John 3:16-17

John 3:16-17. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Condemnation does come to the world through Christ, because the world rejects him; but that was no part of God’s design in sending him. His design is salvation - salvation only. Oh! that we might so believe as to answer to the divine purpose in the sending of his Son. "He that believeth on him is not condemned," not even now, notwithstanding every sin he has committed, he is not condemned; "but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God." Unbelieving is the condemning sin; it seals upon us the condemnation of every other sin. If thou dost not believe in Christ this morning, my hearer, thou art not in a state of probation, thou art condemned already; he that believes on him is not in a state of probation, he is not condemned, he is already acquitted, he is at this moment free from condemnation before the judgment-seat of God.