Christ Came For Sinners!

Lu 15:2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

Jesus did not receive all that came to him. He received only sinners. He came for ungodly sinners who needed a Physician. Doesn`t that amaze you?! I marvel that God would come to earth as a Man to save ungodly sinners! Men would naturally think that He would come for the righteous. Perhaps for kings, princes, deacons and pastors. Maybe for the priests, for Mother Teresa, the influential, and esteemed, the people of reputation but not for the fornicator, the adulterer, the murderer, the drunkard, the prostitute, the sodomite, the beggar, the tax collector, and the extortioner...

Mr 2:16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
Mr 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Wow! He came not to call the righteous but sinners! You see, the righteous have no need of Jesus. What do they need a Saviour for? Sinners do need a Saviour. I need a Saviour. I need a Friend that is both God and man. I need someone to be a mediator between God and myself. I need a Friend that can reach with one hand up to God, and one hand down to me. I need an attorney that Has an "in" with the Judge. An Attorney that has walked in my shoes and knows how I feel. I need Someone that took part in every temptation and can identify with my infirmities. I need a Friend who I can be identified with, who has eternal life so I can have eternal life too. I need a great High Priest who can intercede on my behalf. When Satan stands there and accuses me before the throne of God, I need Someone to be there and plead on my behalf. Every sinner needs a Friend, a High Priest, and an Attorney like this. Someone that can and will lift the lowest of the low and turn them into princes and heirs...

1Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.

Well let me tell you all something. We have an Attorney, a Friend and a Great High Priest whose name is Jesus! See, God sent His only begotten Son to this earth to live amongst us and walk in our shoes. Jesus couldn't be our attorney and act on our behalf as just as God, so He had to become a man. He did that. Not only did He live amongst us, He died for us. He died for those that killed Him. Someone had to pay for all the sin. God couldn't be just, in forgiving sinners without payment. The payment that the moral law of the universe requires for sin, is blood. Righteous, perfect blood. Jesus, God's only begotten Son was nailed to a cross where the Father placed the sin of the world on Him and Jesus became sin for us. God chose to view His Son as all the sinners ever born and poured out His wrath on Jesus, sending His soul into the depths of the earth for three days and three nights. At that moment, Jesus who had never sinned, suffered and was slain as a sinner, in our place. This is the punishment that we deserved. The shed blood made a way for God to forgive ungodly sinners. It made a way for God to forgive and justify any sinner who would believe in Jesus. Freely, apart from all religion... Without doing anything. A marvelous gift indeed!

So this is what we have come to... The wedding festivities are prepared, and the Host who is God, just requires that we come. The tables have been set, and the meal is ready. It reminds me of a parable...

Mt 22:4 Again, he (God) sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

All who come, are clothed in the perfect spotless robe of righteousness that Jesus Christ lived while He was on this earth. Nothing is required. All the work has been done. Just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ with all our heart and we shall be saved. He promised.