The following is the theme of Pastor Chompffs broadcast for Friday, Dec. 31, 2004, at 200-2100 UTC on 5775 kHz:

This sermon discusses the familiar story of the woman taken in adultery and brought before Jesus. She deserved to be stoned to death. This woman was taken in the very act of adultery. If that is so, then where is the man? They let him go. And from this, we can see that it was a set-up. This is where all the evidence point to: They had agreed with the man to seduce this woman, and they agreed to let him go, but they would use this woman to trap the Lord Jesus Christ in a dilemma from which He would be condemned, no matter which way He would choose. What was the woman’s name?

In this passage she does not have a name, because God intended her to represent all those who will be saved through the mercy and grace of God. Jesus wrote with His finger on the ground. Then, when they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself and said to them, “he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Then they, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. Then Jesus said to the woman, “Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?” She answered, “No man, Lord”. Then Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn Thee. Go and sin no more”. Then she left the scene, uncondemned. But what happened to the penalty? The Law required that she had to be stoned to death and that she would be cast into Hell. It means that Jesus had to harmonize mercy and justice in a way that was acceptable to God and to the Law of God. It means that on the cross the Lord Jesus also had to suffer and die for the sins of this adulterous woman. It means that Jesus became her advocate before the Father. It means that she was saved that very moment and that her salvation was entirely a gift of grace. This is “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus”. These are then the reasons why “there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus”.

AMEN.

Pastor Alfred J. Chompff