WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:12.839 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:14.759 My name is Chris and I am Kyle. 5 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:18.359 Now, when Wesley fills in for me or Jeff, he 6 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:19.640 calls it the platinum edition. 7 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:21.480 Heard that, Yeah, I have yes. 8 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:24.839 Okay, So Kyle, you are the side who sits in 9 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:25.920 one of us are out. 10 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:26.480 Huh. 11 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:29.079 And so you I'm gonna put you on the spot, right, Kyle? 12 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:31.519 What edition is it? When you are here in. 13 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:34.719 This dude calling himself the platinum platinum Edition? Doesn't that 14 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:38.039 seem fitting for Wesley? But for me? I don't know, man, 15 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:41.200 because he got a radio voice. Yeah, and also like 16 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:43.479 he just is that guy. He's platinum. He's cool. I 17 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:45.880 would say. For me, I feel like you and Jeff 18 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:48.840 are the gold Edition. I'm like the silver Edition. No, 19 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:51.000 come on, yeah. 20 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:53.240 That's funny. So you're being out you take the humbler pros. 21 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:56.520 Well, I mean I just let what s he be platinum? 22 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:57.200 I'll take silver. 23 00:00:57.280 --> 00:00:58.920 That's all right, all right, I'll let you. I'll let 24 00:00:58.920 --> 00:00:59.159 you do it. 25 00:00:59.200 --> 00:00:59.799 Yeah, there you go. 26 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:04.560 Well, hey, everybody, Jeff is in Africa with US many comrades, 27 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.760 and he is having a great time doing mission work 28 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:11.319 for the Timothy Initiative. And so this week we have 29 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.159 Kyle And so today we are the Bible guys, right, 30 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:16.599 and we are in the middle of a series famous 31 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:19.400 sayings of Jesus. Now, this week actually has a theme, 32 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:21.959 and actually every week you're stuck to a theme, and 33 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:25.760 this week's theme is Jesus and the Outsiders. 34 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:28.079 Yeah, And honestly, that's a great theme because I think 35 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:29.959 that I think a lot of people maybe who will 36 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:33.000 listen to this or skeptical, this can be a motivational, 37 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:33.920 inspiring week for them. 38 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:36.799 For sure, we look at these stories totally agree. But 39 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:39.079 before we dive into that, because the saying, by the way, 40 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:42.560 is neither do I condemn? Is the saying that you know, 41 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:46.079 Jesus made a famous sing. But before we dive into that, 42 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:50.400 Desiree has actually given to us a segment that I 43 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:54.120 really enjoy because it involves a great story that's outlandish, 44 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:57.319 and I am sort of known to have outlandish stories 45 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.599 at times. Yeah, and so this segment is called I 46 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.120 can't believe that actually happened? And she writes it's been 47 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:07.200 a while since we've had Kyle with us, so let's 48 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:09.199 get to know her a little more. 49 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:12.039 I saw see that the notes her, I'm like, who 50 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:15.000 is her? Okay, well, and I'm not revealing anything. 51 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:18.000 No, Kyle tell a story that's so weird or random, 52 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:20.840 people think it's made up, and let's stick away. Let's 53 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:22.439 try to shy away from her. 54 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:25.560 Yes, yeah, that was weird. I saw that too, and 55 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:28.280 I was like, I think that was a hopefully a mistype. Okay, 56 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:30.680 I can't believe that actually happened. One thing that many 57 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:33.759 people don't know about me, and it's has a relation 58 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:36.719 to my family. That's a little strange. So I and 59 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:38.960 my parents been married for over forty years. They've been 60 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.080 together since they were high school sweethearts. They've been together 61 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:45.639 the whole my entire life obviously. So I have a 62 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:47.879 sister who's three years older than me, a brother who's 63 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:49.719 a year older than me. Then my parents had a 64 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:52.439 break and having kids. I have a sister who's ten 65 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.240 years younger than me. Then my parents had a crazy 66 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.520 long break, and I have little brothers who are currently 67 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:02.240 sixteen years old, which means that but what ended up 68 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.439 happening was my parents ended up coming to us on 69 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:06.439 like a lunch one day and we're like, hey, we 70 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:08.319 need to meet up. We need to like talk about something. 71 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:10.520 We thought like there's bad news coming. Turns out my 72 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:13.039 parents were pregnant again for and then they revealed that 73 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:15.199 it was not only yea, so my parents, well, my 74 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:18.360 mom was pregnant, but they're they're pregnant with twins, which 75 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.840 at the same time, Kristen, my wife was pregnant, and 76 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:23.039 my sister was pregnant and my sister in law. So 77 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.400 think about this, that's uh yeah too, yes, yea, so 78 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:29.759 my my wife, my sister in law, and my sister 79 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:31.719 were all pregnant at the same time that my mom 80 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:34.919 was pregnant with twins. Wow. So my So that means 81 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:39.840 that my little brothers are uncles to uh, basically my 82 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:42.479 my daughter who's basically the same age. So it's very strong. 83 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:44.560 Like the family at AMIC is very strange. 84 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:46.919 So that when they get older, they'll be talking to 85 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:49.159 somebody exactly the same age yes, say hey uncle. 86 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.039 Yes, one hundred percent, and they still do it. They'll say, hey, 87 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:52.560 you got to listen to me. I'm your uncle, even 88 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:53.960 though they're basically the same age. 89 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:54.360 Wow. 90 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:56.000 So yeah, our family. If you ever, if you were 91 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:58.560 to see photos of our family, it's a little confusing because, yeah, 92 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:00.280 they're like, where did the twins come from? Like those 93 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:03.080 those are my parents' twins. Like it's it's it's strange. 94 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:04.400 And so you are, how old? 95 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:07.599 So I'm thirty nine years old? Thirty nine, sixteen year old? 96 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:08.960 Little brother sixteen year old? 97 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.000 Wow? Ye? How old is your older brother? How many years. 98 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:14.240 He's uh, he's one year older than me, oh older brother, 99 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:18.160 the oldest child? Oh sorry, she is forty two, forty two, 100 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:20.879 forty two, sixteenth Yeah, no, wild. 101 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:23.000 Wow, that's a that's a huge spread. 102 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:26.040 Yeah. So my parents were forty five ish when they 103 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:27.879 found out that they were pregnant. So whenever I meet 104 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:29.399 somebody who was like, oh, that ship is sailed, we 105 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:31.959 can't have kids anymore, I'm like, huh, never saying every 106 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:33.040 it could happen to you. 107 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:33.879 Wow. 108 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:35.800 First of all, that's amazing, Yeah, it's wild. 109 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:39.319 Wow. My mom actually had five boys in the span 110 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:42.639 of eight years. Wow. And uh, and so that that's 111 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:46.439 pretty gamm And so Chucky and Donnie are literally like 112 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.240 fifty four weeks apart, and then they took a little 113 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:53.399 break actually, like it sounds funny to say there's a 114 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:55.480 break there, then Tommy sort of sits in the middle 115 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:58.240 by himself. Then there's a four year window. Then then 116 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:00.839 my brother Jimmy and I were only fifty three weeks apart. 117 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:01.519 Oh my gosh. 118 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:03.399 And so back to back, right, So she had two 119 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:05.240 back to backs and then one in the middle with 120 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:09.040 some breaks and but still managed to, you know, have 121 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:09.879 five kids in eight. 122 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.240 Years, five boys. And ed's wild to think about that. 123 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:15.519 That's probably just loud and broke things broken all the 124 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:16.439 time in chaos. 125 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:20.920 That means there's a decade in pregnancy. Yeah, right. And 126 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:23.319 I thought about this too. I actually did a funeral. 127 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.240 I officiated a funeral just like probably last week, and 128 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:31.720 they said this family had nineteen brothers and sisters. 129 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:32.240 Wow. 130 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:34.920 And I thought to myself, I have never I think 131 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:36.879 that's the largest I've ever heard. Yeah, I said, what 132 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:39.879 do you mean, like like like natural and like no adoptions. 133 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:43.120 They said, no, it was natural nineteen Wow. Wow. I 134 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:45.600 thought those family reunions they're like, oh, we have like 135 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:46.639 six hundred cousins. 136 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:48.079 I mean it's all I mean, that's got to be 137 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:50.959 like thirty years of pregnancy here, right, Like that thirty years, like, 138 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:52.639 that's got to be right with nineteen kids, there's got 139 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:53.560 to be some space in there. 140 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:56.600 Well, that was like the grandmother. So so yeah, by 141 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:58.600 the time it got down to the kids. 142 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:01.360 Kids, there's oh my goodness, that's wow, which is amazing. 143 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:03.319 That's amazing. Yeah. So that's something that is kind of 144 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:05.800 wild about me to find out that when people actually 145 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.680 my little brother Servetur at our Heritage Church Stony Creek campus. 146 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:10.639 People when I'll be like, hey, hey brother, hey bro, 147 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:12.639 they'd be like, wait, those are your brothers. It's it's 148 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:15.040 kind of it's funny. It's kind of bizarre to see him. 149 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:18.040 Yeah. Well, Kyle, I agree that I can't believe that 150 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.759 actually happened. It happened, yeah, you know, and you know 151 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.839 what else I can't believe actually happened. What is this 152 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:25.879 story that we're about to. 153 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:26.600 Read here is wild? 154 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.079 Yeah, the woman caught an adultrey. I can't believe, yes, 155 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:32.959 that that they threw her in a public square just 156 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:35.240 to trap Jesus, I can't believe that actually happened. 157 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:36.759 I can't believe it either, but we're about to read 158 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:37.079 about it. 159 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:38.279 Well that you know, that's my bad transit. 160 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:39.680 Yeah, yeah, okay, that's good. 161 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:44.759 All right. Well, hey, we're in John chapter number eighth. Yeah, 162 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:46.279 I was, I was. I was expecting you to make 163 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:47.199 fun of my transition. 164 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:47.959 I thought it was good. 165 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:50.040 It was a decent transition. 166 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:52.160 I can't believe that actually happened. I think it's really good. 167 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:53.600 I think that's what the people were thinking at the 168 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:54.000 time too. 169 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:54.759 All right. 170 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:58.399 So in John chapter eight, starting in verse one, says 171 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.040 this Jesus returned to the Mount of Olah. But early 172 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.199 the next morning he was back again at the temple. 173 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:06.920 A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 174 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:09.360 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and 175 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:11.839 the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in 176 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.279 the act of adult tree. They put her in front 177 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:17.399 of the crowd. Teacher, they said to Jesus, this woman 178 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:20.399 was caught in the act of adultree. The law of Moses, 179 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:23.399 says to stone her, what do you say. They were 180 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:25.279 trying to trap him into saying something they could use 181 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:28.639 against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the 182 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:32.079 dust with his finger. They kept demanding an answer, So 183 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:34.759 he stood up again and said, all right, but let 184 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.360 the one who has never sinned throw the first stone. 185 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:42.279 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust says. 186 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:46.800 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, 187 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:49.279 beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in 188 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:52.839 the middle of the crowd with the woman. Then Jesus 189 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:54.959 stood up again and said to the woman, where are 190 00:07:55.000 --> 00:08:00.000 your accusers? Didn't even one of them condemn you? No life, 191 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:03.600 she said, And Jesus said, neither do I go and 192 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:08.319 sin know more. Yeah, period, that's amazing, that's very good. Yeah, 193 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:11.480 and I believe that actually happened. I can't believe it. 194 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:14.480 And and it's a good thing that will happened because 195 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:18.600 there's so many life lessons in here from us. There's 196 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.040 there's a bunch of revelation about the heart of God, 197 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:26.720 about his view of sin versus, the value of the person, 198 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:29.240 and everything else. You know, I was just kind of 199 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:32.399 glancing down. I'm actually not using a life application study 200 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:36.240 Bible today. I'm using Transformation Study Behind Us by Warren Weersby. 201 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:40.039 And because I grabbed something off my shelf to be 202 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:43.200 honest with you, and I really like it. But anyway, 203 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:46.559 here's here's a note that I thought was interesting in 204 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.440 referring to verse number seven when Jesus said, all right, 205 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:53.480 but let the one who's never sinned for the first done. 206 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:56.440 It says this it was required by Jewish law that 207 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:59.879 the accusers cast the first stones, as found in Deutero 208 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:03.759 on Me seventeen seven. Jesus was not asking that the 209 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:07.360 sinless men judge the woman, for he was the only 210 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:10.879 sinless person present. If our judges today had to be perfect, 211 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:13.960 judicial benches would be empty. He was referring to the 212 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:16.600 particular sin of the woman, a sin that could be 213 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:19.320 committed in the heart as well as in the body. 214 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:23.200 Matthew five twenty seven through thirty Convicted by their own conscious, 215 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:26.440 the accusers quietly left the scene, and Jesus was left 216 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:29.080 alone with the woman. He forgave her and warned them 217 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:32.639 to sin no more and so again. I think that 218 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:36.000 it brings light to the fact that they're so It's 219 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:40.200 so deep Jesus wisdom, he says, he who is without sin, 220 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:43.120 let them cast the first known. Well, Jesus is the 221 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:44.799 only wman that sin, Isn't it great? 222 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:47.399 Yeah? Like even it said that everybody left and he 223 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:49.279 was the only one standing there. I think it says 224 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:52.240 he was Yeah, he was the only Jesus left in 225 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:54.039 the middle of the crowd. So he's like, okay, go 226 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:55.799 ahead and throw the stone. Then he's just standing there 227 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.240 a homely, you know, by himself, only one who canny. 228 00:09:58.240 --> 00:09:59.039 I agree, that's so cool. 229 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:02.159 Yeah, and then he'sa then neither do I condict? Yeah? Yeah, 230 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:05.240 so that's incredible. So let's just talk about that for 231 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:07.919 just a minute. So Jesus is the only one who 232 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:11.159 has the right to judge. Now, it's interesting because you 233 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:13.480 just wrote a message this weekend and by the time 234 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.600 people hear this, it'll have been already given. Right, But 235 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:21.159 you just wrote a message this weekend about forgiveness relating 236 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.639 to being the judge. Yeah, right, So you want to 237 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:26.559 give us a couple of sentences summary on what does 238 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:28.279 it say about judging and forgiving? 239 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:30.240 Yeah, so this is going to be talking. It does 240 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:32.039 talk about Jesus as well at the end for like 241 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:34.840 a salvation moment, but definitely tomorrow Romans twelve about not 242 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:39.120 paying evil with evil but instead to bless others. And 243 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:40.840 I think the end of the day, I think it's 244 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:43.919 really easy for us want to want to judge others 245 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:48.399 who want to have payback or retribution for things that 246 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:51.200 have been wrong to us. And we see time and 247 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:54.320 time again that Jesus was in the position, the only 248 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:56.919 position to actually condemn and judge, and yet every single 249 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:59.639 time he chose to forgive. We see that throughout all 250 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:01.879 of scripture, and then really at end of the day, 251 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:04.240 even Jesus himself, when he's on the cross, he said, 252 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:06.600 forgive them, for they know not what they're doing. Like 253 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:08.799 even that right there is crazy that he can look 254 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:11.440 at the very people who are beating him, torturing him, 255 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:14.639 they're about to kill him, and say, Father, forgive them. 256 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:16.440 It's a really beautiful picture. But I know for me, 257 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:18.080 like I think the thing that stands out as well 258 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:20.159 with this is it's the whole idea of like grace 259 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:21.960 and truth. I know we tell you guys talk about 260 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:24.519 this a lot on the podcast, but I think if 261 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:25.799 you look at it, a lot of I don't know 262 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:27.240 if you've noticed this as well, a lot of churches, 263 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:29.360 a lot of Christians kind of fall sometimes in one 264 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:32.159 or the other camp. There's like a grace camp where 265 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.759 it's like it's all grace, it's all love, it's all forgiveness, 266 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:38.399 it's all freedom. In that way, you can lean too far, 267 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:40.840 so it's all grace. Then you have a lot of 268 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:43.000 other camps where it's like all truth. It's like speak 269 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:47.679 the truth, say what's reality, call out sin, and there's 270 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:50.320 there's all those types of things. Jesus we see throughout 271 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:53.320 his ministry. It's it's like this perfect combination of grace 272 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:57.159 and truth at the right time, because he says, I mean, 273 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:58.840 just the fact that he would come and to her 274 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:02.240 defense is a beautifull picture of his grace. But at 275 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:04.279 the same time he ends by saying, now go and 276 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:06.960 sin no more, and to go and sin no more. 277 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:09.600 I mean we know that. I mean she did go 278 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:11.440 and sin. We know that, like she she went, I'm 279 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:13.399 sure and found a way to sin in some way, right, 280 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.120 because nobody is sinless. Yes, she may have not committed 281 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.879 adults that sin, yes, yes, but yeah, of course yeah. 282 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:21.799 And I think what he was showing there was that like, hey, 283 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.320 like there's this this grace that I want to give you, 284 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:27.120 but also this truth that we should be pursuing something better. 285 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:29.519 And I feel like she probably was in a position 286 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:31.600 where she I would like to believe that she never 287 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:34.679 committed that sin again because she got to witness the 288 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:37.960 absolute grace and love of Jesus himself. And so that's 289 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:39.840 the only way she can go on without sinning is 290 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:42.120 once she realized the grace and truth you offer. 291 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:47.759 It's a beautiful picture of our obedience. Because you know, 292 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.039 I've often said this, what is better obeying your parents 293 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:55.639 because you have to, or obeying your parents because you. 294 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:57.720 Want, oh my gosh, I want to if you don't. 295 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.840 Want to disappoint them, and you love them and respect 296 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:01.960 them and agree with them, and so they say, hey, 297 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:04.080 don't do this, and you're like, absolutely, I'm not going 298 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:06.600 to do that because I love them so much. When 299 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:10.679 you want to obey something, it takes away what the 300 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.279 chore of obedience. It takes away. In fact, it's not 301 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:17.120 even difficult at times, because the more you want to, 302 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:19.600 the less difficult it is to do that thing. Right, 303 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:23.279 So it's the same thing. So if you're motivated by 304 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:27.000 gratitude and you're like, hey, Jesus has forgiven me for 305 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:30.039 all of my sins, and so therefore I'm so grateful 306 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:32.600 that I want to obey him. So when God does 307 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:34.720 say these are the things I want you to do. 308 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:38.120 Here's the commandments, here's what I say about your behavior, 309 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:40.440 about your marriage, about your family business, the way that 310 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:44.600 you conduct your relationships. You know, your forgiveness, your reactions, 311 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:47.919 everything you should say. Absolutely, I want to do those 312 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:51.799 things because I'm so grateful for God and provides blessed 313 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:55.320 and everything else. So I think that it's a beautiful picture. 314 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:58.879 This woman represents us, doesn't she? And so? And just 315 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:02.639 what you said, it is this idea that she experiences 316 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:05.720 grace to such a degree to where that is her motivation. 317 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:08.159 You'd like to think that that's the reason why she's 318 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:11.480 never committed adultery. And it doesn't say so, it doesn't 319 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:13.679 tell us, right, we don't know. But and by the way, 320 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:18.679 that's also that's also a that's a great nuance to 321 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:20.840 this verse where he says, go and sin no more. 322 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:25.679 Was Jesus really meaning go and be sinless? No, he 323 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.919 wasn't right, and so go and sin no more? Could 324 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:31.240 if you want to take it literally, you can say 325 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:34.200 what Jesus was telling her to be sinless? No, he wasn't. 326 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:36.519 He was referring to the sin that she was caught. 327 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.519 Right, And I think even maybe even holding her like hey, 328 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:42.080 you are redeemed, you are loved, you are protected now 329 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:44.440 he's kind of holding her own higher standard. Now, I 330 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:46.360 always love there's a scripture that says that it's God's 331 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:49.799 kindness that leads us to repentance. I love that because 332 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:51.399 even growing up I didn't always think that way. I 333 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:53.720 thought it was like, you know, the fear of God, 334 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:56.200 fear of the fear of God least repentance. 335 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:57.200 Or the fear of the Baptist preacher. 336 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:00.000 Yes, I grew up with me too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 337 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:01.960 And so when you take that into consideration that it's 338 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:04.519 actually God's kindness, it's like, like you said, like with 339 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:06.360 the parenting thing, it's like the kind of like the 340 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.960 wanting to obey versus having to obey. So let me 341 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:11.799 ask you about the what was written on the sand? 342 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:14.360 With people ask you that before. I'm sure, Yeah, what 343 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:15.039 are your thoughts on that? 344 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:18.720 So the bottom line is is nobody knows. This is 345 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:21.799 a stump the passing question. This will definitely be a 346 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:24.960 question for heaven. And here's the reason why I think 347 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:28.960 this is so fascinating because I've often heard Jeff say 348 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:32.799 God doesn't waste words. So every word in the Bible 349 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:35.440 is reported for a reason. So it goes out of 350 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:38.080 its way to say certain things, and you'd say, why 351 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:41.639 does it say that? Well, sometimes it's for context, sometimes 352 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:46.279 it's for historical accuracy. Sometimes it's you know, to let 353 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:50.679 us know all these different things. But in this case, 354 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:57.679 I'm sort of not. I haven't decided why did God 355 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:00.879 put that in there? Right? Like, why the world did 356 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.440 God say Jesus wrote in the sand? Other than we 357 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:08.720 know that that played a part in the story. It 358 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:13.120 played a part in the in the in the dramatization accusation. 359 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:15.360 It could be that maybe what he was writing was 360 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:19.039 the law, right, Maybe he was writing something to Deuteronomy, right. 361 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:21.320 So there's a lot of theory about that, and it 362 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:22.080 could be that he was. 363 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:24.399 And again, I know this is speculation, but I've always 364 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:27.080 had this kind of cool speculation just to wonder what. Yeah. 365 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:31.320 Absolutely, and it's it's a great debate among four one Christians. Yes, right, 366 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:32.919 And so you know you know what I mean by that, 367 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:36.240 not one on one cotry level two on one's a 368 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:38.759 little advanced through one four one four one is when 369 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:40.919 you're diving into the Bible and you're like, hey, let's 370 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:43.759 let's talk about this. So I think that I think 371 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:47.840 that in the end that's going to be a popular question, 372 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:48.960 don't you agree? 373 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:50.320 Yeah, I think so too, And I just I find 374 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:51.919 it interesting that it says that the oldest, and that 375 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:54.039 was a note that's made in the New Living translation. 376 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:56.960 It talks about how the oldest left first, Yeah, and 377 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:58.960 all the way to the youngest. So some so, I've 378 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:03.559 heard people speculate that there's a possibility that Jesus was 379 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:06.119 writing the sins of the men that were there and 380 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:09.000 then they slowly started leaving, or I've even heard because 381 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:10.920 the oldest life. It could just be that the oldest 382 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:13.200 had the most life experience, and you want to believe 383 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:15.240 the most wisdom to just say I'm getting out of here. 384 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:17.759 Another thought would be that he started off and started 385 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:21.640 listing certain sins, and those who were the oldest they 386 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:23.720 felt guilty of those sins because they've been there, done that, 387 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.519 where the youngest felt like righteous and proud of themselves 388 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:28.960 and then slowly got to like their sins, and then 389 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.000 maybe it's pride or whatever it is, and then they're like, oh, 390 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:31.839 I guess it's my time. 391 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:34.200 Yeah. Wouldn't it be crazy if we get to heaven 392 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:36.279 and we find out that Jesus was merely doodling. 393 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:37.559 Yes, drawing pictures. 394 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:40.759 Yeah, he's just yeah, he's a yeah, drawing pictures or whatever. Yeah, 395 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:43.200 but maybe he's just you know, doodling in the sand, 396 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.160 and he's just writing something in the sand that has 397 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:49.119 nothing to do with those things. And so it could 398 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:53.799 be like a tactic, because Jesus was extremely intentional about 399 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:57.559 the way he interacted with Pharisees and and so it 400 00:17:57.599 --> 00:17:59.720 could be like, you know, an ignoring kind of a tactic. 401 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:04.000