From the campus
of Andrews University
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this is New Perceptions
with Dr. Dwight K. Nelson.
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From the highest of heights
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To the depths of the sea
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Creation's
revealing Your majesty
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From the colors of Fall
to the fragrance of Spring
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Every creature unique
in the song that it sings
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All exclaiming
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Indescribable, uncontainable
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You placed the stars
in the sky are amazing God
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And You know them by name
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You are amazing God
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All powerful, untamable
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Awestruck we fall to our knees
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As we humbly proclaim
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You are amazing
God You are amazing God
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Who has told ev'ry
lightning bolt where it shoul go
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Or seen heavenly
store houses laden with snow
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Who imagined the sun and
gives source to its light
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Yet conceals it to bring
us the coolness of night?
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None can fathom
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Indescribable, uncontainable
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You placed the starts in the sky
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And You know them by name
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You are amazing God
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All powerful, untamable
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Awestruck we fall to our knees
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As we humbly proclaim
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You are amazing God
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Indescribable, uncontainable
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You placed the starts in the sky
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And You know them by name
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You are amazing God
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Incomparable, unchangeable
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You see the depths of my heart
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And You love me the same
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You are amazing God
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Lord, make me an
instrument of Thy peace
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Where there is
hatred, let me sow love
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Where there is
injury, Thy pardon
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Lord, where there is distort
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May there be You--
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Where there is doubt, Faith
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Lord, make me an instrument
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Lord, make me an instrument
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Lord, make me an
instrument of Thy peace
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Thy Peace
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Lord, make me an
instrument of Thy peace
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Where there is
despair, let there be hope
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Where there is darkness, light
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Where there is sadness
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Where there is sadness
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May there be joy
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May there be joy
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May there be joy
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Joy
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Lord, make me an instrument
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Lord, make me an instrument
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Lord, make me an
instrument of Thy peace
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Thy peace
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May we all be in peace
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Peace and only peace
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And may that peace
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Come onto each of hopes
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Let's pray.
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Oh Lord, Bradley's
prayer is our prayer.
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Please, Lord,
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make me an
instrument of thy peace
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especially today
with this subject.
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We pray in Jesus name, amen.
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Now early in the morning
Jesus came again into the temple
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and all the people came to Him
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and He sat down and taught them.
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Then the Scribes and
the Pharisees brought to Him
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a woman caught in adultery.
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When they had
set her in the midst
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they said to Him, "Teacher,
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this woman was caught in
adultery in the very act."
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In 1850 the New England
author Nathaniel Hawthorne
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composed what some considered
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to be the greatest single
piece of American literature,
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"The Scarlet Letter."
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You had to read
it in high school.
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And a tale set
in Puritan Village
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outside Boston in the 1640s.
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A tale of a young
woman named Hester Prynne,
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her out-of-wedlock
infant daughter Pearl,
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the father of the
baby a Puritan minister
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named Arthur
Dimmesdale and an aged physician
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named Roger Chillingworth.
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In that tale of
"The Scarlet Letter,"
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Hawthorne masterfully
composes the clashing
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moralities of
our fragile humanity.
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Guilt and sin,
confession offered,
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forgiveness
denied, sowing and reaping,
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revenge and redemption.
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And all of it is mysteriously
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as you remember woven
into a single piece of fabric.
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As Hawthorne described
it a rag of scarlet cloth
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that assume the
shape of a letter,
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the capital
letter 'A' for adultery.
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Hester Prynne a young woman
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condemned to wear
that scarlet letter
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as a sign of her private
fall and her public shame.
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And Arthur
Dimmesdale the minister
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will bare the
scarlet letter too.
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Though for him it is a secret,
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somehow mysteriously shaped
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onto the pale
flesh of his chest.
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By the time the story is over
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all four
protagonists are indicted.
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The Scarlet Letter,
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"Now early in the morning
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Jesus came
again into the temple,
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and all the people came to Him
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and He sat down and taught them.
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Then the scribes and
the Pharisees brought to Him
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a woman caught in adultery.
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And when they had
set her in the midst,
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they said to Him, Teacher,
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this woman was caught in
adultery in the very act."
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Didn't Nathaniel
Hawthorne draw his inspiration
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from John Chapter 8?
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Probably not.
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And yet in the
early morning shadows
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of this sunlit temple scene
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all of the characters where
the Scarlet Letter save one
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and it's that save
one who is the saving one
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for you and me and our
private scarlet letters.
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Open your Bible with me
please to the fourth gospel.
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We're back in John again today.
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Open your Bible
please to John Chapter 8
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and while you're
doing that we're gonna put
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our title slide on
the screen right now.
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The study guide comes
a bit into the narrative.
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This is the last
word of our series
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this semester
only two pieces left.
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Unbelievable, how
the time has flown by.
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Title of today's
teaching, The Scarlet Letter.
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Those of you who are watching
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on television you can
see that website there
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www.pmchurch.tv.
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We'd love to have
you get the study guide.
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There is a sequence of
seven in the study guide,
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it's a critical piece.
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I hope you'll
download that study guide.
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Those of you who are here
if you don't have a study guide
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put your hand up right now.
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Ushers, thank
you for making sure
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that everybody gets a
study guides, just move quickly.
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Ushers, thank you.
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This is a very
sensitive subject...
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but we can't escape it.
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John 8 is the next
passage for us in our journey
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through the last
word of fourth gospel
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and so hold you hand up.
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In the balcony
hold your hand up,
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if you're sitting
overflow hold your hand up.
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Make sure you
get the study guide.
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All right, let's
go John Chapter 8,
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I'll be in the New
King James Version.
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By the way if you
didn't bring a Bible
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this is one
narrative you want to track.
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Pull the pew Bible
out in front of you.
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It will be Page
720 in your pew Bible.
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Let us go right now John 8:2
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"Now early in the morning
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Jesus came
again into the temple,
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and all the people came to Him,
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and He sat down
and He taught them."
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I mean, he tried
to picture this scene
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the golden rays picking up
the dust flakes in the air,
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streaming through the colonnades
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of that magnificent piece
of architecture in Jerusalem,
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a mighty temple.
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It's like it's the day
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after
Thanksgiving Wal-Mart sale.
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People have been lined
up as it were all night
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to be on this now
crowded courtyard.
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The plaza chocked with people.
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You know, why the people come,
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because the God
that this young Teacher,
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Healer, Messiah
keeps teaching about.
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He's such an attractive God.
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He is not
somebody to be afraid of,
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He is somebody
to be a friend of.
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And the masses are
drawn to that picture.
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So there He is
Jesus early morning
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sun streaming on to
that pastoral scene.
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"Now early in the morning
He came again into the temple,
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and all the people came to Him,
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and He sat down
and He taught them."
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Now here it comes
verse 3 "Then the scribes
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and the Pharisees brought to Him
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a woman caught in adultery."
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And I wish you hit the
pause button right there
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before we finish that text
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because some of you
have a newer translation.
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And you're
noticing that the story
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is bracketed in your Bible
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or it might be in
italics and you're wondering.
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Hey, wait a minute
Dwight, is this really legit?
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Is this a fair
story to be sharing?
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I've done the research.
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Let me tell you that scholars
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almost to a man agree
that the story is authentic.
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The big question
is does the story
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belong here in
the fourth gospel.
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Many scholars feel
that they are to be tucked
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into Luke 21 in that narrative.
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There's a word here
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that John never uses
in his entire gospel.
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We just read it, scribes.
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He's had a hundred opportunities
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to use the words
scribes but he is never used it.
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This is the only place
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and how could it
be an importation.
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Maybe John didn't write it
though the story is authentic.
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Verse 3 "And then the
scribes and the Pharisees
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brought to Him a
woman caught in adultery.
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And when they had
set her in the midst."
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Verse 4 "They said to Him,
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'Teacher, this woman
was caught in adultery,
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in the very act,'"
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Read, we caught her in bed
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with the man who
is not her husband.
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Now we're glad we found You
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so early in the
morning here in the temple.
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We have a question for You.
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Now verse 5 "Moses, in the law,
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commanded us that
such should be stone.
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But what do You have to say?"
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Well, number one,
ladies and gentlemen,
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let's just get the
record straight these experts
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in the law are not
correct about the Law of Moses.
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It was a husband's
role, not their role.
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It's a husband's role.
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You got an issue
bring your spouse.
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It was a husband's role
to do what they're doing.
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And by the way,
never to a public shaming
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like this temple
scene, this is way off
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the playbook of
the mosaic court.
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And also by the way,
the Mosaic Law was clear,
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"Both adulteress
parties were to be brought."
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Where is that guy?
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So often we turn on the woman.
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Where's the guy?
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You can't have
adultery with just her.
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Where's the guy?
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Oh, conveniently
forgotten and left behind.
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Now it's true, the
Mosaic Law does declare
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that if you have
the scarlet letter "A"
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upon your garb
the sentence is death.
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If you're a woman
and you're betrothed
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that means little
higher level of engagement,
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you're engaged and you're caught
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with another
man, death by stoning.
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Mosaic Law however
does not delineate the death
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if she's married.
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It's obvious that not
only have they twisted the law
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these religious leaders but
the fact is this is no trial
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for the scarlet
letter adulterous.
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They could
careless about that woman,
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this is a trial of Jesus,
this is a test, this is a trap.
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They got Him, this is the
perfect storm of a perfect trap
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because if Jesus
said and they're banking
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that He's gonna say this.
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If Jesus says
you know what, guys,
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lay off, give
this woman a break.
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Boom, they turn to the masses
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who're choking
that-- that temple plaza.
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We told you, no
reference for the Law of Moses.
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If however Jesus
would surprise them
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they says okay, good
point, take her out, death.
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They go to racing the Pilate.
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Here is this young upstart
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who is taking the
prerogative of the Roman Empire,
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capital punishment
into His own hands.
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They got Him yes or no.
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Damned if you do,
damned if you don't,
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perfect storm of a perfect trap.
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What say you, young teacher?
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Verse 6 "This
they said, testing Him,
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that they might have something
of which to accuse Him.
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But Jesus stooped down
and wrote on the ground
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with His finger, as
though He did not hear."
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Sometimes it's
okay to play deaf.
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Let me read of bit
a behind the scenes
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depiction in this
inspirational classic
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on the life of
Jesus, The Desire of Ages.
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I'll put it on
the screen for you.
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"Jesus looked for a
moment upon the scene--
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the trembling
victim in her shame,
00:18:07.09\00:18:08.83
the hard-faced dignitaries,
00:18:08.86\00:18:10.22
devoid of even human pity.
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Jesus spirit of stainless purity
shrank from the spectacle.
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Well He knew for what purpose
00:18:16.39\00:18:18.63
this case had
been brought to Him.
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He read the heart,
He knew the character
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and life history of
everyone in His presence.
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These would be
guardians of justice
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had themselves led
their victim into sin,"
00:18:26.36\00:18:30.42
it's called entrapment.
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"That they might
lay a snare for Jesus.
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Giving no sign that He
had heard their question,
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He stooped, and fixing
His eyes on the ground,
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began to write in the dust.
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Impatient and His delay
an apparent indifference,
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the accusers drew
nearer, urging the matter."
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Come on, come on answer us.
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Oh, come on, what you're
talking this, talk, talk.
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"Urging the matter
upon his attention.
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But as their eyes,
following those in Jesus,
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fell upon the
pavement at His feet,
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their countenances changed.
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There, traced before them,
00:19:01.17\00:19:02.90
with the guilty
secrets of their own lives.
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The people, looking
on, saw the sudden change
00:19:05.17\00:19:07.16
in expression, and
pressed forward to discover
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what it was that
they were regarding
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with such
astonishment and shame."
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Can you see it,
what did He write?
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What a stunning
portray of God right here.
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You think about it,
there're only two times
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in the Bible where the
Bible specifically says
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"God wrote with His finger."
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There's a third time, but
it doesn't say, He did it.
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It could have been an angel.
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Two times once
for this finger atop
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that shale summit of Mount Sinai
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when He carves into the stone
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and eternal law nobody can erase
this for as long as time lasts
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with His finger
the Ten Commandments,
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the perfect code
for human happiness.
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The other time
you got it right here
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and isn't that
amazing, isn't that amazing
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that God himself made flesh
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will not
embarrassed even His enemies.
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He puts it in the dust,
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so that one and
the record is gone.
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Amazing Grace as
John Newton put it
00:20:09.96\00:20:12.64
Amazing Love and as
Charles Wesley sang it.
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What a God we have just seen.
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Verse 7 "So when they continued"
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they are not willing
to take no for an answer
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or silence for an answer.
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"When they continued asking Him,
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Jesus raised Himself up and
He said to them." All right.
00:20:32.80\00:20:36.96
"He who is
without sin among you,
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let him throw a
stone at her first."
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Verse 8 "And
again He stooped down
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and wrote on the ground.
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Then those who heard it,
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being convicted
by their conscience,
00:20:54.19\00:20:57.13
went out one by one,
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beginning with the
oldest even to the last.
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And Jesus was left alone,
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and the woman
standing in the midst.
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And when Jesus
has raised Himself up
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and saw no one but
the woman, He said to her,
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'Woman, where are
those accusers of yours?
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Has no one condemned you?'"
00:21:18.52\00:21:22.78
She stands in
the posture of shame,
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her eyes glued
to the temple floor,
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her hair disheveled.
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Remember, they
dragged her out of bed.
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Her mascara leaving dark trails
00:21:35.23\00:21:38.66
because of the tears
to her bruised cheeks.
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I imagine Jesus
steps forward to that woman
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and He takes her little chin
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and He raises her
from the posture of shame
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until she's
looking at Him in His eyes.
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Woman, where are they?
00:21:58.84\00:22:03.88
Where are your accusers,
there's no one condemned you?
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You see the woman was convinced.
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Well, it was the death sentence
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when she heard this
Teacher say, all right,
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the one without sin
you throw the first stone,
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she cringed instinctively.
00:22:16.01\00:22:17.60
This is it, this
is death by stoning.
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She had no idea what Jesus
00:22:20.78\00:22:22.35
has just written
on that dusty floor.
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She has no idea
that there is only
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one sinless one in that circle
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and as it turns
out He is on her side.
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Where are your accusers?
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Anybody condemned you?
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And she responds, verse
11 "She said, 'No one, Lord.'
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And Jesus said to her,
'Neither do I condemn you,
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go and sin no more.'"
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I love this from Desire of Ages.
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Can I put it on the screen
for you, take a look at this.
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Her heart--at that
moment "Her heart was melted,
00:22:59.05\00:23:01.98
and she cast
herself at the feet of Jesus
00:23:02.01\00:23:04.65
sobbing out her grateful love
00:23:04.68\00:23:06.62
and with bitter
tears confessing her sins.
00:23:06.65\00:23:09.63
This was to her the
beginning of a new life,
00:23:09.66\00:23:12.35
a life of purity and peace,
00:23:12.38\00:23:13.74
devoted to the service of God.
00:23:13.77\00:23:15.61
In the uplifting."
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Listen, "In the up
lifting of this fallen soul,
00:23:16.70\00:23:19.39
Jesus performed
a greater miracle
00:23:19.42\00:23:21.88
that in healing the most
grievous physical disease,
00:23:21.91\00:23:25.06
for He cured
the spiritual malady
00:23:25.09\00:23:27.71
which is unto death everlasting.
00:23:27.74\00:23:31.22
This penitent woman became
00:23:31.25\00:23:32.81
one of His most
steadfast followers.
00:23:32.84\00:23:35.35
With self-sacrificing
love and devotion
00:23:35.38\00:23:37.93
she repaid His forgiving mercy."
00:23:37.96\00:23:42.40
And the scarlet
letter was ripped
00:23:42.43\00:23:46.64
from off her heart.
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Wow,
00:23:50.96\00:23:54.48
the scarlet letter of adultery.
00:23:54.51\00:23:58.19
Don't you wish all sexual sin
where that easy to deal with?
00:23:58.22\00:24:05.63
But then many
maybe, maybe it is.
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What do we have here,
we have the scarlet letter
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with the scarlet sinner
we have the scarlet Savior.
00:24:14.66\00:24:19.72
But then maybe you're saying
hey, listen Dwight, please.
00:24:19.75\00:24:22.77
I'm not, I'm-- We're
not sexual sinners here,
00:24:22.80\00:24:25.84
we're not
sinners with sexual sins.
00:24:25.87\00:24:28.35
We hardly need a scarlet Savior.
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Is that right?
00:24:32.22\00:24:34.61
I'm gonna share with
you now a couple of emails
00:24:34.64\00:24:36.24
I've received over the
last three to four weeks.
00:24:36.27\00:24:40.81
Email number
one is from somebody
00:24:40.84\00:24:42.21
within our community here.
00:24:42.24\00:24:45.56
Listen to this.
00:24:45.59\00:24:47.81
Apparently
there is an STD clinic
00:24:47.84\00:24:50.93
in South Bend where people
00:24:50.96\00:24:53.62
with Sexually
Transmitted Diseases,
00:24:53.65\00:24:55.53
STD, where people with
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
00:24:55.56\00:24:59.23
go for treatment.
00:24:59.26\00:25:01.75
And according to
this individual research
00:25:01.78\00:25:03.77
has been done at
that clinic in South Bend
00:25:03.80\00:25:07.00
only to discover
that there are students
00:25:07.03\00:25:09.82
from campuses
all over the region
00:25:09.85\00:25:13.19
who go to that
clinic for their treatments.
00:25:13.22\00:25:16.66
One of those
campuses is the campus
00:25:19.75\00:25:23.86
we're worshipping on right now.
00:25:23.89\00:25:28.69
Come on, Dwight, you know,
00:25:28.72\00:25:30.64
this faulty
research it can't be,
00:25:30.67\00:25:32.90
it can't be our students.
00:25:32.93\00:25:34.77
Listen to this piece.
00:25:38.66\00:25:40.03
I've got this from CNN,
00:25:40.06\00:25:41.64
there's Belief
Blog, just this week.
00:25:41.67\00:25:43.79
Why young Christians
aren't waiting anymore?
00:25:49.44\00:25:54.94
John Blake. "True love
doesn't wait after all."
00:25:54.97\00:25:58.34
That's the implication in
the upcoming October issue.
00:25:58.37\00:26:02.27
So this came out
about a month ago.
00:26:02.30\00:26:04.26
"The upcoming October
issue of an evangelical magazine
00:26:04.29\00:26:07.47
that claims that
young unmarried Christians
00:26:07.50\00:26:09.60
are having
premarital sex almost as much as
00:26:09.63\00:26:13.01
their non-Christian peers.
00:26:13.04\00:26:16.44
The article in
Relevant magazine"
00:26:16.47\00:26:18.03
that's the title of magazine
00:26:18.06\00:26:19.10
"entitled 'Almost
everyone's doing it,'
00:26:19.13\00:26:22.18
cited several studies examining
00:26:22.21\00:26:23.51
in the sexual
activity of single Christians,
00:26:23.54\00:26:25.66
one of the biggest surprises
was a December 2009 study
00:26:25.69\00:26:28.79
conducted by National Campaign
00:26:28.82\00:26:30.21
to Prevent Teen and
Unplanned Pregnancy,
00:26:30.24\00:26:32.33
which included
information on sexual activity.
00:26:32.36\00:26:36.18
While the study's primary
report did not explore religion,
00:26:36.21\00:26:38.80
some additional
analysis focusing
00:26:38.83\00:26:40.61
on sexual activity and
religious identification
00:26:40.64\00:26:43.73
yielded this result,
00:26:43.76\00:26:45.68
80% of unmarried evangelical
young adults 18 to 29 said
00:26:45.71\00:26:50.54
that they have had sex," 80%.
00:26:50.57\00:26:54.49
Evangelical means conservative--
00:26:54.52\00:26:59.28
"Slightly less than
the 88% of unmarried adults
00:26:59.31\00:27:04.72
according to the Teen Pregnancy
Prevention Organization."
00:27:04.75\00:27:09.92
So I put that down
maybe, ladies and gentlemen,
00:27:09.95\00:27:12.36
the report of Seventh-day
Adventist student seeking
00:27:12.39\00:27:14.72
treatment at a local Sexually
Transmitted Diseases clinic
00:27:14.75\00:27:19.90
is not so far fetched after all.
00:27:19.93\00:27:22.62
After all the scarlet letter
00:27:25.72\00:27:30.23
is a one sized fits all 'A.'
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Verse 10 again "When
Jesus had raised Himself up
00:27:37.67\00:27:42.31
and saw no one but the
woman, He said to her, 'Woman,
00:27:42.34\00:27:46.02
where are those
accusers of yours?
00:27:46.05\00:27:48.42
Has no one condemned you?'
00:27:48.45\00:27:50.05
She said" verse
11 "'No one, Lord.'
00:27:50.08\00:27:52.86
And Jesus said to her,
00:27:52.89\00:27:54.66
'Neither do I condemn
you, go and sin no more.'"
00:27:54.69\00:28:01.01
Now, ladies and
gentlemen, would you please note
00:28:01.04\00:28:02.42
that there are two
parts to Jesus response.
00:28:02.45\00:28:06.39
You and I are so
excited about the first part
00:28:06.42\00:28:08.92
that we tend to
forget there is a part two.
00:28:08.95\00:28:12.12
And so today we're
going to begin with part two
00:28:12.15\00:28:14.63
and end with part one.
00:28:14.66\00:28:16.31
All right? Let's go to part two.
00:28:16.34\00:28:20.13
Let's read it
again "Jesus said to her,
00:28:20.16\00:28:22.25
'Neither do I condemn you.'"
00:28:22.28\00:28:23.57
That would be part one.
00:28:23.60\00:28:24.64
Now here comes part
two, "Go and sin in no more."
00:28:24.67\00:28:29.56
Yo, what's up with this go
and sin no more admonition?
00:28:29.59\00:28:34.88
Turns out, the John is
using the identical Greek phrase
00:28:34.91\00:28:38.71
he did for Jesus when
Jesus spoke to the man healed
00:28:38.74\00:28:41.70
beside the Pool of
Bethesda a few Sabbaths ago.
00:28:41.73\00:28:43.54
You remember that the man
healed by the Pool of Bethesda?
00:28:43.57\00:28:45.40
Identical word,
two words in the Greek.
00:28:45.43\00:28:48.33
Just turn back
three pages to John 5
00:28:48.36\00:28:50.61
and you'll read it
there for yourself.
00:28:50.64\00:28:52.11
John 5:14.
00:28:52.14\00:28:54.93
This is that Sabbath
healing by the side at pool
00:28:58.01\00:29:00.55
"Afterward that Sabbath."
00:29:00.58\00:29:01.78
Verse 14 "Jesus found Him,"
00:29:01.81\00:29:04.67
the healed man "in the temple."
00:29:04.70\00:29:06.39
He meets the man in the temple.
00:29:06.42\00:29:08.39
The woman meets
Jesus in the temple.
00:29:08.42\00:29:10.25
They're at the same spot
00:29:10.28\00:29:11.83
and Jesus speaks
this identical command.
00:29:11.86\00:29:14.45
"He meets a man in the temple,
00:29:14.48\00:29:15.66
and He said to him,
'See, you have been made well.
00:29:15.69\00:29:19.31
Sin no more, lest a
worse thing come upon you.'"
00:29:19.34\00:29:24.69
Jesus language to
the healed man indicates
00:29:24.72\00:29:27.26
that his disease had been
result of his personal sinning.
00:29:27.29\00:29:30.98
We don't know what
that personal sin was,
00:29:31.01\00:29:33.07
but it isn't
very hard to conclude
00:29:33.10\00:29:35.16
that perhaps he suffered
00:29:35.19\00:29:37.17
from some sort of sexually
transmitted disease quit doing
00:29:37.20\00:29:42.87
what you did or something
worse will come on you.
00:29:42.90\00:29:49.78
Two words in the Greek,
00:29:49.81\00:29:51.57
three words in the
English, sin no more.
00:29:51.60\00:29:57.32
Identical command.
00:29:57.35\00:29:58.71
Why, because sexual sin
not only kills the heart
00:29:58.74\00:30:03.38
it can also kill the body.
00:30:03.41\00:30:07.18
Into now the second
email and I told you about
00:30:07.21\00:30:11.47
from a worshipper here way
out of town, a few weeks ago.
00:30:11.50\00:30:17.51
"Hello, Pastor Nelson,
thanks for listening to me
00:30:22.12\00:30:23.95
and praying with me for
a few minutes yesterday."
00:30:23.98\00:30:27.17
The websites,
because after I visit I said,
00:30:27.20\00:30:29.40
please send me this in an email.
00:30:29.43\00:30:31.65
"The websites below
will give you more than
00:30:31.68\00:30:34.40
you want to know about HPV."
00:30:34.43\00:30:38.30
Do you know what HPV is?
The human papillomavirus.
00:30:38.33\00:30:44.06
Women get it, men get
it. So I go to the websites.
00:30:44.09\00:30:50.30
Oh my, more than
I wanted to know.
00:30:50.33\00:30:54.88
Let me give you a quotation
00:30:54.91\00:30:56.71
from the Government
Center for Disease Control.
00:30:56.74\00:31:00.61
It's in your study guide
00:31:00.64\00:31:01.67
but I'll put it
on the screen for you
00:31:01.70\00:31:02.73
and I'm gonna read
it and your hearing.
00:31:02.76\00:31:05.15
"HPV the human papillomavirus
00:31:05.18\00:31:08.13
is passed on
through genital contact--
00:31:08.16\00:31:11.47
most often during
vaginal and anal sex.
00:31:11.50\00:31:14.51
HPV may also be
passed on during oral sex.
00:31:14.54\00:31:19.63
Most often, since
HPV usually causes
00:31:19.66\00:31:23.86
no symptoms" note
this very carefully.
00:31:23.89\00:31:27.38
"Since HPV usually
causes no symptoms,
00:31:27.41\00:31:29.80
most men and women can get HPV
00:31:29.83\00:31:32.01
and pass it on
without realizing it."
00:31:32.04\00:31:34.28
Now hold on to your pew.
00:31:34.31\00:31:35.73
"People can have HPV
00:31:35.76\00:31:37.37
even if years have
past since they had sex.
00:31:37.40\00:31:39.96
Even men with only one lifetime
sex partner can get HPV."
00:31:39.99\00:31:46.11
Says the Government
of the United States.
00:31:46.14\00:31:50.19
Must be a big deal.
00:31:50.22\00:31:53.09
Let me read one more
before I go back to this email.
00:31:53.12\00:31:56.74
This is from
the "New York Times"
00:31:56.77\00:31:59.90
just this last week.
00:31:59.93\00:32:02.71
Put it on the screen for you.
00:32:02.74\00:32:04.22
"HPV is the most common
sexually transmitted infection
00:32:04.25\00:32:06.88
in the United States.
00:32:06.91\00:32:08.04
Scientists estimate
that half of sexually active
00:32:08.07\00:32:10.28
men and women have been infected
00:32:10.31\00:32:11.81
and that 80% of women
have had it by the age of 50."
00:32:11.84\00:32:16.25
Eighty percent.
00:32:16.28\00:32:17.91
"The virus has many strains,
00:32:17.94\00:32:19.21
only some of
which cause cancer."
00:32:19.24\00:32:25.51
Let me go back to that email.
00:32:25.54\00:32:28.56
"Yes we all make
mistakes that we regret
00:32:28.59\00:32:30.64
and the Lord will forgive,
00:32:30.67\00:32:32.31
but we end up still reaping
00:32:32.34\00:32:33.50
the consequences
of what we sowed.
00:32:33.53\00:32:35.77
Some diseases lie
dormant and come to surface
00:32:35.80\00:32:38.09
in our later years as seems
to be happening with my husband.
00:32:38.12\00:32:43.19
I've been tested
also since I was concerned
00:32:43.22\00:32:44.95
that I could have
gotten something from him
00:32:44.98\00:32:46.79
thankfully I'm okay.
00:32:46.82\00:32:48.17
I wish we had known about HPV
00:32:48.20\00:32:50.05
when we were younger and
had our pre-marriage physicals--
00:32:50.08\00:32:53.56
maybe that wasn't something
00:32:53.59\00:32:54.62
that was required
for testing I don't know.
00:32:54.65\00:32:57.32
Now he's suffering
with bad side effects
00:32:57.35\00:32:59.37
of the disease along
with the chemo and radiation
00:32:59.40\00:33:02.55
that have not cured him.
00:33:02.58\00:33:03.61
The doctors say they
can do nothing more for him
00:33:03.64\00:33:06.30
and that he has
less than a year to live,
00:33:06.33\00:33:09.05
due to too many lung tumors now.
00:33:09.08\00:33:11.58
They can't do surgery or
laser to help him at all.
00:33:16.32\00:33:19.56
He is in the Lord's
hands and we are so grateful
00:33:19.59\00:33:22.65
for all the prayers and support
of so many caring, kind people."
00:33:22.68\00:33:27.33
You know why she
came up and talked to me?
00:33:27.36\00:33:29.90
She says because this
generation doesn't get it.
00:33:29.93\00:33:33.08
They don't know about HPV.
00:33:33.11\00:33:36.68
You can go years and
take a bit of this partner
00:33:36.71\00:33:40.21
and take a bit of that partner
and take a bit this partner
00:33:40.24\00:33:43.31
and that partner,
you can go to years.
00:33:43.34\00:33:46.65
And a few penicillin
pills won't rid you of it.
00:33:46.68\00:33:52.41
You can go years
and then it returns
00:33:52.44\00:33:56.96
with a vengeance and
apparently it's fatal at times.
00:33:56.99\00:34:04.15
Why do I read this,
why do I read all this
00:34:04.18\00:34:06.38
embarrassing material to you?
00:34:06.41\00:34:09.47
Because you need
to hear what Hollywood
00:34:09.50\00:34:12.53
and the entertainment industry
00:34:12.56\00:34:14.25
will never tell you
as long as you live.
00:34:14.28\00:34:18.12
You need to know that if
you become sexually active
00:34:18.15\00:34:22.25
before or outside of marriage
00:34:22.28\00:34:25.36
you are playing
Russian roulette.
00:34:25.39\00:34:28.46
You're spinning the barrel
and putting it to your head.
00:34:28.49\00:34:33.87
Oh, just listen all my friends
00:34:33.90\00:34:35.51
are sexually active
I might as well be too.
00:34:35.54\00:34:37.76
Rubbish, rubbish.
00:34:37.79\00:34:43.62
You want a story like this?
00:34:43.65\00:34:46.40
You want to live with
that caught gun at your head
00:34:46.43\00:34:49.47
for the rest of your life?
00:34:49.50\00:34:51.91
You're crazy.
00:34:51.94\00:34:55.33
I'm talking to some of
you who are right here,
00:34:55.36\00:34:58.39
right here don't take sister,
00:34:58.42\00:35:00.95
brother don't take
another step, not another step.
00:35:00.98\00:35:04.37
Ever read this Bible verse,
00:35:09.21\00:35:10.61
now you're going to start
filling in your study guide.
00:35:10.64\00:35:12.14
Here we go. Ever read a
Bible verse Galatians 6:7.
00:35:12.17\00:35:15.71
There's a law in this
universe and it works like this.
00:35:15.74\00:35:17.80
"Do not be
deceived, God is not mocked,
00:35:17.83\00:35:20.86
for whatever a man
sows, that will He also reap."
00:35:20.89\00:35:25.17
I want to read it again.
00:35:25.20\00:35:27.17
"Do not be
deceived, God is not mocked,
00:35:27.20\00:35:29.65
for whatever a woman sows...
00:35:29.68\00:35:31.85
that she will also reap."
00:35:34.32\00:35:39.28
It's the law that
what you sow you will reap.
00:35:39.31\00:35:44.07
Ladies and gentlemen,
that is true physically
00:35:44.10\00:35:47.37
and that is also true morally.
00:35:47.40\00:35:51.49
Some people seek refuge in
the story of David and Bathsheba
00:35:51.52\00:35:55.39
to excuse their own adulterous.
00:35:55.42\00:35:56.74
I mean, come on, Dwight,
00:35:56.77\00:35:57.80
what's the problem
here David and Bathsheba?
00:35:57.83\00:36:00.26
You know, I know
she wasn't his wife,
00:36:00.29\00:36:02.14
but look he recovered,
00:36:02.17\00:36:04.40
he spiritually
recovered he died saved.
00:36:04.43\00:36:07.16
Do you know what my friends,
00:36:07.19\00:36:08.63
it was a tragic, tragic loss.
00:36:08.66\00:36:11.18
I just finished reading
First and Second Samuel,
00:36:11.21\00:36:13.39
First and Second Kings and
First and Second Chronicles.
00:36:13.42\00:36:15.75
Don't you tell me
that David did not pay
00:36:15.78\00:36:18.39
an astronomically high-price
for that scarlet letter
00:36:18.42\00:36:22.34
that he earned the
hard way, he did it himself.
00:36:22.37\00:36:27.41
Jot this down, will you please?
00:36:27.44\00:36:28.90
Never forget this.
00:36:28.93\00:36:30.67
"David lost his
moral authority."
00:36:30.70\00:36:34.15
Write that down.
00:36:34.18\00:36:36.15
"David lost his moral authority
00:36:36.18\00:36:38.50
with his children
some of whom went out
00:36:38.53\00:36:40.68
and repeated
his sins in spades."
00:36:40.71\00:36:45.20
His life unraveled.
00:36:45.23\00:36:48.98
Don't ever go to
David and Bathsheba
00:36:49.01\00:36:51.36
and say there's
my biblical precedent
00:36:51.39\00:36:53.74
I'll get a quick forgiveness.
00:36:53.77\00:36:55.16
Yo, and I've got.
00:36:55.19\00:36:57.24
You don't, you don't
realize how high the price
00:36:57.27\00:37:02.14
to take that scarlet
letter upon your chest.
00:37:02.17\00:37:09.70
Of course God loved David,
of course God forgave David,
00:37:09.73\00:37:12.13
but God let David
reap the bale for harvest
00:37:12.16\00:37:15.54
of his free choice
for the rest of his life
00:37:15.57\00:37:18.49
and God never stopped it.
00:37:18.52\00:37:20.36
His family melted down.
He watched his children.
00:37:20.39\00:37:23.32
He could no longer speak
with authority to them morally,
00:37:23.35\00:37:25.83
they melted down.
00:37:25.86\00:37:30.64
Don't tell me that
there is refuge for you
00:37:30.67\00:37:34.88
in that celebrated
scarlet "A" narrative.
00:37:34.91\00:37:42.20
What you sow you will reap,
00:37:42.23\00:37:45.18
no matter how close you
personally become to Jesus.
00:37:45.21\00:37:49.09
"Jesus said, to
her" back to 8:11
00:37:52.78\00:37:57.11
"And Jesus said to her,
00:37:57.14\00:37:58.91
'Neither do I condemn
you, go and sin no more.'
00:37:58.94\00:38:05.13
"The scarlet command
of the scarlet Savior
00:38:05.16\00:38:08.89
to the scarlet
letter sinner, sin no more.
00:38:08.92\00:38:12.02
Why, because
morally it will kill you
00:38:12.05\00:38:14.04
and now we've just found out
00:38:14.07\00:38:15.59
it may
physically kill you as well.
00:38:15.62\00:38:17.98
Sin no more there's something
00:38:18.01\00:38:19.19
worse comes on
you girl, stop it.
00:38:19.22\00:38:22.89
Boy, stop it, no more.
00:38:22.92\00:38:29.13
You say, Dwight,
there's no way I can do it,
00:38:29.16\00:38:30.65
I'm sexually addicted.
00:38:30.68\00:38:32.31
You may be, but I have
some good news for you today
00:38:32.34\00:38:37.11
because just a
few sentences later
00:38:37.14\00:38:39.09
Jesus makes a promise
and I want you to lock on
00:38:39.12\00:38:41.13
to this promise
and never forget it.
00:38:41.16\00:38:42.51
Just drop down to
verse 31 here in John 8.
00:38:42.54\00:38:45.79
This is Jesus to you.
00:38:45.82\00:38:47.18
"Then Jesus said to
those Jews who believe in Him."
00:38:47.21\00:38:49.20
You believe in Jesus.
00:38:49.23\00:38:50.56
"If you abide in My word,
you are My disciples indeed."
00:38:50.59\00:38:54.52
And verse 32 "You
shall know the truth,
00:38:54.55\00:38:57.49
and the truth
shall make you free."
00:38:57.52\00:39:01.42
You know this e-mail,
00:39:01.45\00:39:03.15
this husband that
the wife wrote about?
00:39:03.18\00:39:05.42
This was during his wild
days sowing his wild oats.
00:39:05.45\00:39:09.21
The problem is when
you sow your wild oats
00:39:09.24\00:39:10.87
you will reap those wild oats.
00:39:10.90\00:39:12.14
And he found Jesus and
then he found his wife.
00:39:12.17\00:39:16.20
And 27 years later he found out
00:39:16.23\00:39:22.73
that what you sow you reap.
00:39:22.76\00:39:25.23
But he found, he
found the freedom of Christ.
00:39:25.26\00:39:28.85
That lifestyle gone,
he never went back to it.
00:39:28.88\00:39:32.35
He lived faithfully
to his wife the whole way
00:39:32.38\00:39:37.13
but God didn't stop
the reaping in the sowing.
00:39:37.16\00:39:40.24
He let it play out,
because it's the law of nature
00:39:40.27\00:39:44.17
what you sow you reap.
00:39:44.20\00:39:47.34
And that's
precisely Jesus point.
00:39:47.37\00:39:49.96
Look at jot down to verse 36.
00:39:49.99\00:39:51.49
He repeats it.
You come to the Jesus.
00:39:51.52\00:39:53.94
You come to the scarlet Savior.
00:39:53.97\00:39:55.12
Look at this verse
36 "Therefore if the Son
00:39:55.15\00:39:57.77
makes you free, you
shall be free indeed."
00:39:57.80\00:40:04.86
If you are suffering from
sexual addiction right now
00:40:04.89\00:40:07.54
and you'll know
whether you are or not,
00:40:07.57\00:40:10.10
you don't need a psychologist,
00:40:10.13\00:40:11.56
you don't need a
clinician to tell you.
00:40:11.59\00:40:13.41
If you are suffering from
sexual addiction right now,
00:40:13.44\00:40:16.18
be it pornography the
most prevailing addiction
00:40:16.21\00:40:19.35
among young men,
sexually speaking.
00:40:19.38\00:40:23.32
Be at pornography,
illicit sex of any kind
00:40:23.35\00:40:27.80
you put your finger
on this promise of Christ
00:40:27.83\00:40:29.97
and you say Lord
Jesus, I believe in you,
00:40:30.00\00:40:32.87
I need you to set me free.
00:40:32.90\00:40:35.38
But you need to cooperate
with your scarlet Savior.
00:40:35.41\00:40:38.61
So here comes that list
of seven I promised you.
00:40:38.64\00:40:40.51
Jot them down,
right now, let's go.
00:40:40.54\00:40:42.13
Seven, number one,
00:40:42.16\00:40:43.60
cooperate with
your scarlet Savior.
00:40:43.63\00:40:44.95
Number one, Become
accountable to someone else.
00:40:44.98\00:40:48.74
You have to quit hiding
this secret in your life.
00:40:48.77\00:40:52.29
You must tell somebody.
00:40:52.32\00:40:54.58
Be it a trusted friend
a mature trusted friend.
00:40:54.61\00:40:57.89
Be it a counselor,
he could be a pastor,
00:40:57.92\00:41:00.08
but you must become
accountable to somebody
00:41:00.11\00:41:02.84
who's gonna be saying to
you "how you're doing, buddy.
00:41:02.87\00:41:05.41
Girl, how you're
doing? I've praying for you."
00:41:05.44\00:41:09.08
Find that prayer partner
00:41:09.11\00:41:10.30
that you have confidence
in, become accountable.
00:41:10.33\00:41:12.85
Number two, Join a
12-step group for sex addiction.
00:41:12.88\00:41:17.25
Our vice president for
student services is here,
00:41:17.28\00:41:19.69
we can get you if
you're on this campus
00:41:19.72\00:41:21.92
we can get you to such a group.
00:41:21.95\00:41:23.71
You're off
campus, your watching now
00:41:23.74\00:41:26.09
somewhere in the world,
00:41:26.12\00:41:27.15
somewhere the
nation go to yellow pages,
00:41:27.18\00:41:29.40
look up under 12-step
group, you'll find a group.
00:41:29.43\00:41:34.35
Number two, Join a
12-step group for sex addiction.
00:41:34.38\00:41:36.79
Number three, Eliminate
all triggers in your life.
00:41:36.82\00:41:41.15
This is critical
whether you are young
00:41:41.18\00:41:43.36
or middle-aged or
aged, this is critical,
00:41:43.39\00:41:46.58
eliminate the triggers.
00:41:46.61\00:41:48.18
You say, Dwight,
what you're talking about.
00:41:48.21\00:41:49.46
I'm talking about websites.
00:41:49.49\00:41:50.97
There's some websites you
can never go back to again
00:41:51.00\00:41:53.38
for the rest of your
life until Jesus comes,
00:41:53.41\00:41:55.52
eliminate those websites.
00:41:55.55\00:41:57.13
I'm talking about
DVDs that you have
00:41:57.16\00:41:58.91
in your collection,
you don't need those DVDs.
00:41:58.94\00:42:01.51
Get rid of those triggers.
00:42:01.54\00:42:03.00
I'm talking about sexually
suggestive movies and music
00:42:03.03\00:42:06.28
and that's about everything
coming out in Hollywood today.
00:42:06.31\00:42:09.57
Everything is setup
to trigger, to trigger,
00:42:09.60\00:42:12.84
to trigger, to trigger to hook
00:42:12.87\00:42:15.56
and pull you into
that awful dark hole
00:42:15.59\00:42:20.56
that too many can never escape.
00:42:20.59\00:42:22.94
Get rid of the triggers.
00:42:22.97\00:42:24.56
That parked car alone on a
Saturday night get rid of it.
00:42:24.59\00:42:28.16
That apartment where
nobody else is there,
00:42:28.19\00:42:30.10
your roommates not there,
00:42:30.13\00:42:31.29
you have your
friend over get rid of it.
00:42:31.32\00:42:33.63
All triggers,
remove the triggers.
00:42:33.66\00:42:36.95
Those are the
hooks you can't afford
00:42:36.98\00:42:39.92
sexually addicted
soul you cannot afford
00:42:39.95\00:42:43.70
to live with those
triggers any longer.
00:42:43.73\00:42:45.69
Number four, Begin
daily physical exercise
00:42:45.72\00:42:48.36
for physical
release, particularly men.
00:42:48.39\00:42:50.54
Come on guys,
start get up, get up,
00:42:50.57\00:42:52.38
get up out of bed,
get up out of bed early.
00:42:52.41\00:42:54.31
Start running, start walking,
00:42:54.34\00:42:56.05
start pressing
metal do something.
00:42:56.08\00:42:58.22
Release the energy
that's pent up in you.
00:42:58.25\00:43:00.21
Start physical exercise.
00:43:00.24\00:43:01.80
By the way, ladies, you
do well to walk yourself.
00:43:01.83\00:43:06.28
No pumping iron for
you, please. You look fine.
00:43:06.31\00:43:12.81
So begin daily physical
exercise for physical release.
00:43:12.84\00:43:17.71
Daily, I run everyday.
00:43:17.74\00:43:21.53
Don't try any conclusions
from that, I run for health.
00:43:21.56\00:43:24.28
Physical exercise, come on,
00:43:28.04\00:43:30.89
that's what it's about
daily physical exercise.
00:43:30.92\00:43:32.97
All right, that's number four.
00:43:33.00\00:43:34.74
Now jotted down, number five,
00:43:34.77\00:43:35.80
Begin daily spiritual exercise
00:43:35.83\00:43:37.93
through the active prayer
and Bible study of your life.
00:43:37.96\00:43:40.35
Begin to add this.
00:43:40.38\00:43:41.41
Now this one is
absolutely critical
00:43:41.44\00:43:42.98
which is why it comes
right here in the center.
00:43:43.01\00:43:44.89
Jesus we just
read this in verse 31
00:43:44.92\00:43:46.49
"Jesus said if
you abide in my word."
00:43:46.52\00:43:50.31
If you get into
this book the truth
00:43:50.34\00:43:53.13
you will know the truth and
the truth will set you free.
00:43:53.16\00:43:56.13
You have to eat
here spiritually.
00:43:56.16\00:43:59.06
You say, Dwight, I
don't know what to do.
00:43:59.09\00:44:00.66
Go to our
website it's at the top
00:44:00.69\00:44:01.87
of your study guide.
00:44:01.90\00:44:02.93
Go to that website,
those of you watching
00:44:02.96\00:44:04.52
you've already
heard the website.
00:44:04.55\00:44:05.66
Go to the website and
when you go to the website
00:44:05.69\00:44:08.82
there'll be a banner
that says "a new way to pray."
00:44:08.85\00:44:10.87
Click on to that banner
and I will personally tell you,
00:44:10.90\00:44:14.34
share with you how to
have that quiet time alone
00:44:14.37\00:44:18.79
with Christ and the Bible.
00:44:18.82\00:44:21.39
You cannot for the sake
of your soul in your victory,
00:44:21.42\00:44:24.33
you cannot omit step five.
00:44:24.36\00:44:26.78
Step six, Shift
the focus of your life
00:44:26.81\00:44:28.80
to service for others.
00:44:28.83\00:44:32.31
You got to get off
of this me, me, me, me,
00:44:32.34\00:44:34.06
I got to have this,
I got to have this, oh,
00:44:34.09\00:44:35.50
that's all sexual
appetite is appetite
00:44:35.53\00:44:38.00
self gratification itself
self, get off the self kick
00:44:38.03\00:44:41.60
you'll never get
off it completely,
00:44:41.63\00:44:43.47
you will battle self
till Jesus comes as Paul did,
00:44:43.50\00:44:46.19
but get off it as best you
can by focusing on other people.
00:44:46.22\00:44:49.74
Focus on
service, focus on others.
00:44:49.77\00:44:52.18
And finally number seven,
Thank God moment by moment
00:44:52.21\00:44:54.93
for the freedom He
is bringing to you.
00:44:54.96\00:44:57.66
Just believe that
that freedom starts today,
00:44:57.69\00:44:59.87
that freedom starts today
00:44:59.90\00:45:01.60
go home and begin
these seven today.
00:45:01.63\00:45:04.76
That freedom begins.
00:45:04.79\00:45:05.91
You have to put
your foot in the Jordon.
00:45:05.94\00:45:07.83
It won't part
while you stand there.
00:45:07.86\00:45:09.34
You have to believe
that it's going to part
00:45:09.37\00:45:11.35
and then it will part.
00:45:11.38\00:45:12.84
And God will do for you
00:45:12.87\00:45:14.34
what you have
long for him to do.
00:45:14.37\00:45:16.15
Set you free from that
ball and chain at last.
00:45:16.18\00:45:19.66
You don't need
to go another week
00:45:19.69\00:45:23.47
at last through
the scarlet Savior.
00:45:23.50\00:45:27.53
Two part admonition.
00:45:27.56\00:45:28.80
Part two, Go and sin no more.
00:45:28.83\00:45:31.34
That I'll thank
God that before He said
00:45:31.37\00:45:33.89
that He spoke part one.
00:45:33.92\00:45:37.00
Verse 10 "And when Jesus
had raised Himself up and saw
00:45:37.03\00:45:39.85
no one but the woman,
He said to her, 'Woman,
00:45:39.88\00:45:41.79
where are those
accusers have yours?
00:45:41.82\00:45:43.87
Has no one condemned you?
00:45:43.90\00:45:45.82
She said, 'No one, Lord.'
00:45:45.85\00:45:47.79
And Jesus said to her,
'Neither do I condemn you."
00:45:47.82\00:45:52.07
There is part one.
00:45:52.10\00:45:54.75
But Jesus promised
that scarlet lettered woman
00:45:54.78\00:45:56.96
on that sunlit morning in John 8
00:45:56.99\00:45:59.55
He promised the
proud hearty Pharisee
00:45:59.58\00:46:01.81
on that
moonlighted moment in John 3.
00:46:01.84\00:46:04.73
Watch just they go together
00:46:04.76\00:46:06.28
this was set up to go together.
00:46:06.31\00:46:08.06
Drop back to John 3.
Everybody memorizes John 3:16.
00:46:08.09\00:46:11.82
What's the
problem with verse 17,
00:46:11.85\00:46:13.25
why do we always
stop with verse 16?
00:46:13.28\00:46:16.35
We always stop there.
00:46:16.38\00:46:17.73
Let's put verse
16 on the screen,
00:46:17.76\00:46:19.04
where you can repeat it
00:46:19.07\00:46:20.30
without even
looking at the screen.
00:46:20.33\00:46:22.90
"For God so loved the
world" Say that loud with me.
00:46:22.93\00:46:25.26
"For God so loved the world
00:46:25.29\00:46:27.24
that He gave His
only begotten Son,
00:46:27.27\00:46:29.87
that whosoever believes in Him
00:46:29.90\00:46:32.54
shall not perish but
have everlasting life."
00:46:32.57\00:46:36.20
And then we stop and
say hallelujah, amen.
00:46:36.23\00:46:39.54
And there is verse 17,
verse 17, look at this.
00:46:39.57\00:46:43.73
"For God did not send
His Son into the world
00:46:43.76\00:46:46.51
to condemn the
world, but that the world
00:46:46.54\00:46:49.56
through Him might be saved."
00:46:49.59\00:46:52.03
Neither do I condemn you.
00:46:52.06\00:46:54.58
I didn't come to this planet
to make everybody feel guilty.
00:46:54.61\00:46:57.68
I came to this
planet to make everybody
00:46:57.71\00:46:59.44
know that they can
be saved through Me.
00:46:59.47\00:47:02.10
I do not condemn
you, I don't condemn you.
00:47:02.13\00:47:04.62
I know they do, I know
the board of elders does,
00:47:04.65\00:47:08.45
I know the crowd does
but I did not condemn you.
00:47:08.48\00:47:16.45
He is teaching the gospel,
00:47:19.45\00:47:20.96
the mighty
Apostle Paul comes along.
00:47:20.99\00:47:22.32
Look at Romans 8:1
00:47:22.35\00:47:23.97
"There is therefore
now no condemnation."
00:47:24.00\00:47:27.81
Would you write that down please
00:47:27.84\00:47:29.00
"There is
therefore now no condemnation
00:47:29.03\00:47:32.43
to those who are
in Christ Jesus."
00:47:32.46\00:47:34.50
Come to me Jesus says.
00:47:34.53\00:47:35.93
Scarlet lettered
woman, scarlet lettered man,
00:47:35.96\00:47:37.93
come to me, come,
come, come, come, come, come,
00:47:37.96\00:47:39.78
come here boy, come to Me.
00:47:39.81\00:47:42.31
I'm not going to
condemn you, just come to Me.
00:47:42.34\00:47:45.54
We'll do this together,
00:47:45.57\00:47:47.34
the rest to the way
you and Me together.
00:47:47.37\00:47:51.44
Neither do I condemn you.
00:47:51.47\00:47:53.43
I scribbled these
words from Desire of Ages
00:47:53.46\00:47:55.54
at the top of this page John 8.
00:47:55.57\00:47:57.73
And I want you to
have those same words.
00:47:57.76\00:47:59.61
It's in your study
guide. Put it on the screen.
00:47:59.64\00:48:00.97
I love this. It is
beautiful. See it on the screen.
00:48:01.00\00:48:04.36
"Jesus knows the
circumstances in every soul.
00:48:04.39\00:48:07.17
You may say, I'm
sinful, very sinful.
00:48:07.20\00:48:11.71
And you may be,
but the worse you are,
00:48:11.74\00:48:15.01
the more you need Jesus.
00:48:15.04\00:48:17.04
He turns no
weeping, contrite one away.
00:48:17.07\00:48:20.01
He does not tell to any
all that He might reveal,
00:48:20.04\00:48:23.53
but He bids every
trembling soul take courage.
00:48:23.56\00:48:26.53
Freely will He
pardon all who come to Him
00:48:26.56\00:48:29.17
for forgiveness
and restoration."
00:48:29.20\00:48:30.93
Come, come, come to Me,
I don't condemn you, come.
00:48:30.96\00:48:34.84
Let Me start over
with you, I'll save you,
00:48:34.87\00:48:37.53
I came to save
you, not lose you.
00:48:37.56\00:48:40.87
Come to Me, come to Me.
00:48:40.90\00:48:44.59
And guess what,
John wanted to make sure
00:48:44.62\00:48:47.11
that we knew Calvary
is embedded even in this
00:48:47.14\00:48:50.19
story of the scarlet "A"
so John puts that strange
00:48:50.22\00:48:54.28
vocative on the lips a Jesus.
00:48:54.31\00:48:56.44
John has, Jesus say
to her, "woman. Woman."
00:48:56.47\00:49:02.64
That's what Jesus
said on the cross.
00:49:02.67\00:49:05.59
Looking down upon that woman,
00:49:05.62\00:49:07.93
His mother, He says "woman."
00:49:07.96\00:49:11.24
It is a strange title
but John inserts it here
00:49:11.27\00:49:14.31
so that immediately we remember
00:49:14.34\00:49:16.26
Calvary is what the
story is all about anyway.
00:49:16.29\00:49:18.96
The scarlet Savior who
took our scarlet letter
00:49:18.99\00:49:24.83
put it on His own chest
00:49:24.86\00:49:27.11
and died our
guilty sacrifice instead,
00:49:27.14\00:49:32.94
the scarlet lettered Savior.
00:49:32.97\00:49:36.52
"Woman, man,
neither do I condemn you,
00:49:36.55\00:49:43.10
now go leave it behind."
00:49:43.13\00:49:47.17
Augustine the
great church father,
00:49:47.20\00:49:50.48
who himself had a
sexually fallen past.
00:49:50.51\00:49:53.98
Augustine describes this
moment and I love this sentence.
00:49:54.01\00:49:56.78
Let me say it
and you're hearing.
00:49:56.81\00:49:57.99
He describes this
moment as the story ends
00:49:58.02\00:50:00.76
there were-- these
are Augustine's words.
00:50:00.79\00:50:02.88
There were left but two,
00:50:02.91\00:50:06.22
the pitiable woman and Pity.
00:50:06.25\00:50:11.32
Capital 'P' Pity.
00:50:11.35\00:50:15.31
There were left--
let me put it on screen,
00:50:15.34\00:50:17.69
'cause you need to see it.
00:50:17.72\00:50:18.75
"There were left but two,
00:50:18.78\00:50:22.38
the pitiable
woman and Pity himself."
00:50:22.41\00:50:27.74
Come to me Jesus says.
00:50:27.77\00:50:30.35
And when you come to Him
there will be left but two,
00:50:30.38\00:50:35.27
the pitiable
sinner and Pity himself.
00:50:35.30\00:50:42.37
Why would a man,
why would a woman,
00:50:42.40\00:50:45.13
why would a young
adult, why would a teenager
00:50:45.16\00:50:47.88
not come to Him
right now, right now?
00:50:47.91\00:50:54.77
Why not?
00:50:54.80\00:50:56.55
I want to pray with you.
00:51:00.85\00:51:03.42
I want to kneel
and pray with you.
00:51:03.45\00:51:06.71
I wish you kneel
with me right now.
00:51:06.74\00:51:08.30
O Jesus, we hear Your words,
00:51:21.05\00:51:24.94
let him who is without
sin cast the first stone.
00:51:24.97\00:51:30.16
And for that reason
we're all on our knees now.
00:51:30.19\00:51:34.76
Nobody here has
a stone to throw.
00:51:34.79\00:51:40.01
O Christ Jesus,
00:51:40.04\00:51:44.68
are you really this gracious,
00:51:44.71\00:51:47.62
this gentle, this strong
that You can deliver her,
00:51:47.65\00:51:55.23
You can deliver him?
00:51:55.26\00:51:57.02
Dear Savior, right
now I pray for him,
00:52:01.77\00:52:06.25
the man who is struggling
with this sexual addiction.
00:52:06.28\00:52:13.41
I pray for him Lord,
that he will not give up,
00:52:13.44\00:52:18.92
that he will not
despair, that he will know
00:52:18.95\00:52:23.05
that there is power in the
gospel of the scarlet Savior.
00:52:23.08\00:52:29.17
That he will know
that You'll moved,
00:52:29.20\00:52:31.74
You have already
moved heaven and hell
00:52:31.77\00:52:34.87
to free him from
that ball and chain.
00:52:34.90\00:52:39.26
O God, I pray from that man.
00:52:39.29\00:52:42.61
He's young, there's so
much of life left for him.
00:52:42.64\00:52:48.10
Please set him free,
draw his heart to you.
00:52:48.13\00:52:53.35
And let him find in his Savior
the freedom he hungers for.
00:52:53.38\00:52:58.70
I pray for that man,
Father, he's middle aged.
00:52:58.73\00:53:02.54
All these years he
has battled his demons.
00:53:02.57\00:53:07.71
Does he have to go on like this?
00:53:07.74\00:53:11.18
O Christ, put Your
arm around him right now,
00:53:11.21\00:53:17.34
whisper to him, I don't
condemn You, come to me.
00:53:17.37\00:53:24.37
You won't have to do it anymore.
00:53:24.40\00:53:27.52
O Christ, put
Your arm round him.
00:53:27.55\00:53:32.13
I pray for her it
was all to have been
00:53:32.16\00:53:35.82
such a beautiful
moment she got drawn in
00:53:35.85\00:53:42.74
and now nothing but
ashes and a broken heart.
00:53:42.77\00:53:47.47
O Christ, make she know
00:53:47.50\00:53:52.12
that you do not condemn her.
00:53:52.15\00:53:55.72
That you'll
have the divine power
00:53:55.75\00:54:00.71
to recreate her heart
and to make it pure again
00:54:00.74\00:54:07.15
to restore her soul
and make her whole again.
00:54:07.18\00:54:11.09
Please, Jesus,
don't let her give up.
00:54:11.12\00:54:16.59
Put Your arms around her.
00:54:16.62\00:54:20.71
And that older woman
who lives with the memory
00:54:20.74\00:54:26.03
that in a moment like this
becomes bright flashing red
00:54:26.06\00:54:30.27
with clanging
bells deep within her.
00:54:30.30\00:54:34.44
O Christ, for her
the same I don't condemn,
00:54:34.47\00:54:41.84
come woman,
come, we go together.
00:54:41.87\00:54:46.73
Forgetting those
things which are behind
00:54:46.76\00:54:50.09
we will reach for what is ahead.
00:54:50.12\00:54:53.57
Go and leave your past behind.
00:54:53.60\00:54:59.04
O Father, scarlet letters,
00:54:59.07\00:55:04.61
scarlet lettered Savior.
00:55:04.64\00:55:08.03
Dear God, we kneeled before You.
00:55:08.06\00:55:12.44
Do whatever it takes to raise us
00:55:12.47\00:55:17.62
back up on to our feet
00:55:17.65\00:55:21.41
and with Your voice in our ears
00:55:21.44\00:55:23.43
we will walk out
of this sanctuary
00:55:23.46\00:55:28.26
with the assurance that
Your grace is sufficient for us.
00:55:28.29\00:55:33.79
Holy Savior, that is our prayer,
00:55:37.70\00:55:42.07
our earnest longing prayer.
00:55:42.10\00:55:45.54
There is that
beautiful gospel chorus
00:55:51.31\00:55:52.85
and while we're
still on our knees
00:55:52.88\00:55:54.25
would you sing it with me
"Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus."
00:55:54.28\00:56:00.71
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
00:56:00.74\00:56:07.71
Look full in His wonderful face
00:56:10.83\00:56:16.83
And the things of earth
00:56:20.27\00:56:24.86
Will grow strangely dim
00:56:24.89\00:56:32.80
In the light of
His glory and grace
00:56:32.83\00:56:40.80
Amen.
00:56:48.86\00:56:50.01
Before you go I'd like to
take a moment and talk to you
00:56:52.37\00:56:54.99
about your
relationship with Jesus.
00:56:55.02\00:56:57.06
Its so often we go to
church or listen to a sermon
00:56:57.09\00:56:59.23
about the things that Jesus
said or that which Jesus did.
00:56:59.26\00:57:02.47
We learned all
these facts about Him
00:57:02.50\00:57:04.16
yet when it comes down
to it we sometimes realize
00:57:04.19\00:57:06.41
we haven't actually come to
know Him personally ourselves.
00:57:06.44\00:57:10.02
Now perhaps you've
only recently discovered
00:57:10.05\00:57:11.61
the love of
Christ and you wondering
00:57:11.64\00:57:13.38
where you go from here.
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