Emmy Warren
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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ultimately create a demise and a trap for Jesus. And they were limited in compassion for the women because of their own cares about themselves. It's pride. It's selfishness. They didn't have a selflessness about them. Self-righteousness is what hindered their compassion. And so we'll tend to put our own feelings and circumstances before others, gaining a compassion for ourselves rather than a
And the real enemy in the story is not adultery. It's pride. It's sin. And we'll read the story. We think that this woman committing adultery was the problem. But what was really the root of the problem and I guess the climax of the conflict of this story is ultimately sin and the heart of pride.
And I love how Romans 17 says that you do not, Romans 12, 17, excuse me, says that you do not repay evil with evil. We have a hard time loving difficult people and showing them grace because we're deceived by our own judgment of vindication. And so what it means to truly be vindicated is giving and granting God the permission to be the judge.
And with these Pharisees, while they thought they were setting up a trap for this woman and for Jesus, they were simultaneously actually setting up a trap for themselves. If Jesus said, let her go, he would have seemed to break the law of Moses. Because the Levitical law does say that such people who have committed adultery to stone them.
But if God, if Jesus did stone this woman, then he would have been apathetic and harsh and careless and selfish. He would have been perceived in a harsh light. And so... Jesus is in this position to where the law has to be executed, but there is also a grace that is needed to be taken at hand because God is merciful and loving and compassionate.
And so little did the Pharisee know, little did the Pharisees know that the trap that they laid out for Jesus was actually the trap that they had laid out for themselves. And that's all that pride is. It's a hole that you dig for others that you end up falling into. I love this analogy and I heard it when I was a kid.
Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to get sick. And that's what happens to these Pharisees. They plotted and orchestrated this, this trap and this plan in order to watch Jesus on his downfall. But they only constructed and created a trap for themselves for they, for they got entrapped by the very thing that they set up for God, for Jesus. And,
And so Psalm 7, uh, 15 through 16 shows us what, what selfish ambition and setting up a trap for other people looks like. It says, whoever digs a hole and scoops it out, falls into the pit that they have made. The trouble they cause recoils on them. Their violence comes down on their own heads. In Proverbs 26, 27, whoever digs a pit will fall into it.
If someone rolls a stone, it will fall back on to them. And so it shows us that the response in the heart of these Pharisees were to, were to vindicate.
And I'm using air quotes for those who are just listening for self-righteousness, not because they actually had compassion upon this woman and because they wanted to see justice or let it alone because they had a love because love also hopes the best for These Pharisees were not hoping the best. They hoped for what they thought was the best for themselves and not for other people.
There was a there was a selfless, a selfishness that was being taken in place. And so what's Jesus's response? We see that they say, God, Jesus, now what do you say? They were using this as a trap in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept questioning him, he straightened up to them.
Let any of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her. And he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
the pharisees tried to push jesus into a corner jesus didn't answer them and started right on the ground twice and this is one of the more like theological debates and mysteries that is into the gospels because we hear that jesus was writing on the ground but we don't know what he was saying some people believe that he was writing the law or that he was writing the sins that they have committed and and was kind of there's just like a lot of different theories as to what
jesus was writing and they were persistent in questioning him and pushing him in a corner and finally he responded respectfully and then went back to the ground and wrote and nobody knows what he was writing and then he says in john chapter 8 verse 7 let any of you who is without sin be the first to throw the stone at her Which is so funny because Jesus said, y'all could throw up a stone.
Like y'all can kill this woman. You have full permission. But to those who are without sin, if you have not sinned, be my guest. Pick up a stone and cast it upon this woman. But if any of you has sinned, you do not have the authority to put this woman to death. And so what starts happening? They start going out one by one.
And Jesus never said for this woman to be correct and let alone did he justify her actions. Instead of passing a sentence onto this woman, Jesus passed a sentence onto the accusers. And in this very incident, they had greater sin and greater guilt. And Jesus exposed a common sin we tend to wrestle with. And it's a desire to punish the sins of others while ignoring our own sin.
And that's a problem that we see even to this day. We have a desire to punish others. We have a desire to crucify others and put them on a cross and be quick to point fingers. But there's a lack of a desire to deal with our own sinful desires and deal with the thorn of our flesh and to deal with the things that are wrestling against our spirit.
But rather, there's an urgency to deal with other people's problems. So instead of Jesus passing the judgment upon that woman for your sake, he actually passes judgment upon you to deal with your problems before you have the audacity to cast a stone upon somebody you're just as sinful as.
And so the reason as to why we have a hard time forgiving others is because we fail to see that we are just as sinful. Maybe we didn't commit the same act or maybe we didn't do the same exact verbatim thing. But we have sinned. The word says that all have fallen short from the glory of God. And so is there someone who falls further or have we all fallen? And where does grace come into play?
Because Jesus didn't excuse this woman and what she did. And God is not saying, hey, you're perfectly fine because you committed adultery. That's not what Jesus is saying. Instead, God, Jesus, excuse me. I keep saying God and Jesus. Jesus instead passed judgment upon the accusers Instead of passing or allowing them to pass their self-righteous embedded judgment onto this woman.
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