Good news is 'good' because bad news exists. Think about it: if there were no bad news, there'd be no need for good news; in fact, good news doesn't really make sense without bad news. The bad news here is that every person has a life-threatening illness which they can't fix on their own.

A helpful picture is to imagine you have cancer. And to make matters worse, you don't know you have cancer! So, no matter how many people tell you about a cure for cancer, if you don't think you have cancer, you don't care about its cure! You're not interested. Why should you care about something that has no benefit for you?

So what's the cancer?

But the moment you discover you have cancer, you're listening! The cancer here is that people have missed the mark when it comes to meeting God's standards of goodness. None of us has hit the bullseye, so to speak. Not one of us could ever claim to be perfect in everything we say and do. Not one of us could claim to have kept every one of the Ten Commandments And all of us have fallen well short of the Great Command:

Love your Creator with every part of you:
your thoughts, your emotions, and your body.

Another word for missing the mark; is sin, and sin is the cancer we're talking about.

Just as cancer of the body causes death: a separation between the body and the spirit, cancer of the spirit causes death: a separation between the spirit and God. Once this spiritual death takes place, there's nothing anyone can do to reverse it. No amount of time will dull the regrets, the remorse, and the if only I had... Sin is a fatal disease...and no-one on earth has a cure...

How about some good news...