SEEKING THE HEART OF JESUS: A Heart That Forgives - Jesus and a Guilty Woman - August 18, 2019
Video - Easy Worship
Prayers
INTRODUCTION
A leper - A heart that touches
A Centurian - A heart that marvels
The Samaritan woman at the well - A heart that accepts
The Two Daughters (bleeding and Jairus daughter) - A heart that cares
The Pharisee - A heart that confronts
The Canaanite woman - A heart that reaches
The blind man - A heart that restores
The hurting dad - A heart that comforts
The tax collector - A heart that transforms
BJ Thomas "Using Things and Loving People"
“One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.””
Mark 12:28-31 NIV
“For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.””
Galatians 5:14 NIV
I. THE TRAP IS SET
“At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him."
John 8:2-6a NIV
A. Entrapment or Circumstance?
B. Textual criticism
1. "Not found in the oldest manuscripts"
2. "Consistent with the teachings of Jesus"
3. "Tax collectors and sinners", "friend of sinners" Luke 7:34
II. THE RELIGIONISTS' CHARGE
““Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?””
John 8:4-5 NIV
A. The object of the charge was not justice.
B. "So that they might have grounds for accusing Him." John 8:6a
C. Jesus' dilemma
1. Option #1 - Show mercy and defy the law of Moses
2. Option #2- Order her execution which would violate Roman law
III. THE REAL TRUTH
A. The night before the religious leaders wanted Jesus arrested
“Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?” “No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards replied. “You mean he has deceived you also?” the Pharisees retorted. “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.” Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, “Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?” They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.””
John 7:45-52 NIV
B. Using the law of Moses
“If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.”
Deuteronomy 22:22 NIV
1. Where is the man?
2. Where is justice?
IV. THE SAVIOR'S REACTION
“But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.”
John 8:6b NIV
A. What did He write?
B. Three times God writes in the Bible
1. “When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.”
Exodus 31:18 NIV
2. “Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.”
Daniel 5:5 NIV
3. Jesus writing in the dust
a. Forgiven
b. Her name
c. The order in which the accusers were going to leave
d. Scripture
“Lord, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring of living water.”
Jeremiah 17:13 NIV
C. Living water in a dusty place
“Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.””
John 4:13-14 NIV
“On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.””
John 7:37-38 NIV
V. THE SAVIOR'S RESPONSE
“When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.”
John 8:7-9 NIV
A. "Any one of you who is without sin"
B. The witnesses were to be the first to throw a stone according to Mosaic law
C. The older, wiser men knew the "jig was up"
VI. THE RESCUE COMPLETE
“Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.””
John 8:10-11 NIV
A. Publicly charged
B. Genuinely guilty
C. No condemnation
D. Compassion
1. Mercy
2. Correction
a. Go from here
b. Leave your life of sin
CHALLENGE
Demonstrate that you are a friend of sinners.
Confront their sin and call them to live a proper life.
You won't have to lay down your own life, but it may feel like it.
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
John 15:13 NIV
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