Songs And Music The Religious conflict

Revelation 14:7 advised us to worship God as creator; hence this is one of my reasons for keeping the Sabbath which was God’s way of allowing man to get to know him. You see, God know man, obviously, Jehovah made man and he ordered every thing about man from his first breath to his last. The sabath gives man an opportunity to get to know him as creator. Now here is the fulfillment and purpose of the Sabbath.

Here Jehovah give human a mandate to worship him as creator. But how far does Jehovah’s created power stretches? Jehovah is the creator of the whole universe and all that is found in it.

Jehovah God is the creator of everything and Satan is the creator of nothing. Some of us will like to believe that Satan is the creator of sin, but sin is just a choice which was given to all of Jehovah’s created being; it is choosing to do and doing wrong: unfortunately, Satan was the first being to feel the desire to utilize that choice against Jehovah will. He created the angels as free moral being, just as he did man, with the ability to choose. He also created them with a desire to love and worship him in an environment of perfection where they will gain maximum satisfaction, fulfillment an overwhelming sense of peace and harmony; which was meant only for the delight of the created.

Lucifer was then the first free moral agent (created being) to choose to do other than to dedicate his whole being to the praise, honor, glory and worship of his creator. Jehovah blessed Lucifer with many talents; he was the most musically talented, of all of the created being. But he had never created a beat, a note, a rhythm, a cord, a harmony, or any type or part of music. However he was instrumental in coordinating the heavenly host in using the notes, the rhythm, the cords, the harmony, and the music that Jehovah had created; in and for the worship and glory of Jehovah his creator. All music was created by Jehovah for the glory of Jehovah God.

Here is the question that you must answer: Who created Soca, Calypso, Reggae, heavy metal, Rap, etc?

If you conclude that these rhythms were not created by God then they must have been created by Satan. If this is true then what does this make Satan?

Jehovah is the embodiment of truth, light and music. The truth represents Jehovah's character; for he is truthful and just. The light; represents Jehovah’s perfection purity and righteousness and music represent the harmonious working of his character as is expressed in his words and his righteousness, his action and the order in which every thing under his control function in one accord; where there is harmony, there is peace and we know who is the source of peace.

Music and song are two distinct things that are always confused as one and it has two different effects on the human. They appear to be similar and are very often confused but they are as different as night and day; they are:
Music: music appeals to the senses and it stimulate the emotion (joy, happy relaxes and calm you) and although it stimulates the various emotions it do not influence the emotion. Do you remember King Saul when he was troubled (had fear) Davis played the harp the music appealed to his senses stimulate his emotions and calmed him (cast away his fears). What I must say though, that under normal circumstances music cannot instill fear; it has to be coupled with a visual aid in order to give the connotation of fear. As is done in the movies a man with the look of fear on his face walking though a lonely alley cause us to anticipate that something bad is going happen, with a certain back ground music give the viewers a heighten awareness that something bad is going to happen. A man with a happy face in an old broken down house with squeaking doors with that same back ground music gives a different impression and that same music listened to without the visual aid appeals differently to our emotions.

Song: Song is the rhythmic expression of words which seeks to imitate music; the key word here is words. Words are the medium that is used to clearly express human thought. It is important to note that the imperfection of human creates the defilement of the imitation. Words are use to express how we feel about a particular person, thing, situation, place and or experience. Words can be used to glorify or discredit.

Songs appeals to your understanding and arouses your Passions (a strong desire to do or a strong want for) because songs are words you understand; (it send specific understandable messages, notice I said messages) so song appeals to your understanding and in turn stimulates and influences particular passions; it can stir up both negative and positive passions: your want, your desire; your desire for food, for sex, to hate, for love and to be love, or to worship man or God.

So where does the term Satan music comes from?

Satan is the master of nothing but he is good at some things. Jehovah is the creator of every thing and thus he is master of and over all things. Satan is good at deception and he has deceived us in believing that songs and music are the same. He cannot corrupt truth for truth will forever be truth, but he mixes truth and error in order to decieve us; this is his main tool of deception. He cannot corrupt light for light will forever be light he can try to hide light he may misdirect the light or dim the light but it will always be light. Jesus is the light of this world. Neither can he corrupt music. The devil adds profane songs to music to lead God’s lost sheep a stray. Music like ever thing else the Creator God have made, ordained or created, the devil will misuse it for his own glory however he cannot corrupt it. So do we disregard the truth because the devil uses it for his own purpose, should we disregard light because the devil uses it for his own purpose and should we disregard music because the devil uses it for his own purpose.

We must remember that words can be associated with music. Music can not be associated with words.

Exercise 1:
(Let the pianist play what a fellowship what a joy divine, stop ant ever lasting arms. Ask the congregation what the music is saying. Now you sing these words to the same melody, “that’s a tasty cake boy that piece is mine leave that cake right there on top that plate” now ask the pianist to play that same piece of music and the church which of the song the piano was playing “what a joy divine” or that’s a tasty cake)

Let us review:

• The devil misdirects light to lead us astray.


• He mixes truth with error to leas us a stray
  
• He mixes profane songs to music to lead us astray.

1. Does the devil’s tampering with truth, mixing it with error make truth bad?


2. Does the devil tampering with light misdirecting it make light bad?


3. So the devil tampering with music mixing it with profane songs make music bad?
   

Just like truth which cannot be corrupted but when mixed with errors becomes a dangerous instrument of both physical and spiritual safety, light which may be bright or dim but can never be corrupted but when misdirected can lead you the wrong way and result in physical and spiritual death. So to is music it cannot be corrupted but when mixed with profane song it becomes a dangerous agent of destruction.

When songs are mixed with or are added to wholesome music it then becomes a source of inspiration, a blessing to all man kind.

The bible said praise God with the drums, the trumpet, symbols, the string instruments, with the wind instruments. Make a joyful noise unto the lord all ye people, sing unto the lord a new song.

Let me paint a picture for you. How do you feel when you see a person whom you love for the first time after a dangerous encounter? Or after they have return after they were away for a long time? You run to them, you hug them, you rock them from side to side, we even dance with them and there is no music.

Let’s see now, all of heaven came to a stand still as the heavenly host watch their king Jesus one who knew no sin being captured, chained, beaten, scorned, tortured, nailed to the cross died and was berried. I believed you could have heard a pin drop. It was the first time these heavenly being understand what it meant to be sad and how terrible sin was. What do you think happened in heaven on that Sunday morning when the angels rolled back that stone and King Jesus walk out of the tomb conquering death and defeating the devil? There was tremendous celebration (worship, praise, glory, songs and music) in heaven. What do you think happened when Jesus went back to heaven for the first time after his resurrection?

The devil knows and understands the power of music. He also knows how much Jehovah love and appreciates music. The devil will do any thing to ensure that God do not get the love adoration and praise he deserved. So he plant all sought of erroneous thoughts and ideas in the head of the supposedly children of the Creator God and have them fighting over which music is Jehovah's music and which music is Satan’s music, as if Satan have music.

While we fight; Satan is glorified and worship with the music of every culture, the music that God had created. Hate, lust, violence and other evil are disseminated using music tainted with profane lyrics. They even reach into our homes, spreading the seeds of corruption.