Pharmacist Robert Courtney is not a name you want to be associated with. Over a nine-year period he diluted the medication of cancer patients. It was estimated that he altered over 98,000 prescriptions, and affected nearly 4,200 patients. Seventeen deaths can be traced back to his diluted formula. He made close to twenty million dollars through his fraudulent behavior, but was finally caught and sentenced to thirty years in prison.

Thousands of sick people trusted Robert Courtney with their lives. He was supposed to be an agent of healing, but instead he was an agent of hate and hurt.

Modern culture wants the church to dilute the truth of God’s Word. They say it tastes bad, and is divisive. What they do not realize is that by watering down the truth we are actually killing off a generation in their sins. Like a cancer, sin grows and destroys the soul. The only remedy against it is the truth of Scripture. When we fail to tell people about sin, judgment, and eternal hell, we are, in effect, directing them to a Christ-less eternity. May we ever proclaim the truth of God’s Word; the sin-sick sinner needs not a watered-down version.