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Of music, and I'm going to give 
you a lot of information 

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tonight, a lot of Bible verses 
tonight. 

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So I would highly recommend that
if you can grab a piece of paper

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and a pen or use the back of the
bulletin and write some of these

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principles down and go back and 
study them. 

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This music is, as we talked 
about last week, is a very, very

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powerful thing. 
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most people don't realize the 
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And, you know, just you think 
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music can put you in, right? 
I mean, look, look, just a 

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simple example in the Old 
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And he had an evil spirit that 
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David into play the harp. 
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everything, right? 
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changed everything about it. 
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of the music. 
And, and you just, I mean, music

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was used all the way throughout 
the temple ceremonies and the 

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sacrifices and all of those 
things to help prepare their 

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hearts for the for worshipping 
the Lord and all kinds of things

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that are that are part of that, 
that that just proves that music

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is very powerful and in in many 
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realize. 
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and just kind of give you, we, 
we looked at five points earlier

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a couple weeks ago and kind of 
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the principles that I want to 
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But #1 music must be overseen by
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And when I say that, it means 
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the pastor to oversee the music 
in our church and to lay the 

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groundwork and to lay the 
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will be acceptable and what 
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To make sure that all of our 
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And #2 church music must be sung
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Saints who are indwelt with 
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And the more you are in God's 
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going to be spirit filled and 
more the music is going to be 

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very obviously sacred music. 
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the Lord, the less it becomes 
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becomes lust filled, if you want
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what a lot of the sensual music 
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But church music must be sung 
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Saints who are indwelt with the 
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sound in doctrine. 
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the way, that are going to help 
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that we should be singing in 
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Whether it's a song that 
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listening to or not, just 
because, you know, we, we won't 

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sing it in church doesn't mean 
that OK, well, we won't sing 

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that song in church, but I can 
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want to when I'm not in church. 
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people saying, I can't believe 
you lied in church. 

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You're you're in church and you 
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tell a lie when you're outside 
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You just can't do it in the 
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You hear people say that all the
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You know, you're standing next 
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And I can't believe you just 
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As if as long as you're not 
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right? 
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mindset. 
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music in church, but I can 
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I can listen to that wherever I 
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You know, these are principles 
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our church music, but it's music
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the music that you listen to, 
that you use to edify yourself 

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with. 
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music does or should anyway #4 
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melody. 
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the music. 
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melody throughout the song #5 
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It's a language. 
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must match the message of the 
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Meaning just because you put 
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them, doesn't mean that it's OK 
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right? 
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if you're jamming out to it as 
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No, the music is not neutral. 
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talking about everything that's 
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It's it's a language and the 
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the message of the lyrics #5 or 
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What I want to start with 
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The music must be spiritual and 
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Church music especially, but 
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to must be spiritual and non 
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There's a lot of verses that 
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I'm just going to look at a few 
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I'll have you turn to a couple 
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I'll read a couple of them for 
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But Romans chapter 12 is where 
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verse #2 says and be not 
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transformed by the renewing of 
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what is that good and acceptable
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That's spiritual. 
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We're not conforming to the 
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And if that's what our life 
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match the same thing. 
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chapter 3, Colossians chapter 3.
These are a lot of these verses,

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don't even necessarily this one 
in Colossians does, but a lot of

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these verses don't necessarily 
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just principles in our lives. 
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the world. 
We should not want anything to 

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do with the world. 
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especially because it has such a
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should easily be part of that, 
not wanting the world to be part

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of anything that we do. 
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16. 
Let the word of Christ dwell in 

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you richly in all wisdom, 
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another in psalms and hymns and 
spiritual songs, singing with 

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grace in your hearts to the 
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So the music must be spiritual 
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Why don't you turn over to 
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I'm going to give you 2 more 
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I'll read them to you. 
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adulterers and adulteresses, 
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of the world is enmity with God.
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friend of the world is the enemy
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Now, we will easily accept that 
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movies or, you know, anything 
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But all the sudden music shows 
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different. 
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You're either the friend of God 
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world. 
You're either at enmity with God

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or you're not. 
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First, Peter, chapter 2 and 
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you, 
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As strangers and pilgrims, as 
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from fleshly lust, which war 
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We are strangers and pilgrims in
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You know what a Pilgrim is? 
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really fit in, a stranger, 
somebody that just doesn't 

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really fit in. 
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be as we go through this world. 
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A Pilgrim, somebody who just 
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in society, but he just doesn't 
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That's the way that our lives 
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us. 
We ought to be people that just 

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don't really fit in because we 
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the world. 
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#17 this. 
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the Lord that she henceforth 
walk not as other Gentiles walk 

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in the vanity of their mind, 
having the understanding 

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darkened, being alienated from 
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ignorance that is in them 
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their heart, who being past 
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over unto lasciviousness to work
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So what we're saying here is 
that the music must be spiritual

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and it must be non worldly in 
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world. 
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Spiritual is something that is 
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of God and that's that's what we
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verse 19. 
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drunk with wine wherein is 
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Spirit. 
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right after that. 
Spiritual is the opposite of 

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carnal. 
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It's the opposite of, of wanting
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honestly, listen, when, when you
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rebellious, right? 
The first thing that they're 

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going to do, especially if 
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and get a, a tattoo on their 
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They're not going to go out and 
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you know, they're not going to 
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They're not going to, you know, 
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up at church. 
They're not going to do that. 

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But you know what they're going 
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They're going to sneak around 
behind their parents back and do

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what? 
Listen to rock music, watch 

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things that they know that they 
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are the things that are 
rebellious that you can get away

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with because they're not 
necessarily outward things that 

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that that you know, you'd get in
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Right. 
If one of my kids walked in with

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pink hair, I don't know what I'd
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I'd probably shave it all off 
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see what happens. 
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Is that what happened to you, 
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No, this is good. 
He showed up with pink hair one 

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day and his wife got a hold of 
them Clippers and said, you're 

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not doing that. 
I don't know what I'd do if one 

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of the kids showed up with pink 
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But they're sneaking around 
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listening to contemporary 
Christian music or whatever it 

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is. 
I mean, that's a rebellion that 

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you can hide, right? 
And, and why do people do that? 

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Why do you hide it? 
Because you know it's 

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rebellious. 
You know that it's not 

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Christian. 
You know that it's not that that

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it's worldly. 
You know that it's rebellious 

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against the things of God. 
But I'm going to do it anyway 

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because this is the way that I 
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It happens a lot. 
But spiritual is the opposite of

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that. 
First Corinthians chapter 3 and 

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verse #1 And I, brethren, could 
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spiritual, but as unto carnal, 
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All right, we, we new Christians
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And it's understandable that 
that maybe you don't understand 

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these principles of music and 
you don't know how to discern 

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between the right kind of music 
and the wrong kind of music. 

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But as you grow in Christ and as
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don't change those things, 
you're no different than a 15 

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year old drinking out of a 
bottle, right? 

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It doesn't make sense. 
It's it's not natural. 

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As you mature, you should be 
changing things that that show 

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your level of maturity, right? 
You're not going to walk around 

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sucking on a pacifier at 12 
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something that a baby does, 
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And how do you figure that out? 
Well, somebody has to say, hey, 

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I hate to mention this, but 
you're 12 now. 

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It's probably time to be done 
sucking the pacifier, right? 

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And when you find out, you start
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yeah, I guess everybody else 
that is 12 years old is not 

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really sucking on a pacifier. 
Maybe I should get rid of this 

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thing, right? 
And that's what happens as you, 

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as you grow and mature in 
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And this is part of your growth 
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How do you find out what the 
kind of what the right kind of 

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music is? 
How do you find out what the 

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wrong kind of music is? 
That's what we're doing tonight,

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right? 
This is me telling you it's time

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to take the pacifier out of your
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You're growing in Christ, right?
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not taking this pacifier out. 
I'm this is too comfortable to 

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me. 
This is, I've been doing this 

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for my whole life. 
I can't stop sucking on a 

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pacifier. 
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Yeah, you're right. 
But your Christians don't do 

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that. 
Pull the pacifier out, right? 

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That that's that's what we're 
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This is this part of the growth 
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right thing is to do. 
Then you can't claim ignorance 

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anymore. 
Now you have a decision to make.

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Are you going to do what God 
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Or are you going to do what 
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good to your flesh and what 
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Or are you going to do a God's 
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That's the difference, right? 
So he's saying, I, I want to 

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speak to you like mature 
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you're babes in Christ, because 
you're still carnal. 

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And I'm not saying that I'm not,
I'm not saying that to you, but 

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I'm, I'm explaining what Paul is
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Spiritual, as we're talking 
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unfruitful work, works of 
darkness that he talks about in 

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Ephesians chapter 5. 
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But spiritual is the opposite of
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So what Paul is saying here is 
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songs that are holy, songs that 
are sacred, songs that are set 

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apart for God, songs that are 
not carnal and fleshly, songs 

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that are different in quality 
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songs that are morally pure, 
that are are of a heavenly 

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flavor rather than a worldly 
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That's why it's called sacred 
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We sing sacred music. 
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It means that it's set apart. 
It means that this is the, this 

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is what the saved. 
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sing. 
It's music that is bringing 

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honor to God. 99% of the music 
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God, right? 
Because you think about it, you,

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you just listen to a song that 
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in there and they're talking 
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right? 
And what happens is the same 

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thing that happens when you're 
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things on television and 
everything you get, you get 

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immune to it. 
And oh man, I didn't realize 

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there was a cuss word in there. 
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You know why you didn't notice 
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Because you're used to it, 
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And it's it's so natural for you
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hearing it so much that it 
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And the next thing you know, 
you're telling somebody about 

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how great this video is, how 
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And they go watch it in the 
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There's five cuss words. 
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anything wrong with that movie. 
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Because you're so immune to it 
because you've accepted it for 

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so long. 
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Step back. 
All right. 

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This is this is this Will. 
This will kind of tell you if 

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your music is spiritual and or 
worldly. 

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All right, stop listening to it.
Stop listening to anything that 

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is not sacred Christian music 
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All right, if it's if it's, if 
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month later, listen to it and 
see what it sounds like to you. 

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Fill your mind with nothing but 
good God honoring sacred music, 

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songs that you would sing here 
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hear here at church. 
Don't listen to anything else. 

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And then a month later, go back 
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can still listen to it, because 
mostly you won't be able to 

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because you'll say, wow, I 
didn't even realize what that 

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sounded like before. 
I didn't even realize that's 

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what I was listening to before. 
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Do the same thing with a movie. 
If, if you think that what 

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you're watching is fine, then 
stop watching them for a month. 

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Don't watch anything that has 
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And you can find out. 
We, we do this and, and I'll 

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tell you, I, I, I bet this year 
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movies, maybe because there's 
hardly anything that you can 

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watch anymore that doesn't have 
a cuss word in it or doesn't 

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have something inappropriate. 
Go into IMDb, International 

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Movie Database, look at it. 
It'll tell you what, what kind 

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of junk that movie has in it. 
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it, you don't watch it, right? 
That's, that's the standard, 

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right? 
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that database and it tells me 
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I'm not watching it. 
Oh, well that one only has 2, so

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I guess it's OK. 
What's your limit 10/15/20? 

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What's what's your limit? 
It only has 2, so it's OK. 

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Either it's right or it's not 
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Don't watch any of it and then 
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if you can still sit there and, 
and, and not squirm and not be 

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uncomfortable. 
Do the same thing with your 

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music. 
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the music that you're listening 
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Don't listen to it for a month 
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if you can still listen to it 
because it'll change. 

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You'll get it, you'll get weaned
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you perceive it. 
If you go back and watch it and 

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or listen to it a month later 
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Maybe you can. 
But Paul is saying that God's 

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people are to sing songs that 
are holy and that are sacred 

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songs that that lift up Christ, 
songs that can be sung with 

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Christ standing there listening 
and you're not going to be 

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embarrassed by it. 
Hey, I'm just a, I'm just a 

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person. 
I'm just a man. 

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I'm not God, but let me listen 
to the songs that you listen to 

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and see what I think about it. 
Let's go out to your car right 

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now and see what songs that you 
have that that pop on when your 

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car starts and see if I can sit 
in there and listen to it with 

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you. 
If you would be embarrassed with

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me sitting there listening to 
you, imagine how embarrassed you

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would be if Christ was sitting 
there, right? 

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That that'll tell you where your
music is at, right? 

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If you don't want me to hear it,
then why should Christ have to 

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sit there and listen to it with 
you, right? 

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Our music should be sacred. 
It should be holy, it should be 

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God honoring. 
That's why it's called sacred 

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music. 
And the church's music is not 

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going to sound like the world's 
pop music. 

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It's not going to sound like, 
you know, it's not going to be 

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the same music that the world 
uses for dancing and drinking 

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and partying and everything 
else. 

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The music of a holy God should 
not contain any aspect of the 

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world's sensual ways. 
And that's what happens with a 

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lot of the contemporary 
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That's why 99.9% of it is wrong,
because they are taking world 

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music principles and applying it
to Christian words and calling 

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it Christian music. 
And it's not Christian music 

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just because you put Christian 
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It's not. 
If it has the world sound, then 

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it's the world's music. 
You call it Christian rock. 

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Rock music is the world's music.
It's sex music. 

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That's what it was designed for.
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the the history of Rock'n'roll 
will tell you that without any 

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hesitation because they know 
that that's what it was, that's 

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what it was created for. 
And now you're going to take 

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something that vile and put 
Christian words with it and 

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expect that God's going to bless
that. 

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You see what I do? 
You understand what I'm saying 

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when I say that music is a 
language and music is not a 

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moral. 
Music put with any kind of words

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is going to speak its own 
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rock music is Now you, you, you 
add pop music to it. 

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You can Add all kinds of 
different things. 

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But you know, some of the music 
that we purposefully avoid would

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be like the, the dance 
syncopation type music. 

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Write some of these things down 
and go look these up so you 

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understand what it sounds like. 
If I was doing a longer series 

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on this, I would play some of 
these things for you so you 

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could hear it. 
It should be very, very obvious 

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to you, but syncopated music 
with a backbeat and the, and the

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beat anticipation, the honky 
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and, and boogie woogie and all 
those things that a lot of those

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are, are Southern gospel type 
music that this, that Southern 

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gospel has has adopted that 
sound in a lot of ways. 

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And, and you know, a same song 
that you could hear in, in a, in

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a honky tonk bar on a Saturday 
night, you could put the 

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Southern gospel words with and 
it sounds perfectly the same. 

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They, they fit perfectly 
together because it's this, it's

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that music, right? 
I'm not saying that every 

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Southern gospel song is wrong, 
but many, much of it is because 

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of the sound that comes along 
with it, right? 

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The, the sensual vocal styles. 
And, and again, I would, I would

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play some of these things for 
you if we had more time to go 

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through this. 
But but the scooping and the 

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sliding and the breathiness, 
those are things that are, are 

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sensual that, that, that attract
people that listen to that kind 

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of music, right? 
That's the sound that pop has. 

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And so when you're sliding all 
over the place, when you're 

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singing, right, it's, it's, it's
things that at the very, very 

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least is lazy vocal technique, 
but at the most is trying to 

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sound exactly like the, the, the
worldly musicians sound. 

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And when you have that really 
breathy sound when you're 

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singing. 
Right, That that's, that is a 

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sensual sound that's made to 
make you feel a certain way 

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while you're listening to it. 
And then you try to take that 

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sound and put Christian words 
and Christian music with it and 

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expect that God is pleased, 
right? 

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I think you would maybe 
understand a little bit more if 

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if I was to play these things 
for you. 

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It's a lot more prevalent than 
you think it is, right? 

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And that's why we have to be so 
careful that we don't do those 

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things because I'm not trying 
to, I'm not trying to be sensual

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about the Holy Spirit, not 
trying to be sensual about my 

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worship of God, right? 
I'm not trying to be sensual 

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and, and, and, and, and even 
saying that sounds sacrilegious,

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right? 
Because it is. 

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That's what I'm trying to get 
you to understand. 

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When you when you're singing 
with those pop culture 

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techniques of music and you're 
putting Christian words with it,

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how do you think God is pleased 
with those things? 

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All right. 
And I'll be honest with you, 

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most of you in here that are 
going to sing that way are not 

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doing it because you're trying 
to be sensual, right? 

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You're not doing it because 
you're trying to sound like some

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pop star you heard necessarily. 
But there are things that we 

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have to be very careful that we 
don't sound like that. 

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So we have to understand these 
principles so that we know, OK, 

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I don't want to sound like that.
I don't want to be anywhere 

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close to what the world's music 
sounds like. 

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I don't want to sound sensual 
when I'm singing, right? 

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So that's why we don't slide and
scoop and do all of these other 

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things in the music that was 
that we're singing for the Lord 

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and doesn't mean that every song
just has to sound like this. 

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Otherwise it gets really boring 
and really drab, right? 

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But does it have a, a worldly 
sound to it? 

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Does it sound like a pop song If
you were to take the words of, 

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of, of some pop song and I, I 
don't even know some pop song 

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words to tell you to sing with, 
you know, the old Rugged Cross. 

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But I can promise you that the 
pop song words don't fit with 

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the old Rugged Cross, right? 
The tune of the old Rugged 

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cross, because it's a sacred 
tune and it doesn't, they just 

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don't fit together, right? 
But then what we want to try to 

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do is take some words and put it
with a pop song and we can make 

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almost anything fit with it, 
right? 

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Almost And, and what you're 
well, I think what, what's what 

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I've heard a little bit more of 
that's getting really, really 

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popular is these secular 
musicians that all want to talk 

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about Jesus in their songs, you 
know, and drinking beer on 

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Saturday night and going to 
church on Sunday. 

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00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:36,160
You know, that's, that's not a 
Christian song just because they

446
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,160
talk about going to church, you 
know, or they, they have these 

447
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,200
what, what I, what you're 
hearing a lot of these people 

448
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,480
doing nowadays are making sacred
music albums, You know, these 

449
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,280
country music stars and, or 
maybe they're not even stars. 

450
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,360
I don't know who they are, but 
these country music people that 

451
00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:54,480
all want to sing Amazing Grace 
and the old rugged Cross. 

452
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,720
And, and then they have the, IT,
it's literally sounds like a 

453
00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:01,360
country song with those words in
it, right? 

454
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,920
It's, it's a secular song with a
secular tune and secular sound. 

455
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:07,840
And you're going to try to put 
Christian words with it. 

456
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:09,520
And that just doesn't go 
together. 

457
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,960
The other thing that you see a 
lot of is the soft sound, you 

458
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,360
know, it, it weakens the power 
and the, and the, and the 

459
00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:20,360
dynamics and the majesty and the
spiritual conviction and the 

460
00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:26,400
militarism of, of sacred music. 
You know, it's the feminization 

461
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,520
of our culture. 
And you have these little skinny

462
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,240
Jean wearing, you know, soft 
hand guys that want to get up 

463
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,440
there and wear their little 
beanie on their head hanging off

464
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:40,800
the back and sound so soft and 
sing this little nice tune and 

465
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,080
music. 
You Can't Sing the old rugged 

466
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,560
cross and sing it that way, 
right? 

467
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,200
Because it's sacred. 
It's, it's, it's, it's powerful,

468
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,680
it's dynamic. 
It's, it's, it's got some 

469
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,120
substance to it. 
You Can't Sing that song that 

470
00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:57,080
way. 
At least you have to really try 

471
00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,720
to do it right. 
I'm sure somebody can, but it's,

472
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,760
it's this really soft Jesus is 
my boyfriend kind of music, you 

473
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,840
know, you light up my life and 
that kind of stuff. 

474
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:11,040
That's it's just, it's soft. 
It's so soft because you're 

475
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,600
trying to be sensual and you're 
trying to draw people in and 

476
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,080
you're trying to draw people to 
yourself instead of trying to 

477
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,120
draw people to Christ, right. 
That's, that's what we're saying

478
00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:23,880
that, that, you know, sacred 
music should be spiritual, it 

479
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,600
should be non worldly. 
And by the way, that's why we 

480
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,960
avoid the use of drums and 
electric guitars because 

481
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,240
they're, they're, they're 
totally identified with rock 

482
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:38,680
music and, and, and so it 
easily, it's used in pop music 

483
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,440
fashion. 
Now, an exception to that would 

484
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,960
be using a tympani section, you 
know, in a, in an orchestra 

485
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,720
style that's different. 
You're not using that to create 

486
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,440
a rock beat. 
You're using it to fill up the 

487
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,000
sound and everything else 
different. 

488
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,400
But you know, you also have to 
realize that you can play a 

489
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,360
piano with a rock beat and you 
can play an acoustic guitar with

490
00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:02,400
a rock beat. 
But you know, drums, you know, a

491
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,360
drum set, which is why we don't 
have a drum set up here, is very

492
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,720
easily associated with rock 
music, right? 

493
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,800
Same thing with electric guitars
that that's all the, you know, 

494
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,520
these guys that want to hang it 
down here and play it. 

495
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,920
You know, you can't even see 
them because they're so low on 

496
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,640
their guitars. 
And I mean, look, that's, that's

497
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,200
how they play those things, 
right? 

498
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,600
If if you were just trying to 
play an electric guitar and 

499
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,520
you're standing here and you're 
and you're playing an electric 

500
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,600
guitar, this is where you play 
an electric guitar, right? 

501
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,920
You ever seen any of those 
contemporary Christian music 

502
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,680
groups? 
What do they do? 

503
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,640
They're down here playing the 
electric guitar, right? 

504
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,880
Because they saw somebody on a 
rock stage doing that thing and 

505
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,320
that they're not trying to play 
sacred music. 

506
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,280
They want to be a rock star. 
They just weren't good enough, 

507
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,400
so they ended up in contemporary
Christian music. 

508
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,920
And it's kind of funny, but I'm 
not trying to be funny. 

509
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,320
That's what happens. 
Because as soon as they start 

510
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,040
making it a little bit, you 
know, successfully, they 

511
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,520
crossover and left that in the 
dust, right? 

512
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,080
They're not doing it because 
they're trying to lift up 

513
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,280
Christ. 
They're trying to do it because 

514
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,720
they want to make money. 
And this is how they can break 

515
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,240
into the industry, right? 
That's that's what happens. 

516
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,920
It's not sacred music at all. 
It's a whole new discussion for 

517
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,040
a different day. 
Is, is basic education for 

518
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,840
determining how to judge the 
style of music. 

519
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,560
If you're interested in it, I'll
give you some great resources 

520
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,560
that that you can, you know that
you can really dive deep into 

521
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:29,320
those things to be able to 
understand the difference and, 

522
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,880
and hear a song and be able to 
say that's contemporary, that's 

523
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:37,080
sacred, that's pop, that's 
Southern gospel, that's this. 

524
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,040
You have to be able to 
understand and you have to be 

525
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,400
able to discern between those 
types of music so that you can 

526
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,560
listen to and if you play and 
sing, play and sing music that 

527
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:52,160
is honoring to the Lord, music 
that is sacred music and doesn't

528
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:53,640
borrow from the sound of the 
world. 

529
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,840
So music to, to, to summarize 
that point must be spiritual and

530
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,800
non worldly in sound. 
That's our longest point #7 the 

531
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,080
music must edify. 
And I may have to, I may have 

532
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:07,960
to, in fact, I am going to have 
to. 

533
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:10,880
We're not going to get all the 
way through this. 

534
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,960
Let me just give you this point 
at least and then we'll see 

535
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,360
where we're at. 
But the, the, the music must 

536
00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:17,560
edify. 
Let's turn over to 1st 

537
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,800
Corinthians chapter 14 talk 
about the music must be 

538
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,640
spiritual and it must be non 
worldly and that's important. 

539
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,000
But when it comes to church 
music, the purpose of church 

540
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,840
music is to edify the church. 
So First Corinthians chapter 14 

541
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:38,880
and verse #26 how is it then 
brethren, when you come 

542
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,040
together, every one of you hath 
A Psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a

543
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,560
tongue, hath A revelation, hath 
an interpretation. 

544
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:53,720
Let all things be done unto 
edifying is music mentioned in 

545
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,600
this verse? 
Possibly if you're talking about

546
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,560
a Psalm, right? 
Probably that's what they're 

547
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,000
meaning is is is this is a song 
singing something. 

548
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,320
But whether or not you say that 
that Psalm is talking about 

549
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,400
music or not is music part of 
all things? 

550
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,840
It is right? 
So everything that's done in the

551
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,480
church must be done to the 
edifying of the Saints. 

552
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,240
It must be done for edification,
right? 

553
00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:27,120
What does edify mean? 
Edify means to build up, right? 

554
00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:32,240
It means to to build up somebody
by, you know, through faith, by 

555
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,360
hearing and understanding the 
truths of God's Word. 

556
00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:39,920
So all things being done unto 
edification means that sacred 

557
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,120
music must emphasize the 
message, right? 

558
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,240
And again, we talked about a lot
of things that deal with the 

559
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,280
message. 
It must be sound and doctrine. 

560
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,560
It must not be shallow. 
It must you know, it shouldn't 

561
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,800
be soft. 
You know, again, especially Lady

562
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,440
Fine, sing a soft song softly 
and tenderly. 

563
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,240
Jesus is calling. 
That's a little bit of a softer 

564
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,800
song. 
But even that has a, has a power

565
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:07,640
to it has a, it has a dynamic to
it and, and you know, a power 

566
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,200
that that comes with it. 
But the message has to be clear 

567
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,800
so that it speaks to people's 
hearts, their minds, and it 

568
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,040
edifies them. 
And nothing should be allowed to

569
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,160
distract from that, right? 
So musical instruments sometimes

570
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,240
can be too loud and drown out 
the message of the song, right? 

571
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,080
You hear that happen often. 
It's, it's different when our 

572
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,320
whole congregation is singing. 
And obviously we have all the 

573
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,920
orchestra musics and the trumpet
and everything else in a small 

574
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,440
room. 
I'm talking about when you have 

575
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,160
somebody that's getting up to 
sing a special especially, and 

576
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,840
you know, you have a, you have 
an accompaniment that is, that 

577
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,240
is being played with that it's 
so loud you can't hear anything 

578
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:45,640
else. 
I told you about that. 

579
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,880
I think I told you that when, 
when Alex was just a little kid,

580
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,840
we went and visited a church and
the choir got up to sing and 

581
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,000
the, and they had a background 
track. 

582
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,280
They had, they had pianists, 
they had people that could have 

583
00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:59,760
played. 
I don't know why they decided to

584
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,280
choose or why they, why they 
decided to use a soundtrack to 

585
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,560
for the choir to sing with, but 
the music was so loud that 

586
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,960
number one, not only could you 
not hear the choir, Alex was 

587
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,080
probably 3 or 4 years old and he
was sitting there like this. 

588
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,280
He couldn't, he, he, you know, 
because you, you can't 

589
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,840
concentrate on the message of 
the song when the music and, and

590
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:23,800
this particular music had a 
heavy rock beat in it of all 

591
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,080
that. 
I mean, nothing else did. 

592
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,480
And all the sudden boom, boom, 
boom, boom. 

593
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,360
And he just, you have to plug 
your ears because the message is

594
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,840
not what's being emphasized. 
And that's not edifying anybody,

595
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:35,960
right? 
Because the music is so loud you

596
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,640
can't even hear it. 
The music can also be so complex

597
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,560
that it hinders the message of 
the song as well. 

598
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,240
I think, for example, if the 
harmonies are so complex that 

599
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,640
the message is not clear, that's
not good sacred music. 

600
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,360
And that can happen. 
Maybe those who know music will 

601
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,320
understand that a little bit 
more, and you're the ones that 

602
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,080
need to understand it because 
you're the ones that are singing

603
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,640
it. 
But at the same time, all things

604
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,400
being done unto edification 
means that there is no place for

605
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:06,640
entertainment in sacred music. 
When people get up here to sing,

606
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,480
they're not getting up here to 
sing to entertain, right? 

607
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,760
If you want entertainment, go 
listen to the Richmond Pops 

608
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,640
orchestra, right? 
That's entertainment. 

609
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,720
They're not, they're not doing 
that to glorify God. 

610
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,360
It's not, it's not wrong, but 
they're not doing it for for 

611
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,840
edification because it's not 
being done in a church setting, 

612
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:25,680
right? 
If you want to be entertained, 

613
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,200
go listen to to a Symphony 
Orchestra. 

614
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:29,640
Go listen to something like 
that. 

615
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,200
When you're here. 
The music is for edification, 

616
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,480
right? 
Which is why it's, it's 

617
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,720
important that you listen to the
words that are being sung. 

618
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,760
That's why it's important that 
you, you know, and, and, and why

619
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,680
we purposefully and emphatically
avoid anything that's, that 

620
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,000
speaks of entertainment. 
That's why. 

621
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,760
And again, you know, one of the 
things that that that we've done

622
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,800
is applauding when somebody gets
finished singing a special, 

623
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,040
right? 
That that that lends itself 

624
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,120
toward entertainment, right? 
Why do you clap when somebody's 

625
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:05,800
done? 
Oh, you did a wonderful job, 

626
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,560
right? 
Who are who are they doing it 

627
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,920
for you or for the Lord should 
be for the Lord, right? 

628
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,240
And I haven't said anything 
about it because I understand 

629
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,720
your intention. 
You're saying, hey, that was 

630
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,080
great. 
You did a lot of you know, you 

631
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,320
put a lot of work into it. 
But but how about instead of 

632
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,320
clapping, let's say Amen, right,
Amen. 

633
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:23,320
That was great. 
Amen. 

634
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,440
I heard Brother Ryan after we 
finished the the Hallelujah 

635
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,760
chorus. 
Amen, Amen, Amen. 

636
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,800
Hey, say Amen a bunch of times, 
right? 

637
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,920
Who are we glorifying when 
you're saying Amen, the person 

638
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,360
or God, right? 
Right. 

639
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,640
Hallelujah. 
Praise the Lord, right? 

640
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,320
When you say praise the Lord, 
who are you praising? 

641
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,840
The person that just got done 
singing or playing or the Lord? 

642
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,080
It's pretty obvious, isn't it? 
But then when somebody, you 

643
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,720
know, somebody gets up here and 
sings and they did a good job on

644
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:51,720
it. 
Great job. 

645
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,880
Yeah, Yeah. 
The crowd goes wild, right. 

646
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,680
And again, I understand the 
intention behind it. 

647
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,240
You're saying good job. 
You, you put a lot of work into 

648
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:00,160
it. 
That was beautiful. 

649
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,000
That was honoring to the Lord 
and everything else. 

650
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,600
But how about instead of 
clapping, let's just say Amen. 

651
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,840
Give him a give him a hearty 
Amen, right. 

652
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,160
That that's something that that 
that says you did a great job. 

653
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,960
But I know it wasn't for us. 
It was for the Lord, but we 

654
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,880
appreciated it at the same time,
right. 

655
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,480
And again, I understand that's, 
you know, I haven't said 

656
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,360
anything about it because we, 
you know, it's it's not like 

657
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,640
it's it's a sin to clap for 
somebody that that finished 

658
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,960
singing a song or playing music 
or something like that. 

659
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,320
But it's not a performance, 
right? 

660
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,600
We're not applauding a 
performance, but that's what you

661
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,480
do when somebody performs, you 
applaud for them, right? 

662
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,680
Saying Amen lifts up Christ. 
It brings the honor and glory 

663
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,200
and points it more toward him 
than it does to the person that 

664
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,160
that did the special, right. 
It's it's performance. 

665
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:50,800
Is it it it everything that we 
do has should move away from 

666
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,320
anything that looks like the 
world, right? 

667
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,800
And you know, so, so looking 
like the world, acting like the 

668
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,160
world. 
But that's again, that's the 

669
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,960
same reason why we don't use, 
you know, sensual vocal 

670
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:08,199
techniques that that draw 
attention to the singer like 

671
00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:10,679
that scooping and the sliding 
and the breathiness and all of 

672
00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:12,960
those things. 
That's why, again, we don't use 

673
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:19,800
video cameras to zoom in on the 
people singing and, and slide 

674
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,400
around and get them from all 
these different angles while 

675
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,400
they're singing, right? 
I mean, you ever watched a 

676
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:25,920
concert? 
That's what they do. 

677
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,040
If it's, if it's video, that's 
what they do, right? 

678
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:29,679
Because you're, you're focusing 
on that. 

679
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,080
I, I read you this quote not too
long ago. 

680
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,320
I can't think of the guy's name 
starts with AC, but anyway, 

681
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,360
contemporary Christian musician 
and he said, you know, in his in

682
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,080
this quote, he said, you know, 
everybody wants to write the 

683
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,600
next banger, the song that's 
going to make a millions of 

684
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,000
dollars because people are 
listening. 

685
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,280
And he said, I've made millions 
of dollars off of writing 

686
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,000
contemporary Christian music. 
I'm done with it because it 

687
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:55,679
doesn't have anything to do with
God has everything to do with I 

688
00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:57,680
want to write something that's 
going to be really popular, 

689
00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,320
right? 
I want to write something that's

690
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,040
going to get me a lot of of of 
view so I can make a lot of 

691
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,760
money from this. 
I want to write a song that 

692
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,200
everybody's singing, right? 
And one of the points that he 

693
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,640
brought up is he said if, if all
of this music and, and all these

694
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,160
contemporary people would say 
that they're trying to do it to,

695
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,520
to glorify Christ. 
But this is what he said. 

696
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,960
This is a, this is one of the 
guys who has made it to the top 

697
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,960
of the contemporary Christian 
music world, who is one of the 

698
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:28,000
most popular contemporary 
Christian musicians right now. 

699
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,360
And he said, if it's all about 
Christ, then why do we all 

700
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,240
travel with our huge production 
teams that are videoing us from 

701
00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:39,880
every angle and trying to 
capture every corner of every 

702
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,560
part of the stage so that it can
be zoomed in on and, and, and 

703
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,960
can and can lift up the singer 
and you can zoom right in on 

704
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,680
their face if you want to said, 
if it's all about Christ, then 

705
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,760
why do why are we making it all 
about us? 

706
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:57,120
That's coming from a guy who is 
making it all about him, right? 

707
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:01,000
But at least even he understands
when you get a video production 

708
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,000
crew that is filming your every 
move when you're on stage, it's 

709
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,640
not about lifting up Christ. 
It's about lifting up the 

710
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,320
performer at that point. 
And that's that's again, that's 

711
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,120
why we don't do those things. 
There's there, there are things,

712
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,960
you know, those things are, are 
the way of performance and 

713
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,360
entertainment. 
It's not the way of true 

714
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,000
worship, which isn't that what 
singing is all about? 

715
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:29,320
We're singing to the Lord, 
singing in your hearts, making 

716
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,200
melody in your hearts to the 
Lord, right? 

717
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,400
Isn't that exactly what that 
verse says? 

718
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,600
So is it about him or is it 
about me? 

719
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:41,160
Is it about lifting up his name 
or is it about people applauding

720
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:42,640
my performance? 
What? 

721
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,280
What's your motivation behind 
why you're doing what you're 

722
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,560
doing? 
And those are all things that we

723
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,360
have to think about all things 
being done unto edification 

724
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,840
means that every song should be 
selected because of its message.

725
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:59,880
If the if the message is 
theologically wrong, we 

726
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:01,320
shouldn't be singing it. 
I'll be honest with you. 

727
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:02,360
The Battle of Hymn of the 
Republic. 

728
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,440
Go look at the theological 
message in the battle of Hymn of

729
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,680
the Republic. 
It's about as messed up 

730
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,360
theologically as it can possibly
be. 

731
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,400
You know, it's in song books. 
It's in good song books. 

732
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,800
It shouldn't be sung because it 
the theology in that song is not

733
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,760
good theology. 
It doesn't line up with God's 

734
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,440
Word. 
There's no edification. 

735
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,720
There's a song I remember 
hearing growing up come to the 

736
00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:27,160
church in the Wildwood. 
Remember that song? 

737
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,440
It's weak. 
It's just nothing to it. 

738
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,000
There's no edification in that. 
It comes to the church in the 

739
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,240
Wildwood. 
Where's the church in the 

740
00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:34,800
Wildwood have for me to even go 
to. 

741
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,240
And really that's all it. 
That's kind of all it talks 

742
00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:39,680
about. 
You know, there's a there's, 

743
00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:43,200
there's, there's other songs 
that fit in with that category. 

744
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,800
But when we're choosing sacred 
music, when we're choosing songs

745
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,480
to sing a special especially, 
they should be songs that have 

746
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,560
edification, something that's 
going to edify the people who 

747
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,360
are listening to it, glorify 
God, edify the body of Christ. 

748
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,120
All things being done into 
edification means there must be 

749
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,160
education. 
And when I say that, I mean 

750
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,400
this. 
If the message of the song is 

751
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,360
spiritual, but it's couched in 
words that that the people who 

752
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,960
are listening can't understand, 
then there's still no 

753
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,160
edification. 
And, and some of the old hymns 

754
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:16,760
have some things in it that are 
like that. 

755
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,520
And I'm not saying that we 
should stop singing the old 

756
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,840
hymns that have those words in 
them, but there has to be 

757
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,200
education. 
So explain what that means, 

758
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:29,880
right? 
You have songs like A Mighty 

759
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,000
Fortress is Our God. 
And in that song it says 

760
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,200
something about Lord Sabayoth is
his name. 

761
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,960
What does that mean? 
If you're singing it unto 

762
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,320
edification, then we should know
what that means, right? 

763
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,440
So if you're going to sing the 
song, explain it right here. 

764
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:51,760
I raise my Ebenezer. 
What is that Christmas Carol? 

765
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,720
You know, Scrooge, is that what 
we're talking about in that 

766
00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:55,560
song? 
No. 

767
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,520
What does Ebenezer mean? 
No, Ebenezer means hitherto hath

768
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:03,240
the Lord helped us, right? 
So if we're going to edify, 

769
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,320
maybe say, hey, I want you to 
think about the words of this 

770
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,360
song. 
But there's a phrase in here 

771
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,160
that says, here I raise my 
Ebenezer. 

772
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:11,720
This is what this song, this is 
what that means. 

773
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,160
Now it's edifying, right? 
So there has to be some 

774
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,880
education in those things as 
well. 

775
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,760
You know, other songs that that 
speak of Beulah land. 

776
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,800
What is Beulah land? 
All right, we, we need to, we 

777
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,440
need to have the edification in 
those things. 

778
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,440
So unless the meanings of the 
words are known by the 

779
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,320
congregation, there's not much 
edification. 

780
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,840
Nothing wrong with that. 
But that's where, you know, the 

781
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:33,720
song leader can briefly mention 
it. 

782
00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:35,920
Brian does that sometimes I do 
it. 

783
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,240
We try to try to edify through 
the singing. 

784
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:39,640
You've heard me say it many 
times. 

785
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,400
Think about the words while we 
sing this last verse. 

786
00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:46,920
All right, because what is the 
purpose of congregational 

787
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:52,200
singing edification, right, If 
all you're doing is just singing

788
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,560
the so I'll cling to the old 
rugged cross. 

789
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,320
I wonder what's going to happen 
after church. 

790
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,680
So I'll you're not being edified
by that song, right? 

791
00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:06,720
But if I, as the song leaders 
say, think about the words to 

792
00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:09,600
this last verse, now you're 
like, oh, what's in this last 

793
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,240
verse that I need to be thinking
about, right? 

794
00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:13,480
Why is he saying that? 
It puts the focus where it 

795
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,280
belongs on the words to the 
song. 

796
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:17,280
And now you're focused on the 
cross. 

797
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,920
Cling to the old rugged cross 
till my trophies At last I lay 

798
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,960
down. 
You know some of these songs, 

799
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:25,960
especially if you've been in 
church for any length of time, 

800
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,200
we've sung them so many times 
that you don't even think about 

801
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:33,040
the beauty of the words and the,
and the, the depth of the 

802
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,800
theology in those songs. 
I'll cling to the old rugged 

803
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,920
cross till my trophies. 
At last I lay down. 

804
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,760
I'll cling to the old rugged 
cross. 

805
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,200
And what is it that now, now the
words are escaping my head. 

806
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,840
Yeah. 
Exchange it someday for a crown,

807
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,600
right? 
What does that, what does that 

808
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,680
mean? 
All the things that I'm doing on

809
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,840
this earth, I'm not doing. 
I'm going to lay those down at 

810
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,920
his feet and he's going to give 
me a crown of righteousness and 

811
00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:02,880
A and, and this crown and that 
crown that I can earn, right? 

812
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,280
There's a lot of theology and 
there's a lot of doctrine and 

813
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,680
there's a lot of edification in 
those songs. 

814
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,320
If I'm really thinking about the
words now, I want to go out 

815
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,800
there and earn those things for 
the Lord so that I can lay those

816
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:18,400
down at his feet someday, right.
And and not every song is going 

817
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,760
to be really theologically deep 
or not every song is going to be

818
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:26,520
really, you know, have have tons
of edification in it, but it 

819
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,720
should have edification in it. 
There should be something of 

820
00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:32,840
value in that song for for those
who are listening to it. 

821
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,640
So all things being done in the 
edification means that the 

822
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,040
people must be taught and 
reminded to think about the 

823
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,000
words in the song. 
I just mentioned that and, and 

824
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,560
put your attention on the 
edification from the words. 

825
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,440
And that's that. 
So, so they, the music should 

826
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,400
point to the message. 
The message should be 1 of 

827
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:56,640
doctrinal, doctrinally correct 
edification. 

828
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,000
That's what we're, that's what 
we're aiming at. 

829
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,480
That's what our goal ought to 
be. 

830
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,840
Let me give you one more #8 and 
we will have to finish this 

831
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:09,720
later because I got a good bit 
more for you, but #8 church 

832
00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:13,200
music must not produce a 
charismatic style mystical 

833
00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:14,960
experience. 
Let's turn over to first Peter. 

834
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,160
I got 2 verses for you there. 
I'll give you a couple points 

835
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:19,480
about this and then we'll be 
done. 

836
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:24,160
First Peter chapter 1. 
First Peter chapter 1. 

837
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:28,040
Church music must not produce a 
charismatic style mystical 

838
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:33,560
experience, which is, I'll be 
honest with you, most of what 

839
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:37,720
the contemporary Christian 
music, the non denominational 

840
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,840
church is trying to do with 
their music. 

841
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:44,160
They're trying to create this 
mystical experience to try to 

842
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:48,160
make you feel like I entered the
presence of the Lord today, 

843
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,360
right? 
They're trying to drum that up 

844
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,440
with the music and they're 
almost like they're putting you 

845
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,480
into a trance. 
It's one of the reasons why they

846
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,680
use all the lights and 
everything else is dim. 

847
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,160
You know, you can't see anything
in front of you except the, the 

848
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:05,560
big stage and all the lights and
you know, all the, the, the 

849
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,400
walls and the ceiling and 
everything is painted black. 

850
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,760
And you focus only on the front 
because we're going to draw you 

851
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,680
into this experience and you're 
going to enjoy it and you're 

852
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:19,400
going to walk out of here 
feeling like you worship God 

853
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,000
today. 
We're trying to avoid that first

854
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,960
Peter chapter 1. 
Now you should feel like men. 

855
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,680
That was that was wonderful. 
We worship the Lord, you know, 

856
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:31,360
singing he's Emmanuel, the God 
of all the ages come in human 

857
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:32,680
flesh. 
I mean, we should walk out of 

858
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,760
here and say, man, that's a 
that's a great song. 

859
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:40,160
That's powerful, but it's not 
this mystical, charismatic style

860
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:41,680
experience. 
First Peter chapter one, verse 

861
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,760
13. 
Wherefore gird up the loins of 

862
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:48,960
your mind, Be sober and hope to 
the end for the grace that is to

863
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,080
be brought unto you at the 
revelation of Jesus Christ. 

864
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:52,720
First Peter 58. 
It's another one that you 

865
00:43:52,720 --> 00:43:56,120
recognize hopefully and most of 
you know it and you see the same

866
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,000
word in there. 
Be sober, be vigilant, because 

867
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,680
your adversary of the devil as a
roaring lion walketh about 

868
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,680
seeking whom he may devour to 
this this contemporary music, 

869
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,800
you know, contemporary worship 
music is designed to create this

870
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:14,880
emotional experience, a sensual 
experience, as opposed to sacred

871
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,640
music that is edifying through 
the understanding. 

872
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:22,880
So it's designed to carry the 
people who are listening to it 

873
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,600
through this emotional 
experiences roller coaster. 

874
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,520
And if you notice, if you, if 
you've listened to any kind of 

875
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,440
contemporary Christian music at 
all. 

876
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,880
And, and I, you know, I've only 
done it because I, you know, 

877
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,600
want to see what, what are they 
doing at Hillsong? 

878
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:38,240
What are they doing at Bethel? 
What are they doing in 

879
00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:39,720
elevation? 
You know, those, those kind of 

880
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:42,080
things. 
And so, I mean, I couldn't tell 

881
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,520
you any songs that they sing, 
but what you notice about 

882
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:49,120
everyone is it starts off really
low, draws you in, and then it 

883
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,360
starts to build, build, build, 
build, build, build, build, 

884
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,200
build. 
It almost gets to a crescendo 

885
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,080
and then it goes back down. 
Then it builds you back up 

886
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,480
again, builds you back up again,
builds you back up again. 

887
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:02,240
Then it goes back down until 
eventually by the time you get 

888
00:45:02,240 --> 00:45:06,400
to the third time through those 
7 words, you're rocking the 

889
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:11,880
place out and it's as loud as it
can possibly be and then it goes

890
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,000
back down again. 
It's, it's designed to take you 

891
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:18,920
on this roller coaster where you
just right. 

892
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:20,600
I mean, it's what it's designed 
to do. 

893
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,560
It's drawing you through this 
emotional experience. 

894
00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:27,840
I saw AI don't know, I guess it 
was a meme. 

895
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,320
I don't know. 
It was a guy that had 7 pencils 

896
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,520
all tied together. 
Is that this how worship 

897
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,280
musicians write their songs? 
And he's writing, you know, the 

898
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,920
seven lines with 7 pencils all 
at the same time. 

899
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,640
You know, and, and honestly, 
that's a lot of what it is. 

900
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:44,080
They're not saying anything. 
It's the music. 

901
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,080
And what you don't understand, 
what most of these people don't 

902
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,760
understand, is that you are 
being manipulated by the music. 

903
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,200
The words aren't even saying 
anything. 

904
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,960
You're not being, you're not 
being drawn into the presence of

905
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:01,520
God because the mute, the words 
are so doctrinally rich. 

906
00:46:02,720 --> 00:46:05,040
You're being drawn through an 
emotional experience and you're 

907
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,680
being manipulated by the music 
and you don't even realize it. 

908
00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:10,600
So you walk out saying, wow, we 
worship God today. 

909
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,440
No, you didn't worship God. 
You got manipulated by the music

910
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,600
and you got taken on a on a 
roller coaster ride through the 

911
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:23,360
words and you felt like you had 
any Worshipful experience 

912
00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:26,640
because you were on their 
emotional roller coaster that 

913
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,360
they took you through. 
Graham Kendrick, he's one of the

914
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,280
biggest names in contemporary 
worship and and or at least was 

915
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,640
for a for a long time, but this 
is what he said. 

916
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:39,760
He had an interview with a guy 
who was like a music producer. 

917
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,040
He said the old way of preaching
and singing began to give way to

918
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:47,120
an experience that God would 
visit us and we'd be ex. 

919
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:51,000
We'd experience his presence in 
a tangible sort of way. 

920
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:52,760
That's what they're trying to 
do. 

921
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,080
They're just trying to try to 
make you feel like you can reach

922
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,600
out and touch God, right. 
And if we can just, if we can 

923
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,480
use the music to just bring him 
right there and you can just 

924
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:06,160
reach out and touch him, then 
you've had that emotional 

925
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,600
experience and you'll come back 
again because you want to 

926
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,040
experience that high again. 
It's like drugs, you know, 

927
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,040
you'll never, you'll never 
experience the same high, but 

928
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,120
you'll keep trying to get it 
right. 

929
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,040
And, and that's what the, and 
that's why most people in these 

930
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,720
non denominational churches last
for four, 5-6 years. 

931
00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:25,080
And then they start thinking 
something's not right about 

932
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,040
this. 
It's empty, it's hollow. 

933
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:28,960
Why is that? 
Because they got you that 

934
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,080
emotional high and now you're 
trying to get to it and you 

935
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,080
never quite have that same 
emotional high and eventually it

936
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,200
fizzles out and the next thing 
you know, you got to go find 

937
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,400
another place. 
And wow, this is wonderful. 

938
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:41,200
Look at this worship experience 
that we had. 

939
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,680
It goes to the same roller 
coaster all the way through 

940
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,120
again. 
But to that end, a lot of these 

941
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:49,440
contemporary musicians use music
with the sensual dance rhythms 

942
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,880
in it. 
They use music with with non 

943
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,160
resolving chord cadences. 
You ever listen to one of these 

944
00:47:55,160 --> 00:48:03,800
contemporary songs and you know,
if I try to think of and 

945
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:09,320
exchange it someday for crown, 
right. 

946
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,960
That's that's what it that's 
what resolving is. 

947
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:16,840
But a lot of the a lot of the 
pop music does this, but a lot 

948
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,800
of yours contemporary Christian 
music does the same thing and 

949
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:27,200
it's not the exact words, but 
and exchange it someday for and 

950
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:31,520
you're like, and it just leaves 
you hanging there. 

951
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:33,480
Non resolving chords. 
That's it. 

952
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,800
That is a that is a pattern of 
contemporary Christian music, 

953
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:38,720
right. 
And it obviously they're not 

954
00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:41,320
just going to not say crown at 
the end of that song. 

955
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,480
It's different words and 
everything else, but it's non 

956
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:46,360
resolving chord patterns. 
And that's one of the that's 

957
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,040
that's that's an easy way that 
you can tell a contemporary 

958
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,720
style of music. 
It's it's non resolving. 

959
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,640
You also have, you know, other 
things that go along with that 

960
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:59,960
repetition, obviously electronic
modulation, other elements so 

961
00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:02,280
that people get carried away 
emotionally. 

962
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,200
It's designed to take you on 
that emotional roller coaster. 

963
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:09,520
And we should reject any church 
music that's designed to create 

964
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:13,960
a highly emotional state or, you
know, anything that produces any

965
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,240
sort of hypnotic effect. 
But the Bible, as we just read 

966
00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:20,400
in first Peter One and first 
Peter 5, it tells us to be sober

967
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,080
minded and not to allow anything
to capture our hearts and our 

968
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:27,000
souls other than God in his 
word. 

969
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,640
We're not supposed to open 
ourselves up unquestionably to 

970
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,600
any force or experience, but 
we're supposed to test 

971
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,600
everything by the standard of 
God's Word. 

972
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:40,720
So we refuse to be controlled by
highly emotional music. 

973
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,560
And if you're going to refuse to
be controlled by highly 

974
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,720
emotional music, then you will 
naturally reject anything that 

975
00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:51,640
has to do with contemporary 
Christian music because 99% of 

976
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:55,320
that music is emotional control.
And that's why people like it, 

977
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,600
right? 
That's why, that's why we have 

978
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:02,720
to fight the flesh when it comes
to listening to rock music or 

979
00:50:02,720 --> 00:50:05,560
any of those kind of things. 
You ever, you ever notice you're

980
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:09,560
sitting in a place and a song 
comes on and you don't even know

981
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:13,120
the song, but the next thing you
know, you're doing this with it,

982
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:15,760
right? 
Why is that? 

983
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:17,440
And then you're like, wait a 
second, what? 

984
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,080
What is it? 
Where's that coming from? 

985
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:20,680
Oh, there's music playing, 
right. 

986
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,440
You didn't even notice that the 
song, you don't even know the 

987
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,960
song, but but that music drives 
you to to do those things, 

988
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:28,440
right? 
It's those are sensual things. 

989
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,280
Those are things that you know, 
and, and, and what happens then 

990
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:34,880
is and, and, and that's the way 
that rock music is designed. 

991
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,680
It's, it's designed to get you 
to gyrate your body and do all 

992
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:39,040
of those other kind of things, 
right. 

993
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:42,600
So that's why even like 50s, 
sixties, 70's rock, I mean, 

994
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,640
that's, that's what it was 
designed to do, is designed to 

995
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,160
get you to move your body in 
sensual ways. 

996
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:51,320
And then you take that music and
you put Christian words with it,

997
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,920
but the music didn't stop doing 
what it was originally intended 

998
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:59,320
to do. 
And so now, I mean, I was, I saw

999
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:03,880
a clip from somewhere and, and 
this girl, it was, I don't even 

1000
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:04,880
know what song it was. 
I don't know. 

1001
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,920
I have no idea what group it was
or anything like that singing 

1002
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,800
this, this, you know, 
contemporary Christian music 

1003
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:12,960
song. 
And she was down here like this,

1004
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:17,600
you know, and throw her hair 
back and do all this stuff 

1005
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,800
because that that's what the 
music is telling you to do, 

1006
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,040
right? 
Is that honoring to God? 

1007
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:26,400
Is that is that really music 
that is bringing glory to him? 

1008
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:31,280
No, it's, it's because the music
is taking you through this 

1009
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:34,760
experience that's telling you 
exactly how you should feel and 

1010
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:38,680
telling you exactly what you 
should do with your body, right?

1011
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,040
Can you do that when you're 
singing the Old Rugged Cross? 

1012
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,400
You can't even do that if you 
want to when you're singing the 

1013
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,920
old Rugged Cross because the 
music doesn't push you into 

1014
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,840
that, right? 
There's nothing that the music 

1015
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:53,920
makes you do that that is 
displeasing to the Lord. 

1016
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,280
And what what I'm trying to get 
you to understand is that music 

1017
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:01,400
is powerful, and just because 
you put Christian words with it 

1018
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:05,360
does not make it right. 
And so we have to reject 

1019
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:09,280
anything that even comes close 
to sounding like the world 

1020
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:14,080
that's going to pull us away 
from the sacred music sound that

1021
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:17,320
comes from songs and through 
songs like The Old Rugged Cross 

1022
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:20,160
and Jesus Loves Me and Victory 
in Jesus. 

1023
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,800
You can't gyrate to those songs 
if you want to, because the 

1024
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:27,360
music doesn't let you do that, 
let alone make you do that, 

1025
00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:30,000
right? 
Do you understand the difference

1026
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:35,160
between sacred music and worldly
secular music that is designed 

1027
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:37,440
to make you do those things 
right? 

1028
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,880
And, and, and again, you don't 
even have to understand music to

1029
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:44,280
know exactly what I'm talking 
about. 

1030
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:48,400
You know that that music is 
very, very powerful in that way.

1031
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:52,400
And so I go back to what I said 
at the beginning. 

1032
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:56,440
Music is, has way more control 
over us than many of us are 

1033
00:52:56,440 --> 00:53:01,080
willing to admit. 
Music, music has so much more to

1034
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:05,400
do with how you worship and who 
you're actually worshipping 

1035
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,920
through the song. 
Then we realize it does in many 

1036
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,600
cases. 
So everything that we do must be

1037
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:16,800
tested through God's word. 
Are these principles in this 

1038
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:20,040
song? 
Does this song go against the 

1039
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:23,480
principles of God's word? 
Does it sound like pop music? 

1040
00:53:23,720 --> 00:53:27,440
Does it does it move me in this 
emotional experience? 

1041
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:31,400
And again, nothing wrong with, 
you know, we saying or we listen

1042
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:35,520
to the song love let him go when
we when we have our communion 

1043
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:37,680
service. 
It's a very emotional song, but 

1044
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,600
it's not emotional in the way 
that it's taking me up and down.

1045
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:44,200
It's emotional because I'm 
thinking about the words love, 

1046
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:49,000
let him go to the cross. 
Love, let him leave his throne 

1047
00:53:49,240 --> 00:53:52,080
so all the world would know, 
right? 

1048
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:58,760
It's emotional because the words
are, are scriptural and 

1049
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:03,280
scriptural and are, and are 
driving me to think about Christ

1050
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,000
and what he did. 
That's why it's emotional. 

1051
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,120
It's not emotional because the 
music is drawing me up and down 

1052
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:09,600
and doing all these things, 
right? 

1053
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:14,920
We're not having these, these, 
you know, fainting spells and 

1054
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,360
things like that. 
It might bring a tear to your 

1055
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,960
eye because you, you're thinking
about the fact that Christ died 

1056
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:23,720
on the cross for me, right? 
So I'm not saying that you can't

1057
00:54:23,720 --> 00:54:27,360
be moved by a song, but what's 
moving you? 

1058
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,680
If the music is moving you, then
you're being manipulated 

1059
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:35,200
emotionally and you're being 
taken on this roller coaster and

1060
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:38,640
throwing some Christian words 
with it and calling it a worship

1061
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:40,120
experience. 
And it's not a worship 

1062
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,400
experience. 
It's a music manipulation 

1063
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,800
experience to make you want to 
keep coming back and going after

1064
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:49,600
that high again. 
So important thing to understand

1065
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:53,480
is that church music must not 
produce a charismatic style 

1066
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:56,840
mystical experience where you 
know, where you're, you know, 

1067
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:01,200
doing all these other things 
that that the world does. 

1068
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:02,880
You know, you ever seen a mosh 
pit? 

1069
00:55:03,720 --> 00:55:06,120
People are just dancing around 
and head banging and all that 

1070
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,280
kind of stuff. 
The music is doing that right. 

1071
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,400
A lot of times you can't even 
tell what they're saying because

1072
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,200
you can't hear it right. 
You, you, unless you've listened

1073
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:17,840
to the words of that song enough
times, you don't even know what 

1074
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,880
the, what they're saying, but 
you're doing all this head 

1075
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:22,960
banging and everything else. 
Why is that? 

1076
00:55:23,240 --> 00:55:26,200
Because the music is doing that.
The music is very powerful. 

1077
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:29,720
So then to take that and put 
Christian words with it and 

1078
00:55:29,720 --> 00:55:33,000
expect that God's going to be 
pleased, It's like a, it's like 

1079
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:34,560
the music version of an 
oxymoron. 

1080
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:36,840
It just doesn't happen, right? 
It doesn't make any sense that 

1081
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:40,880
those two don't go together. 
So then if those two, those two 

1082
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:45,280
don't go together, then where do
we find our principles to make 

1083
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,640
sure that, all right, where is 
that line drawn? 

1084
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:50,920
If this is secular music and 
this is sacred music, where is 

1085
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:52,360
that line? 
Well, that's what these 

1086
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:54,080
principles are. 
That's what, that's where our 

1087
00:55:54,080 --> 00:56:00,960
music standards are. 
And with most things, we've set 

1088
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,280
our standards, or we at least 
try to set our standards pretty 

1089
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:05,440
high because we don't want to. 
We don't want to be anywhere 

1090
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:09,240
near where the world's music is.
We want to be, I would rather 

1091
00:56:09,240 --> 00:56:12,760
air on the side of sacred and 
get to heaven and find out that 

1092
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,320
we could have probably done a 
little bit more music that we 

1093
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,320
didn't do than to get to heaven 
and find out that we were on the

1094
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:20,160
other side of that. 
And we did music that was not 

1095
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:23,080
pleasing to the Lord because we 
wanted to add to it. 

1096
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,800
There are hundreds, maybe not 
hundreds of thousands, but there

1097
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:29,320
are thousands and thousands of 
good songs that we can sing. 

1098
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:34,280
We don't need the world's music.
We don't need the contemporary 

1099
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:36,800
Christian music. 
We don't need that to be able to

1100
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:38,320
bring honor and glory to the 
Lord. 

1101
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:42,160
There are, there are thousands 
and thousands and thousands of 

1102
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:45,160
songs to choose from, from all 
the hymn books that have been 

1103
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:48,240
written over the last 300 years.
Some of the songs that are being

1104
00:56:48,240 --> 00:56:51,640
written today, you know, we've, 
you know, as a choir, we, we've 

1105
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:54,240
sung quite a few songs in the 
last few months that are not in 

1106
00:56:54,240 --> 00:56:58,320
any hymn book because they're 
relatively new, but they're 

1107
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:01,080
great songs. 
The music is OK. 

1108
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,760
The, the, the words are 
doctrinally correct. 

1109
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:08,960
They're edifying. 
My hope is Jesus, all right, I 

1110
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:13,560
mean, that's that what that's 
how you test a song to find out 

1111
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if is this OK to sing in church?
Is this OK for me to listen to? 

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Is this something that that God 
would be comfortable, Jesus 

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Christ would be comfortable 
sitting there listening to with 

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me, right, Those are these are 
these are and I've got some more

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of these that I'll that I'll 
share with you next Sunday that 

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that are principles that that 
you need to test every song, 

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right, that that you listen to 
to make sure they're pleasing to

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the Lord. 
If that's our goal, then 

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everything should fit in to that
standard. 

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And music is one of those. 
Music is, is is paramount in 

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those because it controls so 
much else. 

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I'm done. 
But you think about it, Why? 

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You know, why is it that the 
music is always the first thing 

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to go in a church? 
Before a church gets away from 

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the King James Bible, before a 
church drops their standards, 

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before a church turns off all 
the lights and paints all the 

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walls black? 
What goes the music, right? 

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The music goes first because 
it's the easiest place to allow 

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that contemporary side to come 
in. 

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It's the easiest thing to give 
way in if we are not careful and

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if we're not paying attention to
what we allow in the church. 

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It should be sacred music. 
We'll give you some more 

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principles of music next week, 
but hopefully that's a help to 

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you and we'll finish up next 
time. 

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Let's pray. 
Father, again, we thank you so 

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much for your goodness to us. 
Thank you for the opportunity 

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that we have to be here tonight.
Got to thank you for the fact 

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that we can go to Your Word and 
we can find these principles 

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that help us with music. 
God, may we be a church not for 

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the sake of being able to say 
that, oh, we have these high 

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standards in music or we do this
or we do that. 

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May we have these standards in 
music so that everything that we

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sing, everything that we play is
pleasing to you, is edifying to 

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the church and is honoring to 
the Lord Jesus Christ. 

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And may everything that we do 
lift him up and may may you be 

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pleased by the the things that 
we try to do in this area of 

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music that would honor and 
glorify Christ. 

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Again, we thank you for all that
you do for us in Jesus name, 

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Amen, If you would stand.