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Illustration: the misapplication of judgment passages.
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.
Luke tells us this very same thing.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
First are they correct?
Yes and no.
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?
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.
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.
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