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I have a Nintendo Wii....it's jusst a Nintendo....and Nintendo happens to be one of the things I like.
Nintendo’s games carry a health warning.
...At the same time I feel that part of God's itention for people is to do the many things they enjoy, for some that's playing a video game.
One may “feel” that way, but what is the truth of the matter?
I am not sure who said it, but it was in this stream. Something about Jesus not being a gamer.
Yes, I posted that truth previously
here.
In Scripture there is more that is not said about Jesus than is said about Him. Although I agree that Jesus wasn't a video gamer, they didn't exist...There is a time for everything under the sun.
Let’s avoid such vain speculation and rather seek the truth, some of which I had previously posted
here.
You say you're Godly, but you still wanna have fun. You say we should not listen to human rules, well, they're not human rules, they are God's rules...
If you're not willing to let gaming go, then that is the extent to which you are in bondage over it. If you're not wiling to consider the possibility that you may be caught in a slick deception, and that it would affect your walk with God, then that is a clear indicator of the bondage you are presently experiencing -- even as you would deny that bondage.
Gaming is a worldly image, a form of idolatry. When you buy into those images, you are actually joining yourself to the dead, you’re living in death. A typical example of this is the word recreation. What it really means is re-creation. What are they re-creating? When you engage in recreation, you’re being re-created. You’re joining the things of the flesh, because all recreation appeals to the flesh. They want you to go out there and enjoy the things of the world. They make sure they’re always available to you, so that you’ll buy into them. Recreation as opposed to obedience and duty to Christ, which the bondman of Christ are to engage in only. Recreation is of the natural man, the heathen, that’s all pagan nonsense. Recreation is where you take off the whole armour of God.
It is quite possible [Jesus] played a game of kickball with the neighborhood kids, even as an adult perhaps.... So He could have been a game player. But He would have known when to play, and when to step away from a game.
Rather again, what saith scripture?
There are no games in the scripture, except by the pagan. The only theatre is in
Acts 19:29-41, and that’s the pagan theatre where they tried to pull Paul into to try him for commercial violations. The townclerk said he’s not engaged in commerce, so they didn’t have any cause against him. And if Paul was being dragged into the theatre, now we know where all the hypocrites were. They’re all a bunch of stage actors. They can be the stage actors and give you the sense of justice, and give you that image that you’re being ‘well served’ by your court appointed liar…I mean lawyer. And you can be very well taken care of in the theatre, where the hypocrites rule. That’s another image that’s out there.
Those who would defend/embrace gaming are allowing themselves to become something other than who God says they are.
When you’ve joined yourself to the things of society, you’ve become dead just like them, and everybody that’s of that society is the walking dead. How do you begin to tear down these images? What are we supposed to do? You learn of Him. That’s where you begin. You learn of him and look to him for all truth, because that is the only place you will find truth. And from there, you will see what to do and what not to do, because he has showed us everything.
...(I could just imagine the dread of the Pharisees).
Just like when Jesus said to the Pharisees that they show people the Kingdom of God, but prevent them from going in, Churches today say, "There is Jesus. Here are all the leaders. You must go through us before you go through Him." They are showing people the way, but not letting them enter. They set up a wall between God and themselves. When they stand before the Kingdom of God and you, they don’t care what the Law of God says (Isaiah 5:24), they have cast it aside. Their back is turned towards the Kingdom of God, and they are facing whoever wants to come in through Jesus’ door (Revelation 3:20). So they have cast Jesus aside. Just like gaming, it is all self-will. They have cast the Law of God behind them, and anyone who wants to get into the Kingdom of God, they can’t do it.
God is not tampered with by the workmanship of men. If they do preach Christ, it’s not the Christ of the Bible at all, it’s some other Christ. They show him as being a meek and lowly man to the world, not as meek and lowly to his Father, doing the Will of his Father at every turn. Having an answer ready for every man that came up to him. He answered every question that was put to him using the Word of God. And what is it that the bondman of Christ is supposed to be doing? Having that answer ready for everyone that asks of him. Not speaking or acting as the world speaks, but speaking as our Master, who sent you into the world to bear witness of him.
So when you stop acting as the world acts, then you are no longer joining yourself to the dead. You’re evidencing the fact that you serve a living God, an omnipotent Father, a satisfied Christ, a victorious Holy Spirit, who has given you the victory over the world (1 John 4:4), because Christ himself has overcome the world (John 16:33), and we are more than conquerors with him in the world (Romans 8:37). But when you join yourself to the dead, how can you conquer? Dead things don’t conquer, they only smell, they stink, they’re putrid.
This verse has to do with joining the living unto the dead:
Revelation 3:1, "And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead."
Out of
Vines New Testament Word Study, the term ‘dead’ here is from the Greek word ‘nekros’ and means "a church…in that state is inactive and barren." So ‘barren’ would be where Christ comes along and sees the fig tree there and it has its leaves and he looks on there and he doesn’t find any fruit. What happened to the fig tree?
Matthew 21:19, "...Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away."
It dried up right in front of them. And ‘inactive’ would mean everybody’s out doing their ‘recreational’ thing, being re-created in their own self will. Preaching that gain (e. g. the next new video game) is godliness and that sort of thing (1 Timothy 6:5). And "if you give to us, the Lord is going to bless you and he will give you all the material possessions you ever desired."
If you’re speaking his word and you’re doing his works, you have separated yourself from the dead. You’re no longer in civilization, you’re no longer a part of society. That’s not saying you don’t witness to the world, because that’s one of our purposes here, to witness to that world, but that doesn’t mean you become part of it.
We are to be conformed to the image of Christ (Romans 8:29), but when you look to video images, who are you conforming yourself to?
They are allowable under grace...
That’s not what the Holy Bible tells us. Rather, grace = unmerited favor.
...we even had this footbal trophy for the winner.
And [Jesus] said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. Luke 16:15
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