Jesus Came To Where We Were To Save Us

-April 16, 2025-

Good morning beloved, happy Wednesday,

“Then all the tax collectors and sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, ‘This Man receives sinners and eats with them.’”

(Luke 15:1-2).

Jesus loves sinners though He hates their sin. While on earth, our Savior came to dwell among us and to save us from our sin. Paul declared to Timothy in 1 Timothy 1:15, “This a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.”

Paul was formerly a self-righteous Pharisee who came as a lost sinner to Christ and was gloriously saved. He no longer looked down his nose at others as being sinners, but recognized his sinfulness and inability to save himself apart from Christ. He felt that he was the last, the least, and the lowest in the eyes of a holy God.

The Pharisees complained that Jesus ate and drank with tax collectors and sinners. The religious leaders of Jesus’ day condemned tax collectors and sinners as the worst of the worst, while exalting themselves in the sight of men.

Anyone who comes to Christ must come as a lost sinner, deserving hell and damnation. One must see their need of Jesus. We are all sinners, unrighteous, unholy, and defiled in His sight. Jesus said in Matthew 9:13, “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Praise God that tax collectors and sinners flocked to Jesus, the lover of their souls. They knew their lost and sinful condition and came to the only One who could save them. Jesus saved and called two prominent tax collectors like Matthew and Zacchaeus; two immoral women like the woman at the well and woman caught in adultery; and everyone in between.

Let us take a moment to thank the Lord for our salvation. We didn’t deserve it nor will we ever deserve it. We are sinners saved by grace through faith in Christ. The hymn writer Charlotte Elliot wrote, “Just as I am, without one plea, but that Thy blood was shed for me, and that Thou biddst me come to Thee—O Lamb of God I come, I come!”

Have a blessed day, never forgetting what Jesus did for us. Stay safe and healthy.

Jesus only saves sinners; praise God that includes everyone, even me.

Dean