Freed | Shame - Jon Tyson
Church of the City New York
COTC NYC
4.8 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week, Pastor Jon preached from John 7:53–8:11, using the story of the woman caught in adultery and dragged into the temple courts before a crowd with stones as his text for the freedom Jesus offers us from shame. He pushed back on the typical cultural responses to shame—the "you're worthy" or "do better" responses. Neither reaches the place where shame actually lives. He walked through the honor-shame architecture of first-century Jewish culture to show what Jesus was subverting every time He ate with tax collectors, touched lepers, and stopped for the people everyone else walked past. Jesus coming to deal with our shame was a central theme to His ministry. From the animal skins God fashioned for Adam and Eve to the white robes of the saints in Revelation, Scripture traces an important story—God clothing the naked and the shamed in righteousness and glory. That is what Jesus came to do. That freedom is available today.
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| 0:00.0 | You could remain standing for the reading of the teaching text tonight. |
| 0:06.4 | Tonight's teaching text comes from John chapter 7, verses 53 to John chapter 8, verses 11. |
| 0:16.4 | It says, then they all went home, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. |
| 0:22.0 | At dawn, he appeared again in the temple courts where all the people gathered around him, |
| 0:27.1 | and he sat down to teach them. |
| 0:29.0 | The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. |
| 0:33.7 | They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, |
| 0:41.3 | Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. And the law of Moses commanded us to stone such women. |
| 0:44.3 | Now what do you say? |
| 0:46.3 | They were using this question as a trap in order to have a basis for accusing him. |
| 0:51.3 | But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. |
| 0:56.7 | When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, |
| 1:00.8 | let any one of you who's without sin be the first to throw a stone at her. Again, he stooped down |
| 1:08.0 | and rode on the ground. At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left with a woman standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? No one, sir, she said. Then neither do I condemn you. Jesus declared, |
| 1:31.7 | go now and leave your life of sin. This is the word of the Lord. I should invite you guys to remain |
| 1:37.8 | standing real briefly. Quick announcement. Today is Pastor John's last Sunday preaching before he goes on sabbatical. |
| 1:46.7 | So John and Christy have been in ministry for 30 years, been serving in New York City for 21 years now, |
| 1:54.6 | and has not taken a sabbatical yet. So some might say it's overdue. But anyway, we won't |
| 2:00.1 | take a moment as a church just to pray for him you're here for |
| 2:02.6 | last sunday you're going to leave it all in the field for a little window here but if you would if you're |
| 2:06.3 | comfortable with it stretch out your hand and let's pray father we just thank you proverbs 11 says those that |
| 2:12.2 | refresh others will themselves be refreshed as well we just thank you for the refreshment that we |
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