¶ Dangers of Christians and Secular Music
But it was just cool to me watching them and hearing the voices . It was crazy . But I think sometimes and this is one of those things where it's not a salvation issue but we make up these things to argue about when , honestly , it really doesn't matter . You just need to be worshiping the Lord in spirit and in truth that's all the Bible requires of us .
It doesn't say certain instruments , it doesn't say vocals only . It doesn't say a mixture of everything . It just wants us to to stop and just give to him .
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Think about this . So we're going to watch a video , like we normally do , and this is this is the dangers . This is the the title of the video we're going to watch the dangers of Christians listening to secular music . Today is going to be all about music . Ok , nothing else .
We're going to go into TV shows , we're going to go into relationships , but for right now , I don't know if I'll make this like some sort of series on the live stream , but for right now , this is only about music . So let's watch this .
On the day of Pentecost . We see that there was a sound like a blowing of a violent wind that came from heaven . And Acts , chapter two , verse two . So the idea of sound is very crucial in the Bible . God created that sound . Heaven is going to be a very loud place . Heaven is going to have a lot of sound .
In Revelation , chapter 14 , verse two , it says and I heard a voice from heaven , like a voice of many waters , oh , oh , oh .
Oh you said , are you listening to Popeye ? No , I . He's the biblical Popeye . He's a Christian version . Ok , no pun intended , but look past the eye . Some people have a lazy eye . This dude's eye just never woke up .
The voice of a loud thunder and I heard the sound of harps playing their harps . So heaven will have music , heaven will have a sound , and God created sound . But what I want to start with is that Satan perverts everything God creates . This is a fact .
We see this in relationships . We see this in movies Anything that God creates , because the devil cannot create himself . He distorts and he tries to make it dysfunctional . We see this right now in the transgender movement . We've seen this in the past I don't know how many years . I mean it's in the Bible too , so it's not a new thing .
But we see this in homosexuality . We see this where people try to love the same sex and say well , love is love . No , god is love , and any other version of that is a perverted and distorted version . That is a false and fleshly desire trying to be fulfilled .
We see the first mention of music in the Old Testament , in the book of Genesis , actually happens five generations after Cain . Cain leaves the presence of God because he commits a murder . Five generations after that , evil is still going through the bloodline of Cain and we see that his generation invents music .
Now , they didn't necessarily create music God invented , created that but they discovered that music . And , of course , when people are evil and bent on not worshiping God , they would tend to use the things they create for their purposes , in line with their convictions .
So if we see this today , you get somebody who will cherry pick scripture or they will take a scripture and manipulate it to fit how they feel in the moment . So you can take something very basic in the scripture and twist it to validate . So , like people that want the biggest scripture I hear quoted is when the Bible says don't judge .
And the Bible is not saying to judge , you judge . To tune in and watch this show , you're judging whether to hit that like button , you're judging whether you went and got up and actually went to work today , or if it's Memorial Day , you chose to maybe go to the lake , you went swimming the pool . Whatever you make judgment calls all the time .
We have to judge and we have to judge wisely . The do not judge part is don't judge when you are not willing yourself to be vulnerable in that position and judge yourself because we always want to do the plank or the splinter in someone else's eye .
When we have a plank in ours and everybody knows that that is wrong , but nobody wants to call that one out , we're just like , no , you're not supposed to judge anything and that's the dumbest thing . It doesn't even make logical sense because we judge constantly .
They just don't want to be judged on a holy biblical standard of what we , as Christians should judge on so we see in Genesis , chapter 4 , verses 19 through 21 , that the descendants of Cain created those Musical instruments .
We see also in the study of the famous scripture is equal , chapter 28 , verse 13 . That is reference to Lucifer , or many times it's being referenced to Lucifer . We see that there are timbral , all of the strength instruments , and pipes . Wind instruments are connected to this glorious being , lucifer .
Two major categories of musical instruments , which are wind instruments and all strength Instruments , are seem to be found in this being who . We see that he fell from heaven and he rebelled against God . So it would make sense that Satan will try to use music to advance his agenda . He will try to use music to advance his purpose on earth .
What is the purpose of music ? Now ? The Bible gives us very clear purpose of music . Number one is to worship God .
In Psalm 150 , 1 through 6 , we see it now , before you read this , now remember what he , what the devil , can't create . He tries to pervert . So he did not create himself . God created him . Something beautiful , something wonderful . Obviously , god loves music . We feel this in our church services today .
Or if you turn on a worship song and you just , you like , just thinking about our worship , it just gave me two bucks , like thinking about the goodness of God singing , even if you can't sing . The Bible says make a joyful noise , right , some of y'all are like , yes , it does , that's me , I'm the noise . But to be joyful .
And the Bible tells us that God is spirit , that we must worship him in Spirit and in truth . So it's something outside of ourselves , something above ourselves , that we give ourselves completely over to God and we allow Our flesh to be put aside and we just worship him for who he is . Even even in the Bible .
And I think it's in Revelation where it says speak out on Hillsong please . Hey , oh , houston was acquitted , though he wasn't guilty , but it talks about it and it's , I believe it's in Revelation where it describes these angels and it's very to our Mankind . The description is very weird and unique and the the wings cover it's .
That would be a whole study in itself in a live stream , or probably several live streams , but they surround his throne and they sing holy , holy , holy .
And I think one of the reasons and this is just my kind of thoughts on it and it's not a theological debate or any kind of any kind of Biblical basis of this but I feel that the devil , the reason he hates us so much , is Because we are able to sing and praise and it's like what he was meant to do , and we're able to Kind of embody that and do that
, and we can still mess up , we can still sin , and God still forgives us . He can't be forgiven he . It is not attainable for him at all . He , it's done like you . His ending is already written .
But we have the ability to mess up , to do all the debauchery that is available to us that the devil tries to trip us up with , and yet God still forgives us , just by saying God , I'm sorry . And then it goes so far as to the Bible says that God throws all of our sin into the sea of forgiveness . We're very good at remembering the bad stuff we've done .
We'll have bad , just personal experience . We'll have bad dreams of our sin . It'll try to get in our minds or the thoughts of where we were , what we did , and you know what a lot of times when something . I was in a house the other day and there was this guy playing music on there and a song he was .
He popped up on his TV and he had speakers through his house when I was shooting it I do photography and when it popped up , the very song that came on was a song that I used to listen to and do cocaine to . Songs can bring you back to a very dark place very quickly and that's why you have to guard yourself .
And this is why it's so difficult to remain free if you continue to allow your past to live in your present .
And a lot of times that happens through either , or it happens completely through what we intake , and it ends up going through us , being filtered through our hearts and our minds , and ends up infiltrating us in a way that we never wanted to be back there again . And that's where the battleground is .
It's we're hearing it , we're receiving it , and then we end up feeling it and then we end up living it out and it's dangerous . It's dangerous Like I . That was the first time in a while , because I don't listen to anything but Christian music .
And I'm not saying that that should be what you should do , but I'm saying for me , that's how I do it , because every I used to listen to music all the time and do a lot of bad things , and so anytime I would hear that music again , it would take me back to those times and I .
If you want to live in freedom spiritually , if you want to have freedom , spiritual freedom you want to have mental clarity , if you want to be the Bible says that our heart was stoned but God turned it to flesh If you want to remain in that you can't be living in the debauchery or reminded of the debauchery you have to be thinking of things above .
You have to be thinking of things of God , to keep your mind , your heart , your body , your soul in check so that you remain pure before an Almighty God . It's a constant battle , but the Bible says that who the sun sets free is free , indeed .
So if we want to remain free , we have to live in a place of freedom , and that does not mean we continue to do things of our past and keep us there and then try it .
Imagine how much more or how much less of a struggle you would have if you really let go and cut the things from your past , from where you used to be spiritually , and begin to live where God's trying to have you at now . This isn't a thing where it's giving you a bunch of stuff you can't do . It's giving you a bunch of rules you have to follow .
It's Freedom , true freedom , true freedom
¶ Music in Worship
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Huge example of how music is to be used to worship God . The second purpose of music is for relaxing or refreshing . In 1 Samuel , 16 , 23 , we see that David would play music . Now we don't know if he played worship music or what kind of music he played . I assume it was most likely music that honored God .
But this music caused Saul to rest and relax and actually experience relief from the torments that he was experiencing . The third purpose of music is warning of danger . Nehemiah , chapter 4 , verse 20 .
They would make particular sounds so that everybody will be warned that there's a danger that's coming up and for them to be prepared Like we would have sirens today . The fourth one is to surprise the enemy . Judges , chapter 7 , verses 16 through 22 , is the sounds were made and God actually created used those sounds to confuse and surprise the enemy .
And the fifth one is so that we can encourage one another . The Bible says in Ephesians , chapter 5 , verse 19 , that we are to make songs and to edify one another . So ultimate purpose of music songs is for us to express our worship to our Creator . Now there's a purpose of music . There's also the style of music .
There's not really any clear particular verse in the Bible that says a certain styles of music are ungodly . Now the Bible mentions numerous kinds of string instruments or wind instruments , and while the Bible also doesn't mention drums , it does mention other percussion instruments in Psalm 68 , verse 25 in Ezra 3.10 .
The church I grew up in , like drums were from the devil . Anything that did not involve a piano and a guitar was just looked at with a lot of hesitancy .
And so I remember moving to the United States when I was 13 and my uncle started the church and I was actually part of this little children's youth worship team and you know we then brought drums and brought other instruments and I remember struggling seeing those things on the stage because in my mind those things didn't belong anywhere near worship of God , because
the worship to God had to be quiet and it had to be very reverent . It couldn't be also joyful music and it couldn't be anything that has to do with just beats and sounds .
And this is a big controversy too . I know several and there's nothing wrong with it , but like church of Christ , people that they only do , they only do like vocals , like there's no actual instruments .
But those people you go to a church like that and those people can actually sing , like I , let's say , I was raised in this little town called Palestine and there was a choir when we would do like churchwide , like actual churches , different denominations would come together in one spot and man , drummers are not real musicians .
That was the first instrument I ever played . Lord rebuke you , whatever you say . I hear piano players or guitarists and they can't keep a , they can't keep tempo and the drums helped them with . That is all I'm saying . But anyway , so the church of Christ people , man , they knew how to sing and harmonize .
They would come in with their acquires and as a kid I'm like this is so what ? Where's their instruments ? Like , I grew up in my church playing drums .
I started when I was six , so how many , how many years ago was that and then my next instrument that I taught myself was guitar , and then a dabble a little bit on a piano and then , because I learned guitar , bass made sense to me so I can kind of play a little bit of everything . But it was just cool to me watching them and hearing the voices .
It was
¶ The Role of Music in Worship
Crazy . But I think sometimes and this is one of those things where it's not a salvation issue but we make up these things to argue about when , honestly , it really doesn't matter . You just need to be worshiping the Lord in spirit and in truth . That's all the Bible requires of us . It doesn't say certain instruments , it doesn't say vocals only .
It doesn't say a mixture of everything . It just wants us to to stop and just give to him . And it's apparent in the word of God that music is a big part of that , whatever that looks like .
For instance , you get tribes in places that have never had a keyboard , don't know what a piano is , they've never had anything , but they'll beat some sticks together and sing new songs to God and just praise and God .
To me that makes God just as happy as the way we try to church up things today over here in the United States , and sometimes I feel that it's a lot better because they're doing it from the heart , like like he was talking about David did Just playing from the heart , just singing a song to God , not having any direction , just letting it flow directly from
your spirit . To me Sometimes that makes God a lot happier than what we try to church it up with the lights and the . Everything's got to be perfect and we got in-ear systems and all this other stuff and it just I think sometimes it becomes too much of a show instead of spirit . Just personal opinion .
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