Standing Naked Before Jesus

Today’s Texts→John 7:53-8:12 (woman caught in adultery); Romans 8:28-30; 31-34
(These are 'notes', not an article, but I hope you can get enough nuggets without the transitions and some detail-Victor)
The Scene→↓The religious people (the self-righteous legalists) are trying to trap Jesus, so they bring him the most publicly unacceptable, egregious, situation of the day: a woman caught in adultery.

They did it publicly. In ‘church.’ With smirks on their face they said, ‘OK, GOD, what you do about this?!’

He delayed. Twice. To let them think about it. (Pretty good parenting technique, by the way)

1→“No one, Lord.” LORD!

She called Him ‘Lord’! She’s standing there fresh from hot sex, with somebody’s table cloth wrapped around her so she won’t be stark naked, and she calls Him LORD! She goes in there literally expecting to DIE, and comes face-to-face with a man who turns the tables on her accusers. This man is different, why, He’s a God-Man!

2→“Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”

Listen, when you take a sinner to God, what do YOU expect Him to do with him?! Be careful here! God might mess up your revenge with His redemption! If you want them ‘condemned’ for being so bad, you better get in the executive line with them!

God isn’t waiting for a person to get cleaned up! He saved you as you were! What He says to her is amplified in Romans 8:1, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus . . . “ He says, “You’ve met me now. Everything changes. Go on, quit that nasty stuff, and live in the light.”

She has met the Lord, in the midst of her greatest need. Well, that’s a fine time to meet Him! When did you meet Him? When everything was going rosy? Not if you got saved, past, say, 10 years old! Once you were old enough to figure out that rosy isn’t rosy, you were trying to FIND a savior.

3→”I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Once you are exposed to the light, you crave the light! Remember the woman at the well. She had a pretty sordid sexual past and present, too. But once she’d seen The Light, she didn’t mind what everybody knew so much . . . that was secondary. She ran back to the village telling the people to “come see a man who told me everything I ever did!” In her case, that’s the same as saying, “Come see a man who told me everybody I ever slept with!”

The point isn’t what she did – the point isn’t what you did – the point is Who He Is, and how He changes who you are!

Our God is a God of redemption, and that includes in YOUR sex life; whether of the body or of the mind. Read the redemptive passages of Scripture!

Romans 8:28-30 applies. A few thoughts and steps spinning off of “all things work together . . .” as it relates to a sexual sin history.

A-He knew you were going to do that (He did not ordain it, permit it, or endorse it, but He knew it)
B-He knows who you are with now (He knows who you married and the baggage you brought)
C-His mind can overtake your mind (If you don’t believe and live this, you are living in defeat; the battle is for the mind, and the saved have ‘the mind of Christ’)
D-His nature can overtake your nature (”be transformed by the renewing of your mind”)
E-Practice makes perfect (overcome ‘wrong sex’ with ‘right sex’; he ordained your sexuality with your spouse!)


→Read/exegete Romans 8:31-34 carefully

You are clean. You are redeemed from your sin, including your sexual sin. Now go and sin no more. But when you do – which is not an excuse for sin – you have An Advocate, Who is at the right hand of the Father. He paid the price, interceded, shaped and reformed you, interceded some more.

You are free from your past sexual sin! And being free from it, and knowing you are free, and accepting your freedom, you are now free to shape the sexuality of your children without guilt, shame, remorse or embarrassment.

When You Run From Sexual Sin (of the past, present, or in the mind),
Where Do You Run?
To the Light.

↓Overarching, practical truth for you and your children↓
You Must Focus on the Light

How Do You Focus?
1-Eliminate Distractions
2-Accountability
3-Intentional Lighting
4-Knowing Where to Run (1 Cor 10:13)

Have I gone soft on sexual sin in this message? NO. The summary of all above – relating to all sin, not just sexual sin: Jesus died on the cross, for your sin and mine. So the price is paid. So quit violating the one who paid the ultimate price by doing the same thing over again. RUN – TO – THE – LIGHT.