The Daily Devotional of The First United Methodist of San Diego, California, United States from Monday, 26 February 2018 through Sunday, 4 March 2018 - Sermon Theme: "Radical Compassion" Text to read: John 8:1-11

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The Daily Devotional of The First United Methodist of San Diego, California, United States from Monday, 26 February 2018 through Sunday, 4 March 2018 - Sermon Theme: "Radical Compassion" Text to read: John 8:1-11

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Text to read: John 8:1 But Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives. 2 At daybreak, he appeared again in the Temple Court, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The Torah-teachers and the P’rushim brought in a woman who had been caught committing adultery and made her stand in the center of the group. 4 Then they said to him, “Rabbi, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. 5 Now in our Torah, Moshe commanded that such a woman be stoned to death. What do you say about it?” 6 They said this to trap him, so that they might have ground for bringing charges against him; but Yeshua bent down and began writing in the dust with his finger. 7 When they kept questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “The one of you who is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Then he bent down and wrote in the dust again. 9 On hearing this, they began to leave, one by one, the older ones first, until he was left alone, with the woman still there. 10 Standing up, Yeshua said to her, “Where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, sir.” Yeshua said, “Neither do I condemn you. Now go, and don’t sin any more.”
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John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes: Text to read: John 8:1-11
Verse 6
[6] This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
That they might have to accuse him — Either of usurping the office of a judge, if he condemned her, or of being an enemy to the law, if he acquitted her.
Jesus stooping down, wrote with his finger on the ground — God wrote once in the Old Testament; Christ once in the New: perhaps the words which he afterward spoke, when they continued asking him. By this silent action, he, 1, fixed their wandering, hurrying thoughts, in order to awaken their consciences: and, 2, signified that he was not then come to condemn but to save the world.
Verse 7
[7] 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.
He that is without sin — He that is not guilty: his own conscience being the judge) either of the same sin, or of some nearly resembling it; let him - as a witness, cast the first stone at her.
Verse 9
[9] And 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.
Beginning at the eldest — Or the elders.
Jesus was left alone — By all those scribes and Pharisees who proposed the question. But many others remained, to whom our Lord directed his discourse presently after.
Verse 10
[10] When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
Hath no man condemned thee? — Hath no judicial sentence been passed upon thee?
Verse 11
[11] She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
Neither do I condemn thee — Neither do I take upon me to pass any such sentence. Let this deliverance lead thee to repentance.

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Daily Devotional
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Sermon Theme: "Radical Compassion"
Text to read: John 8:1-11

• Pray for those punished or sentenced unjustly.

Saturday, March 3, 2018
Sermon Theme: "Radical Compassion"
Text to read: John 8:1-11

• Where are judgement and forgiveness competing in your life today?
• How can you resolve it?

Daily Devotional 
Friday, March 2, 2018
Sermon Theme: "Radical Compassion"
Text to read: John 8:1-11

• How have you been judged incorrectly?
• What effect did it have on you?

Daily Devotional
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Sermon Theme: "Radical Compassion"
Text to read: John 8:1-11

• Read John 8:1-11. What does it mean, “Let the one without sin cast the first stone?”

Daily Devotional
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Sermon Theme: "Radical Compassion"
Text to read: John 8:1-11

• What makes amazing stories of forgiveness hard to believe?
• Why?

Daily Devotional
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Sermon Theme: "Radical Compassion"
Text to read: John 8:1-11

• How do you see God?
• As judge?
• As physician?
• Why?

Daily Devotional
Monday, February 26, 2018
Sermon Theme: "Radical Compassion"
Text to read: John 8:1-11

• How do religions devolve into “sin management” instead of the “growth of love?”

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