“What kind of people does God love?” a Sunday school teacher asked her class of boys.
Ten hands went up in schoolboy fashion, ready to answer.
“Good people!” was the reply. “Who don’t go to heaven?” was another question.
“Crooks!” came the answer.
The boy read, “There is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
“Then you see, boys, God has nobody to love if only ‘good people’ are those He loves,” the teacher explained. The boys seemed thunderstruck.
“Will the next boy read Rom. 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8),” asked the teacher again, and the lad read, “But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” “Now, whom does God love?” “Sinners,” was the quick reply. Yes, and that includes you.
ML-02/24/1980