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Welcome to anchor Baptist Church. It is time to go ahead and get started

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If you would grab a hymnal and turn to him number 158

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Him number 158 158 oh for a thousand tongues to sing

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158 there on that first verse.

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Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing,

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my great, great Jesus prays,

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O, Mary's love.

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prayer.

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Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day and the opportunity to gather together once again,

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to sing praises under your name, to hear preaching from your word. Lord, I just want to also take a

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moment to thank you for the great success we had out, soul winning yesterday for all the soul

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winners that showed up, as well as all the salvations that were had and the seeds that were

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planted. Lord, we just thank you for the opportunity to be fellow laborers in the harvest. For this

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service, Lord, I just pray that you'd be with us, that everything's done decently and in order, that you open

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our ears to the message and that you fill pasture with your spirit. These

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things we pray in Jesus name, Amen. For our next hymn number 183, Oh How I Love

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Jesus. Hymn number 183, 183, Oh How I Love Jesus.

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183 let's sing it out all together

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you this morning. At this time we'll go through our announcements. So if you don't have a

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bulletin raise your hand and Usher can go ahead and bring you one there. On the front

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we have our updated Bible verse of the week for memorization. That is 2 Timothy chapter

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number 2 verse 9. So keep working on this chapter. On the inside you'll see our service

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times are listed there. Sunday morning at 1030, evening at 430, and our Wednesday

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Wednesday Bible study through Mark at 7 o'clock.

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Below that we have all of our church-wide soul winning times.

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And just an update to the ladies time, it's no longer going to be meeting here at the

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church.

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So there will be an address sent out in the signal group by Ms. Nikki.

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And so be watching for that.

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So now it's going to be Sundays and Wednesdays meeting here at the church.

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Tuesdays and Saturdays meet on location.

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So keep that in mind.

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Below we have our year-to-date soul winning statistics for the US also for the Philippines

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Bringing us to 1323 for the year so great job so far this year with soul winning

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Then we also have our online visitor card as well as our online giving information and our prayer list

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There was an updated prayer request from miss Ashley Dickens

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So keep that in mind and as always if you have any

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requests, please do email the church and we'll add that for you. Also on the back,

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I just want to say thank you to all those who participated in or prayed for

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the soul winning marathon yesterday. Shawnee was very, very receptive.

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It was a really great time and if you've never been on these soul winning marathons, it's not just soul winning

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It's also a great time of fellowship hanging out with each other. And so it was a really great time

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We ended up having 26 soul winners and 18 salvations

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So definitely very receptive area and I had a great time

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We do have our upcoming events there this upcoming next Sunday, August 23rd will be the men's preaching night

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Make sure you sign up on the sign-up sheet

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back there if you want to participate.

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And please do indicate your sermon topic

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that you're going to be preaching about.

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September 19th is going to be our next soul-winding marathon

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in Pawhuska, and that is the Osage Indian territory.

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It's kind of a famed, or I would say infamous,

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town as far as Indian history goes.

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And so I'm really looking forward to visiting that place

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and preaching the gospel there to the Osage Indians.

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Thanks for watching!

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Then we have October 10th is our next soul winning marathon after that I should say.

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And that's going to be in Joplin, Missouri.

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And again we're teaming up with two other churches to do this.

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Kansas City Baptist Church and Straight Paths Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri.

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So we're all going to come together in Joplin, Missouri for a big soul winning marathon.

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sure to participate in that if you can.

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Then October 24th is going to be just a great fellowship day the or family farm on a Saturday

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And that's just an all-day event lots of fun looking forward to that

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October 31st is the chili cook-off or annual chili cook-off and that is on I want to say Saturday this year keep that in mind

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Then November 7th is the Enid Oklahoma soul winning marathon very receptive area

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So looking forward to our upcoming events. That's going to be it for announcements this morning

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Let's go ahead and go to our third song together

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For our third song, turn if you would to 405.

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Pym number 405, 405, the banner of the cross.

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us.

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405, let's sing it out all together.

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There's a royal banner, given for display to the soldiers.

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as the offering plates are being passed,

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turn if you would to Psalm 149.

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Psalm 149.

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Psalm 149, Praise ye the LORD, sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.

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Let Israel rejoice in him that made him. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their king.

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Let them praise his name in the dance. Let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

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For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people. He will beautify the meek with salvation.

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Let the saints be joyful in glory. Let them sing aloud upon their beds.

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Let the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hands,

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to execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishments upon the people,

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to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron,

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to execute upon them the judgment written. This honor have all His saints. Praise you the Lord.

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Let's pray. Your heavenly father, thank you for the great soul-willing marathon.

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today I pray that you'd fill Pastor Oz with your spirit, help him to preach an edifying

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sermon for us this morning and help us to receive it. Amen.

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and just the activities that we do as Christians. This is an area of life that's very important

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that we should give a lot of heed to. The title of my sermon is this Biblical Principles for Music.

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Biblical Principles for Music. Just like every other topic that we approach in life,

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we should base our standards, our opinions, our doctrines off of what the Bible teaches.

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And the Bible does teach a lot about music.

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And I'm here this morning to give our church a Biblical perspective on music because of

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the fact that I believe that there's been some unbiblical extremes on both sides of

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the spectrum on this topic.

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On one hand, you have the more ultra conservative side of music that I've heard pastors say

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things like, minor chords are simple.

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which is just like, what are you talking about?

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Like our hymnal is literally full of minor chords,

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or these dork, you know, redneck pastors talking about,

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you know, gotta watch out for those triads.

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It's like, bro, that's just a chord.

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Like, you don't even know what you're talking about, right?

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So you got just this extreme on one side of things,

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just acting like certain notes are sinful,

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certain instruments are sinful.

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That's not what the Bible teaches.

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Then I think you've got the ultra-liberal permissive side of things that just wants

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to pretend like music is just completely morally ambivalent and you know what, all worldly

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music is just on the table and we just shouldn't even have any standards for music.

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And you know what, I would submit to you that's not a Christian view either.

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That is not a biblical view either.

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So I'm going to give you what the Bible teaches, but you know the Bible always gives us a very

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balanced view on things.

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this world is

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is the one having the extreme opinions.

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And the Bible actually gives a pretty balanced opinion.

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So because of that, balanced views often pisses everyone off.

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And so if I piss everyone off this morning,

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then I've probably done my job as a preacher.

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I'll give you what the Bible teaches as far as the Bible's principles for music,

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then I'm going to explain to you how I come to my own personal standards for music.

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Now you've got to obviously realize there's a difference between these things.

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What is the standard?

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It's I'm looking at biblical principles, and then I'm coming to my own personal preferences, ideas.

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And you know, as Christians, we all come to a little bit different standards in life, and that is fine.

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But before I give you my standards and our church's standards, first I just want to lay

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down what does the Bible teach about music, okay?

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Number one...

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Music is an essential part of the Christian life.

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Let's just lay down that foundation that music is essential,

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is an essential part of the Christian life.

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Look at Psalm 149 verse 1. It says,

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Praise ye the Lord. How do we do that?

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Notice this word, sing unto the Lord a new song

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and his praise, notice, in the congregation of saints.

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So singing is actually a command of God. Right? So just like the Bible commands us to pray,

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to study His Word, to go to church, to preach the gospel, to abstain from sin,

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from breaking God's commandments, another commandment is to sing. It is God's commandment

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to sing and specifically singing where? In the congregation of saints.

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So some people want to argue like, you know, is it really a sin to not go to church?

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Well how are you going to fulfill this command if you're not in church?

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Because the Bible says that you must sing where?

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In the congregation of saints.

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So, I can prove that not going to church is a sin from many different verses, but here's

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one way I can prove it, is that if you're not going to church, you can't be singing

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in the congregation of saints.

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That would be a sin.

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Also, if you're coming to church and you're not singing with the congregation of the saints,

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you are sinning.

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You are not right with God because the Bible commands us to do so.

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Okay, look at verse number six. It says this, let the high praises of God, notice, be in their mouth.

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And a two-edged sword in their hand. So when it comes to praising God and singing unto God,

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God's emphasis is that His praises should be in our mouth.

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So the Bible does not emphasize, hey, you need to just listen to God in the music.

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Sit back and just listen to someone sing music.

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You are supposed to be participating.

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The praise of God should be in your mouth.

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This is why in our church, we don't have all these specials, right?

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Where a lot of churches, they'll bring up the college kids and the college kids will

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come up and do some sort of special and everyone's just listening to them.

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Look, I'm not saying...

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church is bad and they do something like that but we don't do that because of the

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fact that we believe the praises of God should be in all our mountains that we

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should be singing together and you know I didn't like going to churches where

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you know they're singing this hymn or the spiritual song and we got to sit

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there and watch like I wanted to partake I wanted to sing unto the Lord and it

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wasn't just it just didn't feel right to listen to someone else singing

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Roman's tap number 6.

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You can make all the excuses you want in the world.

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You don't like your voice.

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You don't like to sing.

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You don't like this. You don't like that.

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But at the end of the day, I'm here to tell you, singing is a commandment of God.

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And if you are not singing praises to God in the congregation,

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you are in sin.

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You are not right with God.

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You are breaking God's commandments.

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Right.

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And it's just weird why you would come to God's house to break His commandments.

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Like you would think this would be the place where you're getting more spiritual, where you're...

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God's commandments, but you know what? People that just sit there, stone-faced, not singing

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out, that person is for sure not building the spirit. They are breaking God's commandments.

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They are not writing to God. They need to sing out. Look at Romans 6 verse 12. The Bible

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says, Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the

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lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin.

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but yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead.

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Notice this.

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And your instruments or your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

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Right?

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So we have this body that God has blessed us with and we get to choose how we use our

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members.

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Right?

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People could use their hands to minister unto the saints.

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People could use their hands to kill someone. People could use their feet to go preach the gospel or

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and he's given us eternal security, and he's given us his Holy Spirit, and he's given us

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his Word, and he's given us the Church, and he's given us so many blessings.

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I mean, I think that the Lord is worthy of us singing praise to him.

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And it just shows a bad heart when someone's not willing to sing out and praise God.

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Go back to Psalm 149.

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Psalm 149, look at verse 1.

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The Bible says, Praise ye the Lord, sing unto the Lord.

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Notice a new song.

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His praise in the congregation of saints. There's nothing wrong with a new song

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Now does that mean that every new song is pleasing to God? Of course not, right?

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There's new songs pumped out in this world all the time. That's not pleasing to God

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But should we just say, you know thus saith the Lord the only songs that God takes pleasure in are songs written in the

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1600s and 1700s and 1800s, you know, can someone just dogmatic you say that

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Absolutely not.

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Right.

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Because the Bible says we are to sing unto the Lord a new song.

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And you've got to remember that the songs in our hymnal were all new at one point.

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They were all cutting edge and fresh off the press.

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It was brand new songs at one point.

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But you know what?

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Those songs though are pleasing unto God.

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And so there's nothing wrong with a new song so long as it's a song that's honoring unto

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the Lord.

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Right.

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So there's nothing wrong with a new song.

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There's three.

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The Bible says, let them praise his name in the dance.

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Let's switch topics for a minute.

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Let's talk about dancing.

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Can a preacher say, thus saith the Lord, all dancing is wrong?

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Absolutely not.

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Because the Bible is literally saying to praise the Lord in a dance.

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But what's the difference between, you know, this world's dancing and dancing unto the Lord?

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Well, I may not be able to exactly describe to you the different types of dances,

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but one is coming from a heart of wanting to please God,

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is rejoicing over the things that God has done.

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I mean, Daniel, or I'm sorry, David is like dancing all his might out to the Lord.

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You know, this is different though than the world's dancing.

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Like, just because dancing is in the Bible, are we going to say all dancing is fine?

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Okay, so we can praise the Lord of the dance.

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So the dancing that goes on in the night clubs is fine.

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So the dances that the pop stars of this world is doing is fine.

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Wouldn't that be a ridiculous standard to come to?

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So it's like, just because we say, hey, new songs are okay,

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as long as they're freezing, please the Lord.

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Therefore, just all music in this world is just totally fine and totally good.

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Wouldn't that be a ridiculous standard to also come to?

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Okay, here it goes.

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It says, let them praise his name in the dance.

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Let them sing phrases unto him, notice, with the timbrel and harp.

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for the Lord take it pleasure in his people he will beautify the meat of salvation okay let's

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talk about instruments there's nothing wrong with instruments right there's nothing wrong

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with praising God with different types of instruments in fact this is a command of God

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right here it says let them sing praises unto him with the temporal and heart and yet you have an

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entire you know Christian denomination today called the church of Christ yep that literally

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it is a sin to have musical instruments in church, which is absolutely asinine.

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That is a crazy doctrine. The Bible says, hey, let them sing phrases unto him.

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Notice with timbrel and harp. What is a timbrel?

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A timbrel is a tambourine or similar instrument.

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Right. What's a tambourine?

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A tambourine is a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it

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and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame played by striking with the knuckles,

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shaking and the like.

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Okay, so again, can a creature get up and be right with his Bible?

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And dogmatic say, thus saith the Lord, all drums are of the devil.

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All percussion instruments are of the devil.

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No.

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No.

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Okay, and so look, already just in this intro,

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I've probably pissed off, you know, the vast majority of christened us.

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Because you got people that are so extreme on one side or the other where they're like,

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you know, all drums are wicked, this certain type of musical instrument is wicked,

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you know, a new song is wicked, a certain sound is wicked.

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Then you got people just saying like, all music is great and all worldly music is wonderful.

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And I'm here to tell you that both of those views are wrong.

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Right.

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Those views are wrong.

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Psalm 150.

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Psalm 150.

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Now look.

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You can come to a personal standard, you can say, hey, you know, the sound of this world's music,

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I don't really want that sound, and so you know what, we're not gonna have drugs in our church

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just as a personal preference. People are allowed to have their personal preferences.

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Right.

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But if another church, you know, I've seen IFD churches have like a snare drum to sound like,

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you know, a war type drum. Can I just say like that church is wicked as hell for having that?

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No, it's not.

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Like, why would I take them apart for something that the Bible does not condemn?

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You know, if they're preaching the gospel, if they're preaching hard on sin, if they're king-tains only,

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if they're doing the work of God, hey, I may not agree necessarily with that, but am I going to judge them for that?

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I am not going to judge them for that. I'm not going to say anything about that whatsoever.

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Does that mean that I have to have drones in my church? No, we're not going to.

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And that is my personal preference. Okay, Psalm 150.

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Look at verse 4.

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Praise him with the timbrel and dance.

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Praise him, notice, with strength, instruments, and order.

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Has it been off this whole time?

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No.

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Well, we've got the timbrel.

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OK.

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It's beautiful.

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Okay, so Psalm 150, sorry about that, let me get some populated here.

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Psalm 150 verse number four it says, praise him, notice the last part of that verse, praise him,

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notice with stringed instruments and organs. So again, this idea of, oh, you can't have

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instruments in church, the Bible saying, praise God with stringed instruments.

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And you know what we have at our church?

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We have two stringed instruments, a piano and a guitar.

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And even the piano is a little bit

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of a percussion instrument too,

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because you got hammers that are hitting those strings.

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And so you know what?

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We're just obeying what the Bible says there.

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Praise them with stringed instruments and organs.

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Go if you would to actually keep your place there.

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I'll just read for you.

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Psalm 33 verse three says this,

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sing unto him a new song, play skillfully.

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with a loud noise.

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Another attribute of music is that we should be trying

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to play and sing as skillfully as possible.

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Now that's not to say if someone's not super skilled

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that they shouldn't sing.

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You absolutely should sing.

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You should give your best, all that you have,

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but I am for people learning music,

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increasing in their skill, maybe getting musical training,

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voice training, musical instrument training.

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That's great because

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Bible says to praise praise him with skill. Okay now look at Psalm 149 verse 5. Here's

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another attribute of biblical music. The Bible says this, let the saints be joyful.

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Glory let them sing aloud

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Upon their beds look this is so important sing with some joy

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Sing with some passion act like you actually love God act like you actually are happy that you're saved and here's the thing

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There's a danger to where oh, it's okay. We you know we have all the right music standards

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We have all the right songs we have the right spirit

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We have the right culture, but yet people just aren't singing out and it's dead and then visitors go

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to the new evangelical churches, they go to the rock and roll churches, and they seem

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to care.

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They seem to be feeling something.

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They seem to be excited.

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And you know what?

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That often attracts people because they could tell when a service is just dead.

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And you know what, it is dangerous for a church to have all the right music standards, but

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to just be dead in spirit and to not care.

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And it's like, here's what I want.

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I want to have the right songs, the right attitude and the right spirit.

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I want to sing.

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We are on the winning side and sing like I'm actually on the winning side.

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Want to sing praise the Lord praise the Lord let the earth hear his voice and actually act like I'm praising the Lord

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I want to sing it as well with my soul and actually sing like it is well with my soul and a lot of people

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You know, they're singing the right tunes. But where is the heart like where's the passion?

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Where is the energy and it's like you are doing a disservice?

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To the fundamental baptist movement who I submit has the right music standards

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Has the right method of of worshiping and singing god, but you come to church and it's just dead and they're like man

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I'll go to the pentacostal church down the road

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I'll go to the new evangelical church down the road with the ccm because they really care about what they're singing

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And look that's rough because you go to those churches and yeah

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It's real emotional because like all their songs are geared towards women

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Like I feel like I can't even participate in it as a man because it's so faggity

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I mean, I remember growing up

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I only went to church a handful of times literally probably like less than five times in my life

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But every time even as a child, I just remember thinking like this is so gay

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right because the CCM was just so effeminate

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and you got the slow swaying and the hands waving and the rocking back and

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forth

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and the crying and it's like because these churches are just

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geared towards women let's just be honest okay and it's like

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we want to have a service where men and women can sing out in praise to the Lord

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and you know it's not like effeminate to sing these old-fashioned

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songs and hymns you know I think you're effeminate if you're afraid to sing out to God

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Is what I think you know you're acting ridiculous now go if you would to Psalm 81. Let's look at several verses here

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Psalm 81

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Notice it says in verse 1 sing aloud unto God our strength

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Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob right so joy

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Passion energy not like praise the Lord praise the Lord

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Let the earth hear his voice. It's just like that's not exactly singing a joyful noise unto God

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That's not exactly singing aloud

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Okay, look at Psalm 95

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Psalm 95 verse 1 Oh come let us sing unto the Lord

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Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation Psalm 98 Psalm chapter 98

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Verse 4, make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth.

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Make a loud noise and rejoice and sing praise.

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Sing unto the Lord with the harp.

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With the harp and the voice of a psalm with trumpets and sounds of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord the king

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Psalm 100 look at psalm 100 verse 1 make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye lands

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serve the Lord with

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Gladness come before his presence with saying I mean this is just a theme over and over and over

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It's just be happy be joyful sing aloud have a good attitude have some passion

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Care have joy in your heart, you know because that is what is fitting for our God. I mean, you know, it's funny

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He's like you go to college football games

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And people in the crowds, they will chant their team's little chant.

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They'll chant their heart out and they will scream.

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And it's like, go, go, fight big blue, fight, fight BSU.

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You know, they're just screaming it out.

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And they've got the trumpeters trumpeting and they've got passion and they've got energy.

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What's the Florida one?

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They'll do the Indian thing.

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Oh, right.

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They care.

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And then people come to church and just do nothing.

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And it's like, how hypocritical is it

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that you'll go to a sports game, you'll scream, you'll yell,

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you'll cheer, you'll jump, you'll clap,

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you'll stamp the feet.

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You actually have passion about your stupid ball game,

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but people don't care about singing out to God.

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That's a shame.

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Because look, when you go to a college football game

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and you see a crowd that has energy

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and you see a band that has energy

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and people are cheering and people are doing the chants,

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you know what it shows?

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Man, these people love their team.

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Man, these college kids, they love their team.

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They're loyal to their team.

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They're rooting for their team.

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Now, if you've ever been to a game

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where one side had the energy and one side didn't,

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it's like, ooh, this is rough.

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Like, they can't even cheer for their team.

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They're kind of ashamed of their team, right?

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You've seen those sports fans, like, man, they're so bad,

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they're kind of ashamed of their team.

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You know, they don't even show out in numbers.

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They don't even fill the stadium.

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The Oakland A's, right?

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You know, back when it was the Oakland A's,

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you know, they ended up moving to Las Vegas

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because no one would come to the games.

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No one had any passion for the A's.

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No one would support them.

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And it's like, look, we serve the Lord of Hosts.

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We serve the King of Kings.

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How embarrassing for us.

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when it's like Christians don't even care about their own god.

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Christians aren't fired up about their own God Christians can't sing out about their own God

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Whereas the world will sing out and cry out for their sports teams

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False religion will sing out and cry out for their false gods

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The pagan Indians will have a little bit of energy at their powwows won't they and it's like what a shame that we as Christians

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Often have this reputation of just dead quiet no energy no passion

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And again, we are doing ourself a disservice as Baptists

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Because of the fact that people are looking for some people that actually have some zeal or care and they're like well the Pentecostals seem

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To care well the new evangelicals seem to care and it's like look we as Baptist we have the truth

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We have the right doctrine we have the right standards

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But if you don't have the right spirit with those standards you are doing the movement a disservice

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And I'm just gonna be honest like this is something our churches needs to work on and it's just been you know an issue

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For a long time and look I think

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that our church is really great,

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but everyone has areas where we could work on,

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and I think it's gotten better,

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but it still needs to improve people participating

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and singing out, because you know what?

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God is worthy of that.

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Yeah.

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Okay, go to 1 Samuel chapter 16.

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So I said number one,

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music is an essential part of the Christian life.

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We saw some attributes there.

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You gotta be joyful, right?

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Musical instruments are great.

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You could sing a new song.

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But the praise is directed towards god. That's what we're doing is we're praising god. It's not about glorifying ourselves

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It's not about listening necessarily to music

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It's about god's praise as being in your mouth with the right heart and praise to god number two. Let me say this music

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affects your spirit

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music

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Affects your spirit first samuel 16 verse 14

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But the spirit of the lord departed from saul

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And notice an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him and Saul's servants said unto him behold now an

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Evil spirit from God trouble with thee let our Lord now command thy servants

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Which are before thee to seek out a man who is a cunning player on and harp and it shall come to pass

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When the evil spirit from God is upon thee that he shall play with his hand and thou shalt be well

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verse go to verse 22 and Saul sent to Jesse saying let David I pray thee stand before me for he hath found favor in my

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sight and it came to pass

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Notice when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul that David took in harp and played with his hand

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So Saul was refreshed and was well and the evil spirit departed from him

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So here we have Saul, the spirit of the Lord has departed from him.

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He has an evil spirit that's troubling him.

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The sweet Psalmist of Israel shows up and starts playing on a harp and the evil spirit

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departs from Saul and Saul is refreshed and he is well.

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What can we gather from this?

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Music affects your spirit.

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This is so obvious like how could anyone deny that music affects your spirit? Here's the thing this world

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Understands that music affects your spirit, right?

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Because you know you go into a certain type of restaurant you're gonna hear a certain type of music

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You go into a really high-class nice Italian restaurant. You're not gonna hear Metallica playing

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You're not going to hear techno playing.

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You're going to hear more of a soft, classy type music

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because they are looking for a certain spirit

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in their establishment.

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If you go to a college football game,

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when the players come out running on the field,

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you know what you're not going to hear?

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Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da.

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You're not going to hear that because it's

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like who wants to come out to go fight the enemy,

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to go play hard again?

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them listening to that type of music they're trying to set a certain kind of

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spirit and there's gonna be a heavy tone and there's gonna be a fighting spirit

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and there's gonna be a harder type of music to pump those guys up and look if

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that's the spirit you're going for maybe even there's a time and a place to get

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you fired up for something like that I'm not even necessarily saying that that in

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and of itself is wrong now some of the music they're playing is trash and

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blasphemous and teaches bad things that's true absolutely but I'm just

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saying like

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If you go to a football game, they're trying to get a certain type of spirit.

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Okay?

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I've never been to one, but if you went to a bar, I would imagine they're playing a certain

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kind of music.

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I would imagine if you go to a bar, I would imagine if you go to a nightclub, they're

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probably not singing Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.

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I'm sure there's a type of music that they're looking for.

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You know, soldiers going into battle,

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you know, they're flying on the AC-130,

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they're about to parachute out into the enemy.

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You know, they're probably listening

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to a certain kind of music, right,

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to get them fired up for battle.

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Okay, you go to a boxing match,

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there's gonna be a certain kind of music

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when the boxers come out.

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Corporate America knows this very well, right?

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Everything in this world is sold with music.

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You know that?

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Every single...

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commercial has music, every single short or TikTok reel has music to grab your attention.

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Look, if the company is trying to get you to donate money to the nonprofit to go to

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the starving kids in Africa, there's going to be a certain kind of music playing when

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they want you to donate to the animal shelter and they show you the poor emaciated animals.

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There's going to be a certain kind of music playing and it's not going to be a cheerful

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one. Why? Because folks, let's just live in reality for a moment. Music affects your

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Spirit. Right. Not all music has the same spirit. And just to

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pretend like all music is just morally ambivalent and doesn't

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change your spirit whatsoever is just to ignore reality is to say

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that you know more than all of corporate America and all sports

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teams and all of the U. S. Military because look music is

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affecting your spirit. Okay. Go to second Kings chapter three.

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Let's let's prove this further.

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And look, there's even been times, like I remember Verity Baptist Church at one point

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made a documentary about psychopath reprobates.

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Now that's a pretty dark topic.

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It's a pretty creepy topic and you know what they did to go with the spirit of their film

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They put some kind of like darker music some more creepy music and a lot of people were just like saying that's crazy

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That's out of this world. That's wrong. That's wicked. It's like when you're talking about psychopath reprobates

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What background music do you want like praise the Lord?

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Praise the Lord Jeffrey Dahmer eats people like no it's like it makes sense like we're talking about a really creepy weird topic

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Okay, we're gonna set the tone like hey, we're talking about a serious topic

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So again, this sermon is just gonna piss everyone off. That's okay. Second Kings chapter 3 look at verse 14 and

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Elisha said as the Lord of hosts liveth before whom I stand

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Surely were it not that I regarded the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah. I would not look toward thee nor CD

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Now bring me a minstrel and it came to pass look at this when the minstrel played that the hand of the Lord came upon him

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Right. So there's a certain spirit with the music that was playing there that invited God's spirit that

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Invited the spirit of the Lord that there was a different, you know mood with this music that brought God's spirit go to Ephesians chapter 5

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Ephesians chapter 5 and of course once the Spirit of God came on him after he played that song he started preaching

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Right. This is why we have a song service before we start the preaching is because we're trying to get both myself and the listener

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Filled with the Holy Spirit of God

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We're saying hey Holy Spirit come in this place move in this place work in people's hearts fill us with God's Spirit

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You know, we're trying to have that type of an atmosphere in church

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Ephesians 5 look at verse 18 says and be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the spirit

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Speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord

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So these are contrasted against each other wine which is alcohol in this context and being filled with the spirit Psalms

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songs

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Spiritual songs hymns. Okay, what does alcohol do? You know what?

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does it affects your spirits. Alcohol affects your spirit, right? People could be normally

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even keeled and you drink alcohol and you become a violent raging maniac.

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Or you could be someone who's normally very straight and narrow and you drink alcohol and all of a sudden now you're thinking about cheating

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On your spouse or you go and cheat on your spouse, right?

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Because alcohol affects your spirit and you know what also affects your spirit song songs hymns and spiritual songs, right?

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These are contrasted. Hey be filled with the spirit of God. How are you gonna be filled with the spirit of God?

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Hey the songs hymns spiritual songs how you gonna be filled with the spirit of this world drink alcohol

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That'll get you filled with the spirit of this world

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Notice these things are compared against each other.

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So let me say this.

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I want to be very clear.

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I don't believe there's such thing

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as an inherently sinful note.

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I don't think that minor chords are sinful.

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I don't think that triads are sinful.

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Those are called notes or those are called chords, okay?

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Okay, I'm not gonna say this.

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I am not gonna dogmatically say

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that all worldly music is sinful.

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I am not gonna preach for doctrines,

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the commandments of men.

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Now, my belief is that most of this world music is sinful.

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I do believe that. I believe the vast majority of this world's music is sinful.

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Why? Well, one reason why is because it's coming from a different spirit.

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Right? Do you really think that the musicians of this world are pumping out music that has a godly spirit?

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Absolutely not right oftentimes musicians are very wicked people right they're often really into drugs and fornication

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And the love of money these are not often godly individuals going to church reading the Bible

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Praying soul winning like let's just be real for a minute. These are often very wicked individuals

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Okay, I was in a coffee shop the other day funny enough writing this sermon and this is what I heard being played. Okay

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Love is just a history that they may prove and when you're gone, I'll tell them that my religion is you

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When punctuous which is another word for Pontius Pontius Pilate

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When Pontius Pilate comes to kill the king upon his throne

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I'm ready for their stones all dance dance dance with my hands hands hands above my head head head like jesus said

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You know that is lady gaga

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Now look am I saying that certain notes in that song is making it wicked

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But look if you think listening to lady gaga is okay. God help you

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I mean come on folks, she's literally singing about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

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And she's gonna dance, dance, dance with her hands above her head like Jesus said.

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That's blasphemous folks just saying oh, yeah, Jesus just told me to dance to put my hands up

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You know after the crucifixion after Pontius Pilate kills him like i'm sorry if you think listening to that is okay

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You're an idiot

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Disrespectfully, you are an idiot if you think that it is okay to listen to something like that now look

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It's not just bloody mary by lady gaga. That's the name of the song bloody mary by lady gaga

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You know what? It's also music genres that people think are more godly

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like country music.

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People say, well, of course, yeah,

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the pop of this world is wicked.

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And of course, the rock and the metal and the death metal.

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Of course, that stuff is bad.

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But bless God, Blake Shelton.

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Blake Shelton wrote a song called God's Country.

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I mean, it must be a good song, right?

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It's called God's Country.

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He's saying a song called God's Country.

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OK, here's the lyrics.

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It's gonna be hard not to laugh reading this right outside of this one church town

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There's a gold dirt road to a whole lot of nothing. I got a deed to the land, but it ain't my ground

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This is God's country. Don't you just doesn't that just give you chills right there, man?

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We pray for rain and thank him when it's fault. I mean he's praying this great song, right?

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Because it brings the grain and a little bit of money we put it back in the plate

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I guess that's why they call it God's country. I saw the light in a sunrise

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Sitting back in a 40 on a muddy riverside

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Getting baptized in holy water and shine with the dogs running. What the hell are you even talking about?

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Baptized in holy water and shot. Are you talking about moonshine?

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Are you talking about Catholic holy water and moonshine?

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What are you even talking about?

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Getting baptized in holy water and shined with the dogs running.

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I don't even know what that has to do with anything, but okay.

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Saved by the sound of the band found.

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Dixie whistle in the wind, that'll get you heaven bound.

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What?

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Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

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You've got to be saved by the sound of the Benfound.

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Dixie whistle in the wind, that'll get you heaven bound.

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Huh?

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What are you talking about?

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Oh man, country music's so great.

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No, it's stupid, folks.

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It's trash.

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It's not God's spirit.

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It's not a godly spirit.

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It's not putting you in the right spirit.

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This is garbage.

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This is just getting you put in the spirit

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of just not caring about doctrine or anything

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because he said the word God and he said the word pray

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and he said the word saved and he said the word baptized

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and he said the word holy.

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It's deception from the devil is what it is.

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That's what country music is. It's like that red dirt road. It's where I crashed my first car

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It's where I found jesus where I drank my first beer. It's just like

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I'm just sick and tired of country music and people pretending like it's somehow godly. It's not

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Now look, here's the thing. Here's what the devil wants you to do

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The devil wants you to be like hey, well look there are some songs in the world that are not inherently simple

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You know, I would agree with that statement

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There are some country songs that are not inherently sinful.

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But let me just tell you the truth right now, is the devil doesn't care about those songs.

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The devil just wants you to listen to those songs so that you turn on the radio

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and you hear, oh this song ain't so bad. And then another song comes on that teaches work salvation.

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or glorifies drinking alcohol or glorifies divorcing your spouse.

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You know he wants you to turn on a song it's like ah there's nothing wrong with this song

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but then he wants you know Sabrina Carpenter to come up next.

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He wants Taylor Swift to come up next.

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You say what's wrong with those people?

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Again, just like God help you if you think that it's okay to listen to Sabrina Carpenter

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and Taylor Swift.

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These people are demonic.

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These people are wicked as hell.

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And again it's like sure you could show me songs that aren't necessarily bad but the

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The devil just w-

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wants to get your heart.

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On the appetites of this world so that it could lead to worse things because here's the thing

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Not everyone has the self-control

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Now look if you have the self-control praise god for you being the exception

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Most people don't have the self-control to say like let me actually consider what i'm listening to

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Let me think about what's being sung here. You know, is this something that's godly or not?

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Most people are just kind of mindlessly consuming stuff and they get sucked down a dark road to going to super wicked music

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And I think like those of us who are parents in here, like if we actually just honest for a minute,

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would you be pleased your children just consuming this world's music? Like would you really be

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pleased to just hear them listening to a bunch of worldly music? Would you really want your kids

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to go to these worldly concerts and be a part of this type of scene? I think if we're honest

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with ourselves, the answer is no. Like we would not want our children to be in that type of

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environment. So why would I try to like wet their appetite with worldly music?

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Why would I try to be like, hey, let me give you a list of, you know, 15 songs that I think are not sinful.

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Because do you really think these foolish children are going to have the wisdom and self-control to just stick with those 15 songs?

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Or do you think they're just going to become addicted to this world's music and end up going down a dark path?

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I'll just tell you from personal experience, teenagers that I've seen that get super big into this world's music often quit church the moment they turn 18.

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That's just reality. That's just what I've seen. Okay, whereas kids that end up sticking with godly music standards

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Oftentimes I see them continuing to serve God after 18 now look that's anecdotal sure

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But I'm just saying like show me all these godly teenagers that are just totally into this world's music that are just great

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Soul winners like I don't think you could find it. I don't think you could show that to me. Okay

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Go to first John chapter 2 first John chapter number 2, you know, I thought about just showing everyone tons of examples of bad lyrics

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But honestly like let's just be if you're just honest with yourself

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You just pull up just about any worldly song and you're going to find promotion of alcohol

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drugs

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violence

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Hordom or false religion

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Like let's just be honest and I even looked up

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I said what are the top five most famous songs in the u.s

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Right now and a lot of them I couldn't even tell you the lyrics because they're so filthy

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songs by Drake songs by Bad Bunny

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They're too fit like I can't even censor it would be like be be be be I would just be bleeping out every word

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Like you wouldn't even know what I'm saying

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Look at first John 2 verse 15

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Bible says love not the world notice neither the things that are in the world

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If any man loved the world the love of the Father is not in him for all that is in the world

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The lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father

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But is of the world again

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I think if we're honest with ourselves is all worldly music simple no

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But is most of the world's music promoting things like the lust of the eyes the lust of the flesh and the pride of life

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The answer is yes

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What does the Bible command us do not love that stuff right God cares about where our affections are placed

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Again oftentimes our affections are going to be placed in the areas of life that we feed the most right you know people who?

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You know they just hate healthy food you want to know why they hate healthy because they never eat healthy food

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It's like people who just hate exercise, they hate running.

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It's because they never exercise.

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I just hate reading the Bible.

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I just hate going to church.

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It's probably because you just don't read the Bible and don't go to church.

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But oftentimes when you're feeding the right areas of your life, you know what you notice?

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You start to like those areas of life.

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Let me ask for just a raise of hands that when you first got saved, all right

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No one will judge you here when you first got saved and you heard heart preaching heart preaching

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It rubbed you the wrong way a little bit hard preaching when you first got saved. Okay. It's okay to admit that

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Okay now who says after growing I now like hard preaching

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Right that you see what i'm saying, right? So there could be things where like, oh, I don't really like this

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Or I do like this but have you ever thought the reason maybe you like this is because you're in the flesh and

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The reason maybe you don't like a certain thing is because you're not in the spirit or you're not in the flesh

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And it's like well, but you don't understand. It's like this music sounds good, and I like it

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It's like well duh because it's playing on the flesh

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Of course it sounds good, of course you like it.

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You know, people also like marijuana,

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and people also like alcohol,

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and people also like fornication,

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and people also like adultery.

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Why?

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Because, you know, this world plays on our flesh,

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and our flesh likes the things of the flesh.

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Our flesh likes worldly things.

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And so saying like, hey, you know, I like it,

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well it's like, okay, but that's not an argument

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that it's good, because you like it.

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What does the Bible say?

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I'll read for you.

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1st Thessalonians 522 the Bible says abstain from all appearance of evil

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Right? So like I care about the things that I do because as a leader, I know people are looking to me.

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I know that the children are looking to me.

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And it's like if I just started just listening to worldly music, just putting no restrictions on myself,

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just like, you know, promoting this kind of stuff.

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What are the children going to think? They're going to think, hey, then OK, let's just listen to Taylor Swift.

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Let's go for the death metal. Let's do all this kind of stuff.

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And the Bible doesn't say just avoid evil. It says avoid the appearance of evil.

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That's what the Bible says go to Colossians chapter number three

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So look like i'll just tell you my my opinion again. Let's have some nuance here. Generally speaking

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My opinion is that I don't like worldly music. I don't promote it. I don't think we should promote it

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I don't think we should promote it to the young kids in this church because in general it's bad

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In general, it's wicked

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Look at Colossians chapter 3 verse 1. It says, if you then be risen with Christ,

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seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

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Verse 2 is the key. Set your affection on things above.

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So look, we are supposed to control our hearts and our minds

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and we are supposed to tell our hearts what we're going to have our affection on

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not just consume whatever and ask ourself does this make me feel good

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does my heart like this we're supposed to say okay I'm going to put my love

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and affection on the things of God

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Now look, is there really, I mean, the world's music,

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let's just be honest, they're extremely talented.

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They're extremely talented.

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They've got music down to a literal science.

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They know how to play a song

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to immediately change your attitude.

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Sometimes you can hear a song and just like,

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all of a sudden you feel like you wanna cry

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or all of a sudden you feel like you wanna fight, right?

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Because they're very skilled.

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I'm not saying like man, you know listen to this guitar solo. Look how skilled it. Yeah, he is skilled

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Yeah, it does sound good. But the bible tells us we should set our affection on things above

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Right, so it's like, you know, you play some sort of worldly song and even though it has a horrible message

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It's teaching sinful things. It's like yeah, but it sounds good. It's like I know it sounds good

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But the bible says for us to set our affection on things above

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For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God when Christ who is our life shall appear

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Then shall you also appear with him in glory?

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Mortify notice mortify kill they'll therefore your members which are upon the earth listen to this list fornication

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uncleanness inordinate affection evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is idolatry for which things sake the wrath of God

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Cometh on the children of disobedience. Why is it that I would purposely listen to music that uses Colossians chapter 3 verse 5 as a

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Checklist I mean this is like a checklist of what most of this world's music is about fornication

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uncleanness inordinate affection evil concupiscence

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covetousness

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Idolatry you know the Bible says God's wrath is upon people because of these things

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So if God hates these sins if these sins makes God angry

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Why would I sit here and give my heart to and sing along and love songs that use this as a checklist?

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It's not it's not right. It's not godly. We should just be honest with ourselves as christians and say hey

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Yeah, it sounds good. But you know what? This is teaching wicked stuff. And so i'm not going to sing along with it

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I'm not going to promote this. This is something that's not good

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Now ask yourself this

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How would these lyrics affect your spirit?

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Okay, to God be the glory, great things He have done.

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So loved He the world that He gave us His Son,

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the vilest offender who truly believes

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that moment from Jesus a pardon receives.

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Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.

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Let the earth hear his voice.

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Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.

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Let the people rejoice.

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O come to the Father through Jesus the Son

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and give him the glory, great things he hath done.

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You know, singing that is gonna put you

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in a little bit of a different spirit.

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You know, a lot of this world's music,

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it gets you prideful.

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Right a lot of songs are trying to talk about you know how bad they are how tough they are how strong they're and you

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Sing that you start feeling a certain way about yourself

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You're not gonna feel prideful singing this great things he hath done to him be the glory

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Praise the Lord praise the Lord

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You know you're gonna have a certain spirit about yourself when you're singing praises to God versus the songs of this world

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Okay, how would this affect your spirit?

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I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold.

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You think that's gonna match any rap song ever in existence?

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I mean, they're wanting to put silver and gold on their teeth.

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They don't want Jesus. They don't care about Jesus.

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They want silver and gold on their teeth.

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I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold.

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I'd rather be His than have riches untold.

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I'd rather have Jesus than houses or lands.

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That's not promoting covetousness, is it?

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I'd rather be led by His nail-pierced hand than to be a king of a vast domain or be held

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in sin's dread sway.

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I'd rather have Jesus than anything this world affords today.

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I'd rather have Jesus than men's applause.

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I'd rather be faithful to His dear cause.

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I'd rather have Jesus than worldwide fame.

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I'd rather be true to His holy name.

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I mean that is the exact opposite of the message of this world's music.

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It is, right?

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This world is telling you, you know, stack cash, get money, get riches, get fame.

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I'm trying to get famous, you know, you know, that's what musicians are trying to do.

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They're trying to get famous, right?

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And they want you to be infected with the love of money.

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Whereas this song is just saying like, Hey, I'd rather have Jesus than anything.

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I don't need fame. I don't need glory. I don't need riches. I don't need honor

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I'm just trying to be faithful to his dear cause

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You know what that that song is going to make me want to do that song is going to stir my spirit to want to

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Go out and preach the gospel

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It's going to want it's going to make me want to go to church more

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It's going to make me want to read the bible more it's going to make me want to love god more

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It's not going to make me want to love myself more and be more selfish

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Here's another great song. I love this song

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Once far from God and dead in sin no light my heart could see but in God's word the light I found

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Now Christ liveth in me Christ liveth in me Christ liveth in me. Oh

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What a salvation this that Christ liveth in me. That's a beautiful song

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Just thinking about those words go back to Colossians 3 if you've already turned from there

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Number one music is an essential part of the Christian life number two music affects your spirit number three music is teaching you

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Music is teaching you look at Colossians 3 verse 16

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Let the word of christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in

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Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs

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singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord and

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Whatsoever ye do in word or indeed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ

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Giving thanks to God and the Father by him. So I one problem that I have with this world's music is its spirit

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Here's another big problem. I have with this world's music is what it is teaching you

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because the Bible teaches that music teaches.

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It's like, hey, make sure that you're teaching one another

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in Psalms, right?

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That's the inspired word of God.

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And then also hymns and spiritual songs,

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not necessarily inspired by God, of course not,

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but still teaching good lessons, teaching good morals.

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How about this?

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Teaching good doctrine.

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You know, this is a bit the big issue I have with CCM music is that CCM music is often either teaching you

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Absolutely nothing or it's teaching you wrong doctrine. He gets us

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Right? Just this super liberal, watered-down version of Christianity is what CCM is promoting oftentimes.

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Or it's teaching doctrine that is so vague that it could be championed by both Muslims and Christians and Mormons and everyone.

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Okay? Our God is an awesome God.

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He reigns from heaven above.

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He rules with wisdom, power, and love. Our God is an awesome God.

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Couldn't a Muslim sing that?

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Couldn't a Mormon sing that?

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Couldn't an unsaved tongue-talking Pentecostal sing that everyone could sing that why because CCM is just a money-making scheme is what it is

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And they've got to make their doctrine as absolutely broad as possible

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So as not to offend different cults different groups of Christians

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I mean one group of Christians could not sing that

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But you know what? We start singing the hymns in our hymnal

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and it's going to cut out a lot of people who believe in work salvation,

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who believe you could lose your salvation.

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Okay?

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How about this one?

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Your love is deeper than any ocean,

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higher than the heavens,

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reaches beyond the stars in the sky.

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I mean, a Freemason could sing that.

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who just believes someone who just believes in a higher power could sing that right i mean again

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it's just it's not teaching you anything good whereas in this world's music it's either let's

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just be honest most of the time this world's music is just teaching bad things it's using

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colostrums three five as a checklist and in ccm it's either teaching you nothing or could oftentimes

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be teaching false doctrine go to exodus chapter 15

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Exodus 15 eyes returning their Deuteronomy 31 19 says now therefore write ye this song for you and teach it

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To the children of Israel put it in their mouths that this song may be a witness for me

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Against the children of Israel, right?

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So God's telling Moses write this song and teach it to the next generation

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So this song could stand as a witness meaning it's going to be teaching doctrine. It's gonna have reminders the very first song

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in the bible is in exodus 15 the song of moses and here's the thing this song is inspired by god

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we know that this song is everything in it is 100 right notice the doctrine that's in this song

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exodus 15 verse 1 then saying moses and the children of israel this song unto the lord

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and spake saying i will sing unto the lord for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his

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rider Hathi thrown into the sea.

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I mean, you're singing about God's glorious triumph

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when he literally killed all of the Egyptians and Pharaoh

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in the Red Sea.

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Show me a CCM song that's talking

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about how great God is for killing his enemies.

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for destroying his enemies like man I love God because he killed his enemies

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he destroyed his enemies and look how God is just triumphing gloriously

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through his mighty power in killing his enemies

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I mean churches would freak out singing that. Let's sing about when God killed

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the Egyptians

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alright beloved turn your hymnals we're going to sing this song. Now this song is about when God

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killed

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the Egyptians. People would freak out over that. The Lord is my strength

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and song.

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He is become my salvation. He is my God and I will prepare him in habitation

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My father's God and I will exalt him look at verse 3 the Lord is a man of war

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The Lord is his name.

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Right?

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God is not this soft, pacifist, long-haired, effeminate, hippie.

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God is a man of war.

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And his enemies should tremble at his sight, tremble at his voice, tremble at his word,

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because you know what?

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Look at the Egyptians.

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Look what he did to them.

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He's a man of war.

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Hey, look what God did in the flood when he flooded the whole earth and killed every single

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human being except Noah and his family.

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Show me the the CCM song about God killing 99.9 percent of the Earth's population

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Where's that CCM song? I'd love to hear it

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But you know what? This is good doctrine and you know why people oftentimes have such a screwed up

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Perception of who God is is because all they're doing is reading a false bible version

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And going to church with a woman pastor and a man in skinny jeans and a feminine queer music

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Singing only about the love of grace of God and they don't even know

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that God is a man of war.

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They don't even know that God is one not to be messed with.

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And today, people are so crazy and so detached

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from who the God of the Bible is that they say things like,

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only God could judge me, not realizing

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that that should terrify you.

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People are just so permissive.

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They'll drink alcohol.

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They'll dress like whores.

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They'll just skip church.

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We don't need church.

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Because only God can judge me.

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It's like,

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Yeah, dummy, you should be terrified of that.

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Yeah, God judging you is something you should be terrified of,

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because let me show you some things that God did to people he judged.

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He killed the heathen, he flooded the world, he killed the Egyptians.

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Oh, but I'm safe.

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OK, he killed Ananias and Sapphira who were saved.

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Only God can judge me.

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Yeah, and you know what?

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God can kill you.

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The Bible is full of God killing people.

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That's just what the Bible teaches.

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And you know what?

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If people sang this song, they probably would know that.

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Pharaoh's chariots and his host had he cast into the sea his chosen captains also are drowned in the red sea

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The depths have covered them they sank into the bottom as a stone. He's getting graphic here

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The right thy right hand. Oh Lord has become glorious in power thy right hand

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Oh Lord hath dashed in pieces the enemy

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Right like like just this picture of God just picking up this pipsqueak human and just dashing him against the wall

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Just destroying his enemy

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It says verse 7 and in the greatness of thy excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee

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Thou sentest forth thy wrath which consumed them as stubble and with the blast of thy nostrils

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The waters were gathered together the flood stood upright as an heap and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea

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The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake,

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I will divide the spoil, my lust shall be satisfied upon them.

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I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

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Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them,

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they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

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Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods?

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Who is like thee, glorious in holiness,

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fearful in praises, doing wonders?

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Man, that's a great song.

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Someone knows how to turn that into music and make it sound like our traditional hymns. We'll sing that song. It's great

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That's a wonderful song right there. Go to Psalm 139, you know Psalm 139. We do sing in church

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You know what's so funny about this is I've seen visitors come to church both here and at St. Fast Baptist Church

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when we are singing Psalm 139 and I've seen looks of terror and horror come upon their

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face.

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But let me explain something to you.

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Psalm 139 is the inspired words of God.

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And why is it that someone would come to a Christian church with a Bible in their hand

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and be shocked at what the Bible says?

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I'll tell you why.

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Because they're not reading the Bible and they're listening to a bunch of CCM that would

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never portray God as the Bible does in Exodus 15 or in Psalm 139.

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And it's just such a shock to hear that God hates people.

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Yeah, I said it.

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The Bible teaches that God hates some people.

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And most Christians, they have this idea, God hates no one.

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It's like, you have never read your Bible.

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Because all over the Bible, there are phrases,

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thou abhorrest all the workers of iniquity.

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Do not, oh, let's just read it right here.

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Psalm 139 verse 19.

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Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God.

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You know what that means?

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You're gonna kill them, God.

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Depart from me therefore you bloody men for they speak against thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vain

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Notice verse 21 do not I hate them?

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Oh Lord that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee I?

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Hate them with perfect hatred I count them mine enemies

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But doesn't the Bible say love everyone at all times no it doesn't actually

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Doesn't the Bible say that God loves everyone at all times no matter what no it doesn't say that whatsoever

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Doesn't the Bible say love your enemies. Yes, it does say love your enemies. You know what it doesn't say love God's enemies

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You know the Bible says here do not I hate them Oh Lord that hate thee

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Go to Romans chapter chapter what no don't actually go there

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I'm saying if you went to Romans chapter 1 and you read about sodomites

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You know what the Bible says about sodomites that they are haters of God

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Why would you guys hate homos?

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Because I hate those that hate God.

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You're saying you hate sodomites?

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I hate all sodomites, yes.

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I hate all reprobates.

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Well, how could you possibly hate someone?

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Well, because they hate God.

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Do you think that I would get along

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with someone that hates my wife?

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If someone's just trashing my wife, speaking evil of my wife, attacking my wife, hating

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my wife, do you think I'm going to be friends with that person?

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Do you think I'm going to like that person?

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Absolutely not.

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Okay, how much more someone that hates God, who we should love God infinitely more than

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any human being in this world?

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We're supposed to love the Lord our God with all of our heart all of our mind all of our soul all of our strength

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Nothing is to come close in comparison to our love for God. So if there are people out there hating God

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Speaking against him wickedly taking his name in vain hating God. Yeah, I hate them

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I hate those people and look at also go to Psalm chapter number five

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Because the Bible doesn't teach just that oh we should hate people that God hates the Bible also

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Teaches that God hates certain people

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Okay, look at Psalm chapter 5 verse 5.

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The foolish shall not stand in thy sight.

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Look at this, thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

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You know who workers of iniquity are?

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Reprobates.

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You can just insert, workers of iniquity, Romans 1.

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Thou hatest all workers of iniquity, the Bible says.

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Look at verse number 6.

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Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing.

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That's an old word for lying.

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Thou notice the Lord will abhor that means hate the bloody and deceitful man.

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Go to Psalm 11, Psalm 11, Psalm 11.

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Look at verse number five.

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The Lord trieth the righteous, but the wicked and him that loveth violence, his soul hate

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creative.

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In Amos it talks about all their wickedness was in Gilgal. Therefore I hated them.

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I mean here's the thing, people that say God doesn't hate you, it's like you are just arguing with God.

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You're just sitting here telling me the bible isn't real. You just don't believe the bible. No god does hate certain people

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Now look it is a fraction of the population. It is a small percentage of the population

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But you know what?

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There is some people that god hates and you know what?

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I love the vast majority of human beings and i'm making it my life's goal to preach the gospel to every creature

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That's what many people here are doing as well. But you know what? There's a small part of the population that we hate

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They're called sodomites. They're called reprobates. They're called pedophiles. They're called child molesters. They're called people that hate God

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Yes, we hate them now. Here's the thing

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Well, man, I've never heard this before probably because you haven't been in a church that's singing these as a song

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Whereas like we literally sing Psalm 139 and it's like do not I hate them. Oh lord that hate thee

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I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them my enemies. It's like how do you have that memorized product?

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I've sang it so many times. How do you know this doctrine because we've saying it so many times, you know

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We want the kids to know this doctrine. They're not gonna be confused in this doctrine because they're singing it

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Okay, so what's the most important thing about a song is the message it is teaching. That's the most important thing

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The values, the morals, the message, the doctrine that a song is teaching.

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That is the most important thing.

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Because I'm not getting up here and saying,

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Oh, all traditional songs are good because they're traditional.

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Because guess what? There's songs in our hymnal that we will not sing

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because of the message that it teaches.

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Like, victory in Jesus.

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Why? Because it says,

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Then I repented of my sins and won the victory.

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It teaches a false gospel.

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And yet I feel like some people, they just shut their brain off

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when they sing.

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And a lot of old IFB churches who

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teach the right doctrine of salvation,

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everyone's just getting up, singing,

01:30:38.260 --> 01:30:43.340
and I repented of my sins and won the victory.

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It's like, that's not how you win the victory.

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Faith is the victory that overcome at the world.

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We have victory through Jesus.

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And then you just contradicted yourself by saying,

01:30:52.220 --> 01:30:53.980
oh, I got the victory by what I did.

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I mean what a contradictory stupid song.

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Does it have a good melody?

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Yes.

01:30:59.320 --> 01:31:00.240
Does it sound good?

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Yes.

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Do you like everything about it?

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Pretty much, except for that part.

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And so guess what?

01:31:05.160 --> 01:31:06.100
We don't sing that song.

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And whenever I'm visiting a church and they sing it, I always sing,

01:31:09.320 --> 01:31:12.200
then I believed in Jesus Christ.

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You know, it's really funny, we did a missions trip in the Bahamas,

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and there was just this horde of new IFB soul winners, like 60 of us.

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And we go to this old IFB church and they sang that.

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We all just screamed, then I believed in Jesus Christ and won the victory.

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And some of the people are like, you know, like, what's going on?

01:31:27.080 --> 01:31:29.880
But it's like, we're not singing that we repented of our sins to win the victory

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because that's a false gospel.

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So again, it's not like oh old song traditional song automatically good. The most important thing is what it is teaching

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A lot of the hymns teach a pre-trib rapture. We don't sing that because it's teaching a pre-trib rapture

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Okay. Now listen to what these songs are teaching

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Look and live this is a song in our hymnal

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It says life is offered unto you. Hallelujah

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eternal life

01:31:54.420 --> 01:31:56.400
thy soul shall have

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If you'll only look to him, hallelujah,

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look to Jesus who alone can save.

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So much doctrine already in that.

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Life is offered unto you.

01:32:07.300 --> 01:32:09.580
Whosoever will, let him come and take

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of the water of life freely.

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Calvinists can't sing this.

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Life may or may not be offered unto you, hallelujah,

01:32:16.300 --> 01:32:18.340
depending if God preordained you to be burned in hell

01:32:18.340 --> 01:32:20.000
from the foundation of the world.

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Like, how would they sing a song like that?

01:32:22.000 --> 01:32:23.700
They can't sing life is offered unto you

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because they believe God picks and chooses

01:32:25.100 --> 01:32:26.940
who is going to hell and who's going to heaven

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based on nothing.

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Whereas we're saying, hey, we're going out knocking doors.

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Life is offered unto you.

01:32:32.180 --> 01:32:33.540
Hey, all you have to do is what?

01:32:33.540 --> 01:32:34.380
Look and live.

01:32:34.700 --> 01:32:39.360
Look and live look to Jesus who alone can save right?

01:32:39.360 --> 01:32:46.840
No man goes unto the father but through Jesus the son great doctrine already look and live my brother live look to Jesus now

01:32:46.840 --> 01:32:54.020
And live tis recorded in his word hallelujah, right? Hey, why are we preaching this because the Bible says this not preaching our opinion

01:32:54.020 --> 01:32:57.320
It's recorded in his word. It is only that you look and live

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Will tell you how I came hallelujah to Jesus when he made me whole was believing on his name

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hallelujah, I

01:33:06.560 --> 01:33:12.520
Trusted and he saved my soul. It's not I will tell you how I came. I was an MS 13 gang member

01:33:13.100 --> 01:33:18.820
Was a prostitute for 50 years. I was this I was that that's a lot of churches are I'll tell you how I came man

01:33:18.820 --> 01:33:22.660
I was so sinful. I was so wicked and then I repented of my sins and won the victory

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It's like let me tell you how I came I believed in Jesus

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Oh, and in case you don't know what believe means I trusted and he saved my soul

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That's what Ephesians chapter one teaches that believing is trusting so you can't even sing that and be confused like well

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Yeah, you believe but believe actually means live a good life. That's what a lot of churches teach. It's like let me clear

01:33:41.100 --> 01:33:47.340
us up for you. I believed in him and I trusted in him and that's how I'm saved. How about

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this song? Jesus paid it all. Not half, not 99%. He paid it all. For nothing good have

01:33:55.340 --> 01:33:57.900
I, whereby thy grace to claim.

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I mean yesterday me and brother cam and we're out preaching the gospel and this one guy he was so stuck on works and he was

01:34:03.600 --> 01:34:08.240
Just saying he's like look. I have a good heart. He said all of my intentions are right all the time

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Is that not what he said?

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All of my intentions are right all the time. We're saying nothing good. Have I

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Whereby thy grace to claim the unsaved this world are saying my intentions are good. I live a good life

01:34:22.420 --> 01:34:25.860
I got baptized. I don't cuss anymore. I don't drink

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I don't do drugs just saying all the good that they have to claim the grace of God if you had something to claim

01:34:31.420 --> 01:34:35.500
God's grace it would no longer be grace because grace is something you don't deserve

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You know we're telling people I don't deserve salvation. You don't deserve salvation

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There's one way that you can claim God's grace is through Jesus Christ

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I'll wash my garments white in the blood of Calvary's lamb John MacArthur

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Hey without the shedding of blood. There's no remission of sins

01:34:53.840 --> 01:34:57.880
How could you sing this song if you don't believe that you're actually washed by the blood?

01:34:59.220 --> 01:35:04.500
Jesus paid it all all to him. I owe sin hath left a crimson stain

01:35:04.540 --> 01:35:08.700
He washed it white as snow great doctrine the Mormons can't sing this

01:35:09.300 --> 01:35:16.500
The repent of your sins heretics can't sing this the Muslims can't sing this the Freemasons can't sing this like they can with CCM

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Okay, how about this song on Christ the solid rock?

01:35:20.600 --> 01:35:25.480
My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness

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Right Jesus is the spotless lamb of God. We believe in the

01:35:30.600 --> 01:35:35.460
Substitutionary death of Christ that he was fully righteous. He took our sin

01:35:35.460 --> 01:35:39.100
We took his righteousness and that's the only way we have hope

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My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness

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I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but holy lean on Jesus name

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Christ the solid rock I stand all other ground is sinking sand I believe in

01:35:53.920 --> 01:35:57.360
Jesus but I also think we should get baptized I also think we need to go

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through the catechism and go through all the confession no no it's all sinking

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sand beside Jesus all other ground is sinking sand when he shall come with

01:36:06.120 --> 01:36:13.200
trumpet sound oh may I then in him be found dressed in his righteousness alone

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Faultless to stand before the throne. How do you know I'm going to heaven?

01:36:17.400 --> 01:36:22.880
How do I know that I'm gonna stand faultless before the throne of God is because I have Christ's righteousness imputed unto me

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Hey, I won't even trust on the sweetest frame. I'm only leaning on Jesus name. What great doctrine in these hymns

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How about this song nothing but the blood?

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Nothing can for sin atone nothing but the blood of Jesus

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Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh precious is the flow that makes me white as snow

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No other founts. I know nothing but the blood of Jesus

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He is the only way to heaven his blood is the only way to heaven go to Daniel chapter 3

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I said number one music is an essential part of the Christian life

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Number two music affects your spirit number three music is teaching you

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Music is associated with a certain culture.

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This is why there may be a musical instrument that may not necessarily be wrong,

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but I don't necessarily want to in church because it's associated with a certain culture.

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Look at Daniel three verse four.

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Then in herald cried aloud to you it is commanded O people nations and languages that at what time you hear the

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Sound of the coronet flute harp sackbutt sultry dulcimer and all kinds of music

01:37:38.120 --> 01:37:42.560
you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up and

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Whoso falleth not down and worshipeth shall be the same hour shall the same hour be cast into amidst

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the midst of a burning fiery furnace

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Therefore, at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp,

01:37:58.100 --> 01:38:04.320
sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages

01:38:04.320 --> 01:38:10.860
fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

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Notice that Babylon's music was associated with Babylon's false religion.

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Now, does the Bible tell us, does the Bible give us the notes of what this sounded like?

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Do we have the sheet music of Babylon's false religion music?

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No, but I bet you, you could recognize it when you heard it.

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Betcha if you're in the plains of Shinar and you hear the certain sound I bet you're like, oh, that's Nebuchadnezzar's music

01:38:37.260 --> 01:38:42.120
That's involved with worshiping a false. God just like you go to a Catholic church

01:38:42.120 --> 01:38:48.580
And there's gonna be a certain kind of chanting right where the ether orthodox church. They have like this Gregorian chanting

01:38:48.580 --> 01:38:50.580
It's like they just have a certain culture

01:38:51.280 --> 01:38:57.360
Associated with that music right so it's like I don't know what Babylon's music sounded like but the people I'm sure at the time

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Could tell that hey

01:38:58.600 --> 01:39:01.600
Oh, this is the song for worshiping a false God

01:39:01.600 --> 01:39:09.280
Oh, this is that song where people get down on their face and worship Babylon worship Nebuchadnezzar's golden image

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Okay, this is not a one-off story in the Bible go to Exodus 32

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Exodus 32 now, here's the thing

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The world has a spirit right? We're not supposed to love the things of the world

01:39:19.240 --> 01:39:20.920
Why because all the things in this world?

01:39:20.920 --> 01:39:25.840
They don't have the love of God the lust of the flesh the the pride of life all these things

01:39:26.400 --> 01:39:30.400
The devil himself, if you read Ezekiel, is a musical creation.

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Okay? His body is a musical instrument, if you read Ezekiel.

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So again, are we supposed to really believe that the devil is a musician?

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The devil is a master musician, but just all music in this world is just morally ambivalent.

01:39:44.400 --> 01:39:45.800
Wouldn't that be crazy?

01:39:46.000 --> 01:39:50.600
Like the devil himself is a musical instrument. He's producing world music

01:39:50.600 --> 01:39:55.880
I would say that there are types of music in this world. There's the devil's music that the devil I mean some musical

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Musicians they even say like that. They didn't even write their song that they feel like a dark spirit came over them

01:40:01.960 --> 01:40:06.200
There's rock songs that you play backwards and it's literally a completely different message

01:40:06.480 --> 01:40:10.020
Like some of these people are literally demon possessed. What is the song stairway to heaven?

01:40:10.600 --> 01:40:14.800
Stairway to heaven you play it backwards. It's got all sort of satanic things

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It's because there's demons behind a lot of these songs. The devil is behind a lot of these songs

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Exodus 32 verse 17 and when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted

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He said unto Moses there is a noise of war in the camp

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And he said, it is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice

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of them that cry for being overcome.

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Notice, but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

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And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the

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dancing.

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And Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands and break them beneath

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them out.

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So notice Joshua hears something he hears he's like this is like the the sound of war but he's like wait a second

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It doesn't sound like they're being destroyed by an enemy and it doesn't sound like they're destroying an enemy. Oh, what is that? They're singing

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They're singing a song and what was what what were they doing in conjunction conjunction with singing the song?

01:41:17.740 --> 01:41:20.240
They were worshiping a false idol

01:41:20.700 --> 01:41:26.700
Why? Because there is a certain type of culture that goes along with a certain type of music.

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And I'm pretty sure that they were not singing to God be the glory

01:41:30.800 --> 01:41:36.000
I'm pretty sure they're not singing Jesus paid it all pretty sure they're not singing it as well with my soul

01:41:36.000 --> 01:41:41.560
They were singing something some sort of song that had a culture going along with false religion nebuchadnezzar

01:41:41.560 --> 01:41:49.180
He's playing music that goes along with false religion. What am I saying? There is a certain culture associated with a certain type of music

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Now look we have to make those judgments for ourselves because the bible does not give us a song list or a song sheet

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But this principle is true

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That there is a certain type of music that goes along with a certain type of culture

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Go if you would

01:42:05.920 --> 01:42:07.920
to jeremiah chapter six

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Now let's think about this

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Let's look at a church today that has ccm

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What kind of culture I wonder are we going to find?

01:42:17.300 --> 01:42:21.460
We are going to find weak, effeminate, watered down,

01:42:21.460 --> 01:42:24.100
soft preaching, light on doctrine,

01:42:24.100 --> 01:42:25.900
not taking a stand of anything,

01:42:25.900 --> 01:42:27.540
not fighting the Lord's battles,

01:42:27.540 --> 01:42:28.940
not preaching hard on sin.

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We are going to see a weak, watered down culture.

01:42:32.940 --> 01:42:35.380
Is there any coincidence that all the churches

01:42:35.380 --> 01:42:39.300
that sing CCM music are super weak in their doctrine?

01:42:39.400 --> 01:42:45.040
Show me the King James only soul winning hard preaching church that's seeing CCM show it to me

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You won't be able to find it. You know why because there's a certain type of culture that goes with a certain type of music

01:42:50.400 --> 01:42:57.240
Okay, let's think about this world's music rap music has a certain kind of culture. You know what it is

01:42:57.240 --> 01:42:59.240
It's a culture that glorifies

01:42:59.320 --> 01:43:00.300
violence

01:43:00.500 --> 01:43:03.660
that glorifies the degradation of women,

01:43:03.660 --> 01:43:06.040
that glorifies the love of money,

01:43:06.040 --> 01:43:08.840
that glorifies hating police officers,

01:43:08.840 --> 01:43:13.180
hating authority, not knowing how to put a belt on,

01:43:13.180 --> 01:43:16.020
not having a father, I'm just being honest right now,

01:43:16.020 --> 01:43:19.020
that's the culture that is associated with rap music.

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It's trash, it's garbage.

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And how crazy is it that we have people

01:43:23.460 --> 01:43:25.760
try to make Christian rap music?

01:43:25.760 --> 01:43:25.900
you

01:43:26.200 --> 01:43:32.040
That's just crap. Okay, Christian rap is just crap. It's garbage. Okay, we don't need to have Christian rap music

01:43:32.040 --> 01:43:37.400
We should just stay away with it from it because there's a certain culture that's associated with it. Okay rock music

01:43:38.360 --> 01:43:42.840
Has a certain type of culture. Okay, let's think about like the heyday of rock

01:43:42.840 --> 01:43:46.680
What would that be the 80s and you know what 80s rock is?

01:43:46.840 --> 01:43:51.640
I don't get how people glorify the 80s so much. What was with all these guys dressing up like women?

01:43:52.600 --> 01:43:54.600
All these bands that you love so much,

01:43:54.600 --> 01:43:57.520
have you ever looked at the cover of the album?

01:43:57.520 --> 01:44:01.720
It's like dudes dressing like women, dudes putting on makeup,

01:44:01.720 --> 01:44:03.640
dudes growing their hair out long.

01:44:03.640 --> 01:44:04.480
What else do they do?

01:44:04.480 --> 01:44:06.960
They have their groupies, fornication.

01:44:06.960 --> 01:44:07.800
What else they do?

01:44:07.800 --> 01:44:09.760
They're really big into drugs.

01:44:09.760 --> 01:44:13.040
This is not a godly culture associated with it, OK?

01:44:13.040 --> 01:44:13.840
What about country?

01:44:13.840 --> 01:44:15.600
Oh, country, that's godly.

01:44:15.600 --> 01:44:16.840
No, it's not.

01:44:16.840 --> 01:44:18.400
You know what country music glorifies?

01:44:18.400 --> 01:44:19.040
Drinking beer.

01:44:19.900 --> 01:44:25.820
Losing your wife lost my wife. Oh got another divorce another divorce country music does not glorify God

01:44:26.220 --> 01:44:32.760
It's teaching the world's message as well. And usually when it does mention God, it's perverting doctrine. It's blasphemous

01:44:32.760 --> 01:44:36.020
It's calling God the man upstairs the big boss

01:44:36.660 --> 01:44:41.820
The man no, it's just it's the Lord Jesus Christ. It's the Lord God of hosts the Lord God Almighty

01:44:42.900 --> 01:44:44.900
Okay, techno music.

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What kind of culture goes along with techno music?

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A bunch of feminine Europeans doing drugs,

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taking psychedelic drugs.

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You go to some sort of techno show in Germany.

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Do you really think you're gonna be among a good culture?

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No, you're not.

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You're gonna be around a bunch of atheists

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that despise the Bible, that are getting high.

01:45:01.680 --> 01:45:02.840
You're gonna be around a bunch of women

01:45:02.840 --> 01:45:05.800
that are taking their clothes off and throwing them around.

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This is what, I'm just being honest, this is how it is.

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This is how this world's music is.

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There's a bad culture that goes along with it.

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Let me say this, there is no godly culture

01:45:15.720 --> 01:45:17.760
that goes along with this world music.

01:45:18.500 --> 01:45:25.060
There isn't show me a genre of this world's music where there's a godly culture associated with it. It does not exist

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Okay. Now let's think about other activities a bar or a nightclub. It's going to have a certain culture associated with his music

01:45:33.060 --> 01:45:37.380
I'm picking on the indians i'm going to keep doing so the indian powwow is going to have a certain type of music

01:45:37.700 --> 01:45:43.940
And guess what? There's a certain type of culture there. What's the culture one that hates god and hates the bible is one of that culture

01:45:44.700 --> 01:45:49.700
Okay, so what are we we are anchor Baptist Church? What are we we are a fundamental?

01:45:50.560 --> 01:45:53.000
Baptist Church we are a King James only

01:45:53.700 --> 01:45:55.700
soul-winning hard preaching

01:45:55.980 --> 01:45:57.940
Baptist Church, so you know what I want to do

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I want us to look sound feel believe act like a fundamental Baptist Church because that's who we are

01:46:05.800 --> 01:46:08.520
It wouldn't make sense to just have all the right doctrine,

01:46:08.520 --> 01:46:10.200
all the right stances, but then we're

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just going to adopt a rock culture,

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adopt a country called the cowboy church.

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It's so weird.

01:46:16.720 --> 01:46:19.800
What are we going to have, like punk skater church next?

01:46:19.800 --> 01:46:21.960
Are we going to have Dungeons and Dragons church?

01:46:21.960 --> 01:46:23.680
Like whatever subculture you like,

01:46:23.680 --> 01:46:26.180
we're just going to make a church of your little subculture.

01:46:26.180 --> 01:46:28.680
Baseball fan church, college football fan church,

01:46:28.680 --> 01:46:31.120
it's like, how about just New Testament Christianity?

01:46:31.600 --> 01:46:35.740
It's so weird. It's like well, I like country music. So I'm gonna go to the cowboy church. It's like that's weird

01:46:35.900 --> 01:46:40.920
It's weird that you have that culture. We're a fundamental Baptist Church. We want to look sound and feel like a Baptist Church

01:46:41.560 --> 01:46:43.360
Jeremiah 6 verse 16

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Thus saith the Lord stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths

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wherein is the good way and walk there in and ye shall find rest for your souls, but they said we will not walk there in

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Think about this when we look at the churches of today and of the past that were awesome churches

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Salvation by faith king james only soul winning doing great works for god

01:47:08.820 --> 01:47:12.740
Just name any great church you could think of in the past any great church like that today

01:47:12.900 --> 01:47:15.060
Do you know what they all have in common?

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The traditional songs and hymns that's what they all have in common

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You're not gonna find some great church of the old IFB from the 60s 70s 80s 90s that was doing the CCM

01:47:25.160 --> 01:47:27.860
You're not gonna find it. You are not gonna find today a

01:47:28.500 --> 01:47:33.020
Baptist church doing great works for God go look at the other new IFB churches. Okay, what is it?

01:47:33.020 --> 01:47:37.020
It's all traditional hymns songs and spiritual songs the good old life be churches up today

01:47:37.020 --> 01:47:40.540
It's all traditional hymns songs and spiritual song spiritual songs

01:47:40.540 --> 01:47:44.720
Is that a coincidence you think or is that just reality that what we see?

01:47:46.100 --> 01:47:52.500
Okay, so now I've given you the Bible's principles. Okay, the Bible's principles is that music is very important

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Music affects your spirit music is teaching you music has a certain culture associated with it

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So we take those biblical principles now we come to our standards

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Okay, so i'm gonna give you what the standards are for our church and obviously these are my standards as well

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Because i'm the pastor i'm the one making these standards, but this is how I judge music I ask myself

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What spirit does this music have?

01:48:16.440 --> 01:48:19.380
What message is this music teaching?

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What culture is this music promoting?

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And is this music pleasing to God?

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Why do I ask myself those questions?

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Because those are the principles

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that the Bible teaches about music.

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The bible does not give us a list of approved songs and disapproved songs

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It does not give us a list of this note is okay. This note is not okay

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I have to use some discernment. You have to use some discernment in your life filtering music through these principles

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What spirit what message what culture is it pleasing to god? So?

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Come to what is our church's stance on music our church will only ever sing traditional style hymns psalms and spiritual songs

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That's our church's stance

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That will never change why because of the fact that these hymns psalms and spiritual songs

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RT are having the right spirit. They're teaching the right doctrine

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They're promoting the right culture and they are pleasing to God. That's why

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I am not saying that we will not ever sing something new.

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I'm for us singing something new.

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Pastor Shelley has written a lot of the Psalms to music,

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and they came out in the last five years, and they're great.

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But you know what that song is. It's the word of god. So it's obviously gonna have the right spirit

01:49:31.480 --> 01:49:34.040
It's obviously gonna have the right message. It's obviously gonna have the right culture

01:49:34.120 --> 01:49:38.200
It's obviously going to be pleasing to god. I'm not even limiting it at the psalms

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There could be other just spiritual songs that people who are musically gifted, right?

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And let me tell you something if it matches those criteria we will sing it

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Now, my personal preference is I want music to sound traditional.

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I don't want it to sound new age.

01:49:53.180 --> 01:49:54.900
I don't want it to sound like CCM.

01:49:54.900 --> 01:49:56.380
I don't want it to sound like this world.

01:49:56.380 --> 01:49:59.420
I want it to sound traditional because of the culture, right?

01:49:59.420 --> 01:50:00.620
We want to promote that culture.

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Let me say this.

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Our church will never sing CCM.

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should be obvious. We will never promote CCM. Why? Because of the spirit that goes along with CCM,

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which is an effeminate one. Because of what it's teaching, or lack of what it's teaching in that

01:50:14.660 --> 01:50:20.020
case. Because of the culture associated with CCM. A bunch of watered down lame churches not doing

01:50:20.020 --> 01:50:25.300
anything for God. And because I don't think it's pleasing to God. Why? Because oftentimes

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it's super effeminate and effemacy is a sin.

01:50:27.900 --> 01:50:30.320
Okay, let me say this our church will never have

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Sensual style performances, right? Even a lot of good old ivy churches

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They'll just bring up all the young ladies and have them singing a bunch of breathy weird song

01:50:40.620 --> 01:50:44.060
You guys know what I'm talking about where it's kind of like a sensual vibe

01:50:44.180 --> 01:50:48.020
We are not gonna ever have that why because I don't want that spirit

01:50:48.500 --> 01:50:54.040
I don't want to teach that message to our young kids. I don't want to promote that culture. I don't think it's pleasing to God

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That's why that's my stance on that

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Our church will never condone of worldly music

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And let me say this in general because I'm not going to be teaching for doctrines the commandments of men

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I am not going to say hey all worldly music is 100% wrong

01:51:08.700 --> 01:51:14.380
I bet you you could find me cases where some songs are not sinful, but i'm just saying in general

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I am never going to condone of worldly music our church does not condone of worldly music. Why because of its spirit

01:51:20.780 --> 01:51:25.920
Because of what it's teaching because of its culture and because I don't think it's pleasing to god

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I would caution you to be very careful, even with the exceptions when people are looking

01:51:31.620 --> 01:51:32.260
to you as a leader.

01:51:40.000 --> 01:51:45.560
Why is that? Because of the fact that yeah, you might be able to find some songs that aren't that bad

01:51:45.640 --> 01:51:48.760
But you know what your kids don't know how to make that differentiation yet

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The young people in our church don't have the wisdom yet

01:51:51.500 --> 01:51:58.040
And they just see people just endorsing worldly music promoting worldly music and they might go all the way to Taylor Swift

01:51:58.160 --> 01:52:05.120
They might go all the way to what's that horse named Sabrina Carpenter? Okay, it's like we don't want to promote that

01:52:06.000 --> 01:52:08.360
Because again, even if there's some that you like,

01:52:08.360 --> 01:52:09.400
there's some that aren't bad,

01:52:09.400 --> 01:52:11.800
I think even if those people are honest with themselves,

01:52:11.800 --> 01:52:13.480
if they thought like, do I really want my kids

01:52:13.480 --> 01:52:14.480
going to worldly concerts?

01:52:14.480 --> 01:52:16.560
Is that really a scene that I want them to go to?

01:52:16.560 --> 01:52:18.880
Do I really want them blasting death metal?

01:52:18.880 --> 01:52:20.400
Do I really want them listening to these things?

01:52:20.400 --> 01:52:23.240
I think most parents in here would say absolutely not.

01:52:23.240 --> 01:52:26.080
We do not want to promote that to our kids.

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I can't say it's all sinful,

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but I think that any person that's honest

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can agree that the vast majority of it is sinful, okay?

01:52:33.700 --> 01:52:35.860
Go view it to 2nd Corinthians chapter number 6.

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2nd Corinthians chapter number 6.

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So my personal advice would be to set the right example

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and just avoid it.

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You are free in Christ, bro.

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You have, we believe in individual soul liberty.

01:52:48.200 --> 01:52:49.200
You can do whatever you want.

01:52:49.200 --> 01:52:51.000
I am not gonna police people's lives.

01:52:51.000 --> 01:52:53.500
Don't be like, hey, did you see what so-and-so is listening to?

01:52:53.500 --> 01:52:55.900
Don't be like, hey, Pastor, did you see this person at a concert?

01:52:55.900 --> 01:52:58.200
Because I don't care, okay?

01:52:58.200 --> 01:53:01.100
What my job is, is to preach the Word of God

01:53:01.100 --> 01:53:03.900
in a way that I believe is honoring to Christ.

01:53:03.900 --> 01:53:08.100
I come to these standards for our church and for me personally

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from the only desire is to please God.

01:53:10.600 --> 01:53:11.400
That's it.

01:53:11.500 --> 01:53:15.880
It's not it's not that I just really want to step on your Metallica loving toes or something like that

01:53:16.140 --> 01:53:20.660
It's not that I just don't want to be fun. Don't want to have any fun. Honestly. I'm just trying to have our church

01:53:20.660 --> 01:53:22.660
Please God, that's it

01:53:22.740 --> 01:53:24.740
second Corinthians 6 verse 14

01:53:25.140 --> 01:53:30.260
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness

01:53:30.620 --> 01:53:36.940
And what communion hath light with darkness and what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part have he that?

01:53:37.400 --> 01:53:43.920
Believeth with an infidel and what agreement at the temple of God with idols for ye are the temple of the living God as God

01:53:43.920 --> 01:53:49.000
Hath said I will dwell in them and walk with them and I will be their God and they shall be my people

01:53:49.720 --> 01:53:54.280
Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate

01:53:54.680 --> 01:53:59.700
Say at the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you

01:54:00.040 --> 01:54:03.100
Here is a command of God be ye separate

01:54:03.800 --> 01:54:09.400
That's what the bible teaches that we are to be separate from this world now. Look, here's what you have to do

01:54:09.720 --> 01:54:14.760
Especially you fathers and you husbands. Here's what you have to do is you have to take the word of god

01:54:15.240 --> 01:54:20.840
You have to take the principles that are taught in the word of god and you have to make personal application in your own life

01:54:21.240 --> 01:54:25.900
To come to your own personal standards, but I will say this you got to be separate somehow

01:54:26.400 --> 01:54:32.120
If you just carte blanche just say like music's 100% morally ambivalent and just all worldly music is fine

01:54:32.120 --> 01:54:35.480
I don't think anyone here believes that but I know that there are Christians who do

01:54:36.040 --> 01:54:42.760
And it's like how can you say that you're separate when you're just listening to all of this stuff that is promote things that are promoting

01:54:43.160 --> 01:54:48.800
Fornication covetousness look that is just too far. But look at the end of the day. You are gonna have to come to your own decision

01:54:48.800 --> 01:54:51.600
But look at the end of the day you are gonna have to come to your own decision

01:54:52.200 --> 01:54:54.600
You're gonna have to make your own standards for your life.

01:54:54.600 --> 01:54:56.760
I as a pastor am not gonna please your life.

01:54:56.760 --> 01:54:58.600
And contrary to what some people may think of pastors,

01:54:58.600 --> 01:54:59.900
I don't want to.

01:54:59.900 --> 01:55:00.740
I really don't.

01:55:00.740 --> 01:55:02.140
I've got my own life to live.

01:55:02.140 --> 01:55:04.040
I've got my own kids to shepherd.

01:55:04.040 --> 01:55:05.480
I'm the pastor of this church.

01:55:05.480 --> 01:55:08.180
So at times I'm gonna give you my personal standards

01:55:08.180 --> 01:55:09.920
because of the fact that I'm setting these standards

01:55:09.920 --> 01:55:11.080
for our church.

01:55:11.300 --> 01:55:16.740
Like this is what our church is doing our church is only gonna have traditional hymns songs

01:55:17.300 --> 01:55:19.460
Psalms and spiritual songs and you know what?

01:55:19.780 --> 01:55:24.820
When it comes to like people in leadership, you can't just bring a new song without telling me without asking me again

01:55:24.820 --> 01:55:26.580
No one here has done that but you know

01:55:26.580 --> 01:55:31.060
This just has to be said from time to time as a pastor last place to go to is Psalm chapter number 69

01:55:31.900 --> 01:55:33.900
Psalm chapter number 69

01:55:34.400 --> 01:55:40.400
You don't have to agree with my exact standards for your personal life, but you do have to support the church's standards in the house of God.

01:55:40.400 --> 01:55:42.400
You do have to do that.

01:55:42.400 --> 01:55:46.400
It is impossible for our kids to completely avoid this world's music.

01:55:46.400 --> 01:55:50.400
There's just no way of going through life without our kids being exposed somewhat to this world's music.

01:55:50.400 --> 01:56:00.400
But I think you as a parent should be very careful in what you promote and allow because of the fact that kids often go way farther than what their parents do.

01:56:00.900 --> 01:56:05.140
What's the phrase? It's what parents do in moderation the kids do in excess. That's true

01:56:05.540 --> 01:56:10.580
And so even if you could handle it you should think about people looking to you as to what whether or not they can handle it

01:56:11.940 --> 01:56:13.940
Okay, look at psalm 69 verse 30

01:56:14.020 --> 01:56:18.260
The bible says I will praise the name of god with a song

01:56:18.980 --> 01:56:21.400
And will magnify him with thanksgiving

01:56:22.180 --> 01:56:26.040
This also notice this shall please the lord

01:56:26.500 --> 01:56:31.500
Better than an ox or bullock that have horns and hooves.

01:56:31.500 --> 01:56:33.500
Here should be your heart as a Christian.

01:56:33.500 --> 01:56:35.500
How can I please the Lord?

01:56:35.500 --> 01:56:37.500
Like no matter your standards on music,

01:56:37.500 --> 01:56:39.500
this is where you should come to in your life

01:56:39.500 --> 01:56:41.500
is saying, hey, I want to come to these standards

01:56:41.500 --> 01:56:43.500
because I want to please God.

01:56:43.500 --> 01:56:44.500
And you know what?

01:56:44.500 --> 01:56:46.500
Music, the right kind of music, the right kind of praise.

01:56:46.500 --> 01:56:49.500
The Bible says, I will praise the name of God with a song

01:56:49.500 --> 01:56:51.500
and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.

01:56:51.500 --> 01:56:53.500
This also shall please the Lord.

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Why am I coming to these standards?

01:56:55.740 --> 01:56:56.580
You know what?

01:56:56.580 --> 01:56:59.500
Because I want Anchor Baptist Church to please the Lord.

01:56:59.500 --> 01:57:00.780
I want you to please the Lord.

01:57:00.780 --> 01:57:02.980
And so you gotta come to these decisions on your own,

01:57:02.980 --> 01:57:04.360
but this is where our church stands.

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Let's pray.

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Lord, thank you so much for your word.

01:57:06.560 --> 01:57:08.900
Thank you for the principles that are found therein.

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Lord, I pray that you would give us each wisdom on how to apply these standards and come to our own

01:57:15.020 --> 01:57:19.340
personal standards in our life. But Lord, I pray that we would all do so with the intention

01:57:19.340 --> 01:57:23.740
of wanting to please you. Lord, I pray that you would just bless the times in our church where

01:57:23.740 --> 01:57:29.260
we are lifting up our voice to you. I pray that you would fill us with the Holy Spirit of God.

01:57:29.260 --> 01:57:34.700
I pray that everyone in this church would strive to sing out loud with joy to their heart because

01:57:34.700 --> 01:57:36.980
because you are worthy of that praise.

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And in.

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In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.

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Hmm

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For our last him this morning, turn if you would to 129.

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Him number 129, rock of ages.

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129-129 Rock of Ages.

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129 let's sing it out all together.