7. "Forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors." This sentence is represented by a _silver_ candle, which is the color of the coin by which we pay our debts. This is a hard prayer for some of us to say, when we remember how some evil people have hurt us. This prayer tells us to forgive, because that is what God does when people by their wicked deeds hurt him. Put down the number 490, and as you look at it, what do you think it means? It contains a commandment of Jesus. This is just what Jesus means by that figure. It tells us how many times we are to forgive one another. He says we are to forgive seventy times seven. That gives us the figure 490. This prayer teaches us to forgive our enemy four hundred and ninety times, and by that time God will soften the heart of our foe, and he will no longer be an enemy. 8. "Lead us not into temptation." Here we introduce a _red_ candle, red standing for sin, into which temptation, if we yield to it, is sure to lead us. In this prayer we are to pray to be delivered from sin. We must all have some kind of temptation, God had one Son without sin, but he never had a Son without temptation. He says, "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive a crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him." So temptation resisted is blessed. How can we resist temptation? By going to God in prayer. When tempted pray the prayer of Jesus, "Bring us not into temptation," as a revised edition of this prayer puts it. You can resist temptation by keeping on God's side of the fence. An old minister said to a little boy who was trying to serve God, and he a Christian: "When tempted, my boy, kneel down and pray for God's help, but never climb over the fence into the devil's grounds, and then kneel down and pray for God's help. Pray from God's side of the fence." That was good advice. Do not run into temptation, never go on the devil's side of the fence. 9. "But deliver us from evil." The _black_ candle is produced which represents the dark deeds from which we pray that we may be delivered. Black deeds are dead black, because the wages of sin is death. Keep the black out of our life. Evil thoughts are seeds from which black fruits of sin are raised. Think white thoughts, that will make our lives right, and we will not do evil things.