In this sermon Small Beginnings and Big Endings, The beginning of the godly and the upright man may be but very small, but his latter end will greatly increase. Evil things may seem to begin well, but they end badly; there is the glitter and the frills, but afterwards the darkness and the disappointment.  Evil things begin as mountains; they end as mole-hills.   At first it is an ocean, then it shrinks into a river, then into a dry bed. Satan began his masquerade with humanity in the garden with a lofty promise. ”you shall be as gods!”  The beginning of evil is grand, but it ends up shivering beneath the tree complaining of nakedness, and sin comes to its end. Sin is short lived, but the consequences are long lived. Just asked the rich man in hell. He will never escape its flames. Its better to start small and work up into God’s true image rather than to yield to the world’s way and be disappointed in the end.