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HOW WOULD JESUS HANDLE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE?
John 7:53-811
A young boy tried to steal some gas from a man’s motor home in Seattle.
He stuck his hose in the motor home and sucked hard to get the gas flowing and when Dennis Quigley the owner of the home heard the noises outside he investigated to find the thief collapsed in a heap violently vomiting.
See what happened is the thief put his hose into the sewage tank instead of the gas tank.
That young thief, age 14 was not prosecuted .
The owner of the motor home and the police felt he had suffered enough
What’s the most horrible thing you could ever imagine happening to yourself?
Right now there’s a whole bunch of things that you are thinking about.
Some of you are thinking horrible thoughts.
Specific things that people might do to you.
How they might speak to you or treat you.
But I guess that when I say these next two words all of us are going to be on the same page.
I think the most horrible thing that could happen to me and the most horrible thing that could happen to you is summed up in two words: total exposure.
Interestingly, I’ve arranged some special stuff with God and we are going to show it on the video projector.
Three of you have been selected for total exposure this morning.
That’s what I wanted to do but God overruled it.
There was some nervous laughter out there.
This morning we want to study the life of Jesus.
In one of the episodes of Jesus’ life there is an incredible story that takes place in the first part of John 8.
A lot of truths here about forgiveness and the understanding of God something that most of us are in need of huge doses of.
What’s going on here in Jesus’ life?
1. Jesus was openly declaring himself to be God the Messiah
There was no ambiguity in Jesus’ mind about who he was or what he was to be about.
But he was making it crystal clear to anyone who would listen that he was God and that he had come to save his people from sin.
That he had come to give them eternal life.
That he had come to make them God’s children.
At this point everybody was talking about Jesus.
Jesus was literally the topic of the day.
It seemed like everyone had an opinion that they wanted to voice about Jesus Christ.
So, he was big news.
2 There Was A Great Loneliness About Him
John 7:53-8:1 (NIV) Then each went to his own home.
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
Now I want you to understand something here.
If you remember from last weeks study, this was during the feast of Tabernacles.
There were thousands or perhaps millions of people that crowded into the city of Jerusalem.
Every night was a party.
Every night was a celebration.
Every night was a gathering of friends and family.
Jesus is the topic of the day.
He’s there in the temple and he’s teaching.
The people are all coming to him and the evening time sets in and so what happens?
Scripture says in verse 53 Then each went to his own home.
Everyone that is except for Jesus Christ.
Jesus went out to the mount of olives.
Despite the fact that he was the center of attention, no one bothered to ask Jesus to come with them to their celebration.
No one bothered to say, “Jesus, why don’t you come home with me and meet my grandchildren ?
We‘d love to have you tonight in our home as a guest”
So Jesus was literally left out in the cold as he walked out to the hillside of the Mount of olives as he spent the night sleeping on the ground in the cold.
Reading this passage gives new meaning to
John 1:11 (NIV) He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
Here he was, God come in human form.
Here he is in his own holy city of Jerusalem.
Here he is in his own house, the temple of God and no one bothers to invite him home with them.
No one received him.
Why would Jesus put himself through such loneliness?
Why would Jesus put himself through such emptiness?
Have you ever felt that kind of loneliness?
Maybe you’re the last one chosen on the team.
Or maybe you’re the last one and not even put on the team.
That awful feeling of loneliness and emptiness envelopes you.
A lot of times there is nothing we can do because it is our circumstances.
But Jesus chose this.
He could have changed the circumstances.
He is God.
But he came and he allowed himself to be lonely and empty and rejected.
Why?
Just because he loves people and he loves you and me.
We do the same thing to Jesus today don’t we?
We know all about him but choose to leave him out in the cold because we’ve never allowed him to come into the home of our heart.
Sometimes we say Jesus, “would you mind going out in the backyard?
Could you just spend the night at the neighbors?
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There Was Such Great Love In the Heart Of Jesus That No Amount Of Rejection Could Keep It From Coming Out.
John 8:2 (NIV)
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.
This is real early in the morning.
He had just spent much of the night trying to find a comfortable rack to place his head.
Maybe a tree to shade himself a little bit.
If you’ve slept outside, you know what it is like.
The people that he is talking here that gathered around him are the same people that didn’t bother to take him home with them the night before.
But he is there yet again trying yet again to convince these folks of his love and grace.
To convince these folks like you and me of the love of God.
How incredibly kind is this.
How wonderfully patient is the Lord Jesus to come back to the very same people that said, “I’d love to talk to you but I don’t have time for you tonight.”
He comes back to them and he says, “Guys, it didn’t really click yesterday, so let me try it again.
I am God.
I want to shower you with my grace and I want to envelop you in my love.
That’s what’s up with Jesus as we come to this passage of scripture.
Right in the middle of Jesus sharing his heart and teaching his father’s truths the Pharisees walk in with this woman caught in adultery.
John 8:3 (NIV)
3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery.
They made her stand before the group
They didn’t want justice - they were trying to trap Jesus.
They were trying to impale him on the horns of a dilemma.
What would He say with the crowd looking on and the woman right in front of him?
If he said, “Let her go” they would have accused him of violating the law of Moses.
For not keeping the Scriptures.
In Lev.
20 & Deut.
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