The world is already under the axe of God's divine wrath, like a man already condemned on death row, sitting and waiting for the time of his execution. So Jesus says, "God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.