In the 8th chapter of John's
Gospel, we read this remarkable account. Verse 1. Jesus went unto the Mount of
Olives. And early in the morning he came
down 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. 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. When Jesus
lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her,
Woman, where are those thine accusers? Have no man condemned
thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus
said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more. When Jesus had lifted up himself
and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are
thine accusers? Have 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 what a remarkable and wonderful
account this is of the forgiveness of Christ of his people. Of how a sinner caught in the
act guilty a wretched woman is brought before Christ himself
and rightly accused justly accused under the law of Moses as the
scribes and pharisees pointed out she deserved to be stoned
deserved to be set put to death for her iniquity and yet Christ
says unto her accusers, he who is without sin cast a stone. And everyone went out one by
one, for they all knew that they all had sinned. And she's left
alone with Christ. There is none but the woman in
his presence. Where are thine accusers, he
asks. Have no man condemned thee? No
man, Lord, she says. He says, neither do I condemn
thee. Go and sin no more. He forgives her. He forgives
her. Now how remarkable this is. That woman, what was she expecting? She was caught. She was guilty. Brought in by the scribes and
Pharisees. She probably expected to be slain. Expected to be found out and
put to death because of her iniquity. And she knew she deserved it.
Her sin had found her out. As sin does. As our sin does. you can keep it secret for a
time you can hide for a time you can flee from this one and
that one you can pretend that God doesn't see but eventually
the day comes when your lies and your deceit and your running
no longer work and you find yourself brought in guilty this woman
was brought in guilty What did she expect? Nothing. But what did she receive? The
very mercy and forgiveness of God in Jesus Christ. Neither do I condemn thee. Go
and sin no more. What a picture of grace. What
a picture of salvation. What a picture of the gospel.
Are you this woman? Have you been brought in guilty
before God, before Christ? Do you stand before Him, exposed
of your sin, with no place to go, knowing you deserve death? But has He said unto you, in
His gospel, in mercy, in grace, neither do I condemn thee. Go
and sin no more. Consider the setting in which
this account is given unto us. We read firstly in verse 1, the
plain statement, Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. Jesus went
unto the Mount of Olives. And then in verse 2, 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. But before he came to the temple,
he went unto the Mount of Olives. Now we considered recently the
mountains as depicted in Matthew's Gospel. and the free references
to the Mount of Olives and the significance in the scriptures
of the Mount of Olives and of olives themselves the olive tree
the olive oil and of what these things speak in the scriptures
for the Mount of Olives points us to the priesthood the royalty
The kingship of Christ and the sacrifice and judgment made by
that priest and offered up by that priest as he offered himself
as a sacrifice unto God. The Mount of Olives here is a
picture of the sacrifice and the death of Christ. He went
unto the Mount of Olives. He went unto that Mount, anointed
by the olive oil, anointed as God's priest and God's king in
order that he should offer himself as a sacrifice for sin. It's
his journey to that Mount of Olives that enabled him to come
unto this woman and say unto her, neither do I condemn thee. Why was she not condemned? She was guilty. The law found
her guilty. Moses in the law commanded us
that such should be stoned. And yes, he did. And yes, she
should. She was guilty. She deserved
to be condemned. But because Christ went to the
Mount of Olives, he could say unto her, neither do I condemn
thee. Why? Because in figure, at the
Mount of Olives, Christ took her condemnation. He bore the
judgment. He bore her sin in her place. And he offered himself as a sacrifice
in this woman's place. He stood as it were guilty before
God of the very crimes of which she was accused. And as it were
before God, he stood there to be stoned as Moses commanded. that such should be stoned. And Christ stood as this woman,
as this sinner, as this guilty wretch, and before God he was
stoned as God's sacrifice. He died upon the mount, outside
of Jerusalem, outside of Jerusalem, outside the camp on the mount. as the priest offering the sacrifice. Yes, verse 1 is a picture of
Christ's death. Having died, having reconciled
in picture, in a figure, this woman. Having taken the condemnation,
Jesus then, early in the morning, comes down again into the temple,
and all the people come unto him, and he sat down and taught
them. Having died, he comes early in
the morning into the temple. A picture of that resurrection
morning, of which we will read later in this book of John's. A picture of that resurrection
morning in which Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early in the
morning and found the tomb empty because Christ the Saviour, having
offered Himself up, was no longer in the tomb, no longer in the
grave, no longer bound by death and condemnation, but He'd risen
again victorious. and he rose up in the temple
of his body risen again one with his people and he came again
as it were into the temple and all the people came unto him
and he sat down and taught them early in the morning he came
again into the temple his resurrected life was displayed in a figure
before this people. John 20 verse 1, the first day
of the week come if Mary Magdalene early when it was yet dark unto
the sepulcher and see if the stone taken away from the sepulcher. He'd risen. He was alive. He'd come again into the temple,
that temple of which he speaks in John chapter two. Jesus answered
them and said unto them, destroy this temple and in three days
I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, forty and
six years was this temple in building and wilt thou rear it
up in three days? But he spake. of the temple of
his body and Mary Magdalene when she went early unto the sepulchre
and found not Christ in that sepulchre discovered that Christ
in his body was risen and had gone forth he was no longer in
the tomb he spake of the temple of his body he'd come again into
the temple and all the people came unto Him. All the people
came unto Him. Yes, here's the second. Here's
the place. This is where this woman is brought
before Christ. He's gone to the Mount of Olives. He's offered Himself up as a
sacrifice upon the cross. He's died and been laid in the
grave. And early in the morning on the
third day, He's risen again. and come again into the temple
of his body. And all the people come unto
him, and he sat down and taught them. It's in the light of this
that these scribes and these Pharisees bring this woman unto
Christ. And so the secondly, the audience. And all the people came unto
him. and he sat down and talked to
her. And all the people came unto
him and he sat down and talked to her. Having died, having risen
again, having as it were ascended into glory to his throne, having
finished the work of salvation, Christ sits down upon his throne
in glory, and all the people of this world are gathered before
him. All the people. Those for whom
he died, the sheep, and also the wicked, the goats. Those
whom he loves, Jacob, and those whom he hates,
Esau. Those who continued to follow
the eleven, and those who betrayed, Judas. Those who gave up and followed,
gave up all to follow Christ, the disciples. And those who
sought to destroy him and stone him, the scribes and the Pharisees. All men, all races, all creeds,
all colours, male, female, young and old, all the people come
unto Him. This speaks of a day when Christ
in glory is sat down and all the peoples of the earth on the
day of the Lord are gathered before Him. All the people, you
and I, and everyone you've ever known, and everyone who has ever
been, and everyone who will ever set foot upon this earth. All
people, throughout all time, are gathered before Him. And
a division is made. A division is made. We read elsewhere
of this day that He will set those on the right hand and those
on the left hand, the sheep and the goats. And some will go with
Him into glory, and some will go away into outer darkness. And all the people came unto
Him. Having come unto Him in this
account, we see the accusers of this woman depart one by one. And in the end there is left
only Jesus and the woman in the midst. 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? Have no man condemned thee? She
said, No man, Lord. They'd all gone out. Yes, all men, all the people,
come unto him. on this day. And this day is
fast approaching. And this day of which this chapter
speaks is fast approaching you and I. And you will come before
Him on that day. And you will see Christ sat in
His temple, sat down. And you will hear His words.
And you will either be as this woman, a guilty wretched sinner
caught in the act deserving to be condemned or you will be as
one of those who had to depart. What will it be? First the scribes
and his Pharisees bring unto Christ this woman. 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. For what sayest
thou? This they said, tempting him
that they might have to accuse him. They bring this woman unto
Christ. These scribes and Pharisees,
these religious men, these custodians of the law, These men who walked
in the temple and taught the people out of the law of Moses
and stood as it were as God's ambassadors before men supposing
to teach men and women of God and his ways, and of how they
should be before him. These religious people, these
custodians of the law, bring this woman, condemned by that
law, condemned by the law of Moses, unto Christ himself, unto
the lawgiver himself. They come, as it were, so sure
of their knowledge and understanding of the law of Moses, they found
somebody guilty of breaking that very law, and they bring this
sinner unto the lawgiver, in order that they might have something
to accuse him, tempting him, seeing how he will react. Will
he do as they would do? Will he stone her as she should
be stoned? Will he uphold the law as they
uphold the law? Or will he do something else?
And will they have the reason to accuse him? See, they suspected his reaction
would be different. They'd heard him already. they'd
heard things he said and taught already and they felt that he
was against the law he'd gone around preaching the gospel and
they'd heard his message and they felt that he undermined
the law and the prophets and they wanted to accuse him of
it this antinomian in their midst this man that came before them
and taught something else and seemed to undermine their law
and undermine their religion And they wanted to condemn him
and cast him out because of it. And say he's not of God. He's
come to destroy the law. But as Christ says elsewhere,
I came not to destroy but to fulfil. He came not to destroy
this law but to answer it. And he comes in this chapter
before these people having already been to the Mount of Olives.
His forgiveness of this woman did not amount to a setting aside
or an undermining or a destruction of that law. It came on the basis
that that law and its demands and its judgment had been fulfilled. Yes, the law condemned this guilty
woman, but he took that condemnation in her place upon himself. He never destroyed the law. He
fulfilled it. Yet these custodians of that
law wanted to find cause to condemn him as they do any like him who
preach the grace of the gospel. who preached the love of God
in Christ, who preached forgiveness through his blood, who preached
deliverance from the law by the death of Jesus Christ. He fulfilled
the law in his death. He answered his every demand.
He answered his every charge against the guilty sinner. He answered it. He fulfilled
it. So it has no more to say. It demands the death of the sinner
and when the sinner dies, that is it. It has no more to say
to a dead man. No more to say to a corpse. It's
brought their death and that's it. It's satisfied. Wants to
stand as stone. That's it. The law says no more. But they wanted to accuse him.
And what does he do? He stoops down and writes in
the ground with his finger. He stoops down and writes in
the ground with his finger. Yes, he who wrote the law, as
it were, he who gave the law by angels unto Moses, Christ
as God, the lawgiver, who wrote the law on tables of stone with
his own finger. Here stoops down and writes in
the ground with his finger. These religious men who've taken
his word, his scriptures, his law, his figs, and as it were,
stolen them for their own glory. These religious men come before
he who actually gave them that law. And they seek to tell him
what to do with it. And as though he heard them not,
he stoops down and writes on the ground as a picture of who
he is. Here is God, as it were, stooping
down from heaven and writing this law upon the ground. as
these fools of men come before him, telling him what to do. First he stoops down and writes
on the ground. When they continue 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. Between stooping
down the first time and stooping down the second time, he says
unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first
cast a stone at her. And here, in between, between
his first writing and his second writing, between his first coming
and his second coming, as it were, as he stoops down twice,
we see the work of the law. The law wasn't given to make
men righteous. The law was given to show man
his sin. The law was given to show this
woman her sin. The law was given to show these
their sin. And here they come, so knowledgeable
in the law, so ready to find fault with somebody else, so
quick to enact its penalty and its judgment upon another. And
He says unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him
first cast a stone at her. And not one of them can remain
in his place. Again he stooped down and wrote
on the ground 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. That law found them all out. Being convicted by their own
conscience they went out one by one. It was given to show
us our sin. And to demand a penalty against
our sin, even death. And none can stand before it. It never made them righteous,
it never made this woman righteous. It demanded her death, it demanded
their death. And you too who have broken this
law stand guilty before it. It demands your death too. But God could forgive this woman
because of what Jesus did upon the Mount of Olives in her place. He died that she might live. He was condemned that she might
be spared. He suffered that she might be
set free. He set his love upon her by giving
himself for her. Did he set his love upon you
by giving himself for you? He that is without sin among
you, let him first cast the stone. Is there any here without sin? Have you ever heard the law? Do you know how guilty you are
before it? Do you seek to come into the
presence of Almighty God in the person of Jesus Christ, so confident
in your own righteousness that you can come condemning another
when you yourself are guilty? Would you come guilty, exposed
and found out? In contrast to the scribes and
the Pharisees, consider the woman that they brought before Christ.
And the scribes and the Pharisees brought under him a woman taken
in adultery. Who is this woman? As we said, this happened early
in the morning in the temple. 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 we said of this picture of
the resurrection how it reminds us of the first day of the week
when Mary Magdalene came early when it was yet dark unto the
sepulcher and see if the stone taken away from the sepulcher.
We know the wretchedness of Mary Magdalene, a guilty sinner. But whereas Mary Magdalene is
a picture of that, here in chapter 8, the woman is unnamed. She's
unnamed, she's just a woman, guilty, deserving to be stoned,
but brought unto Christ by her accusers. As such, she is a picture
of the Bride of Christ, the Church. She's the woman, the Bride brought
unto the Saviour, the one for whom Christ suffered, the one
for whom He gave His life, the one for whom He went to the Mount
of Olives, the one for whom He went into the grave. The one
who came seeking Him at the grave early in the morning. But a guilty
sinner, that guilty bride, that guilty wretch of a person who's
brought unto Christ by her accusers. She's brought before Christ by
her enemies who seek her death. This woman, this picture of God's
church, this picture of every sinner in his church, every guilty
sinner for whom Christ died is brought unto him at this point
by their accusers, by their enemies, by religion. What a thing this
is! What a statement this is! The
scribes and the Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery. They brought her unto him. What a remarkable thing this
is, that God's people, as it were, are brought unto Christ
by their enemies. They didn't seek Christ out himself. She didn't come unto Christ seeking
mercy. We don't read that the scribes
and the Pharisees were seeking to stone this guilty woman and
Christ came past and discovered her and delivered her from their
grasp. We don't read that she fled from
her accusers and came under him and fell down and sought to be
delivered. We read that they themselves
brought her under him. Such was her sin, such was her
depravity, that she was not seeking Him. She was not seeking Him. She was lost in her sin. As Paul says in Romans, there's
none righteous, no not one, there is none that understandeth, there
is none that seeketh after God. She wasn't seeking Christ. She
was lost in her sin. She was guilty. She'd gone astray. She was caught in the very act
and brought by her enemies, by her accusers under Christ. She
was brought by the scribes and the Pharisees. She was brought
by religion unto Him. What a thing this is. What brings
us to Christ? What brought you to Christ? Firstly, our crimes do. We are brought firstly by our
sin and the consequences of our sin. We're brought by our accusers,
condemned, ready to be judged. That's what first starts to bring
us into the presence of Christ. God uses the law to show our
sin and he may use religion and the custodians of religion to
begin to lead us to an awareness of our sin and to sound the alarm
and to sound out in our soul the consequences of that sin
that you're guilty and you deserve to be stoned. But ultimately
he brings us unto Christ from whom we hear the gospel. From them all this woman heard
was she deserves to die. Moses' law condemns her. Religion told her she was guilty
and deserved to die. Christ told her she was forgiven. Go and sin no more. From the
religious world, all she heard was condemnation. From Christ
in the gospel, all she heard was the love and peace of God
and discovered her salvation what first begun to bring you
unto God first your crimes then the accusation against them your
enemies may condemn you the enemy of your soul will condemn you
Satan will accuse you he'll say you can't be saved you'll never
go to heaven look at what you've done And don't you know what
the law of Moses says against those that live and do as you
do? You deserve to die. And he'll take you and he'll
bring you before God as it were and say, look at this one. Look
what I found him doing. Look what I found her doing.
Look how guilty they are. And you'll know it's true. Your
first experience of being brought before God is under condemnation. You know you're guilty. You know
you're condemned. You know you're convicted. You
know it's true. And you know you deserve death.
And religion's taught you that. And your enemy has taught you
that. And Satan's taught you that. And you think that that's
it. How can you be saved? What a thing this is that it
is these that bring this woman unto Christ. They didn't seek
her salvation. They didn't bring her unto Christ
because they sought her good. They didn't bring her unto Christ
because they loved her and were concerned for her. They didn't
bring her for her good. They brought her because they
thought that she should be condemned. Their indignation and anger at
her was that which brought her unto God. Oh what a ministry
of condemnation the law is and oh how killing are those that
minister it even in our day. Oh they seek to do that which
is right before God. They say they're serving God
but here they are preaching the law and bringing condemnation
upon poor wretches. and all they do is bring them
under condemnation and they want to see the law justly upheld
but all it does is bring death and condemnation into the hearts
of its hearers but the consequence of that is that some are brought
unto Christ where they hear a very different message not from them
but from Him their ministry is a ministry of condemnation His
ministry is a ministry of reconciliation, a ministry of righteousness,
a ministry of life. Which are you listening to? Yes,
her accusers brought her condemned under Christ. There was no free
offer of the gospel here. There was no message to her of
God loving everyone. There was no Jesus wants you
to accept Him. That's not what brought her under
Christ. That might have led her astray
but that's not what brought her. What brought her unto Christ
was condemnation and guilt. and the just accusation of the
law against her sin. She came unto Christ convicted,
found out and guilty, and no one will come truly unto Christ
who will truly know His mercy until they've come this way.
If you tell someone Jesus loves them and they don't know the
depth and depravity of their sin and the guilt and condemnation
that comes upon it, they'll never know His salvation. If you preach
a free offer, oh just come unto Jesus, accept Him. All you'll
get are those self-righteous fools who know nothing of their
sin. But here comes a sinner who knew
she was a sinner, a guilty sinner condemned of her accusers. And the irony, as it were, is
that they sought death, they sought to bring trouble, but
God used it for good. Just as Joseph's brothers sold
him into Egypt and threw him into a pit and meant it for evil,
as we read at the end of Genesis, but God used it for good. they
tried to bring him down and destroy him but God saved him and used
him for the good of others and these tried to destroy this woman
they wanted her stoned but it led to her salvation You see the sovereignty of God
in this, that even in the actions of God's enemies and of the people
of God's enemies, even in the actions of these wicked religious
people that just sought to destroy her, God used it to bring her
unto Christ that she might hear the gospel. God absolutely overturned
their ends and their means. They sought to do one thing and
he used it for good. But not their good, her good. They all went out one by one
and she stood alone with Christ to hear his salvation. Yes, what
brought this sinner before Christ was her sin. and her being caught
in sin and the accusations and condemnation of those who would
seek to destroy her. Satan, as it were, brings the
woman, the church, unto Christ to see the church destroyed. He brings every child of God
unto Christ to accuse them and to say, judge him, judge her,
throw them into hell, look what they've done. But rather than
Christ throwing them into hell, he says unto them, No, you're
mine. I have forgiven you. I laid down
my life for you. They're brought before him accused,
guilty, caught in the act and they go out forgiven. Is this
how you came to Christ? Is this perhaps how God will
lead you to Christ? You come before him guilty and
you know you're guilty. and yet amazingly, wonderfully,
tremendously there you are expecting death and he says unto you neither
do I condemn thee where are your accusers? they've all gone neither
do I condemn thee There she is. Alone with Christ. They've all
gone out one by one. Pricked in their conscience by
what he said. You who are without sin cast
the first stone and not one of them could. So they all depart. And there she is alone. And all
we see at the end is this division having been made. All the enemies
of God and his people depart. All guilty. but with no love
for Christ and there alone with Christ is this guilty woman the
church, the bride of Christ stood before him wretched and he says
where are those thine accusers? have no man condemned thee? she
said no man Lord and he saith unto her neither do I condemn
thee go and sin no more how can this be? because she's forgiven
because he's forgiven her because he took her sin away because
he blotted it out and though she's guilty and though she was
condemned by the law he took the condemnation and that which
they meant for evil turned to her good for they the religious
departed never to be seen again Like those in Matthew who come
before the Lord saying, Lord, Lord, we've done this in thy
name and that in thy name. And he says, depart from me ye
workers of iniquity, I never knew you. Will you come as a
scribe and a Pharisee, full of condemnation, full of the justice
of the law and your righteousness and your indignation, full of
hardness of heart. And will he say, depart from
me, I never knew you. Or will you be as this woman,
without a plea, guilty, only able to turn yourself upon the
mercy of Christ? Only His blood can cleanse you. What a woman this is. In Revelation
chapter 12 we read of a woman. Very much a picture of this one. Revelation 12 we read, There
appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of
twelve stars. And she, being with child, cried,
travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared
another wonder in heaven, and behold, a great red dragon, having
seven heads, and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his head. And
his tail drew the third part of the star of heaven and he
cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the
woman which was ready to be delivered for to devour her child as soon
as it was born. And she brought forth a man-child
who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her child
was caught up unto God and to his throne. And the woman fled
into the wilderness. where she have a place prepared
of God that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred
and three score days and there was war in heaven Michael and
his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought
and his angels, and prevailed not, neither was their place
found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast
out. That old serpent called the devil
and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world, he was cast out
into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. and I
heard a loud voice saying in heaven now is come salvation
and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his
Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast out which accused
them before our God day and night and they overcame him by the
blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony and they
loved not their lives unto the death therefore rejoice ye heavens
and ye that dwell in them woe to the inhabitants of the earth
and of the sea for the devil is come down unto you having
great wrath because he knoweth that he have but a short time
When the dragon saw that he was cast onto the earth, he persecuted
the woman which brought forth the man-child. Yes, he persecuted
her. He came after this woman. He
brought her. As it were, in guilty, he accused
her. The accuser of the Brethren.
This woman that brought forth the man-child. This woman, the
church, that brought forth Christ. who ascended into heaven and
sat down upon his throne from whence the people are then gathered
unto him. Yes he persecuted the woman.
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle that she
might fly into the wilderness into her place where she is nourished
for a time and times and half a time from the face of the serpent. and the serpent cast out of his
mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause
her to be carried away of the flood and the earth helped the
woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood
which the dragon cast out of his mouth and the dragon was
rough with the woman and went to make war with the remnant
of her seed which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony
of Jesus Christ yes he did it then He does it today and he'll
do it until the last day when we're all gathered before Christ.
He wants to destroy the woman, the church, the bride, the believer. You, my friend, if you know Christ,
He wants to destroy you. He'll bring you in guilty and
say you should be stoned. But Christ will say, no, they're
not guilty. They're mine. I shed my blood
for them. I have saved them and delivered
them, neither do I condemn thee. I heard a loud voice saying in
heaven, now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom
of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our
brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night. He does not prevail. He keeps
on bringing the woman in guilty. He keeps on saying, slay her.
And Christ keeps delivering her. Every one like her who is His,
He says, go and sin no more. I do not condemn thee because
I've taken your sin away. You've overcome the accuser by
the blood of the Lamb and by the word of your testimony. And
you love your life, not unto death. Is that you? Are you this woman? Are you guilty? Have you been brought to Christ
by your accusers, by the enemy? Have you heard from Christ a
very different message? A message of grace, a message
of love, a message of mercy, a message of the gospel, a message
of salvation. Jesus went into 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. Amen.