Gospel Essentials 1- Jesus Christ Came To Save Sinners

Hope In Tigard

There’s something about Jesus. He could draw crowds to himself like he was a magnet. He could make prostitutes weep for joy. He made old cynical apostles coin new words just to talk about his grace. There’s something about Jesus that draws sinners to him.
It either does that or it makes you jealous at the attention he gets from sinners. This is what would regularly happen when Jesus was alive. People actually made up a tagline about him- Jesus had a tagline- you know what it was? Everybody said it about him! “This man welcomes sinners.” And what they wanted to do with the tagline, they actually wanted to destroy his brand. They wanted people to not go anywhere near him. Because he hangs out with sinners, so he must be the biggest sinner ever. It’s like they couldn’t even bear to say his name. So they just said: “This man… welcomes sinners.”
And it's a good thing he does. He welcomes us; sinners. We're about to begin a sermon series on the books of 1st and 2nd Timothy. Through these books we'll dig into what this is: the essentials of the gospel- that this man welcomes sinners. Even us!