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Not to Condemn
“For God sent not His Son into the world
to condemn the world; but that the world
through Him might be saved” (John 3:17).
“For the Son of Man is not come to destroy
men’s lives, but to save them” (Luke 9:56).
Jesus Christ came not to condemn you but to save you, knowing your name, knowing all about you, knowing your weight right now, knowing your age, knowing what you do, knowing where you live, knowing what you ate for supper and what you will eat for breakfast, where you will sleep tonight, how much your clothing cost, who your parents were. He knows you individually as though there were not another person in the entire world. He died for you as certainly as if you had been the only lost one. He knows the worst about you and is the One who loves you the most.
Most people, if they knew all about you, probably wouldn’t want to be around you very long. But the Lord Jesus loves the sinner, desires to remove all their guilt and erase all their sin through the work of Calvary, and invites the vilest of humanity, “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28).
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