She is not the only sexual deviant in the text. The selective moral outrage over this woman’s sexual deviance reeks of hypocrisy. I have lived long enough in the churched culture and context to know that the “holier than thou” are usually the “hollower than thou”. All they want is to make a point and win an argument. They want to parade (in the middle of the sanctuary) somebody else’s sins and scandal.
The are so spiritually disordered that this woman’s life and future means nothing to them. She is accused of sexual deviance and they are afflicted with spiritual disorder. The churched leaders that brought her are the afflicted. This woman caught in the very act is a sexual deviant. The word “reproved” means to “call to account, show one his fault and demand an explanation”. What sexual deviants do in secret should not be in our conversations. Sexual deviance is to be reproved, not widely reported or constantly repeated. “For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret” (Ephesians 5:11-12). He demands that sexual deviance be “reproved”. The Apostle Paul called sexual deviance “the unfruitful works of darkness”. Ephesians 5:3 says,“But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as becometh saints”. I Corinthians 6:18 says,“Flee fornication…but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body”. Hebrews 13:4 says, “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge”.
Is Jesus righteous or is he gracious? Is he a law and order Saviour or will he be soft on crime?Īll forms of sex and sexuality that are not within the confines of a covenant between a husband (man) and a wife (woman) are by definition “deviant”. The only challenge was the challenge they brought to Jesus. Now how do you defend against that? The facts were not about to be challenged. “Master, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery” (John 8:4).Ĭaught in the act! There is no question about her guilt. Their accusation against her is incontrovertible. The doctors of the Law and the most elite religious leaders burst into the worship experience dragging behind them a barely clad woman. The doors flung open into the Temple where Jesus sat teaching.
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