Glorifying God in Entertainment and Hobbies

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

“Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”


Some people waste their life playing. Their whole life is jumping from one fun to the next, it’s about all they ever talk about and think about. Those people give little thought to the Biblical truth that their life is not their own. Paul says, “You are not your own. For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Nevertheless, some act as if they can do whatever they please with no reference to the One who bought them and owns them.

This Present Evil Age

Galatians 1:3-4

“Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.”


Today we live in an evil age. “This present evil age” is an age where Satan is given freedom to deceive and destroy. John says, “The whole world lies in the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19). This “evil one” is called “the god of this world” and one of his aims is blinding people to truth. “The god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:4). However Paul says that Christ has delivered us from this, according to God’s will. 

In Three Days I Will Raise It Up

John 2:19-22

"Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?” But He was speaking of the temple of His body. Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said."


Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came into the world from the Father, was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, did wonderful miracles, and loved people. Nevertheless He was crucified for our sins, and on the third day He was raised from the dead, never to die again. Forty days later He ascended to the right hand of the Father, and intercedes for us there, reigning until He puts all His and our enemies under His feet. He has all authority in heaven and earth, He will never die again, He has the keys of death and hell in his hands.
So what’s the Easter implication of all that for us, especially in our suffering here on earth today?