"We will take the words of our text as a simple motto, rather than a text in the ordinary sense. This morning I will not attempt to explain the connection. It was the statement of Lot, when he pleaded for the salvation of Zoar; but I will completely remove it from the connection in which it stands, and make another use of it.

The great Father of Lies has multitudes of schemes which he seeks to ruin the souls of men and women. He uses false weights and dishonest scales in order to deceive them. Sometimes he uses false times, declaring at one hour that it is too early to seek the Lord, and at another that it is now too late. And he uses false quantities, for he will declare that great sins are really little, and as for what he confesses to be little sins, he declares them to be nothing at all--merely a very small fault, almost worthy of forgiveness in themselves. I do not doubt that many souls have been caught in this trap, and because of being snared have been destroyed. They have ventured into sin where they thought the stream was shallow, and, fatally deceived by its depth, they have been swept away by the strength of the current to that waterfall which is the ruin of such vast multitudes of the souls of men.