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This is not your ordinary 4th of July freedom sermon.
In *John 8*, we're going to look at *Verses 1-11*.
"Now early in the morning."
The Greek meaning there means "very early in the morning."
"Now early in the morning Jesus came into the temple."
He did not come into the holy place or the Holy of Holies.
Only the Priests and the High Priest could go in there.
Although He was worthy to go in there, He didn't go in there because of their traditions.
When it says "He went into the temple," it means He went into this outer court, this general area, where the general populace could come together.
Rabbis taught in this temple area, and this is where He went early in the morning.
"And all the people came to Him, and He sat down."
Rabbis normally taught in a seated position.
"He sat down and began to teach them."
*Verse 3: *"Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him."
The scribes and Pharisees were two different sects or groups of Judaism.
Judaism was the religion of the Jews, and the scribes were the ones that wrote the Old Testament; and they were meticulous, making sure they made no errors in the writing.
So they spent all their time writing the Old Testament Scriptures, and they were experts in the law.
The Pharisees were another sect or group of Judaism who believed in the resurrection.
They could be spotted in any crowd.
They loved to pray long prayers.
They loved to be seen, and they loved to be bragged about.
So, "The scribes and the Pharisees bring to Jesus a woman."
If you go to Israel and go to the western wall, which is the only remaining part of anything that connects to the temple, you'll find that the wall divides the women and the men.
So to bring a woman into this temple area in front of these men was forbidden.
The scribes and Pharisees grab a woman who was caught in adultery.
Do you know what I have found out after 41 years of pastoring?
I found out that, when you mention adultery in the church environment today, the church gives this reaction.
It means nothing.
We've got people sitting in the church pews saying "hallelujah" while committing adultery, but in those days, and those days haven't changed because God hasn't changed, it's sin.
In *Deuteronomy 22:22*, it says they were punished by death.
"Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery, and when they had set her in the midst."
*Verse 4: *"They said to Jesus, 'Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act.'"
I've got some questions.
How did they know it was going on right then, and, if she was caught in the very act, there had to be somebody else there?
*Deuteronomy 22:22 *says that when someone is caught in adultery both of them are to be stoned, but someone got loose here.
The woman got caught, but if they were committing adultery, there had to be a man involved.
The man got off scott-free, so they may have set her up.
I wonder where the guy is? Tell your neighbor DROP THE ROCK.
Now here they go and throw up Moses and the law.
*Verse 5: *"Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned, but what do You say?"
People come to me all the time trying to figure out how I feel about such and such.
It really doesn't matter what I think about such and such.
What matters is what God says about such and such.
So they dropped a big name, and said, "Moses said that these should be stoned."
Now if I had been Jesus, I would have said, "Bring that guy over here too.
Go get Harry Duck.
We'll kill Harry Duck first," but Harry Duck is not there.
*Verse 6 *says, "This they said, testing Jesus, that they might have something of which to accuse Him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger."
This is interesting to me.
They threw up Moses' name and the commandments, and if you read *Exodus 31:18*, you will find out that God actually gave Moses those commandments, those laws, but He wrote them with His finger.
Here you have the law written with the finger of God, which tells us what not to do.
"Thou shalt not."
"Thou shalt not."
Is that correct?
But in *John* we have Jesus kneeling down and writing on the ground with His finger, and I believe telling them what they had done.
In both instances, it was the finger of God.
"But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear them."
*Verse 7: *"So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, 'He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.'"
*Verse 8: *"And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground."
*Verse 9: *"Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience."
The Holy Spirit smote them.
They were convicted in their souls.
"Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one."
Please note how they left.
They didn't leave as a group.
They left one by one, and please note how the procession was.
It was from the oldest to the youngest.
"And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst."
*Verse 10: *"When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, 'Woman, where are those accusers of yours?
Has no one condemned you?'" *Verse 11: *"She said, 'No one, Lord,' and Jesus said to her, 'Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.'"
Isn't it amazing in *Verse 11* that we see mercy speaking?
There is a divine declaration of forgiveness right there, but along side that you also see a mandate: "Sin no more."
Hand in hand with mercy are God's mandates.
There are three things we want to look at.
*/(1) We want to look at these scheming leaders.
/*They're scheming, religious church leaders.
*/(2) We want to look at a sinful lady.
/*It's clear.
She's a sinner.
*/(3) We want to look at a sympathetic Lord.
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When you look at these scheming church leaders, you will see that they have a plan.
We're looking at *John 8*, but Jesus' ministry is closing.
He has been ministering now for probably about two years, and He only ministered for three years, from the age of 30-33.
Then He was crucified; yet, He is still ministering today through His church.
AMEN?
Jesus is nearing the end of His ministry, and these Pharisees want to somehow some way stop His ministry.
It's expanding.
It says, "All the people came into the temple to hear Him teach."
They know they're going to lose their jobs.
Job security is slipping through their fingers, so they have to come up with a new plan.
Let me tell you something, church.
They were not concerned about this woman.
They were not worried about her sin.
They were not worried about her soul.
They were not coming into church with a redemptive attitude.
These guys had a plan, and their plan was to use the law to trap Jesus.
They were out for blood, but not the blood of the woman.
If Jesus had agreed with Moses and said they should stone her, they would have done it right there, and He would have been arrested, because the Romans were the only ones that could carry out capital punishment.
If He would have said, "No," they would have risen up and said He was against Moses and hope the crowds would leave Him.
They were trying to trap Him.
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