Jesus Is Interested in You
Have you ever felt like no one cares how you're really doing? Like everyone sees your smile... but no one sees what you carry inside. Today I want to tell you something fundamental: Jesus is interested in you. Not for what you appear to be... but for what you are experiencing in your soul.
Introduction: The purpose of His coming
People have biblical knowledge, the world knows about Christ's sacrifice. Some mock and ridicule Him, others seek approval for their sin by saying that the Lord had so much love that He endorsed the sins of those around Him, but few understand the true purpose of the Lord.
Yes, Jesus sought out sinners with the purpose of saving them and leading them to repentance, not to approve of their sin. The gospel shows that “the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10) and that “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Every case documented in the gospel writings shows that the Lord searches under every rock just to find someone willing to accept His help.
1. He approached everyone
"While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples... On hearing this, Jesus said, 'It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick... For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.'" (Matthew 9:10-13)
In the days of Christ, society was more compartmentalized than ever: Pharisees, tax collectors, the poor, the rich. Accordingly, some were seen as religiously useless and publicly as nuisances.
- Pharisees: Considered themselves "holy" or pious, strict observers of the Law. They criticized Jesus for mingling with the "impure."
- Tax Collectors: Publicans seen as traitors and corrupt.
- Sinners: Social outcasts, unworthy of sharing a table or entering a synagogue.
Society can place us in classes, and we might even identify ourselves by them. But the result of a man without God is always the same: he feels ignored and undervalued.
2. Jesus avoided no one
Scripture says that "He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him" (John 1:11). Nevertheless, He sought out the most marginalized, those who went completely unnoticed.
He healed the paralytic at Bethesda who had been waiting for 38 years (John 5:3-6). The Pharisees criticized Him, but Jesus did not avoid the sinner. He was with them, ate with them, sat at the table with the "worst" elements of society. He didn't do it to approve of their sins or to be morally indifferent, but to open a door of opportunity and conversion.
Jesus didn't come to approve your sin... He came to rescue your life.
He walked where no one else walked. Religion has never been able to help those in deep sorrow of the soul. You might think you are hidden from God, but He knows exactly where you are.
Zacchaeus was rich, but he had a deep need in his soul, because money cannot cure internal wounds (Luke 19:2-6). Jesus saw him and offered him salvation.
3. He is interested in you
God has always been interested in humanity. Scripture shows how He has worked, seeking us out, going where no one else goes, to say: “Look, I exist and I care about your soul.”
In the moment of salvation, He didn't come to condemn you—provided you recognize your need. He didn't condemn the Samaritan woman, but rather told her to "go, and sin no more."
Today many want to be accepted but continue sinning. That's not how God's justice operates. Jesus died for us to free us from the power of sin.
Conclusion
There are people waiting for a hero to come rescue them. There are people sinking in deep sadness, thinking they are worth nothing. But Christ would go anywhere for you to rescue you. If you had a boulder crushing you, Christ would lift it. If you don't see that He gave His life for you, you don't understand how much God loves you.
In this moment He does not judge you if you accept salvation; He forgets your past and erases everything to transform you into a new creation.
"Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned." (Mark 16:16)