St. John 8:3
The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group

St. John 8:4
And said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

St. John 8:5
In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”

St. John 8:6
They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.

St. John 8:7
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

St. John 8:8
Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

St. John 8:9
At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.

St. John 8:10:
Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

St. John 8:11
“No one, sir,” she said.“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

It was never really about adultery.
It was beyond immorality.
It was bigger than sin and iniquity.
It was actually a domicile nature.
A state of the heart, the posture of the soul.

Caught in the very act of adultery, she was humiliated, dragged into the public to be stoned, facing shame in the sight of all, but it was much more than falling into a sin.

But her accusers could not see beyond her act. They condemned her from the outside, not knowing that a fruit is only an offspring of the tree.

We have some clergymen who do the same thing today. In their attempt to preach against sin, they address the act, point to the fruit, but neglect the inward cause of it

St. John 8:12
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

In John 8:12, Jesus revealed to us, that the root cause of the sinfulness of mankind was the darkened state of their hearts.

Hence, in order to save them, we must turn on the light, we must do as Jesus did, pretend not to see reasons to condemn the accused, look away from the darkness, search for light, and then rise up to dispel, expel and send darkness into extinction.

So when we preach to sinners, we do not dwell on their sins, rather, we partner with Christ and trust Him to flood their darkened hearts with His divine light.

Once their hearts receives the Light, their acts will reflect the same.

Thus, we ought not to be among the crowd to accuse the woman caught in the very act of adultery. Rather, we imitate the love of Christ, who refused to condemn her, and gave her a chance to live rightly.


Jesus said to her,

GO AND SIN NO MORE.

This was a certification that her nature had been changed, from adultery with men, to adoption with God. She became born again. She became the living testimony of ll Corinthians 5:17.

‘Go and sin no more,’
That was a powerful charge. It was a command, verdict and a law. An inscription upon her soul.

Friends, that woman represent every sinner around each and every one of us, they need help, they need Christ, they know they are wrong but they are confused as to what to do.

Beloved, would you help them?

Doo something before they’re ‘stoned to death,’ I mean the second death, eternal damnation.

Defend them and reveal Christ to them.
(John 8:1-12)

Let us pray.

© Shadrach Iyere