“I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” ( Luke 5:32 32 I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. )

God is not only a God of terrible holiness and wrath; he is also a God rich in mercy.

And so he sent his Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him from God’s own wrath ( John 3:17 17 For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him. ).

He came not to be served but to give his life as a ransom for many ( Mark 10:45 45 For the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. ). To lay down his life for the sheep ( John 10:15 15 even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. ). To bear our sins in his body on the tree ( 1 Peter 2:24 24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed. ). To provide us with a righteousness that comes, not from our law-keeping, but through faith ( Philippians 3:9 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, `even' that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith: ). And to reconcile us to God ( 2 Corinthians 5:18 18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; ; 1 Peter 3:18 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; ).

All the children of wrath may become children of the Father through Jesus Christ.

An aging abortionist, after 3,000 abortions, can become a child of God. She could hear Jesus say, on her death bed, “Today you will be with me in paradise.”

The same is true for the mother of five aborted children. And for the selfish, responsibility-shirking boyfriend. And for the secretive, shame-fearing, overbearing parent. And for the desperate 14-year-old girl.

Jesus did not mainly come to stop abortions in this world. He came mainly to die for abortion-committing sinners. “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance” ( Luke 5:32 32 I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. ).

There is one way to know God as your Father. And it’s the same for the people at Planned Parenthood, and the people at Pro-life Action, and the people at Bethlehem Baptist Church — Come to Jesus.