Who Condemns You?
Spirituality

Who Condemns You?

John 8:1-11

When you look at this story, it speaks about us. Recently many cases of deaths or suicide have been reported in Kenya. Why? It is because of weak mindset. The most fundamental reason is because of sin in our heart.

1. Principle of Power

According to the principle of power, when you’re pulled by the stronger element you can’t help but move to the direction of the pull. The same way, since sin was stronger in the heart of the woman caught in the act of adultery, she couldn’t help but be pulled by the sin into adultery.However much she tried to resist falling into adultery, the desire to commit adultery was strong enough to pull her.

Nobody wants to commit adultery or sin; everyone wants to live a sinless and clean life.

Romans 7:20… Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
The sin that dwells in us makes us to do that, which we don’t want to do.

Even for us as much as we have received salvation we are still being dragged by our thoughts and my right heart landing us into more trouble.

2. Jesus Christ Has Many Options To Solve One Problem

In the story of John 8, the people came to Jesus seeking to accuse Him in case He sets the woman free or in case He commands the woman to be killed. They came expecting two options for answers but Jesus had many options. He stooped and wrote on the ground. When you search the Bible, it also appears in

Deuteronomy 9:10, And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD Spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Where the Lord wrote with His finger, this was when He was writing His commandments which are the law. Then, Jesus writing with His finger must have been changing the law.

3. Reaching the Point to Meet Jesus.

Upon lifting Himself up, He asked that whoever was without sin to be the first to cast a stone at the woman. No one did implying that all of them had sin. But even after realizing they had sin, they went away instead of having Jesus take away their sin. Only this woman remained with Jesus.

The people went away as their sin hadn’t reached to the point of death but to the woman she had reached the point of death where she could not help but die. For the wages of sin is death, and the woman was to die. But Jesus told her ‘Neither do I condemn you.’

According to the Law of Moses, the woman stands accused. But for Jesus to set her free, He had to write another law/covenant with His finger. Until people stand before the law, they never see/know their image. But now according to the new law which is apart from Moses, Jesus says ‘Neither do I condemn you’. Jesus did not have the law to condemn her.

4. New Covenant in Jesus

This new covenant or law is in

Romans 8:1-2.. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

There is law of sin and death which is the Law of Moses – keep this law and you shall live, break this law and you shall die. For by the deeds of the law, no flesh can be justified

Romans 3:20.. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Through the law we realize that you’re a sinner and after that you come to Jesus for the new covenant. There is also the law of Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. This is the new covenant where there stands no condemnation. For Jesus through John the Baptist received the sin of the world and had them crucified on the cross. The sin of adultery committed by the woman was in this sin of world transferred by John the Baptist to Jesus. That’s why Jesus could not condemn this woman as he was already carrying the sin of the world on his back. Jesus was the one to be condemned and not the woman.

5. I Was Supposed to Be Condemned but Jesus Took My Condemnation

Jesus being the one carrying the sin of the world was the one to be condemned. He then went to the cross and became condemned on our behalf and said it is finished
John 19:30. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

For the wages of sin is death. He had to die on the cross to finish it for us, in

Romans 3:23, for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Indeed for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Even I and this woman have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But in

Romans 3:24, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

We have been justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Jesus paid the price of His Blood and redeemed us. The redemption is in Christ Jesus and not in me. No matter what I do, I cannot redeem myself for Jesus already did it all. Now we stand justified freely by His grace.

Amen.

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