Jesus called himself a doctor for the sick, not the righteous. The speakers argue that recognizing your sinful condition is essential for salvation, and that Christianity's distinctive claim is not just that God saves sinners, but that He loves them because they are sinners.
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Jesus said, "I didn't come to call the righteous, but sinners." Jesus calls his followers sinners. Evidently this is no barrier for Jesus, or else he would have called them "people called away from sin" or "needy people." Instead, he just calls them sinners. Jesus is comfortable just calling us sinners. He calls us as we are. "Follow me," he says, "as you are." Jesus didn't come for seekers.
Jesus came for tweakers. Jesus came to save those lost in sin, not those lost in religion. For the religious to access what Jesus brought, no matter how righteous they believe they are, they first must realize they are lost. Lost without Jesus, just like the rest of us. Jesus said the healthy will never call for a doctor, even if they're dead and rotting on the inside. Only the sick know their need for a doctor. And so Jesus stands at the door and knocks. The Savior is waiting to enter your heart. Why don't you let him come in? The Expositor's Bible Commentary says about this passage: It would be true to say that this word of Jesus strikes the keynote of the Gospel. The new thing in Christianity is not the doctrine that God saves sinners. No Jew would have denied that. It is the assertion that God loves and saves them as sinners.
