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INTRO:

Story about locking Baby sitter out of the house

when I was 11 years old my parents left all 4 of us kids with a baby sitter for the day while they went out.

We were playing outside and Everything was going well until my older brother, by 18 months, James and I started fighting.

The Baby sitter didn’t just send us inside but she sent us to our room together.

After 15 minutes we yelled out We like each other now can we come out?

NO stay in your room.

Again we yelled “ Can we come out now we will play nice!.

NO stay in your room.

To us this just seemed unfair that we had to stay in our room and not have the entire house to run around in.

So we came up with a plan, I would jump out the window and run to the front door, and knock.

When the baby sitter came to the door to see who was there I would run away and have her chase me.

Everything worked just as we planned.

I knocked on the door

the babysitter ran outside after me and so I ran all the way around the house with her chasing me.

While I was running around the house , James put stage two of the plan into action.

He ran to the front door and locked it, so no one could get into the house.

After the door was locked He came back to the window of our room opened it up and as I ran by, I jumped up and grabbed his arms and He quickly pulled me inside and locked the window!

We had taken over our house from the babysitter.

The baby sitter came to the front door to get back inside and found it locked, and let me tell you she was not a very happy camper at this point

“ Unlock this door or else!”

Everything seemed great until the next words came out of her mouth.

“just wit until I tell your dad what you boys have done.”

We should have know there was a flaw in our plan, In the heat of the moment We forgot about the words of our father before he left.

“ Boys remember if you get in trouble while I’m gone the consequences will be much worse when I get home.”

We were caught, and there was no way we were getting out of this one.

My dad and mom come home to the babysitter sitting on the front porch of our house in tears, and my dad asked what the problem was.

She then explains to him what we had done.

and as we peaked out the window to see how dad would react we knew that we were in a whole heap of trouble!

You could see the color of his face changing

and then His words echoed throughout the entire neighborhood“ James & Jason get out here right now”

We were caught in our disobedience and were brought before the judge.

and when He asked us to explain what we had done,

do you know what my brother did?

He started putting all the focus on me and what I did, hoping my dad wouldn’t see him as guilty.

“ Dad I din’t go outside I stayed in my room, Jason is the one who went outside, Jason is the one who started the fight, Jason is the who ran away from the baby sitter, Jason is the one who locked the window so she couldn’t get back in.He is way worse than me.”

Turn with me in your Bible’s to John chapter 8 where we can see another story about a group of people who were quick to point out someone else’s sin but failed to see their own sinfulness before the judge.

Listen as I read our entire text this morning.

John 8:1-11 “And each one departed to his own house, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Early in the morning he came again to the temple.

All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.

Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women.

So what do you say?”

This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him.

Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them,

“Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”

And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.

But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they?

Has no one condemned you?”

She said, “No one, Lord.”

John 8:10-11 “Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they?

Has no one condemned you?”

She said, “No one, Lord.”

And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”

THE STORY

In our story today, Jesus gets up early and goes to the temple to teach the people the truths of God.

Remember what He said his mission was in Luke 19:10 “I came to seek and to save the lost.””

Jesus didn’t want to waste any time He wanted to share salvation with he lost.

And while Jesus is in the temple teaching the crowds of people, A group of Pharisees and teachers of the law bring a woman who has been caught in the act of adultery through he crowd and forcing her to stand before all the people.

They then turn to Jesus, and ask him “ Teacher, this woman was caught in act of adultery.

In the law, Moses commanded us to stone such a women, Now what do you say we should do?”

On the surface this looks like a good thing, the religious leaders bring a sinner to Jesus, the one who has the authority to judge all sin, but in reality this is not their motivation.

They are trying to trap Jesus in his words so that they can once for all get rid of him from their lives.

If Jesus consented to stoning the woman, He would not have been as loving and forging as he claimed to be.

And he would have been breaking the Roman law which forbids stoning of other people, and this would have caused the people to distrust him as perfect.

However, If he refused to stone her the Pharisees would accuse him of treating the Law of Moses too lightly.

They wanted to trap Jesus in a no win situation to try and discredit his authority.

Bur Jesus Knowing their hearts and what they were trying to do, Simply bends down and begins to write on the ground with his finger.

Jesus’s Silence and lack of response seems to really agitate these religious leaders, they need Jesus to say something in order for them to trap him in His words.

So They persist in questioning him until He stands up looks them in the eye and says: "whoever among you is without sin can be the first to throw a stone at her."

After He spoke these words He quietly kneels back down and continues to write again on the ground.

We don’t know what Jesus wrote, but whatever it was is was enough to convict everyone of her accusers and instead of continuing in their accusations against her, One by one, from oldest to youngest, each of them slipped away quietly until Only Jesus and the woman were left .

After the accusers were all gone, Jesus stands back up and asks the woman, "Woman, where are they?

Has no one condemned you?"

She replied, "No one, sir."

And Jesus said to here"Then neither do I condemn you," "Go now and leave your life of sin."

Here we have a beautiful story of a compassionate Savior.

today I want us as a church to consider ....

13 truths about sin we can learn from Jesus’s Response to sinners.

Truth: Sin causes us to miss the teachings of Jesus (vs2-3)

John 8:2-3 “Early in the morning he came again to the temple.

All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst”

Jesus was in the temple teaching the people the words of Eternal life, and yet the Pharisees were so sinful that they couldn’t even see what was going on.

In Matthew 23:25-28 ““Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

You blind Pharisee!

First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.

So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.”

The reason the Pharisees missed the entire point of Jesus coming to earth as the Messiah is because they were blinded by unconfessed sin in their lives.

CHURCH: many times We are no different than these Pharasees in our lives today .

If we are holding on to unconfessed sin, We will miss the teaching of Jesus in our lives.

When We Love our sin more than we love our God We miss the entire purpose of our lives.

Truth: Sin is easy to see in others and hard to accept in ourselves (We are quick to judge others because of their sin).

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