AMUSEMENTS and Pleasures

AMUSEMENTS and Pleasures

AMUSEMENTS and Pleasures, Worldly

1. Belong to the works of the flesh # Ga 5:19,21
2. Are transitory # Job 21:12,13 Heb 11:25
3. Are all vanity # Ec 2:11
4. Choke the word of God in the heart # Lu 8:14
5. Formed a part of idolatrous worship # Ex 32:4,6,19 1Co 10:7 Jud 16:23-25
6. LEAD TO 6a) Rejection of God

   # Job 21:14,15

6b) Poverty # Pr 21:17 6c) Disregard of the judgments and works of God # Isa 5:12 Am 6:1-6 7) Terminate in sorrow # Pr 14:13 8) Are likely to lead to greater evil # Job 1:5 Mt 14:6-8 9) The wicked seek for happiness in # Ec 2:1,8 10) INDULGENCE IN 10a) A proof of folly # Ec 7:4 10b) A characteristic of the wicked # Isa 47:8 Eph 4:17,19 2Ti 3:4 Tit 3:3 1Pe 4:3 10c) A proof of spiritual death # 1Ti 5:6 10d) An abuse of riches # Jas 5:1,5 11) Wisdom of abstaining from # Ec 7:2,3 12) Shunned by the saints # 1Pe 4:3 13) Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked # 1Pe 4:4 14) Denounced by God # Isa 5:11,12 15) Punishment of # Ec 11:9 2Pe 2:13  16) Renunciation of, Exemplified 16a) Moses # Heb 11:25