Everybody in here is known and
said, make it plain. That's what I want to do. Make
the message plain. Christ received a sinful man. I've entitled this message, The
Sinner's Savior. Sinner's Savior. This story is
of the Lord Jesus Christ saving a sinner. And that's what the whole Bible
is about. That's why the Bible was written,
to tell us of salvation of sinners by Jesus Christ. That's why he
came. That's why Christ came into this
world. He came, he said, to seek and to save He came to seek and to save the
lost, that's what he said. Have you ever been lost? He came to save the lost. Christ said he didn't come to
call the righteous to repentance, but sinners. He said he came
to call sinners. Are you a sinner? Let me put it this way. I ask you, are you a sinner?
Let me put it this way. Are you an idolater? You say, well no, I don't worship
idols. Do you have any graven in. One of whom I don't have a very
well are you a blasphemer. You must be able to take the
name of God and not one of whom I don't ever do that well are
you dishonest disobedient to your parents and and don't honor
your father and wife. No, I don't honor my parents. Well, then maybe you're a murderer.
Are you a murderer? No, I'm no murderer. Why? Are
you a thief? Well, no, not me. I've never
stolen anything. Well, then maybe you're an adulterer.
Are you an adulterer? Well, no, I've always been a
thief. Are you a liar? Well, no, I'm true. Well, then
what kind of sinner are you? I asked you, are you a sinner? And maybe you answered no to
all those things. I'm not. But what kind of sinner
are you? Huh? Christ didn't come to call the
righteous, but he came to call sinners. Didn't he? What kind of sinner are you?
What else is there left? Christ came to save sinners. It says he came and he saved
publicans and harlots. Now a publican was a thief, a
cheat, a liar, and no good, and a harlot was an adulterer. Right? And he said of those fellows
who did not do these things, he said, they're not going to
get to heaven, but that publican hardly will. Didn't he? Is that not what Jesus Christ
said, or did he not? And that's why the religious,
they got mad. Boy, but the publicans and harlots
didn't. They got glad. They said, that's the best news
I've ever heard. The Pharisees said, well, this
man received a sinner, and the publicans and harlots said, gospel. That's good news. Are you a sinner? Huh? They said, only God, this gospel
is only for sinners. Christ only came to save sinners. I don't mean those who were sinners.
Paul said in 1 Timothy 1 verse 15, he said, I am the chief sinner. Well, here in John chapter eight,
now, is the story of Christ saving a bona fide sinner. I'm somebody
caught in the act. This is the story, John chapter
eight. Look at it with me. John chapter eight. Now, we want
to deal with every verse. We're going verse by verse through
the Gospel of John. Verse one says, Jesus went under
the Mount of Olives. But there shouldn't be a chapter
division there. That was added by King James
Translator. Look at verse 53, right before
it. It says, Every man went unto his own house, Jesus went unto
the Mount of Olives. You see, our Lord said this.
He said, Foxes have their holes, birds of the air have their nests,
the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head. See, here he
had no continuing city. This was not his dwelling place.
He was passing through. Christ was passing through this
world. He came to this world on business. He came, he said, I must be about
my father's business. What was his father's business?
What was his business here? What was Christ's business here?
To save sinners. Looking for sinners. Looking
for lost sheep. He's going to save, and he doesn't
try now. He doesn't try anything. The
saying says, try God, but God doesn't try anything. He came to save the sinner. He
came to seek and to save his lost sheep. And every one of
them was a sinner, a bona fide sinner, the lost. And he came
to do that. He's in the sinner-saving business.
Look at verse 2. And early in the morning, early
in the morning, he came again into his temple, into the temple. And all the people came unto
him, and he sat down and he taught them. Early in the morning, Christ
came to his temple, and he sat down. People came, he sat down,
and he taught them. Now, this was a gathering of
people not unlike this one. It was an early Sabbath morning,
perhaps, just like this, Sunday morning, gathering of people. much larger than this, I'm sure,
but the people came. It was a religious gathering.
They came, and he sat down in the middle of them and taught
them. Oh, that Christ would be in our
midst now and teach us. But we won't learn a thing. Look at verse three. And the
scribes and the Pharisees, while he was teaching, Now the audacity
of these proud men, but they at any rate, verse three, and
scribes and the Pharisees brought unto him, interrupted him, brought
unto him a woman taken in adultery, and they set her in the midst,
they put her in the middle. Now picture this whole story,
this whole scene. Here our Lord was sitting up
front about something like I'm doing now,
standing up, but he was seated. And he was teaching all the people,
and they were listening. And in barge through the door,
this group of scribes, the Sanhedrin, scribes and the Pharisees, in
their long robes, you know, and phylacteries and this and that,
and they were brought in there, and they had a woman in their
midst. They had a whole And they came in, and I'm sure they didn't
just gently place her. They just threw her at his feet,
and they stood back, caught in the act of adultery. Here's this
sinner. Why, they brought a sinner into
the temple. Now, the scribes, I mean to describe
the scribes. Now, that is a real play on words.
They need to be described. They are not, as they say, scribes
and the Pharisees. What were they? Who are they?
Are there any more left? There's lots of them. Scribes
made it their business to copy the Scriptures down. That's what
they did. They were masters. They had masters in theology. They were Bible scholars. That's
what they were. Scribes were Bible scholars. And everybody just hung on whatever
they said, because they studied the Scriptures, you know. They
read the Scriptures. They could quote the Scriptures. They must know
the Scriptures. They don't know the Scriptures. One time our Lord looked at the
scribes who could quote whole books of the Bible, and he said,
You beware of not knowing the Scriptures. And don't you know
they just watch? You see, you can quote the whole
Bible, and if you don't see Christ in
it, you don't know the Bible. I don't care what you're studying
in the Bible. If you don't see, why do you think Christ is called
the Word? Why is he called the Word? This is the Word, isn't it? Is
this the Word of God? Well, the Word was made flesh
and dwelt among us. Christ is the Word. If you don't
see the Word of God in the Word of God, you're ignorant of the
Word of God. I'm not trying to be clever.
That's the way it is. Christ is on every page of this
book. He told his disciples one time, walking with his disciples
one time, he says, he began in the law of Moses and the prophets
and the Psalms. Now, that's the whole Old Testament.
That's all they had back then. And it says, he expounded unto
them the things concerning, what? Jewish history? No. He expounded unto them the things
concerning himself. This is not history. It's his
story. That's what all history is. You
know that? Time is measured by history. B.C. or A.D. He's the sun. He's the center
of the universe. His story. These scribes were
Bible scholars, these Pharisees were doctors of divinity. These
Pharisees had their doctrine. They knew the law. People called
them lawyers. Paul described himself over in
Philippians as one of these Pharisees. He says, concerning the righteousness
of the law, blameless. I knew the law. He did too, buddy. Paul knew the law. He sure did. These fellows were the best religion
had to offer. Scribes and Pharisees were man
at his best state. What does the Scripture say about
man at his best state? All together, man at his best
state. Reverend Scribe and Dr. Pharisee
were religious. Oh, they were religious. But
they were lost. It's not what you know, it's
who you know. Rather, who knows you? Salvation is not looking and
acting religiously. Salvation is knowing Christ,
trusting Christ, being found in Jesus Christ, not having your
own righteousness which is of the law, but that righteousness
which is by faith of Jesus Christ. Not having your own righteousness
before God is filthy rag. It's being found in Christ, his
righteousness. I'm going to describe that here
in a moment. Now, but you say, doesn't a saved person have to
look and act different in the world? Hmm? Doesn't a saved person have
to look and act different in the world? Well, to a degree, but let me
ask you something here. Let me ask you something. What
did Christ look like? Hmm? If there were two men walking
down the street, back there, and had their backs to you, you wouldn't have known which
one was Jesus Christ and which was an old... whatever. You wouldn't have known. Would you? Huh? That's why the
religious say, well, he's just a carpenter. Look at him. He's
just a carpenter. Well, let me ask you this. Why
did they call Christ a glutton and a wanderer? Well, he's no different than
anybody else. Look at it down there. He was. But the difference was more inward,
wasn't it? Come on now. Come on now. Let's
be honest. So holiness is not necessarily
what you look like, is it? I'm talking the Holy Son of God
walked this planet, and they couldn't distinguish him from
the average man. And he went places and did things,
and they said, Well, he's just an old sinner. Huh? Well, the religious were offended
by that. They were offended by him. They didn't see anything
in him. They didn't see a thing in him. Well, he doesn't look
religious, does he? He doesn't. He's just common. Sinners were drawn to it. Now, think about it. We've got
the wrong conception of holiness, don't we? Sinners were drawn
to this man. Self-practiced people were oppressed
by and offended by him. Sinners said, why, he'll listen
to me. Common people, average old Joe,
well, Frank or Tom, heard him dreadfully. I didn't like what
he had to say. Personally. Self-righteous didn't
like anything he had to say. He didn't. The gospel is only good news
to a sinner. I'm telling you now, I'm talking
about a bona fide sinner. Find me one in here this morning,
just one, and get it ready to shout. Pharisees won't do it, but if
there's a sinner in here, you're getting ready to get glad. and
get happy when you hear this story. All right? I don't know
if I can get through it without telling it. Here are these religious folks,
these fellows, found this bonafide sinner, this woman caught in
the act of adultery, and they brought her to Christ. Unintentionally. Unintentionally they brought
her to her only hope. They wanted her condemned as
she leave that place. Justified. They wanted her stoned. They brought her to the rock, the hiding place. They said they
wanted to stone her, and they brought her to the cliff to the
rock where the stones couldn't get through her. Oh, the scripture says, the wrath
of man shall praise the day. The lot is cast into the lap.
But the whole disposing thereof of the Lord, this whole story.
You see these fellows, they could have stoned her. They caught
her out there in the act of adultery. They caught her red-handed, and
they could have, right then and there, justifiably, according
to the law, grabbed stones and killed her right then and there.
They didn't have to take her anywhere, take her before a court.
They were the law. They were the Jewish law. They
could have picked up stones and just bashed her brains out. But
what they knew, they said, I'll tell you what. Let's take her
to that Galilean teacher. Let's take her there. And let's
catch him. We'll show him. The lot is cast into the lake. This is sovereign, saving providence
at work here. You see, Christ must needs go. It says he went into the temple
this morning. He must needs go to the temple this morning. He
didn't have to. He could have gone anywhere he
wanted on the topside. This is his planet. He must need
to go to the temple this morning, just like he must need to go
to Samaria that one morning and sit on a well and wait on a woman. He's got to go to the temple
this morning. There's a woman coming to save him. Brought by the devil, but saved
by the Lord. I love that story. I've told
it to you before. where these fellas, these young
boys, and this woman down the road who was a devout believer,
and they would hear her praying through her window, her kitchen
window every day. And they thought, we're going
to show this old woman, we'll teach this old woman, it ain't nothing to
her prayers, her religion. And the woman was praying that
morning for Or some help. She needed a little handout. She was a poor woman. And the
boys were hiding under her window and they heard her praying. And
they went up the street and got a bag full of goodies and all
that and came running back. And before she'd finished praying,
they laid this bag up on the window sill. And she finished
and she opened her eyes and saw that bag of provisions there
waiting on her. And she immediately said, oh,
thank you, Lord, for answering my prayer. Thank you so much. And those boys popped up and
said, lady, the Lord didn't send that stuff. We brought it. And
they started laughing. She said, well, the devil may
have brought it, but the Lord sent it. And he uses any means, doesn't
he? These fellows with wicked hands had taken this woman who
was going to stone her, and they were trying to tempt the Lord
himself, trying to catch him up according to the law, and
they brought this woman, this sinner, to her only hope. The
only place she was going to find salvation. It just happened. She sure was
lucky that day, wasn't she? Now, for those of you who don't
know, there ain't no such thing as luck, I'm being facetious.
This was a sovereign, preordained, determinate purpose planned by
God Almighty before the foundation of the world to save this particular
sheep whom he had foreknown, foreordained, predestined to
be brought to this very place, this very day, and for Christ
to impart salvation to her. But they did just exactly what
they determined to do, what they did what the Lord had purposed
before. I like that. Oh, they brought
a sheet to the shepherd. Verse 4, And they said unto him,
Master, they said this in a mockingly way, Teacher, Teacher, this woman was taken
in adultery in the very act. Now, I find that hard to understand,
really, how that could happen unless one of their buddies was
in on it. Huh? It takes two. And maybe they were trying to
cover up a little scandal. At any rate, they said she was
taken into the adultery in the very act. Verse 5, now, Moses,
I just hear them saying this now, Moses in the law, Moses
in the law commanded us that such should be stoned. What sayest
thou? Moses in the law says. The law says. Now, these fellows were lawyers. They loved the law. They desired
to be teachers of the law. But they didn't understand. They
didn't understand what they said, nor whereof they affirmed. Now that's what Paul said, who
was a Pharisee of Pharisees. He said, now they desire to be
teachers of the law. He said this in 1 Timothy. But
they don't understand what they're saying, nor where they got it,
nor whereof they affirm, desiring to be teachers of the law. He
said, the law now, he said, I know something about the law. And
they desired to be under the law. These fellows desired to
be under the law, and they wanted everybody else under the law.
Look back at chapter 7. Look at verse 49. Now this is
important, OK? They said, and the law says this. Now look at chapter 7, verse
49. This is what the Pharisees and
the scribes, these religious chief priests, said. Verse 49. This people who knoweth not the
law are cursed. Now, is that right? Huh? Is that right? Turn over
to Galatians chapter 3. Galatians chapter 3, quickly. They said, what they were saying
was, these poor, ignorant sinners who are coming to this Nazarene,
they're believing this self-proclaimed Messiah. These poor, ignorant
sinners, they're ignorant of the law. They're not living according
to the law. It's not their rule of life.
They're cursed. Is that right? Now, who was cursed? Anyone? Was it the people who were coming
to this This Jesus fellow, or was it these Pharisees who knew
the law? Huh? Who was cursed? Look at
Galatians 3. Who's under the curse, anyway?
Huh? Look at Galatians 3. This is very important. Verse
10, As many as are of the works of the law are under the curse,
as it is written. Cursed. Now, read it. Cursed
is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written
in the book of the law to do them, but that no man is justified
by the law in the sight of God. It is evident the just shall
live by faith," or that is, faith on Christ. That's what faith
is. It says, the law says, Cursed
is everyone that continueth not in all things that are written
in the book of the law, to what? Do them. And he goes on to talk about
this in Galatians. He said that Moses in the law
says, Do, do, do, or don't do, don't do, don't do. And here's
what the law says. If you don't do, Then you're
cursed. Curses everyone that continues,
not in all things. All things. Now, it's all things. It means the moral law, that's
Ten Commandments. Call it what you want, the Decalogue,
the Levitical law, Pentateuch, five books of Moses, ceremonial
law. What law is he talking about?
All the law. Isn't that what it says? All
the law. James said this, in James chapter 2, verse 10, James
said, if you're to offend in one point, it's to be guilty of breaking
it up. Isn't that what James said? James
2, verse 10. And ignorance is no excuse. Ignorance
is no excuse. The fellow says, I didn't know
the law. It happened to me one time. I was driving through North
Carolina. Oh, what a state. Awful state. I was driving through that place,
and I never did see a speed limit sign anywhere. I was looking
for it. Well, I just headed on down the road, and they pulled
in behind me and pulled me over. They said, didn't you see that
speed limit sign back there? I said, no. What is the speed
limit here? They said, it's thirty-five.
You were doing forty-five. I said, well, I didn't know. What do you think he did? Oh,
well, we're so sorry for pulling you over. We didn't know you
didn't know. If we'd have known you didn't know, we'd have let
you go on 65, 75, 85. It doesn't matter. You didn't know. He meant
well. What'd they do? They gave me
a blooming ticket. What about the holy Christ, holy
God, who says every point, every jot and tittle must be fulfilled
in order for you to be declared righteous by virtue of you keeping
the law? Everything. Well, I'm going to
do the best I can, then I'll go back in Leviticus and Exodus,
and here's one, and I like that one, I can do that one. And it's not just what you like. I'll do this, and I'll do that,
and I'll do that, and OK, I've done it. All these things have
I done for my youth up, have you now?" There's one you missed. Why did
I didn't know? Huh, too late. Besides, you didn't keep one
of them, for that matter. Jesus Christ in his Sermon on
the Mount, Scripture says he magnified the law. What does
that mean? It means he blew it up. When
you magnify something, what if you get a magnifying glass? What
if I put this under a screen and I magnify it so that everybody
up here can see what it's saying? Huh? I've blown it up. I've exploded
the view of it to where you can really see what it's saying,
can't you? Christ came and he said, you've heard it said? Thou shalt not commit adultery. I say unto you, you look on somebody, you've done it. Oh, wait a minute. Yes, he can, and that's what
he does. We haven't kept one law. Not
only have we not fulfilled the whole law, we haven't kept one
of them. Because God doesn't see as man
sees it. God looks upon the heart. Man
looks on the outward countenance. God looks on the heart. Do you see what the law is saying?
All right, what's the purpose of the law? Look at Galatians
3, verse 24. The law was our school, Master,
to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Is that telling you anything?
I was just telling you what the law said, what Christ said about
the law. What did that tell you, Stan? What did I teach you just
now? What did Christ teach us? In
other words, that you can keep it, that you better keep it or
you won't be justified. What did Christ teach us then?
That you can't keep it. Then what then? Guilty, right? Well, what are you going to do,
Stan? You better come to Christ, Stan. You better come to Christ. It's a school of Master, you
see. to bring you to the only one
who can keep the law, and who can do something about it." They
said, Moses said she's to be stoned. What do you say? Now,
that's the question. That's the question. That's what
I'm interested in. I see the law. Tell me you that
desire to be under the law, Paul said. Don't you hear it? It says
the law can never say anything but duty. Any point of the law, all it can
say to a sinner, a son of Adam, I don't care what he looks like,
it's looking on the heart, and all the law can say is, duty,
stoning, die, no pardon, no justification. But what does Christ say? Now, there is salvation. There is salvation. There is
salvation. What does he say? What does he
say? Oh, my. Look at verses 4 and
5 back in John's face. Look at it again. Now, Moses,
in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned." He was
taken in the adultery in the very act. Everyone in here has
been taken in the very act. You say, wait a minute, God,
the scripture says, Thou, Lord, seest me? God said, this clothes,
this headscarf is nobody to give him here, is it? I can turn over tears, and I
can close my eyes and look to heaven and just pray, and your
prayer may sound good, and it may fool me, but it lets you
from the heart. We've all been caught in the
very act of breaking every point of God's law. We're caught red-handed. Every one of us has been caught
in the act. This make you uneasy? Is there a sinner in here? Huh? Is there an uneasy sinner? That
woman was uneasy, wasn't she? Huh? She was uneasy. She's going
to go out easy. She came in hard and condensed. She went out skipping. I'm the sinner. Poet! Can you
put yourself right there? with this woman. Is this you? I mean, ma'am, this morning the
Lord brought you in guilty. Well, what does Christ say? Let's
hear what Christ says to a sinner. We've heard what the law says.
Die. We've heard what those who love
the law say. Let's hear what the Savior says. That's all that
matters. It doesn't matter what men say.
It doesn't matter what I look like to men. Look at John, look at verse 6. Now Moses says, she's to die,
verse 6, This they said, tempting him, that they might have to
accuse him. But Jesus stooped down. Christ condescended, the holy,
spotless Son of God, condescended to come down in here to this
mass of iniquity, this cesspool of iniquity. You know all this
is. You know what this planet is. It's a bunch of wiggling maggots.
That's all it is. You ever looked on it the other
day? Yesterday, my wife and I were walking around picking up rocks,
clearing rocks off the property. And I picked up a rock by a tree,
and there was a mass of swarming ants, just worms, just a mass
of ants. Ants! And they were by my tree,
you know, and I didn't want them there. They'd kill my tree. So
I called the chicken. I called the chickens and I wanted
them to eat all those ants. What? Ants? They're no good to
me. They're just destructive. That's
all they are. That's all they are, is a bunch
of ants. Now wait a minute. There's one.
There's an ant, and he's wearing nice clothes. And this other one over here,
he doesn't have the same clothes. You see? How does God look at it? What
does Isaiah say? The inhabitants of the earth
are reputed as what? Nothing. He goes on to say in
that same chapter, grasshoppers, maggots. That's what worm means. That's what word means, maggot,
feeding on dead things. The way that the Lord looks at
this whole mass of planet Earth is look like us looking on a
mass of maggots. That's just so. Well, wait a
minute. Now, I'm a pretty good maggot. Big deal. Still a maggot. Huh? But I'm a better looking
maggot. I'm a more holy looking maggot
than that maggot. What's that to me? Huh? Maggots. But he turns some maggots
into butterflies. Some worms he puts in a cocoon
and transforms them until they come out looking like something
worth looking like. That's predestination. And that's
what he's going to have to do to every maggot that he saves. turn from a worm into a son of
God. You say, don't they look different
then? Not until they leave this cocoon. But he wrote, he stooped down. Christ stooped down. He became
a worm. Scripture says, I'm a worm. Christ
said that, I'm a worm. No man. A worm. And it says he rode on the ground.
Verse six, he stooped down with his finger, rode on the ground,
and I like this, as though he heard a knock. Moses said, and
he's riding on the ground, what do you say? He stooped down. Moses said, did you hear us? Well, what do you say? Are you listening to this? No,
he's not listening to me, huh? He's not listening to me. There's one person that's going
to be listening to me. It's the one extreme fan of the
same. Are you listening to this? No!
But he did stand up and say, one
would have to. Go ahead, test the person. I love him now, as though he
didn't hear it. He wasn't hearing her. But there
was a woman standing there. She was standing there, and he
heard every beat of her heart. She wasn't saying a thing. She
wasn't saying a thing. They were doing all the talking. Mercy. He was scaring her. He won't hear the Jews. It's
like that fellow said, he won't hear the Jews. At least he's
one outwardly. Now, he's one inwardly. Oh, he
wrote, and he said, look at verse 9, and they which heard it, they
saw it. They saw what he was writing.
What was he writing? What do you reckon the Lord was writing?
Now, there's been a lot of speculation on this. What do you reckon he was writing? You know, there's only one other
time in Scripture that it says the finger of God wrote it, huh?
This is God. He's writing this thing. You
know what that other time was? Sure you do. Yeah, that's right,
Barbara. It was on Mount Sinai when he wrote the law on those
tables of stone. That was the last time the finger of God wrote
it. Thank God. Same one. Moses said, didn't
you hear us? Moses said. Moses said. I'm the one that said that. But,
you know, what was he writing then? What was he writing? So perhaps he was writing down,
I've heard preachers say this, perhaps he was writing down names
and addresses and dates that each person in there knew what
it meant. I mean an exact moment and place
and person or whatever. that only that particular fellow
who'd been there, done that, knew what that stood for. They said, beginning at the eldest,
they walked out. Names, dates, places, times. Somebody else said, he's writing
the law again. But not just the law that they
knew. See, if he had written the Ten Commandments, they'd
all just stood right there. Been there, done that. Kept that. But he was writing laws that
they didn't know existed. And they said, oh, oh. That's
when he stood up and said, he is without sin. He hadn't broken
the law. which says it would be stoned.
You know, the law was mighty severe on a lot of things back
then. Greedy. Stoning happened just about for
everything. And the Lord wrote down some
laws that they were perhaps ignorant of, and they began one by one
to walk out of that. I like this. He was writing down those laws,
perhaps, and those who wanted to be under it. They realized
they were guilty, and they walked out. But after they walked out,
it's just him and that one sinner. And then when they walked out,
he blotted them out. Just him and that sinner. Or
he wrote down a print, he wrote beside it, Thou shalt have no other God.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, all thy
soul, all thy strength. Kept for her. K-E-P-T. Kept. Paid in full. The law says stone for adultery.
P-A-R-D. Paid. I'm going to Calvary's Cross
to make the payment for her. Everybody else is gone. Bloodied out the handwriting
of ordinances against her. He let them go on guilty. He blotted them out for her. Is there a center in here? Says they heard and they went
out, till there was just one person left. Look at verse 9.
Everybody heard it, convicted, 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 of it. Christ and this
woman alone. And that's where every sinner
is going to have to come. That's the way it's going to have to
be. every single sinner. I wish these hirelings would
leave people alone. You know that? Point them to Christ and just
leave them alone. These soul winners, professional
soul winners, you know, trying to notch their belt. Leave them alone. Point them
to Christ and leave them alone. Do you strike while the iron's
hot? No, you ain't your iron, and you ain't striking. The Holy
Spirit moves, blows where he's listed. If he's blowing today,
he'll be blowing tomorrow. Leave him alone. Take him to
Christ and leave him alone. That's where we're going to have
to be. In verse 10 and 11, when Jesus had lifted up himself, when he had lifted up himself."
What's that? Christ lifted up himself on Calvary's
cross, didn't he? If I be lifted up, I draw men
unto myself. What old men? All that the Father
gave him. If I be lifted up, Christ was
made sin for us. He was made a curse for his people,
because it is written, everyone that hangeth on a tree." So he
was made a curse, made of a woman, made under the law to redeem
them that were under the law. He lifted up himself on Calvary's
tree. No man takes my life, he said,
I lay it down. He lifted up himself. The nails
didn't hold him there. His sovereign will held him there.
He lifted up himself on Calvary's tree. He says he saw none but
the woman, and he said unto her, What do you say? Now here's what
he said to her. Woman, where are those thine
accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? Hath no man here to condemn thee? What about the law, though? You see anything that condemns
you? Hmm? Where are they to you? No man's law. He said no man's
law. See, there's therefore now no
condemnation. Do you know that verse in Romans
8? I tell you, it's one of the sweetest
verses. It's my favorite verse. Romans 8, verse 1. Where is therefore? Now, therefore why? Because Romans 7 says, I thank
God. Who shall deliver me? I thank
God through Jesus. Christ. There is therefore now,
right now, for this old sinner, no condemnation. Condemn the
man, Jesus Christ, right now. If no man condemned you, no man,
Lord, neither do I condemn thee. Moses says, what do you say?
Moses says guilty, what do you say? whether lawgiver himself,
the one that gave it to Moses, the judge and the executioner
himself, the judge and the advocate says, I don't commune. Justify every point. Hold it free. Ah, little children. John went on to write over there
in 1 John, chapter 2. He said, little children, sinners. Listen to me. Charles Ross, listen
to me. John went on to write later on.
He said, little children, these things I write unto you that
you don't sin. That's what Christ left that
woman with. He said, go and sin no more. Don't get back into
that lifestyle. Don't sin anymore. Well, John
said that same thing in 1 John 2, verse 1. These things are
right unto you that you sin not. Don't return to that. If any man sin, what you going
to do? Ain't he going to be lost? I'm
a saint now. I'm no longer a sinner. What
you're going to do, you're going to come right back where you
start the beginning of your conference. Where this woman was a sinner.
If any man said we have an advocate with Father Jesus Christ the
righteous and you come right back to him, Charles, come right
back to it again. Because this man received a sinner.
And he won't condemn you. You won't condemn them if you
come to it. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them that are in Christ Jesus. Is that good news? Is that good news, Charles? Good. There's one in here that thinks
so. All right, there's only one Psalm C. After that, isn't it? Yeah. 205. Free from the law. Oh, happy condition. Jesus Christ
hath bled, there is remission. Cursed by the law, bruised by
the flesh, Christ hath redeemed me, once for all." Let's see
if we can sing this and mean it. All right. Stand with me. Let's sing the first and second
stanzas. First and the second. We've heard their love, their
redemption. Deceit has been their aggravation. First by the law,
then first by the power. Great is their weakness, not its power. Was my own sin receiving, Was
my own body an angel, Came to the cross, the blood in me flowed,
And I became flesh once more. There are three heads, no calculations. He is present at every salvation. Come unto me, oh, this is love. Where He will save us once more. Where He will save us once more. Thank you for this.