Go and Sin no more...is this possible?

[Lambano]

Or, if neighbors are like this person, they should be loved.

Who was the Priest and the Levite most concerned about when they walked around the stripped and beaten man? Who was the expert on Torah most concerned about when he asked Jesus the question?

From the point of view of the victim, who did what God commanded?

What does that say about Sin?

What does this say about God?

 

[Lizbeth]

For one to argue that it's possible to live a sinless, without fault or defect, flawless, absolute perfect life 100% of the time (exactly as Jesus lived) would be like arguing that it's possible for a football team in the NFL to go through an entire season without any players committing any penalties at all. One may argue that the potential is there, yet why does mankind and these NFL teams always fall short of those goals?

I think the important thing is to realize the potential IS there and that we should stay in the game trying to reach that goal. Running the race and playing the game so as to try and WIN it.

 

[mailmandan]

I think the important thing is to realize the potential IS there and that we should stay in the game trying to reach that goal. Running the race and playing the game so as to try and WIN it.

That is what we are to strive for. Like striving to win a gold medal in the Olympics.

 

[soberxp]

Who was the Priest and the Levite most concerned about when they walked around the stripped and beaten man?

Jew,They are more concerned about their lives. They are afraid of robbers around there. They are also more concerned about their money.
They see the victim as a problem.

Who was the expert on Torah most concerned about when he asked Jesus the question?

Jew and Lawyer

From the point of view of the victim, who did what God commanded?

The Samaritan obeyed God's command to love your neighbor.

What does that say about Sin?

4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

What does this say about God?

I think this story shows two things, that we should love our neighbors and we should love our enemies, But we should love those who do the commandments of God, for this is our God. The Samaritan obeyed God's command.He took care of the victimized Jew as his neighbor and loved his enemy.( I just assumed that the victim was Jewish )

 

[Behold]

Bible 101.

Reader.

God does not define you as a sinner.
God only defines humanity as a Christian, or as a Christ Rejector.... ever since The Cross of Christ birthed the NT Church.
God only sees mankind as Born again, or not.

Listen,
Its the LAW and Commandments that define sin, and you as a sinner.

So, what happens when "Christ is the end of the Law for Righteousness, to everyone who Believes"?

A.) "Where there is no Law there is no Transgression".

AA.) "The born again are not under the law, but Under (God's) Grace".

So, if you are born again, and are not just water baptized, religious and lost.....then you are not under the Law......so, the Law can't define you as a sinner, or your deeds as sin.

So, THAT means you are sinless before God, cleansed by the Blood of Jesus, eternally forgiven, and the Law can't define you as anything else, because The Born again, are "NOT under the Law, but under Grace".

"well behold, are you saying that i wont do anything wrong, or i wont choose something i know is wrong".

No, im not teaching that, and the NT does not teach that,,,,,,,,, However, when you commit a carnal deed As A Christian , you do it, = "not under the Law"....... you do it.. "Under (God's) Grace"..... "in Christ"....... you do it, "having eternal life"......you do it, here...

AAA.) ""Where there is no LAW, there is no Transgression'"..

Now read Romans 4:8 and 2 Corin 5:19, and pay attention when these verses say that God does not Charge SIN to the born again., as i just explained to you why He doesn't and never will again.

 

[Michiah-Imla]

It's just another way of saying

Yes, I know.

… as if biblical terminology is insufficient.

 

[Brakelite]

It's interesting, and sadly grieving, that the character flaws we so readily recognise in each other and are not slow to inform the world how clever we are in discerning them while pretending we ourselves have none, the reality is that the greatest sin lies in our judgmental condemnation of fellow children of the King Who alone is worthy of the honour of so judging. This thread, and many others like it, reflect the greater flaw...our attitudes toward one another. The irony is, that here I am doing the same thing.
How then do we

“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. ” Isaiah 58:1 KJV

and remain guiltless??

 

[Michiah-Imla]

Your on the surface/at face value interpretation misses the mark

In other words, ladies and gentlemen… you cannot trust what is plainly written in any Bible translation without consulting the “Greek” and the tools provided by heretical teachers…

Anyone swaying you away from your plain Bible translation into Greek rabbit holes is a heretic trying to keep you under the hands of men with so called more “knowledge” than you. Sounds like Catholic Church tactics to me…

I’ll pull out my Bible all day and take you down with it. Your Greek kryptonite has no affect on me pal!

See post #171. The Greek clarifies the text.

The Greek text was translated into English by scholars much more skilled than you.

You think for a minute that I would ever let some person on the internet convince me that their Greek skills were better than trained expert translators?

Boy, the level of pride must me astronomical with you and your Greek “knowledge”.

@mailmandan , go and make your own Bible translation and let’s see how it’s received in the world. Until then I suggest you humble yourself and go back to reading your Bible with the same attitude of a child. Because your knowledge has confused your mind…

 

[Michiah-Imla]

You know, I cannot find the expression, “self righteousness” anywhere in the Bible.

Proverbs 30:12 - There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes yet is not washed from its filthiness.

I trusted in my salvation in Christ and heed all of his words for guidance. I’m not pure in my own eyes.

unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven

My righteousness is of God in Christ. I follow after God’s words in the Bible to complete my race.

Luke 18:9 - And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous

I trust in God and his word to stay on the right path in Christ.

Self-righteousness is more than just arrogance. It’s a spiritual delusion that blinds us to our need for God's grace and mercy

Examine yourself @mailmandan

How will God deal with you after all your years of polluting the body of Christ with your leaven?

 

[FaithWillDo]

If we remember that the mixed wine is associated with whoredom in that passage, it will reveal what it is talking about. What is spiritual whoredom...?. Running after other lovers while being married to a Husband. That is the mixture.

Dear Lizbeth,
Yes, the mixing of Wine is spiritual whoredom. That is what I stated in my post but I referred to it as spiritual fornication.

Here is how a believer commits spiritual fornication with Satan:

To begin the spiritual process of salvation within a person, Christ will come to the person and give them the small measure of the Holy Spirit. Christ does this work without their permission and without their asking.

After a person is given the small measure of the Holy Spirit, the person will become:

1). A babe in Christ who is unconverted (maturing analogy).
2). A chaste virgin who is waiting for their marriage to Christ (marriage analogy).
3). A person who has been called to be a saint but is not a saint yet.
4). A tree which does not produce fruit (one of the farming analogies).
5). A grain of wheat that is not ready for harvest (one of the farming analogies).

Note: There are other analogies used by Christ to describe the spiritual process of salvation - those I listed above are just a few of them.

In the farming analogy, the gift of the small measure of the Holy Spirit is called the Early Rain.

Hos 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he (Christ) shall come unto us as the Rain, as the Latter and Early Rain unto the earth.

Job 37:6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain (Early Rain), and to the great rain (Latter Rain) of his strength.

Deu 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small Rain (Early Rain) upon the tender herb, and as the showers (Latter Rain) upon the grass:

Paul received the Early Rain on the Damascus Road and he received the Latter Rain (the baptism of the Spirit) after being in Damascus for three days. The Apostles received the Early Rain just before they began following Christ and they received the Latter Rain on the Day of Pentecost.

In the marriage analogy (which is the analogy that applies to spiritual fornication), the small measure of the Holy Spirit is what makes a person into a chaste virgin who is espoused to Christ.

Paul mentions this here:

2Cor 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

The Corinthian believers were babes who had only been given the small measure of the Holy Spirit. They were still waiting for the "Marriage of the Lamb" to occur. The marriage ceremony will happen just after the espoused person receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Up until Paul's death, many of the chaste virgins would remain faithful to Christ while they waited. But after Paul's death (Acts 20:29-31), none of the virgins have remained faithful while they waited for the Bridegroom to return. This is the apostasy of the church.

Spiritual fornication occurs when a virgin starts following the crooked way of Satan rather than the straight way of Christ.

The crooked way is approaching Christ by "works" rather than by faith in Christ to do all the works.

Adam and Eve committed spiritual fornication with Satan when they tried to cover their sin by making an apron of fig leaves by the works of their own hands. As a result, they were no longer an acceptable wife to Christ so He divorced them (cast them out of the Garden).

Note: Adultery is the only acceptable reason for divorce.

When a chaste virgin commits spiritual fornication with Satan, they will become unfaithful and unacceptable to Christ. When this happens, the believer (a babe) is said to have fallen from grace and is no longer justified before the Law and God. For this reason, spiritual fornication is called the sin that leads to death (1John 5:16).

The crooked way is the way of the Old Covenant. The Old Covenant is the Old Wine and is the same wine that all virgins prefer because they remain carnally minded.

Luke 5:39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

Because all virgins prefer the Old Wine while they wait for the Bridegroom to return, they will all accept Satan's false gospel which mixes the Old Wine with the New Wine. The Doctrine of Free Will is the most common belief that causes the mixing of the two wines.

When a virgin drinks mixed wine, it will bite them like a serpent and will make them unfaithful.

Prov 23:26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. 27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. 28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men. 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red (Old Wine), when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moves itself (man’s works) aright. 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

Because all virgins drink Satan's mixed wine, they will all slumber and sleep (Mat 25:5, parable of the Ten Virgins) while they wait for the Bridegroom to return. For the virgins who are the "Elect" (the wise virgins), they will be given the baptism of the Spirit/extra flask of oil to restore their faith and make them ready for the Bridegroom's return.

Being made ready is mentioned in the verse below:

Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

When Christ says to "sin no more", He is referring to the sin of mixing the Old Wine and the New Wine. It is the only sin that makes a believer fall from grace.

Joe

 

[Grailhunter]

We have Jesus tell at least two different people to "go, and sin no more" Did he mean it? Is it possible?

Jn 5:14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

Jn 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Thoughts?

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23

It is impossible to live a sinless life….but you can live a life with few sins.
The long list of man-made sins do not count.
Biblical sins are the only ones that count. So how many Christians are going to commit murder, or adultery, or worship other Gods, or be a homosexual or steal or lie? (Secret birthday parties do not count.)
I would say the most common sins are a few cuss words and not going to church….and maybe for some casual sex.

 

[Michiah-Imla]

“…Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.” (Jhn 5:14, KJV)

It is impossible to live a sinless life….

 

[Lizbeth]

Dear Lizbeth,
Yes, the mixing of Wine is spiritual whoredom. That is what I stated in my post but I referred to it as spiritual fornication.

Here is how a believer commits spiritual fornication with Satan:

To begin the spiritual process of salvation within a person, Christ will come to the person and give them the small measure of the Holy Spirit. Christ does this work without their permission and without their asking.

After a person is given the small measure of the Holy Spirit, the person will become:

1). A babe in Christ who is unconverted (maturing analogy).
2). A chaste virgin who is waiting for their marriage to Christ (marriage analogy).
3). A person who has been called to be a saint but is not a saint yet.
4). A tree which does not produce fruit (one of the farming analogies).
5). A grain of wheat that is not ready for harvest (one of the farming analogies).

Note: There are other analogies used by Christ to describe the spiritual process of salvation - these I listed above are just a few of them.

In the farming analogy, the gift of the small measure of the Holy Spirit is called the Early Rain.

Hos 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he (Christ) shall come unto us as the Rain, as the Latter and Early Rain unto the earth.

Job 37:6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain (Early Rain), and to the great rain (Latter Rain) of his strength.

Deu 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small Rain (Early Rain) upon the tender herb, and as the showers (Latter Rain) upon the grass:

Paul received the Early Rain on the Damascus Road and he received the Latter Rain (the baptism of the Spirit) after being in Damascus for three days. The Apostles received the Early Rain just before they began following Christ and they received the Latter Rain on the Day of Pentecost.

In the marriage analogy (which is the analogy that applies to spiritual fornication), the small measure of the Holy Spirit is what makes a person into a chaste virgin who is espoused to Christ.

Paul mentions this here:

2Cor 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

The Corinthian believers were babes who had only been given the small measure of the Holy Spirit. They were still waiting for the "Marriage of the Lamb" to occur. The marriage ceremony will happen just after the espoused person receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Up until Paul's death, many of the chaste virgins would remain faithful to Christ while they waited. But after Paul's death (Acts 20:29-31), none of the virgins have remained faithful while they waited for the Bridegroom to return. This is the apostasy of the church.

Spiritual fornication occurs when a virgin starts following the crooked way of Satan rather than the straight way of Christ.

The crooked way is approaching Christ by "works" rather than by faith in Christ to do all the works.

Adam and Eve committed spiritual fornication with Satan when they tried to cover their sin by making an apron of fig leaves by the works of their own hands. As a result, they were no longer an acceptable wife to Christ so He divorced them (cast them out of the Garden).

Note: Adultery is the only acceptable reason for divorce.

When a chaste virgin commits spiritual fornication with Satan, they will become unfaithful and unacceptable to Christ. When this happens, the believer (a babe) is said to have fallen from grace and is no longer justified before the Law and God. For this reason, spiritual fornication is called the sin that leads to death (1John 5:16).

The crooked way is the way of the Old Covenant. The Old Covenant is the Old Wine and is the same wine that all virgins prefer because they remain carnally minded.

Luke 5:39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

Because all virgins prefer the Old Wine while they wait for the Bridegroom to return, they will all accept Satan's false gospel which mixes the Old Wine with the New Wine. The Doctrine of Free Will is the most common belief that causes the mixing of the two wines.

When a virgin drinks mixed wine, it will bite them like a serpent and will make them unfaithful.

Prov 23:26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. 27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. 28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men. 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red (Old Wine), when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moves itself (man’s works) aright. 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

Because all virgins drink Satan's mixed wine, they will all slumber and sleep (Mat 25:5, parable of the Ten Virgins) while they wait for the Bridegroom to return. For the virgins who are the "Elect" (the wise virgins), they will be given the baptism of the Spirit/extra flask of oil to restore their faith and make them ready for the Bridegroom's return.

Being made ready is mentioned in the verse below:

Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

When Christ says to "sin no more", He is referring to the sin of mixing the Old Wine and the New Wine. It is the only sin that makes a believer fall from grace.

Joe

I don't disagree with everything you are saying here in principle, however, spiritual fornication/whoredom can manifest in a lot of ways, do you not think so? It is essentially trying to serve God and Baal at the same time (halting between two opinions as Elijah said). Having two masters, God and Mammon. Eating/drinking from two tables or cups, the table of the Lord and the table of demons/idols.

I'm not sure why would God say not to pray for someone who is kind of stuck between the Law and grace....? I would regard that as being a state of immaturity not whoredom. From observation and experience, it seems we generally start out trying to please God with a mixture of our own righteousness and His. That doesn't doom anyone but we do need to grow beyond that by dying out to our own.

 

[Taken]

How did you get that from my comment???

You using the Term “Christian”
Christian does not define the term Saved.

 

[Jack]

You using the Term “Christian”
Christian does not define the term Saved.

Well if OSAS is true I'll be fine!

 

[Jack]

You using the Term “Christian”
Christian does not define the term Saved.

It doesn't??? Then what do you call the "Saved"?

 

[Taken]

Not that they have never sinned, but that they never sin now.

Oh okay…
I openly make the claim…
My soul IS Saved (restored)
My spirit IS Quickened (born again)
My Sin Against God IS Forgiven.
I Can Sin NO MORE.
I Can Not Ever Again Sin Against God.



Glory to God,
Taken

 

[Jack]

Oh okay…
I openly make the claim…
My soul IS Saved (restored)
My spirit IS Quickened (born again)
My Sin Against God IS Forgiven.
I Can Sin NO MORE.
I Can Not Ever Again Sin Against God.

Glory to God,
Taken

Sounds accurate.

 

[Taken]

It doesn't??? Then what do you call the "Saved"?

Converted “IN Christ”.

They Converted IN Christ are they, expressly whom the Lord Redeems….ie Rapture.
(Before Great Trib. Whereby others will or will not believe, confess, die, and be Redeemed by God…First Resurrection)

Did you know there ARE Jews “converted IN Christ”?
They do not call themselves “Christians”.
They call themselves “Messianic Jews”

 

[FaithWillDo]

I don't disagree with everything you are saying here in principle...

Dear Lizbeth,
There is only one sin that leads to the death of a believer (a babe who is unconverted). All others sins are covered by the blood of Christ under His sacrifice of the New Covenant. But when a babe mixes their own works with faith, they are no longer under the New Covenant.

After Paul's death, the Doctrine of Free Will became the most common belief that causes a babe to add their own works to faith. Though there are many works that some denominations teach, they all add in a belief that a person's "acceptance" of Christ comes from the person's supposed free will ability to do so. However, scripture clearly teaches that mankind has no ability to accept Christ without having the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

1Cor 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

If Christ did not come to a person and freely give them (without their permission or asking) the small measure of the Holy Spirit, they would never make a true confession of faith and submit themselves to Christ's authority (call Him "Lord"). This is true because mankind was created spiritually marred (Jer 18:4) and became carnally minded. In this spiritual condition, no person is able to understand the ways of God or to even have a desire to follow Christ.

Rom 3:10 As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity (hatred) against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

1Cor 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Because of mankind's flaws, Christ began the New Covenant where He would do 100% of the work for a person's salvation. Even a person's faith and acceptance of Him comes from the work that He does within them:

Prov 16:1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

Phil 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

When Christ is ready to begin the salvation process within a person, He will come to them and freely give them a small measure of the Holy Spirit (the Early Rain). Paul received this gift on the Damascus Road when Paul had no intention of becoming a follower of Christ. But all that changed for Paul in an instance of time when Christ "suddenly" came to His temple and entered into Paul (1Cor 3:16). It is in this same way that any person becomes a babe in Christ. No man has a free will ability to choose Christ. Since this is the only way a person becomes a follower of Christ, it is up to Christ as to when He will come to them. The individual has no say in the matter. All mankind is completely at the mercy of Christ to save them.

You said:
I'm not sure why would God say not to pray for someone who is kind of stuck between the Law and grace....? I would regard that as being a state of immaturity not whoredom. From observation and experience, it seems we generally start out trying to please God with a mixture of our own righteousness and His. That doesn't doom anyone but we do need to grow beyond that by dying out to our own.

A babe who mixes the Old Wine with the New Wine is not stuck in between the Law and grace. They are fully under the Law and are fully no longer justified by faith. The mixing of the wines makes the believer "unfaithful" since they have fornicated with Satan. Satan's way is the crooked way and that is why scripture calls him the "crooked serpent" (Job 26:13).

Consider the "type" that the story of the woman taken in adultery teaches.

Here is how the story begins:

John 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

In the first three verses of the story, a woman is said to have been caught in the act of adultery. This represents the same event of when Adam and Eve were caught in the act of adultery with Satan in the Garden of Eden.

Adam and Eve represent the Elect and is who the "woman" taken in adultery represents.

In the story, the woman is caught in the act of adultery and is delivered to the Pharisees who were responsible for the administration of the Law. The Law says that the penalty for adultery is death. When Adam & Eve committed spiritual adultery with Satan in the Garden of Eden, they, too, were judged by the Law and were given the penalty of death. At that time, their marriage relationship with Christ ended.

However, since Christ is now ready to restore His marriage relationship with his ex-wife, Christ is now gathering her with “great mercies” under the New Covenant of Grace through Faith.

Isa 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. 6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou was refused, saith thy God. 7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

In the next verse of the story, Christ is shown to begin this process of restoration with the Elect woman.

John 8:6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

Christ’s act of writing in the ground represents Him writing the Law of the Spirit in the woman’s heart. This act represents the Early Rain of the Spirit.

This verse applies:

Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

The covenant mentioned in the verse is referring to the New Covenant of Grace through Faith. Under the New Covenant, Christ will perform all the necessary “works” (both physical and spiritual works) to restore the woman to Himself. And since the New Covenant is a spiritual covenant, Christ will write his Law of the Spirit in the heart of the woman rather than on tablets of stone as under the Old Covenant.

John 8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

After Christ first writes in the earth (the woman), the Pharisees continue to accuse the woman. They do this because the woman is still under the Law of Sin & Death after having received the Early Rain of the Spirit. She remains under the Law because the Early Rain was not sufficient to stop her from fornicating with Satan. In other words, she does not have the ability to approach Christ strictly by faith alone yet. The woman is still compelled by her carnal & religious spiritual nature and the deceptions of Satan to mix in her own “works” with faith. At this point, she is trying to serve two masters, both Satan and Christ (Mat 6:24). For this reason, the Pharisees do not drop their stones and leave. The Law is still accusing the woman of sin.

John 8:8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 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? 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more (the sin that leads to death/mixing works with faith).

In verse 8, Christ stoops down a second time and writes His Law of the Spirit in the heart of the woman again. This act represents the Latter Rain of the Spirit.

It is at this point that Christ heals the woman’s spiritual blindness so that she will come out from Satan’s deceptions (Mark 8:15-25 & Mat 24:15). This causes the woman to repent of her works and to become faithful. When this happens, the woman is covered by the blood of Christ of the New Covenant.

After this change from approaching Christ by the crooked way to approaching Christ by the straight way, the Pharisees stop accusing the woman and leave. The Law can no longer accuse the woman of sin.

The woman (Adam & Eve/the Elect) has now been made into a Chaste Virgin again and is “ready” for the wedding to take place. After the wedding takes place, the woman’s marriage relationship with Christ is restored.

Joe