{"id":1279,"date":"2011-09-09T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T10:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2011-09-09T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T10:25:36","slug":"consider-jesus%e2%80%93-as-receiving-sinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Consider Jesus\u2013 as Receiving Sinners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consider Jesus\u2013 as Receiving Sinners- <\/strong>Winslow<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis man receives sinners!<\/em>\u201d \u2013Luke 15:2<\/a><\/p>\n

Nothing gave greater offence to the scribes and Pharisees than the divine mission of Jesus to save sinners. No greater and more virulent accusation could they allege against Him, than that, He extended His compassionate regards to the vile and the wretched, admitting the most flagrant offenders to His mercy, and inviting the most notorious sinners to His fellowship. And yet this, His greatest reproach, was His highest honor. Pluck this jewel from His mediatorial crown, and it has lost its costliest gem. Extract this note from the \u201cjoyful sound,\u201d and you have hushed its sweetest melody. Remove this object of His mission from His coming, and you have reduced His incarnation, sufferings, and death to a gigantic waste.<\/p>\n

Oh, with what glory does the fact that,\u00a0\u201cThis man receives sinners,\u201d <\/em>invest the Son of God! How should our hearts glow with gratitude, praise, and love! If the individual who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, is regarded as a public benefactor; if we deck the person of him who, at the risk of his own, saves the life of another, what shall we feel towards the Son of God who, in the plenitude of His compassion and love, bowed the heavens, and came down to save countless myriads of our race from the \u201cbitter pains of eternal death\u201d!<\/p>\n

Yes, \u201cHe receives sinners.\u201d He receives them\u00a0as sinners<\/em>\u2013lost, undone, self-destroyed sinners\u2013sinners too vile and too helpless to save themselves\u2013who, if He does not save them, never can be saved. He receives sinners of all conditions and of every hue, of every depth of guilt and character of crime. Oh, if there were a sinner out-sinning all sinners\u2013every sin tainting, every crime attaching to him\u2013an abandoned profligate, an unbelieving scorner, a reviling blasphemer, a red-handed murderer, a profane infidel, a daring atheist, a moral parricide whose transgressions have broken a mother\u2019s heart and bowed a father\u2019s gray hairs in sorrow to the grave\u2013sins as scarlet and red as crimson\u2013as a cloud for darkness, and as the sands on the sea shore for multitude\u2013if, I say, there be such a one whom Hewould not <\/em>save, and\u00a0could not <\/em>save, then would there be silence in heaven and exultation in hell at the announcement that Jesus Christ had ceased to save to the uttermost bounds of sin and guilt all who, in penitence and faith, came to God through Him.<\/p>\n

It follows, then, that, receiving them just as they are, He receives them\u00a0freely, <\/em>apart from all fitness or worthiness, of their own.\u00a0\u201cBy grace are you saved.\u201d \u201cBeing justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.\u201d \u201cBelieve in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved.\u201d<\/em> What a joyful sound! Come, then, O my soul, to Jesus, without hesitation or delay.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust as I am I and waiting not
\nTo rid my soul of one dark blot;
\nTo Him whose blood can cleanse each spot,
\nO Lamb of God, I come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Consider Jesus\u2013 as Receiving Sinners- Winslow \u201cThis man receives sinners!\u201d \u2013Luke 15:2 Nothing gave greater offence to the scribes and Pharisees than the divine mission of Jesus to save sinners. No greater and more virulent accusation could they allege against Him, than that, He extended His compassionate regards to the vile and the wretched, admitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,68,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}