The Saints at the Epicenter were immersed in a self-seeking, lust-feeding culture.
When they came to Christ, they had to go on living in that world. To make it through life without getting neutralized, defeated, and sidelined, God’s Word taught them the key to godly living, which is:
Avoiding the Ultimate Temptation
Most Roman citizens were drawn into the gaming world of spectacles in the arenas. A non-stop calendar of events began in the capital city of Rome and soon went to the furthest flung provinces of ever increasingly exciting spectacles:
live gladiatorial fights to the death;
men vs. ravenous beasts;
beasts vs. beasts fighting to the death;
duels, bloody deaths, shocking sights,
and intense visual stimulation.
The roar of the crowds became intoxicating and no one wanted to miss the events that often ran all day long, for days at a time.
The overpowering Gladiatorial gaming culture of the 1st Century that troubled, tempted, and weakened the early church has morphed into an even more alluring 21st-century, irresistible, and almost inescapable culture.
BEWARE of the ULTIMATE Temptation
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