Why Jesus Came

Why Jesus came
“As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. 
While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with him and his disciples.  
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?” 
On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.  
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” 
                  Matthew 9:9-13.
Here is a point I think is lost on some preachers and evangelist especially in the media.
These preachers rant and rave about sin. They scream at the top of their lungs what sin is and point fingers. Lost in the cacophony of noise is the mercy of God.
The Pharisees saw Jesus sitting down with sinners and questioned why. To which Jesus replied,
  “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
I find at times in the church and among some preachers on television mercy is not shown.
They are too concentrated on listing the sins of others. Jesus was not like this.
Here he was sitting with tax collectors. People considered crooks in his day. Yet we are not told that he is brow beating them about their sins. If he did the probably not have sat down with him.
He seems to be entering into dialogue with them. Presenting to them the way of salvation.
That’s the way it should be with us. We need to enter into dialogue with those around us. No matter who they are.
It’s easy to find fault with others it’s hard to sit down with them and discuss what God has for them.
Unless we as Christians sit down with people we disagree with and discuss with them what we believe we will not reach the lost.
God sent his son to a world of sinners because he loved us.
Paul says of Love,
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails.” 
      1 Corinthians 13:4-8a
Unless we can show this kind of love to those around us we cannot hope to save the lost.
Think about it.