Lawson Perdue - John 8 (Part 1)

September 1, 2025 | S E | 29:55

Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ

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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - John 8 (Part 1) | September 1, 2025

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- praise the lord, friend, and welcome to the broadcast.
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I am so glad that you are with us today.
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We're going to be talking about freedom.
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Jesus came so that we might be free.
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But how do we get free?
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We're going to talk about freedom through forgiveness.
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We're actually going to be talking from john chapter eight
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In this very first lesson
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About the woman caught in adultery.
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And we'll answer some questions.
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Hello, friends. it's so good to have you with us today,
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And i'm so excited to be sharing.
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We're actually going to be teaching from the gospel of john.
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And we're going to be sharing from john chapter eight,
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Talking about the subject of freedom.
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You know, jesus said, "he whom the son makes free,
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Shall be free indeed".
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And if we don't understand
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The freedom that jesus has given us,
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We really don't understand true freedom.
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- i think some people shy away from coming to jesus,
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From coming to faith in him,
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Because they think they'll be constrained.
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But really, when you give your life to jesus,
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That's where you experience true freedom in him.
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You know, jesus was setting people free wherever he went.
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He set them free from sin, set them free from sickness,
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Set them free from demonic, you know, power.
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- yes. - he set them free
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From religion even. - yes.
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- you know, a lot of people are using religion
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To try to entangle people, try to control people,
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Manipulate people.
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And you know, but jesus, he fulfills the law.
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- that's right. - so we're set free
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From just all that bondage.
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And we can- - and performance,
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You know, a performance mentality.
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I remember when you started talking,
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Years ago i had just been baptized in the holy spirit
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When i was 14 and called to preach,
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And god really transformed my life
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When he filled me with the holy spirit.
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But i had a neighbor and he was a friend of my dad,
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And he was bringing me home from an event in town.
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We lived about 10 miles outside of lamar, colorado
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Where i grew up.
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And when he was bringing me home,
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I was talking to him about jesus
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And he said, "well i don't wanna be a christian
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Because i don't wanna be a hypocrite
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And i don't think i can live this life".
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And i started telling him, "well it's not you
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And it's not all the things you have to do.
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It's jesus really living his life in you".
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And a lot of people think that christianity
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Is a set of rules and regulations.
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You know? it's not a set of beliefs in a system of works.
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We have things that we believe for sure,
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But it's a life giving relationship
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With god through jesus christ.
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And that's what separates christianity from religion.
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I'm thinking of the verse in romans 14:17,
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It says, "the kingdom of god is not meat and drink,
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But righteousness, peace and joy in the holy ghost".
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And you know, it's not a bunch of rules and regulations,
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It's not really about what we do,
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It's about what jesus has already done.
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- and really, you find righteousness, peace
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And joy through jesus,
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You don't find it through other things.
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I was actually reading through john eight this morning
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Preparing for this,
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And right behind me in my home office,
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I have my three diplomas from carnegie mellon,
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You know, my bachelor's, a master's from rice
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And a doctorate from rice.
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And i was reading the diploma
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And from rice it says, like in latin,
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That it's founded for the greater glory of god.
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And it says that it's founded for the pursuit of truth,
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Beauty and righteousness.
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- that's awesome. - and i thought
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That a lot of academia
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Has actually turned away from what real truth is,
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What real beauty is, what real righteousness is.
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And i was just thinking about some of the things
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That happened on campus that the,
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You know, university allowed or even supported.
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And i'm like, that is not righteous, that's not true,
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That's not really beautiful.
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And real, you know, and...
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So they've kind of gone away from-
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- a lot of the things- - william rice,
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Who was a strong believer
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Who wanted it to be founded to grow people
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And you know, the truth of the gospel,
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Which is where you find truth, beauty and righteousness
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In the person of jesus.
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- really the foundation of our nation, aaron.
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Our nation was founded on christian principles
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And so on and so forth.
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And your brother peter went to princeton university.
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And when you go to princeton,
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It's all over and it's engraved in stone
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And it's written in latin,
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But it says, "under god, she flourishes".
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And princeton was really started
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As a university to train ministers of the gospel.
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And yet they've moved so far away from it.
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It's really interesting
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Because your brother peter got a word from god
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When he was at our camp, our christian youth camp,
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When he was like in seventh grade,
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You know, or just after seventh grade.
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And he said, "hey, i'm going to go to
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College on a sports scholarship".
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And then when he was a junior in high school,
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He got a word from god,
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Again through some youth thing that we were doing.
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But god spoke to him and he said,
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"i'm going to be going to princeton university".
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And you were at that point in time at carnegie mellon,
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And you had just finished at carnegie mellon,
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And i guess you were in carnegie mellon
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When peter was a junior in high school,
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But you were raising money at carnegie mellon,
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But you understood some of princeton's finances.
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And you said, "hey dad, if peter gets in princeton,
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Let him go because a lot of it will be paid for".
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And then peter went to princeton
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And after he got there, it wasn't too long,
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And they had him come together and they said,
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We want you to meet the grandson
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Of the man that paid for you to go to college,
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You know, over a hundred years ago.
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And so peter met the grandson.
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And the first question they ask,
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"are any of you missionaries children?".
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And nobody raised their hand.
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And then they said, peter raised his hand,
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He said, "well my dad is a pastor
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And my dad supports lots of missionaries".
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But peter got a word from god,
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And actually his tuition was paid for
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Over a hundred years before he was ever born.
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And you know, he paid some by,
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You know, some work at the college,
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And he did get into princeton through football
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And different things,
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And we paid a certain amount,
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But it wasn't very much for the, you know, the total cost.
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And, you know, you can get a word from god
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And enter into the freedom
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That somebody else already paid for.
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And that's the freedom that
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Jesus paid for you to have freedom.
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- yeah and really true freedom is found in jesus.
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It's not found...
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And it's found through the truth,
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"you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free".
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And jesus is truth, he is light, he's truth.
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- amen. - you see that
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Through john eight, you know, people are questioning him.
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And he just told him flat out, i love john eight.
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He deals with a lot of religious
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Just control and manipulation and he hits it head on.
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And he's not pretty about how he addresses it.
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You know, jesus isn't always politically correct,
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The things that he says,
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You know, he told these religious people
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That, you know, your father, the devil.
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- yes. - and because
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You're full of lies
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Because you don't believe me and i am truth.
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- yes. - he just flat out said it.
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- no, i was reading this morning in my daily bible reading
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From matthew chapter 21, and jesus did not,
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You know, he didn't powder
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Coat anything, he just told how it was.
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- i love what we're going to be sharing about today,
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The very first section of john eight,
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Because this kind of
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Leads to what goes on in the entire chapter,
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But really it's a confrontation
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Of religious people who think they're living by the law,
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Think they're trying to honor god and who jesus is.
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- amen. - you know,
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And it starts off right off the bat,
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Well i'll just start here reading in john eight.
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It says, "jesus went to the mount of olives.
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Now early in the morning, he came again into the temple".
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You know, so he was actually
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Coming from the mount of olives,
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Walking through the eastern gate.
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You know, the mount of olives is east of the temple.
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So this is actually the same
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Journey that jesus is going to take when he comes again.
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- yes. - you know,
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The prophets say when he comes again,
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He's going to descend on the mount of olives,
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It's going to split in two
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And he's going to walk in through the eastern gate.
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That's the gate called, "beautiful".
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- yes. - that's where
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Peter and john were,
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You know, in acts three when they healed the cripple,
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They said, "silver and gold, have i none.
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But such i have give i thee in the name of jesus,
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Rise up and walk".
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So he's walking through that eastern gate
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And he goes in there into the temple.
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And it says, "all the people came to him,
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He sat down and taught them.
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Then the scribes and pharisees",
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So right off the bat, there's this,
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You know, confrontation. - right.
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- between who jesus is and,
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You know, people who think they're doing the right thing,
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Think they have the truth, but they really don't.
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And it says, "the scribes and pharisees brought to him
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A woman caught in adultery.
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When they had set her in the midst, they said to him",
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So they're trying to interrupt his sermon here.
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- right. - "they said,
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'teacher, this woman was caught in adultery
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In the very act'."
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So they were trying to set him up.
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You know, if they were to catch this woman in adultery,
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They had this all planned out.
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They're going to have at least two or three witnesses,
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They knew the law,
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If you catch someone in adultery,
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They're to be put to death, you're to stone them.
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You're to remove that evil from israel.
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They had at least two or three witnesses.
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You know, that's something that's brought up
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Later in john eight.
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They said, "jesus, you're a liar".
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And he said, "no, i'm truth.
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I'm a witness and my father in heaven is a witness".
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- yeah. - so he says
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I have the two best witnesses in the entire universe,
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Me and my father in heaven.
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- yes. - so they catch her,
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They bring her in the midst,
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She's caught in the very act.
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Verse five, it says, "now moses",
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They said, "now moses in the law commanded us
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That such should be stoned. but what do you say?".
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So right when they,
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You know, they were truthful by saying in the law does say
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Someone caught in the act of adultery to be stoned.
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But when they said, "but what do you say?",
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They actually shifted something.
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- right. - there's something in the law
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That says, if you catch someone,
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You know, in sin they're guilty, it's a controversy,
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You can bring them before a judge
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And see what they say.
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So, you know, for years i would read through this
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And i would ask myself,
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I kind of wonder, did jesus break the law?
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Because we know what happens,
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You know, the woman ultimately isn't stoned.
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She's freed.
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We're talking about freedom. - right.
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- and, you know, i'm glad she was set free,
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But i wondered, did jesus break the law?
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But jesus, you know,
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These scribes and pharisees knew the law,
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But jesus knew the law better than them.
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(upbeat music)
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- friends, i'm so glad that you've been watching.
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I trust that you have been enjoying
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This teaching from john chapter eight.
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- jesus was the one who wrote the law.
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- right. - you know, it says
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He starts writing in the dirt with his finger.
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That same finger that was writing in the dirt,
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Writing on the ground,
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Was the same finger that wrote the 10 commandments in stone
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To moses. - right.
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- so i actually believe he was writing from the law.
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It says that in verse six, they said this,
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"testing him". - yes.
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- "on that they might have something
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Of which to accuse him".
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So they weren't, they didn't really care about sin.
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- they didn't care about
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This woman. - they didn't care about
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That woman. they didn't care about...
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They were there because they actually wanted to stone jesus.
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They wanted to accuse him, accuse him of blasphemy,
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Start a mob, start a riot, kill him.
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- yeah. they wanted to get him in a trap.
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And i like your answer, aaron,
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You talk about how it comes from deuteronomy,
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Which is known as the second law.
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Chapter 17, which is right in the middle of it.
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Deuteronomy is 34 chapters.
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And so- - deuteronomy is 30,
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Yeah 34 chapters, yeah. - 34 chapters.
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And so right in the middle of that, jesus has an answer.
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- yeah. - from the law.
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And he's the priest sharing from the temple.
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So go ahead. - yeah.
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Yeah so it says, you know,
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"but jesus stooped down
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And wrote on the ground with his fingers,
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Though he did not hear".
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I love that it says, "though he did not hear".
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You know, you don't have to answer every accusation, every-
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- amen. - every attack.
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You don't...
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He just ignored them.
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And i believe, i actually believe pretty strongly
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That what i'm about ready to share is truthful.
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A lot of people have a lot of interpretations,
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A lot of ideas on what he wrote.
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- right. - but this really fits,
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I believe he was writing right from the center of the law.
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So deuteronomy, like you said, it's 34 chapters,
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The middle chapter, chapter 17, right in the middle of it,
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It kind of talks about what can happen here.
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So in deuteronomy 17:6,
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I believe he starts writing here,
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It says, "whoever is deserving of death
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Shall be put to death on the testimony
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Of two or three witnesses.
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He shall not be put to death
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On the testimony of one witness".
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And this kind of fits with what happens later in john eight,
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'cause jesus talks about the law,
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Saying there have to be two witnesses
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For something to be established.
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So they're probably excited because they,
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I'm sure they had more
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Than two witnesses. - right.
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- and it says in verse seven,
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"the hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him
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To put him to death.
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And afterward, the hands of all the people.
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So shall you put away the evil from among you".
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But notice what it says in verse eight,
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This is, again, deuteronomy,
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It's the reiterance of the law.
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- right. - deuteronomy in latin,
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It means to reiterate.
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Like deuter is like a duet, like two.
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- right. - it's the second
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Iteration of the law.
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So this is something that's different
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About the reiteration of the law.
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It's like an amendment to the law.
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And it actually,
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It's an amendment that points to john eight prophetically.
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So it says here in verse eight, "if a matter arises
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Which is too hard for you to judge between
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Degrees of guilt for bloodshed
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Between one judgment or another,
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Or between one punishment or another,
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Matters of controversy within your gates".
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So this is a very controversial thing
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That's happening within the gates,
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Within the gates of the city,
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Within the gates of the temple.
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It says, "then you shall arise and go up to the place
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Which the lord your god chooses".
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- right. - so that's the temple,
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- right. - and it says,
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"and you shall come to the priests, the levites
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And to the judge there in those days and inquire of them.
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They shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment".
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So i believe that jesus, when he stooped down,
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He wrote those verses right there.
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And then it said that he raised himself up and he spoke.
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- right. - he gave his pronouncement,
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Which is in verse seven, john 8:7,
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He said, "he who is without sin among you,
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Let him throw a stone at her first".
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- right. - and then
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It says that he stooped down and wrote on the ground again.
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And i believe that this is what he wrote in verse 10
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Of deuteronomy 17.
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This is now the middle of verse of the middle chapter.
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You know, there's 20 verses, this is verse 10.
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It says, "you shall do according to the sentence
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Which they pronounce upon you
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In that place which the lord chooses.
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You shall be careful to do
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According to all that they order you,
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According to the sentence of the law
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In which they instruct you,
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According to the judgment which they tell you,
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You shall do, you shall not turn aside to the right hand
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Or to the left from the sentence
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Which they pronounce upon you.
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Now the man who acts presumptuously
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And will not heed the priest
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Who stands to minister there before the lord, your god,
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Or judge, that man shall die.
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So you shall put away the evil from israel".
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So he turned it on them.
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- right. so, you know, we understand
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That jesus ultimately is the great high priest.
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We also understand that jesus is the eternal judge.
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John talks about that in john chapter five.
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These people didn't understand that.
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However, you know, i think one thing,
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If we look at john chapter eight,
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When you read this, "when he stooped down
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They were convicted by their own conscience".
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In romans chapter three, i believe it's verse 20,
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It says, "by the law is the knowledge of sin".
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Some people have preached in the time past
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That jesus was there and just writing their sins,
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Writing their name and writing their sin.
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He very well could have done that.
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I don't believe that he would've,
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Because jesus is the embodiment of the grace of god.
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And so jesus is not drawing attention to sin.
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Jesus is drawing attention to god's grace.
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He is the embodiment of the grace of god.
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But they were convicted by their own conscience.
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Because as jewish people, they very much knew the law.
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So jesus took their own law
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That they were trying to use to judge him
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And ultimately get him in a trap,
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And somewhat, if he did this, he used it against them.
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And they left by their own conscience
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Because they knew
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That they said- - well and he gave
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The pronouncement.
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- right. - so if one of them were
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To throw a stone-
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- yeah. - he could point out their sin
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And then they'd be guilty of death
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Because they didn't follow that pronouncement,
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Which is right in the middle of the entire law.
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- right. - you know,
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And it says there very clearly,
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And that's the moment when they dropped the stones
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And began to leave. - yeah.
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They were convicted by their own conscience.
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So, you know, by the laws, the knowledge of sin, they had...
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The law, the old testament will make you sin conscience.
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Knowing jesus will make you god conscious.
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And you know,
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The bible actually talks about this in hebrews.
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In hebrews, it's a comparison of the law and of grace.
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But in hebrews chapter eight, i believe it's in verse 10,
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I'll turn there and look at it really quickly.
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But he says this in verse 10, hebrews 8:10,
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"'this is the covenant
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That i will make with the house of israel
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After those days', says the lord,
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'i will put my laws in their mind
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And write them in their hearts
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And will be to them a god
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And they will be to me a people'".
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Listen to verse 11,
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"and they will not teach every man his neighbor
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And every man his brother,
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Saying know the lord,
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For they will all know me from the least to the greatest,
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And i will be merciful to their unrighteousness
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And their sins
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And their iniquities will i remember no more".
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And so jesus fulfills the law, i totally believe,
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Yes he is the priest, he's the great high priest.
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He's in the temple. he's the judge.
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John chapter five, jesus said,
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"my father gave me the authority to judge".
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And jesus is our merciful and faithful high priest
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Because he was tempted in all points like we are
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As a human being and yet he was without sin.
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But he totally frees this woman from guilt,
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From fear, from condemnation
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That these people are trying to put on her
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And all of her accusers leave.
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And they're convicted by their own conscience.
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Definitely, i don't think
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Jesus was writing their sins in the dirt for sure,
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Because that's not who jesus is, he's the grace of god,
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He doesn't draw attention to sin.
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You know, if we go back to john chapter four,
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The woman at the well,
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You know, who, you know,
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Jesus' own disciples were just shocked
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That here is jesus talking to a samaritan woman.
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And then jesus, you know, tells her,
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"go home and tell your husband"
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And she said, "i don't have one",
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And he said, "well that's all right,
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You've had five before now,
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And the man you're living with is not your husband".
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And then she goes and brings the whole town to jesus.
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She becomes an evangelist on that day.
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He totally transforms her life.
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And he totally transformed this woman's life
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In john chapter eight, because that's what the gospel does.
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The gospel brings freedom
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And freedom brings transformation, so.
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- yeah, and i just love,
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You know, with these accusers,
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He barely acknowledged their existence.
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- right. - the only time he really
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Addressed them was when he gave his pronouncement,
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You know? - right.
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- between his writing on the ground,
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He addressed them just the one time
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And said, "he who is without sin among you,
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Let him throw a stone at her first".
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And he wrote again,
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I believe he wrote the rest of that part of that law
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That says, you shall do what they pronounce
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Or you're to be put to death. - yeah.
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He turned it on them. - and then it says,
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They all left. but notice in verse 10,
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It said, "when jesus had raised himself up
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And saw no one but the woman",
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So this is the first time he even looked up, really.
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- right. - so he raises himself up
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And he notices that it's just him and the woman.
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He like didn't even pay attention to them leaving.
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- he just ignored them. - he was in his own world.
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- if you wanna make religious people mad, ignore them.
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I'm telling you, i've done it.
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- yeah. and yeah, he notices this woman.
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So he actually takes note of her.
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This is the first time, kind of in this account
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Where he's really paying attention to someone,
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He's paying attention to this woman
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Who just probably had been dragged by her hair
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Into the temple and- - yeah.
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- horrific. and it said, "he said to her, 'woman,
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Where are those accusers of yours?
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Has no one condemned you?'".
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- yeah. - we're talking about freedom.
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You know, and jesus wants to set us free from condemnation.
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- right. - from guilt,
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From the accuser
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Of the brethren. - of the brethren.
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- you know, jesus is actually our advocate,
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He's our intercessor. - he is.
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- he's our lawyer.
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He fights on our behalf. - right.
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- just like he's fighting on her behalf,
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He's literally being her lawyer,
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I think he was writing the law in the ground.
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You know, he is the judge, he knows the law.
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He's her advocate, he's the judge and the lawyer.
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And she said, "no one lord,
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There's not a single accuser".
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- yeah. - you know,
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If jesus has set you free,
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There's no one who can accuse you,
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There's no one who can drag you through the mud.
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- literally, jesus is the only one
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Who can condemn this woman. and he doesn't.
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Jesus is the only one who never sinned.
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And it doesn't matter who we are, we've all sinned.
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And do you know what?
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We've received the grace of god as believers.
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And just like we've received the grace of god,
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We need to share the grace of god with other people.
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I remember one time when i was a kid,
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We were driving to church
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And i was a actually an elder,
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Or i was a leader, i was on the board at this church.
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I was pretty young.
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But mom and i had just been married,
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I was probably 20 years old.
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And this drunk guy stumbled across the street,
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It was a early sunday morning,
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And fell in the street in front of us.
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And i stopped and was helping him get up.
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And this other guy,
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He was a older elder at another church,
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Full gospel church in the same town i grew up, i knew him.
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He said, "well he's just an old drunk".
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Well if it wasn't for the grace of god,
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There we'd all be.
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- well and god spoke to me from this story recently,
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And he said, you know what?
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That woman caught in active adultery,
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That's you without me. - that's right.
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- and that's every single person who's without jesus.
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A lot of people look down, you know, think,
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You know, this is a horrible person.
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She, you know, the bottom of this ring.
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But that's really all of us needing jesus,
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Needing freedom, needing his help.
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And i love that she just says,
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You know, "i don't have an accuser here".
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And jesus said to her, "neither do i condemn you,
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Go and sin no more".
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So he- - amen.
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- he frees her from the accusers,
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But he sets her free from sin.
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- right. - as well.
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Whatever she was caught up in,
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He said her free from that. - right.
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- and i believe she didn't live in that anymore.
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She went and, you know,
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Lived in freedom. - amen.
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- through having encountered jesus.
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- yeah. so we can walk in the freedom of god
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Through what jesus has already done for us.
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Isn't that amazing?
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And he gives us true freedom.
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You know, aaron, you suggested
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That we teach today on john chapter eight
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And this week through the broadcast
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That we teach on john chapter eight.
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And i actually have a whole 21 lessons
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That come from the book of john, one on each chapter
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Talking about who jesus is and what he does.
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And when i looked at it,
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The subject of john chapter eight is freedom.
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And jesus frees us through forgiveness.
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And if you've never received jesus christ
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As your personal savior, your personal lord,
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Lawson Perdue - John 8 (Part 1)

September 1, 2025 | S E | 29:55

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