3. "I am afraid I am too great a sinner ever to be saved.”

But Christ came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. He did not die for good people, and in truth there are no intrinsically good people in the world. "There is none that doeth good, no, not one." But if any imagine they are good in themselves, there is no salvation for them. "They that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick." Sin is like a dire disease that fastens upon the whole being, but Jesus is the great Physician who cures the worst of cases. None can be too vile, or too sinful, or too wicked for Him. His skill is unlimited. He delights to show great grace to great sinners. Saul of Tarsus was the chief of sinners, but he was saved in that moment when he trusted the Lord Jesus.
The greater your sinfulness, the more you need the Saviour; and the worse your condition, the more proof you have that you are the one for whom He died. God laid all our sins upon His Son when He hung on that cross of Calvary. He suffered for them all. Not one of your sins was overlooked. There is such infinite value in His propitiatory work that grace can now be extended to the vilest sinner on the face of the earth, if he will but receive the Lord Jesus by faith as his personal Saviour.
“My sin—oh, the bliss of this glorious thought—
My sin—not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to His cross and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, oh, my soul”