Walk Not in
the Way With Sinners
My
son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.... My son, walk not thou in the
way with them; refrain thy foot from their path. Prov. 1:10-15
Amusements are doing more to counteract
the working of the Holy Spirit than anything else, and the Lord is grieved.
Those who are artificial in character and
religious experience too readily gather for pleasure and amusement, and their
influence attracts others. Sometimes young men and women who are trying to be
Bible Christians are persuaded to join the party. Unwilling to be thought
singular, and naturally inclined to follow the example of others, they place
themselves under the influence of those who, perhaps, have never felt the
divine touch on mind and heart. Had they prayerfully consulted the divine
standard, to learn what Christ has said in regard to the fruit to be borne on
the Christian tree, they would have discerned that these entertainments were
really banquets prepared to keep souls from accepting the invitation to the
marriage supper of the Lamb.
It sometimes happens that by frequenting
places of amusement, youth who have been carefully instructed in the way of the
Lord are carried away by the glamor of human influence, and form attachments
for those whose education and training have been of a worldly character. They
sell themselves into lifelong bondage by uniting with persons who have not the
ornament of a Christlike spirit.
You will be invited to attend places of
amusement. . . . If you are true to Christ then, you will not try to form
excuses for your nonattendance, but will plainly and modestly declare that you
are a child of God, and your principles would not allow you to be in a place,
even for one occasion, where you could not invite the presence of your Lord.
God desires His people to show by their
lives the advantage of Christianity over worldliness; to show that they are
working on a high, holy plane.
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