JESUS IS THE ONE THAT HAS TO SAY, GO
John 8:36 - If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
It’s time for us to stop rationalizing that this will be the last time I do this; or this will be the last time I will say this; or this will be the last time I will think this, or this will be the last time I will feel like this. IT’S TIME TO COME TO CHRIST, JESUS HONESTLY FOR CLEANSING. Jesus is the only one that has the authority to free you from whatever has you bound. Jesus is the only one that can free you from your lost and futile sin state. This is for folks who have truly found out that they can’t free themselves and are now ready to be honest with God. In St John 8:36 Jesus says, “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” Jesus Christ said in Revelations 1:18, “I am he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and death.” Only Jesus has the keys to set you free. You can’t free yourself. Religion gives folks the false impression that they can free themselves from sin. Look at what Jesus had to say in Matthew 9:10-13. “And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. And when the religious Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, why eats your master with publicans and sinners? When Jesus heard that, he said unto them, they that be whole (Jesus is about to make an analogy using the comparison of a physical physician to show that he is a spiritual physician who has come to heal folks of sin sicknesses) need not a physician, but they that are sick (spiritually sin sick). But go ye and learn what that means, I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE, for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” Jesus is saying in essence, “Just like when you go to a Doctor for a remedy or to be put on a medical regimen for physical sickness and disease, to come to him for spiritual sicknesses, disease or sin. It would be ridiculous to go to the Doctor and then decide to come up with your own regimen and/or remedy. If you could have stopped sinning or its symptoms which are seen in your heart and mind of your own volition then Christ should not have come.” A lot of folks have this attitude and don’t even know it. Like the woman taken in adultery, faith and healing begins with acknowledgement of the diagnosis. Let me show you a guy that just simply came by faith with no inhibitions and made acknowledgement of sin. Luke 18:10-14, “Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican (sinful tax collector). The Religious Pharisee (High Priest of that day) stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house JUSTIFIED rather than the other (the religious man):for everyone that exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself (by coming as a lost sinner) shall be exalted.” Only Jesus Christ’s word’s mixed with faith can heal you. Let me show you what is really meant when Jesus told the lady taken in adultery to “GO” and sin no more. But first it’s always important according to 1st Peter 1:20 to keep in mind that, “Knowing first of all, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.” You can’t take a single verse of scripture and run with it without trying to look at it in the light and context of the whole word or the whole Bible. Let me show you a few other examples where Jesus simply frees and heals folks by simple faith and saying “GO”. In Matthew chapter eight there lays at home a centurions servant sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. Jesus Christ says in Matthew 8:13, “Go thy way; and as thou has believed, so be it done unto thee.” And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour. In Matthew Chapter nine there is another man sick of the palsy lying on a bed and in verse six Jesus Christ says, “Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.” And he arose, and departed to his house.” There is a blind man in Mark Chapter ten who in the 52nd verse Jesus says, “Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole.” And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way. You see, when Jesus says, GO, he’s not sending them away to continue on in a struggle. They’ve overcome, because they’ve been set free. There are a many other examples where Jesus said, “GO”, but I’m going to sum this letter up with the text of St John 8:11. This will be my last example of when Jesus freed and healed someone by saying, “GO”. You have just seen Jesus freeing folks from various physical ailments and disease. Now why do we think anything different when it comes to spiritual ailments and disease? Folks still have to be set free. Sin is disease. Sin is spiritual sickness and disease. People need freedom and to be freed from various spiritual ailments such as this woman who was completely taken in adultery. What are you and I taken with and enslaved to? If you’re honest with yourself and with God, you’re about to find out that we really can’t criticize or condemn anybody. As God’s Church, we need to start empathizing with one another. Jesus Christ was the only person that could have condemned folks and yet he didn’t if they came to him honestly as lost sinners. If you really have faith, and are really trusting God, the responsibility for being set free from whatever has you bound, is not on you but on Christ. Remember true freedom is not where you quit doing something but are left to struggle and fight with the awful urges. That’s fleshly freedom which is not freedom at all. That kind of freedom makes you worse for the next time you succumb. You will even paint the town redder next time because in your heart and mind you are yet to overcome. You may still be living in sin from a spiritual perspective. We have all these Church’s and look at how the world is getting worse. Anyway let’s go on with the text. St John 8:1-11 says, “Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down and taught them. And the scribes (supposed doctors of the law) and religious Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken (enslaved)in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 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. 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. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it (whatever was wrote on the ground), 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. 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? She said, No man, Lord (She’s beginning to put her faith in him). And Jesus said unto her, neither do I condemn thee: GO (here’s that word again), and sin no more.” Jesus has just set this woman free who was taken (enslaved) by adultery. You say he’s telling her to do something. No he’s not, He’s setting her free. She already did what she was suppose to do which was depicted when she called him Lord. She had faith that he could save and free her from her lost and futile sin state.
The Holy Spirit ministering God’s Word,
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