July 23, 2025 • 25 mins
Episode 733:
In this episode, we dive into one of the most poignant and beautiful moments in Jesus' ministry, found in John 8:1-11. We explore the story of a woman caught in adultery, brought before Jesus by the Pharisees. The gravity of her humiliation is palpable, and we reflect on the societal implications of her being exposed in such a manner. We discuss the hypocrisy of the accusers, noting the absence of the man involved in the act, and how this reflects the gender biases of the time.
In this episode, we dive into one of the most poignant and beautiful moments in Jesus' ministry, found in John 8:1-11. We explore the story of a woman caught in adultery, brought before Jesus by the Pharisees. The gravity of her humiliation is palpable, and we reflect on the societal implications of her being exposed in such a manner. We discuss the hypocrisy of the accusers, noting the absence of the man involved in the act, and how this reflects the gender biases of the time.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well you are back for another Amazed. Well we're back.
I don't know if our listeners are back. I'm assuming
they're back for another platinum edition of The Bible Guys.
This week we have Wesley Woods with us. Chris Sarball
is out of the studio doing some really great missionary
work down in the Dominican Republic, and so we have
this great episode where Jesus is I think maybe engaging
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in one of the most beautiful moments in all of
Jesus ministry today, and so I'm looking forward to getting
into that. But before we do, Dez has this really
great episode or segment for us called Who's most Likely?
I love these, Wesley, These are so fun. So we
have to take a vote of who's most likely. So
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the first one is who's most likely to talk to
themselves in public and not notice.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
So that's tough.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm gonna say me.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, I was gonna say I might say me on this,
especially if you're trying to work through something, you know,
like should I get this or not?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You know, So when I'm driving, probably two thirds of
the time I don't have any music going.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, that's the same with me, and I'm just.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Thinking, Yeah, I'm working through a problem. I'm trying to
figure out a thing, and uh, I have found myself
before answering myself and looking at somebody and they're just
looking at me kind of you.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Know, like I didn't ask anything, So then just put.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Your hand up to your like like you're talking. Yeah,
so I do. I do on occasion talk to myself,
So that's it.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah. I would say that's a tie right there.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Okay, here's the second one. Who's most likely to start
a story and forget the ending? That's every day for me,
every day? Yeah, yeah, how about you do?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Do you ever?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I've done that before where you start and it's so good,
you know, how like you're ramping up to the ending.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I was in a meeting the other day and it
was so important where I was going, and then somebody
said something and it totally just took me down another
road and I'm like, how does that even apply?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So I'm going there and suddenly I can't remember the
application of what I was saying. I was like, what
was I just talking about Everybody around the room is
trying to remind me what I was saying. Oh yeah,
it's the worst one. I'm so embarrassed for a storyteller, Yeah,
to not remember the ending of their story is terribly embarrassing.
Who's most likely to build a blanket for it as
an adult?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now here's the thing I might say you on that one.
You know what because of your grandson.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I got grandkids? Yeah yeah, yep, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
So actually he has a fort in your backyard.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, there's a big fort. The house we bought. The
previous owners had this really high end fort customer and
it's it's his. Yep, Rowan took it over, is his? Now? Yeah,
so that's great. Who's most likely to say you too
when the waiter says enjoy your meal.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I just did this.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I literally you know how you give the person at
the airport to We were just on vacation last week.
They scan your stuff and you walk down and they
say you don't have a good flight, And I responded back,
you two.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And it's like, well that really wasn't apply.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But you ever see Brian Reagan when he yeah, he
does that. Yeah, they're like, I have a good good
good luck flight, have a nice flight if you ever
get to fly too.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, I hope it's a good one. I just did that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, that's funny. Okay, And then who's most likely to
google do penguins have knees? At two am?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Hm?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oh see that's tricky. Now. I'm a night owl. All.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I love staying up late, but normally if I'm staying
up late, it's either a documentary that I'm watching. Oh yeah, yeah,
which my wife is like, why are you watching a
World War two documentary yet?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
One am? Either that?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Or something just like completely dumb funny, you know, like
one of the two of those.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Right, So you're not You're not. Your grain's not just
running wild at two am?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, me either. I am a sound asleep at two am. Yeah,
so I'm usually at eleven o'clock midnight kind of a person. Yeah,
when I go to sleep, but I put my head
on the pillow and I'm out in five minutes. Yeah,
I don't. I don't. Probably not once a month do
I have an O in the middle of the Yeah, yeah,
not hardly ever does it happen? So that's definitely not
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me doing that one, Although I am curious do they
have knees? I've never even thought of that.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That is a good question.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Let's google it right now.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I can picture the leg and yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Know, the thin leg and normally if they're have a
small you know, just a newborn penguin.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Google says, yes, penguins do have knees.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So maybe it's further up. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, it says although their knees are tucked up inside
their that's been hidden by feathers. They possess a femur,
a knee joint, a tibia, and amphibia in each like
just like humans and other animals. Yea, you just can't
see it for hidden knees. Yeah, Okay, are they embarrassed?
They embarrassed about their knees. Yes, So anyways, there you go. Now,
you know, it's no wonder people tune in.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It's right.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's uh information that we bring to the table. So
that's funny. So now you're a documentary guy, Yeah, I
love document And then do you ever search weird stuff
like that where it just crosses you might know, not
not at two am, but just all of a sudden go.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Not normally normally how it starts a dog, you know,
how the algorithm knows you. So a documentary will come up,
and then I go down the rabbit trail, you know,
so like I'll watch one and then like, oh, this
one's interesting about why there's no bridge between you know,
North America and South America and you know, through the
dairy and gap. So then now I gotta watch that one.
So then then you just kind of go down this
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rabbit trails.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So so a documentary kind of person that usually means
you're pretty curious kind of is that? Is that the
I think curiosity is an important trait that we don't
celebrate enough.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Right mind order doesn't understand that.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
She comes downstairs and on Saturday, I'm watching like the
History Channel.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
She's like, Dad, what is this?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah? Well good?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I think a good, healthy sense of curiosity helps you
become a renaissance kind of a man, where you curiosity
drives you to learn lots of different things, lots of
different things. I just talked about this, not the brag, Wesley, Yeah,
I hate the brag. I'm I think humility is one
of my favorite traits. But I was reading and I like,
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I like to read the headlines. I don't like to
read articles a lot of times, I know, I don't
want news, uh, news websites or whatever to tell me
what to think is I rarely watch the news. I
don't want talking heads to tell me what to believe.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You don't want to commentator to telling you what you
should think about.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I can't stand that, and I don't need them to
tell me. Nine times this hour, the exact same thing
didn't tell me what to think about it. So usually
I'll read my news and most of the time it's
just headlines. Well then I love to just kind of
cruise through all of the headlines for the day from
maybe six or seven or eight or ten different sources.
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Well then all of a sudden, you know, like Wall
Street Journal or whatever. I think I was in one
of the science magazines, come across this thing and it
was talking about math process to be able to estimate
whole numbers of things. And I read this thing and
that I'm like, you're never going to believe what I
just read about how to figure out estimates better. And
everybody's looking at me, their eyes are rolling back in
their head. I was like, this is the most amazing
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thing ever. And I'm not a big math guy, but
this was a brilliant It's how the British were able
to figure out how many tanks estimate how many tanks
the Nazis had world War Two, and it's a fabulous
algorithm that they worked out and it's super simple.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And everybody's like, you are so weird, right, But there's
just this weird curiosity. I think that's one of the
reasons why our buddies, because we wind up talking to
each other about really weird stuff in the office. Sometimes well, hey,
talking about I don't know. I was going to say,
talking about weird stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
But that was a good transition.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, yeah, So I don't even have a bad here's
the bad transition. I don't have a bad for this one.
Usually we set a goal to have like the worst
possible position from the goofy segment into the Bible study part.
But we are in John chapter eight and we're going
to read one through eleven, and this is one of
the sweetest passages. And to be honest with you, there's
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some curiosity for me in this passage that I'm looking
forward to talking about. In John chapter eight, verse one,
it says Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, which
is just outside the city of Jerusalem. But early the
next morning he was back again at the temple. A
crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them.
As he was speaking the teacher's religious law, and the
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Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the
act of adultery, and they put her in front of
the crowd. Teacher. They said, this woman was caught in
the act of adultery. The law, Moses says, to stone her,
what do you say. They were trying to trap him
into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus
stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger,
and they kept demanding an answer. So he stood up
again and said, all right, but let the one who
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was never sinned throw the first stone. And then he
stooped down again and wrote in the dust. When the
accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning
with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the
middle of the crowd with a woman. And then Jesus
stood up again and said to the woman, where are
your accusers? Didn't even one of them condemn you, No, Lord,
she said, and Jesus said neither do I go and
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sin no more. Yeah, there you go, man. This is
one of my favorite stories in the Bible.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, that's a great story.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And I want to point out one thing here, and
it's in verse three and it says as he was
speaking that the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees
brought a woman who had been caught in the act.
So can you imagine how embarrassed this woman was so
not that they heard that she was an adultery, she
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was caught in the very act of adultery. So she
has probably embarrassed, ashamed, doesn't even want to show her face,
and they're bringing her before Jesus, this religious leader, to
see what Jesus has to say about this.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So that's just one point that just the gravity of
the moment.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I always read this and she was caught in the
act of adultery, and you're like, oh, right, the humiliation,
the shame, everything she was doing was laid bare in
front of everybody. Everybody in their culture knew this was
a death penalty issue. But I always wonder, where's the dude. Yeah,
she was caught in the act. Yeah there were two
of them. Yeah right, so where's the dude. Yeah, and
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they just bring the woman out right to do this.
And what they're trying to do is they're trying to
use it against Jesus, because if Jesus says, well, stoner,
then the Pharisees would say, where's Jesus mercy and love?
All he ever talks about love? But now he wants
this woman executed. Yeah, and if he doesn't say, if
he says, disobey the law, what kind of prophet is
he to disobey God's law?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And they were constantly doing this to Jesus.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, So it wasn't about the woman's sin.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, yeah, they could have carried they wanted to entrap Jesus.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It was just an entrapment.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah. Yeah. It was terrible.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
So there's this really great note in the Life Application
Study Bible says, imagine the complete humiliation of being in
this woman's place. She stood alone in public, surrounded by
angry accusers. They had laid bare her terrible sin for
all to see, and the man caught with her was
nowhere to be seen. Jesus rescued her from her sin
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and her shame and her indignity and death. Jesus knows
your worst sins, and yet he offers you compassion and mercy.
Let his mercy give you the courage to face your guilt.
His leve will overcome your shame. Don't deny it or despair.
Be sorry for your sins, Seek the Lord and receive
his forgiveness. I love that that whole thing, right, It's
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just such a beautiful thing that she's completely exposed, so humiliated.
And Jesus goes watch this, and in the most unbelievable way,
Jesus solves us. So he stoops down in the dirt.
He starts drawing in the dirt, gidling doing something.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And then they.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Say, so, what do you say we should do? Should
we stoneer? Yeah, And Jesus sends up and he says, well,
why don't you that has no sin? Why don't you
cast the first stone? And then it says he stooped
down again and wrote in the dust, And man, when
I get to Heaven, I want to find out what
he's writing. But I'm hoping he was writing the names
of those very Pharisees that also had an affair with
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this woman. How great would that is? Like, Yeah, Bob Johnson,
you were here last last Thursday. Right, that's I would love. Yeah,
because whatever he was writing in the sand, the oldest guys,
the ones who had the most experienced they were the
ones who left first. Yeah, because you know they had
also the most sins. Yeah, right, yeah, And whatever it
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was Jesus was writing down because he said, whoever has
the no sin, you go ahead and cast first stone.
And the old guys start leaving, until finally the youngest
and it's only Jesus standing there with her.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
An amazing thing.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
And it says that they kept demanding an answer. This
is the funny, funny part about this. But the thing
that I like about this is they kept demanding an answer.
And I look at this from a very practical perspective
as it relates to us. You don't always have to
give a response to people, no, right when they're demanding
an answer to something.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
That's just a side note right there.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
They kept they kept demanding an answer while he's just
writing in the dirt.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, just completely ignoring them at peace as they're pestering
up them.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
This is why I hope he's writing names, yeah, because
they keep he's writing their names. You know, let's say
there's ten of them, or twelve in there, right, and
he goes, Bob is here, and Bill is here, and
Dave is here, and Jim is here. Right, he's right's right?
Not the names that would be odd. Yeah, And they're like,
what are you doing? And then they start to demanding.
They're so confident in their trap.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And one of the most enjoyable things sometimes when you
do get somebody trapped is how confident they were until
they realize their trap. Yeah right, It is kind of
a and so these guys are so confident they keep demanding,
we got you now, buddy. Yeah, and then he stands
there he goes, okay, sure you're right, you're right, she's
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supposed to be stoned. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, just just
just make sure the person who's never sinned you throw
the first one, and then we'll all throw some. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
What I also like about this, Jeff, is the fact
that and I think we need to be careful here.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Jesus.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
At no point did he cover over her sin or
did he say her sin was okay, No, no, no,
that's not what Jesus was saying here. He wasn't saying that, Yeah,
what you do, it's not that badger, you know, he
didn't do that there, he was simply showing compassion to
the woman.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That's right. So there's nowhere in the Bible that says
that a woman would would have to be put the
death on her own for having an affair like this.
As a matter of fact, in both Leviticus twenty and
in Deuteronomy twenty or twenty two, it says both the
man and the woman. So they were already breaking the law.
Coming to Jesus, this was already a moot point. This
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was already a non prosecutable crime. They were caught in
the act, but were only bringing the woman. Means we
can't prosecute this. They knew the law right, but they
wanted Jesus to put her to death because they would
have within their culture for for so long they had
abused that law and they had gone beyond. And if
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they get the woman, they would execute the woman, leave
the man free. Men had totally different rights and experiences
than the women did. And so this is one of
those moments where Jesus elevates the woman right. He treats
the woman better than society was treating the woman. He
does this all throughout his ministry, where he elevates women.
It was women who brought the first evidence that Jesus
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had resurrected. They they're oftentimes their testimonies weren't even accepted
in court. Jesus allowed the women to be serving in
the ministry with him. All these things. He elevated women.
He did so much ministry for women, He healed women,
he did so many things. But for their culture at
the time, women were second rate and expendable. And so
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that's why they regularly broke the law. And Jesus is saying, hey,
if you're going to be precise on the law, let's
be precise on the law. Right, where's the man? He
didn't bring a man. Okay, well, then if you're without sin,
they had sinned just against that law. They brought the
woman and didn't bring the man. That may have been
the only thing he was saying, yeah, right, And then
they all realized, oh, wait a minute, we didn't do
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this the right way.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
So, Jeff, how can we apply this to our lives.
You know, there's someone reading this, and maybe there's someone
you know, it could be a family member, friend, neighbor, whoever.
They feel the person is not living right, the person
is in sin. They're ready to condemn them, they're ready
to pick up stones. How can we apply this in
our life?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, I think first of all, Jesus did not condemn her.
Our sin condemns us. Yeah, right, So the wrong that
we do is what condemns us in this situation. Jesus
had the right to be the judge. Yeah, he is
the judge. The Bible says at the end of time,
he'll be the judge. But in this moment, he said, hey, listen,
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they came to accuse you. In the perfection of the law,
your partner should have been with you. So he said,
where are your accusers? And she said, I have none, Lord,
And he said, then I'm not accusing you either.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
But then he says, go and sin no more. So
he acknowledges her sin. He acknowledges that what she did
was wrong. And this is the difficulty we have. It
is possible for me to love you and disagree with
your with your lifestyle. Yeah, it is possible. Right. I
loved my children when they were growing up in my home,
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but I didn't always approve of their lifestyle. I do
not have to endorse or affirm sinful lifestyles. And at
the same time, if I'm like Jesus, I'm also going
to be loving. Yeah, so I don't need to condemn
you because of it. Your your own lifestyle condemns.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You, which oftentimes we as Christians do. Yeah, we will
beat the person over the head with the Bible, and
we want to add further condemnation on top of the condemnations.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Right, it's oftentimes we want to make them feeling yeah
the page, that's right, yeah, and which Jesus did not do,
that's right. Yeah, so he does affirm the law. Yeah,
he says, all right, you right, that is all. But
then he's really challenging us. A lot of times, I
think we can rise up above the person that's offended,
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thinking that our sins aren't as bad as their son. Yeah,
and we forget that my sins put Jesus on the
cross just like their sins.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
But that's a really good point of how I think
we have degrees of sin. Yeah, yeah, so my sin, Jeff,
isn't as.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Bad, but yours.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Oh your you should be stoned, you should be cast out.
But mine that was just a little lie.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, you know, you know how we tend to extend
a lot of grace to ourselves and little grace to others. Yeah, right,
because we know what we meant. Yeah, we assumed they
meant the worst, yes, and we knew that we really
meant to do the best. But it was just a mistake.
So usually we don't sin. We make mistakes. Yeah, that's
usually what we do. But they sin horribly. Yeah, these
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are horrible monsters.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I think of like cars speeding that we were near
a hall road. Cars drive fast all the time. If
we're going fast late for something, we want grease and
mercy from the police. If someone else goes fast, he's
an idiot. Yeah, you know, that's kind of how we.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Look at it.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So I'll tell you a quick story on this, on
this idea. So I'm working on a peace project overseas
and a guy, a leader. Two leaders wound up butting
heads and next thing, you know, because they didn't deal
with it, bitterness crept in and they started kind of
they started doing damage to each other. Well, one of
the leaders rose and fired the other one.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Oh man, Well, then the.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Other one winds up losing everything. He lost his home,
he lost his money, he lost his family, he lost everything,
lost his reputation. He's not hiable anymore. Yeah, and all
of a sudden, the guy who did the firing starts
getting these threatening letters from a terrorist group. We know
where your kids go to school, all these things.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So the guy that was the boss starts being afraid
for his life, thinking these terrors not connecting to until
they kind of discovered maybe the guy who got fired
was actually the one that was sending these fake things.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Well then it blows up. They ruin this other guy's reputation.
It just gets so bad.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Right, Well, now maybe that guy whose reputation is ruined
is willing to just burn the whole thing down like
Samson just put a whole temple down on top of him.
So I get called in to try to work out
some peace because I think these are both good guys.
They just misbehaved.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So, in talking with the most offended one, I was like,
how do we work for peace? Has Jesus ever forgiven
you for something worse than this?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I said, I don't need to hear the accusations. I
know the accusations, and all you want to do is
keep saying the same accusations. Let's get beyond it. What
is your motivation is your motivation that you need to
punish this guy?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Is that it?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Because if we won't forgive others, Jesus won't forgive us.
So then you want to be punished for all of
your sins that Jesus forgave. He goes no. I said,
all right, so what is your only option? And he goes,
I need to forgive, And I said, not just forgive.
Jesus said, pray for him and do good to him.
I said, you need to use your power to find
a way to do good too. He's like, I will.
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I'm willing to work that out, right. So then the
other guy, I went to him and I said, let's say,
because he's denying that he sent those letters, but we
have video evidence. Yeah, So I said, let's let me
just set that aside and say that was your worst
decision on your worst day because you were desperate, or
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it's the most extraordinary coincidence in the history of extraordinary coincidence.
It could be that, right, But I said, let me
set both of those aside, and let me say love
keeps no record of wrongs. So because I love you,
if you will allow me to set those aside and
say those are your worst day I can forgive you
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for your worst day. I'm going to invite our friend
to forgive you for your worst day. That broke his heart.
In that moment before we were done, I asked him,
I said, would I want to pray for you, but
would you pray for me? And he said yes. And
he says first sentence, Father, forgive me. I'm sorry for
the damage I've caused. So for three years he's denied
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being any part of this, but in the moment, I said,
I'm willing to set it aside and forgive. I'm believing
you did it, but I think it was your worst day,
and I choose to forgive you even on your worst day. Yeah,
everything changed right now. He didn't offend me. And so
we're right on the verge of putting these two men
back together and fixing this. And what a great test.
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This is what Jesus say. Remember when we talked Matthew
eighteen that maybe we can restore a brother. These guys
were great friends. How do we bring this back? And
maybe I don't know that they'll ever be best friends again,
but how can we get them back to functioning like good,
healthy brothers in peace. It's going to require that we
also choose not to prosecute, right, choose to forgive. It
doesn't mean that you're saying it wasn't a bad sin.
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Jesus says, go and sin no more. He said, lady,
that was a sin. Don't do it anymore. So it's
possible for me to love you and not affirm your
lifestyle and encourage you to change and not sin anymore.
That's okay, but I have to do it from a
position of love and not a position of judgmentalism. The
Pharisees came. They wanted to correct the bad behavior too,
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but they want to kill her. Yeah, right, And Jesus
instead extends forgiveness. And he does the same thing for you.
I mean, thank god he does.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Well, there we go. Let's wrap it up there. Hey,
there's probably somebody in your life that you need to
encourage to go and sin no more. And at the
same time, maybe it's time for us to drop the
rocks in our hands and we don't have to execute
the people who've offended us so badly. So good, what
a powerful one. Well, I look forward to seeing you
again tomorrow here on the Bible.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Guys,
You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well you are back for another Amazed. Well we're back.
I don't know if our listeners are back. I'm assuming
they're back for another platinum edition of The Bible Guys.
This week we have Wesley Woods with us. Chris Sarball
is out of the studio doing some really great missionary
work down in the Dominican Republic, and so we have
this great episode where Jesus is I think maybe engaging
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in one of the most beautiful moments in all of
Jesus ministry today, and so I'm looking forward to getting
into that. But before we do, Dez has this really
great episode or segment for us called Who's most Likely?
I love these, Wesley, These are so fun. So we
have to take a vote of who's most likely. So
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the first one is who's most likely to talk to
themselves in public and not notice.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
So that's tough.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm gonna say me.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, I was gonna say I might say me on this,
especially if you're trying to work through something, you know,
like should I get this or not?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You know, So when I'm driving, probably two thirds of
the time I don't have any music going.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, that's the same with me, and I'm just.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Thinking, Yeah, I'm working through a problem. I'm trying to
figure out a thing, and uh, I have found myself
before answering myself and looking at somebody and they're just
looking at me kind of you.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Know, like I didn't ask anything, So then just put.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Your hand up to your like like you're talking. Yeah,
so I do. I do on occasion talk to myself,
So that's it.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah. I would say that's a tie right there.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Okay, here's the second one. Who's most likely to start
a story and forget the ending? That's every day for me,
every day? Yeah, yeah, how about you do?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Do you ever?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I've done that before where you start and it's so good,
you know, how like you're ramping up to the ending.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I was in a meeting the other day and it
was so important where I was going, and then somebody
said something and it totally just took me down another
road and I'm like, how does that even apply?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So I'm going there and suddenly I can't remember the
application of what I was saying. I was like, what
was I just talking about Everybody around the room is
trying to remind me what I was saying. Oh yeah,
it's the worst one. I'm so embarrassed for a storyteller, Yeah,
to not remember the ending of their story is terribly embarrassing.
Who's most likely to build a blanket for it as
an adult?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now here's the thing I might say you on that one.
You know what because of your grandson.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I got grandkids? Yeah yeah, yep, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
So actually he has a fort in your backyard.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, there's a big fort. The house we bought. The
previous owners had this really high end fort customer and
it's it's his. Yep, Rowan took it over, is his? Now? Yeah,
so that's great. Who's most likely to say you too
when the waiter says enjoy your meal.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I just did this.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I literally you know how you give the person at
the airport to We were just on vacation last week.
They scan your stuff and you walk down and they
say you don't have a good flight, And I responded back,
you two.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And it's like, well that really wasn't apply.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But you ever see Brian Reagan when he yeah, he
does that. Yeah, they're like, I have a good good
good luck flight, have a nice flight if you ever
get to fly too.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, I hope it's a good one. I just did that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, that's funny. Okay, And then who's most likely to
google do penguins have knees? At two am?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Hm?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oh see that's tricky. Now. I'm a night owl. All.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I love staying up late, but normally if I'm staying
up late, it's either a documentary that I'm watching. Oh yeah, yeah,
which my wife is like, why are you watching a
World War two documentary yet?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
One am? Either that?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Or something just like completely dumb funny, you know, like
one of the two of those.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Right, So you're not You're not. Your grain's not just
running wild at two am?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, me either. I am a sound asleep at two am. Yeah,
so I'm usually at eleven o'clock midnight kind of a person. Yeah,
when I go to sleep, but I put my head
on the pillow and I'm out in five minutes. Yeah,
I don't. I don't. Probably not once a month do
I have an O in the middle of the Yeah, yeah,
not hardly ever does it happen? So that's definitely not
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me doing that one, Although I am curious do they
have knees? I've never even thought of that.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That is a good question.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Let's google it right now.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I can picture the leg and yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Know, the thin leg and normally if they're have a
small you know, just a newborn penguin.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Google says, yes, penguins do have knees.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So maybe it's further up. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, it says although their knees are tucked up inside
their that's been hidden by feathers. They possess a femur,
a knee joint, a tibia, and amphibia in each like
just like humans and other animals. Yea, you just can't
see it for hidden knees. Yeah, Okay, are they embarrassed?
They embarrassed about their knees. Yes, So anyways, there you go. Now,
you know, it's no wonder people tune in.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It's right.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's uh information that we bring to the table. So
that's funny. So now you're a documentary guy, Yeah, I
love document And then do you ever search weird stuff
like that where it just crosses you might know, not
not at two am, but just all of a sudden go.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Not normally normally how it starts a dog, you know,
how the algorithm knows you. So a documentary will come up,
and then I go down the rabbit trail, you know,
so like I'll watch one and then like, oh, this
one's interesting about why there's no bridge between you know,
North America and South America and you know, through the
dairy and gap. So then now I gotta watch that one.
So then then you just kind of go down this
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rabbit trails.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So so a documentary kind of person that usually means
you're pretty curious kind of is that? Is that the
I think curiosity is an important trait that we don't
celebrate enough.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Right mind order doesn't understand that.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
She comes downstairs and on Saturday, I'm watching like the
History Channel.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
She's like, Dad, what is this?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah? Well good?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I think a good, healthy sense of curiosity helps you
become a renaissance kind of a man, where you curiosity
drives you to learn lots of different things, lots of
different things. I just talked about this, not the brag, Wesley, Yeah,
I hate the brag. I'm I think humility is one
of my favorite traits. But I was reading and I like,
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I like to read the headlines. I don't like to
read articles a lot of times, I know, I don't
want news, uh, news websites or whatever to tell me
what to think is I rarely watch the news. I
don't want talking heads to tell me what to believe.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You don't want to commentator to telling you what you
should think about.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I can't stand that, and I don't need them to
tell me. Nine times this hour, the exact same thing
didn't tell me what to think about it. So usually
I'll read my news and most of the time it's
just headlines. Well then I love to just kind of
cruise through all of the headlines for the day from
maybe six or seven or eight or ten different sources.
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Well then all of a sudden, you know, like Wall
Street Journal or whatever. I think I was in one
of the science magazines, come across this thing and it
was talking about math process to be able to estimate
whole numbers of things. And I read this thing and
that I'm like, you're never going to believe what I
just read about how to figure out estimates better. And
everybody's looking at me, their eyes are rolling back in
their head. I was like, this is the most amazing
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thing ever. And I'm not a big math guy, but
this was a brilliant It's how the British were able
to figure out how many tanks estimate how many tanks
the Nazis had world War Two, and it's a fabulous
algorithm that they worked out and it's super simple.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And everybody's like, you are so weird, right, But there's
just this weird curiosity. I think that's one of the
reasons why our buddies, because we wind up talking to
each other about really weird stuff in the office. Sometimes well, hey,
talking about I don't know. I was going to say,
talking about weird stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
But that was a good transition.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, yeah, So I don't even have a bad here's
the bad transition. I don't have a bad for this one.
Usually we set a goal to have like the worst
possible position from the goofy segment into the Bible study part.
But we are in John chapter eight and we're going
to read one through eleven, and this is one of
the sweetest passages. And to be honest with you, there's
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some curiosity for me in this passage that I'm looking
forward to talking about. In John chapter eight, verse one,
it says Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, which
is just outside the city of Jerusalem. But early the
next morning he was back again at the temple. A
crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them.
As he was speaking the teacher's religious law, and the
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Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the
act of adultery, and they put her in front of
the crowd. Teacher. They said, this woman was caught in
the act of adultery. The law, Moses says, to stone her,
what do you say. They were trying to trap him
into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus
stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger,
and they kept demanding an answer. So he stood up
again and said, all right, but let the one who
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was never sinned throw the first stone. And then he
stooped down again and wrote in the dust. When the
accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning
with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the
middle of the crowd with a woman. And then Jesus
stood up again and said to the woman, where are
your accusers? Didn't even one of them condemn you, No, Lord,
she said, and Jesus said neither do I go and
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sin no more. Yeah, there you go, man. This is
one of my favorite stories in the Bible.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, that's a great story.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And I want to point out one thing here, and
it's in verse three and it says as he was
speaking that the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees
brought a woman who had been caught in the act.
So can you imagine how embarrassed this woman was so
not that they heard that she was an adultery, she
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was caught in the very act of adultery. So she
has probably embarrassed, ashamed, doesn't even want to show her face,
and they're bringing her before Jesus, this religious leader, to
see what Jesus has to say about this.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So that's just one point that just the gravity of
the moment.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I always read this and she was caught in the
act of adultery, and you're like, oh, right, the humiliation,
the shame, everything she was doing was laid bare in
front of everybody. Everybody in their culture knew this was
a death penalty issue. But I always wonder, where's the dude. Yeah,
she was caught in the act. Yeah there were two
of them. Yeah right, so where's the dude. Yeah, and
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they just bring the woman out right to do this.
And what they're trying to do is they're trying to
use it against Jesus, because if Jesus says, well, stoner,
then the Pharisees would say, where's Jesus mercy and love?
All he ever talks about love? But now he wants
this woman executed. Yeah, and if he doesn't say, if
he says, disobey the law, what kind of prophet is
he to disobey God's law?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And they were constantly doing this to Jesus.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, So it wasn't about the woman's sin.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, yeah, they could have carried they wanted to entrap Jesus.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It was just an entrapment.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah. Yeah. It was terrible.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
So there's this really great note in the Life Application
Study Bible says, imagine the complete humiliation of being in
this woman's place. She stood alone in public, surrounded by
angry accusers. They had laid bare her terrible sin for
all to see, and the man caught with her was
nowhere to be seen. Jesus rescued her from her sin
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and her shame and her indignity and death. Jesus knows
your worst sins, and yet he offers you compassion and mercy.
Let his mercy give you the courage to face your guilt.
His leve will overcome your shame. Don't deny it or despair.
Be sorry for your sins, Seek the Lord and receive
his forgiveness. I love that that whole thing, right, It's
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just such a beautiful thing that she's completely exposed, so humiliated.
And Jesus goes watch this, and in the most unbelievable way,
Jesus solves us. So he stoops down in the dirt.
He starts drawing in the dirt, gidling doing something.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And then they.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Say, so, what do you say we should do? Should
we stoneer? Yeah, And Jesus sends up and he says, well,
why don't you that has no sin? Why don't you
cast the first stone? And then it says he stooped
down again and wrote in the dust, And man, when
I get to Heaven, I want to find out what
he's writing. But I'm hoping he was writing the names
of those very Pharisees that also had an affair with
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this woman. How great would that is? Like, Yeah, Bob Johnson,
you were here last last Thursday. Right, that's I would love. Yeah,
because whatever he was writing in the sand, the oldest guys,
the ones who had the most experienced they were the
ones who left first. Yeah, because you know they had
also the most sins. Yeah, right, yeah, And whatever it
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was Jesus was writing down because he said, whoever has
the no sin, you go ahead and cast first stone.
And the old guys start leaving, until finally the youngest
and it's only Jesus standing there with her.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
An amazing thing.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
And it says that they kept demanding an answer. This
is the funny, funny part about this. But the thing
that I like about this is they kept demanding an answer.
And I look at this from a very practical perspective
as it relates to us. You don't always have to
give a response to people, no, right when they're demanding
an answer to something.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
That's just a side note right there.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
They kept they kept demanding an answer while he's just
writing in the dirt.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, just completely ignoring them at peace as they're pestering
up them.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
This is why I hope he's writing names, yeah, because
they keep he's writing their names. You know, let's say
there's ten of them, or twelve in there, right, and
he goes, Bob is here, and Bill is here, and
Dave is here, and Jim is here. Right, he's right's right?
Not the names that would be odd. Yeah, And they're like,
what are you doing? And then they start to demanding.
They're so confident in their trap.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And one of the most enjoyable things sometimes when you
do get somebody trapped is how confident they were until
they realize their trap. Yeah right, It is kind of
a and so these guys are so confident they keep demanding,
we got you now, buddy. Yeah, and then he stands
there he goes, okay, sure you're right, you're right, she's
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supposed to be stoned. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, just just
just make sure the person who's never sinned you throw
the first one, and then we'll all throw some. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
What I also like about this, Jeff, is the fact
that and I think we need to be careful here.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Jesus.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
At no point did he cover over her sin or
did he say her sin was okay, No, no, no,
that's not what Jesus was saying here. He wasn't saying that, Yeah,
what you do, it's not that badger, you know, he
didn't do that there, he was simply showing compassion to
the woman.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That's right. So there's nowhere in the Bible that says
that a woman would would have to be put the
death on her own for having an affair like this.
As a matter of fact, in both Leviticus twenty and
in Deuteronomy twenty or twenty two, it says both the
man and the woman. So they were already breaking the law.
Coming to Jesus, this was already a moot point. This
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was already a non prosecutable crime. They were caught in
the act, but were only bringing the woman. Means we
can't prosecute this. They knew the law right, but they
wanted Jesus to put her to death because they would
have within their culture for for so long they had
abused that law and they had gone beyond. And if
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they get the woman, they would execute the woman, leave
the man free. Men had totally different rights and experiences
than the women did. And so this is one of
those moments where Jesus elevates the woman right. He treats
the woman better than society was treating the woman. He
does this all throughout his ministry, where he elevates women.
It was women who brought the first evidence that Jesus
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had resurrected. They they're oftentimes their testimonies weren't even accepted
in court. Jesus allowed the women to be serving in
the ministry with him. All these things. He elevated women.
He did so much ministry for women, He healed women,
he did so many things. But for their culture at
the time, women were second rate and expendable. And so
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that's why they regularly broke the law. And Jesus is saying, hey,
if you're going to be precise on the law, let's
be precise on the law. Right, where's the man? He
didn't bring a man. Okay, well, then if you're without sin,
they had sinned just against that law. They brought the
woman and didn't bring the man. That may have been
the only thing he was saying, yeah, right, And then
they all realized, oh, wait a minute, we didn't do
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this the right way.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
So, Jeff, how can we apply this to our lives.
You know, there's someone reading this, and maybe there's someone
you know, it could be a family member, friend, neighbor, whoever.
They feel the person is not living right, the person
is in sin. They're ready to condemn them, they're ready
to pick up stones. How can we apply this in
our life?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, I think first of all, Jesus did not condemn her.
Our sin condemns us. Yeah, right, So the wrong that
we do is what condemns us in this situation. Jesus
had the right to be the judge. Yeah, he is
the judge. The Bible says at the end of time,
he'll be the judge. But in this moment, he said, hey, listen,
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they came to accuse you. In the perfection of the law,
your partner should have been with you. So he said,
where are your accusers? And she said, I have none, Lord,
And he said, then I'm not accusing you either.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
But then he says, go and sin no more. So
he acknowledges her sin. He acknowledges that what she did
was wrong. And this is the difficulty we have. It
is possible for me to love you and disagree with
your with your lifestyle. Yeah, it is possible. Right. I
loved my children when they were growing up in my home,
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but I didn't always approve of their lifestyle. I do
not have to endorse or affirm sinful lifestyles. And at
the same time, if I'm like Jesus, I'm also going
to be loving. Yeah, so I don't need to condemn
you because of it. Your your own lifestyle condemns.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You, which oftentimes we as Christians do. Yeah, we will
beat the person over the head with the Bible, and
we want to add further condemnation on top of the condemnations.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Right, it's oftentimes we want to make them feeling yeah
the page, that's right, yeah, and which Jesus did not do,
that's right. Yeah, so he does affirm the law. Yeah,
he says, all right, you right, that is all. But
then he's really challenging us. A lot of times, I
think we can rise up above the person that's offended,
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thinking that our sins aren't as bad as their son. Yeah,
and we forget that my sins put Jesus on the
cross just like their sins.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
But that's a really good point of how I think
we have degrees of sin. Yeah, yeah, so my sin, Jeff,
isn't as.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Bad, but yours.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Oh your you should be stoned, you should be cast out.
But mine that was just a little lie.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, you know, you know how we tend to extend
a lot of grace to ourselves and little grace to others. Yeah, right,
because we know what we meant. Yeah, we assumed they
meant the worst, yes, and we knew that we really
meant to do the best. But it was just a mistake.
So usually we don't sin. We make mistakes. Yeah, that's
usually what we do. But they sin horribly. Yeah, these
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are horrible monsters.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I think of like cars speeding that we were near
a hall road. Cars drive fast all the time. If
we're going fast late for something, we want grease and
mercy from the police. If someone else goes fast, he's
an idiot. Yeah, you know, that's kind of how we.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Look at it.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So I'll tell you a quick story on this, on
this idea. So I'm working on a peace project overseas
and a guy, a leader. Two leaders wound up butting
heads and next thing, you know, because they didn't deal
with it, bitterness crept in and they started kind of
they started doing damage to each other. Well, one of
the leaders rose and fired the other one.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Oh man, Well, then the.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Other one winds up losing everything. He lost his home,
he lost his money, he lost his family, he lost everything,
lost his reputation. He's not hiable anymore. Yeah, and all
of a sudden, the guy who did the firing starts
getting these threatening letters from a terrorist group. We know
where your kids go to school, all these things.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So the guy that was the boss starts being afraid
for his life, thinking these terrors not connecting to until
they kind of discovered maybe the guy who got fired
was actually the one that was sending these fake things.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Well then it blows up. They ruin this other guy's reputation.
It just gets so bad.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Right, Well, now maybe that guy whose reputation is ruined
is willing to just burn the whole thing down like
Samson just put a whole temple down on top of him.
So I get called in to try to work out
some peace because I think these are both good guys.
They just misbehaved.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So, in talking with the most offended one, I was like,
how do we work for peace? Has Jesus ever forgiven
you for something worse than this?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I said, I don't need to hear the accusations. I
know the accusations, and all you want to do is
keep saying the same accusations. Let's get beyond it. What
is your motivation is your motivation that you need to
punish this guy?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Is that it?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Because if we won't forgive others, Jesus won't forgive us.
So then you want to be punished for all of
your sins that Jesus forgave. He goes no. I said,
all right, so what is your only option? And he goes,
I need to forgive, And I said, not just forgive.
Jesus said, pray for him and do good to him.
I said, you need to use your power to find
a way to do good too. He's like, I will.
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I'm willing to work that out, right. So then the
other guy, I went to him and I said, let's say,
because he's denying that he sent those letters, but we
have video evidence. Yeah, So I said, let's let me
just set that aside and say that was your worst
decision on your worst day because you were desperate, or
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it's the most extraordinary coincidence in the history of extraordinary coincidence.
It could be that, right, But I said, let me
set both of those aside, and let me say love
keeps no record of wrongs. So because I love you,
if you will allow me to set those aside and
say those are your worst day I can forgive you
(22:58):
for your worst day. I'm going to invite our friend
to forgive you for your worst day. That broke his heart.
In that moment before we were done, I asked him,
I said, would I want to pray for you, but
would you pray for me? And he said yes. And
he says first sentence, Father, forgive me. I'm sorry for
the damage I've caused. So for three years he's denied
(23:21):
being any part of this, but in the moment, I said,
I'm willing to set it aside and forgive. I'm believing
you did it, but I think it was your worst day,
and I choose to forgive you even on your worst day. Yeah,
everything changed right now. He didn't offend me. And so
we're right on the verge of putting these two men
back together and fixing this. And what a great test.
(23:41):
This is what Jesus say. Remember when we talked Matthew
eighteen that maybe we can restore a brother. These guys
were great friends. How do we bring this back? And
maybe I don't know that they'll ever be best friends again,
but how can we get them back to functioning like good,
healthy brothers in peace. It's going to require that we
also choose not to prosecute, right, choose to forgive. It
doesn't mean that you're saying it wasn't a bad sin.
(24:03):
Jesus says, go and sin no more. He said, lady,
that was a sin. Don't do it anymore. So it's
possible for me to love you and not affirm your
lifestyle and encourage you to change and not sin anymore.
That's okay, but I have to do it from a
position of love and not a position of judgmentalism. The
Pharisees came. They wanted to correct the bad behavior too,
(24:24):
but they want to kill her. Yeah, right, And Jesus
instead extends forgiveness. And he does the same thing for you.
I mean, thank god he does.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Well, there we go. Let's wrap it up there. Hey,
there's probably somebody in your life that you need to
encourage to go and sin no more. And at the
same time, maybe it's time for us to drop the
rocks in our hands and we don't have to execute
the people who've offended us so badly. So good, what
a powerful one. Well, I look forward to seeing you
again tomorrow here on the Bible.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
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