KBM Standing Against Dancing
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Today, on Kids Bible Minute, as we continue our theme, “Defender of the Faith,” we will be looking at the topic of dancing, specifically public dancing such as school dances and those like such.
Now before we dive right into this topic let me say that not all dancing is sinful. A child who is simply dancing to the radio or their parents singing would certainly not be considered sinful. A married couple dancing together in the privacy of their own home, would certainly not be considered sinful.
The reason for this comes down to what makes dancing sinful, and that reason has to do with the older word “lasciviousness” or the as the more modern versions have “lewdness or sensuality.” In Galatians 5:19-21 we read…
19 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.
The Greek word here is found ten times in the New Testament, from Mark through Jude, and it holds the idea of being one that is lacking self control or who is undisciplined when it comes to moral vices typically in the area of sexual immorality.
And herein lies the sin, when people go to public dances there is are any number sinful reasons for such or that will not be able to stopped if one goes and/or participates in.
Let’s just take prom as an example. Most of the young women that go to prom are wearing clothing that no faithful Christian would or should approve of. The reason for this is very few, if any, young men can keep their thoughts pure in a den of sexual immorality such as these dances promote and aspire to be. Even the apostle Paul said, that it is a specific gift from God to be able to have no sexual temptation for the opposite sex.
2 Nevertheless, because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
7 For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.
God created young men and young women to be sexually attracted to each other, but that sexual attraction is find itself a home in one’s spouse, where that attraction can blossom and be everything God intended it to be between a husband and wife.
When men or women go to dances meant to promote sensuality by the nature of the clothing worn “and” the dances performed, such as slow dances, that sole focus is get the men and women to physically embrace each other in an sexually arousing way, this is sin.
Notice that both aspects of these dances cause a problem that no argument for such can get around.
If a person is going but “not dancing” they are still surrounding themselves in people that are dressed to sexually temp them, which goes against God’s word which says in 2 Timothy 2:22…
22 Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
If a person goes to actually participate in dancing they are not only suffering from the same sinful temptations “lust of the eyes” as the one’s we just mentioned, but are compounding it by participating in that which adds another sin “lust of the flesh” to the mix. Again God’s discuss this in 1 John 2:16 which reads…
16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.
These dances are not meant to glorify God but rather have Satan’s approval to glorify the one’s own lusts or desires for what God has meant for the married couple only.
No, not all dancing is sinful, but unless you are a young child, or a biblically married couple, you should never be caught “at a dance” much less “actually dancing.”
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
