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Do you realize that if it is wrong to do a certain
thing,
~t
is wrong to harbor THOUGHTS
o~
that
thing
in
your
mind?
'All
have sinned," says the Scripture.
What
is sin, anyway?
Satan ought to know -- and he is the
inv~aible
influ–
ence who sways the course of this world. Hollywood is considered
by many as the world's mecca of sin.
On
the newsstands in
Hollywood may be found a very worldly booklet, written in a very
light, "breezy," and satirical. vein, titled "How to Sin in
Hollywood.
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It gives a very worldly
defin~tion
of sin --perhaps
the definition of the very Devil who devotes his time to enticing
people into it. The definition is expressive,
and
not far from
the truth. Here it is:
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Sin is
th1nk1~ tho~hts
you ought not
to be thinking about things you ought no to
e
doing while you
are thinking that
kind
of thoughts.'
.
God's den.n1tion
is:
"Sin
is the transgression of the
law
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(I
John
3:4).
The law of '
1
LOVE,
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as def'ined by the Ten
Commandments . .Jesus said: "That which cometh out of the man,
that defileth the man. For from within, out or-me heart of men,
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts,
covetousness (violations of the law -- the Ten Commandments)
. •. " (Mark 7:20-22).
"ALL have sinned," says the Scripture.
And,
what man
-- especially what Christian, is there who has not time and
again experienced the struggle against sin described by the
Apostle Paul.? "What I would, that do I not; but what I hate,
that
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do . . . For the good that I would I do not: but the evil
which I wouJ.d
not,
that I do." Who is there who has not
LOST
that struggle, perhaps many times?
Of course no man, or himself, can live above sin.
"With men it is impossible," said .Jesus, "but with God al l
things are possible." And Paul continues (Rom.
8)
to show that
the only DELIVERANCE .from this "body of death" ia through
Jesus Christ, and the indwelling power of God's Holy Spirit
-- "that the RIGHTEOUSNESS o:f the law might be fulfilled
in
us,