So Sexy Isn't Offensive?

[Bro. Robbins]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

We have become intoxicated with entertainment and "fun".
Show me where the Bible instructs us to have fun, as part of our Christian walk.
There are a multitude of verses where we are instructed to be soberly minded.

Praise the Lord.... some sounds of sanity and clarity in this thread.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

We have become intoxicated with entertainment and "fun".
Show me where the Bible instructs us to have fun, as part of our Christian walk.
There are a multitude of verses where we are instructed to be soberly minded.

Well, there are quite literally millions of trillions of things that the Bible DOESN'T tell us to do, that we do.

It is the whole "trying to prove a negative" thing.

"Ohhhhhhhh I have joyyyyy unspeakable annnndddd fullllll of glorrrryyyyyyy.... Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

[aegsm76]

Here is what I call "fun".
God give us a heart for the lost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41GPCKc1rmM

[Bro. Robbins]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

Here is what I call "fun".
God give us a heart for the lost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41GPCKc1rmM

God help us to hear this message above the message of fun, entertainment, recreation and indulgence of the flesh. God give us burdens that keep us awake at night, make us push our plates away, and be broken before you over souls going to hell. God help this preacher to have such a love for you and souls that I don't look for my self indulgence, but for a way to show your love and righteousness. God help me to stand for righteousness and doing the right thing....not for clipping corners, compromising the Word and not be offended when challenged by the Word.

God help us to have broken hearts and find anquish again.

[houston]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

We have become intoxicated with entertainment and "fun".
Show me where the Bible instructs us to have fun, as part of our Christian walk.
There are a multitude of verses where we are instructed to be soberly minded.

I agree. Used to be sober minded. No longer...

Look up "a," "muse," and "amuse."

[RandyWayne]

Speaking of being "sober", I am envisioning a certain "top shelf" tequila margarita at a Mexican restaurant close to our house. I would ask Pressing and Timmy to join me if they lived a bit closer.

[Amanah]

Honestly, I'm all for having fun, and believe that laughter is good medicine for the soul.
But, Bro Robbins is choosing the better, and I won't fault him for it.

Ecclesiates 7

The Contrast of Wisdom and Folly

7 A good name is better than precious ointment,
and the day of death than the day of birth.
2 It is better to go to the house of mourning
than to go to the house of feasting,
for this is the end of all mankind,
and the living will lay it to heart.
3 Sorrow is better than laughter,
for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
5 It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise
than to hear the song of fools.
6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot,
so is the laughter of the fools;
this also is vanity.[a]
7 Surely oppression drives the wise into madness,
and a bribe corrupts the heart.
8 Better is the end of a thing than its beginning,
and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
9 Be not quick in your spirit to become angry,
for anger lodges in the heart[b] of fools.
10 Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance,
an advantage to those who see the sun.
12 For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money,
and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
13 Consider the work of God:
who can make straight what he has made crooked?

14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

15 In my vain[c] life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing. 16 Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? 17 Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time? 18 It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.

19 Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

21 Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. 22 Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.

23 All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me. 24 That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?

25 I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness. 26 And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her. 27 Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things— 28 which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found. 29 See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Amanah

Honestly, I'm all for having fun, and believe that laughter is good medicine for the soul.
But, Bro Robbins is choosing the better, and I won't fault him for it.

Ecclesiates 7

The Contrast of Wisdom and Folly

7 A good name is better than precious ointment,
and the day of death than the day of birth.
2 It is better to go to the house of mourning
than to go to the house of feasting,
for this is the end of all mankind,
and the living will lay it to heart.
3 Sorrow is better than laughter,
for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
5 It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise
than to hear the song of fools.
6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot,
so is the laughter of the fools;
this also is vanity.[a]
7 Surely oppression drives the wise into madness,
and a bribe corrupts the heart.
8 Better is the end of a thing than its beginning,
and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
9 Be not quick in your spirit to become angry,
for anger lodges in the heart[b] of fools.
10 Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance,
an advantage to those who see the sun.
12 For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money,
and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
13 Consider the work of God:
who can make straight what he has made crooked?

14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

15 In my vain[c] life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing. 16 Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? 17 Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time? 18 It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.

19 Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

21 Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. 22 Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.

23 All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me. 24 That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?

25 I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness. 26 And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her. 27 Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things— 28 which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found. 29 See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

But....what about Ecclesiastes— There’s a time to plant, a time to reap, a time to build, a time to tear down; there’s a time to dance, a time to sing, a time to laugh, a time to cry.

Since God has, in his seasons, appointed appropriate times for laughter, and Jesus always did what was appropriate, it would seem to me that when it was time to laugh, he laughed.

[Amanah]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

But....what about Ecclesiastes— There’s a time to plant, a time to reap, a time to build, a time to tear down; there’s a time to dance, a time to sing, a time to laugh, a time to cry.

Since God has, in his seasons, appointed appropriate times for laughter, and Jesus always did what was appropriate, it would seem to me that when it was time to laugh, he laughed.

I never said we should not laugh, I just don't fault Bro Robbins for choosing to be serious.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Amanah

I never said we should not laugh, I just don't fault Bro Robbins for choosing to be serious.

I don't fault him either, but to say that Jesus never had fun - - don't believe it.