Balance, improvement only to a certain degree, or degeneration. The Bible question is: How shall we escape if we neglect? ( Heb. 2:1-4). There 3 possibilities face every man. He has a desire to better himself and yet he is constantly beset with a gravitation to sin and the law of death working in his very being. We say that nature is full of life, but in reality it is full of death. Plant life and animal life are kept alive by a temporary endowment which gives power over the elements of life and the true nature will be revealed. life is merely the suspension of these destructive powers- the sum total of the functions that resist death. Spiritual life is the same- the sum total of the functions that resist sin. If we neglect the use of these powers death will result. The man who does not properly use the powers to live is as much dead as a man failing 500 ft. is as good as dead the first foot of the fall. Unless he is stopped he is a dead man. One who continues to neglect, degeneration sets in. If we use the powers of life to resist sin, we live