There are only two real differences in men—either the degree of their sin or the class of their sin.
Charlotte Reese, who served six years on the U.S. Board of Parole, said, “I believe from the bottom of my heart there is nothing any of us might not do if certain circumstances were different. The breaking point for each of us is different. We differ from the criminal in what we have done, rather than what we are.”
The Bible agrees. It says, “There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not” (Ecclesiastes 7:20).
Ethel Waters, the gospel singer, was, back in the Twenties, one of the all-time great blues and torch singers of America. She became one of the first black entertainers to draw white crowds and their money to Harlem nightclubs. She said that her singing and dancing helped transform Edmund’s Cellar from “a low-class dump to a high-class dump.”
A "low-class" dump is a place such as a local dive bar, where working people might sit around in work clothes, sipping beer, and listening to the radio.
A "high-class dump" is a place such as the country club where professional people sit around in formals, sipping champagne, and listening to an orchestra.
If one is a dump, the other is a dump. The same thing goes on in both places. The only difference is the social and economic class involved. One is low-class sin and the other is high-class sin. But you spell “sin” the same way in both instances.
Sobering, isn’t it, when you realize that at heart we are all the same. However, the Bible says, “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief” (1 Timothy 1:15). The degree or the class of your sin matters not. Christ died for you and he will save you if you will turn to him.