We live in a changing world that is full of questions,

and the answers must come from the unchanging truth of God's Word.

Today we look into Scripture with Scott Paul to discover what the Bible says.

Ask the Lord to speak to you and to give you truth to share with others.

If you had to draw a picture of what sin looks like, what would that picture be?

You know, our world draws a picture of pleasure and riches and happiness.

That's the picture the devil wants to draw, but let the Lord, the true artist, the one who most accurately reflects

all truth, let him draw the picture, walk through Scripture and see the pictures that he gives

symbolic of sin. When he paints the picture, he says it is darkness, it blinds. He calls it

leaven, it spreads. He says it's sickness and disease. It corrupts and it is

pervasive. He calls it cords and chains. It binds a man. He calls it fire, all consuming. He

calls it poison, deadly. I'll tell you, if we could see sin like God sees it, no matter what kind of

sin it is, we would think differently about the sin in her own life. It doesn't matter what

your sin is. With Aiken, it was stealing, with David, it was adultery, with Saul, it was jealousy,

with Cain, it was murder, Judas was betrayal, Nebuchadnezzar was pride, Lott and Demas loved the world, Coral rebel against

authority, Solomon loved pleasure, Anonice and Sapphire lied. Why do you think God gives us all of these

pictures? He draws these pictures for us in Scripture so that we will come to see sin like he sees it.

You see, sin is worse than you think it is. It is worse than you think it is.

It's a state, a state of rebellion against God, an absence of righteousness. It is a nature that has

come into every one of us. Romans chapter 3, verse 23, says, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

Do you know that you're a sinner by nature? No matter what you have done or haven't done,

you're a sinner because you were born that way. We're all born that way. It was passed on from

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