In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

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review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. Verse 17, the question is now begged. If Jesus didn't

come to condemn the world, then why are so many condemned? To read verse 17 once more so that it's fresh in our minds.

The Bible says this, for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world.

Why?

Because the world was perfectly capable of doing that for itself.

We don't need Jesus to come to the world in order to produce condemnation.

Humanity was perfectly capable of condemning ourselves all on our own.

I believe it was Edwards.

Jonathan Edwards who once said that man contributes nothing to his salvation,

but the sin that made it necessary.

If there's anything that people can do and do all by themselves without any of God's help,

it's gain for themselves a just condemnation it is to ensure for themselves that they will indeed perish

for god did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved

through him if jesus didn't come to condemn the world,

then why does the world stand condemned? Because the world has condemned itself through its own

unbelief. And why is it that people choose unbelief? Why is it that people again and again left to themselves,

apart from saving grace, choose to harden their hearts, to have stiffened necks, and to rebel

against God, the God who made them, and his son, Jesus Christ, who is the only Savior. And the answer to that question is

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