"this man receiveth sinners"

“This man receiveth sinners…” (Luke 15:1)

Even though this line was delivered by murmuring, condescending Pharisees, the truth of these words is made even more real by the fact that their utterance was motivated by a hatred of Jesus. One of the reasons they hated Him so much is because received sinners. Praise the Lord! The very thing that incited hatred from the “children of the Devil”, as Jesus referred to them, is the thing that brings “praise and honor and glory” to the Lord Jesus Christ.

So thankful today that “this man receiveth sinners”!


“Sinners Jesus Will Receive”
by Erdmann Neumeister

Sinners Jesus will receive;
  Sound this word of grace to all
Who the heavenly pathway leave,
  All who linger, all who fall.

REFRAIN:
Sing it o’er and o’er again;
Christ receiveth sinful men!
make the message clear and plain,
Christ receiveth sinful men!

He will take the sinfulest;
  Christ receiveth sinful men.

Now my heart condemns me not,
  Pure before the law I stand;

He who cleansed me from all spot,
  Satisfied its last demand.

Christ receiveth sinful men,
  Even me with all my sin;

Christ receiveth sinful men
even me with all my sin;
Purged from every spot and stain,
  Glory I shall enter in.

Hear it on the piano here