Amen. Well, thank you so much for coming out and
Thank you for your hospitality. I appreciate the deacon for having me and my wife out here. That's my lovely wife Sherry over there
she's
blessing to me she's my traveling companion and
Whether she likes to or not. She's I drag her along with me
but
Anyway, I think just thank you so much for putting this on. It's it's an honor to be here. I really appreciate it
And let's look at our Bibles. I'm preaching about what is right music for Christians to listen to what is right?
Music for Christians to listen to you're like pastor Thompson. Why are you preaching about this? Well, there's a lot of young people here and
There's people here that struggle with music. I'm sure you know, we've all grown up listening to stuff music in some way shape or form and
so
How do we discern?
What good music is because there's a lot of Christians that listen to music and they would call the music they listen to Christian
Wouldn't they but we would listen to that music ago. Yeah, I don't know about that
But how do we judge what good music is and what good music isn't well look at first John chapter 4 verse 1
It's obviously not talking about music but it's talking about spirits
Isn't it look at verse 1 that says beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God
Does many false prophets are gone out into the world here by
No
You the Spirit of God every spirit that confess that the Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God
And every spirit that the best is not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God
And this is that spirit of Antichrist whereof you have heard that it should come and even now already
Is it in the world?
You're of God little children have overcome them because greater is he that is in you
Than he that is in the world. They are of the world
Therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them
What kind of music does the world listen to worldly music right music that appeals to them music that appeals to their flesh?
These and most and what it's talking about people that would listen to you know, that would not be saved here, right?
So look at verse 6 it says we are of God
He that knoweth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth not us
Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error
So we can listen to music that has the spirit of truth in it
Can't we and we can also listen to music that has the spirit of error now?
I would submit to you that Christian should not be listening to music that has the spirit of
Errors, so I'm gonna go ahead and pray real quick before we get started into the main message here Heavenly Father
We thank you Lord so much for this great time
we could have at camp and just getting out getting away from our phones to a certain extent here and
technology and in all kinds of things that would just bog us down in life and we could just get out here and
And spend some time with you Lord and spend some time
Fellowshiping with good friends Lord. I pray you fill me with your spirit as I begin to preach this sermon in Jesus name
I pray amen
so
Applying these verses to music we can get a picture of what would be considered worldly
Devilish or godly music, right? So there is a spirit in music. So people would say music is just music
It doesn't matter what kind of music it is. Music is not evil inherently. Is that true though?
I mean obviously we know that's not true. Do you think Metallica belongs in our church services? No, do you think?
Pantera belongs in our church services
No, why not because it has a spirit of wickedness in it and what makes it wicked
well
The style of music makes it wicked and of course the lyrics would make it wicked, wouldn't it?
so we need to apply these scriptures to what kind what is the right music for Christians to listen to and
So a lot of Christians, like I said, they struggle
With listening to worldly music you'd be surprised how many people in churches even like our church, you know, even like this church here
would
struggle with wanting to
Listen to worldly music why because we grew up listening to it
I I when I was 10 years old Michael Jackson was really popular, right?
And I used to go to sleep at night with Michael Jackson thriller playing in my ear every night
You know, so I had some fag singing me to sleep every night
But you know, I didn't know I wasn't saved obviously
so I didn't realize that that music isn't music I should be listening to but here's the thing music music is very powerful and
Music can get stuck in your brain to where there's there's albums that I could still listen to if I listen to it right now
I would know every drum beat every guitar riff every lyric to every song on that album
how is that because music is a very powerful thing and we need to understand that as
Christians we shouldn't be listening to music that would appeal to our flesh in that way because what's it doing?
Well, it's teaching us things that we don't want to learn right and so, you know, how do we determine?
What is the right type of music? Well, you know, we think about this music is so powerful
That even jingles and commercials I still remember from when I was a kid
Can anybody think of a jingle? Yeah, what?
Okay
Yeah, I can anybody think of a jingle of a commercial of just anything that you remember from a kid anybody
You're not gonna you're not gonna come forth. Are you? All right, I get it. So well
How about well, I'm just gonna mention something I thought about when I was writing a sermon the crispy critters song
Have you ever heard of crispy critters cereal? Yeah, cuz I'm old. That's why you haven't heard
But I remember those jingles. I remember
Rice aroni the San Francisco tree. I mean, they're just all kinds
There's all kinds of commercials that why do why do radio stations play, you know jingles
So you'll remember them you'll remember, you know, 1-800 roof live today, you know, just stuff like that
So
Music is so powerful that we can remember things we can remember the start of commercial cartoons
We've used to listen to when we were kids like Flintstones beat the Flintstones, you know
I can still remember all those things I can remember the jingle to Gilly gazillion, you know
It shows that I watched when I was a kid
even kids little children songs
You know, why do kids why do little children like little like songs like that because they appeal to their age group
Right, so and some of that stuff's pretty benign stuff like rockabye, you know rockabye your bear and you know
Just old McDonald had a farm. I mean, I don't think old McDonald had a farm is an inherently evil song
But so it's just something that you know that we you know
We listen to music and it gets stuck in our head
But what kind of music do we want to get stuck in our head?
We definitely don't want you know ice cube and NW you guys like probably know who that is
But anyway, some of you do but like, you know
There's just music that we don't want to get stuck in our head or we want to forget about that music
You know, we've listened some of us grew up listening to that and look kids
The less you listen to that garbage the better off you're gonna be
You know put fill fill your heart with songs about the Lord and godly songs
I remember a few years ago. I was getting up for an overtime shift at three o'clock in the morning
I was in I I right when I was about to get in the shower
A song from ice cube that I hadn't heard in years
Just start bumping in my head like it was today was a good day, you know
Why I mean, I'm up at three o'clock morning today isn't a good day
it's a bad day because I'm up at three o'clock in the morning, but I
Just couldn't get it out of my head and you know
I don't understand why like I didn't I don't remember hearing it in a store or anything like that
But your brain can just trigger things and you're gonna remember those kinds of songs
But how good are you at knowing the songs of the Lord the songs that God wants you to know?
well
Whether we realize it or not music is a spiritual thing
And it's something that we have to gut we have we're supposed to guard our hearts with all diligence, right?
we're supposed to keep our hearts with all diligence and
We need to try to keep that music out of our hearts and out of our minds and out of our ears
So look at Ephesians chapter 5 verse 18
Ephesians 5 verse 18 if you have your Bible with you, if you don't I'm just gonna start reading
Ephesians 5 18 see God music can have the Spirit of God in it, right?
Music can have the Spirit of God in it. Look at Ephesians 5 18. It says and be not drunk with wine
We're in his excess, but what's it say be filled with the Spirit? Well, how do you do that?
You know, you can ask to be filled with the Spirit but also when we come into church
What what's the first thing that we do we sing, you know, what's the first thing we did here tonight?
We sang a song why did we do that so we could get filled with the Spirit?
Because that's what it says in verse 19 says speaking to yourselves and Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. That's the key is what why are we doing?
Are we doing so we can all sound good and show how well we can sing around each other?
No, we're doing it so we can sing to the Lord sing in with melody in our hearts to the Lord
So it says giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God, so
God what was the way to get filled with the Spirit?
How do we know that the Spirit is in this type of music because it says Psalms hymns
Spiritual songs we sing hymns tonight y'all sing
Psalms at church, don't you?
Don't you see you guys have those the Psalms of the week?
Why because God commands us to sing those songs in church, you know
Which is a lost thing in most churches most churches don't even sing Psalms
So you're blessed to be in a church where those songs and hymns and spiritual songs are sang
It doesn't have to necessarily be a psalm or hymn. It could be a spiritual song now. What makes it spiritual?
It's talking about Jesus is being very specific about
the things of Christianity
It's not just saying our God is awesome. God he reigns, you know, that's that's very
Generic, isn't it? What God are they talking about?
You know and then just repeating a sentence over and over again that doesn't make it spiritual. So and also music can have
Satan's spirit in it
So there's two there's different kinds of spirits that can be in songs right turn to Ezekiel chapter 28 verse number 13 Ezekiel
chapter 28
and there's number 13
Looking for my water here
Ezekiel 28 verse 13
Did you know that Satan is a musical being?
Look at verse 13 in Ezekiel 28 says thou has been in Eden the garden of God
every precious stone was like covering the
Sardis the topaz diamond the barrel the onyx and the jasper the sapphire the emerald and the carbuncle and gold
The workmanship of thy tablets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day
That thou was created. So this is talking about
Satan and so it's talking about tablets. That's like a like a tambourine style
instrument and then the pipes, you know, obviously pipes are what you know people have your like
Simon from American Idol says, you know, you have amazing pipes, you know
So he's talking about like singing or maybe some kind of musical instrument
But it says it's prepared in thee the day that thou was created
And I don't watch American Idol. Just so you know, I just heard him say that before so anyway
I don't even know if he's on American Idol. I don't think he is but
Ezekiel chapter 28 verse 14 says thou are at the anointed cherub that covereth and I have set thee
So thou was upon the holy mountain of God that was walked upon
Or excuse me up and down the midst of the stones of fire
That was perfect in thy ways from the day that thou was created till iniquity was found in thee
Satan was a musical being and he was the anointed cherub that covered the throne of God
But he fell and so if he was musical then when he fell what what kind of music do you think he has now?
He's an evil wicked being right? And so I
Believe that Satan is the influence behind all this satanic music that's out
Music is like one of the biggest things in our world right now
You can't go to a hardware store without music playing and sometimes you'll come out singing something
You don't you you don't even remember where you heard it
You know, you're like listen to your heart. It's like no don't listen to your heart. Your heart is desperately wicked
You know, that's a bad thing to do is to listen to your heart
We're not supposed to listen to our hearts supposed to listen to the Word of God. Amen
so
What are some examples of famous artists that would have satanic spirit a satanic spirit in their music well
Who's ever heard of Robert Johnson?
Robert Johnson was bat is back in the 20s or something
But it's it's it was rumored that he sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads and big and he you know
and people I've seen actual videos of people that knew him and said that his guitar playing sucked when he left and
Then all sudden the next time they saw him he could play better than anybody they've ever seen play
But I've listened to a couple of songs and he sings about
Meeting the devil at the crossroads. He sings about you know, the hounds of hell chasing him
You know what? He died young and so that it is true
I believe that the devil look the devil took Jesus to you know
And said I'll give you all these things if you just fall down and worship me
So if if he could offer Jesus who's the king of Kings Lord of Lords it was all his anyway
He could offer him everything if he'd fall down and worship them. What do you think?
He's gonna do with mortal man, you know Satan deceives the whole world
And so he deceives a lot of people with music too and he finds his people that he wants
To put this music forth with and you're like, you know
and when I preach about stuff like this people really just fight against me and I
Preach against skillet, which is a rock Christian rock band
Which is just weird that there's Christian rock bands
But anyway, I preached against him and people just get all mad and you know
They said skill skill. It's got more people saved than I ever dreamed of and all this other stuff
But look that's not the kind of music we should be listening to either. I'll get to that here in a minute
I'm getting ahead of myself. But how about Katy Perry? She flat-out said she sold her soul to the devil
Eminem sold his soul to the devil Jay-z talks about selling the soul of the devil Beyonce
You know has two different personas where she comes out as some demon or something and Kanye West
of course, we know how bad he is, you know, he actually calls himself Yeezus and
He's just a total wicked Antichrist
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath and you know, what's funny? Is that skillet?
The clip I took heat over is that skillet was asked by CBN which is like, you know
Christian broadcast network or whatever and they asked him. What is your greatest accomplishment to the lead singer? I forgot what his name is
but anyway
That he said my greatest accomplishment is touring with Iron Maiden Black Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne
You know and all he lists all these heavy metal
Satanic rock bands, right?
So you're a Christian you're trying to you know
Say that you're a Christian band and then your greatest accomplishment is to tour with all these
Super satanic wicked bands, you know, I mean I would never say
That that was my greatest accomplishment as a Christian, you know, what is our greatest accomplishments as Christian getting people saved?
You know actually getting saved that's that's an accomplishment, you know, because most of us are you know are pretty wicked people
And
You know getting saved is a miracle. So
But just the fact that I was able to get saved is is a miracle, right?
So there's all these these wicked bands, you know
You got and I'm gonna bring some forth the kids probably know who they are. Billie Eilish
I don't it's a girl with the name Billie, I guess but I
Don't know what that I don't know even any of their songs, but like it's a really popular person. I guess right now that's satanic
David Bowie
John Lennon, you know John Lennon sings a song imagine all the people, you know, imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try like why would you want to imagine there's no heaven?
You know because you're a wicked satanic loser
The Beatles actually are so wicked
They they brought like the worship of you know
They brought like Eastern religion over to the United States and then they said we're gonna be more
Famous than Jesus Christ at one point. They said that and you know what?
They're not more famous than Jesus Christ and they never will be but they were very famous very famous rock band, but very satanic
See people, you know Crosby stills a Nash they're satanic too, but people wouldn't like naturally say that Bob Dylan
He's just like, you know these things that you know in that weird style of voice
I don't know some of you guys don't know who I'm talking about you kids
But Bob Dylan said he sold his soul to the devil
Like if all these people are saying they sold their soul to the devil
Why don't you believe them when they say that, you know, you should believe them
so then you got lady gay gay, you know and ice cube and
Taylor Swift is is a whore, you know Garth Brooks has two personas also and
Alan Jackson, how about Alan Jackson? You know what's wrong with Alan Jackson? He's country. He sings gospel music
well, one of his songs says
You know where I come from it's cornbread and chicken and you know
He's working hard to get to heaven where he comes from. Is it hard to get to heaven?
Do you have to work your way to heaven? I mean you see how little things like that can implant in your mind
You're like well, you know, that was just one song. You know, he had to sing that no that came out of his own heart
So, you know, he might sing gospel songs that you all know and love
But he also says where he comes from. It's hard to get to heaven. He's working hard to get to heaven
Well, you know country is no better people think all country is okay, you know
I know a lot of Christians are like well
I'll still listen to country because you know, it has that John 3 16 song or whatever. That's complete trash guys
Don't listen to that garbage anyway
So does anybody know any other ones I haven't mentioned I'm sure there's a lot but all right, you're not you're not you're not
You're not game tonight. All right, it's not the way to go. All right, turn to Ephesians 5 10
Ephesians 5 10 as Christians we have to discern what is God
Honoring music and what is not? All right. So how do we do that?
Well, let's let the Bible tell us what we're supposed to do when it comes to music
Should shouldn't we judge a you know spirit a spiritual person judges all things isn't that what the Bible says?
All right, Ephesians 5 10 says proving what is acceptable unto the Lord
So if you're presented with some kind of music, don't you think that you should prove that it's acceptable?
Yeah, you should that's what the Bible says, right and have no it says and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
Darkness but rather reprove them. So if there's a
Band called Black Sabbath. I mean Black Sabbath indicates they're into black magic
Right and Black Sabbath is the group that Ozzy Osbourne started and that's you know, so I mean obviously
You know, they have some very evil music that they put out
So what's the Bible say? We're not supposed to have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. We're supposed to reprove them
So tonight I just want to give you three things
three questions to help you discern what is God honoring and
Christ honoring music. So let's look at Philippians chapter 1 verse 10
Philippians chapter 1 verse 10
Philippians 1 verse 10 the Bible says Philippians 1 10
that you may approve things that are excellent that you may approve things that are excellent that you may
Be sincere and without offense
Tell the day of Christ. So the Bible teaches us that we're supposed to approve things that are excellent is
Billy Eilish excellent. Do you think God would say that that piece of trailer trash is excellent? I don't think so
So we're supposed to approve things that are excellent and look, you know, maybe it's getting quiet
Just because we're at camp, but maybe it's quiet because somebody some people are listening to this trash
Hey, if that's the stuff you're listening to you need to change the station, you know change it to off
So turn to Hebrews 5 13 Hebrews 5 13
Hebrews 5 13
Says for everyone that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness for he is a babe
So it's understandable when people first get saved and they don't really know the Bible that well and you know
They flip on you know, the Christian contemporary music and they think that that's okay. Look I've been there
I understand but you know, once you realize that it's wicked and evil you should stop listening to it
Verse 14 says but strong mean meat belongeth to them that are of full age
Even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to what?
To discern both good and evil the better, you know the Bible the better
You're gonna know what's good and what's evil and if you've been saved for any amount of time
You're gonna know the difference right away when you hear some trashy song being played, you know, baby
I was born this way or something like that
You know what that song is about being a queer and being born that way. Is that what you want to listen to kids?
You know, I mean and obviously I'm not hip on all the new stuff and like rap. I don't even understand it anymore
It's like hidden in it and in and in and in and in
It's like they all sound the same
Like I mean, it's not like I list of I just have caught clips of it. Okay, I'm not saying I listen to it
But you know
You know
If everybody has the same style, you know, what's why why I have different artists. I don't know
Anyway, it sounds like crap to me. So not wrap but anyway
um, so now I just want to I want to mention something about drums really quickly, so
Drums like at faithful word you guys have a drum set in the back of your church
like you have someone that's just like
No, you don't do you know, you know, the Bible doesn't talk about
You know having drum sets and you know, why don't Baptist have drum sets in the church?
Well, where does the Psalms talk about bringing drums into the church now if you say the tablets those are like tambourines
They make it sound right obviously you can like make a little beat or whatever
But it's not a bass drum kicking in your ears, right? It's not
You know
That's you know, and and that kind of music makes your flesh enjoy the music doesn't it?
And so I just want to make this full turn of Psalm 150. I'll make this point really quickly
We're supposed to praise the Lord on all different manner of
Musical instruments
And we're supposed to praise him with our voices and the things that we say Psalm 150 verse 1 says praise you the Lord
Praise God in his sanctuary praise him in the firmament of his power
Praise him for his mighty acts praise him according to his excellent greatness
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Y'all know what a trumpet is, right? Praise him with the salt tree in the harp
Those are stringed instruments, right and then it says praise him with the timbrel and dance
Praise him with stringed instruments and organs
Now again, the timbrel is not a bass drum, okay, just in case you guys didn't know that I'm not like a super musically
Gifted person and I don't know how to read music or anything like that
But you know what? I can discern the difference between good music and bad music, you know one time when I was
Newly saved I went to a Baptist Church. I didn't know there was differences between Baptist churches at that time
I walked into an SBC Church
which is Southern Baptist Church with my wife and all my kids and guess what the first thing I saw when I walked in was
A set of drums and an electric guitar here and like I was just like, oh man, what's going on here?
And you know, they never busted out the drum set
They were like, that's the next service and I was like when we left, right?
but they did kind of bust out some music that I wasn't like down with at the time and
You know even as a new Christian, I knew that that wasn't good music to be listening to and so I was so spiritual
I just I
Looked at my wife and kids I said don't sing
But
Yeah, because I mean if it's not God honoring music, why do I want to sing it to the why would I sing that?
To the Lord, you know, it doesn't make sense
So but the Bible says in verse 5 praise him upon loud cymbals now
I've heard people say well, those are drums. The cymbals are considered drums pastor Tom
So what's a cymbal sound like anybody? Can anybody make a cymbal sound for me right now?
Yeah
No, it doesn't praise him upon the high sounding cymbals somebody give me a high sounding cymbal
That'll sound like air coming out of a tire but
All right, so
I can't make fun of you when I ask you to do something because then we'll do it again
All right. So verse number six says let everything that hath breath praise the Lord praise you the Lord
So, I mean the Bible doesn't talk about you know, they're taught the Psalms talk about all these different kinds of instruments
But drums is not a focused on thing
So and so why would you want you know, you wonder why drums are in our churches?
well, there's a reason why because it's just
It's it's not something that the Bible emphasizes in music. You know, what is an organ?
Well, you know you have an organ at church. Yeah, you have a piano at church. That's a stringed instrument, isn't it?
So and guitars and all these different types of things are stringed instruments. So and horns, obviously you guys have a great
orchestra up in
Tempe
So, but I just want to say that you know, what is what is Christ honoring music?
Well someone slamming up, you know that puts their little drum gloves on and they're just you know
Wailing away on the drums. Like do you think that should be part of the church service?
obviously not so
Anyway, I'm gonna finally get to number one number one
That was all introduction
Number one, what does the music you were listening to teach see because music has a spirit, but it also teaches
Doesn't it so you can learn things by listening to music. So turn to Colossians chapter 3 verse 16
What does the music you're listening to teach isn't it important that if you're listening to music, you know
And it's teaching you something that it should be teaching you the right things
Don't you think that that you know?
Don't you think that we should be learning about the Trinity and how Christ saves us through grace through faith alone and
Eternal security and the rapture coming and and all these different things. Those are great things to learn about
But what if it's teaching you something else?
What if it's teaching you the fags are born that way
I mean, is that what you want? Is that what you want to hear? No
So, I mean it does matter what we're being taught by music clauses chapter 3 verse 16 says let the Word of Christ
the Word of Christ
dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and
admonishing one another in what psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
See the Bible backs itself up once again
It says singing with grace in your hearts to who to the Lord see we're not singing for ourselves
when you get together on church at church on Sundays and you're playing your musical instruments and
You're singing it's not so you can impress your neighbor. It's not so you can impress the pastor, you know
Deacon Russell is not impressed by your singing. You know what we're supposed to impress, you know
We're supposed to be just singing our best to the Lord and whether that sounds like dogs dying or not
You know, we're supposed to make a joyful note noise under the Lord if it sounds like cats in a fight outside
You know, whatever, but if you're singing with your heart to the Lord, that's what matters
So the Bible says we're supposed to teach and admonish one another so shouldn't the music we listen to teach us something
That's what the Bible says, right and we're supposed to teach and admonish one another
So what is the wrong type of music teach? Well, it teaches things about the world
It teaches wickedness and so turn to first John chapter 2 verse 15 first John chapter 2 verse 15
See God tells us to take to get away from the world
See when we get saved, you know that word sanctified that means set apart
We're supposed to set ourself apart from the things of the world
Would that include the worldly trashy music that you've been listening to? Yes, it would and look
You know if you're if you're struggling in this area
Then get it right with God
Just throw it all in the garbage throw it in the dumpster and I realize that most people don't even listen to music on
What we would call CDs
There's these things called CDs that we used to listen to back in the day and tapes I mean tapes
Or a thing and then even you know eight tracks. I was those before my time though
So but CD, you know, then you got the mp3s and all that stuff, but you can just push delete, can't you?
Can't you get that trash out of your phone? Can't you get that trash out of your?
Ears by just saying you know what I'm gonna turn away from this, you know
We're not we don't repent of our sins to be saved
but you know what we should repent of the wickedness that we're doing in our lives as a
Christian and set ourselves apart and let God work through us
so
look at first John
Chapter 2 verse 15 it says love not the world
Neither the things that are in the world. Will that include worldly music? Yes, it would would that include the top 40s
Would that include your favorite country singer Alan Jackson? Yes, it would would that include your heavy metal rock and roll?
Yes, it would and it says if any man loved the world the love of the Father's not in him for all that is in
The world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of
the Father but is of the world and the world passeth away and the lust thereof
But he that doeth the will of God
abideth forever
So the world is gonna pass away someday
You know, and so what what music should you be focusing on the good stuff the stuff that's gonna teach you sound doctrine the stuff
That's gonna teach you, you know, the things of the Lord, you know, if you sing the Psalms
you're gonna learn all kinds of great doctrine and
Even you know some you're gonna learn stuff in the Psalms
But you're not gonna even learn in your hymnals or in other spiritual music because most of that stuff is all
You know, it doesn't have any hatred in it and you're like well pastor Thompson, we're Christians we shouldn't hate
Come on, you know, there's things sing the Psalms sing Psalm 139 do not I hate them Oh Lord that hate thee
I mean, those are songs that we should listen to all of it
We should make sure that we have a balanced diet and that those that music that we're listening to is teaching us all things in
The Bible not just the love, you know, of course love has its place
But there should also be
Doctrine that it's teaching us. It shouldn't just be you know, shout to the north
That stuff's trash man. You don't want to listen to that
That is you know, it's it's patterned after the world. So I'll get to that
but
Contemporary Christian music teaches shallow Christianity, doesn't it? I mentioned our God is an awesome God
He reigns from heaven above with wisdom power love our God is an awesome God and you know
That's that's the kind of shallow Christian music that we don't want to listen to
You know and half these contemporary Christian people aren't even really saved
Probably more than half of them probably a very big percentage of them aren't even saved
And a lot of them end up coming out as atheists
I remember reading an article where one of them turned out to be an atheist and tried to kill his wife, you know, I mean
And what are we supposed to be focusing on?
Music to the point where we're following people and listening to concerts of them, you know
Don't we we we sing songs and hymns hymns and spiritual songs to teach us things. What is contemporary Christian music teaching you?
It's not teaching you anything
It's teaching you how to be patterned after the world and what the Bible say love not the world neither the things that are in
The world point number two. What does the music you listen to bring forth? What does it bring forth?
So number one was what does the music you are teaching are listening to teach you
You know, it's important to have it teach you and to listen to the right things to have it teach you
But what does the music you listen to bring forth?
Because everything brings forth after its own kind, doesn't it?
And you know anyone or anything that teaches
should judge should judge by what it brings forth anyone or anything that teaches should should be judged by
What it brings for so if the music is wicked it's gonna bring forth things that are wicked things, right?
you can't get
goodness out of
Satanic heavy metal rock and roll you can't and so what is it gonna bring forth? Well, look at Matthew 7
Verse 15 we should be aware of what the music we listen to brings forth
Not only what it's teaching
but what is it gonna bring forth because you know a lot of people they get involved in heavy metal and
Satanic rock and roll and look even now the rap there's like some dude that made satanic Nike shoes
I can't remember what his name is
What?
He's a fag. Yeah, he is
little Nas X
Little he named himself after an energy drink. Congratulations
Or
Fast and furious or something. I don't know. But anyway, you know
That's the kind of rappers that are out there today. They're wearing dresses and stuff. I mean things have changed
So
Things have changed a lot, but you know, it's it's even more wicked than it used to be in my opinion
But so Matthew 7 15 says beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing
But inwardly they are ravening wolves
Ye shall know them by their fruits do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit
But a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit a good tree cannot bring forth
Evil fruit neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit
If you're singing the Psalms and and good sound hymns, is that gonna bring forth evil fruit?
No, it's gonna bring forth the Spirit of God. It's gonna fill people with the Spirit. It's gonna teach people
What sound doctrine and and and it's gonna help you miss, you know sing unto the Lord and worship aboard
So but it says neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit
So if rock and roll inherently is evil, which I believe it is then how would you say that
Christian rock is gonna bring forth something good
Isn't it bringing forth after its own kind? It's not it's you know, if it's like heavy metal Christianity
Screamo music that's saying, you know, it doesn't you know
Most of the time those that music doesn't even mention Jesus and if it does it's kind of like a Nicolas Cage
you know or
You know some Hollywood actor that mentions Jesus every once in a while or something
It's not good
So and look what it says in verse 19 every tree that bringeth forth not good or not forth
Good fruit is hewn down and cast in the fire fire
Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. So what does the world's music bring forth?
What does it bring forth? Well, it brings forth
death
It brings forth death
Famous singers that you could think of that died before the age of 30 one of them would be Jimi Hendrix, right?
What did his music bring forth drugs? I mean all that stuff in the 19 in the
1969 and this awakening so-called where everybody's fornicating and doing drugs
What did it bring forth brought forth these wicked type of rock singers, you know Woodstock, you know, they're all high on drugs
they're all fornicating and
Just seen wicked music and wicked lyrics against the Lord
What about Jim Morrison?
What about Kurt Cobain? What about Hank Williams senior? What about Amy Winehouse? What about Janis Joplin?
What are these people all have in common? Well, they all died at an early age. And so, you know, what is the world's
Music bring forth it brings forth
worldliness and and it brings forth
Singing about things that we ought not to be involved in. What does contemporary Christian music bring forth?
And look I'm not a big expert on contemporary Christian music because I don't listen to it
But I do know some people some people's names like EC talk
Ray bolts was a queer, you know, he turned out to be a queer Clay Aiken. I think turned out to be a queer
You know Ray bolts sang that song. I was like, thank you for giving to the Lord
And he came out as a queer, you know, so
Everybody listen every Christian listen that had a queer singing them to sleep at night, too. So anyway
So Genesis 124, let's turn to Genesis 124
Genesis 124 says and God said let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind
Cattle and creeping thing and
Beast of the earth after his kind and it was so and God made the beast of the earth after his kind and
Cattle after their kind and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind and God saw that it was good
So when God created everything he made everything bring forth after its own kind, you know what human beings produce human beings
But you know what when when you talk about bringing four things after its own kind
What does satanic music bring forth things after its own kind Satan Satanism?
What is contemporary Christian music bring forth that brings forth?
You know after its kind and its kind is pattern after the world
Most contemporary Christian music is pattern after the world even the hymns that they try to do covers for sound like crap
They do they don't sound good to me
I'd rather hear a congregation singing these great hymns of the faith than to listen to some breathy queer singer, right?
So number three and this is my last point. What is the
Music conformed after what is the music that you listen to? What is it conformed after?
The contemporary Christian music is patterned after the world's current music
Like I said turn to Romans chapter 12 verse number 1 Romans chapter 12 verse number 1
So the Bible tells us not to be conformed to this world look at verse 1 in Romans chapter 12
It says I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God
That you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy
Acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service. What's your reasonable service to present your your bodies as a living sacrifice?
holy
acceptable unto God
Which is reasonable, isn't it reasonable since Christ saved us to live our lives for him and to give our bodies to
Sacrifice, you know, he doesn't want it doesn't expect us to sacrifice lambs on an altar Christ already did that for us
He's the lamb that taking away the sins of the world
but
You know, we're supposed to be a living sacrifice
So the sacrifices that were brought in the Old Testament were brought and they were killed, right?
But he wants us to be a living sacrifice for him
Look at verse number 2 it says and be not
Conformed to this world so isn't conformed, you know
You know
You're you're you're being formed to the things of this world and God said I don't want you to be conformed to the things of this
World, what are the things of this world that we're talking about tonight? We're just talking about worldly music
contemporary Christian music, what should we be listening to
Psalms hymns
spiritual song spiritual songs
So and we're supposed to not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind
When you get saved, hey renew your mind get that garbage out of your brain
And you know what?
Like I said things can creep up and enter back into your mind again because it's just in there forever
So listen listen kids if you're listening to me listen to this
You can't you know everything that goes in your ears. You can't unhear that
Everything that comes into your eye gates you can't unsee that
So think about the things that you watch think about the things that you listen to because they might become part of your permanent
memory bank
And if you don't want that to be wicked
worldly ungodly music
You know you have Christian parents that brought you to a church camp and you're like, I didn't know I was gonna be
You know being attacked over the music. I like well
Welcome to church camp. That's what it's for
I mean, I've been to a lot of church camps and a lot of time it's preaching hard on sin
And look, I mean you don't have to admit to me that you're listening to that. I already know you are so
Don't try to fool me. I'm a pastor. No, it's good. I
Know it no, it's good
But so look what it says be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove. What is that good and acceptable?
Perfect will of God. That's what we're supposed to do
We're supposed to transform our minds and what does that mean getting rid of all that trashy music and leave it behind
And if you're listening to it now your pet, you know, my parents don't know but I'm listening to it
Hey, you're wrong
You should be obeying your parents in the Lord for this is right
And your parents know if your parents don't know you're watching it your parents don't know you're listening to it
and you know that they wouldn't like it then you should get rid of it and
Don't sneak around behind your parents back and do things that you're not supposed to do, you know
You know what they want, but kids are sneaky and look you think you're getting away with it
But guess what? God sees everything that you do. He doesn't see things the way we do
Yeah, you might be able to trick your parents and fool your parents and things and you might be able to get away with
Listen into this, you know nos x 360 or whatever his name is
He's a fag. Why would you want to listen to that?
Why would you want a pair of tennis shoes that have drops of human blood in them?
That's what he that's what he made like some some Nike tennis shoes and to get
You know, whatever he you know, he's a Satanist and he's a you know, almost Satanists go hand in hand. So
So
We're supposed to prove that which is good and acceptable and perfect
That will of God the things that God wants us to listen to and you know what Christian rap is crap
You know what?
and that crap is
You know
Lecrae and you know all these different
Christian or Christian so-called rap groups
I mean if you listen to that Pastor Jones was on a kick where he was preaching against it and
And I couldn't even handle listening to it at all. It's just so trashy and so garbage
It's not something that Chris, you know, they're like, well, they're Christian. They're talking about Jesus
Yeah, but they're the music is bad
Okay, and so you're like, well, I don't know music can be bad if it's patterned after the world
Have you if you've been paying attention if it's pattern after the world if it's not the right kind of music
They're not the right kind of thing that God will like you listening to if it's again if it's pattern after the world
It's not good. Okay
What is Christian rock? It's a crock
Garbage
so
And like I said these people they come out as you know supporting homosexuals all the time this Lauren Daigle and you know
I don't even think she's really a Christian
Maybe she is but you know as far as like a Christian contemporary
But I think that she's like came out for the queers or whatever
There's a lot of queers in the industry
You know what?
A lot of the Christian contemporary music is we call I call it 7-eleven music who's ever heard that term 7-eleven music
Nobody good. Okay
Here's what 7-eleven music is
Christian it's Christian music whose songs have lyrics that contain only seven words or lines
Which are sung 11 times in a row?
So it's like, you know, basically, you know, and obviously that's borrowed from you know, the store 7-eleven
I like 7-eleven so I don't like 7-eleven music though
And that's basically what Christian contemporary music is our God isn't awesome God, you know, they just sing that over and over again
They sing the same seven lyrics
11 times. All right
Here's a quote from Amy Grant who's heard of Amy Grant? Okay. She's a supposed Christian
contemporary artist
She said this I know that the religious community has not been very welcoming
But I just want to stress that the journey of faith brings us into community
But it's really about one relationship
the journey of faith is just being willing and open to have a relationship with God and
Everybody is welcome
Everybody sounds like she's a fag hag, doesn't it?
Sounds like she you know, she has a such what the article I got this from she's talking about how she has
She's known for a long time that she has an LGBTQ
following well
You know, and so she's basically just kowtowing to them and let it in and trying to she's a mouthpiece for Satan
she's basically just
Saying that these people are all welcome in God's kingdom and they're not welcome in God's kingdom, you know
And obviously I don't need to preach that sermon, but it's just a fact so I need to skip down here
so
Just as you know, I'm gonna conclude this here. I'm almost done. I only got like ten more pages left
so
I'm only kidding. So here's the thing music is not a moral. What does that mean?
Well a moral means that it's not
It's not a moral a moral is this not
involving questions of right or wrong
without moral moral quality so
Music is more it's gonna have morality or immorality. There's no like
There's no just oh, this is just totally benign music
There's there's gonna be right and wrong. Okay, there's right types of music and wrong types of music
Here's an example for you in 2nd Kings 3
Elisha asked for a musician to play an
instrumental music and
When Elisha heard the music playing the hand of the Lord came upon him
do you remember that and I'm not gonna have you turn the Bible verses about it, but
So this music must have been
Godly music in order for God's power to come upon him as a result of it
and so he asked for a minstrel to come right and what does a minstrel it's a
Musician one who plays an instrument so but here's the thing and the instrument itself might not be evil
But it's the way it's played that is it's the what it's the music that's played the the sound is played with it
Or I mean the the lyrics that are played with that music
But also the sound of the music can be have you ever listened to something that made you feel depressed
If you're listening to like that
Like really luminous dark sounding music, you know that makes you feel a certain way because that music is
Disturbing to you for a reason or like, you know, the the Halloween music or you know
It's just there's certain music that sounds scary
There's certain music that'll make a kid just get scared
My granddaughter was listening to hickory dickory dock. All right, and that isn't necessarily an evil song
But here's the thing
So it's saying all these different things that ran up the clock the clock strikes one the mouse ran down, right?
Who's heard that song before anybody?
So there's a part in that song that she was listening to and the music chords changed to like a really on
Omnious sounding music and she got scared from listening to it. Why did she get scared from listening to something? That's music
Because it's not good. That's why it's because so why would a little child just be scared over music?
it's not like the lyrics were scary, but the music itself scared her and
So that's just a
Fact that musical instruments played a certain way can make you feel different ways
You know, there's certain songs that we sing as Christians that uplift us more than most than other songs
So the meat the way the music play is played does make a difference
So now here's an example of something that was a bad example of music being played and it was just musical
Instruments it didn't say that there was songs or lyrics to it in Daniel chapter 3
King Nebuchadnezzar commands instrumental music to be played while people worship an idol
himself right didn't King Nebuchadnezzar he set up an idol and
Then he said if you don't fall down when you hear all the sounds of all these different types of music
Then you're gonna be thrown alive into a fiery furnace, right?
So do you believe that God would be pleased if the same music was played to worship him that Nebuchadnezzar?
Asked to be played while they worship that idol. What type of music do you think that was you think it was you know?
CCM I
Mean, do you think that it was would you think taking what what I we don't know what the music sounded like
But we do know what it was used for. So if it was used for worshiping an idol
Then you know that the music itself was being played in a way that is not not godly. So
Who's ever heard of the tritone?
The tritone it's like a way of playing the music and it's like and it makes it makes a confusing feeling in people
But it also makes people love that kind of music and a lot of rock and roll is based upon it
I'm not going to go into a big thing about about it, but there's a song called
Hallelujah, who's ever heard the song Hallelujah? It's not the Christian version of it
Okay, but here's just like the first stanza of that song
It says now I've heard that there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music
It goes like this the fourth the fifth the minor falls the major lifts the baffled King composing Hallelujah
That lyric right there is explaining what the tritone is and a lot. That's a very popular
Should we play that song Hallelujah in our church service?
Absolutely not because it's not talking about good things. It's not really praising the Lord now. What does Hallelujah mean?
Does anybody know what Hallelujah means?
Doesn't it mean praise the Lord or blessed be the name of the Lord so if that's what it means
Well, why isn't this good? It's talking about Hallelujah
How come Bon Jovi living on a prayer can't be played at faithful word Baptist Church, you know, it's talking about prayer, isn't it? I
mean house
Look people try, you know, I think I've heard pastor Anderson say something about like people were
we're changing the lyrics of an AC DC song and
Calling it. We're on the highway to heaven or something like that, right?
Is that is that okay to do you know if music is doesn't if it doesn't mean anything?
What what type of music it is the the actual instruments themselves?
then why isn't it okay to play that kind of music in church why because
Because it is moral or immoral. There's not it's not just a benign, you know, AC DC isn't a benign
Sounding music, you know when it's talking about the highway to hell, it's all electric guitar and pounding drums, isn't it?
So, you know drum drums get a rhythm that makes you want to dance and move your body
Doesn't it? That's what rap music does that's what club music does. That's what techno music does
That's what you know country music does and so what kind of way does it make you want to move your body?
Well, a lot of these places these clubs that this music's played at there's sensual and worldly dancing
The Bible says praise him in timbrel and dance. It's not talking about, you know
Dancing on you know next to each other closely and things like that. So, you know, it's a different kind of dancing
So there's ways to dance that are wicked and there's ways to dance
That are okay. Apparently David danced before the Lord with all of his might didn't he?
We don't know what that looked like and I'm not gonna give you an example
Because I just don't I just don't dance well, you know, I don't know so I just don't think that'd be appropriate
But isn't it true that drop don't don't drum beats and things like that look that's what makes people get up and want to dance
And Bob their head and do all this stuff
And so if it's appealing to the flesh then it's not gonna be something that's spiritual
It's not going to be the type of music that we should be playing in church
Turn to Exodus 32 to be the last scripture. I have you turn to
Exodus chapter 32 verse 17
And then I'll just review the points and I'll be done
And just let me say this of anything I said about music tonight disagrees with anything that Pastor Anderson or brother Corbin teaches
I'm wrong. They're right. Okay, so
Just strike strike it this an old or whatever
Well, listen
so remember Exodus 32 is when the big revolt against Moses happens the first one after the law of God is given
Moses goes up and gets the Ten Commandments, right?
And so they're on their way back down and God God tells him to get down quickly because the people have corrupted themselves
So this is the same children of Israel that said, you know, they agreed to keep all the all the words of the Lord
They said just let him not speak to us. You speak to us Moses. They were scared
They were deathly afraid but here's the problem with us
Here's the problem with human beings is that we're always you know in a bad situation
We're gonna go back to the to the to the vomit
You know
the dog is gonna go back to the vomit and the hog to his wallowing in the swamp or in the
Swine to this wall in the mire. Sorry
Exodus 32 verse 17. What's it say?
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted so they shouted, right?
And he said unto Moses there is a noise of war in the camp
So does this sound like it's Christian music being played?
Well, you know the sound of war. What would you think the sound of war in a camp would be?
shouting
Drums, I mean, what are most worldly armies?
Used to go into war with drums and I can't prove that they're playing drums here. I'm not trying to prove that
I'm just saying that Joshua thought it sounded like war was about to happen and
And what's it said 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 what were they doing?
You know, they had corrupted themselves they've made themselves a golden calf they were worshipping these two golden calves and
Moses are I mean Aaron had stripped them naked
under their shame they're dancing and
They're shouting and you know, Joshua hears them and he says it sounds like they're at war
Isn't that what a heavy metal concert sounds like it's not what these rap concert sounds like, you know
But it says the noise of them that sing do I hear what kind of music are they singing? They're singing
Whatever it is. It's it has to do with worshiping golden calves
it has the sound of war to it and
It's a noise of them that sing. Do you think that they're singing?
Christian music here. No, they're not
It says and it came to pass as soon as he came nine to the camp that he saw the calf
So Moses, what's he do? He sees the calf
Really and then he sees the dancing
So then the Bible say it's okay to dance
But why is Moses mad here? Because it's not the kind of dancing that the Bible is saying is okay
It's dancing that's wicked and it says and Moses
Anger waxed hot and he cast the tables out of his hands and break them beneath the mount
So whatever Moses saw whatever Moses heard made him so mad that he took the original
Ten Commandments and smashed him onto the ground and it says his anger waxed hot, you know when God was so angry
he was ready to destroy the children of Israel and make a new nation for Moses, but Moses stood in for them and
And and and took their back to a certain. It's just like don't kill them Lord, you know, he tried he talked him out of it
but and
But what's the remedy for this it says he took the calf which they had made and burnt it in the fire
And ground it in a powder and strawed it upon the water and made the children of Israel to drink of it
Listen, if you're if you're going back to this
Worldly music if this is something that you're into you need to get out of it, you know
And you know, it's easy to get back into things. It's easy to backslide
Look how easy it was for the children of Israel God's thundering down the Ten Commandments
They're afraid
But they're afraid of Moses and then you know
All he does is takes off for a little while and they corrupt themselves to the point where they're singing and dancing
And and singing and what is the type of music? Is it good music or bad music?
Is it good dancing or bad dancing? It's bad, isn't it? So just review
What does the music you were listening to teach it? It should be something that's teaching you the music you listen to should be teaching you
a
great doctrine and and and how to serve and worship the Lord and
What does the music you listen to bring forth? What does it bring forth?
Does it bring forth good things or does it bring forth bad things and look anything?
That the world is pumping out today is not good. Okay, if it's on the radio
It's not it's probably not good if it's on
Television it's probably not good if it's on
YouTube
It might be good. It might be Psalms hymns and spirit or song
All right, but you got to control what you're watching
You got to control what you're listening to
You need to guard your ear gates and you need to guard the things that you put in your eyes
Because you can't then see them. You can't unhear them. And what is the what is the music conformed after?
What is the patterned after was it patterned after the world or is it patterned after the things of God?
And so how do we know what good or bad music is? Well, the Bible helps us to understand that and so
hopefully
If that's something that you're into listening to worldly music even contemporary Christian music
You know if it's bad, you should stop listen to if it's pattern up the world. You should stop listening to it
All right. Let's have a word of prayer heaven