John 8:1-11

Micah J. Sturm

Here’s one of my sermon outlines that summarizes a familiar scene—Jesus responding to the charges made against the woman caught in adultery.

I. The scribes and Pharisees were not in the wrong by their desire to keep God’s Law.

They were wrong because their calloused hearts rejected the very Lawgiver who now walked among them.

II. Selfish motives led the Pharisees and scribes to “edit” God’s Law and use it as a weapon to destroy lives rather than as a mirror that reveals just how sinful sin really is.

III. Jesus responded to their persistent pleas for Him to adjust God’s Law by leveling the ground on the sin issue–“her” sin, their sin, and all sin was still sin.

They dropped their rocks and kept their sin.

IV. Jesus never condemns anyone who stands before Him humiliated by their sin!

V. Jesus never condoned her sin. The One who is holy love loved her enough to tell her to stop sinning and gave her a new life.

The Church must do likewise.