h the chief, am not
excluded. The Son of man came to save that which was lost, Matt.
18:11; I am of that description. 'The Pharisees said, Why eateth your
master with publicans and sinners? Jesus said, The whole need not a
physician, but they that are sick.' Matt. 9:11. I am a sinner, and
sick. 'I will have mercy, and not sacrifice; for I am not come to call
the righteous, but sinners to repentance.' I am a sinner, and need
repentance. 'Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be a Prince
and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.'
Acts 5:31. 'The Lord is long-suffering, not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance.' 2 Pet. 3:9.

"Christ said to the woman of Samaria, a notorious sinner, 'If
thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give
me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given
thee living water. Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst
again; but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him,
shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in
him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.' John 4:10,
14. Yes, my Redeemer, a draught of this water, received in faith from
the hand of the Spirit, will give life in death. O pour it into my
thirsty soul in that searching hour.

"Jesus said to a mixed multitude of sinners like me, 'Labor not
for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto
everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you; for him
hath God the Father sealed,' John 6:27. These sinners said unto him,
'What shall we do that we might work the works of God?' 'That ye
believe on Him whom he hath sent. My Father giveth you the true bread
from heaven, for the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven,
and giveth life unto the world: I am the bread of life; he that cometh
unto me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never
thirst. I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any man
eat of this bread, he shall live for ever. And the bread which I shall
give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Jesus
said unto them, Except ye eat the flesh, and drink the blood of the
Son of man, ye have no life in you: whoso eateth my flesh, and
drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father
hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, even he
shall live by m