John 8:10-12 English Standard Version
10 Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”
I Am the Light of the World
12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Asks yourself this question; since God knows all things and that sin remains with us and tells us in 1st John 1:8 “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” Then is telling her not to sin any more practical?
Practical is one of those words that distinguishes our ability to perform. This one sin she had been committing, the one she was about to be stoned for committing, was one sin she could walk away from. It was practical to ask her to leave that one sin. It was not practical to leave all sin for sin lives with us because we are human.
God heals us of a few things in this life that we are not able to escape. Once He frees us of those entanglements, He makes it practical to leave those sins alone. Yet we are warned about those sins we have left behind as we walk in His light.
Romans 6:6 English Standard Version (ESV) We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
If we consider ourselves dead to sin, then we will choose not to be entangled in it again. Those entanglements are of known sins. It is practical to expect the power to resist having tasted the results of those sins and the consequences of choice. It is like a warning sign saying to us, sin is ahead.