“Everybody does it!” That is an excuse that if you are a parent you have heard it, and if you are a child you have probably used it. The statement is not always accurate, but in this case, it is.

Everyone does sin! Sin is deceitful! Sin is contagious! It grows and progresses.

Eve (in the long ago) heard the devil’s lie, believed it, and then did what he wanted here to do — disobey God!

Peter first “followed afar off,” and then was in the presence of the enemy, and finally denied the Lord.

Lot did not immediately move to the evil place Sodom. The prodigal son just gradually went to the far country, ending up in a pigpen.

Friend, resist every temptation to sin. Resist the devil (James 5:8). Choose the way of escape (I Cor. 10:13). Abstain from even the appearance of evil (I Thess. 5:22).

Sin will condemn us eternally if we do not remove it by the grace of God!