Christ Came to Save Sinners
"Into the World."—"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world." He left the supernal, transcendent glory of heaven to come into the world. "He was born of a woman," that He might come into this world and be a brother man, "a kinsman" to redeem. When He came into the world, He knew no classes; He mingled with all, rich and poor, formal Pharisees, skeptical Sadducees, plebeian publicans, and sinners. He came to save them. It was a wonderful thing, His coming into the world; but it was not and is not the thing. The great purpose, the wonderful thing, that which gives meaning to the coming, without which the coming would mean nothing to us, is the coming and dying to save the lost. It is "a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." That is why He came, that was His object in coming. To that one purpose He continually held. For it He taught, prayed, suffered, died. Did He attend the Passover feast?—He did it to save sinners. Did He accept the invitation to dine with the publican?—He did it to save sinners. In all His intercourse with men and women, He held to the one unswerving purpose, to save sinners.