The story of the woman taken in adultery to illustrate the harmonious interplay between God's law and His grace. When Christ confronted the accusers with their own sinfulness, they departed, leaving Him to offer mercy to the woman. This demonstrates that while the law reveals our guilt and helplessness, Christ's grace provides salvation and the power to live a new life. The message concludes by urging listeners to turn from self-reliance to Christ, who offers forgiveness and transformation.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Greetings to our radio listeners because some have never heard the gospel presented in simplicity. It's becoming that every Christian should grasp every opportunity of telling the story of God's redeeming grace. Christ is a tried and proved Savior, and we speak from experience when we recommend him to all who are still unsaved.
Our prayer is that this program may be a blessing to you. The Lord has made the nation and all the good of me. The snow is now in fire, the greater land of me. The holy day is earth, and so the day the day you are invited no bird is like a bear the sea is that comes the time that comes the time that comes when is the day that you may come that you may come that you may come that you know that you may come that you know that you know May the flicker the night the fire on the night And certainly
in salvation, so here today I meet, And still is now in glory, while on the right day I see, Thy truth will make you save me, O Christ your very bread. excession is a pain gone from wild to deep despair but still it has come the Christ has come, the Christ has come, the name has come, the name has come, the name has heard the song that moves the world away Pray the children of my life, free.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Many spiritual lessons can be learned from the habits of little creatures.
In the Proverbs, the ants are mentioned twice. The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. Then again, Go to the ant thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise. To the little children we tell the story of a certain grasshopper and a certain ant that lived in the same field. All summer long the grasshopper hopped and jumped and made merry. But the wise little ant kept busy storing her food for the cold winter months. Ho ho, said the grasshopper, laughing at the little ant. All you do all day long is work. Why don't you come and play with me? As winter came, the grasshopper grew colder and colder and so hungry that he couldn't, that he could hardly live.
One day he saw the little ant and said, How about giving me something to eat and letting me in? I am very sorry that I made fun of you last summer. But the little ant said, Your chance is all gone, Mr. Grasshopper. You fooled away your life in the field, and now it is too late. The stupid Grasshopper went sadly away. and soon died a miserable death. You and I may not think much of that grasshopper, but you know, some people are exactly like him. They go to the worldly pleasures and they try to have fun instead of storing up treasures for heaven. Christians are working for the Lord Jesus Christ because they love him.
They are laying up treasures in heaven. They are like the ant, and perhaps some of you who are listening to this broadcast are more like the grasshopper. You are trying to flit away your days, and there's absolutely nothing of value in all of the days that you are wasting. The Bible says, Prepare to meet thy God. Those who do not heed the warning will someday discover how great is the folly, but it will be too late. Listen to these verses again. The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. That's Proverbs thirty and verse twenty-five.
Then again in the same book, Proverbs six and verse six, go to the ant thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise. When peace like a river, I stand at my way, with all those I sing, let them go.
For ever my love, soon as I hear you say, is with my soul with my soul with my soul my soul I live as I live on my life as I live on my life on my soul The saints
have killed all day, the joy of the cross. Let this bless us who walk the call of the Lord. As I stand divided, I sing all the praise, and have killed it. The glory is the day. The sun shall be shining, the world shall be the light, and the strong.
The sun shall be set, and the sun shall be lit. This is well. is well, it is my love, where my soul arose.
I have a joy of my love, so I have such a place, this is well, My poem is entitled, The Value of a Thorn. Strange gift indeed, a thorn to prick, to pierce into the very quick, to cause perpetual sense of pain. Strange gift, and yet it was given for gain. Unwelcome, yet it came to stay, nor could it even be prayed away. It came to fill its God-planned place, a life-enriching means of grace.
God's grace thorns, oh, what forms they take, what piercing, smarting pain they make, and yet each one in love is sent, and always just for blessing men. And so whate'er thy thorn may be, from God accepted willingly. But reckon Christ, his life, his power, to keep thee in thy most trying hour. And sure thy life will richer grow, he grace sufficient will bestow, and in heaven's mourning thy joy will be, that by his thorn he strengthens thee.
I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold. I'd rather be his. than her breeches untold. I'd rather have she's old than the false as all learned. I'd rather be made by his nails his hair.
than to be the king of a vast domain and be held in sin's dread's way. I'd rather have been all, than enwishing this world afore today.
He's fairer than lilies, a prayerless gloom, He's sweeter than honey from out the cold. He's all that my hungering spirit I'd rather have these laws and let him lead.
Want to be the king of the vast domain and be held in I'd rather have you go than in lifting this world of hope.
And now just before the message from God's precious word, the choir is singing the little chorus I Know a Fount, where sins are washed away. While they're singing this chorus, you may want to get your Bible and turn to John's Gospel Chapter Eight. Our scripture reading is from John's Gospel Chapter Eight. And now the choir is singing, I Know a Fount, where sins are washed away. I know a fount, where sins are washed away.
I shall stand with my little friend today. and darkness day by night they could see let the thunder break down with those who don't count for I am reading from John's Gospel, Chapter Eight.
And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him. And he sat down and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken an adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said unto him, Master, this woman was taken an adultery in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us that she should be stoned. But what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast the stone at her.
And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more. In the seventh chapter of John's Gospel we have the record of the chief priests and Pharisees sending officers to arrest cranks.
But the officers returned without carrying out their mission. When they were asked, Why have you not brought him, they replied, Never man spake like this man. It is almost evident from this that even in our Lord's day the policeman came to know the Savior. However, the cold-blooded religionists were no doubt enraged because their scheme fell through, so they hit on a new scheme by bringing before him a woman taken in adultery. They brought this woman to Christ not because they were shocked at her conduct, still less because they were grieved that God's holy law had been broken. Their object was to use this woman to further their own evil design.
They were anxious to discredit the Lord Jesus before the people. They did not wait until they could ask him in private, but interrupting as he was teaching the people, they rudely challenged him to solve what must have seemed to them an unsolvable problem. They were certain that they could accuse him by whatever answer he would give. The woman had been taken in adultery, and the act of adultery required, the law rather required, that she should be stoned. But what sayest thou? Had he said, let her go, they would accuse him of being an enemy of the law. And they had heard him testify, Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets.
I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. On the other hand, if he would give command to stone her, they would have ridiculed the fact that he claimed to be the friend of publicans and sinners. No doubt they were satisfied that they had him completely cornered. for it was evidently a question that even the Sanhedrin could not agree upon, some leaning to the lenient side and others to the legal carrying out of the Law of Moses. So far as human reasoning is concerned, it was the profoundest moral problem how justice and mercy could be harmonized. The Law of Righteousness demands the punishment of its transgressors.
God's holy character cannot allow that which is defiled to enter his presence. What then is to become of the poor sinner? He is a transgressor of the law, and his moral pollution is manifest. His only hope lies in mercy. His salvation is only possible by grace. But how can grace and mercy flow to the sinner without slighting God's holy character? Human wisdom could never have found an answer to this question. Christ is about to demonstrate the answer. First he stooped down with his finger wrote on the ground. I suppose that his religious enemies thought he was stalling for time, and mistook his silence for embarrassment.
They continued to press their question upon him, until the searching reply came. He that is without sin among you let him first cast the stone at her. Here we have the lawgiver himself turning the searching light on these men who pretended to have a high regard for the law of Moses. Even today you will find a cunning subtlety about those who profess to keep the law as a means of salvation. They take the liberty to interpret the law of Moses to suit themselves and their legalistic religious setup. In this incident Christ upheld the law by adding all of the details that accompanying it.
God's law is holy, and none but a holy hand can enforce the law's sentence. The law required two witnesses before its sentence could be executed, and those witnesses must assist in the carrying out of the sentence. In this case, there was no one left to testify against the woman, and so the law was powerless to touch her. This paved the way for Christ to act in grace. The law and the gospel of grace work hand in hand to bring the sinner to Christ. The law cannot save. It cannot even help save. That is not the purpose of the law. The law can only bring a sinner to his wit's end, where he will stand helpless at mercy's gate.
And God will never save a sinner until he is conscious of guilt and owns his undone condition. If you are still unsaved and think that you are pretty good, it is evident that you have never looked at yourself in the sight of God's inflexible law. Face it, and you will change your mind and become conscious that the best thing that can be said about you is that you are a lost, guilty, hell-deserving sinner because you stand guilty before God's perfect law. I wonder if you have carefully noticed that there is no promise made to the person who partly keeps the law. and he who claims to keep the law, the whole law without offending in one point, is not telling the truth.
We must give credit where credit is due, and at least the enemies of Christ were faithful to their conscience, and beginning at the eldest, even to the last they went out one by one. The searching rays of divine truth turned the heat on them. The Lord was still writing on the ground, and after the last accuser had left, the woman had a chance to slip away also. But we have here a picture of convicted religionist leaving the Savior and a convicted confess sinner staying in his presence. There are many people who have been convicted of their sins, and instead of coming to the Savior for eternal length, they are running away from the only one who can meet their need.
Let me press it home to your heart and conscience. How long have you been trying to run away from the Lord? How long have you been trying to cover and hide your sin? I want to speak to some of you religious people pretending that you are saved. When down deep in your heart you know that you're not saved at all. Where do you get the nerve to tell people that you are saved when your faithful conscience thunders you are as lost as anyone can be? That's what I call running away from God. It's a wonder that you're not perfectly miserable. I don't know of any better way to be guaranteed misery than to dodge the voice of conscience.
Do you know what happens to a person who has been awakened to see his lost condition who runs away from God? I'll tell you. If he keeps on running long enough, he'll run right into hell. He's going in that direction and he can't miss it. There's only one alternative, and it is a blessed one. Do what the condemned woman did. Face the issue in the presence of Christ. Tell the truth. I'm guilty. I'm helpless. I'm lost. I stand at Mercy's gate. Mercy, what hast thou to offer? Mercy will reply, I have a loving Savior to offer, who took your place in judgment and died for all of your sins on Calvary's cross.
justice has been satisfied you may only be forgiven when you receive that savior as your only hope for eternity besides washing you from the penalty of all your sins this savior will give you a power that will enable you to live a life pleasing to god whose constraining love will deliver you from the bondage of sin some who have used the scriptures by taking verses out of the context and stress their own fancies will tell us, when Christ said to the woman, Go and sin no more, he taught sinless perfection. But the rest of the Scriptures will not permit such abuse of interpretation. Remember the context.
Christ was put on the spot by his enemy, and they expected him to condone the woman's sins and thus accuse him of being unrighteous. In the two statements, neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more. He handled the situation in a very artful manner by offering pardon to the guilty and at the same time expressing his disapproval of her sins. Am I speaking to an unsafe person tonight? Your sins must be a tremendous burden. You're carrying the load of your sin day after day. you should do the wise thing come to that same Savior who is able and willing to save guilty sinners he's not going to condone your sin but he loves you and he is able to save you and deliver you from a life of sin to change your life completely this very hour you may be saved if you will turn away from yourself and all of your doing and all of your trying to save yourself and turn The open arms of a Savior is waiting to help you, waiting to save you, and that for all eternity.
Every soul I pray the way, let there be the Lord, and He will surely give you the bread, and trust me in His word. God, we trust Him, all we trust Him, all we trust Him now. He will save you, He will save you now. Lord, Jesus, let his precious blood be blessed to be done.
For Christ is the Savior's life, and one is wide and wide. I'll be trusting, I'll be trusting, I'll be trusting now. He will save you, he will save you, he will save you now. Yes, he can live the good of things, and he will lead to hell. today, and you are fully blessed.
Father, you come here, only come here, only come here now. He will save you. He will save you. He will save you now. is all we may, and I will all be known. With heaven and celestial way, break your immortal throne. All we can see, all we can see, all we can see, He will save you.