Participants: Dwayne Lemon, Lance Wilbur
Series Code: TKS
Program Code: TKS000046A
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00:28 Hello, I'm Dwayne. And I'm Lance.
00:30 And we'd like to welcome you to another episode of TKS, 00:33 a True Knowledge of Self where we get to know ourselves 00:36 from a biblical perspective. 00:38 In our last episode we were starting now 00:40 to go down the road 00:42 and discuss this idea of holy hip-hop. 00:46 Is there such thing? 00:47 Can you truly mix the sacred and profane? 00:50 And we looked at several clips that showed ministers, 00:54 gospel ministers bringing in secular music 00:57 into their worships and justifying it 01:00 by adding the fact that we can safely have fun, 01:05 but at the same time 01:07 hold on to Christian principles and biblical principles 01:10 that Jesus and God are okay with us 01:14 indulging in this secular lifestyle 01:17 and still maintaining 01:19 a healthy relationship with Him. 01:21 We saw even ago, 01:22 as far as the pastor participating fully 01:26 in these things, 01:27 and we noted that the significance 01:29 of the ministers leading out 01:31 in this mingling of sacred and profane 01:34 even though they're saying 01:35 that it's not sacred, not profane. 01:37 We know that these forms of music are talking about, 01:41 you know, the promiscuity, and the drugs, and the alcohol, 01:46 and all these things 01:47 even if they're using foul language or not, 01:49 the subject matter is still completely and totally worldly. 01:54 And then we saw a current theme 01:56 that was running through all of them 01:58 where they said, you know, God is not concerned 02:00 as long as He has our heart, 02:03 we can worship Him however we like, 02:05 that that He doesn't have to be censored, 02:07 that we can have the freedom to worship Him in the way 02:11 that we see fit as opposed to what the Bible outlines 02:14 and showing that God has a way 02:17 that He desires to be worshipped. 02:18 God again dictates reality. How are we to worship God? 02:22 Well, we come to Him and He gives us instruction. 02:25 We finished off looking at some verses 02:27 and we're going to continue to look at a few more 02:29 because we saw that there can be no mingling 02:31 according to 1 Corinthians... 02:33 2 Corinthians 16:14 all the way to Chapter 7:1 02:37 2 Corinthians 6? 02:38 2 Corinthians 6:14 to Chapter 7:1, 02:43 that showed that we cannot mingle Christ 02:46 and be light in darkness. 02:48 There's no concord between the temple of God and idols. 02:51 And then we saw Exodus 32 02:53 and we saw in the first few verses an instance 02:56 in which God's people after the Exodus 02:59 were at the base of Mount Sinai awaiting Moses' return. 03:03 They lost faith. They thought he was dead. 03:05 And they knew that 03:07 they had to have some representation of God 03:09 to go before them, to lead them. 03:11 And so they had the great idea 03:13 that they're going to build golden calves 03:16 similar to the worship styles and mediums 03:18 that they saw in Egypt to represent God 03:20 to go before them, 03:21 and Aaron the high priest led out in this great apostasy. 03:26 And eventually this became a sign 03:28 of the breaking of God's covenant 03:29 between Him and His people. 03:31 And Moses came down and judgment was executed 03:34 against those that did not repent 03:36 from such an evil 03:37 and those that did repent were still required 03:41 to suffer the consequences of such an action, 03:43 and it led to great harm and great hardship 03:47 to the children of Israel moving forward. 03:48 Yes, it did. 03:50 So we're going to look at few more verses 03:51 that highlight this idea that we cannot... 03:53 It's not safe to mingle the sacred and the profane. 03:56 It's not okay. 03:58 Again, we're going to talk more about origins in history 04:01 in a few moments as well 04:03 because we have to get to the point 04:04 where we draw a line. 04:06 Yes. 04:08 Again we're not picking on people per se, 04:10 but there has to be a biblical precedent 04:13 for how we are to worship, 04:14 what is acceptable versus what is not. 04:16 That's right. 04:17 And again we cannot dictate to God and say, 04:20 "Here's my worship and You must accept this,"` 04:23 because we've seen thus far, 04:25 and we're going to see more forcefully 04:26 that God is the one that dictates how we worship, 04:31 we cannot dictate unto the Lord. 04:32 So as we saw in the previous clips, 04:35 the minister that kind of stuck out to me more 04:37 than many of the other statements 04:39 made by several other people and pastors 04:42 that it's not the method, it's the message. 04:47 It is a truly erroneous statement 04:50 and that has to be made clear because the Bible is showing 04:53 as you stated through these verses 04:55 that God does not just accept what we give 04:58 because we just add His message to our method. 05:02 And another example is in Leviticus 10. 05:05 You know, the Bible says 05:07 that God is a consuming fire. 05:10 And it was in the sanctuary services 05:12 that when the bullock or the kid of the goats 05:15 or you know, the lamb was presented 05:18 that the fire came down from heaven 05:22 and consumed the sacrifice. 05:24 So it was something that God kindled. 05:27 It was a fire that God Himself started 05:29 and then man was to take the coals 05:30 from that as a priest. 05:32 And then they were to take it in 05:33 and put it upon the censers 05:35 when they would officiate in the sanctuary. 05:37 Well, in Leviticus 10, notice something 05:40 the Bible says here in verse 1. 05:42 "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, 05:45 took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, 05:50 and put incense there on and offered strange fire 05:54 before the Lord, which he commanded them not. 05:57 And there went out fire from the Lord, 06:00 and devoured them, and they died before the Lord." 06:04 So the Bible makes it clear that we, 06:06 you know, though God is the one that 06:08 that would initiate the fire. 06:09 He's the one that would kindle the fire. 06:11 Nadab and Abihu, who were priests, 06:13 they were sons of Aaron who was also a priest, 06:15 the high priest. 06:17 And here it is that Nedab and Abihu who were priests, 06:19 they wanted to officiate in the services of the temple. 06:24 This is very important 06:26 because when I think of ministers, 06:27 I think of ministers 06:28 as those who officiate in services 06:30 in the temple as well, 06:31 the Church of God today. 06:33 But here it is that we're looking 06:34 that these men 06:36 who are in ministerial position, 06:38 they're coming in 06:39 and they decided to present fire, 06:42 but it was one of their own kindling 06:45 upon which the Bible calls it strange fire. 06:47 God did not recognize it, it was a stranger to Him. 06:50 He was like, "What is this? 06:51 What is this... I don't know this, 06:53 this is not something I've kindled, man has kindled." 06:55 And it left the most horrific consequences 06:59 behind which was that the fire came out of the censer 07:01 and destroyed them. 07:03 One of the things that we can see 07:04 led to this experience was in verses 8 to 11. 07:09 It says, "And the Lord spake unto Aaron, 07:11 saying, do not drink wine nor strong drink, 07:15 thou nor thy sons with thee, 07:17 when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, 07:19 lest ye die. 07:21 It shall be a statue forever throughout your generations." 07:23 And notice why? 07:25 Verse 10, "And that ye may put difference 07:28 between holy and unholy, 07:32 and between unclean and clean, 07:35 and that ye may teach the children of Israel 07:38 all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them 07:40 by the hand of Moses." 07:42 Nedab and Abihu lost their sight 07:45 or vision or understanding 07:47 of what constituted holy and unholy, 07:50 clean and unclean. 07:51 As a result of this, 07:53 it caused the very, very horrific ramifications 07:56 by which God allowed them to be consumed 07:58 by the very fire of their own kindling. 08:00 It's kind of like letting us know 08:02 that we can be consumed by the decisions that we make, 08:05 the decisions we make 08:06 can have permanent consequences upon our lives. 08:09 And this is why we should choose the way of the Lord. 08:13 Well, this is an example we see in Leviticus 10 08:15 that again man cannot offer God 08:19 what he wants and think God will accept it. 08:21 The Bible is making it clear that's not the case. 08:23 And if that wasn't enough, Genesis the fourth chapter. 08:26 In Genesis 4, how much more forcefully 08:30 does the Bible not make this point 08:31 as we look at now verses 1 to 5. 08:34 Again, we are looking at the issue 08:35 that hip-hop gospel is popular. 08:38 The gospel of hip-hop is popular. 08:40 Hip-hop churches are popular, 08:42 and we saw a few examples of how mega churches, 08:46 thousands upon thousands of people 08:48 in one membership of a church 08:49 are coming together in worship 08:51 and there are ministers, leaders 08:53 that are actually making it seem 08:55 it's okay to worship God according to the method 08:58 or the style or the way you want to worship Him, 09:00 just keep the message clear. 09:02 Well, here it is another example 09:03 in Genesis 4:1 to 5, 09:05 the Bible says, "And Adam knew Eve his wife, 09:08 and she conceived, and bare Cain, 09:10 and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. 09:12 And she again bare his brother Abel. 09:14 And Abel was a keeper of sheep, 09:16 but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 09:18 And in process of time it came to pass, 09:20 that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground 09:21 an offering unto the Lord. 09:23 And Abel, he also brought of the first things 09:26 of his flock and of the fat thereof. 09:29 And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 09:33 but unto Cain and to his offering 09:35 He had not respect. 09:38 And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell." 09:41 Again, two brothers, both, 09:43 worshipping the True and Living God, 09:45 both led by godly parents 09:48 are now coming both to worship God. 09:51 They both brought offerings, 09:53 but one person's method if you will 09:56 was I'm going to bring fruits and vegetables. 09:58 The other person's method if you will 10:00 was I'm going to bring the first things of the flock 10:02 and I'm going to bring the fat thereof. 10:04 Now Abel's offering was accepted 10:07 because Abel's offering was in the instruction 10:10 of how God wanted to be worshiped 10:13 and how the offerings were to be presented. 10:15 Hebrews 9:22 clearly says that without the shedding of blood, 10:19 there is no remission of sins. 10:21 The whole purpose of an offering 10:23 was to make an atonement 10:24 that one could be forgiven for their sins. 10:27 But it can't happen except blood be shed. 10:29 So therefore Abel was correct when he came with his flock 10:34 that could shed blood. 10:35 Fruits, grains, and nuts and vegetables, 10:37 you know, these things they don't bleed. 10:39 So therefore God could not possibly had accepted 10:42 Cain's offering. 10:44 Cain came to worship God but God rejected it. 10:47 So again, the Bible is making it clear 10:50 that just because you come to worship God 10:53 and you may even be doing it with a sincere heart 10:55 does not mean that 10:56 He by default accepts that worship. 10:58 One more Revelation 13. I think this is very profound. 11:02 And so essentially it does matter. 11:04 It does. It does matter how you worship. 11:06 That's correct. 11:08 In Revelation 13, the Bible spells out 11:11 in verses 11 and 12 as well as 16 and 17, 11:14 a class of worshippers. 11:16 The same way in Genesis 4, it was brothers 11:19 that were worshipping God, and one was accepted 11:22 and the other one was rejected, 11:23 and it resulted in brother persecuting brother. 11:25 That's how the world started. 11:26 And the Bible prophetically shows 11:28 that's how the world's going to end. 11:29 People are going to, again come to God 11:31 claiming to be worshippers, 11:33 but one is going to worship God the way they want to 11:35 according to the commandments of men, 11:37 another group is going to worship God 11:39 according to exactly how He instructed to worship. 11:42 One group receives the mark of the beast, 11:44 the other group receives the seal of the Living God. 11:46 And the Bible spells all of this out 11:48 as we look at Revelation 13:11-12. 11:51 It says, "And I beheld another beast 11:53 coming up out of the earth, 11:54 and he had two horns like a lamb, 11:56 and he spake as a dragon. 11:58 And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, 12:02 and causeth the earth and them 12:05 which dwell therein to worship the first beast, 12:08 whose deadly wound was healed." 12:09 So notice there's a beast that is being called 12:12 that people are being called to worship 12:15 and this is an issue then of worship. 12:17 That's why the mark of the beast 12:18 is not about barcodes, 12:20 it's not about any of these things, 12:21 it's about worship. 12:22 And then when you look at verses 16 and 17 12:25 speaking of that same class, it says, "And he causes all, 12:28 both small and great, rich and poor, 12:29 free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand, 12:32 or in their foreheads: 12:34 and that no man might buy or sell, 12:37 save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, 12:40 or the number of his name." 12:41 So here goes a class of worshippers 12:44 and these individuals are receiving 12:46 the mark of the beast. 12:47 They were worshipping, 12:48 but they received the mark of the beast, 12:50 and they're going to earn the wrath of God 12:53 that's going to fall upon them. 12:55 There's another group however in Revelation 14, 12:58 in Revelation 14, it says in verses, 13:02 you know, for times' sake I'm just going to explain 13:04 verses 1 to 5. 13:05 You know, as a group of individuals 13:07 they're called the 144,000. 13:09 And these are individuals 13:10 that have a very close walk with Jesus. 13:12 And one of the things the Bible shows 13:15 is that this group here is going to be used mightily 13:18 to give a message as well 13:20 and that message is found in verse 6 and 7. 13:24 It says, "And I saw another angel fly 13:25 in the midst of heaven, 13:27 having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them 13:29 that dwell on the earth, to every nation, 13:30 and kindred, and tongue, and people, 13:32 saying with a loud voice, 13:33 fear God, and give glory to Him, 13:36 for the hour of His judgment is come: 13:38 and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, 13:41 and the sea, and the fountains of waters." 13:43 So in this first angel's message is a group of people 13:47 that actually are calling individuals into true worship 13:50 to the true creator. 13:52 Those who faithfully do this work, 13:54 there going to be some of them 13:55 that God is going to bless in such a way 13:57 that they're going to get something. 13:59 It's found in Revelation 7. 14:01 In Revelation 7, it says, "And after these things, 14:06 I saw four angels 14:07 standing on the four corners of the earth, 14:09 holding the four winds of the earth, 14:10 that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, 14:13 nor on any tree. 14:14 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, 14:16 having the seal of the living God. 14:19 And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, 14:21 to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 14:23 saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, 14:27 till we have sealed the servants 14:30 of our God in their foreheads..." 14:31 Verse 4, "And I heard the number of them 14:34 which were sealed: 14:35 and there were sealed 144,000 of the tribes 14:39 of the children of Israel." 14:40 And certainly, this deserves a beautiful explanation 14:43 that when we begin to talk about prophecy 14:45 and, you know, up and coming episodes, 14:47 we'll be able to make these things more plain. 14:49 But the point is, 14:50 there's a group of worshippers in the last days 14:53 that they're worshipping God 14:55 but because they were not worshipping God 14:57 according to His dictates, 14:58 they are going to receive the mark of the beast 15:01 and receive the wrath of God. 15:03 Another group is going to worship God 15:06 according to God's dictates and that group, 15:08 they receive the seal of the Living God 15:11 and they shall be saved. 15:12 So the Bible is replete with this idea 15:15 that you cannot tell God 15:18 how you are going to worship Him. 15:19 You cannot think that God accepts all forms of worship 15:23 just because you're sincere. 15:25 We must worship God according to His word, 15:27 according to His dictates. 15:29 And this is what we call pure religion, 15:32 true worship, pure worship. 15:34 So I think that makes it fairly clear. 15:36 Obviously, we're going to get 15:37 more into this in later episodes. 15:39 But what I want to do now is kind of take a step back, 15:44 look at some history, 15:46 because what we can't get caught up in 15:49 is looking at hip-hop culture or some of the clips 15:53 that we looked at in the clip that we looked at 15:56 from that church in Atlanta, 15:57 there was music for every generation. 16:01 There was secular music for every generation 16:04 as well as gospel music for every generation. 16:06 And if we look at hip-hop culture 16:10 and we say, "Well, this music is bad." 16:13 Why is it bad? 16:14 "Well, because of its origins and because of the message 16:18 that it stands for and that it's promoting." 16:22 We have to also look at where that came from. 16:25 We have to look at, you know, take a step back in history 16:27 and look at how these things developed because pop culture, 16:31 hip-hop culture, all these things, these are... 16:33 some of them are new phenomenon, 16:35 but pop culture is not new. 16:36 Pop culture has been continuing generation after generation, 16:39 and what did pop culture look like throughout history? 16:42 And now that pop culture is pretty much dominated 16:45 by hip-hop, there's now, all of a sudden, 16:47 pop culture a problem 16:49 or has it always been a problem, 16:50 has it always been contrary, 16:52 and has there always been kind of a great controversy 16:54 in a war between those who want to worship God 16:57 in spirit and in truth, 16:58 and those who want to worship God however they feel like? 17:01 And so let's take a look at a clip. 17:04 It's kind of, you know, it's kind of lengthy 17:06 so what I want you to do, the audience, 17:08 I want you to pay close attention 17:09 to a lot of the details, 17:10 we're gonna come back and comment later, 17:12 but pay attention to the developments 17:14 in the history 17:16 and the comments that are given that are going to help 17:18 inform our present day understanding 17:20 of what's going on and what we're dealing with. 17:21 Let's go to the clip. 17:23 Beginning in 1817, slaves in New Orleans 17:27 were permitted to sing and dance 17:29 every Sunday afternoon 17:31 in a place called Congo square. 17:36 To the curious whites, 17:38 who sometimes turned out to see and hear them, 17:40 the slaves music filled with complex percussive rhythms 17:44 seem to provide an authentic glimpse of Africa. 17:53 But most of the slaves in Congo Square 17:55 have never seen Africa. 17:58 Many were recent arrivals from the West Indies. 18:01 Their music filled with the infectious pulse 18:04 of the Caribbean. 18:20 Other slaves had been brought to the city 18:21 from the interior of the American South. 18:28 Bringing with them, work songs, spirituals, 18:31 and the call and response of the Baptist church. 18:59 New Orleans theaters also featured minstrel music. 19:07 So called plantation songs 19:10 written by white and black songwriters, 19:13 performed by whites blacked up as blacks. 19:16 And sometimes in later years, 19:18 by blacks blacked up as whites, playing blacks. 19:24 On the surface, minstrelsy seems simply 19:27 to reinforce ugly racial stereotypes. 19:37 Minstrelsy was the most popular form of American entertainment 19:42 for about 80 years in United States, 19:45 beginning in the 1840s. 19:48 It produced the first body of serious pop songs, 19:52 Steven Foster, James Blond and others. 19:54 Songs that we still, all of us, to this day know. 19:59 It produced a national humor that we all know. 20:03 Why did the chicken cross the road? 20:04 Who is that woman I saw you with last night? 20:08 Because you had minstrel troops very much codified 20:11 all doing the same kinds of songs, 20:13 same kinds of humor, 20:14 crisscrossing the whole country not just into major cities 20:18 but to all kinds of towns, 20:19 any place where there was a hall 20:20 where they could perform, it was like early television. 20:23 It was the first entertainment form 20:25 that everybody in the United States knew. 20:28 Everybody heard the same songs. Everybody heard the same jokes. 20:36 Despite its overt racism, 20:38 the minstrel show was a blend of lively music, 20:42 knockabout comedy, and sophisticated elegance, 20:45 the bizarre and complicated ritual 20:48 in which blacks and whites alike 20:50 would interpret and misinterpret each other 20:54 for decades. 20:57 And that was the beginning of a long relationship 20:59 between blacks and whites 21:01 and black entertainment and white appropriation of it. 21:04 And a strange dance 21:06 that we've been doing with each other 21:07 since really the beginning of our relationship in America. 21:12 It's too close, it's too deeper story, 21:15 so you have to degrade the relationship, 21:17 you have to do degrading things 21:19 so that you can live with the tremendous affront 21:21 to humanity that slavery was. 21:27 The first big minstrel hit was written down and performed 21:31 by a white man known as Daddy Rice 21:36 who said he first heard it, 21:38 being sung by a black stable hand. 21:41 Rice named the tune after the man, Jim Crow. 21:54 The Blues was the profane twin of the sacred music 21:59 of the black Baptist Church 22:01 filled with call and response, 22:03 shouts, mourns, exaltations, and signifying. 22:18 One was praying to God 22:20 and the other was praying to what's human. 22:22 A New Orleans musician said, "One was saying, 22:25 'Oh, God, let me go.'" 22:27 And the other was saying, "Oh, mister, let me be." 22:35 You have musicians playing their horns, 22:36 they have all these instruments 22:38 that are left over from the civil war, 22:40 and that military instruments and the trumpets 22:42 are played in a militaristic style, 22:43 "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb." 22:47 Then all of a sudden, instead of playing 22:49 in a street military style 22:51 or the hymn or beautiful melody, 22:52 now they're imitating the sound of the people 22:55 in a church singing. 22:56 They have the vibrato at the end of a note. 22:58 They're shaking notes... 23:08 Then the music gets an overpowering feel. 23:12 In a way that profound things almost always happen, 23:16 a thing and the opposite of that thing 23:18 are mashed together. 23:22 Now you have the people 23:23 getting a spiritual sound of the church 23:25 and they're also getting 23:27 that secular sound of the blues. 23:29 And the musicians who could understand 23:32 both of those things and put both of them 23:34 in their horn side by side, 23:36 so they could represent that angel and that devil, 23:39 huh, that was the ones that could play. 23:50 Over the next century, 23:52 the blues would become the underground aquifer 23:56 that would feed all the streams of American music, 24:01 including jazz. 24:09 So there's so much to say about what we just looked at, 24:14 that we're going to have to cover a lot of it 24:16 in future episodes. 24:17 I just want to walk through some bullet points here 24:19 that we're going to have to develop 24:21 and flesh out a little further. 24:22 Number one, we see that 24:24 there was a very good job of painting a picture 24:27 of the social climate that kind of set the stage 24:31 for the development of what we consider in America 24:35 at least, pop culture and secular music, slave era, 24:40 and the allowance that environment in New Orleans 24:44 that kind of had this melting pot 24:47 of all different cultures, 24:49 and all different sounds, 24:50 and all kinds of different things 24:51 where you had slaves, 24:53 and free blacks, and these Creoles, 24:56 and all this thing going on. 24:57 So it was a weird situation that basically set the stage 25:01 for this musical expression. 25:02 And that's what it became, you know, when we talked about, 25:04 you know, we talk about jazz, and the blues, 25:07 and the big bands, and the gumbo music, 25:08 and all this stuff that 25:10 as it progressed through history 25:11 was just all about expression 25:13 which basically hip-hop is the same thing, 25:14 it's kind of a modern descendent, 25:17 if you will, jazz and blues 25:19 and all these things are ancestors 25:22 to hip-hop culture. 25:24 The next point, again, we'll talk about it more. 25:27 But we looked at the minstrel culture. 25:31 These minstrel shows, black face, 25:34 white people putting on black face, 25:35 degrading you know black culture 25:37 and basically making a joke 25:39 out of the plight of the black man 25:43 in the song and dance and all the popular things 25:46 that still are with us today. 25:47 You know, common jokes, 25:48 how did the chicken cross the road? 25:50 That came from the minstrel shows. 25:51 You know a lot of this, 25:52 even songs that are still in our culture came from that. 25:54 And for 80 years, that was the most popular form 25:57 of entertainment in America. 25:59 So this is the first development of pop culture 26:02 when people all over the nation 26:04 were able to share in common themes and threads 26:07 through entertainment 26:08 because these shows went on tours. 26:10 And so that's a whole another thing 26:11 we got to talk about. 26:12 But eventually after abolition of slavery, 26:15 and then all the Creoles and everybody, 26:19 the one drop rule where anybody that had any thing in them 26:22 was now considered, 26:24 you know, and the Jim Crow era and all this stuff, 26:26 reconstruction, 26:27 it set the stage for this blues music 26:29 to fully express itself which eventually became jazz. 26:33 And then we saw that the essence of the blues 26:36 is the mingling of a little bit of angel 26:39 and a little bit of devil. 26:41 It's a blending of the sacred and profane. 26:43 And whoever did that was the one 26:44 who could really play. 26:46 And finally, we saw that the blues, 26:49 beyond any shadow of a doubt, the social commentary, 26:51 everyone agrees that the blues 26:53 was as it was said aquifer 26:55 through which all streams of American music 26:57 and popular music flowed. 26:59 So when we come down to hip-hop, 27:01 we cannot remove hip hop from its predecessor. 27:05 This is going to be powerful. 27:06 Friends, we are getting into some deep things here 27:09 but the purpose of it is to edify. 27:12 The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 14:26, 27:14 "Let all things be for edification." 27:17 And the way that we can be edified 27:19 is by getting true knowledge, true knowledge of ourselves, 27:22 true knowledge of God, true knowledge of His word. 27:24 And as we receive these in our hearts, 27:26 it enables us to know 27:27 how to better discern right from wrong, 27:29 truth from error, light from darkness. 27:32 So we know that we're going into some deep things 27:34 and it's going to get deeper 27:35 because we're really going to talk about, 27:37 is music really neutral, 27:40 or is it something that we can add 27:42 whatever we want to it? 27:43 Or even in music, does God give instructions? 27:47 So we're looking forward to seeing 27:48 how the Lord reveals these to us. 27:50 And stay tuned, you know, 27:51 for that time when it shall come. 27:53 But until then, always remember the words of Proverbs 2:6 27:57 which tells us, "It is the Lord that gives wisdom, 28:00 and out of His mouth comes knowledge and understanding." 28:03 God bless you. |
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