In asking “Why did Jesus come?”, we have looked primarily to the gospel accounts. But Paul’s epistle to Timothy also adds this explicit declaration “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”. We may often agree that we sin, but we shrink from the painful truth of our entire identity as sinners. Paul, in noting the depth of his own sin, exclaims that God’s great mercy to the likes of him reveals His magnanimous grace. And so it is for us–God’s mercy is so vast that He came in person to save even us, to save us from our deserved death penalty, and for a life of gratitude and praise to Him.
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