Music. You know, music is not something that's emphasized in the New Testament.
Now look, music is important. Music is a part of our lives. The longest book in the Bible,
by some measurements, Psalms, right, is right there with Jeremiah as being one of the longest,
is a song book, but it's also filled with a lot of other doctrine. So the New Testament
is not just going on and on about our music, is it? But yet you go to a lot of churches
today and what do you get? An hour of music, 20 minutes of preaching. Is that what God
emphasizes? I mean, is God just emphasizing the music, the music, the music, and he's
telling the Romans about the music, and the Corinthians about the music, and the Galatians
about the music, and the Ephesians about the music, and the Colossians about the music,
and the Thessalonians, chapter after chapter, and Revelation is about the music. I know
thy music. Is that what he told Ephesus? To the church of Smyrna, I know thy music. To
the church of Thyatira, I know thy worship service. To the church at Sardis, I know your
lighting, that thou hast purple lights and a bar stool. I know that, look, we have a
bunch of churches today that have built a whole movement on music. Look, when I hear
about this Hillsong church, what do I think of? Do I think of preaching? Oh, when you
hear Hillsong, do you think about the doctrine? Do you think about the preaching? Do you think
about the soul winning? Do you think about what they're doing with the word of God? No,
it's just all about the music. Wrong emphasis. Wrong emphasis. Music is important. Music
is critical. Music has its place, but it is not the emphasis. In our churches, it's
not the emphasis in our religion. It's the preaching. It's the word of God. It's the
soul winning. It's not just all about the music. But a lot of churches have made it
all about the music, haven't they? I'm not going to pick a church based on music. I'd
rather go to the rock and roll jam for Jesus church that's soul winning, but I haven't
seen one yet. I haven't. I'd rather go to a church that has the wrong music with soul
winning than sing holy, holy, holy with those who don't go soul winning. Now, in a perfect
world, we'll sing holy, holy, holy and then go soul winning. Amen? We'll sing to God,
be the glory and blessed assurance and then go soul winning. But I'm not going to pick
a church based on the music. That is not the emphasis. Let's emphasize what God emphasizes
and let's de-emphasize that which God does not put a lot of emphasis on.