Simple Answers

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• Troubling Questions

Is Dancing Sinful?
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The Simple Answer

• Yes
• No
• It Depends!

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Is Dancing Sinful? No!

• Definition Dancing
• To move rhythmically usually to music, using
  prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.
  (freedictionary.com)
• There is nothing inherently sinful about moving
  rhythmically to music. Therefore it is an
  accurate statement to say that dancing is not
  sinful.
• But

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Is Dancing Sinful? Yes!

• Some dancing is lewd.
• Some dancing is done in places and situations,
  and with people that are worldly.
• Some dancing is accompanied by immodest dress.
• Some dancing can cause others to sin.
• Some dancing can harm a Christians influence.

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Defining Lewdness

• Lewdness (Lasciviousness)
• aselgia - excess, licentiousness, absence of
  restraint, indecency, wantonness The prominent
  idea is shameless conduct. (Vines)
• (Romans 1313-14, READ) lewdness (koite) and lust
  (aselgia) (combined!) (NKJV)
• koite a couch (in context, unlawful sexual
  intercourse)
• chambering and wantonness (KJV)
• debauchery and liscentiousness (RSV)

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1 Peter 41-3

• Therefore, since Christ suffered for
  us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with
  the same mind, for he who has suffered in the
  flesh has ceased from sin, 2 that he no longer
  should live the rest of his time in the flesh for
  the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For
  we have spent enough of our past lifetime in
  doing the will of the Gentiles--when we walked in
  lewdness aselgia, lusts epithumia a longing
  for what is unlawful, drunkenness, revelries,
  drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

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Galatians 519-21

• Now the works of the flesh are
  evident, which are adultery, fornication,
  uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery,
  hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of
  wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
  21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the
  like of which I tell you beforehand, just as I
  also told you in time past, that those who
  practice such things will not inherit the kingdom
  of God.

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Companions and Places

• Bars and clubs
• Social situations with people who want to hook
  up (have sexual trysts)
• Often associated with alcohol use
• Prom night promiscuity is so prevalent as to have
  become a cliché both in our culture and in our
  entertainment
• 1 Peter 44 2 Timothy 222
  2 Corinthians 614-18

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1 Peter 44

• In regard to these, they
  the Gentiles think it strange that you
  do not run with them in the same flood of
  dissipation, speaking evil of you.
• (i.e. engaging in the same lustful actions)
• dissipation profligacy, excess, riot

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2 Timothy 222

• Flee also youthful lusts but pursue
  righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who
  call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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2 Corinthians 614-16

• Do not be unequally yoked together with
  unbelievers. For what fellowship has
  righteous-ness with lawlessness? And what
  communion has light with darkness? 15 And what
  accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a
  believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what
  agreement has the temple of God with idols? For
  you are the temple of the living God. As God has
  said I will dwell in them And walk among them.
  I will be their God, And they shall be My
  people. 17 Therefore Come out from among them
  And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what
  is unclean, And I will receive you. 18 I will
  be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and
  daughters, Says the LORD Almighty.

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Immodest Dress

• Immodest dress often accompanies dancing
• Example Prom dresses Ballet. It is often
  intended that dance accentuate and emphasize the
  human form.
• Cleavage, bare legs, form fitting dresses or
  pants, gauzy and revealing materials.
• 1 Timothy 28-10 Jeremiah 812 Proverbs 516-20

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1 Timothy 28-10

• I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere,
  lifting up holy hands, without wrath and
  doubting 9 in like manner also, that the women
  adorn themselves in modest apparel, with
  propriety and moderation, not with braided hair
  or gold or pearls or costly clothing, 10 but,
  which is proper for women professing godliness,
  with good works.

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Jeremiah 812

• Were they ashamed when they had committed
  abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed,
  Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they
  shall fall among those who fall In the time of
  their punishment They shall be cast down," says
  the LORD.
• Be careful if such dress and movements dont
  bother you. They should!

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Proverbs 516-20

• Should your fountains be dispersed
  abroad, Streams of water in the streets? 17 Let
  them be only your own, And not for strangers with
  you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice
  with the wife of your youth. 19 As a loving deer
  and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you
  at all times And always be enraptured with her
  love. 20 For why should you, my son, be
  enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced
  in the arms of a seductress?

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Causing Others to Sin

• Young ladies and mothers need to realize the lust
  they can excite through dress and action in men
  and boys.
• Fathers need to protect their daughters!
• Accusations You are just a dirty old man
  Wrong! Again, it is a cliché of our culture.
  Women seducing men.
• Proverbs 516-20 Matthew 146-10 Matthew 186-7

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Proverbs 516-20

• Should your fountains be dispersed
  abroad, Streams of water in the streets? 17 Let
  them be only your own, And not for strangers with
  you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice
  with the wife of your youth. 19 As a loving deer
  and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you
  at all times And always be enraptured with her
  love. 20 For why should you, my son, be
  enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced
  in the arms of a seductress?

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Matthew 146-10

• But when Herod's birthday was celebrated,
  the daughter of Herodias danced before them and
  pleased Herod. 7 Therefore he promised with an
  oath to give her whatever she might ask. 8 So
  she, having been prompted by her mother, said,
  Give me John the Baptist's head here on a
  platter. 9 And the king was sorry nevertheless,
  because of the oaths and because of those who sat
  with him, he commanded it to be given to her. 10
  So he sent and had John beheaded in prison.

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Matthew 186-7

• But whoever causes one of these
  little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be
  better for him if a millstone were hung around
  his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the
  sea. 7 Woe to the world because of offenses! For
  offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom
  the offense comes!

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Harming Your Influence

• The world recognizes the lascivious nature of
  dancing and glories in it. (Movie Dirty
  Dancing).
• Being in ungodly places, around ungodly people
  doing ungodly things presents you in an ungodly
  light, not the light you are to reflect as a
  child of God. To desire it is to show spiritual
  immaturity!
• Matthew 514-16 1 Corinthians 69-11 Romans
  121-2

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Matthew 514-16

• You are the light of the world. A city
  that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor
  do they light a lamp and put it under a basket,
  but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who
  are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine
  before men, that they may see your good works and
  glorify your Father in heaven.

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1 Corinthians 69-11

• Do you not know that the unrighteous
  will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
  deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
  adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10
  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
  revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the
  kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But
  you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you
  were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and
  by the Spirit of our God.

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Romans 121-2

• I beseech you therefore, brethren,
  by the mercies of God, that you present your
  bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to
  God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do
  not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
  you may prove what is that good and acceptable
  and perfect will of God.

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Conclusion

• While it is technically true that the concept of
  dancing is not inherently sinful, the modern
  dance in almost all of its forms certainly is.
• Worldly people in worldly places participating in
  worldly activities engage in dancing to satisfy
  their worldly lusts. A Christian has no business
  being a part of such ungodliness.