Jesus Loves Sinners

Jesus loves sinners. That is the basic message of the Bible.

John 3:16: For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 5:8: But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

Jesus loves sinners. Jesus lived showing His love for sinners. Jesus died for sinners. Jesus rose from the dead to win the victory for sinners.

Matthew 11:19: The Son of Man, on the other hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, "He's a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and other sinners!" But wisdom is shown to be right by its results.

Jesus is a friend of sinners.

Why is Jesus a friend of sinners? Because if Jesus had not befriended sinners He would have no friends. This is not because that good people would not be His friend, but because there are no "good" people. We are all sinners. Romans 3:23 says, "For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard." If Jesus would not have reached out in friendship to sinners He would have had no friends. Sinners are not immoral people, not mean people, not unloving people. Sinners are rebels. People who have rebelled against the authority of God in their lives. All of us have at one time told God that we not He is in control of how we live.

What motivated Jesus to be a friend to sinners? He chose to be a friend because Jesus loves sinners. He loved:
Tax collector
Lepers
Sick People
Prostitutes
Religious People
Nonreligious People
Outwardly Good People
Immoral People
All People.
He loves us not because of who were are, but because what He has done; not because of what we have done, but because of Who He is.

How did Jesus show He is a friend of sinners? He became one of us. He gave up all the glory of heaven to take on all our limitations , all our temptations, and all our struggles. He lived to show us how to live and be victorious over all our struggles and temptations. He then died for our sins and rose again to share His victory over dead, sin, and Satan with us.

God is not some super critical fault find God. He is Jesus friend of sinners!