What about classical music? Is classical music right, or is that of the world? Well,
let me get let me give you a famous thing. It's called the tritone. Does anyone know
what the tritone is? Anybody know? Hi, this is Todd Hoban with Making Music Magazine. I wrote
an article about the magical, mysterious tritone chord. I'm going to demonstrate it for you right
now. Tritone chord is a jazz chord that you'll hear all the time. It's very easy to make.
Basically, you start, put your thumb on an E. Now you put your first finger on the tritone. That's
a B flat in this case. But you know, the tritone is basically a tone of discord, and it was given
the nickname throughout history. It was called the devil's chord. No words to it, but it was
called the devil's chord, not by the Christian world, by the secular world. It was known as the
devil's chord. Why? Because when you listen to it, it sounds evil. And whenever they use that music,
it's a song of not of melody, but of discord. Remember the Bible said grace and melody,
but it's a song of discord. Now it sounds good to your ears because it's the last of the ears,
my friend. But it's a song of discord. One of the famous songs was by by a guy named Camille
Saint-Saens called Danse Macabre. I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that. But this was a very famous
song, and this is the song that really talked about the devil's chord. And I had my wife listen
to this song for 30 seconds, and she had never heard the song before. And I asked her, you know,
what does this song sound like it's about? And my wife said it sounds evil. Right? I mean,
there's no words to it, but you could listen to that and know it sounds evil. And what the song
is about, it's the dance of the dead, where basically all these skeletons are brought up
from the ground. And basically, you know, they're dancing. They're really dark. I mean,
all that hate me love death, the Bible says, right? I mean, it's a really dark song. See,
classical music, there's actually a meaning to those songs, because oftentimes they would play
them in a play or an opera, and they would have live action behind it, even though there was no
words, okay? The songs themselves, they gave names to those songs, and oftentimes they represented
something even though there was no words to them, okay? Now, look, you say, well, how do I,
let me give you one other example. Who knows the song Night on Bald Mountain? Anybody? Night in
Bald Mountain. Who's watched Fantasia? Who's watched Fantasia? Anybody? Disney movie? Nobody,
okay? But the Night on Bald Mountain, basically, in Fantasia, they would have music playing. This
was an old Disney movie, and they would have, like, live action behind it. Like, there's a
famous song, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, where Mickey Mouse is, like, doing all this black
magic, because, well, he's doing the good magic. There's the black magic. I think he's doing the
good magic in it, okay? All magic is bad, my friend. But he's basically, there's live action
to it, and there's a song there called The Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky. This was a very
famous classical song. It's considered one of the best songs, and basically, that song, once the
evil part starts playing, the devil basically comes up through the sky, okay? So it's basically
a song that's representing evil. There's no words to that music, but you could listen to that song,
which I'm not recommending, and you could tell me the meaning of it, even though there's no words
to it. You would know that represented darkness and evil. You say, why? Because the tune itself
has meaning. And, you know, honestly, when we want to listen to rock music and ungodly music,
it's not the new man. It's the old man, and it's the lust of the ears that your ears enjoy
listening to it. Whether it's the rock music or pop music or K-pop or whatever's popular here,
people listen to the rap and the hip-hop. They listen to the music of the world. But the Bible
says when you get saved, he puts a new song in your mouth. See, before I was saved, I didn't
enjoy the songs that are in this hymnal right here. I didn't sing the songs in this hymnal.
But after I got saved, these songs had meaning to me. And God does want you to listen to a different
type of music after you're saved and after you start living for God than before. And so I listen
to a lot of pretty bad music before I was saved. And, you know, after I got saved, there wasn't
some magical change, right? When I got saved, it wasn't just like, oh, man, I don't like the
sound of Aerosmith anymore. No, I still like the sound of Aerosmith after I got saved. And see,
this sort of preaching is what made me make changes in my life because I realized, you know
what? God cares about what I let enter into my ears. And although my flesh loves to hear this,
the lust of the ears, that's not what God wants me to listen to. And so then it gives us a verse
here afterwards that gives us a principle. How can we be filled with the Spirit? Speaking to
yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart
to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord,
Jesus Christ. You know, the truth is that when you're doing really well spiritually and you're
in a good mood and you really love the Lord, you're going to start singing praises to God.
You don't feel like singing hymns when you're living a sinful life. But if you're living a
godly life, you know, you're at home just doing whatever and you just feel like singing praises
to God. And see, the Bible says singing praises can actually make you filled with the Spirit,
referring to music, okay? It says speaking to yourselves in psalms, like Psalms, what was it,
126 we sang? Speaking to yourselves in psalms like we sang here at the beginning of the service.