Happy Friday, everyone.

We have a lot of questions coming in now about video games as you might expect, Pastor

John.

Here's one from a listener named Elizabeth who writes in and says, Pastor John, I'm engaged

to be married to a man who is addicted to video games.

He says he wants to stop but his life shows very little fruit and he keeps playing games.

Should I go on with this engagement or not?

How should Elizabeth think about this, Pastor John?

Well, we've been here before, haven't we, being put in a position to tell women whether

they're not to marry somebody, oh my, I feel so, I don't take this lightly at all, I

really don't.

I will give a yes or no answer to this question, should I go through with this engagement?

But before I do, let me ask Elizabeth five questions number one.

Have you considered the implications of 1 Corinthians 6, 12?

All things are lawful for me, that includes video games, I think.

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful.

All things are lawful for me, but I will not be dominated by anything.

Now that word dominated, exusiasticamai, that's one long Greek word, I will not be dominated.

As a strong word, it means nothing will have authority over me.

It reminds us of Jesus' final words on the earth.

All authority in heaven and on earth has been given me, go make disciples, that is, call

people out from under every alien authority because you have my authority and they should

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