Many in despair are at the end of their rope now. You are under condemnation. The sentence is as good as passed and executed. Death and hell await. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has cut the Gordian knot of sin.
Man is helplessly and hopelessly lost.
Although he committed no sin, he tasted the wages of sin like all of mankind and for all of mankind. Now he has nipped death in the bud, sin. We were on death row, waiting execution. We are in the kingdom of his love and grace. We are a new creation in Christ Jesus.