Go and Sin No More

<p>GO AND SIN NO MORE - (The power of Grace over sin) Today we will be talking about sin, and how Jesus told a person to ‘go and sin no more’. How and why can you say that to someone?   The answer goes back to how and when humanity lost its innocence when sin first began and how humanity can regain its innocence through the forgiveness and mercy of God through Jesus. I will discuss the fuller meaning of innocence in a few moments. John 8:1-11 Early in the morning Jesus came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So, what do you say?” they said this to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” The scribes and Pharisees were trying to catch Jesus out. If he had said ‘yes, stone her’ they would say ‘why have you stopped preaching forgiveness and mercy?’ And if he said ‘don’t stone her’ they would say that he was preaching against the Law of Moses. Jesus knew they had corrupt motives for their questions, so he began writing with his finger in the dirt, but they kept demanding an answer - determined to catch him out in some incorrect ruling of the Sacred Law. The Bible does not say what Jesus was writing - some say he was writing out the Ten