A Night Of Blood In The Ballroom

MARK 6:25 “A NIGHT OF BLOOD IN THE BALLROOM”

A) Let me say first that there are certain sins which go together.

* Drunkenness, for example, leads to vile language, and often times leads

to violence and to bloodshed and murder.

* Drunkenness often times leads to impurity and uncleanness – So the sin

of drunkenness never goes on its road alone.

B) This is also true of sins associated with the modern day dance.

* If you take the Word of God and study the history of mixed dancing as

recorded and condemned in the Bible .......

* You will find that the dance hall has associated with it a whole mixture

of iniquity, and we will see that as we study this text.

C) One of the associations of the modern day dance is drunkenness,

so drinking and dancing are tied together.

* Another association of dancing is the various sins of uncleanness, and out

of it comes infidelity in the marriage bond, immorality .......

* Adultery, fornication, sodomy, and all the rest of the sins that are classified

in God’s Holy Word as uncleanness.

D) Uncleanness is the result of the modern day dance.

* The breakup of homes – Families – The pollution of young lives .......

* The start down the road to the black hell of immorality – It’s all part of

the setup of the modern day dance.

E) It seems to me that there is compromise among God’s people today

in regard to the seriousness of the challenge of modern day dance.

* It used to be that God’s people and the church stood against the modern day

dance, but not so today – They even allow it to go on in the church.

* Today we can say, “I look for the church and I find it in the world – I look

for the world and I find it in the church.”

F) Now having introduced my subject with those remarks on the

present day situation, let us look at this passage of Scripture.

HEROD THE KING

A) Out into the pages of this Word from God, there stands King Herod.

* He is one of the most despicable and sickly characters in the Bible.

B) The first thing we notice about him is he has no stability of character.

* He has no resistance to the lures of temptation and the fascination of

this world’s sin – But let me tell you something .......

C) When the Bible portrays a sinner, the Word of God is very careful

to tell you everything good about him.

* So if you’ll look with me at v.20, you’ll find the good things about

Herod – But before we read the verse, let me say this .......

D) This is staggering – People, when they condemn other people, they

forget about the good points and they major on all the bad points.

* The Bible doesn’t do that – Let me show you what the Bible does do.

* The Bible when it draws the character of the sinner and paints the character

of a man who has gone down to hell, it still portrays all his good points.

E) Let me give you a couple of examples – One is in Gen. 34.

* This is the story of the sad breakup of the family of Jacob with sin.

JACOB AND HIS DAUGHTER DINAH

A) Jacob had a daughter called Dinah .......

* And instead of staying with her mother, she went into the world to see

the way the daughters of the land behaved themselves.

* The daughters of the land in which she went to sojourn with her father

were evil – And it wasn’t long until Dinah lost her virtue.

B) She lost her purity and modesty through the schemes and plots

of a man called Shechem.

* Yet when the Bible writes up the character of that man, it says in

Gen. 34:19 that he was more honourable than his brethren.

* It still gives him credit for what he was.

NAAMAN THE LEPER

A) In 2 Kings 5, you have the story of Naaman the leper .......

* And in v.1, it tells you he was a great man and an honourable man,

and also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper. (Humiliating – Lev. 13)

* The Bible plays fair – So if you’re here today and you’ve never been saved,

when you stand before God’s judgment bar, you’re gonna get a fair hearing.

B) Herod got a fair write up in the Word of God.

* What does it say about him? – Let’s read v.20 .......

C) That is what the Bible says about Herod – So we have some points