I'm going to ask you to take your Bibles and turn with me to the book of John, Gospel According to John, chapter 8. John, chapter 8. I'd like to read the first 11 verses of this passage of Scripture. I've entitled this message, Ten Precious Words. Ten Precious Words. John chapter 8, starting in verse 1, Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives.

And early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him, and he sat down and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned. But what sayest thou? 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. 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. And again, he stooped down and wrote on the ground. 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. 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? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee.

Go and sin no more. Now, this passage of scripture is a very, very familiar passage. We've heard it read many, many times. I was looking at my notes, and it had been about almost 11, 12 years ago since I'd spoken out of this passage of scripture. That surprised me, just such a familiar passage, you know. But there was something that drew my heart to this passage. And I pray that the Lord might be pleased to bless it. to our hearts that we might truly see the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ in the redemption and salvation of his people. Now this chapter starts out and we find our Lord doing that which was his custom.

He went into a place of his choosing to be in a time with communion with his father, a time that was like recorded in the book of Luke, chapter 6, verse 12, and it came to pass in those days that he went up into a mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer. That's where it started off in verse 1. Jesus went up into the Mount of Olives. That's surely what he had gone to do.

Scripture says in verse 2, Early in the morning he came again unto the temple, and all the people came unto him, and he sat down and taught them. Now, it says early in the morning for a specific reason. He came there to teach the people. He came to teach them. He's going to teach them something. What a lesson would be taught today. He's going to teach them something.

We know this, that whatever is getting ready to transpire as we read what's going to happen, and it's about this woman that was caught in adultery, in the very act of adultery. But you can rest assured that our Lord, when he went in to meet with his father early in the morning, he knew what was getting ready to happen. He knows, he knows the end from the beginning. that he was going to cross paths with a woman that was taken in the very act of adultery. He knew that. And it just, in my mind, as I began to read and muse on that, I thought to myself, he that knows what's going to happen, as he was here on this earth, here he was interceding. Pray it. He ever liveth to make intercession. for his people. And there's a woman that he's getting ready to cross. He's going to cross paths with some Pharisees and scribes, and he's going to cross paths with this woman.

And he that, here again, knows and orders, he worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. And he surely According to scriptures that worketh all things after the counsel of his own will, he knew that these Pharisees, scribes and Pharisees, he knew exactly what was going to happen.

He knew that they were going to catch this woman in the very act of adultery. Now, this woman, this woman who in herself is set forth here as an adulteress. She was caught in the act of adultery. And an adulteress was a woman that was married. It was a woman that was married, a married woman.

And he came into this world, and here was a beautiful picture. Now, I want you to get this. This woman is a beautiful picture. I'll tell you where I'm going with this and you just go along with me and we'll both try to learn something. This woman is a beautiful picture of the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now you just get this in your mind. This is a picture of the bride of Christ.

And this woman is a woman that has obviously been in a state of adultery. She's a sinner. And where's the Lord? Where does he cross her path? He crosses this woman's path as she's found in adultery. Now, let me ask you this. Where has the Lord found all of his sheep? He found all of them in a state of if not physical, actual, open adultery. Number one, they were guilty in their minds, but they surely were guilty in Adam and in their heart.

So this woman is a picture of the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. You say, this woman? Yes, sir. This woman right here. This is a woman who has fallen from her first place of innocence. That's what Adam did. When Adam fell, he was innocent. He was innocent before, and he fell in the transgression. But here is this bride, a picture, she's a picture of the bride of Christ. And as we go through this, I'm going to pray that the Lord might give us a clear picture.

This is all of us. So easy for us to look at that and say, man, I have a woman. Oh, you got to be kidding me, what she was doing. Let me tell you something. There is nobody in here that's not guilty. So don't give me, you know, we all know that. We know that. There's nobody that's innocent in here, if not outwardly, inwardly. Okay? There's none righteous, not one. There's nobody that's not fallen in Adam's transgression.

But now this woman right here, this bride, I mean this adulteress, she's a picture of the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. One that the Lord has eternally loved and must deliver. from the penalty of sin. And she's found here lost, doing what she does by nature, rebel against herself, against society, but against God, against the Lord. So here's what happened, verses three to six.

And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said, or say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned, but what saith thou? 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. Now, there's probably no clearer passage of scripture that sets forth and gives a more accurate picture and type of all men in Adam. There's no illustration, no picture, no scripture, no nothing.

It is this passage that we're considering tonight. It brings before us this woman that was caught and exposed for the very crime of adultery. Now, this crime, it's a crime what she's done. This woman has sinned. before God, the Lord said, thou shalt not commit adultery.

Adultery. But I looked it up to make sure that I knew what I was talking about when I looked at that word right there when it says, thou shalt not, in Exodus 20, thou shalt not commit adultery. It means not only the physical act of adultery with the wife of another, but figuratively means and pictures idolatrous worship, thinking that a man can be saved by his own works, the works of his flesh. Adultery. Adultery. You can look it up. I think I looked it up in Vines. I know I looked in Blue Letter Bible, but I think it was in Vines, but either one. But it gave these meanings.

Physical adultery, a married woman. Now this woman right here, when I said a while ago that she's a picture of the bride of Christ, how long has the bride of Christ been betrothed in loving kindness unto the Lord Jesus Christ? How long? Forever. I have always loved you. There's never been a time when the Lord Jesus Christ did not look upon his bride as his loving bride. In Song of Solomon, He told the bride, you have ravished me with one of your eyes. You've ravished, stolen my heart. I've always loved you. There's nothing that has ever changed. God changes not. If she has ever been the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ and come into being in time, she was his bride given unto him by the Father from the foundation of the world. God doesn't change. Nothing about God changes. I don't change. Here's this woman right here, and she's an adulteress. And what adultery is, you look it up.

It's illicit fornication with a married woman. And in Adam's transgression, in Adam's fall, the bride of Christ being found in every nation, kindred, tribe, and tongue, in Adam, rebelled against him who loved her and would come into this world and redeem her and save her. because she's always been his bride. I've always loved you. I've always. This woman, an adulteress, and it always, look it up, it always has to do with one having illicit relationship with someone who is married. And this woman was caught. It was a crime. against God. Against men, but against God. All sin is against God. A crime which carried a penalty of death. This is the penalty, Leviticus 20,

10. And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife. You know the Spirit of God is explicit. When he tells us what adultery is, adultery is with someone else's spouse, a wife, husband. The adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. So here we find a woman, a woman, a type of the Lord's bride, without a doubt, before she ever knew him. before he called her out of darkness, before he brought her into a realization of his love for her and taught her of herself, taught her of himself before this. We find this woman a type of the Lord's bride and without doubt what she's done is spiritually and physically rebelled against God, physically in adultery, physical adultery.

Spiritually, she's broken the law of God. I shall not commit adultery. And how many people born in this world have been born spiritual adulterers against God? How many? All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. This woman, the scripture says, was found and she was taken while committing open rebellion against God.

Openly. I sat there and mused upon these thoughts this afternoon while I was going over these notes. I was thinking to myself, just applying it to me, and I thought to myself, Before the Lord was pleased to call me out of darkness. Before the Lord was pleased to put me under the sound of the gospel. Before the Lord was pleased to reveal himself unto me. You know what I was doing?

I was doing nothing more than playing the part of an adulteress. An adulterer. Open rebellion against God. Sitting under uh, adulterous doctrine, God-hating, unfaithful doctrine, lies, spiritual adultery against God. These accusers of this woman, these spiritual, these Pharisees, they were quick to appeal to the law of God because they thought themselves to be just before God, supposed themselves to be justified by their supposed works of salvation, denying the truth of God's word, knowing this in Galatians 2, 16, knowing a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. In our passage, the only one who could help her wisely left the accusers of this woman, of this adulteress, to lay out her filth and her guilt and was going to soon prove and behold and show the only hope that she had was in the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the type of person, sinner, this is the type of sinner that Christ came to save. He said, I came to this world, Christ came to this world to save sinners.

Now these Pharisees, now see they weren't, they didn't need salvation. They didn't need salvation. Because in their minds they weren't guilty. They're not, I'm not, I mean, I'm not like this harlot over here, this adulterous woman. All they were fine upstanding citizens, keepers of the law.

So they approached the Lord Jesus Christ and that's what they said to him. Now Moses, now we're going to deal with this woman according to the law. This woman was taken in adultery in the very act. Moses in the law commanded that we should stone her.

What do you say? What do you say? Oh, I'm just amazed at the wisdom of God. how the Lord's going to deal with this. I was thinking to myself, what would I have said? I wouldn't even know what to say. But I sit here and look at he who is all wise. And here's what he said. He didn't tell them to let her go. No, this woman had broken the law. She'd broken the law. There's no doubt about it. We caught her in the very act. Now we got, you know, we, there's witnesses. It took at least two. By one witness, you couldn't accuse her. I had to have at least two. The mouth of two or three witnesses. But the Lord left these Pharisees to themselves, finding fault with this woman. Moses said, we ought to stone her.

What are you going to say about it? And the scripture says, Scripture says in verse 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. Now, you know, it's not going to do us a bit of good to try to speculate on what he wrote because the scriptures doesn't reveal that. So, you know, I've read, like you, you know, some say, well, he probably was writing down the dates when they themselves had committed adultery, you know, and the place and the names. He knew all that. He knew that.

But the spirit of God was pleased to not say anything about it. He wrote the scripture, see, he stooped down with his finger wrote on the ground as though he heard them not. And then verses 7 and 8, And 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. And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. The scripture reveals they continued asking, just that word right there in verse 7. And when they continued asking at what it was, it was, they persisted. That's what the word means. What do you say? What do you say? What do you say? What are you going to say? I'm asking you, what are you going to say?

Just so cocky, I just imagined. They had him. They thought, oh, we got him. We got him. We got him. Scripture says that he just concerning the matter, and they thought they had him trapped. He lifted up himself and said unto them, he that is without sin, let him cast stone at her. Now here he's revealing that there's only one who had the right to execute judgment. Judgment. There's only one that's got the right. The great judge himself. This one who was truly without sin. The Lord Jesus Christ. He's the only one. They're all guilty. She's guilty. They're guilty. So everybody in this spot right here is guilty except him.

He's the only one. And the words in the passage, to stoop, it means to bow the head, to bend forward, to stoop down. And here he is, the only one who bowed his head. and stooped down in obedience to his father's will in the redemption and salvation of his people. He's the only one. Here he is humbling himself. The one that in this group that's without sin, you go ahead and throw the first stone.

She's guilty, she's guilty. Now you have to understand, now this is his bride. Now I'm gonna prove that in just a minute. I'm getting to it, Lord willing. This is a picture of his bride. And according to the wording that we're gonna look at in just a few minutes, this is one of his elect. This is one of the Lord's choice. This is his bride, this is his bride. And here is one of his brides, and he's teaching, threw her through an incident where she caught him, and they caught her wide open. I mean just wide open. We came in there and caught her in the act.

Now let me ask you this. How many in this congregation tonight before God? Now you can hide a few things from me, and I can hide some things from you. There's some things you don't. Some of you know more than others, You know, I can tell you, we all know what we are by nature. But let me ask you this.

How many of us before God have been caught red-handed? Everybody. Everybody. We're all caught. We're all caught. All right. But the Lord Jesus Christ, he came and they brought him brought this woman before him, told the Lord what the law said, as if he didn't know. Then they want to know, what do you say? This is what the law says, what are you going to say?

He stoops down. I think about the stooping down. He stooped down twice. He stooped down, being made flesh, humbled himself. And he stooped down under the hand and weight of the justice of God. He stooped down, humbling himself. And then the scripture says in verses 9 to 11 that this becomes very, very precious. 9 to 11, and when, and they which heard it being convicted by their own conscience, Went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even into the last.

And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. I thought to myself, you know, here's this woman that is, can you only imagine? I mean, she's got to be scared to death. I mean, look, she's got to be so embarrassed, number one. She's embarrassed. She was caught red-handed in adultery. I mean, they've taken her and they've brought her in the midst and here's the Lord. She hears what they're saying. Moses says, we ought to stone her. What do you say? She hears the Lord say, the one that's without sin, let him cast the first stone.

If you think yourself worthy to pass judgment when you're just as guilty, you're just as guilty. Then you that's without sin, okay, anybody in this room that's worthy to cast stones at somebody else. If you're that free from any indebtedness before God and man, well then, You have the right to cast the first, to pass judgment on somebody else. You got the right. But if you're with sin, then you don't have the right to do anything. You deserve the same thing that you want to do to her. You deserve that.

They all left. And then the scripture reveals that when he spoke to her, after they had left, verse 10, And 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? Now, he looked, he saw, I'm sorry, it says in verse 10, when Jesus had lifted up himself and saw.

It means to look upon and view attentively. He looked on this woman attentively. He knew her. He knew her. Again, I'm going to, Lord willing, I'm coming there. I'm almost there. He's looking at this woman. that he's always known. He's always known her. He's always known. This is one of the chosen that his father gave him. I'm going to prove it by the word of God. He's always loved her.

And he came to this place that day to rescue her. And he caught her where she was. He caught her doing what she was. She was an adulteress. He caught her, arrested her. And he asked her while he looked on her, where are thine accusers? And this woman said, No, he asked, he said, hath no man condemned thee? She said, no man, Lord. I looked that word up. It means a person to whom belongs a thing. He who has power of deciding, that word Lord. It means master, owner, one who has control, title to, given to God and the Messiah.

He said, where are thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She said, no man. Lord, no man, you who owns me, you who's loved me, you who's bought me, you who has control over me, there's no accusers here. There is now therefore no condemnation to them that be in Christ Jesus. who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. Is there anybody that knows the Lord Jesus Christ? Is there anyone that can have anybody justly condemn them before God? No. No. There is no condemnation. Where are your accusers? There's none, Lord. They all left. There's nobody here to accuse me. And this woman was guilty. But obviously, the Lord Jesus Christ had done something for this woman. He had shown this woman what she is by nature. And He rescued her. and reveal to her what she was.

Where are your accusers? Is there nobody here that can blame you? Blame you? There's no condemnation. Am I condemnable? Yes, I'm condemnable. But the Lord Jesus Christ has taken the guilt of his people and has put it away in his own precious blood. He took and bore their guilt in his own body, the scripture says, and paid the debt. Now who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? Who? Who? It's Christ that died. Now who's going to charge it? Who's going to charge it? If Christ paid the debt, bore it.

But then our Lord says, After he said in verse 11, when she said, no man, Lord, that word Lord can be used a lot of time, but just look it up, find out what she called him. No man, you that owns me, bought me. And Jesus said unto her, neither do I condemn thee. Now, you know, God is a just God.

And he will by no means clear the guilty. He's not going to clear the guilty. He wasn't just being nice this day. He wasn't just saying, well, you know, we all make mistakes. No. If the Lord Jesus Christ had not shed his blood for this woman right here, I can tell you right now. That woman would leave this world and find herself, lift her eyes out of hell. Because he's just. I'm a just God. And I'm a savior. Is there no one here to condemn you? And she said, no sir. There's none left. There's none left. Nobody. There's nobody here to condemn me. Neither do I condemn thee.

Go and sin no more. Now that last statement right there is a very, very, number one, it was a command of the Lord that could only be accomplished by the grace of God. Go and sin no more. I mean, is anybody in this congregation tonight that's gonna say, well, I mean, I have sinned, but I know this. Lord told me not to sin anymore, so I'm not gonna sin anymore. In this world, I'm gonna tell you right now, you're not gonna do anything while you stay in this world but sin. That's all you're gonna do. You're gonna sin. In Adam, you're gonna sin. Without me, you can do nothing. We're sinners. We're sinners by birth. We're sinners by practice. We're sinners by choice. Paul said, I see in me that is my flesh that dwelleth in no good thing. I am a sinner. I'm a sinner.

But Christ came to this world to save sinners. But when the Lord told this woman, go and sin no more, he wasn't just giving her a suggestion He was speaking to her concerning her state being found in him. Listen to this. John 1, 1 John, 1 John 3, 9. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin. for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin because he's born of God. Now, concerning that last passage I just read, when the Lord told this woman, I don't condemn you, go and sin no more. That's two vital truths that are great comfort to us. I told you the name of this message is 10 Precious Words. Now here they are. Last part of verse 11. It's 10 words right here. Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more. Now here's what I know.

If the Lord is pleased to not condemn the human, he told that woman, I don't condemn you. I can tell you absolutely from the scriptures that the Lord had borne her guilt, her sin in his own body, and he died in her place. else she would have been condemned. This woman must have a substitute or she's going to suffer the judgment of God. And when he said, neither do I condemn you, I'm telling you, he had purposed before the foundation of the world, I'm going to die for you. Neither do I condemn thee.

But that part where he said, go and sin no more, I'm going to say this. I got this from Robert Hawker. I'm not smart enough to think of words, but I got this from Mr. Hawker. And this is what he said. Now concerning this vital truth, go and sin no more. Concerning this vital truth, Mr. Hawker said, I can go no farther than the revelation of God's spirit.

The seed of Christ found within a believer renders that new man to be without sin. The body of flesh remains the same in the nature of Adam. It is corrupt. and sinful, and shall be to the last day of his life on this earth. But at the moment of our separation from this life, the believer will rise in a glorified body. Though it was sown in dishonor, it will be raised in glory at the resurrection. The new man is found now. in that regenerated vessel of God's mercy, and he is only known to exist by the characteristic of this. He believes God by faith. He rejoices in Christ, has no confidence in his flesh. When the Lord said, he that is born of God sinneth not, I've told you this many times.

How many times have you ever seen in your walk? How many times have you seen the new man? Never. I haven't. I can tell you what I see. I see the old man. I see him. I see him. I know that there's an old man there. I can experience him by sight. But by faith, when the scripture says, that or he which is born of God sinneth not. Then I'm going to tell you something. There is a new man there, and let the world say what it will. God has said, he that is born of God, regenerated by the grace of God, Sinneth not. There's a new man, there's a battle that's still going on, and you can just sit here and just say, well, I can't believe that because I'm telling you, let God be true and every man's a liar. And when we leave this world, this old flesh is gonna fall away and there's gonna be one thing left. That new creature. That creature, that new man created in righteousness. true holiness before God.

The Lord told this woman, where are your accusers? She said, Lord, there aren't any accusers who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect. The Lord said, I don't accuse you either. Isn't that a joyful thought? I don't accuse you. For the Lord to say to me, Marvin, I don't accuse you. I lay nothing of sin against your charge. Go and walk in the light by faith of me until I'm pleased to bring you home.

And my heart says, Lord, thank you. Thank you for that. Lord, I know I'm struggling. I know I'm struggling. doing the best I can, but I'm so weak. I'm sorry for the way I do, sorry for the way I think, sorry for the way I feel, but thanks be unto God that you've saved me by grace. I pray God bless this to our hearts for Christ's sake, amen.