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#20240915 - Grace Changes Everything - John 8:1-11 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's Word recorded live at Calvary
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Now let's open our Bibles and study God's Word.
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It is so good to be here and blessed and honored to teach
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over this pulpit. You know, when I come here, I
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ask, what don't they know? Go to your app.
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Look of the riches of the teaching there from your pastor.
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So, you know, you struggle to say what don't they know?
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So I'm just going to tell you what you already know.
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And I don't mind that because Peter and, and Paul wrote the
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same things. We're just going to tell you.
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We're just going to remind you of things you already know.
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And there's health in that because to be reminded about
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grace and mercy and love and peace, also sin and repentance
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and coming to the Lord. I I I love that as as Josh
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pointed out in Psalm 86, go home and reread it again.
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But that verse for you, Lord, our good and ready to forgive
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and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon you.
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Well, that in a sense goes right along with our message this
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morning. So let's turn to John chapter 8.
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I've entitled this message, Grace changes everything.
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Grace changes everything. How many you believe that grace
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changes everything? Amen.
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Praise God it does, man. In 1981, I picked up a Bible
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that was given to me six months earlier and I began to read the
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Bible. It was King James.
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It was, you know, the begats, because I always learn when you
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got a book, read it from the beginning, right?
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So I got a book. I began to read it.
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This guy big at that guy. I couldn't even say those names
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except the Mexican ones Perez and but but I got to verse 21 of
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Matthew 1 and you should call his name Jesus where he will
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save his people from their sins. And I'm telling you, man, well,
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you guys know you come to the Lord already.
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It's just scales fell from my eyes, from my heart and it was
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just a brand new day, man. It was just a beautiful day.
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Everything in California, everything turned into color.
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It went from black and white to color, and it was just a
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wonderful time. So we'll kind of see this in our
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story as well, but just keep that in mind that the grace
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Jesus, everything. Let's look at chapter 8,
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beginning with verse one. But Jesus went to the Mount of
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Olives. Now early in the morning he came
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again into the temple, and all the people came to him, and he
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sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and the
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Pharisees brought to him a woman caught in adultery.
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And when they had set her in the midst, they said to him,
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Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery in the very act.
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Now Moses in the law command us that such should be stoned.
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But what do you say? And this they said, testing him,
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that they might have something of which to accuse him.
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But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger,
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as though he did not hear. So when they continued asking
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him, he raised himself up and said to them, He who is without
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sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.
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And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground than those
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who heard it being convicted by their conscience.
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Well, they went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even
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to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and
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the woman standing in the midst. And when Jesus had raised
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himself up and saw no one but the woman, he said to her,
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Woman, where are those accusers of yours?
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Has no one condemned you? And she said no one, Lord and
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Jesus said to her, neither do I condemn you go and what?
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Send no more. So Father, again, thank you God
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for the worship. Thank you for getting us
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vertical with you, Lord. Thank you that we can just set
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aside God, this day, our schedules, the things we want to
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do and just for the next few minutes we focus on your word.
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I pray that we you go beyond my notes.
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God, I pray you speak to us individually and
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congregationally, Lord, about this wonderful grace of yours,
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the grace that we sang about, the grace that we read about God
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speak to us in Jesus precious name.
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And everyone said Amen. Well, Pastor Chuck Smith, he, he
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defined grace like this in his book, Why Grace Changes
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Everything is where I got my title, really.
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He said grace is God-given to me, something that I can't
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obtain on my own. Grace is being accepted by God
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even though I do not deserve it, even though I'm not worthy of
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it. I like that definition, but the
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New Testament we know defines grace as God's unmerited.
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What favour? Unmerited favour freely given,
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like salvation, grace and peace and mercy.
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It all has to do with salvation. What God gives to us unmerited,
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that works freely given by what? Believing alone by believing in
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Him, by believing that He is the Lord and Savior.
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The acronym for grace that I'm sure many of you know.
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If not, you'll be blown away by it.
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Grace, God's riches at Christ's expense.
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Grace Doesn't that just totally defined it?
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God's riches at Christ's expense.
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Grace is the work that was poured out of God's love for us
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through His Son's sacrifice on the cross, again, freely
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obtained by faith. I love grace, man.
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I embrace grace. I thank God for grace.
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But we can't overlook the fact that we just read here that this
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passage also speaks of adultery, speaks of sin.
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It speaks of adultery as the 7th commandment tells us clearly in
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the 10 commandments of Exodus chapter 20 verse 14, you shall
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not commit adultery. Very clearly God speaks and
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throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament, it speaks of
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adultery, Yes, physical adultery, but also spiritual
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adultery. How the Jews played the harlot.
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You've read that many times. You've been taught that how
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they've gone to other gods and started worshipping other gods
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thinking they can have both the true God and the false God.
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But here we're Speaking of the physical act.
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We're Speaking of adultery. And you know, today we've made
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it acceptable in our in our lives.
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We made it acceptable, you know, in this world, we've made it
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palatable. We could say we call it an
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affair. Movies have been even titled An
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Affair to Remember. We call it a rendezvous.
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We call it a flame. And if you're in the hood, it's
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the hookup. Why?
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Well, adultery sounds so sinful because it is, and we're always
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trying to get away with sin by calling it other things, by
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softening it, like I said, but it is just sin.
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Listen to what the proverb says about adultery in chapter 6,
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verse 32. Whoever commits adultery with a
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woman, and again, as you know, the scriptures can apply to both
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men and women, lacks what understanding.
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He who does so and this breaks me, destroys his own soul.
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That's the way God sees it. Not only does it destroy our
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soul, not only does it destroy us, it destroys our marriage, it
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destroys our children. Our relationship with our kids
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will never be the same because mom or dad had a fling, had an
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affair and it broke their hearts.
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We see families all the time dealing with this, coming into
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the office weeping, wishing they never engaged in it or others
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just stubborn and not wanting to repent of it.
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Yes, it destroys. And who's who's the destroyer
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who's celebrating over the fact that another marriage has been
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ruined, that another marriage has been broken?
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It's the enemy. He gives us lies and he and he
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baits us and he and he draws us away from our vows, draws us
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away from our promise to one another.
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And he likes doing that because it breaks up the family because
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they know that the families that will also affect the church.
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He's always about that coming to ruin and destroy.
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Well, the law also states that. And this will be an important
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reminder to us as we walk through the verses.
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It reminds us in Leviticus chapter 20, verse 10, the man
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who commits adultery with another man's wife, he who
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commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer
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and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
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It's a capital crime. When you think of divorce and
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you think of, you know, the only reason for divorce is, is
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adultery, sexual immorality. If we lived by the law and the
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law alone as they did back then, that was a no brainer because
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they were both be stoned and the marriage would end there.
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Aren't you glad we're under grace today?
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So without understanding, we pick up our study.
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But after a week long celebration known as the Feast
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of Tabernacles. Zakov if you could, mandatory
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feasts of a for the Jews who had who would go and live in
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temporary shelters or booths that were made from the branches
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of trees as part of the requirements that would remind
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them of those 40 years their ancestors wandered in the
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wilderness after having been delivered from Egypt and how God
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provided for them. It was mandatory.
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They had to go to Jerusalem. They had to involve themselves
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in this feast. But during this feast,
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controversy was stirring up around Jesus as well.
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Some claimed that Jesus is the promised Messiah.
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Some were believing, some were disagreeing, some were
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unbelieving, some were seeking him to see a sign.
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But we know that the religious leaders wanted him to arrest him
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and put him to death. But no one was able to lay a
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hand on him because his hour had not come.
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But the debate over who Jesus was would take pause at the end
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of the feast, as Chapter 7, verse 53.
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Look at that says and everyone went to his own house except in
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context to our verses two people and we can think of them as 2
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married couples who crept off to engage in the sin of adultery.
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And I want to focus though on the next day, the early early in
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the morning and what Jesus encountered when he came back to
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the temple and how he deals with religion and and the law and
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religious leaders who love to condemn people in order to
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control people. Jesus in this story, it shows us
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how grace changes everything and how blessed we are to be under
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his banner of salvation and love.
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Amen. So let's walk through these
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verses. But Jesus says went to the Mount
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of Olives as everyone one went home to his own house.
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Jesus went to the the Mount of Olives, not having a place to
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lay his head, not having his own home.
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He may have stayed with some friends there, as we know he had
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some friends, or he may have just went rested and prayed and
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fasted. But we know early in the morning
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he, he came into the temple and all the people came to him.
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He drew people to him and he sat down and taught them.
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That was the position of the teacher, the position of the
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rabbi, if you would, that he would sit and he would impart
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doctrine and he would give instruction.
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And we know that in Chapter 7, verse 46, we come to understand
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that Jesus taught like no other man ever taught.
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No other rabbi ever taught. He would blow away even those
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who would try to nab him and grab him.
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They were even blown away by how he spoke.
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Then the scribes, it said in verse 3, the experts in the law
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and the Pharisees would be the enforcers of the law, brought to
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him a woman caught in adultery. Through this beautiful gate,
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there at the temple came an ugly set up against a woman being
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used by the priest to trap Jesus.
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There they were, as Scripture tells us, verse 20 of chapter 8,
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by the treasury. There Jesus sat, there the
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people came, and here the scribes and the Pharisees bring
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through that beautiful gate, a very ugly scene, a woman here
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being dragged, no doubt dishevelled.
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Probably as they dragged her, she grabbed a sheet of some sort
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just covering herself. She comes in dishevelled,
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disobedient and defiant. And when they had set her that
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means to stand in the midst, in the midst of those who came to
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the early service, in the midst of those who came to hear Christ
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in the midst and the feet of Jesus, they said to him,
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Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery in the very act, Oh
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really, in the very act, they interrupted Jesus's teaching.
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I've been interrupted before with babies crying, right at our
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church. We're close by a train track,
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and then the train would come. Of course the train would come
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right when I'm making a point, and so I had to stop.
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Of course we've been interrupted by heavy rains or the
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electricity going off, all kinds of neat things.
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But I've never been interrupted like this.
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I got to admit, this really is an interruption.
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But was it? Was it as Jesus teaching?
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They put her in front of him and they wanted Jesus to be her
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judge and the crowd to be the jury?
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My brothers and sisters, a little.
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Did these religious folks realize that's the place that
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she needed to be at the feet of Jesus?
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Now, we don't know this gal. We don't know her background,
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her history. I'm not saying that she wasn't
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incense, she was. But what got her there?
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What gets man to, as I said, want to disobey their vows,
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disobey God? What gets a person who finds
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comfort in another bed with another person that that not her
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husband or his wife What how was she raised what she abused was
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you know, we're not making excuses, but sometimes there's
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reasons behind that's the place she needed to be right at the
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feet of Jesus. She doesn't realize that they
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don't realize that, but Jesus knows that He knows that was
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caught in adultery. They say in the very act, the
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word in the very act speaks of a of a thief in the very cot in
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the very act, right red handed as they were saying.
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Did they stumble across this act?
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No, I don't think so. You and I both know this was a
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setup unbeknownst to this woman with all the titles that these
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religious leaders love. We could add pervert to that as
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well. Because when you think about it,
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it's really an ugly thing when they're peeping through the
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windows and waiting for this adultery to take place in verse
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five, they want to support what they just did.
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They want to back it up with the law.
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They want to back it up with with scripture.
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It says now Moses in the law, and I'm sure that's the scribe
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speaking again. The scribe was the the lawyer of
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the religious groups. He was the one who would be the
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expert, if you would, in Scripture.
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They would go to the scribe to look things up.
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What does the law say on this? What is the soul and so forth.
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Now, Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned at
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capital punishment. But what do you say?
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So the crowd is kind of leaning in, you know, and, and Jesus is
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just sitting there looking at these knuckleheads.
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These guys are trying to trap me, huh?
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They're trying to use the law. They're they're trying to use
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Scripture to trap me. Because we know that Jesus was,
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well, he was a friend of sinners.
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He sat with them and he ate with them.
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They didn't like that, they hated that, but Jesus clearly
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stated, look at I came for what? Those who are in need of a
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physician, and although they were in need of the same
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physician, because of their pride, they thought we don't
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need Jesus. He's not the Messiah, he's not
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the coming. 1 He says, I go to those who are in need.
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That's why he was called friend of sinners.
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He never engaged in their sin, but he listened to them and he
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ministered to them. And if these religious rulers
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were truly interested in justice and and and knew the law
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completely, then why didn't they bring who?
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The man? Where's the the other one?
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Where's the man? They only brought the woman.
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Where is he again? Leviticus 2010 states the man
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has to be come along with them. Where was the man?
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If they were caught in the very act, they were just nothing but
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a setup. Who was this man?
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Was it one of them, you know, read scholars, you know,
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commentaries? We don't know.
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But was he part of the plot? Was he known to sneak away with
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this woman? Was that a a known fact?
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And hey, let's get this guy. We'll pay him off.
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We'll give him money or we'll we'll put pressure on him to
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have an affair, had to have this adulterous act together right
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after the Feast of Tabernacles. We, we, we don't know.
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But what what we do know he's not there.
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That's so wrong. This was an illegal court
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procedure. Well, we see there again in
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verse six that their motivation was to test Jesus.
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They said this, they said testing him that they might have
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something of which to accuse him.
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You see, because if he, if he says that, you know, or goes
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against the law and, and their estimation and and their
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definition, then we can get them for condemning the law.
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Oh, but but but if he lets her go, then we can get them because
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again, he's not fulfilling the law as written.
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They wanted to catch him by his response.
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It was he who said I did not come to condemn the law, but to
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accomplish it. But how Jesus response to this
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is very interesting. Continuing on, it says, but
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Jesus stooped down again, He's in his sitting position and he
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Stoops down. He he writes on the ground with
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his finger as though he did not hear and that's so interesting
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about the Lord our God. When the enemy comes and accuses
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us before him, God does not hear it because the blood of Christ
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is upon us. He can come and accuse us of all
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kinds of things, but we can rest assure in Christ in the cross,
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but he doesn't hear those words of condemnation against us.
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Many that's a side that's a side Bible study for later on, but he
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stinks down. He starts to write again.
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He writes on on the ground with his finger and remember it was
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the finger of God that wrote the law that wrote the law on the
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tablets, at least the first ones right?
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And he's the one who wrote thou shall not commit a doctor.
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He knows the word of God for he is the word of God.
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And now we see the finger of God once more riding in the dust.
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The question is, what did he write?
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Right. What did he write?
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The Bible doesn't tell us anything.
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Inquiring minds want to know, Was it the 10 commandments?
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Some people say that. Well, that was.
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That's a lot of writing he's standing over.
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And he's right. Whatever he's writing.
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Was it Leviticus 2010? You guys are off.
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There's something missing here. Was it their sins and failures?
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Was it if anyone looks at a woman lustfully has already
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committed altar with her and his heart?
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We don't know. So then they continue asking
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them. They continue saying, what do
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you say? She's caught in adultery.
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Look at her. Look at the way she looks this
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shuffled Sinner. What do you say, Jesus, what do
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you say? And he raised himself up and
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said to them, you want an answer, I'm going to give you an
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answer. He was without sin among you.
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Let him throw a stone at her first.
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Boom. That's heavy, man.
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Think about that. I love the Lord.
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You're not worried. You just look at these guys and
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you guys are something else. Who?
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He who is without sin among you. Let him throw the first stone.
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Well, what an answer, man. See Jesus expose their desire to
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punish the sins of others while ignoring what their own sin.
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Deuteronomy does tell us in the 17th chapter that it takes two
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or three witnesses to bring someone before the council, and
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in the hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him
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to be put to death. But here silence begins and
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their intent to trap Jesus and to use it against them has just
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failed. And Jesus knows the intent of
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their heart. You know, friends, we are good
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at pointing fingers, aren't we? If we'd be honest, we were good
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at point. We were good in judging others
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against judge, judgement against others sin and ignoring our own
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sin, forgetting as I said, that wonderful word of grace,
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forgetting, you know, now that doesn't exclude us, especially
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as elders and pastors. You know, sometimes we have to
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apply church discipline. And I want to tell you
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something, we don't like doing that, but sometimes it's needed.
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Or sometimes as a brother and sister, you, you see a brother
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or another sister doing something that you know is not
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good for them. It's not glorifying Christ.
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It's only going to bring harm to them.
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And you know, and you love them and you care for them and, and
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you want to bring this up to them.
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And they say to us, what? Don't judge me, right?
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We know that word well, but we're good at stoning others,
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and that shouldn't be. Galatians 61 says this, and you
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know it well. Brethren, if a man is overtaken
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in any trespass, you who are spiritual, you who are led by
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the Spirit, you who are a believer led by the Spirit, to
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restore that one, the word restore there it means to set a
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broken bone. Now think of it that way.
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How would you like if you broke your bone, if you broke your
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arm, your your leg, how would you want it?
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Well, how would you want it restored?
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But first of all, you'd say give me medicine, give me drugs, put
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me out and do it right? Or would you want to just say
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hold your breath and bite on this, this piece of wood reset
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no man that that hurts, but but you who are spiritual restore
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such a one in the spirit of gentleness, not in the spirit of
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pride, not in the spirit of superiority, but in the spirit,
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since you're being led by the spirit, since you are the
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spiritual one to be done in the spirit of gentleness and then
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considering yourself, Paul says unless you also be tempted.
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Someone says spirituality is not measured by how well we expose
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an offender, but how effectively we restore an offender.
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I like that. Who was the only one eligible
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here to throw a stone? Anybody.
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Jesus, right. Everybody say Jesus, I like that
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name. He was the only one truly that
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was really able to to throw the stone with his quote with his
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comment to these Pharisees. And again he says he stooped
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down and wrote on the ground. And those of the Pharisees in
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the in the scribes who heard it, who heard what he was without
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sin among you, LED him throw a stone at her first being
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convicted by their conscience. And we all are born with a
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conscience. If I could say we come to an age
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where we understand right from wrong.
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We have a conscience and it's there for a purpose.
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But in this case they went out one by one and notice beginning
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with the oldest even to the last.
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And that's interesting, the oldest to the last, you know, I
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have more behind me at my age of 40 than than ahead of me.
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But it's true, more experience. We boasted that sometimes Gray
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hair. This used to be black until I
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raised five children. I used to have hair down to my
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back now anyway, but I used to have hair until I started
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ministry. But I love it.
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Don't get me wrong, I love them both, but here in the response,
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they know none of them were without sin, none of them were
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qualified to cast a stone based upon Christ's word except for
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Him. And then at that point, we've
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heard stones being dropped and them just leaving, for Scripture
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tells us that Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in
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the midst. So here is Jesus, and here's the
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woman standing before the King of kings and the Lord of Lords,
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standing before the one that could stone her in the midst of
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the early service of the Bible study.
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Wow. What do you see to do?
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What will he do? Having the only right to take
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her out? Well, I'm reminded of what Chuck
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Smith illustrated to us. And your pastor.
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I've also heard him use this. There's a difference between the
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police and the paramedics. You guys remember that one?
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The the police and they and the police, they care if they run
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out onto an accident, if they come onto an accident or call to
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an accident. Don't get me wrong, the police,
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they do care for for the driver or for anyone who's hurt.
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But you and I know both know that they arrive, they secure
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the area, they begin to question the witnesses and they they
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measure the skid marks. Their main person is to find out
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who's at fault. But when the paramedics get
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there, they don't care who's at fault.
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This automobile accident could have taken place right after a
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robbery, even maybe right after another crime.
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But they're not interested in that.
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They're interested in anyone being hurt.
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They're they're interested in the injured.
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They're interested in those who are wounded.
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They want to treat them. They want to apply first aid.
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That's what they care about and that speaks of Christ who is
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really the paramedic here, not like the Pharisees, the
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legalists, those who come only to condemn and and to convict.
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But when Jesus look at verse 10, when Jesus had raised himself
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up. Now he's standing and saw no one
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everyone left but the woman that blows me away.
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You know, at this point she probably could have taken off
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she probably but she was even probably blown away and he said
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to her woman, where are those who accuse Where are those
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accusers of yours noted. He didn't say harlot or other
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words that we we know Scarlet. No, he called her woman and he
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called her woman in an endearing way.
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It's the same title that he had given to his mother there at the
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wedding at Cana, there at the cross when he saw his cared for
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his mom. But they're at the wedding at
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Cana when she asked when he said that they ran out of wine back
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then. You don't run out of wine at
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weddings, right? It's like running out of mole at
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A at a Chicano wedding. You don't run out of mole.
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But he says won't, woman, What is that to me?
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My hour has not yet come and we know the story.
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It's the same word. It was done in an endearing way
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and she's just getting blown away, man.
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See Jesus, he sees a sinner's potential, Amen.
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He sees our potential even before we come to Him.
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He sees the fact that when we come or if we will bow our knee
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and we will receive Him as Lord and Savior Man, has He got a
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plan for us? He wants to use us.
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He wants to love us and embrace us.
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He wants us to embrace Him. And He says this.
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Has no one condemned you? He left this has no one
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condemned. Where are your condemners?
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And now the woman speaks no Lord.
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She said, has no one condemned you?
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And she said no Lord. I mean, her response was spoken
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from a broken heart. Her response was spoken from a
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being humbled in the presence of Jesus.
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Her response, Lord, which is a title in the Greek reserve only
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for God, was that liking, liking that of the thief on the cross.
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Remember that guy, you, you, we'll meet him again.
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By the way, when he said Lord, what?
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Remember Me, Lord, Remember Me. And this is the same response.
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She says no Lord, no one has condemned me.
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She was guilty, don't get me wrong, we're not overlooking
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that yet. Her condemners have left the
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temple. But the true judge was standing
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in front of her and she in like manner knew only the Lord could
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free her like he did. Only this one who she stood
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before could stone her. But he said this, Neither do
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what? Neither do I, neither do I.
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And John 317 you know this, God did not send his Son into the
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world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might
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be saved. He didn't come to condemn the
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world because the world was condemned already.
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He came that we might be saved through Him.
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Neither do I speaks of God's mercy.
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Write that down. Your Bible mercy and mercy is
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not getting what we deserve. You guys know that.
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But before we think this restored woman has gotten away
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with her sin, we need to read the rest of this verse or the
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rest of Jesus exhortation to her.
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Neither do I go and sin no more. Neither do I go.
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Go speaks of our of our topic, grace.
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Go speaks of grace being set free and forgiven for her.
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Sin speaks loudly of God's grace.
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Grace is getting what you don't deserve.
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Sin no more speaks of truth. So we have here grace and truth,
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and they will always go together, grace and truth.
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Sin no more speaks of truth that undergirds grace, grace and
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truth. Chuck Smith called them the
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Siamese twins of the Bible. Now, we're not talking here
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about cheap grace. Again, don't get it twisted.
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There will be consequences for this woman's adultery.
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There will be. She'll have to go back home.
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Hey, there's a crowd there that knows now that she committed
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adultery. There's a crowd there also that
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knows that this man by the name of Jesus has forgiven her and
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given her peace through grace and built her faith by calling
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him Lord. So let's not get it.
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It's not cheap grace. Bonhoeffer said, great, cheap
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grace is the enemy of the church.
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Paul said, do we go on sitting? The grace may abound more and
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more and more. No, that's cheap grace, man.
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Don't don't think that way. Well, brother, you know it's
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grace and you know, yeah, I know I'm but you know grace.
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That's that's called cheap grace and it's the enemy of the
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church. Think about that.
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No one grows, no one is maturing the grace.
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This grace is God's grace and was bought with a price.
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As we said, no price came from the cross.
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Jesus acknowledged that this woman had sin, a terrible sin of
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adultery, and that is truth. But by his grace, Jesus sets her
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free and forgives her and exhorts her to sin no more.
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Do not continue in the lifestyle of that sin.
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And that is why grace changes everything.
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And if I may real quickly, this is Extra verse Sunday I heard.
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Look at verse 12 and we'll end with this.
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Then Jesus spoke to them again. He continued the teaching
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because what an application they had to this teaching to this
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Bible study. And he says as she's leaving now
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through that beautiful gate from the temple, restored, loved,
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cared for, I am the light of the world.
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And what does light do? Light exposes, it reveals, it
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illuminates, it chases also what darkness away.
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I am the light of the world. He who follows me should not
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walk in darkness, but have the light of life.
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Have you embraced grace this morning?
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Have you accepted Christ as your Savior?
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If not, what are you waiting for?
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How much more love can one show to you?
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The God who is true show to you through His Son from the cross.
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What more love do you want? Someone has paid a price to set
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you free and this morning you can be set free as the eldest
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come forward or or the pastors will be up here after the
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service. You come give your life to Jesus
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Christ. Maybe you need to calm.
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You're a believer, but there's just been some secret things
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that you've been involved with. You know, it's not healthy.
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You just you don't have to go into detail.
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Just I need prayer. Pray for me and they will do
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that. Amen.
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So Father, thank you God for this time in your word, Thank
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you God for this church, for Pastor Ed, the elders, the
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ministers. It shows their pastors influence
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in their life and what a blessing it is to serve you God
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in Jesus name, Amen. We pray that you've been
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