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Introduction:Light of the world( )
This chapter shows Christ in conflict with the Jewish leaders and presents a series of important contrasts.
The scribes and Pharisees brought this woman to Jesus in the court of the women, in the treasury section of the temple (v.
20).
Their motive was to test Him (v. 6) and force Him into a dilemma.
If He set the woman free, He violated Moses’ law (; ); if He had her stoned, He could not claim to be One who forgives sins.
Arthur Pink suggests that Christ wrote on the ground with His finger twice to remind them of the two tablets of the Law, written with the finger of God (; ; ).
The Jews sinned, and Moses broke the first stone tablets on the ground; but God forgave their sin, provided blood sacrifices, and gave them another set of tablets.
Christ died for the sins of this woman and was able to forgive her.
My three main points
I.Jesus the Light of the world
II.
Heaven and Earth
III.
Freedom and Slavery
The scribes and Pharisees brought this woman to Jesus in the court of the women, in the treasury section of the temple (v.
20).
Their motive was to test Him (v. 6) and force Him into a dilemma.
If He set the woman free, He violated Moses’ law (; ); if He had her stoned, He could not claim to be One who forgives sins.
Arthur Pink suggests that Christ wrote on the ground with His finger twice to remind them of the two tablets of the Law, written with the finger of God (; ; ).
The Jews sinned, and Moses broke the first stone tablets on the ground; but God forgave their sin, provided blood sacrifices, and gave them another set of tablets.
Christ died for the sins of this woman and was able to forgive her.
I. Jesus the light of the world
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world!
The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
The great I AM statement in v. 12 follows this incident.
As the Light of the world, Christ claimed to be God, for God is light ().
Darkness speaks of death, ignorance, and sin; light speaks of life, knowledge, and holiness.
The light reproves sin ().
The lost sinner lives in darkness (; ; ) and will spend eternity in darkness () if he rejects Christ.
The Jews, instead of submitting to Christ, argued with Him in the temple!
II.
Heaven and Earth
Jesus Predicts His Death
21 So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin.
Where I am going you cannot come!” 22 Then the Jews began to say,* “Perhaps he will kill himself, because he is saying, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’
” 23 And he said to them, “You are from below; I am from above.
You are from this world; I am not from this world.
24 Thus I said to you that you will die in your sins.
For if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
II.
Heaven and Earth (8:21–30)
There are two births: from above, being born again by God’s Spirit, and from this world, being born of the flesh.
And there are two ways to die: the sinner dies in his sins, but the believer dies in the Lord ().
Faith in Jesus Christ makes the difference.
Jesus told the Jews that He came from heaven;
the Father sent Him (v.
26)
, taught Him (v.
28), and remained with Him (v.
29).
The Father forsook His Son only when Christ was made sin for us on the cross.
In v. 28, Christ spoke of being “lifted up,” which means, of course, crucifixion.
He had mentioned this to Nicodemus in , and He would mention it again in .
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, and He would mention it again in 12:32–34.
III.
Freedom and Slavery
The Truth Will Set You Free
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
III.
Freedom and Slavery (8:31–40)
The Jews who believed (v.
30) were admonished to prove their faith by their faithfulness.
Faith in Christ makes one a child of God, but abiding in the Word and knowing the truth (and living it) makes one a true disciple of the kingdom.
Christ is speaking about spiritual, not physical or political, bondage and liberty.
The lost sinner is in bondage to lusts and sins (), to Satan, and to the world ().
By receiving the truth in Christ, slaves are set free!
Jesus’ opponents, of course, appealed to their human advantages: “We are Abraham’s children!”
They said the same thing to John the Baptist ().
Jesus made a distinction between Abraham’s fleshly seed (v.
37) and Abraham’s spiritual children (v.
39).
Paul makes the same distinction in , , and 9:6, as well as in .
People reject Jesus because they confuse the physical and the spiritual.
Jesus spoke to Nicodemus about a spiritual birth, but he asked about a physical birth ().
Christ offered the woman at the well eternal life (living water), but she talked about literal physical water ().
Salvation is a spiritual experience, and human birth has nothing to do with it.
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