The document discusses the nature of sin according to scripture. It states that sin is a moral disease that has infected all of humanity universally. It is also described as a mortal disease, with the wages of sin being death. However, the document notes that Jesus is the one physician who can cure the disease of sin, offering salvation and eternal life to those who come to God through him.

1. Jesus
the
Great
Physician

2. Mark 2:13-17
13 Then He went out again by the sea;
and all the multitude came to Him, and
He taught them. 14 As He passed by, He
saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at
the tax office. And He said to him,
“Follow Me.” So he arose and followed
Him.

3. Mark 2:13-17
15 Now it happened, as He was dining
in Levi’s house, that many tax
collectors and sinners also sat
together with Jesus and His disciples;
for there were many, and they
followed Him.

4. Mark 2:13-17
16 And when the scribes and
Pharisees saw Him eating with the
tax collectors and sinners, they said
to His disciples, “How is it that He
eats and drinks with tax collectors
and sinners?”

5. Mark 2:13-17
17 When Jesus heard it, He said to
them, “Those who are well have no
need of a physician, but those who
are sick. I did not come to call the
righteous, but sinners, to
repentance.”

6. Jesus
the
Great
Physician
The nature of sin

7. The Nature of Sin
• Sin is a moral disease

8. Ephesians 4:17-19
17 This I say, therefore, and testify in
the Lord, that you should no longer
walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk,
in the futility of their mind,

9. Ephesians 4:17-19
18 having their understanding
darkened, being alienated from the
life of God, because of the ignorance
that is in them, because of the
blindness of their heart;

10. Ephesians 4:17-19
19 who, being past feeling, have given
themselves over to lewdness, to
work all uncleanness with
greediness.

11. Ephesians 5:3-5
3 But fornication and all uncleanness or
covetousness, let it not even be named
among you, as is fitting for saints;
4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking,
nor coarse jesting, which are not
fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

12. Ephesians 5:3-5
5 For this you know, that no fornicator,
unclean person, nor covetous man,
who is an idolater, has any inheritance
in the kingdom of Christ and God.

13. The Nature of Sin
• Sin is a moral disease
• Sin is a universal disease

14. Psalm 53:1
The fool has said in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and have done
abominable iniquity;
There is none who does good.

15. Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not a just man on earth
who does good
And does not sin.

16. Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his
own way;
And the LORD has laid on Him the
iniquity of us all.

17. 1Kings 8:46
According to Solomon at the
dedication of the temple:
“When they sin against You (for
there is no one who does not sin)”…

18. Romans 3:23
…for all have sinned and fall short of
the glory of God…

19. The Nature of Sin
• Sin is a moral disease
• Sin is a universal disease
• Sin is a mortal disease

20. Genesis 2:17
…but of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil you shall not eat, for in
the day that you eat of it you shall
surely die.

21. Ezekiel 18:20a
The soul who sins shall die.

22. Romans 5:15
But the free gift is not like the
offense. For if by the one man’s
offense many died, much more the
grace of God and the gift by the
grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ,
abounded to many.

23. Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but
the gift of God is eternal life in Christ
Jesus our Lord.

24. The Nature of Sin
• Sin is a moral disease
• Sin is a universal disease
• Sin is a mortal disease
• There is only one physician who can
cure this disease!

25. Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the
gift of God is eternal life in Christ
Jesus our Lord.

26. Hebrews 7:25
Therefore He is also able to save to
the uttermost those who come to
God through Him, since He always
lives to make intercession for them.

27. The Nature of Sin
• Sin is a moral disease
• Sin is a universal disease
• Sin is a mortal disease
• There is only one physician who can
cure this disease!

28. Jesus
the
Great
Physician