Amen, right, Ecclesiastes chapter seven, there's some great verse in there, aren't there?
But we're going to look, we're just going to focus on one verse, which is Ecclesiastes
seven and verse five, Ecclesiastes seven, five, which reads, it is better to hear the
rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools, and the title of my sermon
today is hip hop, the song of fools, hip hop, the song of fools.
Let's pray before we continue.
Father, thank you for your word.
Thank you that you just kind of make things very clear to us, pitfalls, things that we
need to watch out for, the wickedness out there in the world, and you know there's one
out there right now, a very popular one known as hip hop and all the things that are underneath
that umbrella term.
Help me to just preach accurately today, boldly, clearly, Lord, help everyone to have attentive
ears and hearts and want to apply this to their lives in the various ways they can,
in Jesus' name, for all of this, amen.
Okay, so let's make it clear from the start that, look, pretty much all popular music
is a song of fools, okay?
So in case anyone said to you, just hip hop, no, look, it's all the song of fools, okay?
There's very little out there that you would call popular music, which probably isn't,
you couldn't describe as a song of fools.
Think about pop music, which kind of covers all different types of music, and think about
some of the lyrics, some of the stuff they're singing about.
It's a song of fools, the rock music, the metal music, I mean there's some wicked,
blasphemous, satanic type stuff being sung about, you know, the lifestyles with it, the
indie, do they still have grunge nowadays, or is that something in the old days, what
do they call it now?
There's got to be a new name for it, it's gothic rock or something, I don't know.
They've got all this different sort of stuff, dance music, trance music, soul music, blues
music, all of this stuff, yeah, if you just listen to any of the wording, any of the lyrics
or anything else, it's a song of fools.
But is there anything out there more foolish than hip hop?
I would find it harder, there's a genre itself, and with hip hop I'm including R&B, drum and
bass, grime, drill, anyone heard of drill?
And this is some wicked, wicked stuff out there, okay, this is some bad stuff, yeah,
all of that sort of stuff, grime, whatever that is, it sounds a bit grimy to me.
This is very wicked music, and I'm also including so-called Christian rap, or as we like to
call it, crap, and just saying, just the letters there, okay, and other compromising Christian
copycats out there, because there's a lot of this sort of stuff, okay, it's all the
same, okay, it's all rubbish, it's all the song of fools, and you might be sitting there
going, why are you preaching about this brother in, you know, have you kind of walked past
someone in the church and walked past their car and they were like pumping out the rap
music or something else, yes I, no I didn't, I didn't, I hope not, okay, I didn't, but
this junk does need exposing, okay, and Christians need warning because, look, someone has got
to call it what it is, and this stuff is poison, okay, it is poison, and this is a popular
poison as well, which means that there are going to be people here that have been affected
to some degree by it, and I'm not hearing much, I'm not hearing in this country anyway
any preaching about it, I've heard a few preachers, good pastors out in the US preach about this
sort of stuff, and that's about it really, and it needs preaching on because it is pretty
big, and you might be thinking, well what if someone gets offended, what if we put off
the young by not conforming, you know, to the, to the changing, you know, landscape
out there, what, you know, shouldn't we just try and at least appeal to the young sort
of, you know, rap star wannabes and everything else, well Ecclesiastes 7.5 says it is better
to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools, and as long
as I'm preaching the word of God, it's a rebuke of the wise, okay, as long as I'm sticking
to the word of God, this is going to be wise rebuke, and those young are really, let's
be honest, better to hear this sermon than any of that stuff, they're better to hear
this sermon with a rewind, yeah, do they still say that stuff, I don't know, I'm showing
my age, they're better to hear this sermon with a few rewinds, aren't they, than to hear
the song of fools, okay, they're better to hear the rebuke of the wise, and you might,
again, you might be sitting there going, but is it okay to call them fools though brother
Ian, because you know, you're kind of stepping over the mark a bit here aren't you, are you
actually throwing an insult out from behind a pulpit, well, Jesus called people fools,
and I'm trying to be more Christ-like, you know, that's part of Christianity, I want
to be more Christ-like, so I'm going to call them fools, okay, because, and this music
is foolish, the people that write this music are fools, the people that you can't even
call it sing, the people that say this music are fools, and the people that listen to this
music are fools, okay, let's get that straight, this is the song of fools, now, when you say
well, look, is it both, is it not just people that make it, right, I mean, what is the song
of fools, is the song of fools someone that listens to it, is it someone that makes it,
well, it's both, because, look, you've got to be a fool to listen to a song made by fools,
okay, so either way, there's just a lot of foolishness going on, okay, and if you're
getting a bit confused here going foolish fools, fools, that basically hip-hop's the
song of fools, that's the take home from that last couple of minutes, music is powerful
isn't it, music is very powerful, and even the most basic tunes get in your head, don't
they, okay, they get you, many of us will know that, whether you purposely listen to
something or be walking through a shop or wherever it is, and you're hearing some music
and some of this stuff is really catchy, isn't it, and next thing you know, you're humming
it along or singing it along, if you know the words, and it can be hard to get it back
out, turn away my chapter six, and you don't want that sort of filth going on in your head
when it comes to things like hip-hop, and again, like I said, it applies to most worldly
music but this sort of stuff is another level, okay, this sort of hip-hop rap, you know,
all the things that, you know, you could kind of put under that umbrella, I mean this is
something else, and maybe some of you here, there might be people out here like, I haven't
even heard this, I don't even know what you're talking about, you know, aren't they all just
rapping about the stupid sports car that they're standing over that they've got on an expensive
day hire, or are they not just rapping about the poor quality belts nowadays and just not
be able to keep their trousers up, isn't that what it's all about, maybe they're just having
like a justified complaint, well, look, I showed my age earlier, and this was yesterday
when I was looking at this, and I went, right, I'm going to go to Google, and I'm going to
Google, Google's going to tell me who's the most popular British rappers, right, and I
thought, I recognise one of these names, anyone heard of a guy called Stormzy, heard of Stormzy,
yeah, okay, so, some of you trying to pretend you haven't, come on, anyone's hand didn't go up,
you're lying, everyone's heard of this guy, surely, I don't even know, I don't really know
what I'd heard of him, okay, but I'd heard of his name, I was like, I recognise his name, this guy
sounds like a popular rapper, okay, so, now, in case anyone's going to come up to me after
this guy, actually, brother Ian, he's actually into grime, or whatever, I don't really care,
it's all the same, all right, so, whatever, he's like, what's known as, at least Google
tell me he's a popular British rapper, okay, and maybe I've got the details a little bit off there,
so, I thought, okay, so, what's, surely, he's got some popular songs, yeah, if you could call
them songs, so, I was like, right, what's a popular song of Stormzy, and there was one called
Vossy Bop, I don't know, I won't put a raise of hands for anyone that's heard of Vossy Bop, yeah,
and, again, I don't even know, I don't know if this is some slang for something wicked, I don't
know, and I hope it's not, yeah, okay, but all I know is that it was called Vossy Bop, and then I
looked at the lyrics, and I found it really hard to just quote, really, any of the lyrics, because,
really, they either talk about fornication, drugs, or something similar, and it's just wickedness,
the whole thing, and the pride, the pride, one of them was, I'm the goat, yeah, which is, like,
the greatest of all time, yeah, like, can you imagine standing up there, and whether singing,
saying, chanting, whatever you want to call it, this sort of stuff, I'm the greatest of all time,
something about needing the Ballon d'Or, which is, like, you know, the kind of Football of the Year
gets that, just, just, just pathetic, is embarrassing, embarrassing, yeah, when you look through, and I
think it's worse, isn't it, you know, and you can, you can really mock this stuff when you just kind
of read it off, can't you, it sounds even worse when there's no kind of so-called music to it,
but it was pretty bad stuff, a lot of it explicit promoting drug use, and all this sort of stuff,
and it's all done, and obviously many people know this, I've known this for many years, because it's
all done with this terrible, nonsensical, kindergarten level rhyme, okay, it's, it's terrible,
because you get these idiots that are going, such a lyricist, you ever heard these sort of people,
you get, like, Guardian commentators, he's such a lyricist, yeah, but when you actually look at it,
he's just, like, let's find something that's kind of cool, and kind of rhyme it with something else,
which is kind of cool, so, like, one of it, he's talking about, like, Chuck Norris, and then
expletive you, Boris, yeah, and it's, like, that kind of rhymes, and that sounds cool, doesn't it,
because, like, Chuck Norris is, like, a cool, like, martial arts guy, you know, it's just, it's so bad,
yeah, it's so bad, it's like anything we can, and you can imagine, and you see it, don't you, and I
grew up seeing this sort of stuff, where these kids are kind of like, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, because they
said something that's apparently cool, oh, yeah, Chuck Norris, yeah, you know, it's, it's terrible, isn't it,
there's no, there's no talent, there's no skill to it, here's what, here's, like, one example that I
found, which at least wasn't expletives, and, and, and filth, and everything else, I'm a villain
killing when I'm barring, brothers, brothers in the hood, just like the movie that I star in,
I mean, he's even got, like, the, the amount, the amount of syllables is off as well, like, the whole
thing, it's just terrible, is it, terrible, how do people listen to this stuff, I'll tell you how,
because it's more like chanting, okay, that's really what it is, a lot of it is chanting,
and people love chanting, okay, people love it, and I won't go into a story, I was telling this
someone just recently, because I was just talking about, kind of, weak school teachers, and I
remember, I remember at my school once, you know, whatever happened, this teacher's gone out the
room, and by the time they came back in, the whole class is chanting a pretty rude chant at this
teacher, I mean, this is how bad it can be at schools, can't it, but, but my point about it was
that even the most well-behaved, nicest kids in the class, in the front row, were just eyes lit up,
just chanting, about the sexuality of this teacher, I mean, it was, it, but, like, there's
something about chanting, isn't there, where, like, it's almost like it's a religious thing,
isn't it, where people just love to join in, and get involved, and, and you can imagine if anyone's
been, or seen this, sort of, you know, kind of, been, whether it's live at this sort of music,
or in a place, playing this sort of music, and you'll have people either chanting, or dancing
along, it's right, it's kind of got a religious feel to it, hasn't it, and people like this sort
of thing. Now Amos, you're, you're in Amos 6, he's, he's warning a wicked Israel about the coming
judgment, and he says this, in Amos 6 of verse 1, woe to them that are in, sorry, that are at ease
in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the
the house of Israel came. So he's saying woe to these people. He says, pass ye unto Calne and sea,
and from thence go ye to Hamath the great, then go down to Gath of the Philistines, be they better
than these kingdoms, or their borders greater than your border, ye that put far away the evil day,
and cause the sea to violence to come near, that lie upon beds of ivory, this is obviously a sign
of wealth, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock,
and the calves out of the midst of the stall, again wealth this is picturing, that chant to
the sound of the vial, okay, so they're chanting to it, and, or veal however you want to say it,
and invent to themselves instruments of music like David, that drink wine in bowls, and anoint
themselves with the chief ointment, but they're not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. So
they sit at home with too much time on their hands for starters, okay, these people have got far too
much time on their hands, they're lying upon beds of ivory, stretching upon their couches,
and, and then they're eating the good stuff, they're, verse five says they're chanting along
to this nonsense, okay, they're chanting to the sound of the vial, they've got too much stuff,
too much the finer things, okay, we see in verse four and six, and then instead of caring about
important things, they're basically chanting along to a load of old nonsense, okay, and that's what
we see across this nation, and many nations, is just kids, you know, teenagers, adults,
just chanting along to a load of vanity, and, and vanity is kind of, look, that's the least of their
worries about it, okay, just chanting along to this stuff. Turn to Proverbs chapter 14,
because that is what it is, okay, it's basically rhythmical chanting, okay, it's rhythmical
chanting, a lot of the time the rhythm's a bit off, but it's attempted rhythmical chanting.
None of these, this is the worst thing about it, is none of these so-called artists even possess
a half-decent singing voice, it's not even like they have any, any talent at all, okay, a lot of
them, they don't even write half the stuff that they're saying, when you look at some of the
high-end rap artists out in the US, it's getting written for by, by a lot of the time what is kind
of false Jewish kind of producers and everything else, but it's, it's horrendous, okay, when you
really look into it, what's behind it and everything else, but even if you just go to the low level,
these sort of low level rappers, like they couldn't sing a note, so they just talk,
chant, they chant, a load of nonsense, and what is that, what are they generally chanting? Promoting
of sin, that's what it is, they're just promoting sin, it pretty much all the lyrics you're looking
at is just promoting sin, promoting sin, I mean a little bit I just read you was just promoting
violence, wasn't it, promoting violence, promoting sin, Proverbs 14 and verse 9 says,
fools, fools make a mock at sin, but among the righteous there is favour, okay, to make,
make it like it's fun, like it's enjoyable, like it's all a good laugh and everything else,
they're fools, okay, in case you're wondering is this, look, can you call them all fools,
yeah, they're all fools, okay, they're all fools, I'm yet to see any lyrics which aren't promoting
some sin or another, and, and what's funny about this guy Stormzy is that he actually claims to be
a believer, does anyone know that, this guy claims to be a Christian, I mean they've got big long
articles and interviews of him on premier Christian radio, whatever, and all this sort of
Christian, so-called Christian organisations saying what a great journey of faith he's having
and everything else, you know, he's really on his journey of faith and everything else, and when you
read it and had a quick glance at this stuff, Jesus Christ isn't mentioned once, it's all God
and it's all, you know, kind of a generic sort of belief, isn't it, there's nothing about faith in
Christ, but however his mum is apparently a former Pentecostal minister, yeah, apparently prays for
him and everything else, and, and this is what's weird about it, is that on one hand he does talk
about God, he's got a couple of, couple of tracks out there where he's talking about the, the grace
of God and everything else, but then on the other he's promoting, you know, drugs, fornication,
violence and the rest of it, yeah, and it's not like, oh well he's had a kind of transition now to
like the so-called Christian stuff, it's all like one then the other, one then the other, one then
the other, he's making a mock at sin, and, and this is the same with many of these guys, so they, they
promote, like I said, drugs, fornication, violence, covetousness, okay, is a big part of it, the
self-glorying, and, and all through catchy songs that then kids around the nation are rapping or
chanting along to, yeah, then what a surprise, you have what, all of these impressionable yous making
a mock at sin too, what's the result, like, I mean these, these kids are chanting this stuff, they're
memorizing this stuff more than they're memorizing anything for their exams or anything else, this
stuff is just in their head, and what a surprise, they will make your mock at sin as well, it's not
exactly rocket science to work out what's going on there, now obviously, look, we all have the flesh,
people are going to sadly lean towards sin a lot, but this is something else, okay, and, and again,
these kids are very much into this, are so often into the stuff that's being rapped about, now
keep a finger here and turn your X to 32, because there really is nothing new under the sun,
and so much of it comes back to what, it's a lack of strong leadership, so much of, of the problem
really, because you go, oh, it's the raps, it's, it's, you know, the people behind it, it's, people go,
it's like these Jews, or whatever you want to call it, promoting this stuff and everything else,
no, really, it's a lack of leadership, that's the problem, you have this vicious cycle of kids with
no leadership being taught to be bad or non-existent leaders by either useless or
probably oftentimes reprobate rappers, so you kind of got this vicious cycle where they're
just looking up to them because they've got no leadership in their lives and they become their
leader, but these, these rappers and these so-called artists and stars are so devoid of any
leadership capability, they're so useless, really, such a bad example, then you just promote the next
one, the next one, you've just got this, this vicious cycle going on, at the same time they're
promoting all this fornication, obviously, they're not promoting, you know, family values and all the
rest of it, and it's just this terrible vicious cycle. Who are they aspiring to be like these kids?
Like the rapper, and throw a bit of easy cash their way as well, and wow, what could, you know, look,
I mean, a guy's got like stupid gold chains on him, what a, you know, like, wow, I mean, I could even
make it, if I like stay at home and try and like practice rhyme that's no better than the cats that
on the mat, just with some cooler words, if I just keep kind of practicing that, eventually I might
have some big gold chains as well, and still not be able to afford a belt, but we're not going to get
into that, but okay, anyway, Exodus 32, okay, Moses has been up in Mount Sinai and he's left Aaron and
her in charge, and straight away there, there's a problem, okay, he's left Aaron and her in charge,
not Aaron, not her, Aaron and her in charge, okay, and, and that's not a good recipe straight away, okay,
you need, you need one leader, don't you, there needs to be a leader, and two leaders, you got a
problem there, straight away, and we see this often, you see this in, in family homes, okay, and obviously
a lot of these kids sadly won't necessarily a lot of the time have a dad at home, again, probably
a lot of that is a result of this vicious cycle of who they're being led by and aspiring to be like,
however, you've got dad maybe here, mum there, whether at home or not, both are theoretically
leading it seems, because there's no real hierarchy there, no one really knows who's in charge, they
can palm it off to the other, dad lets them get away with this on the weekend, mum maybe lets him
get away with this in the week, and it just becomes the, where's the leadership, who's the boss,
who's saying what you can and can't do, and it's same here with Aaron and her when Moses goes up
into the mound, and, and again you could look at it as well with maybe schools, so you've got maybe
a lot of the time you've got kids at school for however many hours a week, and when they're at
school they've got whoever it is is the boss, you know, whether it's their teacher, their headmaster,
or maybe it's none of them, and it's the school bully, I don't know, and then you've got mum or dad
at home, and it's a confusion isn't it, it's like well I'm allowed to do this here, but I'm not
allowed to do this here, I'm allowed to, none of it really works, you need to have one boss don't you,
one final authority, the one who's the boss, a lot of the time it, with schools we've gone, it's gone
so weird now where they're almost telling the parents what to do, they come in and go you need
to do this at home, you need to do this at home, and if you're doing something that they consider
not right, you might get reported to social services because you're not doing what the state
tells you should do, so you've just got this complete mess, this complete mess where there's not
one ultimate leader, and here we have this, and it says in verse one, and when the people saw
that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron
and said unto him, up makest gods which shall go before us, for as for this Moses the man that
brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we what not what is become of him, shall I speak to him,
I mean how disrespectful and rude is that, okay, and this is Aaron who did some great things with
Moses didn't he, okay, it's not like well who is this guy, look this is Aaron yeah,
Aaron was his mouthpiece at the beginning wasn't he, Aaron is who's done so much and now up makest
gods, and how often are these kids that you see out there talking to their parents like that,
talking to their leadership whatever it is, and talking to their school teachers like that,
now talking to whoever it is like their bit of dirt, even talking to the police nowadays like
that right, and anyway up makest gods is what they say to him, they demand what they want,
he does as he's told and he makes this golden calf yeah, so now they've got their idol,
their false god, jump forward to verse 17, verse 17 says this, and when Joshua heard the noise of
the people as they shouted, so they're they're coming down for at least at this point they're
up in the mount, he said, he said unto Moses there is a noise of war in the camp, so what
they can hear this, this, this shouting sounds like war, okay, it sounds like war to him, verse
18 says, and he said it is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice
of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that sing, do I hear, so it sounded like
a terrible battle, like people dying, but it was actually people rapping, that's really what it was,
it was actually it was some rapping going on down there, but they were like, it must be people
crying out, you know, must be people shouting for mastery, battling, no actually no they were,
they were, they were rapping, verse 19 says, and it came to pass as soon as he came nigh unto the
camp that he saw the calf and the dancing, and Moses anger waxed hot and he cast the tables out
of his hands and break them beneath the mount, and look this is what, like I said, so much of this is,
it's really, it's religious to some degree, okay, they idolize either the rapper or a lot of the
time they idolize the money, the lifestyle, whatever it is, they, they, they make an idol of that, don't
they, it becomes like a sort of false god to them, now did Moses say, well we had better change our
worship music to appeal to them, okay, it was actually them singing, we need to just change things
over a little bit, you know, we need to incorporate at least dancing into our reverent worship of
the Lord's God, we need to get a bit of dancing going, we need to appeal to them, don't we,
well look at verse 20, and he took the calf which they had made and burnt it in the fire, and ground
it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it, no he
smashed their stupid big headphones, didn't he, he smashed them up, yeah, he got their, their stupid
whatever base boxes out of their cars and ground them down into powder, and he burnt them, and made
them, made them drink it, and you know what, isn't that what a lot of dads around this nation should
be doing, shouldn't they, shouldn't all the dads around this nation whose kids are listening to this
filth be smashing up everything to do with it and making them drink it, yeah, that would, that's a
good example isn't it, to those weak lily-livered selfish dads around this nation that let their
kids listen to this junk, smash it up, grind it up, get rid of it, why on earth would you have
someone listen to this stuff, why would you have your children listen to this sort of stuff, would
you have someone in your home in front of you saying the sort of stuff that they're, that they're
rapping about to your kids, who, if you would, you, you've got issues, you wouldn't have it, oh yeah, I'm
just, excuse me, can I just have five minutes alone with your kid, right, fornication, covetousness,
drunkenness, drugs, you'd be like what on earth, what are you doing, what are you doing with my kid,
yeah, but it's okay, is it, when it's over some sort of speaker system, is that all right,
oh no, it's all right, when it's, when, when it's done in a way that they're going to remember it
even better, when it's done in a way that it's going to repeat and repeat in their head and
they're going to start saying the same thing and think how cool it is, turn to Proverbs 15 two,
Proverbs 15 and verse two,
because, look, what are these fools rapping about, Proverbs 15 and verse two says this,
it says, the tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright, but the mouth of fools
poureth out foolishness, and look, that's kind of a polite term for what they're pouring out,
it's foolishness, that's why these dads, that's why these parents, that's why these mums,
in the absence of these useless dads, should be smashing it up, should be getting rid of it,
should be banning it from their house, should be getting rid of any, oh but, but he's got a phone,
I can't, take the phone then, why they got a phone, why they got a phone when they're listening to
absolute film, absolute foolishness, pouring out of the mouth of these fools,
and it is for anything, oh well, yeah, but is it foolish, look, brother Ian, look, you just maybe
got slightly different standards, yeah, maybe, look, you think it's foolishness, but live and
let live, people want to live like that, it's okay, is it, no, it's foolishness, the drugs
destroy you, don't they, anyone think drugs don't destroy your life, oh yeah, yeah, but they're only
talking about weed, brother Ian, weed destroys your life, okay, I've seen so many lives destroyed
by, by cannabis, marijuana, whatever you want to call it, lazy, good for nothing, sitting at home,
smoking weed all day or all night and doing nothing, apart from sitting there getting paranoid
about things whilst playing stupid computer games or watching just wastes of time, yeah,
and listening to this sort of rubbish and rapping along to it while high on weed,
like it's such a waste of time, you know, if there's one way probably to just while away
most of your life it would be by, by take up smoking weed, you just, just basically write off
hours, weeks, months, years of your life just sitting there stoned, I mean, these, these,
like, and there's a lot of these kids that do that, yeah, a lot of adults that still do that,
that's what they spend their lives doing, just sitting at home stoned and what, you think that's
not destroying you, what a waste of your life, can you imagine coming to the end of your life,
oh what did you do all day every day, I got stoned, I can't even remember most of it,
most of them can't even remember what they did, most of them cannot remember even what they did
an hour ago, let alone the week before and the month before, let alone years before,
it's a waste of life, first, you don't have to turn it, first Peter 5-8 says be sober,
be vigilant because your adversary, the devil is a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may
devour, yeah, he tells us as Christians to be sober, okay, we're told by God to be sober and
be vigilant, you ain't sober and vigilant smoking weed and I tell you what, when you're not a child
of God as well and you're smoking weed, you're still not sober and vigilant, that's why so many
of these stoners, which is what they are, end up with all sorts of mental health issues, mass,
you know, intense paranoia and other issues like that because they haven't been sober,
they haven't been vigilant, okay, and weed, what a waste of time, yeah, that's what I just keep
seeing when I'm looking through these lyrics, it's like rolling up my J, smoking my blunt,
you know, like why, why does anyone even care what you were smoking because you're promoting it,
because you're trying to get all these stupid soppy little kids to do the same,
because, because they're so easily led, aren't they, kids are easily led,
okay, it's wicked, the fornication destroys you, anyone know that, fornication destroys people's
lives, destroys people's lives and again, how much are they promoting for, it's just all about,
I mean, one of them, I read one lyric, this guy Stormzy, this good Christian guy Stormzy,
yeah, from the Pentecostal background, he said, I could have your chick if I wanted her or something
along those lines, like what a wicked guy, yeah, I will take your woman if I wanted to,
and then he says something like, but she's not worth it, you know, like what, like what,
unbelievable, isn't it, but this is, and then all these kids going, yeah, wow,
and he's even rich as well, fuck it into this, I'm gonna like have some money and I'm gonna
be so happy, do you think he's gonna be so happy, of course he's not gonna be so happy,
apparently he's praying to God now for a wife, yeah, good luck mate, good luck with that,
yeah, poor woman, you know, because he's changing now, this is what they claim, but it ruins your
life, oh well, no, look, it's just a bit of fun, you know, people just need to kind of,
you know, get it off their chest when they're young, yeah, yeah, okay, they can get all the
diseases off their chest as well, they can get all the, all the, the, the mental, let's be honest,
a mental scarring, a lot of the time from a life of fornication, from past relationships,
from something which should be between a man and a wife, yeah, it's wicked and it destroys you,
1 Corinthians 6 18 says, flee fornication, flee fornication, don't listen to people going fornicate,
fornicate, fornicate, fornicate, in a chanting rhythmical tone with slightly cooler words,
flee it, every sin that a man doeth is without the body, but he that comitteth fornication
sinneth against his own body, you're sinning against your own body, it's wicked, you should be
fleeing it, the violence destroys you, how about the violence being promoted by these guys, I mean,
they're all trying to encourage a life of like being scared of, of the late, of the local gang
coming around, I mean, if you, anyone ever heard any of this drill stuff, I used to coach a guy who,
who managed drill artists, so his job was, and I'm sure he probably had some other jobs as well,
but that, that particular job was, was managing drill artists, and unbelievable, I mean,
that lifestyle is just something else, they're all just looking over their shoulders the whole time,
because the other like bunch from whatever estate want to kill them for no real reason,
and they just kind of want to just have some violence and everything else, and we're not
talking about going and having a little puncture, we're talking about people running around with
knives and guns and everything else, for what, for what reason, what are they even gaining,
what, what, what a bunch of losers, right, bunch of absolute losers, but what's even worse is the
people listening to it going, yeah, how cool, what a cool lifestyle, like coming out of my front door
and like watching because someone might try, not for anything worthwhile, not because you're
preaching the truth, not because you're doing something right, because, what, because you want
to like do some other kindergarten level rhyme about silly things, and they don't like your
rhyming because your rhyming was mean about their rhyming, or something, is that what happens,
something about that isn't it, it's basically, it's basically the equivalent of the kindergarten kid
getting upset because the other kindergarten kid, their rhyme sounded like it was maybe about them,
you know, called them a meanie, and then so they do one calling them a meanie, this is,
it's pathetic, absolutely pathetic, you know, I've turned to Psalm 140 and verse 11 says,
let not an evil speaker be established in the earth, evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow
him, look, you want to live your life with that sort of wicked violence, look, it's going to hunt
you, it's going to overthrow you, okay, you're living by the sword, look, you're going to perish
by the sword aren't you, okay, the covetousness destroys you as well, and look, a lot of this stuff
is promoting covetousness, this foolishness pouring out of their mouths about their whatever,
you know, whether it's their money, this, their sports car, their whatever rubbish,
just absolute rubbish, their clothing and the rest of it, and look, that destroys your life,
that stuff, doesn't it, seeking, look, people who seek wealth, who hunt wealth, who, where it's,
look, they're never happy, okay, never happy, it's never enough, they always want more,
they're always seeking more, and, and this is a big part of this sort of music, it's all about
getting your, you know, your jewels, your this, your money, your wads of cash and everything else.
First Timothy 6 9 says, but they that will be rich, that's people who want to be rich,
whose goal is riches, fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts,
which drown men in destruction and perdition, it destroys you, okay, it drowns you and it destroys
you, it's never enough, I've known wealthy people, more money than most people can imagine,
it's still not enough, it just drowns them, they just want more and want more and want more,
and same with these loser idiots hiring their stupid sports cards for the day to pretend that
that's what they've got, when they're doing their stupid little amateur video that they're trying
to get a lot of views on, it's pathetic, how pathetic, can you imagine how pathetic,
I, I had a guy that I used to coach, a young lad and his dad was showing me, look he's done this
video and I don't even know, I mean the kid was like, he was like just this, when I, when I had,
he's like this like nervous, shy 15, 16 year old, you know, braces, like just, you know,
nothing about him and then literally six months later his dad's going, oh have you seen this,
and it's got this many views, and it was quite popular and he's like rapping away,
I'm like what, and, and it's like this like just ridiculous sports car that he's kind of sitting
in and looks like he's driving but he's not, and they've got some like basic whore just like
draped, and it's just what on earth is it, where do you get that for, oh yeah, yeah, they hire it
for the day, like how sad is that, most, did you, I don't know if you realise this, but most of
these guys you're watching, especially as they're making it, they don't own any of that stuff,
they're like hiring it for the day to look like they're rich, how pathetic, right, that's how
bad, that's how foolish it is, and the last one of the obvious things it promotes is pride, and
guess what else destroys you, pride, pride destroys you, and look these, these guys it's, it's all
about that, I'm this, I'm that, I'm the greatest, I'm the best, you know, look at me, I'll do this,
I'll do that, and again what are all these kids looking at and trying to, they're just trying to
be like them, now they might not when they're in front of you maybe, you might look at some of these
kids and go, oh well they listen to it, they seem alright, but you know what they're like behind
closed doors, or do you know what they're like when they're in front of their friends, it's all
the same stuff, yeah people can put on an hat, but pride destroys you, yeah, pride is wicked,
okay, that is a wicked thing, and, and especially as a Christian, I mean it's, it's beyond wicked
isn't it, but Proverb 16 18 says pride goeth before destruction, and then haughty spirit
before the fall, pride goes before destruction doesn't it, okay, because when you're lifting
yourself up, when you're getting full of yourself, when you think you're something special,
you end up getting destroyed, okay, you end up getting destroyed,
you end up, it all ends up crashing down around you, now
these parents should be burning this stuff, shouldn't they, burning it, destroying it,
grinding it to powder, getting this junk out of the house, getting this filth out of the house,
you go, well why not, why are you focused on Hitler, this is for me the worst of it,
as an umbrella term for music, yeah, yeah, the drill I'm sure is worse than the R&B,
and this is what, whatever, yeah, but it's all just junk, it's all rubbish, it's all filth,
but by the way, yeah, I would add to that, yeah, if your kid grows up and starts growing their
hair long and head banging along to the wicked satanic heavy metal stuff, bin it, burn it,
crush it, destroy it as well, all of this stuff, it's all wicked, but this is something else isn't
it, the stuff just, it's just like every lyric of every song is just promoting sin and wickedness,
it's all such foolishness, yet you've got millions of, well, I would say millions,
I would say we're into multiple millions in this nation listening to this stuff,
choosing to listen to this stuff, you've got adults listening, you've got grown men and women
sitting at home listening to this stuff, in their CD collections if they were in the old days and
nowadays whatever on their, you know, Spotify and whatever else, and with this absolute filth,
this talentless garbage, it's crazy isn't it, and they actually think when I was growing up,
and when I say growing up, I mean even into my 20s, knowing people and probably even into
30s who actually thought that they were cool because they listened to this stuff,
I mean they actually thought that they were something, you know, to be like, aspired to be
like, like yeah, you know, yeah, oh yeah, yeah I listen to it, but people go what sort of music
do you like, yeah I like a bit of hip-hop, I like a bit of it, it's like you absolute loser, do you
not listen to what you're singing along to and chanting along to, chant, sorry, what are you,
what you're talking along to, and I guarantee you there are children of God around this nation
chanting along to this stuff, and when I say children of God, I mean, I mean adults as well,
there are, there are Christians, believers around this nation, chanting along to this sort of
rubbish, yeah, did you know that, yeah, no, did you know that, that all those people that we've
been getting saved haven't just gone home, binned everything that they ever listened to and changed
their lives around and got right with God, did you know that, yeah, and I would say there might even
be people in this church doing that, and don't worry we're not going to do a little check all
the eyes, okay, but that's the truth, yeah, that's the truth, because this stuff will affect even
believers, even church-going believers, well, and if that is you Proverbs 10 says that it's time to
get wise, Proverbs chapter 10 and verse 8, Proverbs 10 says this, the wise in heart will
receive commandments but a prating fool shall fall, now prating is sort of continuous pointless talk,
yeah, just continuously sort of babbling, yeah, a prating fool shall fall, I mean let's be honest
that's a good description of this stuff, isn't it, just continuous babbling of anything that
kind of semi-rhymes and sounds like it's not, you know, that it's at least slightly cool and sinful,
you say well what's the commandment, because it said the wise in heart will receive commandments,
well Proverbs 9, you're in Proverbs 10, go back to Proverbs 9 and verse 6, Proverbs 9 says forsake
the foolish, forsake the foolish and live and go in the way of understanding, forsake them, okay,
that means abandon them, abandon the sinking hip-hop ship and seek wisdom, abandon it,
get rid of it, forsake it, forsake the foolish, forsake these people, get rid of this rubbish
out of your life if it's in your life, now you might be, you might be sitting there going okay
brother and again I'm not into all that rap anyway, okay, I heard some of those lyrics,
you know, all this kind of stuff, I can't really sit there and go, you know, come to church on a
Sunday and then kind of on the way home be going yeah with my blunt, yeah, yeah and all this stuff,
yeah, okay, I just like a bit of female R&B, how about that, just like, it's just, I like the R&B,
you know, or the female sounding R&B, because it's either, it's either a girl singing or a
girl that sounds like a girl singing, I mean sometimes a girl that sounds like,
you can't really tell, can you, my baby and all this, it's, it's pretty bad isn't it,
it's telling me recently that apparently they called Michael Jackson out
talking normally when he's off camera, anyone ever heard of this stuff before,
yeah I think so, it's always telling me, I don't know if that's true but anyway,
the sweet melodies, I just love those sweet melodies, the emotion in the voices,
because they always sound so emotional when they're singing don't they, you know,
they're like just so much emotion, I just love it, I love those beats in the background,
you know, it just, nothing does it for me like the R&B, is that so bad, well turn to Isaiah 23,
Isaiah chapter 23, where I believe that God is describing the modern R&B scene in,
in what was a prophecy about the aftermath of the overthrowing of Tyre, yeah,
so I think it sounds like a typical R&B singer to me this, says in Isaiah 23 and verse 14,
Isaiah 23 and verse 14, how ye ships of Tarshish, for your strength is laid waste,
and it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years according to the
days of one king, after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot, so there's a type
so there's a type of singing that harlots do apparently, okay, Tyre shall sing as an harlot,
it says in verse 16, take and harp, go about the city, thou harlot that has been forgotten,
make sweet melody, oh it's sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered,
and it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre,
and she, and she shall turn to her higher, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms
of the world upon the face of the earth, now obviously this is talking about a nation however
the analogy is some harlot going around singing sweet melodies to be noticed, to be remembered
basically, basically promoting herself with her sweet melodies, probably well dressed in
what harlots wear of the day, right, acting and standing and let's be honest probably dancing
around like what we should know of as being a harlot, right, and isn't that a fitting description
most of these R&B singers, that for me is pretty much most R&B singers, dressed like a harlot,
acting like a harlot, let's be honest behaving like an harlot and probably whoring herself to
whoever the biggest rap star is or someone else because that will get her stuff even more popular
and then they can like kind of do like duets and stuff together as well and make his rap you know
that little bit not quite as hard to listen to for normal people that haven't got into the chanting
yet and and that's kind of what they do don't they, making themselves noticed, everything else
and what are they singing about? Fornication, that's pretty much all they sing about, fornication
fornication, fornicating, shacking up, fornication, shacking up, breaking up and more fornication
that's pretty much 99, probably 0.9% except for the particularly masculine ones that probably got
a bit more rappy and started I'm guessing and I bet that it's out there started now rapping about
how they want to smash up some other female artist or something because that's kind of what you know
what generally happens isn't it they just become more male-like but most of them are harlots
singing about fornication, do you want to sing along with a harlot? Anyone want to sing along
with a harlot? Well yeah but she's got such a nice voice so I just can't help but play it in the car
well no one's watching no one's listening apart from when I get in the traffic and then I just
quiet down a little bit and sing along with a harlot yeah I just I can't resist but singing
along with harlots about fornication because that's what again so many people around this
nation are doing and again this look don't get me wrong there's a lot of pop music like this
there's a lot of rock music like this there's a lot of every other genre of music like this
but this is something else isn't it even what is meant to be the sort of the lightest version of it
is harlots singing like harlots about harlotry basically to some degree and a load of people
around the nation men and women singing along to it because it's such a sweet melody yeah oh well
you know booze just tastes so good that's okay then isn't it no it's not okay and by the way it
doesn't it tastes like filth but whatever it is look just because sin might give you a feel good
thing because I know people that got saved or you know trying to live for god and then they're like
I just love the music I need to I need the beats you know I just like that that church music don't
do it for me yeah look you know sin is pleasurable sometimes yeah people get pleasure from sin
doesn't make it okay does it singing along about fornication with harlots
turn to proverbs chapter 14 so I should have said a keeper finger in proverbs back to proverbs in
chapter 14 and verse 7 says this proverbs 14 7 says and it's basically similar to forsaking them
it says go from the presence of a foolish man proverbs 14 7 go from the presence of a foolish
man when thou perceiveth not in him the lips of knowledge and that would include having them sing
sweet melodies to you through some speakers wouldn't it oh well I'm not near them they just
sing to me on every car journey and when I'm kind of bored at home and I just have it in the
background they just sing to me for hours on end each day but I'm not in there no you're in the
presence of them okay they're singing to you a load of filth that you're then memorizing and
having in your heart oh and you know what it's even easier than going from the presence of a
foolish man because all you have to do is switch it off that's all you've got to do switch it off
or don't put it on in the first place that's all you got to do now maybe you're sitting here
thinking okay it's a song of fools brother in it's better to hear the rebuke of the wise yeah
but I'm not going to instinctively just reach for the rebuke okay look I I'm sorry look I've got a
problem with it some people look maybe maybe it's not r&b and hip-hop and all that sort of stuff
maybe it's something else maybe sit here going look but I do have a problem with this sort of
music and I like it's the same sort of stuff let's be honest most of it's singing about fornication
isn't it it's very rare they're singing about you know my loving wife of 20 years
I don't think that's happened for a long time is it it's all wicked to some degree okay there's
just levels of wickedness and for me this is probably the worst kind of umbrella of music
wickedness okay now what do you do well turn to ephesians chapter five look maybe you're here
you've got a weakness for the chanting maybe you do have a weakness for the chanting okay chanting
can be like I said it can be tempting for all sorts maybe it's a weakness for the harlots
melodies or like I said maybe it's another kind of worldly music well ephesians 5 and verse 15
says this ephesians 5 15
Paul says this see then that you walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise
so that means to be careful to be cautious okay we should be cautious we should be
sensible about what we do for example maybe avoiding places that play that sort of stuff
if you're then likely to reach for it yeah if you've got a problem with that maybe be a bit
sensible about where you go yeah what sort of places you go where you think you might be
exposed to this maybe maybe it's some old friends maybe look I can't go and visit that old friend
I want you know I want to preach in the gospel maybe it's better to meet somewhere in the middle
somewhere because when I go to their house they're going to be playing that stuff it's going to get
in my head and then I'm going to have more temptation on the way home to go well I can
just listen to that old track again I could just listen to that okay look it's wickedness right
think like be sensible with it right be sensible about the sort of thing that you listen to
the sort of thing you're around if it's going to create kind of a more more of a desire for that
for example not trying to justify crap or crock or whatever other christian rap rock
so-called contemporary christian music worship songs because so often what happens people listen
to that stuff and then they start craving the old stuff again because it's just the same barring
that they kind of mention god and stuff a bit but it's all doctrineless at the least if not false
doctrine it's all just empty sort of rubbish yeah look here look look we don't just sing any old
hymn you know we look our our music team make sure the doctrine sound yeah okay you don't want
to be singing stuff that's then just and it always just was remarkable to me when I went
to this church who who's pastor claim the pastor claimed not to believe repent of your sins however
his favorite hymn was victory in jesus and he said I want it played at my funeral then I repented of
my sins and won the victory I mean it's just what what on earth yeah and it's talking about
salvation it's like what on earth and look we obviously we ain't gonna be in fact we once had
just on a loop because we had kind of it looped to just some like piano music piano hymns we had
that coming up and we had someone saying like he's sister Vanessa playing victory in jesus because it
was coming through the through the uh they're on their way to church they could hear it and I was
like Vanessa you don't know Jesus but uh point being that it was coming through something we
obviously deleted that off this playlist you know that was like an automatic playlist
church because you don't want that stuff in your head do you because those that have listened to
it then they start singing along to it don't they and you know oh am I going to suddenly believe in
that no you're not but you know what you're just going to be that little bit weaker towards it
aren't you that little bit less strong about that it maybe isn't going to prick you so much when you
hear it etc when you're hearing it constantly in hymns that music's powerful yeah Romans 12
2 you don't have to turn this says and be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind it may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of god
we shouldn't be conforming to the world with our worship music should we yeah why are we going to
conform is god's will that is is the perfect acceptable will of god that we sound as similar
as possible to some filth promoting sinful wicked music do you think that's god's will
only my perfect will is only that church down there in the uk just sounds as similar as possible
to the rap artists as similar as possible to the satan worshipping rock bands just if only they
could just sound a bit more like that you know if only you got to find a way of reaching them about
that no we shouldn't be conformed to this world should we we're not trying to conform to this
world however much you might find it gets in your bones and you just wish that you came to church
you could have a real groove and dance like the old days and listen to the drums okay we're not
trying to conform to this world yeah and you shouldn't do either and you know what once you
stop conforming to this one you get that out of there that the flesh doesn't desire it so much
then and then you're happy listening to good old-fashioned traditional hymns yeah where it's
more about the words than it is about the beat yeah but when it's about the beat you're not
really thinking about the words you can sing along to anything if the beats right can't you
how many people are just like singing they don't even know what they're singing along to
i've done a scene along with some sodomite yeah it's a beat it's a beat it's all that stuff that
gets in your gets in your bones gets in your flesh you gotta get you gotta get that out of your life
because you will just get pulled back into that stuff and that and that like i said that includes
all that contemporary rubbish as well and these people most the time aren't even saved
but these contemporary musicians and i don't want to make a blanket statement but so often
they're just at the least just some weak lily-livered liberal little sellout trying to be
like the world trying to make a load of money by sounding as worldly as possible because he's
watching the rock stars he's watching the rap stars he's watching them get rich and he's going
i need to get a bit more like that but if i mentioned god at least like you know i've got
this niche audience now you need to keep away from that junk verse 16 says redeeming the time
because the days are evil look you you need to get busy in life don't you if people were just
a bit busier yeah did some more productive things in their lives then they'd be much more much less
likely to be even having the temptation of this stuff if you weren't sitting at hunger i just
don't know what to do with myself you're much less likely to start browsing for your old favorite
tracks of whatever sort of music it was that you used to listen to and and and maybe for some of
you maybe it's the car journeys or the train journeys i know we have a lot of people that
travel long distances on trains maybe it's like you know that's the time when that's when i used
to always listen to music because a lot of people do don't they a lot of people while away hours
listening to some rubbish music just drilling in drills into the drill's a good good name for that
isn't it drills into your head okay it gets deep in your head in your memory banks you can't get
rid of it maybe that's something that you have a problem with but but redeem the time yeah
make use of that time how about listen to some sermons how about that how about listen to a
so how about listen to some audio bible how about that there's some there's some great preachers
out there there's a you could get audio bible easy you can get some great preachers straight on
straight up within a second and listen to some of the best preachers in the world
and listen to a good quality sermon than to some absolute just rubbish you could listen to some
hymns how about that you could listen to some nice hymns with strong doctrine you could pray
couldn't you i've got a long journey what a great time to pray what a great time to get
pray you could pray for you could pray individually for everyone in this church
and for those needs and and and issues that you maybe know they have that maybe they've shared
with you or or or we prayed for before from here on a wednesday night there's so much you can do
with your time which is wasted when you just sit there listening to brainwash really which is what
most of it is brainwashing you about sin and again if it's evenings do something productive
there's a lot you can do isn't there there's a lot you can do this but oh well i need some
relax yeah relax sure have some relax time just don't spend your relax time listening to someone
promoting sin to you yeah you want to relax do something relaxing i don't even think that is
that even relaxing it's not relaxing in general that stuff gets people pent up doesn't it
nobody relaxing about it oh what about when i exercise i need some music when i exercise why
do you need music when you exercise why i mean like people spent they've been there have been
people running long distance races probably as long as people have been alive yeah probably for
6000 odd years people have been running long distances and it's only in the last
few couple of decades few decades of that they've even had the ability to listen to anything
what do they do the rest of time actually had i mean god forbid they actually had their own
thoughts they actually listened to that because so many people are just escaping their thoughts
aren't they just has to be busy have to be have to have something listening playing
but maybe just just have some time meditating on the word of god
talking to god or just thinking about stuff how about that think about some stuff you might find
that you're a bit better prepared in life when you actually have some time to think about your life
people always trying to escape it aren't they you said in verse 17 wherefore be ye not unwise but
understanding what the will of the lord is and believe me the will of the lord is not you
chanting along to that stuff it's not you singing along to oh well it's all right it's like frank
sanatra it's like old school it's not you singing along to that rubbish it's all rubbish it just
progressively has got worse but it's all sinful isn't it it's not any of that that's not what the
will of the lord is for your life believe me okay i don't think i need to go to a verse to show you
that okay that's not god's will for your life and verse 18 says and be not drunk with wine wherein
is excess but be filled with the spirit and and obviously often this bad music goes hand in hand
with intoxication to some degree okay often and obviously the worst of it the kind of hyper speed
like dance tracks you know is is you know whether on ecstasy you know or some other form of lsd or
you know on they're on trips and all this stuff it's all because you could like who really is
going to listen to that stuff without you know but but suddenly they're high on drugs and it's
like fair game and obviously look we look obviously the bible tells us time and time again
to to be to be uh sober but it says here to be filled with the spirit and look no spirit filled
christian is reaching for the drill artist okay well i'll tell you what you're not going to
continue to be spirit filled if you reach for the drill artist not any of this okay that's not you're
not in the spirit i'm i was so in this but same with the contemporary stuff they feel oh yeah oh
man the holy spirit's in the room you know because because the drums are going because the bass is
going yeah but but you know what they think there's a spirit in the room when they're at
the rock concerts with the lighters out they're all doing the same stuff aren't they it's not that
you know what it's a different spirit yeah it's and it's and i'll tell you what it's called it's
a familiar spirit okay and and none of that stuff that's not that's not the holy spirit okay that's
not the holy spirit you ain't going to be going for that worldly fornicating promoting all the
rest of it stuff when you're in the spirit at least you ain't going to stay in the spirit
verse 19 says speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
singing and making melody in your heart to the lord so he said be filled with the spirit
then showed you some of the ways you can do that and there's a great solution isn't there is if
that is a problem if it's like yeah i just love music there are some musical but there are people
that just really love music they just love hearing music and everything else or get into songs which
have some value then that actually have some value that where the words actually are showing worship
to god where the words aren't something that's a little bit i'm not sure i don't know why don't
you just say look there's some good there's some good hymns out there aren't there but i love the
hymns we sing here yeah i love singing i love every single hymn we sing here and i love many
others that we don't sing here and i tell you what it's great when you're singing something
you know you're singing to god you're enjoying the music you're you're making a sweet song to
the lord and and you know that there's no sinful issue with it at all that's nice isn't it you're
nice to have a nice clean conscience and go yeah i'm singing to you lord you know and and i'm
enjoying it at the same time yeah and look when you get that wicked song in your head look many
times you do don't you so many times you're you you might have gone somewhere like i said you go
to a shop you go to a cafe you go to wherever it gets in your head and then it's ah flush it out
flush it out with a hymn that's all i do i've i've yeah i've had this where like not that long ago
recently i remember this song got in my head i've been somewhere in some sort of diy
store where they're kind of playing it loud over the speakers and it's oh man
i'm i'm like humming along to this now so what do i do straight as i get in my car to put on put on
a hymn gone flushed out and now i'm singing along to god yeah all right that's a good answer isn't
it isn't that like a good way of dealing with it oh well where do i go for that because i tell you
what you start googling hymns you're going to come up with all sorts of you know the band and the
rest of it well if you're not on it that faithful word app's got some great music on it our music
team have a channel south end baptist with some great music on there and they're hymns that we
sing at this church so you can get to learn them and you're going to know them already
if you want to know the channel and you don't know it then let me know i'll tell you it and
look listen to some good stuff yeah or i i some i used to and i know like brother john says he's
a bit fluttery but um uh calabrazi at least uh you know at least there's no wickedness there he just
plays watch out for victory in jesus i think he does do that but he plays generally good sound
doctrinally sound hymns yeah on the piano it's on the piano you don't have to listen to some wailer
you can sing it along yourself they even put some words on the screen how nice is that look it can
be done can't it yeah however sadly so many won't and we'll just reach for the wickedness now what
if i'm at work yeah what if i'm at work and and because there are people that work in place of
work where they can't avoid that yeah and you know i i can't they play the music there i can't i can't
just go you've got to ban that music they ain't going to play the worship music at my place of
work i've tried you know there are people you know that work in gyms and work in other places
i don't think they're going to go for you know amazing grace you know on repeat or something
else yeah so well notice how it said here in verse 19 it said speaking to yourselves in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the lord now speaking
to yourselves and singing making melody in your heart yeah now don't get me wrong that could
obviously apply to doing that out loud but it kind of sounds to me like singing in your head
doesn't it speaking to yourselves even that's a speaking part in psalms and hymns singing and
making melody in your heart now you might need to get like a couple on the way to work or something
just to give you a bit of inspiration but you know often you will do that won't you you just
have a little tune in your head in your heart if you're listening to the right stuff it'll be the
right music won't it and maybe you can try and maybe that's a good way of trying to defend
yourself against the wickedness being played over the speakers at your place of work or
wherever it is you need to go look at verse 20 giving thanks always for all things unto
god and the father in the name of our lord jesus christ and this is still part of being filled
with the spirit giving thanks to god is a good part of that isn't it yeah if you're like i'm
feeling myself getting drawn out because we want to live in the spirit don't we give thanks to god
think of something to thank him for and the more appreciative you are to god i think the less
likely you are to then go yeah thanks but now it's time to reach for the hip-hop artist
oh praise god thank you for everything you've given me thank you for salvation
you know thank you for this day it's a glorious day right done
i think it's less likely isn't it yeah so giving thanks always for all things under god and the
father in the name of our lord jesus christ submitting yourselves one to another in the
fear of god not lifting yourself up as the greatest of all time yeah submitting to
yourselves one to another probably find it a bit more odious then to listen to someone going i'm
the man i'm the one under this under that yeah maybe turn to proverbs one okay so we're finishing
up now what do we do about these wicked rappers okay what do we do about them then should we just
go and hunt them down should we just preach these sermons you know three times a week
somehow you know someone's going to destroy them how do we keep the kids away from them
maybe that's your question maybe it's like look i can deal with my family what about all these
poor kids out there because there's a lot of kids out there yeah they're victims of these people
well we get them saved don't we get them saved get them saved yeah and that doesn't necessarily
or it doesn't pull them away but we try and get the family saved as well don't we try and get
these people saved get their family saved get them in the church and then let these so-called
artists what's artistic about any of it let them destroy themselves right let them destroy
themselves proverbs one and verse 32 says proverbs 132 for the turning away of the simple shall slay
them and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them the prosperity of fools shall destroy
they're going to destroy themselves all those idiots with all that money and all that they
just destroy themselves okay who is it who's telling me um someone was just telling me earlier
and he's not he's not uh obviously a hip-hop artist he's telling me about chris ubank the boxy yeah
who was who is a fool yeah he's an idiot the guy the guy drives this huge big wheel truck yeah
you've never seen pictures of this yeah like like ridiculous like a monster truck and then he'd like
drive it down to like the post office and drive and he apparently racked up was it a hundred
thousand pound of parking hundred grand of parking tickets parking up his monster truck to the point
where i think he ended up in big money problems because he was like i'm the man like similar sort
of attitude i'm the man i'm the greatest i'm the best of all time but obviously said in a slightly
more weird way and and i'm i don't pay parking ticket i can't you can't even get in a bay he's
in a monster truck yeah driving around london or wherever else or whatever city it is and he's just
getting fines he's getting all this and then he ended up racking up this huge amount of fines
yeah and then you don't pay him when it's council stuff you're going to go to prison as well
so he ended up getting in money trouble and the prosperity of fools does destroy them doesn't it
he got so full of himself because they get so pride filled and eventually they just destroy
themselves and how many people how many fools end up when they get money quickly it just goes
quickly doesn't it or they just destroy their lives one way or another and well they destroy
themselves in the meantime we show their victims the right path don't we let them destroy themselves
and we go out there and we preach gospel we try and get people in the church and is that by trying
to be more street should we try and be more street while we do that i just got to appeal to them we
get a little bit more street then those kids might be more likely to come to church maybe i need to
just kind of dress down a bit from behind the pulpit yeah just need to maybe start just low
slinging those trousers a bit more yeah maybe get the old backwards cap but there there are guys my
age out there preaching like that okay why because they think they're somehow appealing to them but
that's not what we do we shine the light of the gospel don't we shine the light of the gospel
shine the light of god's word we try and get them into the things god obviously we get them saved
first and and and it's the gospel that gets people saved it's not it's not the backwards
cap and all the rest of that sort of stuff that ain't getting people saved okay it's it's the
gospel that does so um that was hip-hop the song of falls okay and uh like i said hopefully look
if it's not hip-hop and it's some other sort of junk like that hopefully you can apply some of
that to your lives and help yourselves with some of that um on that we're going to pray
father thank you for your word thank you for well thank you for you know the many principles and
many um just many you know teachings and instructions that you give us through your
word um you know such as just keep away from these sorts of fools and this sort of foolishness
the song of fools and all of this stuff um help us lord to you know seek the things of
god more help us all here to just you know resist the flesh and listen to you know god
honoring music to to seek for those things seek for the things of god to not be conformed to this
world but transformed by the renewing of our minds you know and to seek that good and perfect will of
yours lord and all that we do um not just in music but in everything else lord in all aspects of our
lives and help us do that starting this afternoon by going out and preaching to the lost lord
preaching the gospel to people um and once we get those people saved to to really try our best to
encourage them to to be a part of your church to be a part of you know your your house lord and to
learn to start you know changing their lives as well and getting things out of their lives and
lord we thank you for um everything you do for us we thank you for this church and we pray that
we'll all uh just just return safely for this evening service and just thank for all this amen