Jesus, friend of repenters.

We are better off knowing the truths He taught what He actually said and who He is, than having a false understanding, believing in a fantasy and being serenely seduced by our emotions and flesh and a perception of what they desire Him to be. Don’t guess.

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in there at: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Christ Jesus, Matt 7:13-14.

“Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.” Christ Jesus, Luke 21:33

Christ Jesus actually admonished the Pharisees for saying that He was a friend of sinners. A friend is defined as   “one attached to another by affection or esteem, a favored companion. A person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically exclusive of sexual or family relations.” Our Lord knew that if people believed that He the Christ was their friend in their sin it would have an affect contrary to the task He had come to accomplish.

  To be a friend to sinners would imply that even in a continued state of sin people were found acceptable to Christ, ”His friend”. This is not the case. Jesus did not call the sinner to continue to sin but to repent, He said, ”I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” Luke 5:32 (KJV) It is dangerous to teach people to believe that they can continue on in sin and be friends with the Lord this serves to perpetuate a lifestyle of sin in the comfort of sin. This is a Lie promoted by the enemy and perpetuated by an appeal to the flesh. This lie has served to launch a large amount of false doctrines and teachings, it attempts to create a mindset accepting of sin yet it is in direct conflict with the spirit increasingly causing all manner of, confusions, sorrows, psychosis and fears.

Sin is of the world we cannot be friends with the world. James by revelation of Christ Jesus wrote, “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?  whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. James 4:4 (KJV) Christ Jesus could not both stand for the sinner in sin and stand for the sinner in repentance. Jesus could not stand against Himself, this would cause a divided house and as He said. “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:” Matt 12:25 (KJV)

Jesus spoke parables regarding sinners, such as the one of the Pharisee and the publican in Luke 18:9-14. The publican was not favored because he was a sinful friend of Jesus, but because he cried out to God in repentance for those sins. Was Christ Jesus loving and compassionate towards the sinner? Yes of course, he knew the wages of sin are death. He said in John 8:51 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death,” He called us to repentance to save us from the death of sin, but it has been made very clear that if a person upon hearing His word and seeing His works did not repent from their sins, then those people were denounced, rebuked, even cursed by our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. Consider Matthew 11:18-24 “For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.  The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:  Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.  But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.  And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.  But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.”