Jan 02, 2016
A Few Misunderstandings…
To point out sin is hypocrisyTo appeal to the law is legalistic error
The way to deal with sin is to ignore it
In This Account….
V.3- The Scribes and Pharisees brought the woman to Jesus, not the Sanhedrin.
They just brought the woman, not the man- no intention to do righteousness.
The Master Teacher’s Response?
V.6-7 – He tried to ignore them, but they “persisted.”
Jesus was not a witness, or a judge, or part of this situation at all.
Matthew 7:1,5
Do not judge so that you will not be judged.
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your
brother’s eye
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Matthew 7:5
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and
then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your
brother’s eye
Is It Hypocritical To Point Out Sin?
We all sin1 John 1:9-Sin CAN be forgiven
Matthew 7:5-The log CAN be removed
Matthew 7:1-2
Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For
with the judgment you pronounce you
will be judged, and with the
measure you use it will be measured to
you.
Ephesians 5:11
Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even
expose them;
2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but
wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own
desires, 4and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn
aside to myths.
2 Timothy 2:25
….with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading
to the knowledge of the truth,
1 Timothy 5:20
Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest
also will be fearful of sinning.
Matthew 23:23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the
weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should
have done without neglecting the others
Matthew 12:5
Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the
temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?
Luke 10:25-26
And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26And He
said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?”
Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does
not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to
your seed,” that is, Christ.
Noting the difference between
plural and singular
Isaiah 2:3And many peoples will come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God
of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we
may walk in His paths.”For the law will go forth from Zion
And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on
their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My
people.
I Samuel 15:22-23“Has the LORD as much delight in
burnt offerings and sacrificesAs in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.23 “For rebellion is as the sin of
divination, And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.
It cannot be wrong to be obedient!
Jude 22-23
And have mercy on some, who are doubting; 23save others, snatching
them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.
Different sins require different methods of handling them.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 6:13
3and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as
instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those
alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of
righteousness to God.
Is Ignoring Sin the Right Way to Handle it?
Always right to confessAlways right to repentAlways right to seek and save
James 5:19-20
My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him
back, 20let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his
way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.