Christ Jesus came into the World to save Sinners
1 Timothy 1:15-16
15 It is a trustworthy
statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am
foremost of all. 16 Yet
for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ
might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those [l]who would believe in
Him for eternal life.
Amazing
Grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me wrote the former slave
ship captain, a person we now recognise has the Anglican Vicar and Hymn Writer
John Newton.
Some
2,000 years ago, a man was lead to his death by an occupying army to die a
death that was both humiliating and agonising, both the political and religious
authorities had conspired to end the live of this one man because they felt
threated by his message and popularity his friends had run away from him and
where now in hiding, one of his friends had betrayed him and one of his closest
friends had denied him, he was beaten and bloodied, and was led to certain
death by public execution, of all the tens of thousands if not hundreds of
thousands who shared his fate or will share his fate including some of his
latter disciples, this one death out of thousands of similar deaths of those
who had been crucified on a cross of wood, this one death was and is of eternal
significance, this death bought God’s Gift of Salvation, the forgiveness of
sins, The Redemption of Mankind.
When
our Lord Jesus came, He had one mission in mind, he voluntary laid aside his
divine attributes and was born by a woman, he lived a normal life in seeming
obscurity, he launched his mission by these words The Spirit of the Lord is
upon me see Luke 4:18-19, he had been tempted to sin by the deceiver and
accuser Satan, yet had not sinned, indeed there was no sin found in Him, his
mission then and now is to save sinners. John the Baptist said these words when
Jesus came to him to be baptised in Water, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes
away the sin of the world, and see John 1:28-30
What
do we mean by the Word, sin?
Sin
means missing the mark, failure, offense, taking the wrong course, sin, guilt,
it’s also used in the New Testament in a generic sense of concrete wrongdoing,
a principle and quality of action, and as a sinful deed this includes
acts/desires/passions. Sin separates us from God the father because of sin we
are unable to have a relationship with Him, Man has tried to find a way to have
a relationship with God, and because of our sinful nature we have failed, yet
God has provided us the way to Him , see John 14:6.
Let
us look now, how Sin came into a perfect World, we all know that when Adam
& Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, they were deceived by satan, see Romans
5:6-21 that because of the fall, sin entered a perfect world, we have inherited
sin because we come from Adam & Eve and because of this we have a sinful
nature and the desire and inclination to sin, see Romans 3:21-26.
Because no man is born without sin, and we have sinful desires and inclinations, it is
impossible for a man to die in our place for our sins, God sent his Son Jesus, who voluntary died in
our place for our sins, He died as our substitute he took the place we deserve,
paid the price that we should really pay, he surrendered his life that we may
live, he laid aside his relationship to his father, so that through him and his
sacrifice we can enter into a relationship with His Father, and our Father see
2 Cor 5:14-21
Next week, for this reason I found Mercy
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