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Encounters With Jesus

Benjamin Ng

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Jesus’ Encounter with the First Disciples

Jesus’ Encounter with Philip and Nathanael

Jesus Encounter at the Wedding Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Nicodemus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman at the Well

Jesus’ Encounter With The Centurion

Jesus Encounter with the Blind Man Near Bethsaida

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man by the Pool of Bethesda

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Sick of Palsy

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples in the Storm

Jesus’ Encounter with the Blind, Dumb Demoniac

Jesus’ Encounter with the Demoniacs of the Gadarenes

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Issue of Blood

Jesus’ Encounter with the Five Thousand

Jesus’ Encounter with John the Baptist

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples on the Sea

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus’ Encounter with Martha and Mary

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Born Blind

Jesus’ Encounter with the 10 Lepers

Jesus’ Encounter with the Rich Young Ruler

Jesus’ Encounter with Blind Bartimaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with Zacchaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Spirit of Infirmity

Jesus’ Encounter at Simon’s Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter and His Denial

Jesus’ Encounter with Pilate

Jesus’ Encounters at the Cross

Jesus’ Encounter on the Road to Emmaus

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter at the Sea of Tiberias

Father in heaven, thank you so much for seeing us safely through this past week.

Thank you Lord that we can come and study your Word now.

And I just pray that as we look at this special encounter that you would please Guide us with your Holy Spirit.

Lead us, O Lord, is our earnest plea and prayer.

Well, the encounter that we're looking at this evening is Jesus' encounter with the woman caught in adultery.

And this encounter is a special 1 because it's only found in the Gospel of John.

You know we've been jumping through Matthew, Mark, Luke and even John and you know 1 of them was found in all 4 Gospels.

But this encounter that we're looking at this evening is only found here in John chapter 8.

John chapter 8 and we're starting in verse 1.

The Bible says this, Jesus went unto the mount of olives and early in the morning he came again unto the temple and all the people came unto him and he sat down and taught them look this was a normal day christ He had been in the Mount of Olives.

It was His favorite place to be and He now came down and He came early in the morning to the temple and began to teach people.

He began to see to all the people that were following him, but he made sure that he had his early time with God.

But now people are gathering, people are coming to listen, people are coming to seek Christ.

And then what do we find here in John chapter 8 and now verses 3 and 4 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery and when they had set her in the midst they say unto him master this woman was taken in adultery in the very act.

And so these scribes and Pharisees, they bring this woman that's taken in adultery and throw her at the feet of Jesus.

They had dragged her through the streets half naked.

They had caught this woman in the very act.

Jesus came down from the Mount of Olives and he went into the temple and he was there teaching the people.

Today's equivalent is Jesus would be in the church and the scribes and Pharisees, they catch this woman that is caught in adultery and throw her there half naked in church, right there interrupting Jesus' teaching.

Now friends, what would you do if a church leader brought a woman caught in adultery, half naked, right into church and threw her at the very front of the church?

Not the best place or the best timing for that, isn't it?

But the scribes and Pharisees they didn't care.

They were desecrating the church and not to say that you couldn't bring a woman into that that place but they had evil intentions.

They were waiting to catch this woman as if they needed some sort of bait to bait out Christ and try to attack Him.

They were finding anyone who had just been caught in adultery and just bring them before Christ rather than helping, rather than trying to restore, rather than trying to reconcile this person who obviously had had not good morals and a good upbringing, rather than trying to bring this person back to Christ, they were trying to condemn, they were trying to find fault.

These people, they already had a wrong attitude and they had no love or compassion for this woman.

They were just out to destroy her because they were out to catch Jesus.

If you go back to this verse, in verse 4 it says, This woman was taken in adultery in the very act.

Now friends, look, you can't commit adultery by yourself.

Did they know where he was and who he was?

Were they so busy plotting against Christ or was this man even part of the group that came along because he was trying to catch a woman caught in adultery just so that they could condemn Christ?

But yet, only the woman was brought and thrown half naked at the feet of Jesus.

They were in the wrong place to do such a thing.

John chapter 8, continuing in verse 5 and 6.

Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned but what sayest thou?

This they said tempting him that they might have to accuse him.

Now what was the reason why they brought this woman caught in adultery?

Were they jealous because of all the people that were following Him?

Were they jealous because He could do so many miracles and they couldn't?

They were probably jealous for so many different things.

And Jesus even gave sermons that pointed right at them so they had much in a sense to be angry at Christ and they just wanted to get rid of him.

They could not accept him as Christ the Savior because they were looking for a king.

They were looking for someone to conquer the Romans.

And so this man obviously was not coming to conquer the Romans when they tried to make him king on the hillside, you remember that?

Jesus sent all of them away, sent them all packing.

Obviously Jesus's intentions did not line up with what they were expecting the Messiah to be.

And so they were always trying to catch out Christ.

They were trying to make him trip over and fall.

And they went to the extent to find a woman caught in adultery, bait her because obviously they didn't bring the man.

They weren't walking along just go oh what is this?

They were on the hunt for such an act and they did this to try to catch out Christ.

Now how would they be able to accuse Christ though?

I mean if you go back to the slide here Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned So a woman that was caught in adultery, they should be stoned Now this was a very difficult question Why?

Because if Jesus agrees with them and says yes they should be stoned what was the problem with that?

He was defying the authorities of the Romans.

He was defying those that were in charge that had the power to say yes you can stone, to condemn, to judge.

The Jewish nation was subservient to the Romans.

They couldn't just go, hey we're just gonna stone anybody.

That's why when Jesus Christ was crucified, not only did they send him to the high priest Caiaphas but eventually they had to send him to the Roman governor at that time who was Pilate and then it was Herod.

So you know they could not just condemn a man to die or in this case a woman to die for no good reason and with no authority from the Romans.

So if Jesus agreed yes yes yes, Moses is correct.

We should stone her and that was correct.

If you were caught in adultery you were stoned.

In fact when you look back in the Old Testament about what Moses wrote and why they stoned people, I mean you could be stoned for dishonoring your parents.

You'd be stoned for desecrating the Sabbath.

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