Scripture:

John 8:35-36　And the slave does not abide in the house forever; the son does abide forever. If therefore the Son sets you free, you shall be free indeed.

I. A sinful woman:

  1. When the Lord was in the temple, those supposedly moral people brought an immoral woman to the Lord Jesus in order to question Him.
  2. Woman represents man’s position before God. Man’s position before God is that of a woman.
  3. Man’s greatest sin before God is that man is impure before God. So, spiritually speaking, all men (women) have committed adultery. This immoral woman represents all of us who have sinned.

II. There is only one who never sinned:

  1. After the Lord said, “He who is without sin,” everyone went away. There was only one left—the Lord Jesus.
  2. The Lord did not walk away, because He never sinned and He could not sin.
  3. So only the Lord is qualified to condemn others.

III.  The Lord would not condemn man for his sins:

  1. Those who tried to condemn others were exposed by the Lord. They were sinners themselves. How could they, then, condemn others?
  2. Although the Lord never sinned and was qualified to condemn others, He did not condemn man for his sin
  3. The Lord did not condemn man for his sin, because He bore man’s sins on the cross.
  4. Because He bore man’s sins on the cross, He does not condemn man for his sins; rather, He saves man from sin.

IV. The Lord can deliver man out of sin:

  1. That day the Lord not only told the woman, “Neither do I condemn you,” but also said, “From now on sin no more” (v. 11). He wanted her to be delivered out of sin.
  2. In the following passage the Lord said, “Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin” (v. 34). If a man does not believe in Him, he will die in his sins.
  3. The Lord also said that only He can set people free. That is the real freedom. So the Lord can deliver man from sin.

V. How to obtain forgiveness and deliverance from sin:

  1. Confess that you are a sinner.
  2. Believe that the Lord is the great I Am (v. 24). “I am” is the meaning of the name Jehovah.
  3. Believe that the Lord is God coming as our Savior. By the Lord’s shed blood, we obtain forgiveness; by God’s coming into us as our life, we are delivered from sin.