1. Anything that refreshes you without distracting, diminishing or destroying your final goal is a legitimate pleasure.
2. Any pleasure that jeopardizes the sacred right of another may well be an illicit pleasure
3. Anything pleasure, however good, if not kept in balance, will distort reality or destroy appetite.
Definition of sin: whatever weakens reasoning, impairs the tenderness of conscience, obscures sense of god, takes away relish for spiritual things, in short, anything that increases authority and power of the flesh over the spirit, that becomes sin, however good it is in itself. (John Wesley’s mom)
Applications
1. Pleasure for pleasure’s sake will leave you empty
2. There is a place for legitimate pleasure
3. It is worship (intimacy with God) that brings complete pleasure
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