John 3:18

John 3:18 He that believeth on him 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. As our verse for yesterday stated, God did not send His Son into the world to condemn us. Our verse for today says that we were already condemned. Years ago I heard, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” That means that just because we don’t know that something is a law, that doesn’t mean that we aren’t guilty of breaking that law. When Jesus came down from heaven as God’s perfect Son, He showed us that we were all sinners. But the point of our verse is that we were already sinners; we just didn’t know it! Jesus example of a perfect life showed us that we were sinners – that is the bad news. But His death on the cross made a way for us to be perfect before God because Jesus could take our sins upon Himself – that is the good news!