A teacher once put the following question to a class of boys:
"What class of people does God love?"
"Good people, sir," was the reply.
"Will the top boy read Romans three, verse twelve, the last part," said the teacher. The boy read:
"There is none that doeth good, no, not one."
"Then you see, boys," continued the teacher, "God has no one to love if only good people are loved by Him." The boys seemed amazed.
"Will the next boy read Romans five and eight," said the teacher, and the boy read: "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
"Whom does God love?" then asked the teacher.
"Sinners," was the reply.
Yes, and that, reader, includes you.