Address—C. Hendricks
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Oh Lord, when we the path retrace.
Which thou on earth is tried to demand thy wondrous love and grace, thy faithfulness to God.
We wonder if thy lowly mind and Fain would like thee be.
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I ask God.
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Blood and grace.
To God.
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I say.
Tell us.
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Of our so great chameleons.
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Praying.
I was.
Meditating quite recently.
On the Gospel of John and it struck me how many times the Lord Jesus dealt with individuals and when we think of the first chapter of John's Gospel.
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Just look at a couple verses here. We know it well. In the beginning was the Word, The Word was with God and the Word was God. Here's this person that was here is here called the Word, the very expression of God and.
He was in the beginning with God, and all things were made by him.
Without him was not anything made that was made, and him was life, and the life was the light of men.
And it says in the 14th verse the Word became flesh and.
Dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, John writes. We beheld his glory. The glory is of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
And then John bear witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake. He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me. And of his fullness have all we received in grace, for grace, or grace upon grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. And then that tremendous 18th verse, No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son.
Which is in the bosom of the Father. He hath declared him. So now we know who God is. We know what God is like because the sun has come and and declared him. Well, I don't want to dwell on this first chapter. We could spend a lot of time on that precious chapter. But I want to look at turn to the second chapter. Now on the end of the chapter I want to look at some individuals that this one who is the word.
The Son of God, eternal, with the Father from all eternity, dwelt in his bosom, and does dwell there. He came down to where we are. The Word became flesh, dwelt among us tremendous truth, The end of the second chapter says now, when he was verse 23. Now when he was in Jerusalem, at the Passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name when they saw the miracles which he did. But Jesus did not commit himself unto them.
Because he knew all men and needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man.
Now the next chapter should begin with a, but if you look at it in the new translation.
But there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him his.
State of soul was such that as he says here, he says to the Lord.
He came by night and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher, come from God, for no man could do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Here was a religious man, a Pharisee, a ruler of the Jews. He was in the upper strata of society, and he comes by night. He didn't want to, evidently. He didn't want to be seen coming to the Lord. The Pharisees were his chief opponents and enemies, and he was a Pharisee.
But he was different. There was, I believe, that God had begun working in his soul, and though he didn't come in the in the broad daylight, he came by night. And he says to him, he comes as a teacher to a teacher and he has to be taught, and he's going to get some teaching here that is way beyond what he expected.
So he says to him Rabbi dresses him, and with a title that that would indicate that he's pretty much Nicodemus thoughts pretty much on the same level as this other teacher. And he says, we know that thou art a teacher, come from God, for no man can do these miracles that thou doest except God be with him. He had come to to see that.
That no one could do the miracles that he did that but God was with him, and now the Lord he he immediately passes by what Nicodemus has said. And he says to him, Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee.
Except a man be born again. He cannot see the Kingdom of God. What a statement. What a statement. Now he's. He's not addressing this.
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Poorest American woman that we'll look at in a moment in the 4th chapter. He's not addressing a down and outer, he's addressing an up and outer, if you will. He's addressing a very learned, educated man, a ruler of the Jews, a Pharisee. And he starts with the most basic and fundamental truth that even the the best of men had to learn that except a man be born again, he cannot see.
He cannot see the Kingdom of God, can't even see it, much less enter into it.
Verily, verily, that means truly, truly. This is of a truth. When he repeats that, it's extremely important. Verily, verily, I say unto you unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Now the Jews were very proud, very proud. Race. They looked at themselves as being a cup above the Gentiles far above them, in other words, in fact, they they looked down upon them, and here was one who was.
The representative of the the the Jewish religion and thought highly naturally Speaking of himself as the Pharisees. Did you remember in Luke 18? I think it is the there was a there was a poor publican and there was this Pharisee and the Pharisee prayed, I thank you. I'm not like other men. I, I, I give ties that fast twice in the week. Not like this poor publican thinking himself so much better. Well that's that's the kind of a man that the Lord was dealing with here.
And so he goes right to the to the root need that man had. And that is he needed a new life. He needed to be born again. I I think of the the story of a father whose daughter was taking piano lessons and she was doing quite well. And so he said to the teacher, he said I'd like to learn how to play the piano too. And she said, all right, Sir, that's very nice. And so she got out to book one.
And she handed it to the man and she said, now you study this and you go through the lessons. And her, his daughter was in book 5. And he said, you mean I have to start in book one? That's where my daughter started. That's right. So you have to start in the beginning. And that's what the Lord is saying to Nicodemus here, who who had all the religion that you can think of. It was coming out everywhere his religion. But religion doesn't save anyone.
Religion doesn't give us a new life. Only the Lord Jesus can do that, and so he.
He goes to the very root of the problem that all men have, no matter what strata they might be in, and he was in way up here, and in danger of thinking himself so much superior to the rest of humanity.
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus now hearers this very intelligent grown adult man. He says. How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born, showing he had the foggiest notion of what the Lord was talking about?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water. Now he said in the 1St place, except a man be born again or anew, a fresh start.
Now he he he says water and of the Spirit. Water is always a picture in Scripture of the Word of God, and Peter speaks of that. He says, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. So Spirit of God uses his word to to reach the conscience of the soul and to enter into that soul, and then he imparts divine life when that soul believes the word of God.
Well, that's a that's a work of God. And that's where the work of God has to begin in a man's soul, whether he's a educated, learned professor in some university or head of the religious system that was recognized by the Jews and the Lord was a Jew, of course he would know about that, but he starts at the very beginning.
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit. He cannot enter the Kingdom of God, can't see it without the new birth, and can't enter it. You can go to the highest universities and the highest colleges and universities. And your instructor, your professor, if he has not been born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God, he cannot enter it, and nor can he even see it. It's outside of his realm. He He can't see it without a new life.
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Very basic, fundamental truth.
And so he says, except a man be born of water. As the word of God is being used by the Spirit of God, the Spirit is the active agent. He uses the word of God to bring about a new life. The word is presented to his soul, and he lays hold upon that, and he believes that. And he's born of water and of the spirit. Unless that's the case, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. You can educate it, you can train it, you can sublimate it, you can do everything to it, give it every possible advantage.
That man can give it, send them to the to the highest college and to get his PhD in all this.
That which is one of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit, and that is what is born of the flesh Partakes of the nature of the flesh, and that which is born of the spirit partakes of the nature of the Spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, This was this was teaching that he had never heard before. And he says, Marvel not that I said unto thee, must be born again. I remember a man said to a Christian, Why do you Christians always say he must be born again?
And he looked him right in the eye and he said, because he must be born again, you need a new life, a new beginning. And I'm not saying any truth here that is new to you, but it's the very starting point of a relationship with God.
He must be born again. Marvel not that I said this to thee. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth. So is everyone that is born of the Spirit. That's the work of the Spirit of God. It's not the work of man. It's not the work of some Bible college. It's not the work of some theological seminary. It's the work of a in a soul that is reading God's word, and the Spirit of God is applying it and bringing it home in power to that soul and when he believes it.
Born again, and he has divine life. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master, a teacher of Israel? And knoweth not these things? He should have known that a new life was needed from the Old Testament.
Now in verse 11 is probably the most profound verse in the Gospel of John. Well, verily, verily, I say unto thee, notice the singular, I say unto thee. And then he changes to the plural. We speak that we do know and testify that we have seen, and you receive not our witness. And then he goes back to the singular. If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not so on, who's the we, who's the plural? We and our in that verse.
11 And they said, Godhead, it's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It's God himself. And the Lord speaks as a divine person, as one who is one of the three persons in the Blessed Trinity.
And he's the only one that can say that we speak, that we do know when he spoke.
What he said he knew was the truth. It was given to him of the Father to say, and he spoke with absolute, absolute authority and certainty. Now we can't say that because we're very fallible. But here was one who was infallible. God himself and the whole Trinity is involved in that.
Whenever God speaks, man had better listen. We speak that we do know and testify that we have seen and ye receive not our witness. What a sad conclusion to that verse. Man naturally speaking religious man, religious man. Religion never saved anyone. What religion does if it gives some man something to do by which he himself, in his own efforts and strength, can gain acceptance with God.
And that is the lie of the devil. Man can't get there that way. He has to get there by believing the word of God.
And the Spirit of God, and by being born of the Spirit and born of God.
If I spoken, if I told you worth three things and you believe not, how should you believe? If I tell you of heavenly things, well, we have a lot of individuals to look at in John's gospel, so let's turn to the 4th chapter. Nicodemus was the upper crust of society. Now we're going to get to 1 who was at the very lowest part of society.
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It says in verse three he left Judea and departed again into Galilee Chapter 4 verse.
For and he must needs go through Samaria. Why did he have to go through Samaria? Because there was one person. There was one person that he had to meet and bring out of darkness into his marvelous life, from death to life and the power of Satan to God. One person that marvelous that this, this unique person, the Son of God the Word became flesh. He bothers to speak to individuals.
Nicodemus was one came by night as beautiful to trace Nicodemus. In the 7th chapter he comes out more boldly for the Lord. And then at the resurrection he was there with Joseph to take his body and prepare it for burying. Beautiful. We will definitely meet.
Nicodemus in Heaven.
So it says he must needs go through Samaria verse five. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria which is called Psycho.
To the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well and it was about the 6th hour. Lord traveled. He couldn't have cars back then. He didn't travel by horseback. He traveled by foot and he was worried with his journey and he sat on the well. It was about the 6th hour middle of the day.
Time when the they wouldn't come to draw water. They came at the end of the day. John gives us Roman time. It gives us the time that we have. The other Gospels give you Jewish time.
Now Jacob's well was there.
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water.
Now that must have been quite an embarrassing situation here. This Samaritan woman comes expecting to find no one there, and here's this Jew sitting there on the well.
Worried with his journey. Now the Samaritans have no dealings with the Jews and the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. This was a very awkward situation. Who's going to break the ice, so to speak? He does. He does.
He says to her.
Give me to drink.
He asks a favor of her. This Jew. That's what she saw at this point.
To drink.
Disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat, He he kind of by doing that, by asking this question, he breaks down the the, the awkwardness of the situation and the barrier that was there. And she says Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, ask us drink of me, which I'm a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans?
She was amazed that he would he would humble himself to the point where he would ask a favor of the Samaritan. That was not like a normal Jew at all.
Notice his answer.
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, that word gift, is from the same root as grace. Let's just replace it with grace. If you knew the grace of God, the free giving of God, and who it is that saith to thee, give me to drink, though it's have asked of him. And he would have given thee in grace, He would have given thee.
Living water. Living water.
This is not living water, what I hold in my hand here.
It will satisfy my thirst for a short time, but now he offers to this woman who came at a time when she wouldn't be discovered and she wouldn't be noticed by others. They didn't come at that time.
And if she finds him there, he went there to meet her.
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And he went out of his way. Jews didn't go through Samaria. They went around Samaria. Generally speaking, there was Galilee, Samaria, and Judea. Right in between was Samaria. And that's where he goes. And he sits wearied on the well.
And the woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou that living water? Living water is a picture, a type of a Holy Spirit, which he's going to give to this woman as he's given to each one of us. Not only are we born of the Spirit John 3 but he gives the Holy Spirit to indwell us, John Four, and to live within us, and to be the the power of worship.
In the 7th chapter he's represented as a river of living waters, pulling out from one's belly, or inmost being as the power of service. But here it's this goes on to worship in this chapter. But I'm getting ahead, and she says, Sir, thou has nothing to draw with. The well is deep. From whence and hast saw that living water Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself and his children and his cattle All she didn't know.
Who he was.
Was he greater than Jacob? Infinitely greater? Ah, yes, Jesus answered and said unto her.
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. She had a need. She had a life that was ruined by sin.
And she had a deep need, and she was trying to find satisfaction by the gratification of the flesh, and it had failed miserably.
And he offers her this living water, this refreshment, this source of refreshment that would be in you. He says, that will spring up like a like an artesian well in your soul unto eternal life, while he goes on to speak, that whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst, never thirst forever, is the force. It's a strengthened negative in the original. But the water that I shall give him shall be in him.
A well of water doesn't quite get the sense a fountain of water. It's not just the well that you have to dip a bucket into and draw it up, but it's like an artesian well. It springs up a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life, eternal life.
In that third chapter he said to this religious leader that she had to be You have to be born again. And then he unfolds eternal life like in John 316. For God so loved the world, He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life and.
Here again, now he's got this living water that if one drinks of that, it will be the the, the power of the new life that one has.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hit her to draw. You see, he awakens her desire. After this she she was living a life which made her miserable, did not satisfy her soul.
Now he offers her something that would give lasting and eternal satisfaction. Give me this water that I thirst not, neither come hit her to draw.
Jesus saith unto her goat.
Call my husband and come visit.
Why did he have to say that?
That touches the root of her problem.
And he lets her know. I know all about you.
It's so precious. After he tells her that he knew all about her life, she could go away and say he offered me living water before he exposed to me that he knew all about me.
Because when he saves your soul, he knows all about you before he ever saves you so and afterward as well.
Well, she says to him. I have no husband.
Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband, for thou hast had five husbands.
And he whom thou hast is not thy husband. The man she was living with at that time she wasn't even married to. In that sense thou truly, let's turn down.
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That he knows all about her.
God is love. That's the first part of this. And God is light. That's this part.
He has to reach the conscience. To Nicodemus God is light 1St and then God is flower.
I have no husband, Alice well said I have no husband. Alice had five, And he whom thou hast is not thy husband. In that sets out truly the woman saith unto him. Now she's the light of his words, that that his words, entering into the soul, bring to the soul. She says, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
It's amazing how a religion, a person of this character, can get religious all of a sudden and and bring in a religious thing because he had asked her a question that was extremely embarrassing.
To her.
She wants to engage him now in the difference between the.
Her father's, which were the Samaritans, a mixture of Jews and Gentiles, with the Jews of Jerusalem.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain. You say that, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, woman, believe me, the hour cometh, and when you shall neither in this mountain he was in Samaria, and this mountain there, nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. That time has come, beloved, and for 2000 years now nearly that time has has been.
The dispensation, the Christian dispensation, which in which we did, we worship the Father and Spirit of the truth. He says to her, Ye worship, you know not what, in other words, he's telling this Samaritan woman, you don't know what you worship. God doesn't own Samaria. We know what we worship for salvation of the Jews. God owns the Jews positionally, not the Samaritans. She tells her that. But then he says there's there's something altogether new.
That's all going to be set aside. The hour cometh, and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father seeketh such to worship him. Now I imagine that every one of you, if you were asked, would you have, would you have taught that truth to this Samaritan woman, Lord Christian society, or to Nicodemus? Nicodemus is a religious man. He's the one that he should have. He should have spoken about worship to, no?
What he said to Nicodemus is you need to be born again. You need a new life. All your religion counts for nothing. You can't even see or enter the Kingdom of God without the new birth. But to this woman who was trying to find satisfaction by in the flesh.
He offers a fountain, springing up to everlasting life, leading to worship the true worship of the Father.
The hour cometh in thou is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit.
And in truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship him God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. That's wonderful, deep truth that he's unfolding to this Samaritan woman, Not the Nicodemus, not to the ruler of the Jews, but to the Samaritan woman.
The woman says to him. I know that the science cometh.
Which is called Christ. The word Messiah is the Hebrew word for the Anointed one, and the word Christ is the Greek word for the Anointed one. They both meet the same thing.
When he has come, he will tell us all things. There's two men. There's two people in the Gospel of John that he reveals himself to, and she's the first one, the Samaritan woman. How did you not a Jewish, not a Samaritan woman? Jesus says to her, I that speak unto thee and he.
I am he.
And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman, with his Samaritan woman. Yet no man said, what seekest thou, or why talkest thou with her? The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, she becomes an evangelist. Come see a man which told me all things that ever I did. Is not this to Christ?
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Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
Meanwhile his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat, he said unto them, I have meat to eat that she know not of. He had brought a soul out of darkness into his marvellous light.
And that was food for his, for him. I have meat to eat.
That she know not to.
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
It's beautiful in this very gospel. It's on the cross. When he cries, it is finished. He finished the work that the Father had given him to do.
And then it says, We just pass on to verse 39 Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman which testified, He told me all that ever I did. So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they they sought him, that he would tarry with them, and he abode there two days, and many more believed because of his own word, and said unto the woman, Now we believe not because of thy saying, for we have heard him ourselves.
And know that this is indeed the Christ the Savior.
Of the world.
Tremendous light had come in and brought them out of darkness.
In the 5th chapter, I don't want to say too much. There's this impotent man, and he's been a long time, 38 years by the pool of Bethesda and verse 6. Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been there now a long time. In that case you sayeth unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered and said, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the into the pool. But while I am coming another step, it's down before me.
He didn't have the power to meet the condition that was necessary to get healed.
He had to get into the pool before anyone else and he couldn't do that. He was, as it says in Romans 5, he was without strength.
He was impotent. And so the Lord doesn't put him into the pool. The Lord just says, take up thy bed and walk. He heals him, and immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked. And on the same day was the Sabbath. Many times you'll find that the healing that he does here in the Gospel of John, of course John presents him at Jerusalem, that were his enemies were the greatest and strongest. He didn't have so many enemies in Galilee.
Here he has enemies and.
This man is now healed. The Jews asked him whether he had said some lawful for you to carry your bed on the Sabbath day. The Lord had told him to do that, to get thy bed and walk. He said, the end. He that made me whole the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
Then ask him, what man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed and walk. You see this, this man, this man, the Lord Jesus? He was the one that gave the the, the law to Moses. He was the the one that gave it to him, and he's the one that can.
If necessary, overwriting by grace. The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
The law never saved anyone. The law can condemn. The law can send you to hell because you break it, but it can't save you.
It holds out the promise of life and blessing to the obedient, but there are none.
There are none. They're all disobedient.
And so it could only kill and condemn and curse and slay.
They asked him in verse 12, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed and walk. And he that was healed was not who it was, For Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. Isn't that strange, that this man that was healed like this didn't even find out who it was, Didn't know.
I don't know whether there was any work of God in his soul.
Either was healed, was not who it was, for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. Afterward, verse 14 Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, the heart made whole, sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole.
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Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day. They were so tied up with their legalistic ordinances that they totally missed who it was that was in their midst.
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work even on the Sabbath day. Yes, they were God was working in grace for the blessing of man. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, I thought, but said that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Well, they were right there. They realized that when he called God my Father, that he was on the same level as Father.
And so he was.
He goes on to say verse 20, The Father loveth the Son, and showed him all things that himself doeth. He will show him greater works than these that she may marvel.
And so on We can't.
Spend too much time on this. Let's turn to the 8th chapter.
The 8th chapter. This is a very interesting portion in some manuscripts. In some Greek manuscripts, this portion of scriptures taken out. It should be there. It is scripture.
Let's read the end of the 7th chapter.
Verse 46 verse 45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees.
And they said unto them, Why have you not brought him? They had sent these officers to bring him, to bring the Lord to them. Notice their answer, the officers answered. Never man spake like this man.
They were just so totally odd at the words that he spoke, at the power that emanated from this person.
Then answer them. The Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? Ah, there was one. There was one, the one that came to Jesus by night, called Nicodemus, that needed to be born again. But this people who know not the law are cursed, know wrong. It's not the people that don't know the law that are cursed, it's those who do know it and then break it. They're the ones that are cursed by it.
Nicodemus saith unto them, He that came to Jesus by 19 One of them doth our law. Judge any man before I hear him, and know what he doeth.
Good question. You can see that God is working in his soul. He's making progress.
They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search and look for out of Galilee Ariseth No, prophet, they're wrong again. Jonah came from Galilee.
He came from Galilee, so they're dead wrong even in their theology.
And every man went unto his own house. Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives.
Now notice and early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him, and he sat down and taught them.
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery. Now he'd already dealt with this Samaritan woman, offered her living water, and revealed himself to her. John. 4 Now they bring this woman that was taken in the adulterous act they had set her, when they had set her in the midst. They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery in the very act.
That means that the man was caught too. But where was he?
The scripture says in the Old Testament that if two are found lying together, they're both to be stoned, but they only brought the woman.
They didn't care one bit about this woman or about the man that was with her.
They were trying to trap the Lord, as they often did.
They say, master, this woman was taken in adultery in the very act almosis and the law commanded us that such should be stoned at. Once they stop, they thought they had him between the horns of the dilemma. If he said stone her, you don't have any mercy. If he said let her go free, you're not keeping the law of Moses.
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How Moses.
This they said verse 6 tempting him that they might have to accuse him.
But Jesus stooped down and with his finger rolled on the ground. Be as though they He heard them, not as added by the translators. He wrote on the ground. Now the law was written by the finger of God, and He's the one that wrote it. Way back when those two tables of stone were given by God Jehovah to Moses, written with the finger of God. Now here's the finger of God in human form, now the Lord Jesus.
Writing on the ground. I don't know what he was writing. Maybe he was writing. Thou shalt not commit adultery. We don't know what he was writing. That was the.
6th commandment not 7.
But he.
He started. He wrote on the ground and didn't answer them.
King James says as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said unto them.
He that is without sin among you.
Let him first cast a stone at her.
And again he stooped down and reeled on the ground. You know, the law was given twice. It was given the first time where was pure law? And before Moses could come down from the mount, the people that made a golden calf and were dancing around it. And had he brought that law into that camp, they would have all died and perished because they broke it. They broke the very first three commandments. I should have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make any graven image of anything in heaven and earth. They'd done that. And thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God. In vain. They've done that. They said tomorrow is a feast of Jehovah, putting the name of the true God to their idolatry.
And when they heard the law, they said, all the Lord has said we will do and obey. Then when they before it even came into the camp, it broken it.
Terribly broken it. And so he says to them, let him that is without sin. Do you want to apply the law to this woman which will condemn her to death? If you're without sin, you cast the first stone. The law condemned them all, every last one of us. And so it does every one of us. And we're fools if we put ourselves under it.
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her, and again he stooped down and rode on the ground.
They which heard it being convicted by their own conscience went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last, and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing.
In the midst now he had said, he did this without sin. Let him cast the stone, and he was the only one in that company that was without sin. He's the only one that could have cast the stone.
According to his own words, would he there she stands in the presence of God, manifest in the flesh.
What would he do?
Where are those signed accusers? Has no man condemned thee? She said. No man, Lord.
And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn me.
Go and sin no more. That's what he told the man in John 5. Sin no more or less. The worst thing happened to thee, and he says to this woman, go and sin no more.
And Jesus spake again, saying unto them, I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
There's a beautiful scripture in. I'll just turn to a second Corinthians 5 that explains this. It says in verse 19 of 2nd Corinthians 5 that God was in Christ.
Reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing.
Their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the word.
Of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you in Christ stead be reconciled to God. Christ did not come to condemn the world. What to say? He came in grace. He didn't come to to apply the law which would have condemned that woman and she would have been stoned. But he applied grace. Go and sing no more. The law can't give you any power. Can't give me any power any of us to live a holy life, But grace can.
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The grace of God, which bringeth salvation to all men, hath appeared teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly us, we should live holy and righteously and godly in this present world. What teaches us to do that? The law or grace? It's grace.
And here we see that the man of grace, you know, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich in glory, rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich.
Precious Lord Jesus.
He did not impute her trespass to her, but he forgave her. Neither do I condemn thee. Now go to the 9th chapter.
Another man, another individual, isn't that precious as you go through the Gospel of John, which presents to us his deity so beautifully that he he spends time with these individuals and deals with them in grace.
Chapter 9 verse one. And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?
The Jews thought that if someone was born with a defect, that was the result of sin, and that's true, a defect is a result of sin. And so they ask this question. The reason there's all these evil things that exist down here is because of sin.
If there was no sin, there wouldn't be these defects.
That afflict the human race, who sinned this matter as parents, that he was born blind. Jesus answered, neither have this man sinned or his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
I must work the works of him that sent me while in his day. The night cometh when no man can work. As long as I'm in the world, I'm the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle. John 114 The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. That's what that speaks of. Spat on the ground, made clay of the spittle.
And he anointed the eyes of the blame man with the clay, puts that on the man's eyes, and then he sends him, says Go wash in the pool of Siloam, which is by interpretation sent. And when a soul realizes that God sent his Son into this world to become a man, and to die for us to give us eternal life, that soul is saved.
He washed, went his way, and came seeing.
The neighbors, therefore, they which before had seen him that he was blind, said is not this he that sat and baked. Some said this is he, others said he's like him, but he said I am he.
Then they asked him how were thine. Eyes opened.
He answered and said, a man that is called Jesus. I haven't counted him. I think it's four times you can check it. They asked him the same question over and over and over again. They they didn't like the answer that was given to him.
A man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed mine eyes. Now that's as far as he knows. He just calls him a man, a man named Jesus.
Beautiful to see how makes he makes progress in this chapter.
The north of my eyes. And I said to me, go to the pool of Solomon, Wash, and I went and washed, and I received sight. Then said thee unto him, Where is he? He said, I don't know, just like the man in John. 5 The Lord, when he healed, he didn't stand around to be to be applauded for what he had done. He just he just left and wasn't trying to draw attention to himself.
Just the opposite of the some of these hay peelers today.
Hypocrites.
Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said. I know not. I brought him to the Pharisees Him. They brought to the Pharisees him that before time was blind, and it was the Sabbath day. Here, here's another thing, another work done by the Lord on the Sabbath day.
So they asked him.
Then said the Pharisees, How did he receive his sight? He said unto them. He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed and due see.
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Therefore said some of the Pharisees, this man is not of God because he doesn't keep the Sabbath. Others said open a man that is a Sinner do such miracles.
And there was a division among them. They were so locked into this legalistic system of law which they, which based on that they were called, condemned every one of them. That one was without sin. If you apply the law to the human race, everyone is sinned.
And.
They're locked into it.
This man is not of God because he keepeth not the Sabbath day, others said. How can a man that is a Sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them? That's what Nicodemus says.
We know that you're a teacher, come from God, and that's as far as he was there in John 3. Because no one could do the miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. That's what they say here. How can a man that is a Sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. And they say unto the blind man again, what sayest thou of him? That he hath opened his mind thine eyes. Now he makes progress. He had said, a man that is called Jesus. Now he says he's a prophet.
But the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received his sight until they called the parents.
And they asked him, Is this your son whom you say was born blind? How then doth he now see his parents answered them, he said.
And said, We know that this is our son, but that he was born blind, and that he was born blind. But by what means he now seeth? We don't know. Or who hath opened his eyes? We know not. He's of age. Ask him, He shall speak for himself. These words speak his parents, because they feared the Jews. Or the Jews had already agreed that if any man did confess that Jesus was Christ, he should be put out of synagogues. Therefore, said his parents, he's of age, Ask him then again.
That was blind, and said unto him.
Give God the praise. We know that this man is a Sinner though.
It's amazing how religion can speak with such authority when it's dead wrong.
He was the only man who was there that was not a Sinner.
The Lord Jesus.
He answered and said, whether he be a Sinner or no, I know not one thing. I know that whereas I was blind Now I see then said they did him. What did you to thee? How open do you thine eyes?
He answered them, I have told you already, He did not hear. Wherefore would she hear it again? Would he also be his disciples? Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple. But we are Moses disciples. We know that God spake to Moses, But As for this fellow, we know not from whence he is. What a confession, what blindness.
A man answered and said unto them, While hearing is a marvelous thing, that you know not from whence he is, and yet you have opened mine eyes. Now we know that God heareth not sinners, But if any man be a worshipper of God, and do with his will him, he hear it. Since the world began, was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind? If this man were not of God, he could do nothing. The answered and said unto him, Thou was altogether born in sins. Remember that first question, Who sinned this manner? His parents, that he was born blind?
That was altogether born in sins. And dost thou teach us?
These self-righteous hypocrites.
These religious men.
And they cast him up.
Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and when he had found him, he said unto them, When he had found him, he sought the man. The man didn't seek him, he sought the man. He said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him. He goes from a man called Jesus, He is a prophet. And now he's asked the question by the Messiah, by the Son of God himself. Do you believe in the Son of God? He said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe in him. And Jesus said unto him, Thou has both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. I remember there was a there was a debate between a Muslim cleric, a Muslim minister, and a Christian minister, and the Muslim challenge the Christian by said saying.
Jesus never himself claimed to be the Son of God. Oh.
Here's a case where he clearly claims it.
He clearly cleans it, as many other scriptures. In fact this whole gospel of John. This is written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and at the beginning you might have life through his name.
Do you? Do you believe? And you said, Lord, I believe, and he worshipped him.
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And Jesus said for judgment, I am coming to this world, that they would see, not might see, and that they would see might be made blind. Some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words and said, are we blind also? And the Lord said to them, if you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say, we see you're the teachers, you're the ones that have all the answers. You say we see your sin remains. They were really blind.
They didn't know it, therefore your sin remaining.
I can never get through all of these in an hour. I just got one more and I won't even turn to it. I'll just give it to you. Mary Magdalene and John 20, Resurrection seen.
And she went to the tomb.
And the stone was rolled away. Peter and John went there, they looked in and they went to their own home. But she didn't. She stayed there. She stayed there.
She had had seven demons cast out of her mother, Blessed Lord.
She didn't even read. She didn't understand the resurrection. She didn't realize the Lord was risen, and he's right there talking to her, and she thinks he's a gardener.
And yet she was so in love with him, she says to the gardener, If thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will come and take him away. Who's the hymn to her? There was only one there was him that was the Lord Jesus.
You've got to know who him is. That's the one they killed and I want to take him away and give him a decent burial.
And.
The Lord said Mary called her by name. He called his own sheep by name and leads them out. He now she wanted to to lay her hands on him like the women in Matthew 28. They held him by the feet. But John presents a Christian position. That was the Jewish position in Matthew. But here you have a Christian position in John 20 And he says, don't touch me, don't, don't lay hold upon me. You can't have me back as the Messiah to Israel, but go to my brethren and tell them I ascend to my father.
And to your Father, to my God, and to your God.
That's Christian truth that he puts the disciples into his place before God is his Father and is his God as men.
And that's our place.
So she goes back, and she told the disciples this.
How you imagine the children, you're the crowd that that she comes and she says he called you brethren. He said go to my brethren. He calls you brethren.
And then he said that his father was your father.
And that his God was your God.
And I could hear them saying run that behind me again, I didn't understand that.
You mean that his Father is my father, His God is my God.
As Christian true.
And Mary got that message.
Because her affections catch her there, at his tomb, she didn't know where else to go. She'd lost everything. To have lost him was to have lost everything.
And so he brings her into the blessedness of the greatest revelation that's ever been given to an individual.
Isn't that wonderful, that this precious gospel of John that was written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ and that believing you might have life through his name, how often he deals with individuals, individuals?
And brings them into blessing. This infinite God will talk to you as an individual, to me as an individual. Praise His blessed name. Let's see.
In closing a 124.
Jesus, the one who trod the earth, the lowly subject. 1 Obedience unto death was Thine, God's well beloved Son. Jesus, what memories thrill our hearts of thy blessed footprints here, while now to heaven our eyes we turn and gaze upon Thee. There was in the whole hymn 124.
Jesus our Lord.
The Morning Star.
Umbrella We go.
My name. Can we have styles for Garden of Grace made by?
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Him or lays down.
I rest well. President's here.
And morning.