John 3:18

Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. John 3:18
Here is a verse that points to the fact that Jesus is the only way. If we believe in him, Jesus, we are not condemned. If we do not believe in Jesus, we are condemned already. Jesus was the son of God. He was sent to redeem us from our sins. He is the only one through the ages that was sent to pay our sin debt. I remember the night I returned to God. I had strayed and thought I was self sufficient. The minister of the hour got into the pulpit and said: Leon, some day you will stand before God to give an account of your life. God will not ask, who hurt you, who did what to you, but only what have you done with Jesus. Have you accepted him as Savior and Lord? Or have you rejected him?  That is the question. I was 31 years of age that night. I was living a life condemned. I was not yet serving my sentence, but it is life a man on death row who has already been sentenced to death and just waiting for judgement day to come. I was already condemned. The sentence was hanging over my head. I had rejected Jesus, I had walked away. I had said in my heart if not out loud that all Christian were hypocrites and I wanted nothing to do with them. I was condemned because I had rejected Jesus, the very one who had died for my sins. I had seen some wrong stuff, there is no denying that, but what everyone or anyone else did not matter. We have to each one of us make the decision for ourselves. We do not get to stand before God on judgement day and blame someone else for our state. It is a decision we make independent of what anyone else has said or done. It is said there are no grandchildren in heaven. Each generation had to accept Jesus Christ for themselves. Each individual must open their heart to God when he knocks. That is where the journey begins, that is where the condemnation stops. From the age of accountability until we accept Christ, there is no other way.  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16   Each of us will stand before God one day. We may live to see his return or we may go by the grave, but one day the Book Of Life will be opened and those not found written in the Book Of Life will be lost forever. Someone recently said without thinking if people in that day had believed on him Jesus would not have gone to the cross. But that was his reason for coming to earth. It was to die on that cross for our sins. It was not just for the people that walked the earth with Jesus, it is even for our generation, today.  There was no stopping it. It was ordained of God as a plan for redemption. It is our only way out of condemnation. Sin has a price that must be paid and Jesus paid it one time for all. There was no more need to sacrifice animals for a sin offering. Jesus was that sin offering for the sins of the world. To escape the condemnation that rest on us, we must believe in Jesus. Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  John 14:6
The way to God is through the cross, there is no other way.  God bless, LVZ.