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2008-09-07 – Jesse Jenkins – Immoral Worldliness: Dancing

// September 22nd, 2008 // Bible Study, Mark's stuff

Immoral Worldliness:? Dancing

By Jesse Jenkins

September 7, 2008

• Dancing has always excited lust between men and women.
• Dances in the Bible:
  • Religious enthusiam – II Samuel 6:14; Jeremiah 31:4; II Samuel 18:6; Exodus 15:20
    • This kind of dancing is not condemned.
  • Idol worship – Exodus 32:19
    • This kind of dancing is condemned.
  • To appease fleshly appetites – Matthew 14:6-7
    • This kind of dancing is condemned.
• Passages that prove this kind of dancing is sinful:
  • Galatians 5:19-21?- lasciviousness is talking about the kind of dancing under consideration here.
  • Matthew 6:13?- dancing is not fleeing temptation
  • I Corinthians 10:32
  • I Peter 4:3
  • Ephesians 4:19
  • Romans 13:13
  • II timothy 2:22
  • I Thessalonians 5:22
  • Philippians 2:15; Matthew 5:16
  • I Peter 3:15?- how can you give a defense from the dance floor?
• What others say
  • “Most juvenile crime has its inception in the dance hall either private or public.”?- J. Edgar Hoover
• What Paul said again:? Galatians 5:19-21