"I AM COME TO CALL SINNERS TO REPENTANCE." Our Lord came to give His life a ransom for many: not merely for the weak, but for the wicked, for those who were totally depraved and entirely unworthy of His notice, who had lost the image of God, alienated from the life of God, and were enemies to God. What wondrous grace is this! Had He died only for the moral, or the amiable, or those who had something to commend them to Him, we would have given way to despair, and have concluded that He could not have died for us: but our Lord died for the ungodly such as we are. Actually, He died for us, if we believe in Him. He died in our stead, as our substitute, that we might never die. So says the scripture: He was made sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. Let us then draw comfort from God's recorded word, that Jesus died in order that sinners might live forevermore. He bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins might live unto righteousness. We therefore, as believers in Jesus, shall never die. Our sins have been atoned for, and full expiation made: we have passed from death unto life. For Jesus said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life."

For Meditation:
Was it for crimes that I have done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!