THIS is a lesson on seeing things as God sees them. Man looks on the outside, God looks on the inside. We look at the clothes and manners of other people. God looks at the heart. God's way is the best. The only way to see things as they really are, and all wise boys and girls will try to see as God sees. In giving this lesson select the brightest cups possible. Place them on a table by themselves and say "Here are two cups." They look alike; they appear to be alike. Judging from outward appearance, they are alike. That is the way man sees cups and people, but God looks on the inside as well. This we should do also if we wish to see as God sees. Here is a bright and beautiful cup. Let us together see what it contains. The first cup contains nothing but soiled, dirty, greasy rags. They are worthless. Mother would burn them as they are good for nothing. Have the cup painted black on the inside and as you hold up the cup so they can see the inside you say "It is filled with night as black as evil deeds." Down on the bottom of the cup place a small toy serpent which you produce last and say the reason the inside of the cup of life is bad is because down deep in the heart you will find sin and that makes the whole heart bad. To illustrate the nature of sin write on a cardboard the word sin like this S I N--say the first letter of sin resembles a serpent. You cannot speak the letter S without hissing like a serpent. The curves of the letter also resemble the serpent in the act of striking. The serpent before it strikes must curl up and lift its head high before it can give its fatal bite. So this teaches us the fact that sin is active and ready to assault at all times. Note the second letter I. That means sin is in you. I find sin is inside. Increase the letter I like this S =I= N which means sin is growing in us all the time as we grow older and older, it gets larger and larger. The only way to get it out of our heart is to come to Jesus and ask Him by the power of His cross to cleanse the inside of the cup and He will do it.