Do you remember the true story of the Apollo 13 mission to the moon chronicled in the movie starring Tom Hanks? The movie vividly portrays the trauma experienced by the astronauts after the explosion when they realize they don’t have enough oxygen to return to earth. In probably the most famous line of that movie, Tom Hanks makes radio contact with NASA and says, “Houston, we have a problem!” And indeed they had a huge problem.

Well, we humans have a problem too. The Bible says, “All have sinned” and, “There is no one righteous, not even one.” Sin is like a terminal virus that has contaminated us. We’re still alive and walking, but we have a serious problem. We’re headed to eternity, and there’s not enough good in any of us to get us to God. We don’t want to go to hell. We want God to save us as much as the astronauts wanted Houston to save them.

Well, the good news is that God can save us. The astronauts had to figure out a way to get rid of their exhaled carbon monoxide after the accident and conserve their oxygen if they were going to survive. God solved our sin problem by sending his son Jesus to earth to die for our sins. Our sin is exhaled when we confess it and we breathe in the life-saving righteousness of Jesus Christ when we ask him to save us.

Yes, as sinners, we have a problem. But becoming a Christian solves our sin problem.