For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn
the world; but that the world through him might be
saved.

John 3:17
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a
woman taken 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, 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. And Jesus said
unto her, NEITHER DO I CONDEMN THEE: go, and sin
no more.
John 8:3-11

1. God sees our bare naked and ugly sins and yet He
loves us.
Just as the Pharisees saw the sins of the woman so clearly,
likewise God sees our sins very clearly. When things are seen
clearly, it can be very horrifying and frightening and yet God
does not condemn us.
The Scene of Sin
I once went to visit somebody. As I knocked on the door there
was no response from within; but I was sure this person was in.
When I peeped through a crack in the door, I saw two people
having sex, in the very act. I was terrified!
Later on in life God showed me that that is what He sees
everyday. Our bare and ugly sins are before Him and yet it is a
wonder that He does not condemn us.

2. God could have condemned us when He saw our bare
and ugly sins.
The Condemned Wife
I knew a man who had a beautiful wife. When he went to
work, his beautiful wife would receive her boyfriend into the
house and have sex with him. One day, the husband came home
unexpectedly. He opened the front door quietly and walked to
the bedroom. When he opened the bedroom door, his wife was
having sex with somebody else. He was so angry that he called
the police, ended the marriage relationship and sacked the lady
from his life. When God saw us in our sins He could have sacked
us just as this man sacked his wife.

3. Jesus did not condemn us when He saw our ugly sins.
The Wife Who Was Not Condemned
A certain man married a beautiful lady. Somebody used to
visit his wife everyday to give her advice. After some time, the
adviser would also have sex with her.
One day, the man discovered his wife having sex with the
adviser.
When I heard about this, I was expecting that the husband
would condemn his wife and drive her away but he did not. He
rather turned to her and said, “I love you and I want you to be my
wife. It does not matter what has happened. You are the only
wife I want.”
This was an amazing show of love to a wife he should have
condemned.
This is how Jesus’ love is. He sees every thing but He does
not condemn us!

4. We are not condemned because of the blood of Jesus
which protects us, covers us and washes away all our
sins.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ
his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1 John 1:7

5. We must be grateful to Jesus for His great love
wherewith He has loved us.
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus
judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth
live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them,
and rose again.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15

The Grateful Soldier
Many years ago there was a man who used to come and visit
my father every year with gifts of chicken and eggs. One day, my
mother told me why this man was always coming to our house.
There had been a coup d’état in Ghana and a number of
soldiers had been arrested as being conspirators of the coup.
This man was one of them and he was put on trial with other
people. Everybody who was tried was in great danger of being
condemned and executed.
My father was a lawyer and decided to defend this particular
soldier. He argued and discussed and pleaded with the court and
in the end the man was set free. He was not condemned. But
indeed he was almost condemned!
This army officer was always grateful to my father for
defending him and even after my father died he continued to visit
the house with chicken and eggs. He was showing his gratitude
for not being condemned.
In the same way, we must show our gratitude to Jesus because
it is because of His blood that we are not condemned. We are
not condemned because the blood of Jesus has washed away our
sins.

6. God did not send His Son, Jesus, to condemn the
world.
That is why Jesus did not condemn the woman caught in
adultery and He is not condemning you today.