15. WHAT WILL HELP
• FORGIVE
Mat 6:14
For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father
will also forgive you. 15
But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not
forgive your sins.
• PUT ON AND PUT OFF
Eph 4:22
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self,
which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23
to be made new in the attitude of
your minds; 24
and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness
and holiness.
• SEE THE CHRIST IN EACH ONE1
• 2 Corinthians 2:5
For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ
among those who are being saved and those who are
perishing. 16
To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to
the other, an aroma that brings life.
16. THE THREE SIEVES *
A LITTLE boy one day ran indoors from school and called out eagerly:
"Oh, mother, what do you think of Tom Jones? I have just heard that
——"
"Wait a minute, my boy. Have you put what you have heard through the
three sieves before you tell it to me?"
"Sieves, mother! What do you mean?"
"Well, the first sieve is called Truth. Is it true?"
"Well, I don't really know, but Bob Brown said that Charlie told him that
Tom ——"
"That's very roundabout. What about the second sieve — Kindness. Is it
kind?"
"Kind! No, I can't say it is kind."
"Now the third sieve — Necessity. Will it go through that? Must you
tell this tale?"
"No, mother, I need not repeat it."
"Well, then, my boy, if it is not necessary, not kind, and perhaps not
true, let the story die."
