Jesus Christ exposes the ways of the world, and John in his Gospel explains how Jesus exposes the systems of the world. They had a system. Do not fall in line with the systems of men.

The world today has a system particularly in the areas of morality and finance and economics and woe to the man who challenges the convenient system of the world! It suits a few, by the way, and many others have to suffer.

A woman caught in the same acts of adultery is brought to Jesus. Was she committing adultery on her behalf? Why didn’t they bring the man too?

We read all the amazing details of this, and Jesus Christ handled the situation magnificently, in John Chapter 8 in the New Testament.

Now, no matter what Jesus said, it seemed like it would offend someone. That is what these religious leaders thought.

Jesus was now known as the friend of sinners.

What would happen, and what could happen, if He openly condemned her? And, if Jesus went against the law, then he was in real trouble.

The Roman authorities had prohibited capital punishment to the Jews, so they were not free to carry it out. It was as if they had Jesus in their clutches in every way, no matter what he said.

This is the only time we are told that Jesus wrote, and whatever he wrote will soon be blotted out by passing feet. It was a busy time in the Temple, with over a million visitors to the city of Jerusalem for the Feast of the Tabernacle.

What did you write? Was he just disgusted and so scribbled? Was he buying time for prayer? Was He of purer eyes to behold iniquity, and not only the iniquity of the woman, but also the iniquity of the Pharisees?

Or was it because back in the Old Testament when Moses received the Ten Commandments, these words were written by the Finger of God? Or was Jesus thinking of that royal palace when King Belshazzar was giving a banquet and was drunk, having gotten drunk drinking from vessels that had been looted from the Temple in Jerusalem? While he was laughing and cursing God and his People, he suddenly sees a finger writing on the wall. “Were you weighed in the balance and found wanting”?

Here was the Finger of God writing again and the writing was on the wall, and the judges were being judged!

The sin that these religious leaders accuse her of is the same sin that they are guilty of.

Jesus straightened up and said, “If any of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at him.”

The one who has not committed adultery can start throwing the stones! That was quite a devastating statement for these particular men. Please take the time to read about this incident in the Jerusalem Temple. There are many lessons to be learned for these current times.

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