this present world." Titus 2:12.

Revelry is one of the fruits of the flesh, which if borne in our life, or,
in other words, if we engage in, Paul tells us we shall never inherit the
kingdom of God. Gal. 5:21. Peter tells us that the time of his life when
he walked in sin, when he indulged in the lusts of the flesh was
sufficient to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, to walk in lusts and
engage in revelings and banquetings. Salvation saved him from such a life,
and his former worldly associates think it strange that he will not engage
with them in the worldly riotousness and pleasures any longer, and because
he is saved from such a course they speak evil of him. This is the
substance of 1 Pet. 4:1-4. The gay scenes of a worldly life with their
pleasures and mirth have no delight for the heart filled with Christian
love. He who loves God has no love for worldly sports. The pleasurable
society of Jesus destroys all taste for the society of the world. The
Christian's walk is alone with God.

Conversation.

An individual saved by grace will experience a marked change in his
language. The apostle says that in the time of his life when he walked
according to the world he had his conversation in the lusts of the flesh.
Eph. 2:2, 3. It is true the word "conversation" in this text, and many
others, is by many translators rendered "conduct," which is a more correct
translation. But this is made to include the words of speech. "Out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." Mat. 12:34. Where worldliness
and foolishness is lodged in the heart it will be manifest in the
conversation. Gay, frivolous, foolish talk, mirthful stories, and language
in jest, indicate a graceless heart. Listen at the world in conversation.
Note the idle bywords, the slang phrases, the jestings, the gay, giddy,
foolish expressions, the low and impure speech, which is all foreign to
the kingdom of grace. Man is not to be known by his profession, but by his
fruits: "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Mat. 7:20. Thus we
know regardless of profession, when man's conversation is as the above,
that he is destitute of God's pure love and grace.

"Be ye holy in all manner of conversation," is the command of God's holy
Word as recorded in 1 Pet. 1:15. From a pure heart can only flow a pure
and holy speech. "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth,
but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace