The Key To Peace | Page 9

not be truth. We are
instructed in the Bible to "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of
truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto
more ungodliness." II Tim. 2:15,16.
The next sins that are given are revellings and such like. Revelling
means "a noisy or riotous feast; or to feast with joyous or clamorous
merriment, boisterous festivity." In other words it means a loud,
boisterous manner of acting, or being in a crowd that acts that way. In I
Pet. 3:4 it says for us to have a "meek and quiet spirit, which is in the

sight of God of great price." This is in harmony with God's Spirit and
His Word.
I do trust that you have an idea of what God is expecting of us. In other
words, we have listed what the Bible teaches about some things that are
wrong, and what is right. As you said, the Bible is a big book and we
can't find everything, unless we are familiar with it, so I trust these few
things have been a help, as you study them. Remember that we need to
have Jesus to help us daily to obey the Word of God and be ready to
meet the Lord. First, it takes being saved from our sins, being filled
with the Holy Spirit and praying and studying God's Word. It is a
precious life when we are in the center of God's will. When we are
saved, we can have the fruits of the Spirit in our life which are named
in Gal. 5:22,23. They are love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temperance and many other good things that
God will give to us as we live and serve Him.
Romans 1:29-32 mentions more sins. It says that those who turn
themselves over to the devil to work his evil ways are "filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters,
haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers,
without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the
judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of
death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
What a terrible list of sins! Oh, we must flee from any of them. If you
get your dictionary and look up the meaning of each one of these you
would see how sinful sin is. No wonder God looks down upon sinful
mankind and is grieved. Now mercy is held out to all who will turn to
Him and through Jesus Christ seek forgiveness and turn away from sin,
but the time is coming when mercy will be withdrawn. This old world
will be on fire and only the holy and true will be taken to that prepared
place for a prepared people who have sought God. Oh, I surely want to
be ready in that day and hour, don't you?
Seeking Forgiveness Was the Key

When I was about twelve years of age, the teacher asked me to erase
the blackboard after school. After I finished, I walked down one aisle
between the seats. On one girl's desk I saw a match box, and in this box
was a tiny doll. I had seen her play with this doll and I thought it was
the cutest doll I had ever seen. I never had dolls when I was small, as
my folks could not afford to buy me one. I would wrap up a stick or
something and carry it around for my doll. So this doll attracted me
very much. As I looked at it, I wanted it so very much.
Before I tell more about this incident let us read a Scripture in the Bible
which tells us about being tempted to sin. In James 1:14,15, it brings
out how it works. "But every man [woman or child] is tempted, when
he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath
conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth death." Let us see what the word tempted means. Tempt means "to
induce; entice; allure." The devil works through us to tempt us. First,
we are tempted by our own lust. Lust means an "overmastering desire."
Entice means to "attract by offering hope of reward or pleasure." So we
see that the devil will induce us to do wrong by placing an
overmastering desire for something, which he convinces us will bring a
reward or some pleasure.
Note the next verse says, that when this lust or desire for a certain thing
is _conceived_, which