Summing It All Up

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Worldliness
Summing It All Up
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• 1 John 215-17
• Do not love the world or the things in the world.
  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father
  is not in him.
• For all that is in the world, the lust of the
  flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful
  pride of life, is not from the Father, but is
  from the world.
• The world is passing away, and also its lusts
  but the one who does the will of God lives
  forever.

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Worldliness
Dancing
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Various Types of Dances
cha-cha Charleston clog conga contredanse
cotillion country dance courante czardas
dancercise djanger ecossaise
fandangofarandole flamenco fling foxtrot
galliard galop gavote ghost dancegigue
gopak habanera haka highland fling hoedown
Mexican hat minute modern dance morris dance
one-step ox dance pas de deux paso doble
passacaghlia pavane peabody polka polonaise
quadrille rain dance reel rigadoon round
dance rumba salsa saltarello samba saraband
schottische seguidilla shag shimmy
shuffle siciliano skirt dance slow dance
snake dance soft-shoe square dance stomp
swing sword dance tambourin tango tap dance
tarantella Texas two-step toe dance trepak
turkey trot two-step villanella Virginia reel
waltz Wash. Post W. coast swing zapateado
abstract dance alegrias allemande ballet ballo bal
lroom dance barn dance basse danse
beguine belly dance bergamasca Bharat
Natya bocane bolero bop bossa nova bourree breakdo
wn bugaku bunny hop bunny hug cachucha cakewalk ca
nary cancan carioca carmagnole
hop hora hula hussle interpretive jazz
dancejig jitterbug joropo jota juba kathak
kazatsky kebiyar khon kolo Lambeth walk
legong limbo lindy macarena malaguena mambo
manipuri maxixe mazurka merengue
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Not ALL Dancing Is Wrong

• The Bible contains examples of dance when
  rejoicing before God.
• Miriam prophetesses danced after deliverance
  from Egypt (Ex. 1520)
• David danced with all his might when he brought
  the ark back to Jerusalem (2 Sam. 614
• There was dancing when the Prodigal Son returned
  (Luke 1525)

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Not ALL Dancing Is Wrong

• This dancing cannot be compared with modern
  dancing.
• always performed by self or with people of the
  same gender
• no indication of sensuality
• never performed for entertainment or amusement,
  only for rejoicing

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What Kind of DancingIs Under Discussion?
Mutual Bodily Contact and/or
Rhythmic Sensual Movement
may includeRomantic / Exciting
AtmosphereLights, Music, Beat etc.
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The Appeal Is Sexual

• Testimony of The World
• Remove The Sexual And Kill The Dance
• Bodily Contact
• Lewd Movements
• Boys w/ girls
• Dance Attire skin-tight, slit, tube tops, low
  cuts, straps?
• Stop the Music same actions called petting

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LasciviousnessGreek aselgeia
Passages Gal. 519 1 Pet. 43 Rom. 1313 2
Pet. 27
Defined Unbridled lust wantoness shamelessness
wanton (acts or) manners, as filthy words,
indecent bodily movements, unchaste handling
of males and females (Thayer, p. 79-80)
How Used Sensuality That which leads to or
contributesto lust.
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Why Do You Want To Dance?

• DANCING HAS NO SEXUAL CONNOTATION FOR ME
• Then why dont boys dance with boys?
• Dancing is lust-oriented and we are to abstain
  from fleshly lusts. 1 Pet. 211
• Will you cause a weaker brother to fall? Rom.
  1415

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Why Do You Want To Dance?

• DANCING IS FUN
• A lot of sins are fun.
• Heb. 1125 Moses resisted the temporary
  pleasures of sin.

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Why Do You Want To Dance?

• BOYS WILL HAVE THOSE THOUGHTS ANYWAY.
• Maybe so, but you dont throw matches at dynamite
  just because it will explode anyway.

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Why Do You Want To Dance?

• CHAPERONES WILL BE THERE.
• Then that makes it chaperoned sin.
• Chaperones cannot control your thoughts.

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Why Do You Want To Dance?

• I WONT FIT IN IF I DONT GO EVERYONE ELSE IS
  DOING IT.
• Matt. 713 being one of the crowd takes you
  through the wrong gate.
• Matt. 516 A Christian must stand out from the
  crowd, not blend in.

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Why Do You Want To Dance?

• ILL BE RIDICULED IF I DONT GO.
• Matt. 512 Yes, you probably will.
• 1 Pet. 416 we will suffer sometimes as a
  Christian.

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Why Do You Want To Dance?

• ILL JUST GO AND WATCH.
• The Prom is associated with much that is evil
  drinking, drug abuse, evil companions, lowering
  of morals, doorway to fondling, can culminate in
  fornication. We should avoid anything so closely
  associated with evil (Mt. 715-20 1Cor. 1533
  1Th. 522).
• If its wrong to dance, why would it be OK to
  watch it?

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Why Do You Want To Dance?

• THE BIBLE DOESNT SAY NOT DANCE.
• Gal. 519 In reality, it does.

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Why Do You Want To Dance?

• BECAUSE I WANT TO, NO MATTER WHAT GOD SAYS.
• This is the only reason to go to the dance.

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Have You Obeyed The Gospel?
Hear The Word (Rom. 1017) Believe That Jesus
is the Son of God (Acts 837) Repent of Your
Sins (Acts 238) Confess That Jesus is the Son
of God (Acts 837) Be Baptized for Forgiveness
of Sins (Acts 238) Live Faithfully Until You
Die (Rev. 210)