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Neither Do I Condemn You | Episode #334 | Encore Episode #005 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's Word with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and stories, along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that he has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. In Lamentations,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, verses twenty two and twenty three, we read,
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  Speaker 1: because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed,
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  Speaker 1: for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning.
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  Speaker 1: Great is your faithfulness. Now, if you miss a portion
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  Speaker 1: of today's broadcast or would like to recommend it to
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  Speaker 1: a friend, you can hear this program anytime online at
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  Speaker 1: Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now, here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: Romans five eight says, but God demonstrates his own love
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  Speaker 2: for us in this while we were still sinners, Christ
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  Speaker 2: died for us. You know, the phrase that has been
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  Speaker 2: used in many many examples is the phrase of God's
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  Speaker 2: demonstrating his own love while we were still sinners. Neither
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  Speaker 2: do I condemn you, he said, You know we read
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  Speaker 2: in another passage, John chapter eight and verses one through
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  Speaker 2: eleven describes an event where God demonstrates this forgiveness in
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  Speaker 2: such a remarkable way. The scripture says, at dawn he
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  Speaker 2: went to the temple complex again, and all the people
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  Speaker 2: were coming to him. He sat down and began to
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  Speaker 2: teach them. Then the scribes in the Pharisees brought a
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  Speaker 2: woman caught in adultery, making her stand in the center. Teacher.
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  Speaker 2: They said to him, this woman was caught in the
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  Speaker 2: act of committing adultery in the law Moses commanded us
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  Speaker 2: to stone such a woman, So what do you say?
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  Speaker 2: They asked this to trap him in order that they
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  Speaker 2: might have evidence to accuse him. Jesus stooped down and
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  Speaker 2: started writing on the ground with his finger. When they
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  Speaker 2: persisted in questioning him, he stood up and said to them,
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  Speaker 2: the one without sin among you should be the first
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  Speaker 2: to throw a stone at her. Then he stooped down
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  Speaker 2: again and continued writing on the ground. When they heard this,
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  Speaker 2: they left one by one, starting with the older men.
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  Speaker 2: Only Jesus was left with the woman in the center.
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  Speaker 2: When Jesus stood up, He said to her, woman, where
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  Speaker 2: are they? Has no one condemned you? No one, Lord?
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  Speaker 2: She answered, neither do I condemn you? Said Jesus, go
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  Speaker 2: and from now on do not sin anymore. The Pharisees
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  Speaker 2: were always rigid in their interpretation of the Mosaic law,
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  Speaker 2: and this was not due to their ability to keep
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  Speaker 2: the law, but more because of their respected position and
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  Speaker 2: reputation within the community. Although this respect would have been
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  Speaker 2: granted to one of humility, it became a bone of
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  Speaker 2: contempt because of their hypocrisy and pride. Jesus challenged the
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  Speaker 2: hypocrites of his day and in many cases revealed their
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  Speaker 2: real motives. No one of position and power enjoys being challenged,
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  Speaker 2: and certainly not to reveal their true motives. One noted
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  Speaker 2: occasion is recorded, as we read in John's Gospel, a
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  Speaker 2: very clever trap was contrived by the Pharisees to catch
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  Speaker 2: Jesus in disobedience to the law. The woman was caught
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  Speaker 2: in the very act of adultery and brought to Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: as the scripture describes. For this act of adultery, the
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  Speaker 2: law required her to be stoned to death, to be
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  Speaker 2: found in Leviticus, chapter twenty and verse ten. The court
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  Speaker 2: of conviction is arranged and Jesus enters the circle of
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  Speaker 2: her accusers. Now it is only he that's willing to
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  Speaker 2: stand with her. The circle is made up of men
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  Speaker 2: young and old who are prepared to carry out the
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  Speaker 2: legal execution of this adulteress. They are each armed with
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  Speaker 2: the stones to be used to put her to death
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  Speaker 2: for this terrible, sinful act. Again, the interpretation of the
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  Speaker 2: law was flawed because it would have required both the
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  Speaker 2: adulteress and the adulterer to be stoned. Nevertheless, Jesus ignores
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  Speaker 2: their plan and bends down to begin writing something in
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  Speaker 2: the dirt. The scripture doesn't tell us exactly what he writes.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps it's the names of many of the men in
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  Speaker 2: the circle who had been with this same woman, or
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  Speaker 2: it could have been the levitical law which would convict both,
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  Speaker 2: we don't know. After writing, Jesus stands up and places
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  Speaker 2: a charge of sin to all the men in the circle.
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  Speaker 2: He says, he that is without sin, let him cast
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  Speaker 2: the first stone. Then he bends down once more to
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  Speaker 2: continue writing. One by month, each man leaves the circle
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  Speaker 2: of condemnation, recognizing his own sin. Jesus knowing they're gone,
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  Speaker 2: asks the woman, where are your accusers? She then realizes
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  Speaker 2: that she has been spared and answers there are none.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus forgives the adulterate in that very moment and declares
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  Speaker 2: to her, neither do I condemn you, go and sin
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  Speaker 2: no more.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you've just joined us, you've been listening to
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  Speaker 1: Reflections on the Word with Richard Ka, you can hear
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  Speaker 1: this message in its entirety again online as well as
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  Speaker 1: Richard's entire archive at Talknetwork Radio dot com. We would
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  Speaker 1: Express scriptures are read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible,
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  Speaker 1: which is published by Homann Bible Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Additional resources used for Reflections on the Word with Richard
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  Speaker 1: Ka include Great Is Thy Faithfulness by Our Daily Bread
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  Speaker 1: and printed by Discovery House Publishers. Again, here is Richard.
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  Speaker 1: To wrap up. Today's message.
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  Speaker 2: Would that we would look upon sinners with the same
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  Speaker 2: compassion and mercy. But God demonstrates his own love for
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  Speaker 2: us in this While we were still sinners, Christ died
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  Speaker 2: for us, and that is today's reflection on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard k Or Richard and the entire team. This is
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition of
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  Speaker 1: Reflections on the Word.