For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
not to condemn, &c.--A statement of vast importance. Though "condemnation" is to many the issue of Christ's mission (Joh 3:19), it is not the object of His mission, which is purely a saving one.
Salvation was the intentional purpose of Christ's first coming; condemnation only its accidental fruit. Unbelief is the binding sin that locks all others upon the sinner and delivers him to damnation, no sin does greater damage than this refusal to believe.
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Christ came not to destroy the ruined world but to save it; this is His peculiar office. When sin presses you or Satan drives you toward despair, hold up this shield: God in boundless goodness appointed His Son as the salvation of the world, not its judge.
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