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[blockquote] "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.... And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness" (Isaiah 8:20, 22).
Last night I attended a Christian music festival. I will never forget what I saw, and I can truly say it was a heartbreaking experience. Since leaving the concert I have been weeping for hours, groaning in the Spirit feeling the wrath of a holy God burning against what I saw.
I went to the festival because the "star performer" featured last night had been in my office just hours before, crying, telling me how much he loved Jesus, how sincere he was, how he wanted to learn more about holiness. He told me my written messages convicted him. His words sounded right - his attitude seemed humble. At his request I went to hear him and his group because he assured me I would not be offended.
My heart is now so set on the massive human need in New York City, and my great concerns now have to do with rescuing last souls from drugs, alcohol and demon possession. I did not want to get involved anymore in the matter of rock and roll, heavy metal, and punk music in the church. I felt I had said enough on the subject and I told the musician so when he sat in my office. We had prayed together and I hugged him when he left my office.
I went last night with an open heart, full of love and compassion - for him, for all Christian musicians, and especially for the 3,000 or so young people attending the festival. I sat through two devotional-type songs, then I sat attentively listening as the musician testified about what he said Christ had done in his life. No preacher anywhere could have spoken with more conviction and sincerity - the words were right. He spoke of separation, of being obedient to Jesus, of winning souls, of prayer, of holy matrimony (he was married), of living a holy life. I prayed as he spoke, "Dear Lord, maybe I misjudged this musician and his hard rock group. Maybe you are doing something new in using the music the ungodly prefer, to win them - to get their attention, to attract them so they can be ministered to. Lord, I am willing to rejoice in hearing You preached, in any manner, from any group - if You are present in it - if your Holy Spirit is blessing it."
I was honestly questioning if my writings about the music of devils in God's house were just old-fashioned prejudices or simply my distaste for rock music. Was it just so much fuss about nothing? Yet something was not quite right. There was an inner tug at my heart making me ill at ease. I reasoned, "If Satan is camouflaged in this somehow, if there is a leaven of evil - it will be revealed. Satan always reveals himself in one way or another."
Suddenly the singer yelled in the microphone, "Jesus is coming - He is going to crack the skies - get ready!" The song was entitled, "Crack The Skies." Suddenly smoke was billowing out of smoke machines, the pounding beat was turned up to a frenzied pitch, eerie lights began flashing, the musicians stood like phantoms rising from a murky swamp. It was ghostly, weird, strange - and the crowd went wild - they seemed to love it. At the same festival, a wild spiked hair group had entertained - with painted faces, prancing about like homosexual peacocks.
At first, I couldn't believe what I was seeing on stage. I said out loud, "This can't be happening at a Christian festival - they can't do this to my Jesus! These people can't be this blind - the leaders of this youth ministry can't be so undiscerning! Oh God - what has happened to your church that its leaders, its people, can't see the evil of this abomination?"
Suddenly I was on the ground, on my back, weeping and sobbing, and groaning in the Spirit. I sat up and took another look at the stage. I was horrified by what I saw in the Spirit. I saw demonic images rising from that stage! I heard Satan laughing! Laughing at all the blind parents - the blind shepherds - the blind youth - the backslidden church! It was an overt manifestation of Satan - worse than anything I've ever seen on the streets of New York.
I stood to my feet, literally shaking with the fear of God - consumed with a sense of His holy wrath against such wickedness. I rushed into the crowd crying at the top of my voice - Ichabod! (The glory of the Lord has departed!) Ichabod! I ran through the crowd, pushing aside chairs, weeping, shouting at the top of my voice, "Ichabod - this is satanic! Stop! God is grieved!" I was mostly ignored and I think most thought I was a crazy lunatic. I doubt anybody knew who I was - the musicians could not hear me, and the crowd was too tight to allow me near the stage. I wanted to get to a microphone and cry like an Elijah - "This is vomit on the table of the Lord! Who are your teachers, that you could be so blind, so worldly, so deceived!? What kind of blasphemy is this?"
I will not shut up on this matter! I will not be silent while multitudes of our Christian youth are being deceived by smooth-talking wolves in sheep's clothing! True love demands that the truth be told.
What hurt my spirit the most, and what is so hard for me to understand, is that this particular group, and many others, attend Pentecostal churches. The musician I refer to told me he gave up drugs, drinking, evil sex and rock and roll performing when he got saved. He cut his long, feminine hair, he quit dressing like an exhibitionist and began to change all his ways. It was a pastor who encouraged him to "quit looking so square and use rock and roll to reach the kids." A teacher, in his sixties, travels on occasion with them, teaching them and encouraging them in their evil methods. According to their teacher, rock and roll is gong to be the "normal music in all Pentecostal and evangelical churches."
It's now the middle of the night and I can't sleep! I can't stop weeping inside. I am shut in with God in my study diligently asking Him to show me what is happening, because hours ago I saw a few thousand young Christians, with uplifted hands, thinking it was Jesus, when it was most assuredly the devil. Has the church - or what man calls the church - so backslidden that there is no more discernment whatsoever? Has God given up on some who are set on bringing devilish practices into the realm of worship?
Now I wonder - "Who dares teach such a Jesus - a Jesus who winks at deception? How blatantly they are mislearning Jesus Christ! What Jesus are they preaching?"
I would have prolly seen that the same way David did Chuck . . . .but I don't think I could apply it to all artists of all non contemporary (I'm not a music person . .I'm trying to denote "common" music).
I felt the same way whenever I would have to watch Jim and Tammy Baker on my folks TV and I was called the Anti Christ for seeing it that way.
I've known folk that played what the general congregation wanted to hear and have known they were'nt of God because I knew what went on behind the scene.
All of our rightiousness are as filthy rags comes to mind . . .these demonic forces are at work in the hearts of men.
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"Suddenly I was on the ground, on my back, weeping and sobbing, and groaning in the Spirit. I sat up and took another look at the stage. I was horrified by what I saw in the Spirit. I saw demonic images rising from that stage! I heard Satan laughing! Laughing at all the blind parents - the blind shepherds - the blind youth - the backslidden church! It was an overt manifestation of Satan - worse than anything I've ever seen on the streets of New York.
I stood to my feet, literally shaking with the fear of God - consumed with a sense of His holy wrath against such wickedness. " David Wilkerson
Dave many of us are not close enough to God to see what this man saw in His Spirit. With his reputation I trust what He is saying.
I've been to a Christain Rock concert myself. I ushered in 3 adults in wheel chairs. There was so much fear coming from the smoke , excessive noise and freaky custunes that we had to leave 15 minutes after we arrived. I never saw the demons like brother David but I did notive the lack of fruit.
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I'm not condoning or condemning anthing with this question, so please don't read anything into it . . .
At what point does christian music deteriorate from worship into sin?
..when it's NOT ofthe Spirit...problem is, personal prejudicial opnions doesn't constitute alack of Spirit... unlike some think. if the Words/verses doesn't Glorify the King of Kings, then it's fleshly.... the beat of a song... the modern electric instruments does NOT constitute sin, but it's sure possess the power to pull hatred and wrong attitudes from "Christians", obviously. I tell you what... Jesus said those who are for us are not against us.... I believe that. I thank God in Heaven for ALL music that givesHim & his Son, Glory....
besides, what any of you think about it ..don't matter at all... what GOD thinks about it,DOES!!! and I see NOpreferrence about Worship style in the Bible... so it must come from MAN'S opinion...(yours)...that certain ones ARE and certain ones AREN'T.... who made YOU peopleGOD? PLEASE... can YOU say HERESY?
Brian ...
Along time ago in in a PM you wrote me and said" If you ever have a word of the Lord for me please share." I do my dear brother. You were the first one that God put on my heart . I beg you to listen to the entire message.
You my dear brother will be so glad you did. My brother brings oppen heart surgury but also HEALING...PLease I beg you Brian.This word is for you.
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If nothing happens I pay you 20.00 for your time. I'm 100% positive you will be a different man.This is the Word you 've been waiting for.
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in my opinion there is no such thing as christian rock, they can call it thatbut it has no place in worshiping God..
In respect, I wholeheartedly and fully disagree with that statement.
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πνεύμα γ*μισα
"Error never shows itself in its naked reality in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself."
-Irenaeus of Lyon
I'm not condoning or condemning anthing with this question, so please don't read anything into it . . .
At what point does christian music deteriorate from worship into sin?
..when it's NOT ofthe Spirit...problem is, personal prejudicial opnions doesn't constitute alack of Spirit... unlike some think. if the Words/verses doesn't Glorify the King of Kings, then it's fleshly.... the beat of a song... the modern electric instruments does NOT constitute sin, but it's sure possess the power to pull hatred and wrong attitudes from "Christians", obviously. I tell you what... Jesus said those who are for us are not against us.... I believe that. I thank God in Heaven for ALL music that givesHim & his Son, Glory....
besides, what any of you think about it ..don't matter at all... what GOD thinks about it,DOES!!! and I see NOpreferrence about Worship style in the Bible... so it must come from MAN'S opinion...(yours)...that certain ones ARE and certain ones AREN'T.... who made YOU peopleGOD? PLEASE... can YOU say HERESY?
Rem, I truly believe you are right on. I'm with you on this...though, to many on here we seem "lost" or "heretical" I hope that my words and actions in life speak and say otherwise.
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πνεύμα γ*μισα
"Error never shows itself in its naked reality in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself."
-Irenaeus of Lyon
Concerning Christian Rock
