CLARIFYING JOHN 8

Studies in John’s Gospel

Chapter 8

A Few Misunderstandings…

To point out sin is hypocrisyTo appeal to the law is legalistic error

The way to deal with sin is to ignore it

In This Account….

V.3- The Scribes and Pharisees brought the woman to Jesus, not the Sanhedrin.

They just brought the woman, not the man- no intention to do righteousness.

The Master Teacher’s Response?

V.6-7 – He tried to ignore them, but they “persisted.”

Jesus was not a witness, or a judge, or part of this situation at all.

Matthew 7:1,5

Do not judge so that you will not be judged.

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your

brother’s eye

1 John 1:8

If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is

not in us.

Is It Hypocritical To Point Out Sin?

We all sin

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins

and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Is It Hypocritical To Point Out Sin?

We all sin1 John 1:9-Sin CAN be forgiven

Matthew 7:5

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and

then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your

brother’s eye

Is It Hypocritical To Point Out Sin?

We all sin1 John 1:9-Sin CAN be forgiven

Matthew 7:5-The log CAN be removed

Matthew 7:1-2

Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For

with the judgment you pronounce you

will be judged, and with the

measure you use it will be measured to

you.

Ephesians 5:11

Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even

expose them;

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but

wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own

desires, 4and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn

aside to myths.

2 Timothy 2:25

….with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading

to the knowledge of the truth,

1 Timothy 5:20

Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest

also will be fearful of sinning.

Is An Appeal To Law Legalistic Error?

Matthew 23:23

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the

weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should

have done without neglecting the others

Is An Appeal To Law Legalistic Error?

Is legalism the sin?EVER?

Is An Appeal To Law Legalistic Error?

Jesus appealed to the law

Matthew 12:5

Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the

temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?

Luke 10:25-26

And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26And He

said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?”

Is An Appeal To Law Legalistic Error?

Jesus appealed to the lawPaul appealed to the law

Galatians 3:16

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does

not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to

your seed,” that is, Christ.

Noting the difference between

plural and singular

Isaiah 2:3And many peoples will come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God

of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we

may walk in His paths.”For the law will go forth from Zion

And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 31:33

But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on

their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My

people.

I Samuel 15:22-23“Has the LORD as much delight in

burnt offerings and sacrificesAs in obeying the voice of the LORD?

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,

And to heed than the fat of rams.23 “For rebellion is as the sin of

divination, And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.

It cannot be wrong to be obedient!

Is Ignoring Sin the Right Way to Handle it?

Jude 22-23

And have mercy on some, who are doubting; 23save others, snatching

them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

Different sins require different methods of handling them.

Is Ignoring Sin the Right Way to Handle it?

Always right to confess

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins

and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Is Ignoring Sin the Right Way to Handle it?

Always right to confessAlways right to repent

Romans 6:13

3and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as

instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those

alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of

righteousness to God.

Is Ignoring Sin the Right Way to Handle it?

Always right to confessAlways right to repentAlways right to seek and save

James 5:19-20

My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him

back, 20let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his

way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

This Account Can Teach Us….

Compassion-not using peopleCorrect concern for sin, not denial

The power of the law,on the accuser as well as the accused