DON’T GAMBLE YOUR CONSCIENCE IN YOUR FREE TIME 6/10/08

HEARD: You have to be very, very careful with...

PIX: I saw the face and head of a brown thoroughbred horse.

HEARD: He knows his brother. Colt.

{Bob Jones says that horses usually represent horse flesh}

DREAM:  A fellow came up to me and had a car key in his hand that looked like a white IPOD remote control.  The remote opened the doors to a matching car.  He had just won a solid white car that looked like shiny white armor, matching an IPOD.  It was a very fancy and rich car.  He said that the owner had gambled it away 3 nights in a row and lost it.

HEARD:  7:30 – 9:30.  Obey.

PIX:  I saw a TV guide line up that listed shows from 7:30-9:30 PM.

HEARD:  Stay edifying. 

1 Cor 10:23-24 NKJV

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify . Let no one seek his own, but each one the other's well-being. 

1 Cor 6:12-13 NLT

You may say, "I am allowed to do anything." But I reply, "Not everything is good for you." And even though "I am allowed to do anything," I must not become a slave to anything.

1 Cor 8:9 NLT

But you must be careful with this freedom of yours. Do not cause a brother or sister with a weaker conscience to stumble.

WORD TO PONDER:  DON’T GAMBLE YOUR CONSCIENCE IN YOUR FREE TIME 6/10/08

Dear ones, when you choose your entertainment, do not gamble with your conscience.  Your ministries are at risk when you bankrupt your soul through choices that destroy instead of build up.  Bring your bodies and souls under subjection lest by any means when you preach to others, that you instead would become a castaway.  Seek that which is helpful and never become a slave to entertainment of any sort.  Seek another’s well being and do not make choices that will cause them to stumble.  Choose what is edifying and healthy to your body, soul and spirit and many will remain in safety through your example.

1 Cor 9:27 AMP

But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit].

1 Cor 9:27 KJV

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.