Condemned Already
Joh 3:18 "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe IS CONDEMNED ALREADY, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
As sinners, we are condemned already. We are only awaiting the execution of our sentence in the future Great White Throne judgment, when the righteous Judge will finally deal with us accordingly.
Take note of those words: "Condemned ALREADY." If you move down to the last verse of the same chapter we read these words:
Joh 3:36 "He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but THE WRATH OF GOD ABIDES ON HIM."
The wrath of God is already on us, we are condemned already, but it will abide and remain upon us if we don't come to the Savior, trusting in Him and what He did on the cross for salvation. As sinners, the wrath of God is upon us, but God loves us so much that He would have us saved and delivered out of it.
Many believe that they are in a state of spiritual equilibrium, standing between a possible condemnation on one hand, and a possible salvation, on the other, if only they live a good life.
Not so. We already fell into sin. And as such, we are condemned already. We are already helplessly in the mire and we must be pulled out of it. The Lord Jesus came offering pardon to sinners like us awaiting execution.
If we trust in Him and what He did on the cross we will be saved out from our standing condemnation, out from the wrath of God and delivered from future execution.
