plight is therefore very important.
/Is there hope for sinners such as this?/ /Or are all such ones eternally damned?
How does God view such sinners?
/He loves them.
He wants to save them.
*/In fact none of us are any better than this woman in God's sight.
We all need a Savior!/*
Application
/Today we still have hopeless sinners.
In fact, we were amongst them until Christ saved us./
It’s only by God’s grace that we stand faultless before Him now.
We also have people like the Scribes and Pharisees who use God's Word to condemn sinners.
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