Welcome to Faith Forward Baptist Church.
So good to see you all here for our Sunday night service.
Find your seats, please, and take a song, but go to hymn 134.
We'll get started tonight, hymn 134.
Hymn number 134, my anchor holds.
Hymn number 134, once you find your place, sing it out with me on that first.
Though the angry surges roll, hymn 134.
Though the angry surges roll.
On my tambourine and soul
by his grace I shall not fail.
To an anchor hold,
by anchor hold,
by these eyes a thousand sweet
barrels work within the deep,
angry clouds are shaped up sky.
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to our singing tonight. We want to go before Lord asks his blessing on the
service. So I've asked for the Alexander Larson if he would listen to us. Father in
heaven, we pray God that you please bless this service. Thank you Lord for
helping us to be able to gather together tonight here at church. We pray God that
you please fell past during the show with your spirit as he preaches your
word. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Up to him number 317, hymn 317. I'll live
317 begins my life my love I give to thee the Lamb of God in number 317 sing it out together now
my life
We'll go through our announcements together.
If you don't have a bulletin,
slip up your hand nice and high
and we'll get to you with one on the inside.
We have our service times.
Sunday mornings at 10 30 is our preaching service.
Sunday nights at six.
Wednesday nights at seven is normally our Bible study.
We would be in second Chronicles 36,
but we've got Pastor Jonathan Shelley
preaching this Wednesday night.
So even if you don't normally come on Wednesday night,
come out to hear Pastor Shelley this Wednesday,
seven o'clock as usual.
And then we've got the report from the online Soul Winning Marathon.
This is from like a randomized video chat software.
And so they go on this website and they're having face-to-face conversations.
So it's pretty much exactly like the Soul Winning you would do at the door except you're just
not going door-to-door.
It's all just coming at you electronically.
And so 59 salvations, they had a total of eight sole winners
on Saturday with 59 salvations.
So great job to those who participated.
And then below that is the note about just supervising
your kids in the auditorium,
making sure they don't tear the place apart.
On the back, of course, we have a lot of free food
on Wednesday nights, typically,
so keep an eye out for that.
Expectant ladies, the list is there.
Pray for them to be safe and healthy.
And then below that, other upcoming events.
We've got the donuts on the first Sunday of every month,
as always, Pastor Corbin Russell from down in Tucson
is gonna be preaching on Wednesday night,
March the 12th at 7 p.m.
And then the Bahamas.
cruise mission strip, March 23rd to 28th.
I know we have 20 some people signed up for that.
And then I've also been running into people
in other churches that we're talking about
going on these trips as well.
And then of course, Steadfast is doing a big trip
to the Bahamas.
They're already there as we speak.
They're gonna be in Nassau tomorrow.
And so really exciting.
All the soul winning that's going on in the Bahamas
be praying that it will be a really fruitful week.
for the crew from Steadfast Baptist Church.
They're hitting three stops.
They're going to the Bahamas,
and then I think they're going to St. John's Antiqua,
I think it's called,
and then somewhere in the U.S. Virgin Islands,
I believe as well.
So three great destinations,
and so I think it's gonna be exciting
to hear the reports of a lot of souls being saved,
God willing, I think it's gonna be a good one.
All right, so that's about it for announcements.
Let's go ahead and tally up the soul winning
from the past few days.
So anything to report from Thursday?
Okay, got it.
Got it.
Okay.
All right, anything else from Thursday?
How about Friday?
Okay, got it.
Got it.
Okay.
And then anything else from Friday and then Saturday, of course, we'll put down the
59 from the event anything outside of the event
Okay
All right, very good keep up the great work on oh wait we got to do today. Sorry Sunday brother Scott
Five for the main team with brother Scott other teams gotcha
Anything else from today?
Alright
All right, very good.
Keep up the great work on soul winning,
and let's sing our next song.
Come lead us.
All right, you should find the instrument
in front of your hymn, though,
with the hymn entitled, Still Sweeter Every Day.
If you don't have an instrument, please raise your hand.
You'll receive one.
We'll sing it on that first verse together.
Still Sweeter Every Day.
To Jesus every day, I find my heart is closer drawn.
He's better than the glory of the golden purple dawn.
He's all my fancy pictures in his fairest dreams and more.
Each day he grows so sweeter than he was the day before.
The half may not be fancy.
me when I saw him from afar.
He's fairer than the lily, brighter than the morning star.
He fills and satisfies my longing spirit, o'er and o'er.
Each day he grossed a sainter than it was the day before.
The hand cannot be met and seen, beside the door.
He pulls me to his glows, I'm glad I took the flight in green.
I love the Christ, if all I learned is in his body more.
Each day he rose just cleaner than he was the day before.
The half an happy past.
take your hymnos now turn to hymn 188 hymn 188 the love of God hymn number 188
we'll sing it on that first verse together nice and strong 188 the love of God is greater
far than tongue or pen can ever tell hymn number 188 lift your voice together now
Yeah.
An angel's song, when all retires shall pass away And kingdoms fall, when men who hear
refuse to pray, on rocks and hills and mountains call, God's rod so sure shall still endure
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All right, at this time we'll pass our offering plates around.
As the plates go around, let's turn our Bibles
to Ecclesiastes chapter seven.
Ecclesiastes chapter seven, as we always do,
we'll read the entire chapter, beginning in verse number one.
Follow along silently with Brother Corbin Brock
as he reads Ecclesiastes seven,
beginning in verse number one.
Ecclesiastes chapter seven.
A good name is better than precious ointment
and the day of death and the day of one's birth.
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that
is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart.
Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made
better.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of
mirth.
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
Surely oppression make it the wise man mad, and a gift destroy at the heart.
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof, and the patient in spirit is better than
the proud in spirit.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools
Say not thou what is the cause that the former days were better than these for thou do us not inquire wisely concerning this
Wisdom is good with an inheritance and by it. There is profit to them that see the Sun for wisdom is a defense and money
Is a defense but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom giveth life to them that have it
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, for which he hath made crooked.
And the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity.
There is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life and his wickedness.
Be not righteous over much, neither make thyself over wise,
why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish,
why shouldest thou die before thy time?
It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this,
yea, also from this would draw not thine hand,
for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men
which are in the city.
For there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sineth not.
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken, lest out here thy servant cursed thee.
For often times also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself, likewise, has cursed others.
All this have I proved by wisdom, I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out."
I applied my heart to know and to search and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things
and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.
And I find more bitter than death the women whose heart is snares and nets and her hands
as bands, whoso pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her."
Behold, this have I found, sayeth the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account,
which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not.
One man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have sought out
many inventions."
Our Father in heaven, we love you, Lord.
We thank you, Lord, for your goodness and kindness
to us each and every day.
Lord, we ask that you would now bless the preaching
of your word and help us prepare our hearts to receive it
that we may grow there on.
And we ask for your blessing now
and all these things in Jesus' name, amen.
Man, the title of my sermon this evening
is Rap Music, the Song of Fools.
Rap Music, the Song of Fools.
I'm not sure when rap music became mainstream.
but apparently it is like the most mainstream form of music now you walk around and you walk by
people's vehicles you you have the window rolled down and it just seems like everybody's bumping
that rap music red and yellow black and white they're all listening to it you go down to the
roller skating rink and it's you know top 20 or whatever and it's a bunch of rap music
Super Bowl halftime show, rap music.
It just seems like everybody is listening to rap music.
And let me tell you something,
rap music is the trashiest, filthiest,
most derelict music that exists on this planet.
Okay, now you say, well, you know,
why are you picking on rap music?
Obviously, look, I could get up
and preach against a bunch of other stuff as well.
I could preach against a bunch of other kinds
of worldly music and talk about these really bad bands
over here, these really bad artists over here.
But let's face it, rap music is hands down the worst,
if anybody's actually being honest,
it's the absolute worst.
In fact, I just went on Google and I just typed in,
which genre of music is the most disrespectful to women?
Now here's the thing, these are,
Searches that don't even really need to be done because I think if anybody's honest and anybody has any common sense
They already know the answer to these questions pretty much
But I typed in which genre of music is most disrespectful to women Google responded rap and hip-hop
Which genre of music is the most violent?
Rap and hip-hop which genre of music talks the most about fornication
rap and R&B which genre of music talks the most about drinking rap and hip-hop
Which genre of music talks the most about drugs this one kind of threw me for a loop because it came back country music
Now I was actually out in public like a week ago, and I've you know
I've always despised country music, but they were playing country music, and it was talking about smoking pot
And I remember thinking to myself, like, wow, you know, this country music is just all about smoking pot.
And then lo and behold, I googled this, and yeah, that's what came up.
I typed in which genre of music is the most sexually explicit, R&B.
Which genre of music talks the most about money, rap, right?
So virtually every category going down the list of just asking about all these sinful things,
rap music, hip-hop, rap, hip-hop, rap, hip-hop, over and over again.
But did you really need me to do those Google searches?
Look, even just when you just walk by that car with the window down
and you just catch three, four, five lines of this stuff,
it's usually very obscene, very vile, blasphemous, ungodly.
You name it, it's coming out. So...
I typed into Google, and if you would,
are you there in Ecclesiastes?
Flip over if you would to Mark chapter seven,
Mark chapter seven.
And the verse we read from Ecclesiastes said,
it's better to hear the rebuke of the wise
than for a man to hear the song of
fools. And when you listen to rap music, you're just getting idiotic trash poured into your
brain. It's making you dumber every single time that you listen to it, filling your
mind with wickedness, sin, bad philosophies, and just downright stupidity and foolishness.
it's better to listen to the rebuke of the wise like the wise man telling you to stop sinning
and to start living a good life than to hear this just glorification of sin that comes through rap music
so i went ahead and just uh googled what's the most popular rap song in the united states right
And Google said, as of February 13, 2025,
the most popular rap song in the United States
is Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar.
Which Kendrick Lamar is someone that I've never heard of
until recently about him doing this Super Bowl performance
or whatever.
I've never heard of him.
I'm not really familiar with these things in our generation.
But I just pulled up the lyrics.
I'm not gonna listen to the song.
I'm gonna listen to this crap
and get it stuck in my mind.
And by the way, rap is short for crap.
That's what I was taught as a child.
But I didn't wanna get this stuck in my mind.
So I just went ahead and just pulled up the lyrics
and identified just a whole bunch of sinful stuff
just in this one song.
It didn't take long like and these these rap songs have a lot of lyrics because they're kind of just
Rattling things off. So it's it's you know the the lyrics go on and on
But it started getting blasphemous
Six lines in
To the song it said quote nail a nigga to the cross
He walked around like teizo now. I don't know what teizo means or who teizo is
But you know, who are they talking about nailing to the cross doesn't sound like jesus
that's being nailed to the cross, okay?
And this guy, Kendrick Lamar, I also saw,
had performed with a crown of thorns covered in blood,
and he said, oh, I'm doing this to protest women
losing right to have an abortion.
So he was protesting and being pro-abortion
for murdering your baby, for killing a living human being
by putting on a crown of thorns
and being covered in blood or something.
Let me tell you something, it's blasphemous for you to make light of God, Jesus, the crucifixion.
Look, you should not be mentioning God unless you're talking to God or about God,
and you better be talking about him respectfully because Hallowed is his name.
And so you don't just dress up like him as some kind of a cosplay you don't dress up like him for Halloween or something
It's wickedness to take the things of God that are sacred and holy and to drag them down into the profane like that
Yeah, you know nail him to the cross he walked around like I don't even care what that means
It's a bunch of stupidity and retardation flowing out of these people's mouths
line number 10
Beat your ass and hide the Bible if God watching. What is that? What is that talking about?
I mean, what does that even mean?
Right if God's watching God is watching and why don't you shut up about God Kendrick Lamar?
Why don't you shut up about Jesus Christ?
Why don't you shut your mouth and not take the name of the Lord your God in vain?
And everybody's defending this guy saying,
oh, he's a Christian and he loves the Lord
and everything like that.
Folks, this is garbage.
He's not a Christian.
He's not saved.
He is taking God's name in vain
and it doesn't make the music better
to sprinkle in several references to God in every song,
several references to Jesus.
No, it just makes it more blasphemous.
You know, it's like you devour widow's houses, and then for a pretence you make long prayer,
well, then you receive the greater damnation when you bring God and religion into your sin.
Now, let's see what the Bible says about this. Look at Mark chapter 7, verse 20, and he said,
Mark 7, verse 20, that which cometh out of the man,
That defileth the man and it's talking about what comes out of your mouth
And if you think about the whole genre of rap music, it's it's heavily just based on
Sort of just saying the first thing that comes to your mind like a lot of it is just improvised
It's done on the spot. It's impromptu. What is there a special word for that?
Freestyle yeah, kind of just getting up and just freestyling and just blurting out whatever and the more obscene
It is the more blasphemous it is the more shocking and disrespectful it is the better
This is how a lot of rap music comes from it's really just flowing from the heart of man
Flow in at the mic, but it's a deceitfulness
Coming from the wicked sinful heart of man just flowing out of his mouth and all these wicked things they come from within
Out of the man and they defile the man for from within out of the heart of man proceed evil thoughts
Adulteries fornications murders folks. These could literally be the points of the sermon about rap music
These are literally the exact subjects with which rap music is going to deal.
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, and evil eye, and here we go, blasphemy.
blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
All these evil things come from within
and defile the man, and this is never more evident
than rap music, where everything on that list
is just flowing out of the mouth of these rap artists.
Look, I remember when I was a young person,
rap music really came out, or came on the scene,
specifically gangsta rap, came out when I was a young person,
and I remember they would have these news reports.
where they were kind of raising the alarm
and telling parents,
do not let your kids listen to this stuff.
And I mean, we're talking about this is the secular media.
This isn't some kind of a Baptist pastor on TV or something.
This was just the regular news media getting up and saying,
do not let your kids listen to this evil music.
It's glorifying everything that's violent, sinful, wicked,
whether it's drugs, fornication, adultery, whatever.
And of course, one of the famous groups that really pioneered this
is a group called NWA, right?
And this is back then, that was kind of the big thing.
And of course, they're controlled by some skeevy, evil Jewish manager
who's like, you know, the one who's managing them
and kind of pushing them to do all these things
and making them popular and kind of pulling the strings behind the scenes.
And I remember one of the people that and if I get facts wrong about this don't get too upset at me because you know
I'm not claiming to be an expert on hip-hop and rap
But I believe one of the artists from NWA is Dr. Dre and I remember when I was a teenager
There was a Dr. Dre song that was very popular on the radio that was just all about
committing adultery with another man's wife.
I mean, that's what the song was about.
The lyrics were very easy to understand.
It was just glorifying the fact that he
wants to commit adultery with another man's wife.
Well, you know what the Bible says?
The Bible says you should be put to death, Dr. Drayne,
because whoever lies with his neighbor's wife
shall be put to death.
And he wasn't just getting up and just singing about it
like as a theory or something.
This is a guy who's living that kind of lifestyle and he's talking about those things bragging about those kind of things and
These people are super wicked and it always has been wicked and just because now instead of being on the news
Telling you don't let your kids listen to it now
It's just mainstream and let's just put it on TV and let's just all listen to this filthy rap music together, right?
So I was the first thing as I was going through the lyrics of this song
was blasphemy, right?
The blasphemous references to Jesus and the cross
and all these different things.
But then number two, the second thing I found on the list
was railing, because the entire song is supposedly,
I guess, directed at some other rap artist.
And look, I'm not defending this other rap artist
known as Drake, which again, I'd never heard of in my life,
but apparently this whole song is an attack
on a different rap artist
And I looked up some of Drake's lyrics
and his lyrics are just as filthy and evil
and blasphemous and perverted and wicked.
So I'm not defending this guy.
But I will say this, that this song appears
to be a railing accusation
because it continuously accuses Drake of being a pedophile.
I did a bunch of research.
I couldn't find any evidence of that.
I couldn't find anything substantial about that.
I read every article that I could find
and it just seemed like this is just a railing accusation.
It doesn't seem like there's been any kind of charges filed, any complaint filed, there's
been nothing with law enforcement.
This sounds to me like a railing accusation, and teenagers, and kids, and young people
all over America are getting all excited, like, oh yeah, call out the pedophile, drink, ah-ah-ah-ah!
And look, I don't know if the guy's a pedophile or not,
but is this what we're teaching our young people?
Hey, let's just call people out and just call them a pervert
and just call them a pedophile with no evidence of that.
Because I asked a teenager that said this.
I said, oh, really?
So what's the evidence that he's a pedophile?
What do you know about this?
Can you give me any details?
No.
Isn't that just railing?
And again, I'm not defending that for all I know he's the biggest pedophile in the world, but you know what? That's not the point
That isn't the point
The point is that we as Christians need to stand for justice and the rule of law and due process
and actually following biblical principles before we start throwing around accusations
and before we just believe things and just calling someone out and calling them these things
without any kind of a basis for that.
Hey, that's called railing.
It's a serious sin.
So not only did I find blasphemy,
But, you know, I found a lot of railing in the song.
Go, if you would, to 1 Timothy, chapter 6, please.
1 Timothy, chapter 6.
1 Corinthians 5-11, of course, says,
I've written unto you not to keep company
if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator,
or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer.
or a drunkard or an extortioner with such a one know not to eat.
I mean, the Bible is saying, look,
railers should be thrown out of the church.
This is such a serious sin,
it's up there with fornicating and drunkenness.
should be thrown out and like I said from all indications I'm not claiming to be an expert
but again I can't see any basis for these claims or any evidence that's being presented
or any legal action that's being taken this is just one guy just oh yeah well you're a pedophile
or something well you know what that's wicked to say that about someone unless it's actually true
Unless there's actually evidence for that and that makes him a Rayler and again
I'm not defending this other wicked perverted artist because I could have just made the whole sermon just roasting Drake
If I wanted to because he's just as evil and sinful and you know what I typed in who are the top
Rap artists in America and it listed a whole 10 20 of them. They were all
Super wicked evil ungodly people. I typed in what was the most popular song in January?
pulled up the lyrics just totally obscene I was you know
I was like why can't include any of this in the sermon because I I don't even want to expose my congregation to this
So how can I even talk about these lyrics and so look?
Honestly, I'm not going to be coming at you with a lot of lyrics tonight because you can't
Right some people are probably already offended about the lyrics that I already read and that was like the mildest stuff
But then these same people will go and they'll watch the Super Bowl and they'll watch the halftime show and they'll just take it all in
But it's like, oh, that's what I ever said. How could you?
So look at 1st Timothy chapter 6 verse 4 it says he's proud knowing nothing
but doting about questions and stripes of words,
whereof come envy, strife, railings, evil, surmiseings.
And the thing I really want to home in on
is this little group of four things
that come right in a row.
Envy, strife, railings, evil, surmiseings,
because what you're going to find in life
is that these four...
things kind of go together their their buddies, you know, this is kind of a little package deal you get you get envy
Where one person envies someone else or that means that they wish that they had what that person has or they wish
They had the success or whatever
They covet the things that that person has so then there there's a strife there, right because of that pride and envy
causes them to fight with that person or have friction with that person and then
Because they really want to win the argument then they resort to railing where they just start. Oh, yeah
Well, you know, you're a pedophile or something and then you get to the evil surmiseings where it's an imagination
Of oh, I'll bet this is what he's into. I'll bet that's what he does. Oh, I'll bet this is what's going on
It's where you start guessing
Right, and it's so hilarious to me when people act like the KJV is
Archaic and they'll bring up a word like surmise or surmising
But yet I was reading a novel that was published like three years ago
And he used the word surmise in it like this is it's called just having a vocabulary folks
It's not archaic. It's just you don't read, you know, that's what I want to say to some of these guys
But you know, what's a surmising?
is when you are kind of just connecting dots in your mind
and using your imagination.
And so, railers typically engage in evil surmising.
They'll start guessing, well, I'll bet he does this,
I'll bet she does this.
And again, I'm not even gonna bore you with these lyrics,
but in the lyrics, that's what you find.
You find railing and then you find a lot of just,
oh, well, I'll bet it's this,
well, I'll bet you did this, I'll bet you do this too.
That's called evil surmising.
Envy, strife, railings, evil surmiseings, that's this little feud between these little
rappers, you know, saying all these things about each other.
So, the first sinful thing I found in the lyrics was blasphemy.
The second thing I found was railing.
And then the third thing I found was filthy communication.
And again, I can't show you the examples because there's just like obscene, perverted lyrics
that, you know, shouldn't be uttered in the house of God.
And so I'm not going to say those things.
But here's what the Bible says.
It says, now you also have put off all these anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy.
filthy communication out of your mouth, right?
We should not have filthy communication in our mouth.
If you would turn over to Jude,
last, second to last book of the Bible.
The Bible says, let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which
is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
And so I would say filthy communication, corrupt communication.
You know, what does the Bible say?
It says, it's a shame to even speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
And so when you're talking about the bedroom and you're talking about people's anatomy
strange forms of fornication and stuff that's a filthy communication and that's the kind of stuff
that is in these lyrics. But the fourth sin that I found in just this one this is just one song
and I didn't go find the worst possible song. I guarantee you those of you out there who've
been exposed to a lot of rap music you're thinking like oh man Pastor Anderson isn't even scratching
If he thinks Kim Drake Lamar is obscene, what about this guy?
What about that?
You know, you could probably name 10 artists that are more obscene.
Remember, this guy is touting himself as a Christian.
Okay, I guarantee you there's way filthier examples.
This is just random.
This is just what happens to be what's popular right now.
Just pick one song and it's full of sin.
Here's the fourth sin that I found is bringing a railing accusation against the devil.
And I found this repeatedly in his music
where he was saying things against the devil.
And you say, well, what's wrong with that, man?
You know, we should rebuke Satan and all this.
Listen, though, Pentecostal 1,
the Bible specifically prohibits.
us from railing on the devil or bringing a railing accusation against Satan.
We're supposed to realize that Satan is much greater in power and might than we are
and that we're not supposed to try to engage in some kind of combat with Satan in that way.
Where we start mouthing off about Satan.
Because here's the thing about that is that when it comes to Satan and demons and things,
we don't really understand all that, do we?
The Bible doesn't really give us a whole lot of detail and we...
If we start talking about that stuff,
we're probably just going to say a bunch of stupid,
irrelevant things.
And honestly, we probably don't want to face off with the devil
because he's probably way smarter and more powerful than we are.
And so we just would rather that God just protects us from all that.
And that's why even what, look what the Bible says in Jude verse 8,
Likewise, also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities, right?
So false prophets and reprobates, and obviously they're not the only ones who do this,
but they tend to have this thing where they will kind of just throw things out there about Satan or against Satan or something.
Yet Michael the Archangel, verse 9,
he disputed about the body of Moses,
durst not bring against him a railing accusation,
but said the Lord rebuked thee.
Now the word durst, obviously this is a difficult
archaic word, means dared, right?
So it's saying he dared not to bring
against the devil a railing accusation.
He didn't dare do that.
So why would we, who are less powerful, we're a little lower than the angels, the Bible says,
why would we dare to bring a rellying accusation against Satan if not even Michael the Archangel would dare to do that?
But we don't want to be just overly bold in that regard.
It says, not even Michael would do that, but these, verse 10,
speak evil of those things which they know not,
but what they know naturally as brute beasts
in those things they corrupt themselves.
Woe unto them.
And so, we don't want to speak evil of things
that we don't understand.
We don't want to bring a railing accusation against Satan.
You know, and I don't even know what this lyric even means,
but this is the lyric that I found in the song,
I don't even know, what does that mean he has 69 God?
What is that?
Is that some perverted reference?
I don't know.
I don't care.
I don't want to know.
And you know what's funny is you have all these
seemingly intelligent people on the internet this week
like, oh, you know, if you analyze his lyrics,
they're actually really deep.
I mean, he's really a poet.
He's really a literary giant walking amongst us.
No, he's an idiotic fool just flowing garbage
out of his mouth whenever it comes to his mind.
And it's a bunch, you know what?
It's like these literature teachers.
They find like more stuff.
in works of art than is actually even there.
Like they could explain the author what he meant sometimes
because they find all this like symbolism and stuff in books
and sometimes you're kind of like,
that's a little bit of a stretch.
You know, I mean, I'm sure that there's some in some left-wing idiotic university somewhere
There's probably some class where you can study the lyrics of these rap artists and some like PHD
Crusty professor is gonna be like, oh man, you know, this is so deep. It's such a commentary on our society
You know, you know, and I'm sure he could explain to us what it means when he says that the devil is quote a 69 God
Okay, that's you know what I think
I think it doesn't mean anything because I think that the person who came up with that
lyric is just a moron just saying whatever crap comes to his mind, whatever the drugs
have fried the circuit in his brain to just say something stupid and I don't think we
should try to seek meaning in the word of fools.
Oh, he's so, you know, oh, he's, it's a spiritual journey with this guy and he's telling you
It's more of just like his spiritual journey.
So basically, it's somebody who doesn't care what the Bible says, aka doctrine, what the
Bible teaches.
It's just him just uttering all his heart.
The fool utters all his heart, right?
The fool has no interest in learning.
He just wants his heart to be able to discover itself.
I just want to tell everybody what's in my heart.
No, why don't we tell people what the Bible actually says?
Sounds to me like just another railing accusation against the devil by a bozo
But the first thing I wanted to say tonight is that number one rap music
is filled with sinful lyrics.
We could pick almost any song and it's just sin,
sin, sin, sin.
And you say, why are you picking on rap?
I told you, I Googled, what is the most violent genre?
What is the most disrespectful to women?
What is promoting fornication, et cetera?
And it was virtually all rap music taking the cake.
You know, and then AI tries to apologize for it.
Well, of course it's rapping hip hop,
but you know, other songs do it too.
Yeah, okay. I asked you which one is the most AI. Why don't you just shut up and answer the question?
I
Don't need your little context or whatever
And full disclosure, I've never like used AI or chat GPT or anything, but this is just when you Google it
AI comes in and it's like hey, can I help?
And you're just like okay, whatever
But number two flip over if you would to first John chapter two. So number one rap music is filled with sinful lyrics
But number two rap music is based on pride
rap music is a super prideful
form of music and
It's kind of ironic because this bozo that I'm preaching about
Apparently his first album was called humble
Yeah, right
Rap music is based on pride.
The Bible says in verse 15,
love not the world,
neither of the things that are in the world.
If any man loved the world,
the love of the father is not in him.
For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes
and the pride of life is not of the father,
but is of the world.
And the world passes away in the lust thereof,
but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
And when we think about these three categories,
the lust of the flesh,
This could be something, you know, on the mild end.
It could be something like gluttony, right?
Lust of the flesh could also be something to do with fornication,
or adultery, or drugs, or drunkenness, right?
Gratifying the desires of the flesh, the lust of the flesh, right?
And we could find all the rap music that glorifies the lust of the flesh, couldn't we?
has to do with covetousness, right?
Having that evil eye and coveting what belongs to other people,
whether it's coveting your neighbor's wife,
coveting your neighbor's house,
car, the love of money,
which is the root of all evil, right?
That falls under the lust of the eyes, covetousness.
and then we've got the pride of life.
And of course, all we have to do is just look at
just the way that these artists will pose.
And obviously we can do the same thing
for other genres as well.
Just all of the poses and the proud look,
the Bible calls it, right?
Just having that insolent, proud look on their face.
I'm so cool, but you know, the other thing is,
That basically rap music is probably the the the music genre where they talk about themselves the most
Because if you think about you you could listen to a lot of music where you would never hear the name of the artist in
the song
You know what I'm talking about like whereas like a rap artist
I guess you're always gonna figure out who you're listening to
because they just talk about themselves
and just keep calling their own name
and praising themselves and talking about themselves.
And here's what the Bible says,
Let another man praise thee and not thy own mouth.
A stranger and not thy own lips.
Psalm 10 verse 3 says,
The wicked boasteth of his heart's desire
and blesses the covetous whom the Lord abhoreth.
Second Timothy 3-2, men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy, right?
Just blasphemous and boasting and prideful and praising yourself.
That's what I think of when I think of rap music.
These six things does the Lord hate, is seven or an abomination unto him?
The first thing on the list, a proud look.
And so God hates pride.
So here's some more lyrics. I just googled some more lyrics of Kendrick Lamar
Here's the lyric quote I'm so hot kids put me in their iPod
Even atheists play my beep and say my god
Joseph Jesus and Mary. He's nice. Don't compare me to them. Just compare me to Mike Jordan
Okay, first of all these lyrics are stupid
They sound stupid, there's no poetry to it,
it's just some idiot just saying whatever comes to his mind.
But notice, oh, I'm so hot, I'm so cool.
This is a common theme in all this music.
And then he says, oh, I'm so cool that even atheists
are taking God's name in vain about my music.
I mean, think about how weird and blasphemous this is to say,
well, I'm so hot that even atheists are saying, oh, my God.
And let me tell you something.
Do not say, oh, my God, as an expletive.
Do not do that.
Even if you are a child of God, a Bible-believing Christian,
do not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
Okay, again, the word God should only come out of your mouth
if you're talking about God or talking to God.
That's it. You shouldn't just say, oh my God, just as just as just something to say and people do this all the time
Do not say it. It's a bad habit. If you've had that habit break the habit
Break the habit, right? Just decide. Hey, I need to stop saying that
Okay, because of the fact that God is a name. Sorry Jehovah's Witnesses. God is a name
Okay, God is
translating
the Hebrew word Elohim, which is a name.
God is also translating the Hebrew word Jehovah, which is a name.
God is also translating the name El Shaddai, right?
God Almighty, which is a name.
Everything in the original language is that is being translated into English in the Old Testament as God is a name.
His name is the Lord. His name is the Lord God. His name is God Almighty.
These are all his names. His name is the Lord of Hosts. His name is Jesus.
Do not misuse names for God.
And obviously we know that Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus is that second person of the Trinity.
Whereas the other names that we mentioned refer to God in general.
But either way, you should not take Christ's name in vain either because when you're taking Christ's name in vain,
you're taking the name of the Lord your God in vain because Jesus is my Lord and my God.
That's what Thomas said.
And Jesus thanked him for it and didn't rebuke him for it.
He told him he was right when he called him my Lord and my God.
So if Jesus is my Lord and my God, I'm not going to take Jesus' name in vain either.
I don't want to take any of those names in vain.
And so therefore yelling out Jesus as an expletive, let me tell you something.
I am less offended by any form, any form of cussing or profanity or whatever.
The worst is Jesus' name in vain.
God's name in vain is the worst right and we live in a society that will censor all these other words
But then they're just totally fine with just Jesus and God's name being thrown around hey
It's wicked and as Christians and look you say oh well you're kind of getting on me
Well, you know what you got to work on this you got to get this out of your life
Get those names of blasphemy out of your mouth and do not use God's name in vain
What does in vain mean in vain means with no purpose?
You don't take the name of the Lord your God in vain like like you're basically saying God's name for no reason
That's called using God's name in vain
Because in vain means there's no motive. There's no purpose. There's nothing's being accomplished
Whereas if I'm talking about God, it's appropriate if I'm talking to God, it's appropriate
But just saying God's name just to fill out a lyric or to say oh man, I'm so hot
Kids put me in their iPod, and even atheists play my ex...
And, you know, he's right about his music, calling it this word.
He says, even atheists play my, you know, dung and say my God, right?
Joseph, or my God, Jesus, Joseph, and Mary.
So now we're taking Joseph and Mary's names in vain.
What is that about?
The whole thing is stupid.
All right, let's let's move on to the next wonderful lyric.
I spread love like a hippie, but I'm a black one.
With Jesus Christ's passion, I swear on the Bible.
Okay, so
here's the thing about that is that the Bible literally says swear not at all.
It says, swear not at all, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other oath.
Let your yea be yea, let your navy day.
And then the Bible says in James chapter, so first of all Jesus Christ said, swear not
at all.
Then in the epistle of James chapter 5 he says, but above all things my brethren, swear
not.
And so this thing of swearing on the Bible or I swear to God is something that the Bible
Say oh, you're just being nitpicky. Oh, that's right. What the Bible says doesn't matter
We don't care what the Bible says, right?
We just decide that everything that the Bible says is just
nitpicky and petty and minor. No my friend, if the Bible literally says
above all things my brother and swear not, unimportant.
Like isn't it hilarious how people read the Bible? They read the Bible above all things my brother and swear not
Oh, this is no big. This is you're being nipped. This isn't a big deal
Let me ask them is above all things
Mean is a big deal or a little deal
Here I'm giving you all these commandments. Hey, but most of all man
Don't swear and again when we say swear, we're not talking about what the world calls cussing. That's not what we're talking about
swearing is where you say like I swear to God that I'm telling the truth or something, you know
I swear on and by the way, this is why when you go to court
and they want to swear you in, or they want you to swear to tell the whole truth,
you can actually do it instead, you can do it as an affirmation instead,
because that's why even in the Fourth Amendment it says
that it has to be warrants upon oath or affirmation,
right, in that Fourth Amendment. Why does it say that?
Because when our country was founded, a lot of people are like, well, I don't swear oaths.
I don't swear oaths and so they're like do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth so help you God, they're like I'm not going to swear that because
the Bible says above all things my brother and swear not, swear not at all.
So this is what they say, you can make an oath or an affirmation.
So if you go to court you can say I affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth and you don't have to invoke the name of God, you can just say I affirm
Here's another
This is from a wonderful song called the last real n-word alive
Here's the lyric Lord have mercy
Jesus Christ. He's just nice. He just slice like a ginsu
This is not poetry. This is not art
You know, I was trying to think of a lower art form than rap music and I came up with the knock-knock joke
as being, you know, like, like the rap music is basically one step above a knock-a-knock joke
for just being a low art form.
You know what I'm saying?
You know, because let's face it, knock-knock jokes are pretty lame.
He just nice.
He just slice.
Like a ginsu.
Folks, no.
If you want to say that the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, great.
But don't say, he nice, he slice, like a ginsu.
It's just stupid and blasphemous.
Okay, this is not respectful or giving honor to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
And of course, in these same songs, you're going to find all kinds of filthy, perverted things.
You'll find like a lyric about God and Jesus, and then Christians are like all excited, like,
Oh, it's talking about God, it's so wonderful.
And then like five lines later, it's just some gross, perverted lyric.
Well, you know, I mean, he's not exactly, you know, living for Christ, but you know.
No, he's just dressing up like Jesus while campaigning for murdering babies.
Other than that, he's a wonderful person.
But lastly, this point, rap music glorifies foolishness.
It glorifies foolishness.
Proverbs 12-23 says this, a prudent man concealeth knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaimeth
foolishness.
Proverbs 15-2, the tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright,
but the mouth of fools pour without foolishness.
Proverbs 15-14, the heart of him that hath understanding, seeketh knowledge, but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Proverbs 24-9, the thought of foolishness is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Let me tell you something, this has got to be the stupidest music, the stupidest artists, the stupidest lyrics ever.
And it's just people are just eating this up, listening to it, and the last thing you
want is for your kids to be listening to this.
Do not allow your children, do not allow your teenagers to listen to rap music.
I know I sound like an early 90s TV broadcast right now, but it's true.
Okay? This stuff is not going to make them smarter.
It's not going to bring them closer to God.
It's not going to make them glorify the right things.
It's glorifying everything that's wrong.
Fornication, drugs.
And look, let's face it.
Okay? It's coming out of a failed culture,
and I already preached a whole sermon on this
called hip-hop culture in light of the Bible.
Hip-hop culture in light of the Bible.
I already preached it many years back when I was in Los Angeles.
You know, it's coming out of a failed culture.
And you know what, a lot of people would say like,
oh, you know, you just don't like rap music
because you're racist or something, right?
But here's the thing, I've preached
against other wicked cultures too.
I mean, I've preached a sermon called
Iceland, The Nation of Bastards.
So, I mean, is that, are they black?
That's like the whitest people in the world.
It doesn't get any whiter than Iceland, folks.
I preached a sermon called The Sinful Nation of France.
I mean, look, I've called it,
because when I preached that hip hop sermon,
I had multiple people email into the church and complain
and say, you know, I'm a huge fan of your preaching,
but why single out?
When have you ever singled out another wicked culture?
And I'm just like,
I just had a whole list of like Iceland, France,
you know, all this different stuff.
You know, I just go down the list.
But but but here's the thing let's face it. Let's just face the facts tonight, okay?
When we talk about because people want to make this all about race or something first of all
Maybe it was about race when I was a kid, but like I just finished telling you now rap music has become mainstream
It's not even
Restricted to black people anymore. Anyway, it's a it's a music and I don't I don't know if it ever was but I mean now
It's mainstream
red, yellow, black, and white are listening to it,
producing it.
It's, it's, I don't think it,
I think it has transcended that by now, unfortunately.
Okay, to where it's pretty ubiquitous
and it's not really about, you know,
a certain race or something like that.
And, and here's the thing about that,
is that, you know, I've known a lot of classy,
intelligent, wonderful black people over the years.
But you know what they all had in common?
They were not into the hip hop culture.
Amen?
Amen.
Hey, we've all known wonderful examples of black people.
And guess what?
They're not these hip hop thugs, are they?
You know and I feel like a lot of racism comes from people not really having enough positive examples of
A certain group of people in their life
You know so so they went through their life and they only had negative examples with a certain group of people and then it makes
Them hate that whole group of people because they haven't had enough positive examples
and you know I had a relative from my extended family who was who was pretty racist and
You know he came out to visit us and he was saying all this really racist stuff
And I'm trying to I'm trying to tell this guy. I'm like hey
You know, that's not how it is, man.
You know, there are a lot of great people and whatever.
And so we took him to the park
and he got to see all these examples
of really nice people of other races.
Nice families and everything he got to see them like living their lives
And I and I'm like look at these people like do these look like trashy people do these look like derelicts to you?
No, no, so I showed him all these positive examples
Then he came to our church and met a bunch of positive examples at our church and everything and he walked away saying you know what?
You're right. He said where I'm from. I just haven't been exposed to that. I'm just exposed to these weird like
Muslim refugees ski-beep whatever
bad he'd only been exposed to bad examples and here's the thing by the way you want to get some good examples of
classy
respectful
Nice black people go to the Caribbean and go soul winning and we go to the Caribbean and when we go soul winning the Caribbean news flash
Everybody's black. I don't know if you know this about the Bahamas
Everybody's black came in islands. Everybody's black these places. We're going Turks and Caicos, you know, they're black people
You know, maybe you didn't put that together that we're when we go on all these mission strips and talk about going into Caribbean and everything
I don't know what you think we do down there, but we're basically witnessing the black people the whole time
And you know what the black people are super like well-dressed
Clean cut respectful Daniel am I telling the truth right now? This is not about Jamaica
And Jamaica is trash, okay?
I didn't mention Jamaica.
I said Bahamas.
I said Cayman Islands.
I said Turks and Caicos, okay?
But I'm telling you, you will see hundreds of good examples,
thousands of positive examples, right?
This is not about color, my friend.
It is about culture, okay?
Because you know what?
If you get rid of the hip-hop culture,
You know what black culture in America will improve black people's lives will improve
And you know what I guarantee you you get the hip-hop culture into white people's
Earbuds their lives are gonna go down the toilet
Okay, and the more this music takes over in our culture the more sinful wicked things are gonna become normalized in our culture
And it's not about white versus black.
And look, yeah, we could get on a bunch of other,
you know, we could get on, you know,
I'm preaching against country music tonight, you know,
Beyonce, no, I'm just kidding.
But anyway, the point is that I'm not gonna get up here
and say that, you know, rap music's the only music
you shouldn't let your kids listen to.
But it's kind of like, it's kind of just the no-brainer though.
You know different people have different rules and different standards about where they're gonna draw the line about music
How strict they are about what they're gonna love, but I mean shouldn't it just be a given that rap music is off the table
I mean wow
It's just so far out there and so look
This isn't about color. This isn't about race because let's face it
Obviously black people have made a lot of contributions to a lot of other musical genres over the years
You know, so it's just obviously
rap music is maybe associated with inner city
Black ghettos, but let me ask you this our inner city black ghettos
Positive examples of American culture or let me ask this. Would you like to live in?
an inner city black ghetto because I'll tell you this, you know, when I went to
Bible College out in Indiana, you know, 20 years ago, and I got involved in a
ministry, we were allowed to pick whatever ministry we wanted to get
involved in, there were all kinds of bus routes and and different things. I got
involved in what was called the Black Chapel Ministry.
And even before I went to Hiles Anderson College,
I already decided,
because I'd heard about this new ministry
that had just started to the inner city,
black community in South Chicago.
And when I first heard about this ministry,
I was like, man, when I go to Hiles Anderson,
I wanna be in that ministry.
Like that sounds like a really cool ministry.
So I already went down there, like I already had that in my head.
First day I got there, I met a guy and he's like,
oh, you know, I run one of those black chapel ministries.
I'm like, dude, I want to join your ministry.
Great.
So I joined like the first day that I got there.
And while I was there, every single weekend,
I would go both Saturday and Sunday to the worst ghetto in America.
And, you know, maybe you could argue that it's somewhere else.
But when I was there, it had the most murders of any city in America.
It was like 599 murders that year or something.
And so it was South Chicago, it was number one,
and it was considered the worst ghetto in America.
I'm sure, you know, you could argue and bring up something else,
but it's top five.
I think we can all agree on that.
And I went there every Saturday for several hours soul winning,
and I went there every Sunday for several hours.
preaching and teaching the people there.
And let me tell you something.
This neighborhood was bad.
It was bad, okay?
And I went there every weekend, two days a week
for two years of my life.
Tons of soul winning and look it was receptive. We got a lot of people saved a lot of people baptized
You know got to really help out a lot of the kids and teenagers and teach them some godly things
Because most of them didn't have a dad in their lives
And so they kind of needed role models and people to come in and teach them stuff and help them
And we would take them to the barber, get them a haircut,
take them to the thrift store, get them clothes and stuff,
try to get them dressing nicer and kind of just showing them
a different way to live their lives
and trying to be a positive example to them.
But I mean, you'd go into these homes
and virtually every home is run by a woman.
because, you know, they are the welfare recipients or whatever,
and so they're the, or they're the ones getting the housing or whatever the stipends.
And so you'd have these households that are based around a woman,
and she's got a fiancé that lives with her.
It's not a husband, it's not a boyfriend, it's always a fiancé.
But what's funny is you'd be there for like, I was there for a couple years,
had different houses.
I'm like, wait, this guy's your mom's fiance?
Because, you know, six months ago,
it was this other kid in my Sunday school class,
it was his mom's fiance.
And so it's just like, you're kind of seeing the same guy
in all these different houses,
and you're just like, what the, you know.
Folks, I remember giving the gospel in this neighborhood,
and literally,
watching just a cockroach crawl across someone's face
while I gave them the gospel in their living room.
I'm just giving the gospel a living room.
Woman is just sitting there and she's just got a cockroach
walking across her face.
And it was just like kind of the most normal thing
in the world.
I mean the stench, every single door that we went to
just stank so bad.
Just a horrible smell.
You just got used to it though, after a while.
You just got used to the smell.
and winning souls, you don't love black people.
I have one more black people of the Lord than you have.
I'm sure maybe somebody here won more than me.
I'm not talking to you.
But I guarantee you whoever's here
that's one more black people of the Lord,
because I'm sure that there are,
I guarantee that there's somebody in the auditorium here
who's one more black people of the Lord than I have,
but that person's not offended by my sermon right now.
The people that are offended by my sermon right now,
are a bunch of just these little holier-than-thou virtue
signers that just want to talk about how much they love
everybody, but they don't actually
put any action to that.
You know what I mean?
Like, I chose the Black Ministry.
Why did I choose that ministry when I could choose
whatever ministry I wanted?
If I didn't love Black people, I wouldn't have gone
to that ministry.
I would have chose to reach people that I liked.
But you know what?
I liked the people that I was reaching in the Black ghetto.
And by the way, everyone was Black.
I never saw a white person the entire time I was there,
except for like outside contractors
that would be visiting to do work or something.
There was not a single resident in this area,
in my district of my chapel ministry, that was not black.
It was, because Chicago is a very segregated city.
It's not like in Phoenix where it's all just mixed.
It was just, you're in the black area.
Everybody's black, you know.
There's another area that's like a Polish area.
It's like a Jewish area.
It's like an Italian area.
It's very different.
But look I saw things that were rough in these neighborhoods it was but just just overall
You want to know what it was like? It was dirty. It smelled bad high crime
Violent people are constantly being murdered
Drugs everywhere
alcohol everywhere poverty everywhere trash everywhere
So I have an idea why don't we take the culture of that neighborhood?
then let's pump it into our suburban headphones. How does that make any sense?
Can someone explain that to me? Let's take a culture that comes out of
that, let's take music that comes out of that neighborhood, that culture, that
mentality, that way of life, and then let's bring that into the homes of
successful people of all colors, right?
And let's just bring that music into the homes of successful, God-fearing people so that their teenagers
can listen to a glorification of some dirty, sleazy, fornicating, drug-induced gang lifestyle.
Look, what does the Bible say about gangs?
Read Proverbs chapter 1.
Gangs are wicked.
Gangsters are wicked, criminals are wicked, pimps are wicked.
It's wicked to be a prostitute, it's wicked to run prostitutes,
it's wicked to drink and to do drugs and to do all these things.
It's wicked to father a bunch of children and not be there for them.
You're supposed to be there in the home raising your children.
And you know what? Don't kill the messenger, that is a failed culture, that is a failed neighborhood.
Those are failed systems and we should not want to glorify them or emulate them in any way.
Oh, that ghetto life. Why would you want to be ghetto? I don't want to be ghetto. I'd rather be classy.
And look, people that grow up in the ghetto,
I feel bad for them.
That's why I was trying to go there
and win as many of them to Christ as I could.
At least get them saved.
At least they get to go to heaven.
Even if they live in a filthy style on this earth,
they can have a mansion in heaven.
Amen.
Right?
And hopefully if we could teach these children
and teenagers biblical principles.
God's word they could grow up and thankfully in America we live in the land of opportunity
They have access to all kinds of ways to improve their lives and and learn skills and get educated and get a trade and
Get out of there and do something better with their life and get out of that neighborhood
Okay, and look you can sit there
And you know you get these little like these little left-wing white liberals that are just all like pious and everything
They don't want to live in that neighborhood
You think they want to live in that neighborhood?
I would never want to live in that neighborhood.
It would be scary to live in that neighborhood.
You know, I was there typically in the daytime.
And the weirdest, most wicked, criminal, evil people were typically asleep and only coming out at night.
So we were talking to the nice, normal people who were actually awake and active in the daytime.
I went there a couple times at night.
Just me and my because you know when you're young and stupid
This is the kind of stuff you do me and my ministry leader that I met on the first day
We had a tradition every six months we'd go there and go soul winning there in the middle of the night just to
Just to show how bad we were so I'm just obviously it was a dumb thing to do
But this is how young people think you know and we would go there
We'd be soul-winning at like 11 12 at night shirt and tie and walking down the street and people thought that we were just absolutely insane and
They're just like what are you doing here at this hour? Like are you trying to you just want to die?
But we you know we always got people saved it was always fun, but kids don't try this at home
But man alive, but you know why I think we were safe even when we went there in the middle of the night soul winning
You know occasionally, I think it's because we had ties on and we're holding Bibles in our hands and there was sort of a
an idea of
Well, these are preachers and we don't have a problem with them or maybe even a little bit of grudging respect
Since a lot of the black culture is Baptist even if they're not
saved or believe in it or religious at all there's kind of just like oh, you know
We're Baptist or whatever and so I think that's probably what protected us, you know
I don't think I would have gone I should you know
I wouldn't have wanted to go through those swamps of sadness
You know without this right here to protect me because I think this is what protected me is being there with the gospel
Bible in my hand shirt and tie
You know nobody messed with us because we were there just doing the Lord's work just preaching the gospel
So I literally only had one in over two years had one person try to pick a fight with me one time in
The daytime some guy just yelled something at me, and I just said nothing and it was over that fast
That was the scariest thing that ever happened. It was nothing
But man, I wouldn't want to live there though. I wouldn't even feel safe going to bed at night in that neighborhood that neighborhood was scary
and it was dirty, it smelled bad, it was trashy,
and you know what?
The best thing for people to do who live in that neighborhood
would be to grow up and get out of that neighborhood.
And not get out of that neighborhood by stealing
and making a bunch of money by stealing,
or get out of the neighborhood by selling drugs
to get out of the neighborhood,
or by producing filthy hip hop music
for your little Jew controller.
No, the right way to get out of that neighborhood
is through diligence and hard work.
And I'm not saying it's going to be easy.
All of us have challenges in our lives,
but that's what needs to happen, unfortunately.
I devoted years of my life
to helping that exact specific demographic, you know?
And I'm still going out and reaching the black people
of this world in the Caribbean and stuff.
So you know what?
But just because I love black people
and just because I want them to be saved,
doesn't mean I'm not going to get up and say
that the hip hop culture,
is trash and that this kind of American inner city black hip-hop culture is wicked and it is not helping them and
It's not helping the white people to get into it either. It's not helping anybody and
This is something that we should eschew and
We need to
Be filling our minds with Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
Okay, and the last thing we need to be filling our minds with
is rap music.
You know, if you want to do like a spectrum,
what you really should be filling your mind with over here,
Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,
and then like the worst thing you could be listening to,
and I'm sure, yeah, we could find some weird,
you know, Satanic, faggot music somewhere, I'm sure.
You know, Marilyn Manson or something, yeah, you know what?
And that is a sermon that we could preach.
But here's the thing, rap music is right there
as being some of the worst.
Trash and so you know I hope that you will just think about this and if you have rap music in your life get it out of your life
You say well, you know, I'm listening to rap music that the lyrics aren't like that
But the problem is though you're training your mind to love a genre where 99% of it is like that
So even if you find this one clean example and you're like well hey
I have this one clean example of rap music and that you know
But you're training your brain
Especially as a young person because your musical taste kind of gets set for life when you're a teenager or 20s
If you ever noticed people always listen to that they always kind of revert back to that music from when they were a kid
Do you really want to train your brain to love?
a genre where 99% of it is like that,
and you know that I'm telling the truth,
that all, we could look at the top 30 songs,
top 30 artists, top 30 albums, it's gonna be bad,
and you know it.
So yeah, you know, I could go into the trash can
and I could dig out something edible from the trash can
that would be nutritious for me,
but it's not really the best place to get my food
when 99% of what's there is gonna make me sick or kill me.
And so you do not want to even be trained to like this kind of music.
And so if you have this in your life, get it out of your life.
And you children and teenagers, you know, listen to me.
This music, you might just think, oh, I can just listen to this all day.
It's going to have no effect on me.
It's forming your worldview.
It really is.
Like, our music forms our worldview.
The things that we hear, the entertainment, the books that we read, all of it is forming our worldview.
Do you want to have a worldview of slums and ghettos
and places where people are failing in life,
where they need missionaries to come in and try to...
help them and pull them out of that trash.
No, you need to fill your mind with something
that's gonna give you a godly worldview.
Fill your mind with the word of God,
Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs
that should dominate your worldview
and not fill in your mind with the devil's trash.
Let's borrow it and have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for your word.
Lord God, we just pray that you would just help us all to be aware of what comes into our eyes and what comes into our ears and
Lord help us to reach the black communities of this world that are that are struggling and that are
In despair today Lord help us to love them and to bring them the gospel and to win them to Christ Lord and
Help us to go to the mission field and win even more people to Christ
And Lord God, I just pray that you would just bless us
as we go our separate ways this week.
Help us to keep you in all of our thoughts
and meditate upon your word throughout our week
as we serve you and live lives that would be pleasing to you.
And in Jesus' name, we pray, amen.
Amen. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
take your hymnals, please.
Go to hymn 312, hymn number 312.
Open my eyes that I may see.
We get together on that first now three one two open my eyes that I may see glimpses of truth
That has for me him number 312 sing it out now
Silently now I wait for thee Ready, my God, thy will to see
Open my eyes, illumine me Spirit divine
Open my ears that I may hear
Voices of truth now stand as clear
And while the wiggles fall on my ear
Everything false shall be stopped here
Silently now I wait for thee
Ready, my God, my will to see
the warm truth everywhere. Open my heart and let me prepare. Love with my children thus to share.
Silently now I wait for thee. Ready, my God, I will to sing.
Man, good thing you're a buddy, we are dismissed.