Sinners Slide Downhill

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.