Just as Moses elevated the snake in the wilderness, in like manner, it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up, in order that everyone who places his/her trust in him may have eternal life.  Everyone, by god’s grace and because of his great love, who places their trust in Christ will not perish but will have eternal life. God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world would be saved through faith in Jesus as the Messiah.

Everyone who places their trust in Jesus is not being judged. He who does not believe is judged already, and under judgment because they have not put their trust in the name of the only begotten son of God, the one sent by God to save his people from their sins, to redeem god’s people from bondage to sin, the one who sustains us and reconciles us back to God, our father.