Henry Moorhouse, a British evangelist, once said: "I find it difficult for many to take their place as guilty sinners before God. Some time ago a woman said to me, 'I cannot believe that one who has perhaps broken only one of the commandments can be as bad as another who has broken five or, maybe, all ten.'
"I said to her, 'But has it occurred to you, my friend, that God never gave five or ten laws? He gave only one LAW, and it consists of ten commandments.
“‘Look at this watch. Count the wheels and you will find ten or more. It is a broken watch, and will not run. Only one wheel is broken; but it is still a broken watch and will not go.'
"As the woman still could not see it, I said, 'Suppose you were hanging by a chain over a precipice. The chain consists of ten links. If someone took a hammer and smashed every link, where would you go?'
“‘To the bottom, of course.'
“‘But suppose only one link were broken, where would you go?'
“‘That would be just as bad; I would fall,' she said. 'And now I see the point. Even for one sin, I am a sinner, and need a Savior. Thank God for His Son-Jesus, my Savior from all sin.' "
Beloved, it takes just as much of the grace of God to save the best people in the world as to save the vilest. Nothing but grace through faith in the precious blood of Jesus Christ can give salvation to a lost soul and freedom from the law of sin."