It is Finished | Go and Sin No More | Pastor Rodney Thrift

Rodney Thrift - April 19, 2021

John 7:53-8:12 (NLT) 53 Then the meeting broke up, and everybody went home. 1Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. 4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?” 6 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. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust. 9 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 the woman. 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?” 11 “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.” 12 Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, “I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won’t have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life.”

SOUL TATTOO: Life begins at the feet of Jesus.

5 Unhealthy ways to judge…Erwin Lutzer Who are you to Judge?

Superficial judgement is wrong.
Proverbs 18:13 (ESV) 13 If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.
“Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood.” Stephen Covey
John 7:24 (ESV) 24 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.

Hypocritical judgement is wrong.
Matthew 7:1-5 (ESV) 1“Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Harsh, unforgiving judgement is wrong.
Matthew 5:7 (ESV) 7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Matthew 7:2 (ESV) 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Self-righteous judgement is wrong.
James 4:6 (NLT) 6 And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Untrue judgement is wrong.
Proverbs 19:5 (ESV) 5 A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.
John 8:9b-12 (ESV) And Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” 12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

10 “It is Finished” Lessons Learned from Jesus:

Jesus wants us to look inward before judging others.
John 8:3-6 (ESV) 3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. 4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?” 6 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.
Jesus wants us to learn how to put our stones down.
John 8:7-9 (ESV) 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!”
There will come a day, when it is just you and Jesus.
John 8:8-9 (ESV) 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust. 9 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 the woman.
Jesus was punished for us, He doesn’t want to punish us.
John 8:10-11 (ESV) 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?” 11 “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”
Jesus wants to forgive our sin.
John 8:11 (ESV) 11 “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”
Jesus wants to lift off our condemnation.
John 8:10 (ESV) 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”
Romans 8:1 (ESV) 1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Jesus gives us our dignity back.
John 8:10 (ESV) 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”
John 2:4 (ESV) 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”
Jesus calls us to another lifestyle, a lifestyle of holiness.
John 8:11 (ESV) 11 “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”
1 Peter 1:14-16 (NLT) 14 So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. 15 But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. 16 For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”
Jesus is coming back again.
Zechariah 14:4 (ESV) 4 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 (ESV) 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
Like the woman, Jesus wants us walking in the light and not in the darkness.
John 8:12 (ESV) 12 Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, “I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won’t have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life.”

SOUL TATTOO: Life begins at the feet of Jesus.