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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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IS DANCING A SIN?
SOMEONE ASK ME IF IT IS A SIN TO DANCE. THEY MUST HAVE BEEN BAPTIST BECAUSE WHEN I WAS GOING TO A GOOD OLD SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH I HEARD THAT IT WAS A SIN. I AM SURE SOME OTHER CHURCHES PREACH THIS ALSO BUT WE NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT DANCING.
AS FAR AS I CAN FIND, THERE IS NO PLACE IN SCRIPTURE THAT SPECIFICALLY GIVES US INSTRUCTIONS ON DANCING SO LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE DANCING THAT WENT ON IN THE BIBLE. I GUESS THE WORST CASE OF DANCING WAS WHEN MOSES WAS ON THE MOUNTAIN RECEIVING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. THE ISRAELITES GOT IMPATIENT WAITING FOR HIM TO RETURN AND MADE AN IDOL IN THE SHAPE OF A CALF AND AARON BUILT AN ALTER BEFORE IT AND THEY BEGAN TO DANCE. IT ALL ENDED UP BEING OUT OF CONTROL AND SOME WERE NAKED. IN THIS INSTANCE I BELIEVE THAT DANCING WAS A SIN. YOU CAN FIND ALL OF THIS STORY IN EXODUS 32.
NOW LET'S LOOK AT SOME "GOOD" DANCING WHICH I DON'T BELIEVE WAS A SIN. IN EXODUS 15:20 IT TELLS OF MIRIAM, AARON'S SISTER, DANCING TO CELEBRATE GOD'S POWER IN PARTING THE WATERS OF THE RED SEA. ANOTHER STORY OF "GOOD" DANCING IS IN SAMUEL 6:12-16 WHERE DAVID DANCED BEFORE THE LORD CELEBRATING THE RETURN OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT TO JERUSALEM.
THE DANCING THAT WAS NOT CONSIDERED SINFUL, IN THE BIBLE, WAS DONE IN WORSHIP AND PRAISE TO GOD. THERE ARE SCRIPTURES THAT WE SHOULD LOOK AT THAT DON'T SPECIFICALLY MENTION DANCING BUT ARE GOOD TO CONSIDER. SOME OF THESE ARE ECCLESIASTES 3:4 WHERE IT SAYS THAT THERE IS A "time to dance." PSALMS 149:3 SAYS "Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp." AND A GOOD ONE IS 1ST CORINTHIANS 6:19-20 WHICH SAYS "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."
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THE BIBLE SAYS IN 1ST THESSALONIANS 5:22 TO "Abstain from all appearance of evil." AND MATTHEW 18:6 SAYS "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." IF DANCING SHOULD LEAD ONE OF GOD'S CHILDREN TO DO WRONG THEN WE SHOULD NOT DANCE IN THAT WAY.
THE BIBLE SAYS IN 1ST THESSALONIANS 5:22 TO "Abstain from all appearance of evil." AND MATTHEW 18:6 SAYS "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." IF DANCING SHOULD LEAD ONE OF GOD'S CHILDREN TO DO WRONG THEN WE SHOULD NOT DANCE IN THAT WAY.
I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH THIS THOUGHT. THERE ARE A LOT OF DANCES THAT BELIEVERS SHOULD AVOID THAT DO NOT GLORIFY GOD WITH THEIR LIVES AND ESPECIALLY THEIR BODIES. HOWEVER, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THERE ARE DANCES THAT DO NOT TEMPT OTHERS, DO NOT TEMPT OURSELVES, AND BRINGS GLORY TO GOD. THESE ARE THE DANCES WE SHOULD BE DOING IF YOU WANT TO DANCE.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
