From Sinners to Sons: How God Welcomes the Lost

This man receives sinners and eats with them. (Luke 15:2)The Pharisees and the scribes were rather grumbly about the characters Jesus chose to eat with. If he had chosen to eat exclusively with upstanding people such as themselves, they might have praised him. But the complaint spread from one man to another in a hushed and derogatory tone: “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” As has been said, it is glorious to hear the gospel upon the lips of even God’s enemies: Jesus receives sinne