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Question: "Why is it wrong to dance?"

Intro: Some types of dancing are not sin. 2 Sam.6:14: David danced
before the Lord with all His might. Miriam led the women in dancing
and rejoicing when Israel had crossed the Red Sea (Ex. 15:20-21).
But that is not the type of dancing under consideration in the
question.

1. Dancing is condemned as a work of the flesh. It is included in
the word lasciviousness in Gal.5:19-21, and in the word wantonness
in Rom.13:13.  Thayer: "filthy words, indecent bodily movements,
unchaste handling of males and females" (pages 79,80). Dancing
produces lewd and lustful thoughts or emotions.

2. Dancing bears evil fruit. Jesus said: "Wherefore by their fruits
ye shall know them" (Matt.7:20). The modern dance has produced
broken hearted parents, fornication, divorce, drunkenness,
prostitution, cursing, fighting, murder and other sins. Dancing
cannot be a good tree with such rotten fruit.

3. Someone has said that a dancing foot and a praying knee don't
grow on the same leg. It is altogether inconsistent with prayer,
Bible study, evangelism, and principles  which God wants His
children to live out in their lives.


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