No, for He is the believer’s substitute; He Himself “bare our sins in His own body on the tree;” “He loved me and gave Himself for me.” In His love He died that we might live. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” but “God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Perfect love, perfect light. The light declares by the death of the Son how vile are we, how utterly lost and dead to need such salvation; the light declares that God, sending His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. The love declares itself by the death of the Son measureless to the chief of sinners.
He that believeth on Him is not condemned, for Jesus has been judged in His people’s stead. The wrath of God has been poured out upon Him, His soul has been made an offering for sin. The debt has been paid, the penalty has been borne, the full satisfaction has been rendered to God by Himself once and forever. His death has made full and absolute atonement for our sins. Hence the believer on Him is not condemned; “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” Christ has risen up from among the dead; whosoever believes on Him is justified from all things.
But let us listen once more to His words: “He that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God.”