The You're going to Here's a man in the Old Testament named Naman. He was the King's commander and he quickly

discovered that his wealth and power were meaningless in the face of his diagnosis of leprosy.

On Truth for Life Weekend, we'll follow his search for healing

and discover how sin is like spiritual leprosy.

Where do we go to find the cure?

Alister Begg shows us as he teaches from the opening verses of Second Kings, chapter 5. 5. Why are men and women today so unhappy in our world?

I so many gloomy faces. Why in this land of great opportunity are men and women the way they are

Why is it that on university campuses there is so much deadness and futility and failure. What is the reason? Well psychologists

and sociologists are at all kinds of extremes to provide an answer and the

Bible is very very clear And sin is ugly as sure as leprosy was ugly.

No matter how we may try and dress it up, sin is downright ugly. Sin is not an intellectual problem, it's a moral problem.

That's why you see no matter how good your SAT scores were, they weren't good enough for you to deal with guilt.

That's why financial status can never take us high enough to get beyond the cloud level that lingers as a result of this

terminal human condition.

And when loved ones this morning we pare it all away, the fact of the matter is that just like Naman we're in deep trouble.

Ultimately we're just miserable sinners.

Oh you say, but I didn't come here to hear that that's downright offensive. I know it is.

And I would never think to say it to you. Unless of course I was only trying to tell you what is in this book.

Easy is a concoction of the late 20th century to encourage men and women to come to church

so that you can tell them how good they are, parade their successes, and tell them what a wonderful job they're doing and everything

because they go home and they say, I don't know why that fellow says that because I'm not

as good as that. My wife knows I'm not, my children no I'm not, my boss and my employees

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