Disease and Cure

There was a man who didn't really feel that sick, but he went to the doctor for an annual checkup anyway. The doctor called the man a week later with the results of a blood test and asked him to come back in for a follow-up. The doctor informed the man that he had a strange disease and that he was dying. However, the doctor told the man that if he took this special medicine that the disease would go away and the man would live. The man told the doctor "But I feel fine! Nothing is wrong with me. I don't believe your diagnosis and I think you are lying to me. You're just trying to take my money by telling me I have some disease that really doesn't exist, you worthless, lying quack." The doctor gave the man a stern warning once again that he would die if he refuses treatment, but the man, who felt perfectly fine, still denied treatment. He wound up dying.

Contrary to the popular belief of unbelievers, true Christians don't teach that people go to hell because they don't believe in Jesus. People die and go to hell because they have a disease called sin. Most people deny they have this disease, and they deny it up until their dying day when it is too late to do anything about this disease. They deny they have this disease because they feel like they are pretty good people, that their good outweighs their bad, and that God (whoever they make Him out to be) will forgive them because they tried their hardest.

People; it just doesn't work that way. Just as in the story of the man with the disease who refused treatment died, so too will you die if you refuse Jesus. You have a disease called sin that makes you have all sorts of evil thoughts, commit evil deeds, and consent to evil acts. It doesn't matter how much "good" you do, you will never get rid of this disease. Good does not make up for bad, just like quitting smoking after you have lung cancer doesn't make lung cancer go away.

The prognosis: You have a disease called sin which leads to eternal death.
The cure: You need Jesus Christ to take away your sin disease so that you may live and have peace with God.