In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more positive reviews,

the more the algorithm picks us up. And more people are confronted by the law and gospel of Jesus

Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star

review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. The gospel is for sinners. If you are not a sinner,

Jesus is not for you. If you are not a sinner, the gospel is not for you. If you are a basically good

person who has made some mistakes along the way, the gospel is not for you. If you are a victim,

that ultimately all of your failures can be tracked back to the sin of someone else,

but you yourself, if protected in a vacuum, in a perfect scenario, a perfect context,

if it wasn't for all the toxic people around you, you would have done very well.

If that's you, then the gospel is not for you.

Christ died for sinners. He died for sinners.

It is true that Christ came to save the world. John 3, 16, 17, 18, and following, we see, for God so love the world that he sin his only begotten son,

that whoever should believe in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. God did not send

his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through

him. Jesus came to save the world. He came to save the world, to save humanity, to save people.

But throughout Scripture we find that there is a specific type of person, in a particular sense, that Jesus came to save.

He came to save people, yes, but he came to save specifically sinners. Now the reality is that all

people are sinners. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. If Christ came to save sinners,

then there is a sense in which Christ came to save all because all fall into that category of sinners. But what's unique in our text

today, what rises to the top of what Paul's saying is not only that Paul is a sinner,

but what we should glean from the text is that Paul has an acute recognition of his sinfulness.

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