“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18. He that believes on Him is not condemned but He that believes not is condemned already, because He has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
The good news is that Jesus did not come to condemn the world. The bad news is that the world is condemned already. Roman 3:23 plainly states that “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” “All” means all! The whole Bible deals with people and our sins, and God’s desire to cure us of them. John 3:16 states that God loves the sinful world enough to send His Son to save it/us. But the news gets better, because the next phrase is that “the world through Him might be saved.” What we see here is not that we are so good that God has to save us; rather, we see that God loves us in spite of our sins and seeks to save us through His Son. What we see here is God’s grace and mercy at work to save lost humanity. If you know anything about the history of the Bible, or even the history of the world, you know that people are sinners. The last century was interspersed with “wars and rumors of wars,” on into the present century. That is just one illustration of the world’s sinfulness. We need to understand this: GOD IS NOT ABOUT CONDEMNATION. WE TAKE CARE OF THAT OURSELVES. (Of course we have Satan’s help.) God is about delivering us from condemnation. That’s the purpose of Jesus’ coming into the world. The news gets even better. Jesus came into the world and offered Himself as the sacrifice for our sins. We are to believe in Him, literally surrender our lives to Him, believing God instead of Satan. God is not asking for intellectual assent; rather, He is asking for our hearts, minds and souls. He literally wants to clean us up within so that what He has done will be visible to the world. The only complication in this plan is our willingness to believe God’s truth instead of Satan’s lies. Jesus did not come to condemn a world that is already under the condemnation of sin. He came to save! So believe Him and be saved. Bro. Joe
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