“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 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. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
John 3:17–19
In 1944, during the buildup for the invasion of Normandy, an American Liberty ship named the Richard Montgomery sank in a fierce storm off the coast of England. Loaded with thousands of pounds of fragmentation bombs, the ship broke apart and disappeared beneath the waves. Despite the shallowness of the water, the wreck has never been salvaged. Investigation showed that trying to move or recover the bombs could easily set off a massive and destructive explosion. So the ruined ship continues to remain with its dangerous cargo beneath the waves.
Jesus said that every person born into the world starts out facing destruction. We do not start out good and then later go bad. We are born with a sin nature—a desire and bent to do what is wrong. And there is nothing we can do about it in our own strength and power. Isaiah wrote, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all”(Isaiah 53:6).
We must have a Saviour, and that is why Jesus came into the world. He was perfect, but He was not here just to set an example. He was a great teacher, but He was not here just to educate. He was compassionate, but He was not here just to meet needs. He came to die on the cross so that in believing in Him, we could be saved.
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