The Sin of Adultery

John 8:1-11,    Leviteus 20

This sin has been the downfall of Roman Empires, Cities, Homes and Individuals.

This sin is the cause of more heartache than any sin of our day. “Weekend wages” Fled homes, Preachers not accepted.

This sin marks the highest paid Entertainers of our age.

This sin has been ignored, condoned, made respectable and appealing to our age. Most Advertised.

This sin still has the wrath of God upon it, and the price is still high, and the wages collected.

I: The Sinful Woman.
1. Jesus had spent the night alone in Mt. Olive praying.
2. Early in the morning he came to the Temple and taught.
3. The Pharisees had been busying digging up dirt.
4. They broke in upon his teaching with a problem they thought he could not solve.
5. A woman taken in Adultery.
6. The Law of Moses – Death by stoning.

II: The Self-righteous Pharisees. Look at Sin.
1. Not her sin but their hatred of Jesus prompted this scene.
2. They pleaded the Law of Moses which they could not keep.
3. Jesus ignored them and wrote in the sand.
4. They would not be ignored, but insisted on digging a pit for themselves.
5. “He that is without sin, let him 1st cast a stone at her.” The one who witnessed was to carry out the punishment.
6. “No hiding place down here.” Jesus pinned this very sin at their door also; they just had escaped discovery!
7. Even their sin of disposition disqualified them. Those guilty of bad disposition seldom repent.
8. One by one they disappeared.
9. They saw the mote in their own eye. Were afraid what he might reveal.

III: The Sinners Savior.
1. “I had much rather fall into the hands of a merciful God than the hands of some church members.”
2. “Woman with tender compassion.”
3. “Where are thine accusers?”
4. “She said no man.”
5. “Neither do I condemn thee.”
6. “Go and sin no more.
7. And the crowd was taught its greatest lesson!”