Mark 2: 16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
The pharisees who believed themselves to be righteousness could never recognize that they needed a savior and they were blinded always to their own need. They could never realize that as we are told in Romans 3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God."
How true that remains today of so many self-righteous who believe they somehow they deserve heaven because "they have lived a good life and never hurt people". Then there are those who claim themselves children of God and spend a lifetime condemning others. So tightly caught within the web of their own pride they fail to see the lost soul that God is reaching out to because that one doesn’t look the part to sit in our fancy church pews. But Christ came to save those who knew they were sinners and needed a Savior. The more I know of Him, the more unworthy I know I am; yet, He chose me, He loved me, and He saved me. As you grow in Your Knowledge of Christ, you begin to see His magnificent Glory and His Righteousness. When looking at a house, it may appear clean within a dim light; yet, the brighter the light, the more dust one can see. The same is true in a man’s life. In the dimness of the light that would be shown by other men, we may not look so bad; but in the brightness of God’s light shining around us, we are such wretched sinners. Those who chose to remain comparing themselves by the dim light of this world can never seek Christ; because they cannot see that they need Him. John 3: 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.