S3-125 DEVELOPING SPIRITUAL JUDGMENT

Interestingly, the social outcasts and sinners gathered close to Jesus to hear him. The scribes and Pharisees, representing the religious elite of God’s people, remained at a distance, finding fault. It is a sad state if, once saved, God’s children feel superior to the unsaved. “For when we were yet without strength … Christ died for the ungodly” (Romans 5:6). No matter how depraved we were as sinners, regardless of our background—Hindu, Muslim, atheist— “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”