There is a verse in my Bible which
describes the slippery slope of sin.
It is found in 2 Timothy 3.13.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse
and worse.
The Amplified Bible reads they will go on
from bad to worse.
How many times, friends, have I seen this
truth play out in the lives of others?
I have watched individuals grow more and more
evil, more and more mean-spirited, more and
more wicked, because the way of sin is
always downhill.
Sinners slide downhill.
It is a natural declension.
See how King David rode the slippery slope
of sin with Bathsheba as it carried him
lower and lower into adultery and even murder.
Sin's path is always downhill, from bad to
worse.
Is this not true?
In your own experience, friend, first you look,
then you lust, then you fall, and down
you go into a muddy ditch of mire.
There you wallow in your pig-pen of
sin.
The way of sin is always downhill.
Our text says evil men and seducers shall
wax worse and worse.
I used to work for a wicked man,
who every time he opened his mouth he
cursed God and used the name of Jesus
as a swear word.
I began to pray daily for this man's
salvation, and I witnessed to him often trying
to point him Godward.
For a little while he softened, and even
began to look heavenward with a glimmer of
faith.
But it didn't last long.
As he turned away from God, his condition
grew worse and worse.
He swore more and more, cursed God more
and more, and became more wicked and vile
than ever before.
Isaiah 57, in verses 20 and 21, aptly
describes such a person.
But the wicked are like the troubled sea,
when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up
mire and dirt.
There is no peace, saith my God, to
the wicked.
How true that Scripture is, friends.
I live near the ocean, and hurricanes often
visit Florida.
I went out to watch an approaching hurricane
on my way out in an evacuation one
time.
The waves crashed violently against the rocks of
the shore.
The water was filled with debris, as those
waters cast up mire and dirt, and there
was no rest in that troubled sea.
There is no rest to a soul in
hell, no peace, just unrest and perpetual misery
and torment.
A soul in hell is cast about in
the twisting flames and tortured forever in that
smoke and furnace of affliction.
Where does it all begin?
Atop that slippery slope of sin, which takes
you down, lower and lower and lower, to
where you become like a beast, like Nebuchadnezzar
was in his lower state, as he did
eat grass as oxen, till his hairs were
grown like eagles' feathers and his nails like
birds' claws.
So says Daniel chapter 4.
The downward declension of sin is a truth
and a reality that cannot be ignored, that
once you get atop that slippery slope of
sin, the only trajectory is downhill.
Sin will carry you lower and lower and
lower, and if you don't get off that
slope of sin, you'll be carried down to
the very bottom of that slide, which is
the dark, gaping mouth of hell itself.
Yes, the condition of the sinner is to
wax worse and worse, to go from bad
to worse, to be brought to the restless
sea of hell's misery.
There is no peace, saith my God, to
the wicked.
But there is a friend of sinners.
His name is Jesus Christ, the Son of
God.
Jesus came into this world, doing good, healing
the sick, giving sight to the blind, raising
the dead.
Yet what happened?
Men cried, away with him, and nailed him
to a cross.
The cross is the place where men sought
to get rid of him.
But by his death it becomes the place
where his saving power flows out to all
who come in repentance, confessing they are sinners
and own him as their Savior and Lord.
Get to Christ, friend.
Jesus is the friend of sinners, for he
declares, I am come to seek and to
save that which was lost.