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Philippians 2, verses 3 through 8, and see whether

or not you can get out on a field or in a stadium

or somewhere and try to knock somebody's head

off and obey those verses at the same time.

Now, the Olympics have revived in the last

hundred years but the original Olympics were in

existence about 1000 years. The last Olympic

game was played in 394 A.D. until its revival in

the 1800’s. They started in Olympia, the town

they were held in, which was devoted to the

worship of Zeus, one of the gods of the

Greeks. This is where all this started – in

religious festivals, sacrificed animals to the

gods, pagan festivals. Religious rites were tied

to the games in the beginning. I've seen some

pictures of the one that took place in Atlanta not

all that many years ago, and it was just filled

with paganism. The stadium in Olympia seated

about 45,000 spectators.

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