Quenching Your Thirst for Fun

6-17-06

1. Matt. 11:28-30 – Jesus wants us to experience true recreation.

A. Gen. 1:26, 31 – Mankind was created in God’s image.

· Luke 19:10 – Jesus came to restore God’s image.

· Luke 4:18-19 – To set the captives free.

· Rev. 21:1 – The earth will be completely restored.

· My grandpa’s old toolbox.

B. Mark 6:31 – Jesus took time to recreate.

· John 2:1 – He attended important social occasions.

· Luke 7:36 – He accepted dinner invitations.

· John 6:1-3 – He provided a picnic in the country.

· Lev. 23 – Six times each year Israel was to celebrate.

· Ecc. 5:18-19 – To be able to have fun is a gift of God.

· Pollyanna.

C. Pil. 4:8 – Seek recreation instead of amusement.

· Recreation promotes spiritual growth while amusements inhibit spiritual growth.

· Recreation prepares the mind to enjoy the Bible but, amusements make the Bible dull and boring.

· Recreation feeds the higher nature, but amusement stimulates the lower nature.

· Recreation fulfills the need for diversion and invigorates mind and body.

· Amusement gives the illusion of fulfilling the need for diversion, but actually creates an insatiable appetite for more amusement leading to addiction.

· Two young men who made the wrong choices.

“Amusements are doing more to counteract the working of the Holy Spirit than anything else, and the Lord is grieved.” {CT 281.2}

D. John 18:1, 19:41 & Mark 14:32 – Jesus surrendered His life in a garden, died in a garden and was buried in a garden.

· John 19:23-24 – The soldiers gambled as Jesus died.

· Milton’s decision.