2. condemned to hell
John 3:18-21

3. John 3:16-17
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

4. John 3:16-17
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

5. John 3:18-21
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

6. John 3:18-21
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”

7. Hell?

8. Perish (v16) :
Lost (Mk 10:45)

9. Perish (v16) :
Lost
Destroyed (Mt 25:46) (Mt 18:8)

10. why is a man
condemned to Hell?

11. Charge 1:
“You are charged with:

12. (18) Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son

13. ‘No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also’
‘He who hates me hates my Father as well.’

14. Charge 2:
“You are charged with:

15. (19) This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness instead of the Light because their deeds were evil.

16. (19) This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness instead of the Light because their deeds were evil.
Sin makes evil tasty

17. Romans 1:28-31
since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.

18. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice
Romans 1:28-31
They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice
They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful;
They invent ways of doing evil, they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless heartless, ruthless.

19. Romans 1:32
Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

20. The world loved the darkness
God so loved the world
but
The world loved the darkness

21. Charge 3:
“You are charged with:

22. (20) Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
(21) But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”

26. “… all have sinned …, and are justified freely by his grace”

27. These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, you may have life in His name.