God Saves Only Sinners Luke 5:27-39

[Les Brewer]

God Saves Only Sinners Luke 5:27-39



Verse 6 and following of Romans 5: “For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.” That is an incredibly amazing statement: “Christ died for the ungodly.” Verse 10: “While we were enemies we were reconciled to God.” Christ died for the ungodly. We were reconciled to God while we were enemies. And then verse 8 says it: “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Therein lies the uniqueness of the gospel. Uniqueness of the gospel is this: salvation is offered, and salvation is possible only for the ungodly, and only for sinners, and only for enemies. It’s a stunning statement that Christ died for the ungodly.

With that in mind I want you to see an illustration of this in Luke chapter 5. So let’s go to Luke 5, and we’ll be there for the rest of the afternoon – we wish. I want to show you an illustration of how Christ died for sinners, how God redeems the ungodly.


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[gator]

I guess that, when you get right down to it, Jesus would have had to die for the ungodly for the simple reason that no one person who ever lived ( other than Jesus Christ Himself of course ) would qualify as being "godly". Each and every one of us is a sinner in need of redemption and it has always been so. Each and every one of us had some character trait that eliminates us from the competition to be "perfect". Even Paul of the New Testament fame was a known killer of Christians. He hunted them down as if they were vermin to be eliminated. And then he went to Damascus - well, he went part way to Damascus and then he saw the Light.

God can choose the most unlikely people to further His work.