The Cross for the Condemned

"For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18 "He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

John 3:17-18 (NASB95)

Jesus went to the cross not to condemn us but because we are already condemned.  We are condemned not because God sent Jesus to the cross but because we are sinners.  Our Human propensity to sin is what causes are judgment and condemnation.  Jesus came to the cross so that we could be freed from that condemnation.  It is a mistake to say that if God is a loving God He won't send anyone to Hell.  God is a loving God and that is why Jesus went to the cross.  God wants to save us from our condemnation.  It is not God who sends us to Hell, we send ourselves with our sinfulness.

Today, Good Friday is a good day to be reminded or to hear for the first time that, yes, we are condemned but God has made a way for us to be freed from that condemnation.  It truly is a Good Friday!