Participants: Dwayne Lemon, Lance Wilbur
Series Code: TKS
Program Code: TKS000045A
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00:28 Hello, I'm Lance. And I'm Dwayne.
00:30 And welcome to another episode of TKS, 00:33 a True Knowledge of Self 00:35 where we get to know ourselves from a biblical perspective. 00:39 Today, we're going to be looking at 00:40 some incredible things from the Word of God 00:42 and also some clips 00:43 that we're going to be playing before you. 00:45 And before we get ready to jump into this 00:47 because we're going to be talking a lot 00:49 about the concept of holy hip-hop. 00:51 Is there such a thing? Is it indeed an oxymoron? 00:54 Or is it something that can actually work together 00:57 under the blessings of God. 00:59 And as we prepare to take a look at some video clips 01:02 and also to consider some points 01:05 from the Word of God, 01:06 I want to invite you to join with us 01:08 and turn your Bibles to the Book of 1 Peter 2. 01:10 I think this is a good way to set the foundation 01:12 as we prepare to go into our study today. 01:16 I want to remind you that the Bible gives 01:19 a term called church. 01:20 When you think of the church, 01:22 the Greek word for the church is Ecclesia. 01:24 It means "the called out ones". 01:26 And the question is, 01:27 what is it that we've been called out of? 01:29 Well, let's look at 1 Peter 2:9, 01:31 and let's notice what the Bible says. 01:33 It says, "But ye are a chosen generation, 01:37 a royal priesthood, 01:40 an holy nation, a peculiar people, 01:44 that you should show forth the praises of Him 01:46 who have called you out of darkness 01:50 into his marvelous light." 01:52 So notice that the Bible makes it clear 01:54 what we've been called out of. 01:55 We have been called out of darkness. 01:57 We've been called out of the darkness of sin 01:59 and worldliness, 02:00 and we've been called into God's marvelous light. 02:03 You know, when you study the Bible, 02:04 you will find that the word light is applicable 02:06 to many things. 02:07 Number one: The word light is applicable to righteousness. 02:10 We studied that in Micah 7:9. 02:13 We also know that the word light 02:15 is applicable to Jesus. 02:17 The Bible makes it clear that Jesus is the light 02:19 of the world, in John 9:5. 02:21 The Bible also tells us 02:23 that God's commandments are light in Proverbs 6:23. 02:28 And then in Psalms 119:105, 02:30 the Bible tells us that God's word is also light. 02:34 So when you think about being called out of darkness, 02:37 you're thinking about being called into the light, 02:39 being called into God's word, 02:41 being called to keep God's commandments, 02:43 being called to righteousness, being called to Christ Himself. 02:47 And when this takes place, it causes us to become 02:50 a royal priesthood, 02:52 a holy nation and a peculiar people. 02:55 Well, we're gonna take a look at some clips 02:56 as we see the amalgamations of "holy hip-hop". 03:00 And we're going to let you be a judge using the Word of God 03:02 as your instrument of judgment and we will do the same. 03:05 And we want you to take a look at this clip 03:07 and we want you to carefully see 03:09 what is taking place, 03:10 but I also want to give a disclaimer. 03:12 In order to allow the impact 03:15 of what these video clips are showing, 03:18 we have to allow some of the music 03:21 that's going to be taking place in these church forums 03:24 to play out through the screen. 03:25 Now we do want to let you know there's no profanity 03:28 or anything like that. 03:29 We would not allow that on the program. 03:31 However there is going to be music of a nature 03:34 that does connect back to hip-hop culture. 03:36 And there may be some viewers that may be sensitive to that 03:39 and we respect that, 03:40 and we want to give this disclaimer 03:42 so that this may be the time if you do not want to hear it, 03:44 you can have an option to turn it down 03:47 or what have you to make sure that it does not affect you. 03:49 But there are many who need to hear this and see this, 03:52 so they can understand the contrast 03:54 of what we're trying to present. 03:55 With that being said, let's go ahead 03:57 and let's take a look at the first clip. 03:58 Now let me share with you 'cause I know a lot of people 04:01 have joined our church since we started this. 04:04 But a few years ago we started an annual tradition 04:07 in our church that we will celebrate 04:09 every generation for our church anniversary. 04:13 Our church is a church that believes in law 04:14 but we also believe that laughter is like medicine. 04:18 And that... 04:19 If you'd shout to God, 04:21 you may have a good time all time, 04:22 we don't want to be deep. 04:23 Sometimes people are so deep, they drown. 04:25 And we were trying to bring uniqueness 04:28 to every generation. 04:30 But how can we do this in a fun way 04:32 to represent each generation but in a fun way 04:37 but yet something as non-violent, 04:40 non-profane, non-vulgar, something that's wholesome 04:45 but yet fun and still can also celebrate each other. 04:52 And we can do as a church family. 04:54 And we came up with a concept that what we do is 04:56 we would have each generation to dress in a specific color 05:00 so we can identify each generation. 05:02 And then what we'd do is we'd say, 05:05 how can we do this to let each generation rep itself? 05:09 And so we came with the idea that what we do 05:12 is we go back and get music 05:17 from each year that was unique 05:20 to that generation at this specific time. 05:24 So we find two types of songs, to genres of music. 05:29 We want to find what we call first of all a BC song 05:33 which is your Before Christ song. 05:39 So before you met Jesus, what was that BC song 05:45 that when it came on it calls you to move and sway. 05:50 "Oh that's my jam." 05:51 What was that BC back in the day? 05:53 Non-involvement, non-violent, non-profane. 05:56 Now y'all ready? 05:58 Five, four, three, two, one, let's go and do this. 06:22 Get out there when you're lonely 06:29 The warden threw a party in the county jail 06:32 The prison band was there and they began to wail 06:34 The band jumpin' and the joint began to swing 06:37 You should've heard them knocked-out jailbirds sing 06:40 Let's rock 06:42 Let's party and let's rock 06:46 Everybody in the whole cell block 06:49 Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock 06:57 Hey, 07:00 you got to payback. 07:26 Ladies and gentlemen, 07:27 the most exciting face presently, 07:30 a pureed pie. 07:31 Let's go, eat fresh. 07:34 Eat fresh fruit. 07:37 Oh, my God Oh, my God 07:42 Oh, my God 07:43 Excuse me, knuckle friend. 07:45 Welcome to Atlanta where the players play 07:47 And we ride on them things like every day 07:50 Big beats, hit streets, see gangsters roamin 07:52 And parties don't stop 'til eight in the mo'nin 07:55 Welcome to Atlanta where the players play 07:57 And we ride on them things like every day 08:33 Wait a minute, we may not... 08:35 Y'all did get saved, right? 08:42 My blood pressure go up just watching you all. 08:45 Y'all did meet Jesus, right? 08:47 Okay. 08:48 Y'all coming back down here, amen, y'all coming back down. 08:51 If not, we're going to do all together remember, 08:54 you ought to be saying. 08:56 But you know what? Here's reality. 08:59 Here's what I learned that 09:01 just because our methods are different, 09:04 our message is the same. 09:06 It ain't about the style, it's about the savior. 09:08 And they love Jesus in their own way. 09:10 And then the same Jesus who saved us is the same Jesus 09:13 who saves them. 09:15 Let them worship and meet and celebrate Jesus in the way 09:19 that's unique to them. 09:20 They don't have to do like we do it. 09:22 Their love for Jesus is no less, 09:23 is not less than ours 09:25 even though it may be different, amen? 09:27 Different don't mean deficient. 09:29 They met Jesus and here's a song 09:30 that they can worship Jesus 09:32 and celebrate their faith through. 09:33 He turned 09:35 He turned 09:42 He turned 09:45 Everybody say he turned it 09:47 He turned it 09:49 Come on clap your hands and sing 09:50 He turned it 09:51 He turned it 09:53 He turned it 09:54 He turned it 09:56 He turned my mourning into dancing 09:58 He turned my mourning into dancing 10:04 If I talk about Jesus 10:06 So can I get some love on the radio 10:09 I just want to 10:12 Let's talk about Jesus 10:13 Let's... 10:15 Now, as we have seen this thus far, 10:16 we're seeing that here goes a church that, number one, 10:21 you know, the pastor is making a statement thinking 10:23 that this is just innocent fun 10:25 because there's no profanity or violence 10:28 and because those two elements are absent, 10:30 then it seems as if everything was okay. 10:32 And he's using Bible verses to justify 10:35 what's about to take place. 10:36 Which were out of context. Yeah. 10:37 But in addition to that he also did... 10:40 Perhaps he didn't realize that he was actually playing songs 10:42 that were songs known for promoting, you know, 10:46 premarital sex and fornication. 10:48 Just Got Paid, It's Friday Night, 10:49 these type of songs. 10:51 These songs literally were songs about having fun 10:54 and it's interesting that, you know, 10:56 it was under the concept of safely having fun, 10:58 yet there was so many things being played 11:01 that reflected back to the world. 11:04 I mean, he himself said this is your BC. 11:06 And all of this is being done in the name of having fun 11:09 and he said that, "If you're too deep, 11:10 some people are so deep that they drown." 11:12 Well, that sounds cute but the Bible says 11:13 in 1 Corinthians 2 11:15 that God actually wants His people to be deep, 11:16 to think deep and have a deep experience with the Lord 11:18 and you don't drown, you live. 11:20 Right. 11:21 And as he went through every generation, 11:22 generation after generation, you notice that the music 11:24 degraded further and further. 11:26 I mean, the nature of the music didn't change in the sense 11:30 that it was still worldly concepts, 11:32 worldly elements all throughout, 11:34 but obviously it start hitting closer and closer to home. 11:36 And there was a lot of psychological coaxing as well. 11:39 There was a lot of, "Hey, stand up," 11:40 getting people to get involved in kind of, 11:43 degrading people that were refusing to participate 11:45 as if they're trying to be, you know, too deep as you said. 11:47 That's right. 11:49 So, you know, there are some things 11:50 that I'm sure we can comment on 11:52 but we want to go ahead and go to our next clip 11:53 because again it's just going to bring out a little bit more. 11:56 We want our viewers to see these things to understand 11:59 what's going on now not just in the world, 12:02 but we're watching how the world has crept 12:04 into the churches. 12:06 And this thing is important as well 12:07 because they're constantly going back and forth 12:10 between this idea of sacred and profane. 12:12 And they're trying to say, 12:14 they know there's a separation biblically 12:16 and they're trying to act like these things are separate, 12:18 and notice that the pastors are the ones 12:20 leading out in this process. 12:22 And so we're going to see another progress 12:24 and as you said in these clips of more pastors 12:26 going even further than this one did 12:29 in mingling the sacred and profane. 12:31 That's correct. 12:32 So let's go ahead and let's take a look 12:33 at the next clip. 12:35 Now, you ain't never going to get no pastor 12:39 who will make up his own dance in the middle of his sermon. 12:45 Be on, be on drip, drip. 12:48 Be on, be on, drip, drip. 12:50 Be on, be on, drip, drip stinky leg. 12:55 Watch this, watch it out... 12:57 And that's stinky leg, 12:58 tell them about that stinky leg, Josh. 13:00 Tell about that stinky leg... 13:01 See, pastor's stinky leg really stink. 13:04 You know, it's broken. 13:05 It had a kickstand on the side of it, 13:06 so he did the ducky, 13:09 but he ain't do the ducky right. 13:11 So come on my duckeers, come on, 13:13 I got some duckeers here that's going to teach 13:15 the pastor how to ducky. 13:17 Pastor, if you will please, please step up on stage. 13:21 Please, sir. Come this way, pastor. 13:22 Come on, Pastor, please step up on stage. 13:24 Come on, come on, come on, pastor. 13:27 Come on, pastor. Come on, come on. 13:30 That's right. 13:31 That's right. That's right. 13:34 Come on up in here. Come on, Pastor Jake. 13:36 Come on. That's all right. 13:38 Let him use you, let him use you, 13:40 let him use you. 13:41 That's right. Come on Dad. 13:42 Come on. 13:44 It's all right. It's all right. 13:45 It's all right. It's all right. 13:47 Now watch it, watch it, watch it now. 13:50 Everybody got to stand up, we got to do this together. 13:52 Together as a family, as a church family, come on. 13:54 Please pay close attention. Look, look at this. 13:56 Look at this picture right here. Look at this. 13:58 You got to pose like them, Dad. You got to pose like them. 14:00 There you go. There you go. 14:01 Oh, yes. There you go. 14:03 Now we've got to do it together. 14:06 Be on, be on, drip, drip. 14:07 Come on, everybody got to do it. 14:09 Starting all over, be on, be on, drip, drip. 14:12 Be on, be on, drip, drip. 14:15 Be on, be on, drip, drip. 14:18 Oh! 14:26 Good... Oh! 14:29 Do it. 14:46 Keep it up. 14:48 Now here's a situation where we see 14:50 a further progression of this error. 14:53 The pastor once again is leading out 14:55 and basically demonstrating to all the congregation 14:58 that this is something that God accepts 15:00 and participating in the error. 15:03 And we're going to look at this in the Bible very shortly. 15:05 But this is just not even, you know, this is not BC, AD, 15:10 there's no, you know, intro, 15:12 this is simply church honoring their pastor. 15:14 I think there's some kind of anniversary taking place 15:17 and they're literally, the pastor is up there 15:20 with dancers dancing to a worldly song 15:23 and the church is rejoicing in this. 15:25 So it's not... 15:27 if this is what's happening in church then we know 15:28 what's happening outside of church. 15:30 Sure. 15:31 And so it's not the situation 15:33 where just the presence at church makes you holy. 15:35 There has to be a corresponding lifestyle 15:36 and corresponding practice. 15:38 So we're going to look at one more clip 15:40 that kind of highlights the same situation 15:42 where you have a pastor and the church 15:43 engaging in this kind of worship setting, 15:46 and we'll talk about the issues from the Bible 15:49 that they present. 15:50 So just take a look. 16:02 The difference between hip-hop church 16:03 and regular service 16:05 is hip-hop church is Christ uncentered. 16:07 We allow people to come in 16:09 and just be who they are, be loose. 16:11 One thing that connects all people whether we're race, 16:16 religion, color, creed is music. 16:24 My name is Tykim Stallings. 16:25 I'm a youth pastor here 16:27 at Greater Hood Memorial AME Zion Church, 16:29 and I've been a part of hip-hop church 16:31 since its inception five years ago. 16:32 Mr. Kurtis Blow Walker has started hip-hop churches 16:36 all over the country. 16:39 They don't tell you that you have to sit this way 16:41 or praise God this way or sing this way 16:43 or look a certain way. 16:45 Just come the way you are. 16:46 Come as you are and worship Him how you worship Him. 16:58 So here's what we're seeing. 17:00 We have seen three videos that have shown examples 17:05 of how I believe at least a contributor 17:08 to why a Kanye West, a Ja Rule, 17:13 a Mase as well as others like DMX 17:15 and many, many hip-hop artists, 17:17 Slick Rick, a lot of individuals today 17:20 are professing Christ now. 17:21 They are saying I am a Christian, 17:23 but they're still holding their concerts, 17:24 they're still rapping, they're still doing 17:26 a lot of the things in hip-hop culture 17:28 and believe it's okay. 17:31 One of the layers of ascertaining 17:32 the cause of this is what we just saw. 17:35 We have seen three examples, all pastors, 17:38 and these are individuals who have endorsed 17:42 the idea of hip-hop being mixed with Christianity and, 17:45 "Hey, you can come as you are. 17:47 Worship God how you choose." 17:49 And I kept seeing that theme over and over and over again. 17:52 "Worship God how you choose. 17:54 You can worship God as you want. 17:56 It's okay, Christ accepts it all." 17:58 The first video clips that we were showing, 18:00 the first minister in Atlanta, he actually was showing how, 18:04 "Listen, it's not the method, it's the message." 18:09 And he kept saying it, "It's not the method, 18:11 it's the message." 18:12 So there's a picture that's being painted 18:14 even to the hip-hop artists and to those in hip-hop culture 18:18 that you can pretty much worship God as you choose 18:23 but as long as you're sincere, 18:25 I guess, and as long as Jesus' name is in it, 18:28 then it's okay. 18:30 And I believe the Bible has something 18:31 to say different about that. 18:33 And I know you have some verses that you want to share with us, 18:35 so I think it's time to really 18:36 start digging into scripture now. 18:38 All right, definitely. 18:39 We're going to go to 2 Corinthians 6 first. 18:40 Okay. 18:42 2 Corinthians 6, I'm going to start reading 18:43 from verse 14 and onward. 18:45 It says, "Be ye not unequally yoked together 18:48 with unbelievers: For what fellowship 18:51 hath righteousness with unrighteousness? 18:53 And what communion hath the light with darkness? 18:56 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? 18:59 Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 19:03 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? 19:07 For ye are the temple of the Living God, 19:09 as God hath said, 19:11 'I will dwell in them, and walk in them, 19:13 and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 19:17 Wherefore come out from among them, 19:19 and be ye separate saith at the Lord, 19:21 and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you 19:24 and will be a father unto you, 19:26 and ye shall be my sons and daughters, 19:27 saith the Lord Almighty. 19:29 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, 19:33 let us cleanse ourselves 19:34 from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit 19:37 perfecting holiness in the fear of God."' 19:40 All right. 19:41 It is clear that these... 19:43 this principle here is outlined is very, very plain. 19:47 There is no mingling of the sacred and profane, 19:50 the clean and unclean, light and darkness. 19:52 You can't take things of the world, 19:55 the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, 19:57 the pride of life and then baptize them somehow 20:00 and mingle them with the true worship of God. 20:03 And we're gonna find out very soon when we look 20:05 at our next text that God is the one who establishes 20:08 and dictates how we are to worship Him. 20:10 We don't get to tell God how, 20:11 what He has to accept, He tells us. 20:13 So I want to go to our next verse in Exodus 32. 20:17 All right. So let's turn there. 20:19 Exodus 32, and we're going to start with verse 1. 20:23 Exodus 32:1-6. 20:27 It says, "And when the people saw 20:29 that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, 20:33 the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, 20:35 and said unto him, up, 20:37 make us gods which shall go before us, 20:40 for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up 20:43 out of the land of Egypt, 20:44 we what not what is become of him. 20:46 And Aaron said unto them, break off the golden earrings 20:49 which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, 20:52 and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 20:54 And all the people break off the golden earrings 20:56 which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 20:59 And he received them at their hand, 21:01 and fashioned it with a graving tool, 21:03 after he had made it a molten calf: And they said, 21:07 these be thy gods, O Israel which brought thee up 21:10 out of the land of Egypt. 21:11 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it, 21:14 and Aaron made proclamation 21:16 and said to morrow is a feast to the Lord. 21:19 And they rose up early on the morrow, 21:22 and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings, 21:25 and the people sat down to eat and to drink, 21:28 and rose up to play." 21:31 Now when we think of this, this is a situation 21:33 in which God's people were recently delivered from Egypt. 21:38 They had spent multiple generations 21:40 in slavery and bondage stripped... 21:43 virtually stripped of all of their culture 21:45 and kind of became Egyptians for all intents and purposes. 21:50 And now that God delivers them, 21:52 you know, from Pharaoh's armies, 21:54 the plagues, and through the Red Sea, 21:55 and now is bringing them to Mt. Sinai, 21:58 He calls Moses up to the mountain 22:00 and he is going to receive this great covenant and law 22:02 to lead his people to the Promised Land. 22:05 While they are waiting for Moses, 22:06 they feel that he's gone too long. 22:08 They don't know, they think he's dead 22:10 and they don't want to be dead. 22:11 So they want gods to go before them. 22:13 And so what do they do? 22:15 They basically initiate worship that they had learned in Egypt. 22:20 And they instituted the worship of the Apis bull 22:23 which was happening in Egypt at that time and all the cults 22:26 and the sex cults involved with that worship. 22:30 And they made golden calves to go before them 22:32 to represent God. 22:34 They didn't want to worship a different God. 22:35 They made these calves to represent the true God. 22:38 And Aaron, the high priest, the man that was left in charge 22:42 of God's people led out and fashioned 22:45 and made the idol himself 22:47 and put it before the people to worship. 22:48 So then the Bible does have a history 22:51 of even ministerial leaders 22:54 that were actually in part and parcel with, 22:57 you know, the leading of the people 22:59 into these false forms of worship. 23:01 That's right. 23:03 So then that means that what we're seeing today 23:04 is simply almost like an antitype, 23:07 a revelation of what the Bible was showing us in times past. 23:10 And now it's interesting because we're going to read 23:12 a passage from Hebrews 11, 23:14 but if you continue to read in Exodus 32, 23:17 you would notice that God alerts Moses 23:21 to what's going on down at the base of the mountain. 23:23 And we're talking, we're not talking about a small group, 23:25 we're talking about, you know, roughly, 23:26 arguably two million people or more. 23:28 Right. 23:29 And God tells them to get down and you have to address this. 23:34 That's right. His anger was kindled. 23:36 God was literally willing to execute judgment 23:38 on His people at that moment. 23:40 Yep. 23:41 Moses starts to come down and his attendant Joshua 23:43 as they start to descend from the mountain, 23:44 they could start to hear this noise. 23:47 They're hearing this noise. 23:48 And Joshua thinks there's a war going on, 23:50 that there's a battle going on down there and he's like, 23:52 "Moses, we need to hurry up, there's war going. 23:54 Everybody's being attacked, we need to go down and help." 23:56 And what does Moses say? 23:58 Moses says, "No, it's not what you think. 24:01 I know exactly what that sound is." 24:03 And what he says is, what he acknowledges 24:08 is that the sound that he's hearing 24:10 is a sound of worship, 24:13 but not the worship of the true God 24:15 but false worship. 24:16 Now how on earth does Moses know 24:17 what that sound is? 24:19 What does it say in Hebrews 11? 24:20 In Hebrews 11, it says in verse 23, "By faith Moses, 24:25 when he was born was hid three months of his parents, 24:29 because they saw he was a proper child, 24:31 and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. 24:34 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, 24:37 refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 24:41 choosing rather to suffer affliction 24:43 with the people of God, than to enjoy 24:46 the pleasures of sin for a season. 24:49 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches 24:52 than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect 24:55 unto the recompense of the reward. 24:57 By faith he forsook Egypt, 25:00 not fearing the wrath of the king: 25:02 for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible." 25:06 So Moses was raised in the royal court of Egypt. 25:09 That's right. 25:11 He had achieved every level of worldly success as possible. 25:14 You see in Acts 7 that it says he's a full 40 years old, 25:17 meaning, by 40, the age of maturity, 25:19 he had reached the highest attainment levels 25:21 in every area. 25:23 So he knew... 25:24 he had this exposure, but he knew 25:26 that he was raised up by God to do a mighty work. 25:29 So he forsook the royal court, 25:31 forsook the possible position in the lineage 25:35 for to take over it one day as pharaoh 25:37 and went with his people, 25:39 because he understood all that was involved in that 25:42 and that God was not pleased, 25:43 and God was going to deliver His people from that culture. 25:46 And so when he comes down the mountain, 25:48 he hears the same worship going on at the base 25:52 of that mountain that he knows 25:55 and was familiar with from Egypt. 25:56 That's right. 25:57 And the covenant of God was broken, 25:59 the people had broken the covenant 26:01 and we know what happens next. 26:03 Judgment fell upon them. 26:04 The camp was separated. 26:05 Aaron repented and came back with God and with Moses, 26:10 and the rest of those who did not repent 26:13 were executed in judgment. 26:16 That's right. 26:17 And the golden calves were broken down, 26:18 people were forced to learn the lesson that false worship 26:22 and true worship cannot mingle together. 26:24 So here we have, I mean, just example upon example 26:28 and there's more. 26:29 And, you know, in our next episode 26:30 we're just going to pick up some more on this but, 26:32 you know, there is example upon example that God 26:34 is trying to make it clear that what humanity has said 26:38 is false and what He said is true. 26:40 There is a picture that is being given to people 26:43 in the world right now that you can worship God 26:46 as you want. 26:47 You can dictate to God, this is the kind of worship 26:50 I'm going to offer you and it is acceptable. 26:53 And as a result of that, this is how 26:55 we are seeing things like the hip-hop church 26:59 or the gospel of hip-hop. 27:00 These are deceptions, these are errors that is coming 27:03 and being taught to people, even people in large places 27:07 like Kanye West, like Ja Rule, like DMX 27:10 and many, many others. 27:11 But God wants to make them as well as the many 27:14 that have been influenced by this lie free. 27:16 God wants to make even the pastors 27:18 that are teaching these things to make them free 27:21 because they are going in a path 27:22 that's going to ultimately lead to destruction 27:24 and not to life. 27:26 That's right. 27:27 Friends, we have been taking a look now at, you know, 27:28 the Word of God and we're comparing it 27:30 with the activities that we're seeing happening 27:33 in our world today. 27:34 There are many individuals that think it is okay 27:37 to blend hip-hop music and hip-hop culture 27:42 with Christianity, 27:43 but the Bible is declaring something very different. 27:46 And the challenges that we're seeing 27:47 things happening today that are very, very perplexing, 27:50 very concerning when even ministerial leadership 27:54 is now the ones endorsing it. 27:56 And unfortunately people often follow pastors 27:58 before they follow the Word. 28:00 These are things that God wants to wake us up to. 28:02 So our hope and our prayer is that you sit tight 28:05 because we've got a lot more to share with you. 28:07 And God is going to truly open our eyes 28:08 and help us behold wondrous things from His law. 28:11 Until then, remember the words of Proverbs 2:6 which tells us, 28:15 "It is the Lord that gives wisdom 28:17 and out of His mouth comes knowledge 28:20 and understanding." 28:21 God bless you. |
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