Jesus! What A Friend For Sinners!
Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners!
Jesus! what a Friend for sinners!
Jesus! Lover of my soul;
Friends may fail me, foes assail me,
He, my Savior, makes me whole.
Jesus! what a Strength in weakness!
Let me hide myself in Him;
Tempted, tried, and sometimes failing,
He, my Strength, my vict’ry wins.
Jesus! what a Help in sorrow!
While the billows o’er me roll,
Even when my heart is breaking,
He, my Comfort, helps my soul.
Jesus! what a Guide and Keeper!
While the tempest still is high,
Storms about me, night o’ertakes me,
He, my Pilot, hears my cry.
Jesus! I do now receive Him,
More than all in Him I find,
He hath granted me forgiveness,
I am His, and He is mine.
JESUS’ DETRACTORS accused Him of being a friend of tax collectors and sinners. They couldn’t have been more right.
In defense of His actions, Jesus said cryptically, “Wisdom is shown to be right by its results” (Matthew 11:19). Certainly He backed this up with His own actions. As He said later, “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:13). That is precisely what He did for His friends, the sinners. Jesus gave His life so everyone can experience freedom from sin’s powerful grip.
As a pastor and evangelist, J. Wilbur Chapman knew the joy of seeing scores of sinners open their hearts to the Lord. As a believer himself, he knew firsthand the joy of a sinner finding a friend in Christ.
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:3-5
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