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Going to dance and to the amusement parks |
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Those who
have turned to the Lord must stop going to dance and to the amusement parks. |
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As for
going to dance, it must be said that it is a bad habit which is widespread
above all among young people. It is they who speak about it most and go to
discotheque. On Saturday night millions of young people go to discotheque,
which shows that this amusement place attracts many young people, who can’t do
without going to dance. They are slaves of this habit, for they are mad on
dancing, to them dance is everything, to them it is life. Why do they go to discotheque?
They go there to listen to the music, to dance, and to pick up girls or boys.
However, many go to discotheque also to push drugs and hallucinogens, some
other people go there to buy drugs, some others go there to get drunk and to
beat other people. In other words, the discotheque is a place where you can
find people who are slaves of all kinds of fleshly lusts, a place full of
perversions where a son of God must not go for the sake of his soul. So, why
should a believer avoid going to discotheque to dance? First of all, because
the music you hear there is a diabolic music; rock music, disco music, and rap
(to mention just some kinds of music) are kinds of music which excites listeners
and urges them to act in a bad way (do not forget that many famous singers practice
witchcraft or somehow are involved in it). The songs one listens in a
discotheque are full of vanity, full of obscenities and full of perversion,
therefore a believer must not listen to them, lest he defile himself.
Furthermore, a believer must not dance sensually because he must present his
members as instruments of righteousness and no more as instruments of
iniquity, as it is written: “Neither yield ye your members as instruments of
unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are
alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto
God” (Romans 6:13). He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him, how
then can he use the members of Christ to twist, to make strange gestures, and
to move sensually in the midst of people who do not fear God at all?
Furthermore, as I have said, the discotheque is a dangerous place also because
brawls break out in it, there are people who push drugs and it is full of
seducers and seductresses, therefore how can a Christian go to such a place
to spend his time? It is written in the Psalms: “For a day in thy courts is
better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness” (Psalm 84:10), and again: “Blessed
is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful” (Psalm 1:1).
That’s why we don’t want to go to discotheque and any other dance hall,
because they are tents of wickedness where sinners gather together to amuse
themselves while they listen to their favourite perverted music. It is a
place which is not fitting for us, we will not be blessed if we go to such a
place to amuse ourselves together with sinners. |
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As for
going to the amusement parks, the name itself indicates what kind of parks
they are. They are places where those who want to amuse themselves find what
they like; the roller coaster, the halls with mirrors which deforms the image
of those who are reflected in those mirrors, the horror tunnel (where you can
find all kinds of bad pictures), the bumper cars, the big wheel, and many
other things. Why should a Christian avoid going to the amusement park?
Because if he goes there he will spend his money for things which don’t
satisfy and don’t edify. You who still go to these places, I will ask you
some questions: ‘What’s the good of going to the amusement parks?’ What grace
do these amusements impart to you?’ ‘Do they strengthen you in the faith? Do
they edify you? Why don’t you realize that you are wasting the money and the
time that God gave to you? Don’t you realize that you could spend that money and
that time on serving righteousness rather than vanity? Don’t you realize that
you could spend that time praying, reading the Word of God, testifying of the
Lord, and doing some good works? The Word of God says: “Why do you spend
money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen
carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let you soul delight itself in
abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live
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Therefore,
brothers, stop going to these amusement places and consecrate your life to
God not in word or in tongue but in deed and in truth. Don’t you know that
the pleasures of life, which Jesus compared to the thorns, choke the Word?
Come to your senses; awake, for the enemy has entered your life. I know, your
pastor also goes to the amusement park, for he takes the initiative in bringing
you there; do not follow him, lest you defile yourselves. Ah, my heart within
me is broken because I hear that some pastors and elders go to Gardaland (a
famous Italian amusement park located in the north of |