What is the condemnation according to John 3:19?
According to John 3:19, the condemnation is that the light has come into the world, yet men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. Those who do evil hate the light and avoid it lest their deeds be reproved.
Les teaches that the condemnation is that the light has come into the world, but men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. He explains that everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to it, lest their deeds be reproved. But whoever does truth comes to the light, so that it may be manifest that their deeds are wrought in God. Les emphasizes that man in his own desire will never seek God; God is the seeker. He illustrates this with Lydia, whose heart God opened, not Paul, and with Peter's confession in Matthew 16, showing that God brings people to belief.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.