We covenant, as a church in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to reform our families, engaging ourselves to a conscientious care to set up and maintain the worship of God in our homes. And to walk in our homes with perfect hearts. We resolve, in a faithful discharge of all domestic duties in seeking to educate, instruct and charge our little ones and our whole households to seek to keep the ways of the Lord.
Unknown Author

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

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