I pray we come submissively to His Word. I continued to be humbled by what I don’t know and what He reveals. It amazes me that it pleases Him to take a crooked arrow to shoot a straight thought ever now and then. This may not be one of those times, so I copy another author once again (Malachi Taylor).
Jhn 8:10 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?
Jhn 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
- What did it mean to sin no more?
- Why did she not leave as well?
Oh how great but solemn we should find this message. We had a group of very learned Pharisees who know not who He was. In verse 4 they called Him Master. What contrast that with the revelation of the Spirit this humbled guilty women knows and may now call Him LORD. Taken the words of another commentary; "In looking at these incidents of Scripture, we need not ask if the objects of the grace act in the intelligence of the story. It is enough for us that here was a sinner exposed in the presence of Him who came to meet sin and put it away. Whoever takes the place of this woman meets the word that clears of condemnation, just as the publicans and sinners with whom Christ eats in Luke 15, set forth this, that if one takes the place of the sinner and the outcast, he is at once received. So with the lost sheep and the lost piece of silver. There is no intelligence of their condition, yet they set forth that which, if one take, it is representative. To make it clear, one might ask, ‘Are you as sinful as this woman, as badly lost as that sheep or piece of silver?’" (Malachi Taylor)
