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Remember that the death and Blood of Christ will not help an unrepentant sinner, like medicine will not help a sick person who does not take care of himself. O immeasurable love of God! O great consolation to sinners! God and the Lord Himself came into the world for their sake to seek and save the lost. You are one of the sinners and lost, which means you came to seek and save you. Hold on only by faith to Him who came to seek and save sinners and establish your hope in Him, then He will certainly seek and save you. And it is not said: for the sake of such and such sinners Christ came, but for the sake of everyone and everyone, no matter how great and grave their sins were. This is not how a father, this is not how a mother is propitiated over her sick child, as the merciful God is propitiated over a sinner who groans to Him in contrition and heart disease. Then His womb is troubled over him; then, having mercy, He will have mercy on him. For as is His majesty, such is His mercy. Jesus Christ came to save sinners and became available to sinners. But sinners must also heed what He says: repent, and also: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance (Matthew 4:17; 9:13). Sinners must repent and correct themselves, and then Christ will save them. How cruel and unrepentant a sinner has a heart, who does not listen to the voice of God, which strikes so many times in the heart, neglects so many admonitions, does not care about such kindness, meekness and long-suffering of God. Every unconverted and unrepentant sinner is guilty of his own destruction, for he does not care about such goodness of God, which leads him to repentance. Those who are arrogant in their supposed truth do not need the Gospel and do not accept it, because they do not recognize and do not recognize their weakness and damnation. On the contrary, for obvious sinners it is more convenient, because they see their poverty and damnation. Therefore, it is written that all publicans and sinners approached Him (Christ) to listen to Him. On the contrary, the scribes and Pharisees, arrogant with their supposed holiness, grumbled against Christ, saying: He receives sinners and eats with them (Luke 15:1-2). For whoever does not see and acknowledge his own weakness does not seek a doctor, but only the sick, who are sick at heart, who have a heart wounded by the arrow of sin and sadness, seek him. It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick (Matthew 9:12), says Christ. A sinner is not worthy to live on earth because he is a sinner, but God preserves his life, and not only preserves him, but also benefits him. But the sinner does not feel this and despises his benefactor. God does not cease to do good to the sinner, but the sinner does not cease to irritate the benefactor. The goodness of God is inexpressible, and the ignorance and fury of the sinner is indescribable. The sinner does to God the same as the man who reviles and scolds his nourisher, guardian and protector. The sinner does not see this, because he is blinded by sin, but when his inner eyes are opened, then he will see and recognize it as the truth.