The Deadly Disease Of Sin  PRO

THE DEADLY DISEASE OF SIN

The Bible is very blunt about sin – it doesn’t matter how YOU grade your sin, if you don’t accept that you’ve sinned… you can’t fix the problem.

It’s like a man having a deadly disease. He experiencing distressing physical problems but doesn’t KNOW he’s going to die ... he’s just afraid that might be the outcome.

So what does he do? Does he go see a doctor. Noooo. Going to the doctor would be admitting that he might die and he refuses to accept that.

If he doesn’t go see the doctor, then there’s no verdict that he will die. Therefore, he won’t die. And yes, that’s the way some people reason.

But since this ailing man refuses to see a doctor, he can’t fix what’s wrong in his life.

And so ... he dies.

And so it with sin.

God is the doctor.

Sin is the disease.

And unless we give our sin sick souls to Him, we will die in our sins.

We’ve all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

As one person once noted: "The word SIN… has an 'I' in the middle." (Dr. Karl Menninger)

I have sinned.

It’s MY fault.

MY problem.

MY guilt.

MY shame.

And until I deal with that sin and guilt, it's always...