INFORMATION ON THE RELEASE OF MATERIALS Many friends have asked about the dating of material which appears in our month ly publication. Since we are not able to print the BROADCASTER until our pro grams for the month are com pleted, the monthly edition is usually completed at the end of the month. Therefore the current month contains features from the p a s t month's broadcasts. Indica tion is always given on the cover of the individual pub lication. If you have just moved, or are planning to do so, you know all that is involved. But did you realize that your move can also cost the Lord's work? If you have moved and have not as yet informed us, from now on it will cost Biola 8 cents (rather than 4) in order to have the post office give us the in formation concerning your new address. If you use a post card, or the forms provided by the post office, this will mean a sub stantial savings for the work of the Lord. With a quarter of the population moving every year, according to statistics, you can well imagine what this will ulti mately mean for Biola. Thank you for your prayer ful help in this, as well as in our other ministries for the Lord Jesus Christ. MOV ING COSTS EVERYONE
believers today have allowed their minds to become so absorbed with the filth and corruption to which we are subjected from every media of enter tainment, from advertising billboards and signs, from newspapers and maga zines from the conversation in places where we work and the people with whom we are forced to associate, that their thought life becomes a veritable cesspool of iniquity. Tile Psalmist prayed, “Search me 0 God and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts . . This is the first thing we must do in order to clear away those things in our thought life, or in our attitudes toward others that would rob us of blessing in our prayer life. We need to let the Lord search out and convict us of the bitterness, the greed, the pride, and the lust that have become encrusted upon our minds. We need to pray, “Try me and see if there be any wicked way in me,” (Ps. 139:24) “Wash- me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin” (Ps. 51:2). Secondly, we must confess those things and ask the Lord to cleanse us from all unrighteousness by the blood of Christ. Thirdly, with David we need to pray, “Create in me a clean heart O God, and renew a right spirit within me” (Ps. 51:10). Finally, we must practice the pres ence of the indwelling Holy Spirit of God, so that He might set a guard upon our mind, and our emotional life so that, as Paul suggests, we might truly think on those things that are true, honest, just, pure; those things which are of good report, virtuous, and praise worthy” (Phil. 4:8) that we with the Psalmist might truly “bless the Lord at all times,” and that “. . . his praise shall continually be in our mouths” (Ps. 34:1), “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.” 0, the tragedy of a heart that becomes, through sin, the prison of our prayers. But, O, the blessedness of release and restoration when we confess our sin, and God, on the basis of His own faithfulness and righteousness, cleanses us from all un righteousness.
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