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spirit (4:24). It is not a matter of here or there; it is a matter in the spirit in which we can contact God, the tree of life. The Lord Jesus did not answer her with a yes or no, but turned her to the human spirit to contact God, the tree of life. The princi ple is the same in chapter eight when the Phari sees brought a sinful woman and asked the Lord whether or not she should be stoned. Again, the Lord did not give a yes or no answer. He said, "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her" (8:7). The Lord's answer turned them to the Lord, the tree of life. In chapter nine the disciples asked the Lord a question about the man who was blind from birth, inquiring whose sin, his or his parents, had caused him to be born blind. The Lord answered them by saying, "Neither has this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God might be manifested in him" (9:3). Once again, the Lord answered by pointing them to God, the tree of life. The Gospel of John is a book of life and it never gives answers that are according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but always turns people to the tree of life. There are no answers of right or wrong, good or bad, yes or no. There is only one thing—life. You do not need to be right, just like you do not need to be wrong.

You need only to care for life. This life is just the Lord Jesus Himself; and, as John 8 reveals, only this life can set us free from sin and its death.

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