Friend of Sinners

Matthew 11.19, Luke 7.34

https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-friend-of-sinners.html

It was at this time that I met Jesus, who relates to us as sinners without judgement of our character and circumstances even though He knows everything we have ever done, He accepts and saves all people, no matter what we have done, no one is too sinful or bad to be beyond His saving grace.

If we will repent and turn to Him we can be washed clean of all our transgressions and sins in the blood of the Lamb.

Let none of us think that we are outside His grace or rejected; the friend of sinners came to seek and save us while we were lost, in the darkness and wandering, but He will bring us home if we allow Him.

He is the friend of sinners because He provides us with a way out of the darkness and does not leave us in our own mess, but provides a way of transformation, of salvation, a way of finding purpose cleansing and healing.

Jesus saw everyone who had been cast to the sidelines and healed them, spoke with them, dined with them and loved them just as they were, just as he helped me.

Saved by Grace!

Saviour – Yehovah Moschi’ech

Luke 2.11, Hebrews 12.2, Hebrews 10.12-24 

https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-is-the-Savior.html

Jesus became the  Saviour of the world by making atonement for the sins of the whole world when He paid the price for all our sins, both past, present and future and then rose again.

On the cross, as the perfect sacrifice for sin only He was able to make the sacrifice once for all sin, by living a perfect, sinless life.

Because He was perfect, only He could offer the perfect sacrifice that would meet God’s holy standards and bring an end to the need for continual sacrifices to be made for sin.

Because of this the grave could not hold Him in death, because He was sinless and He is able to bring us also into eternal life through His death.

Human priests had been making sacrifices for sin for centuries, but, being imperfect, they also had to atone for their own sins and this over and over and in danger of losing their own lives.

Jesus came to open the way and bring us into the presence of God, where we could never have gone before. He came into the world as a baby for this very purpose, to lay down his life and bring many sons into the Kingdom of God.

No one else in the history of the world has ever died to bear the judgment for the sins of others. In fact, He died to bear the sin of the whole human race so that everything could be restored to our original relationship with God.  

The name Jesus in Hebrew is Yeshua. The name Yeshua means – Yahweh is our Salvation and God rescues.

I know that He certainly rescued me and that this has been his plan since before the foundation of the world, made available for all His creation.

We are all included in His plan, in fact in Genesis 28 he says that His plan is to bless all the families of the earth! No one is left out of that equation!

The Bible in Hebrew is filled with references to Jesus, constantly pointing us to Him and showing the way to salvation.

The Aleph and the Tav -Jesus in the First & Last letters of the Hebrew Alphabet!

Revelation 1.8, 1.11, 21.6, 22.13

https://hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_One/Jesus_and_the_Aleph-Bet/jesus_and_the_aleph-bet.html

Jesus himself is the Aleph and the Tav – the First and Last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In Greek, he is referred to as the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End!

The Aleph is shown by the picture of an ox and represents strength and leadership. 

The Tav is shown by the picture of a cross and represents covenant!

It is not hard to figure out that this represents Jesus!

He died on the cross to broker a new covenant for us in His blood!

Yeshua – Salvation

His name literally means Salvation in Hebrew – it literally points to Him and His purpose.

The Cup of Salvation

Psalm 116.13

Kosh Yeshu’ot His name also means the Cup of Salvation, the salvation of Adonai.