We come this morning to a wonderful and profound and also very concise statement of the Gospel in Paul's first letter to Timothy. Paul writes in 1 Timothy 1:15, “The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.†What a glorious statement that is, as Paul expresses it with such heart-felt recognition of his own sinfulness and his deep hope in Christ's saving work. I pray for my own heart, and for each of you, that the glory of this statement will capture us and astound us afresh this morning. There's always the danger that this most exciting and wonderful news will become dull and routine to us. And I know that I don't have the power to awaken Gospelaffections in my own heart, much less to do that for any of you. And therefore we need to ask our sovereign Lord to send His Holy Spirit to work among us and give us a fresh amazement of the fact that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
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