God’s Love for the Sinner
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May the Lord bless to your soul these few words He has prompted
me to write.—
Letter 99, 1896
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Objects of God’s Loving Interest—The Lord God through Jesus
Christ holds out His hand all the day long in invitation to the sinful
and fallen. He will receive all. He welcomes all. It is His glory to
pardon the chief of sinners. He will take the prey from the mighty, He
will deliver the captive, He will pluck the brand from the burning. He
will lower the golden chain of His mercy to the lowest depth of human
wretchedness, and lift up the debased soul contaminated with sin.
Every human being is the object of loving interest to Him who
gave His life that He might bring men back to God. Souls guilty and
helpless, liable to be destroyed by the arts and snares of Satan, are
cared for as a shepherd cares for the sheep of his flock.—
The Ministry
of Healing, 161, 162
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