A woman has committed an offense punishable by death. I’m assuming she’s guilty. Jesus tells her to sin no more; He doesn’t say He understands that she was falsely accused. The Law said that she was to be stoned. Jesus came to fulfil the law. How does He break this command and not sin?

In Corinthians, Paul tells the church to get the one committing gross sin out of the church.

Sin is a yeast. We get it out. And yet…

Paul then writes the church in Corinth again and tells them to welcome the man back in so that he won’t be too sorrowful. The sorrow was to lead to repentance. God’s after salvation, not destruction.

The Israelites were to remove sin to keep it from spreading and to teach the fear of God. Without the Holy Spirit convicting to repentance, the only way to put sin to death in a heart that is choosing sin was by death. We still are to put sin to death, but we do it with the blood of Jesus and the overcoming power of the Spirit.

Psalm 130:4 says that there is forgiveness with God, that He might be feared.

The woman walked away with the fear of the Lord.

The accusers walk away with the fear of the Lord. They are ashamed enough of their own sin to not hypocritically condemn another.

Jesus had every right, as God and as the sinless One, to condemn her. He doesn’t. He says that He judges no one and also that He has much to judge.

Mercy covers a multitude of sin. His mercy, however, does not mean approval. “Go and sin no more.”

Jesus warns the people that they will die in their sins unless they believe in Him.

The only way to get free of sin is to be united with Christ. We are to be one with Him as He was one with the Father. Jesus said the Father was always with Him because He always did what was pleasing to His Father.

When we walk in the light of the Truth, we are pleasing to God and enjoy His constant presence.

It’s the Truth that sets free. And Jesus, the I AM, the existing One, is the Truth.