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 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:14.800 Well you are back for another Amazed. Well we're back. 5 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:16.719 I don't know if our listeners are back. I'm assuming 6 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:21.000 they're back for another platinum edition of The Bible Guys. 7 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:24.199 This week we have Wesley Woods with us. Chris Sarball 8 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:27.359 is out of the studio doing some really great missionary 9 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:30.559 work down in the Dominican Republic, and so we have 10 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:37.200 this great episode where Jesus is I think maybe engaging 11 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:40.280 in one of the most beautiful moments in all of 12 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:43.840 Jesus ministry today, and so I'm looking forward to getting 13 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:47.479 into that. But before we do, Dez has this really 14 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:52.679 great episode or segment for us called Who's most Likely? 15 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:56.320 I love these, Wesley, These are so fun. So we 16 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:59.000 have to take a vote of who's most likely. So 17 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:01.600 the first one is who's most likely to talk to 18 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:03.600 themselves in public and not notice. 19 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:06.879 So that's tough. 20 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:08.200 I'm gonna say me. 21 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:10.280 Well, I was gonna say I might say me on this, 22 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:14.200 especially if you're trying to work through something, you know, 23 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:15.599 like should I get this or not? 24 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:22.159 You know, So when I'm driving, probably two thirds of 25 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:23.680 the time I don't have any music going. 26 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:25.599 Yeah, that's the same with me, and I'm just. 27 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:27.879 Thinking, Yeah, I'm working through a problem. I'm trying to 28 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:31.120 figure out a thing, and uh, I have found myself 29 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:35.159 before answering myself and looking at somebody and they're just 30 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:36.719 looking at me kind of you. 31 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:39.400 Know, like I didn't ask anything, So then just put. 32 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:42.599 Your hand up to your like like you're talking. Yeah, 33 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:44.799 so I do. I do on occasion talk to myself, 34 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:45.280 So that's it. 35 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:46.879 Yeah. I would say that's a tie right there. 36 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:50.079 Okay, here's the second one. Who's most likely to start 37 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:53.799 a story and forget the ending? That's every day for me, 38 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.079 every day? Yeah, yeah, how about you do? 39 00:01:58.079 --> 00:01:58.319 Do you ever? 40 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:01.120 I've done that before where you start and it's so good, 41 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.280 you know, how like you're ramping up to the ending. 42 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:06.079 I was in a meeting the other day and it 43 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:09.360 was so important where I was going, and then somebody 44 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:13.280 said something and it totally just took me down another 45 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:14.719 road and I'm like, how does that even apply? 46 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:14.960 Right? 47 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:16.879 So I'm going there and suddenly I can't remember the 48 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:19.039 application of what I was saying. I was like, what 49 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:21.159 was I just talking about Everybody around the room is 50 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:24.280 trying to remind me what I was saying. Oh yeah, 51 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:28.560 it's the worst one. I'm so embarrassed for a storyteller, Yeah, 52 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:31.560 to not remember the ending of their story is terribly embarrassing. 53 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:34.960 Who's most likely to build a blanket for it as 54 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:35.479 an adult? 55 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.800 Now here's the thing I might say you on that one. 56 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:41.960 You know what because of your grandson. 57 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:44.639 I got grandkids? Yeah yeah, yep, yeah. 58 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:47.080 So actually he has a fort in your backyard. 59 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:50.240 Yeah, there's a big fort. The house we bought. The 60 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:56.400 previous owners had this really high end fort customer and 61 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:01.360 it's it's his. Yep, Rowan took it over, is his? Now? Yeah, 62 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:04.240 so that's great. Who's most likely to say you too 63 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:05.840 when the waiter says enjoy your meal. 64 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:07.240 I just did this. 65 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:12.199 I literally you know how you give the person at 66 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:14.759 the airport to We were just on vacation last week. 67 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:17.080 They scan your stuff and you walk down and they 68 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:19.639 say you don't have a good flight, And I responded back, 69 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:20.319 you two. 70 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:23.159 And it's like, well that really wasn't apply. 71 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:26.560 But you ever see Brian Reagan when he yeah, he 72 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:29.800 does that. Yeah, they're like, I have a good good 73 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.319 good luck flight, have a nice flight if you ever 74 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:33.080 get to fly too. 75 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:36.319 Yeah, I hope it's a good one. I just did that. 76 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:39.280 Yeah, that's funny. Okay, And then who's most likely to 77 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:44.599 google do penguins have knees? At two am? 78 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:44.919 Hm? 79 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:48.120 Oh see that's tricky. Now. I'm a night owl. All. 80 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:52.080 I love staying up late, but normally if I'm staying 81 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:56.479 up late, it's either a documentary that I'm watching. Oh yeah, yeah, 82 00:03:56.680 --> 00:03:58.479 which my wife is like, why are you watching a 83 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:00.319 World War two documentary yet? 84 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.240 One am? Either that? 85 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:06.080 Or something just like completely dumb funny, you know, like 86 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:07.080 one of the two of those. 87 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:10.240 Right, So you're not You're not. Your grain's not just 88 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:11.520 running wild at two am? 89 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:12.479 Yeah? 90 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:17.319 Yeah, me either. I am a sound asleep at two am. Yeah, 91 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:21.519 so I'm usually at eleven o'clock midnight kind of a person. Yeah, 92 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:23.279 when I go to sleep, but I put my head 93 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:24.920 on the pillow and I'm out in five minutes. Yeah, 94 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.079 I don't. I don't. Probably not once a month do 95 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:30.759 I have an O in the middle of the Yeah, yeah, 96 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:34.319 not hardly ever does it happen? So that's definitely not 97 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:38.079 me doing that one, Although I am curious do they 98 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:39.759 have knees? I've never even thought of that. 99 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:41.920 That is a good question. 100 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:42.920 Let's google it right now. 101 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.399 I can picture the leg and yeah, you. 102 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:49.759 Know, the thin leg and normally if they're have a 103 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:52.560 small you know, just a newborn penguin. 104 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:55.279 Google says, yes, penguins do have knees. 105 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:57.800 So maybe it's further up. I don't know. 106 00:04:57.879 --> 00:04:59.759 Yeah, it says although their knees are tucked up inside 107 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:02.199 their that's been hidden by feathers. They possess a femur, 108 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:05.079 a knee joint, a tibia, and amphibia in each like 109 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:06.879 just like humans and other animals. Yea, you just can't 110 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:10.319 see it for hidden knees. Yeah, Okay, are they embarrassed? 111 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:14.920 They embarrassed about their knees. Yes, So anyways, there you go. Now, 112 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:17.199 you know, it's no wonder people tune in. 113 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:20.480 It's right. 114 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:26.319 It's uh information that we bring to the table. So 115 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:31.720 that's funny. So now you're a documentary guy, Yeah, I 116 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.160 love document And then do you ever search weird stuff 117 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:35.800 like that where it just crosses you might know, not 118 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:37.519 not at two am, but just all of a sudden go. 119 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:40.439 Not normally normally how it starts a dog, you know, 120 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:44.240 how the algorithm knows you. So a documentary will come up, 121 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:46.600 and then I go down the rabbit trail, you know, 122 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:48.759 so like I'll watch one and then like, oh, this 123 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:52.319 one's interesting about why there's no bridge between you know, 124 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:55.040 North America and South America and you know, through the 125 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:57.360 dairy and gap. So then now I gotta watch that one. 126 00:05:57.439 --> 00:05:59.560 So then then you just kind of go down this 127 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:01.240 rabbit trails. 128 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:04.040 So so a documentary kind of person that usually means 129 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:06.439 you're pretty curious kind of is that? Is that the 130 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:10.000 I think curiosity is an important trait that we don't 131 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:10.879 celebrate enough. 132 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:13.439 Right mind order doesn't understand that. 133 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:17.519 She comes downstairs and on Saturday, I'm watching like the 134 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:18.360 History Channel. 135 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:19.920 She's like, Dad, what is this? 136 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:22.519 Yeah? Well good? 137 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:22.759 Well. 138 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:26.120 I think a good, healthy sense of curiosity helps you 139 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:30.600 become a renaissance kind of a man, where you curiosity 140 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.639 drives you to learn lots of different things, lots of 141 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:37.240 different things. I just talked about this, not the brag, Wesley, Yeah, 142 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:40.680 I hate the brag. I'm I think humility is one 143 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:45.279 of my favorite traits. But I was reading and I like, 144 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:49.240 I like to read the headlines. I don't like to 145 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:50.920 read articles a lot of times, I know, I don't 146 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:54.240 want news, uh, news websites or whatever to tell me 147 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.560 what to think is I rarely watch the news. I 148 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.560 don't want talking heads to tell me what to believe. 149 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:00.639 You don't want to commentator to telling you what you 150 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:01.600 should think about. 151 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:05.639 I can't stand that, and I don't need them to 152 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:08.279 tell me. Nine times this hour, the exact same thing 153 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:12.279 didn't tell me what to think about it. So usually 154 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:14.279 I'll read my news and most of the time it's 155 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.600 just headlines. Well then I love to just kind of 156 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.959 cruise through all of the headlines for the day from 157 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:22.600 maybe six or seven or eight or ten different sources. 158 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:24.720 Well then all of a sudden, you know, like Wall 159 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:27.680 Street Journal or whatever. I think I was in one 160 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.199 of the science magazines, come across this thing and it 161 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:35.480 was talking about math process to be able to estimate 162 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:37.680 whole numbers of things. And I read this thing and 163 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:39.439 that I'm like, you're never going to believe what I 164 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:41.560 just read about how to figure out estimates better. And 165 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:43.240 everybody's looking at me, their eyes are rolling back in 166 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:45.000 their head. I was like, this is the most amazing 167 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:46.680 thing ever. And I'm not a big math guy, but 168 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.920 this was a brilliant It's how the British were able 169 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.759 to figure out how many tanks estimate how many tanks 170 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:57.040 the Nazis had world War Two, and it's a fabulous 171 00:07:57.160 --> 00:07:59.759 algorithm that they worked out and it's super simple. 172 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:00.360 I love it. 173 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:03.399 And everybody's like, you are so weird, right, But there's 174 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:05.560 just this weird curiosity. I think that's one of the 175 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:07.759 reasons why our buddies, because we wind up talking to 176 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:10.959 each other about really weird stuff in the office. Sometimes well, hey, 177 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:16.600 talking about I don't know. I was going to say, 178 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:17.480 talking about weird stuff. 179 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:22.040 But that was a good transition. 180 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:26.079 Yeah, yeah, So I don't even have a bad here's 181 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:28.839 the bad transition. I don't have a bad for this one. 182 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:30.839 Usually we set a goal to have like the worst 183 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:34.759 possible position from the goofy segment into the Bible study part. 184 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:39.159 But we are in John chapter eight and we're going 185 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:41.519 to read one through eleven, and this is one of 186 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:45.200 the sweetest passages. And to be honest with you, there's 187 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:49.600 some curiosity for me in this passage that I'm looking 188 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:51.759 forward to talking about. In John chapter eight, verse one, 189 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:54.320 it says Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, which 190 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:57.480 is just outside the city of Jerusalem. But early the 191 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.399 next morning he was back again at the temple. A 192 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:04.200 crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 193 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:06.600 As he was speaking the teacher's religious law, and the 194 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:08.879 Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the 195 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:11.120 act of adultery, and they put her in front of 196 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:13.879 the crowd. Teacher. They said, this woman was caught in 197 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:17.200 the act of adultery. The law, Moses says, to stone her, 198 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:20.000 what do you say. They were trying to trap him 199 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:22.600 into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus 200 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:24.559 stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger, 201 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:26.600 and they kept demanding an answer. So he stood up 202 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.480 again and said, all right, but let the one who 203 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:31.080 was never sinned throw the first stone. And then he 204 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:34.159 stooped down again and wrote in the dust. When the 205 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.000 accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning 206 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.639 with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the 207 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:41.960 middle of the crowd with a woman. And then Jesus 208 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:44.159 stood up again and said to the woman, where are 209 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:47.720 your accusers? Didn't even one of them condemn you, No, Lord, 210 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:51.240 she said, and Jesus said neither do I go and 211 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:53.720 sin no more. Yeah, there you go, man. This is 212 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:55.159 one of my favorite stories in the Bible. 213 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:56.840 Yeah, that's a great story. 214 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:00.279 And I want to point out one thing here, and 215 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:02.559 it's in verse three and it says as he was 216 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:04.960 speaking that the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees 217 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:09.159 brought a woman who had been caught in the act. 218 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:13.879 So can you imagine how embarrassed this woman was so 219 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:17.600 not that they heard that she was an adultery, she 220 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:21.120 was caught in the very act of adultery. So she 221 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:26.120 has probably embarrassed, ashamed, doesn't even want to show her face, 222 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:31.720 and they're bringing her before Jesus, this religious leader, to 223 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:33.519 see what Jesus has to say about this. 224 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:36.759 So that's just one point that just the gravity of 225 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:37.240 the moment. 226 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:39.240 I always read this and she was caught in the 227 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:42.480 act of adultery, and you're like, oh, right, the humiliation, 228 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:46.039 the shame, everything she was doing was laid bare in 229 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:49.279 front of everybody. Everybody in their culture knew this was 230 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:53.639 a death penalty issue. But I always wonder, where's the dude. Yeah, 231 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:56.919 she was caught in the act. Yeah there were two 232 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.879 of them. Yeah right, so where's the dude. Yeah, and 233 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:03.159 they just bring the woman out right to do this. 234 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:05.320 And what they're trying to do is they're trying to 235 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.039 use it against Jesus, because if Jesus says, well, stoner, 236 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:11.519 then the Pharisees would say, where's Jesus mercy and love? 237 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:13.240 All he ever talks about love? But now he wants 238 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.840 this woman executed. Yeah, and if he doesn't say, if 239 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:19.360 he says, disobey the law, what kind of prophet is 240 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:21.120 he to disobey God's law? 241 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:23.600 And they were constantly doing this to Jesus. 242 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.159 Yeah, yeah, So it wasn't about the woman's sin. 243 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:30.200 Yeah, yeah, they could have carried they wanted to entrap Jesus. 244 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:31.120 It was just an entrapment. 245 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:32.320 Yeah. Yeah. It was terrible. 246 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:34.240 So there's this really great note in the Life Application 247 00:11:34.279 --> 00:11:38.759 Study Bible says, imagine the complete humiliation of being in 248 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:43.120 this woman's place. She stood alone in public, surrounded by 249 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.600 angry accusers. They had laid bare her terrible sin for 250 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:49.120 all to see, and the man caught with her was 251 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:52.559 nowhere to be seen. Jesus rescued her from her sin 252 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:56.440 and her shame and her indignity and death. Jesus knows 253 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:00.000 your worst sins, and yet he offers you compassion and mercy. 254 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.159 Let his mercy give you the courage to face your guilt. 255 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:06.879 His leve will overcome your shame. Don't deny it or despair. 256 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:10.080 Be sorry for your sins, Seek the Lord and receive 257 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:13.679 his forgiveness. I love that that whole thing, right, It's 258 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:18.960 just such a beautiful thing that she's completely exposed, so humiliated. 259 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:25.080 And Jesus goes watch this, and in the most unbelievable way, 260 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.000 Jesus solves us. So he stoops down in the dirt. 261 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:31.799 He starts drawing in the dirt, gidling doing something. 262 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:33.879 And then they. 263 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:35.759 Say, so, what do you say we should do? Should 264 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:39.120 we stoneer? Yeah, And Jesus sends up and he says, well, 265 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:42.559 why don't you that has no sin? Why don't you 266 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.360 cast the first stone? And then it says he stooped 267 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:48.320 down again and wrote in the dust, And man, when 268 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:49.440 I get to Heaven, I want to find out what 269 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:52.480 he's writing. But I'm hoping he was writing the names 270 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:55.559 of those very Pharisees that also had an affair with 271 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:59.440 this woman. How great would that is? Like, Yeah, Bob Johnson, 272 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:04.200 you were here last last Thursday. Right, that's I would love. Yeah, 273 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:09.919 because whatever he was writing in the sand, the oldest guys, 274 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:11.600 the ones who had the most experienced they were the 275 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:14.080 ones who left first. Yeah, because you know they had 276 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:17.519 also the most sins. Yeah, right, yeah, And whatever it 277 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:19.759 was Jesus was writing down because he said, whoever has 278 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:22.519 the no sin, you go ahead and cast first stone. 279 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:24.600 And the old guys start leaving, until finally the youngest 280 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:26.279 and it's only Jesus standing there with her. 281 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:26.559 Yeah. 282 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:27.519 An amazing thing. 283 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:31.519 And it says that they kept demanding an answer. This 284 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:34.639 is the funny, funny part about this. But the thing 285 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:38.039 that I like about this is they kept demanding an answer. 286 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:40.600 And I look at this from a very practical perspective 287 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:43.759 as it relates to us. You don't always have to 288 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.639 give a response to people, no, right when they're demanding 289 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:47.720 an answer to something. 290 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:49.840 That's just a side note right there. 291 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:52.799 They kept they kept demanding an answer while he's just 292 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:53.559 writing in the dirt. 293 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:57.679 Yeah, just completely ignoring them at peace as they're pestering 294 00:13:57.720 --> 00:13:57.879 up them. 295 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.120 This is why I hope he's writing names, yeah, because 296 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:04.720 they keep he's writing their names. You know, let's say 297 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:06.720 there's ten of them, or twelve in there, right, and 298 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:09.559 he goes, Bob is here, and Bill is here, and 299 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:12.519 Dave is here, and Jim is here. Right, he's right's right? 300 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:15.240 Not the names that would be odd. Yeah, And they're like, 301 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:17.120 what are you doing? And then they start to demanding. 302 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:19.840 They're so confident in their trap. 303 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:20.519 Yeah. 304 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:23.919 And one of the most enjoyable things sometimes when you 305 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:27.039 do get somebody trapped is how confident they were until 306 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:30.360 they realize their trap. Yeah right, It is kind of 307 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:35.240 a and so these guys are so confident they keep demanding, 308 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:37.840 we got you now, buddy. Yeah, and then he stands 309 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:41.639 there he goes, okay, sure you're right, you're right, she's 310 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.840 supposed to be stoned. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, just just 311 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:46.879 just make sure the person who's never sinned you throw 312 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:50.840 the first one, and then we'll all throw some. Yeah. 313 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:53.639 What I also like about this, Jeff, is the fact 314 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:56.159 that and I think we need to be careful here. 315 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:57.200 Jesus. 316 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:02.360 At no point did he cover over her sin or 317 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:04.759 did he say her sin was okay, No, no, no, 318 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:08.120 that's not what Jesus was saying here. He wasn't saying that, Yeah, 319 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:10.759 what you do, it's not that badger, you know, he 320 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:14.200 didn't do that there, he was simply showing compassion to 321 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:14.559 the woman. 322 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:18.240 That's right. So there's nowhere in the Bible that says 323 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.600 that a woman would would have to be put the 324 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:23.200 death on her own for having an affair like this. 325 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:26.399 As a matter of fact, in both Leviticus twenty and 326 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:31.159 in Deuteronomy twenty or twenty two, it says both the 327 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.240 man and the woman. So they were already breaking the law. 328 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:37.519 Coming to Jesus, this was already a moot point. This 329 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:41.200 was already a non prosecutable crime. They were caught in 330 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.639 the act, but were only bringing the woman. Means we 331 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:47.080 can't prosecute this. They knew the law right, but they 332 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:49.960 wanted Jesus to put her to death because they would 333 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:54.799 have within their culture for for so long they had 334 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:58.240 abused that law and they had gone beyond. And if 335 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.320 they get the woman, they would execute the woman, leave 336 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:04.519 the man free. Men had totally different rights and experiences 337 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:06.720 than the women did. And so this is one of 338 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:10.960 those moments where Jesus elevates the woman right. He treats 339 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:13.879 the woman better than society was treating the woman. He 340 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:17.320 does this all throughout his ministry, where he elevates women. 341 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:20.559 It was women who brought the first evidence that Jesus 342 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:25.039 had resurrected. They they're oftentimes their testimonies weren't even accepted 343 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.879 in court. Jesus allowed the women to be serving in 344 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:32.879 the ministry with him. All these things. He elevated women. 345 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:35.639 He did so much ministry for women, He healed women, 346 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:39.039 he did so many things. But for their culture at 347 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:43.039 the time, women were second rate and expendable. And so 348 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:46.919 that's why they regularly broke the law. And Jesus is saying, hey, 349 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.039 if you're going to be precise on the law, let's 350 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:52.320 be precise on the law. Right, where's the man? He 351 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:54.799 didn't bring a man. Okay, well, then if you're without sin, 352 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:58.399 they had sinned just against that law. They brought the 353 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:00.679 woman and didn't bring the man. That may have been 354 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:02.679 the only thing he was saying, yeah, right, And then 355 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:04.480 they all realized, oh, wait a minute, we didn't do 356 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:06.160 this the right way. 357 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.960 So, Jeff, how can we apply this to our lives. 358 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:13.119 You know, there's someone reading this, and maybe there's someone 359 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:16.640 you know, it could be a family member, friend, neighbor, whoever. 360 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:19.519 They feel the person is not living right, the person 361 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:22.599 is in sin. They're ready to condemn them, they're ready 362 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.559 to pick up stones. How can we apply this in 363 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:26.119 our life? 364 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:31.599 Yeah, I think first of all, Jesus did not condemn her. 365 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:37.000 Our sin condemns us. Yeah, right, So the wrong that 366 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:42.359 we do is what condemns us in this situation. Jesus 367 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:44.440 had the right to be the judge. Yeah, he is 368 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:46.160 the judge. The Bible says at the end of time, 369 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:49.319 he'll be the judge. But in this moment, he said, hey, listen, 370 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:53.200 they came to accuse you. In the perfection of the law, 371 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:58.359 your partner should have been with you. So he said, 372 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:00.759 where are your accusers? And she said, I have none, Lord, 373 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:02.119 And he said, then I'm not accusing you either. 374 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:02.599 Yeah. 375 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:04.920 But then he says, go and sin no more. So 376 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:08.839 he acknowledges her sin. He acknowledges that what she did 377 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:12.200 was wrong. And this is the difficulty we have. It 378 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:16.000 is possible for me to love you and disagree with 379 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:19.799 your with your lifestyle. Yeah, it is possible. Right. I 380 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:22.319 loved my children when they were growing up in my home, 381 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:25.359 but I didn't always approve of their lifestyle. I do 382 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:30.720 not have to endorse or affirm sinful lifestyles. And at 383 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:32.960 the same time, if I'm like Jesus, I'm also going 384 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:36.240 to be loving. Yeah, so I don't need to condemn 385 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:39.079 you because of it. Your your own lifestyle condemns. 386 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:42.279 You, which oftentimes we as Christians do. Yeah, we will 387 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:44.599 beat the person over the head with the Bible, and 388 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:48.160 we want to add further condemnation on top of the condemnations. 389 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:50.880 Right, it's oftentimes we want to make them feeling yeah 390 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:55.240 the page, that's right, yeah, and which Jesus did not do, 391 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:58.359 that's right. Yeah, so he does affirm the law. Yeah, 392 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:03.039 he says, all right, you right, that is all. But 393 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.400 then he's really challenging us. A lot of times, I 394 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:08.880 think we can rise up above the person that's offended, 395 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:12.559 thinking that our sins aren't as bad as their son. Yeah, 396 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:15.000 and we forget that my sins put Jesus on the 397 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:16.000 cross just like their sins. 398 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:18.680 But that's a really good point of how I think 399 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.359 we have degrees of sin. Yeah, yeah, so my sin, Jeff, 400 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:22.960 isn't as. 401 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:24.200