SAID the angel: "Thou shalt call His name Jesus; for He shall save His people from their sins." Matt. 1 : 21.
"Jesus" means "saviour;" and the world needs a Saviour. It is lost. Sin, disease, disappointment are everywhere. Death, the ripened fruit of sin, has spread its gloomy pall over all creation. Men sin and suffer, despair and die, without hope.
Into such a world as this came the Son of God,—not a Saviour afar off, but one with humanity. Divinity stooped to the level of humanity to lift humanity to divinity. He became one with all men in order that He might make all men one with Him.
To every soul who longs for a Saviour from sin, Jesus meets that longing. He does not save in sin; He could not do it. Sin is ever and always destructive. He who eventually identifies himself with sin will perish with sin. Jesus came to save from that destruction by saving from the sin.
It matters not how great the sins nor how many. He has placed upon them no limitation. "Tho your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." "He will abundantly pardon." "Where sin abounds, grace does much more abound."
Do not stop to ask how He can do this. Do not question the divine alchemy. Let this suffice. You have no hope; you can have no hope in yourself. No mortal can help you; "none of them can by any means redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for him." But Christ has redeemed you. He died to save you. He stoops to lift you up. He took your sins that you might have His righteousness. He has caused thousands to rejoice; He will take away your sins, if you will but let Him.