Satan possesses nothing but darkness and dirt!
IF THAT!
It is written,
"The earth is the LORD's and all that is in it, the world and all who live in it."
So for the record, even darkness and dirt belong to God, and even the evil of the evil one is subject to God's sovereignty! God performs no evil and is in no way cruel. But the Lord uses the devil like a CLOWN MONKEY however the Lord sees fit!
Based on this, there are no beats, no notes, no musical styles or forms or genres THAT BELONG TO SATAN!
BAM! BICKETY BAM!!
I cannot emphasize this enough to be felt as badly as I want you to FEEL ME!
It is written yet again,
"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows."
This includes sounds and grooves that make heads and bodies move!
Contrary to popular belief, HEAVEN IS WHERE THE PARTY IS AT!!!
Now how do we give glory to God with our beats and music and dances?
I see these possible problems:
1. Because many Christian musicians don't believe that God is the source of ALL good, they copy the worldly musician. By "worldly" I do not mean "secular," which I will discuss later. When I say "worldly," I mean:
"Of his present satanic world system, and according to the present world's anti-God-worship-me-philosophy."
Note, by philosophy, or system, I mean ideas and assumptions SPREAD BY WORDS, WHETHER LYRICS OR POETRY OR WHATEVER, WHEREVER WORDS ARE THE EXPRESSION. Yet again, beats in and of and by themselves possess neither vice nor virtue. African drums were not made in the smoky pits of hell, and the violin was not fashioned in heaven. Contrary to popular belief, Satan can use the violin. And despite what many believe, the boom of thunder may very well be the drum beat OF GOD!
This copying can take place in one of two ways:
a) Straight up copying--taking a worldly song and putting bible verses or the name of Jesus in it.
b) Copying a clearly worldly musician's style.
Now, nothing is inherently wrong with copying...unless we worship our so called individuality/originality. Yet the truth is, WE ARE ALL COPIES!!! COPIES OF GOD! Only God the Father is "original." Even the Son and The Spirit reflect the Father eternally (and thus uniquely and equally.) So the issue to me isn't originality. The issue is wanting the approval of the world, or valuing the world as though satan's system is the standard.
2. Next would be an opposite extreme: to reject all good sounding beats and music as "of the devil," and use only old hymns, spirituals, European classical music, etc, assuming that these "traditional/cultural" sounds are inherently "Christian." Now this can be done one of two ways.
a) skillfully
b) poorly.
Now hopefully, if Western music must be the standard for heaven and eternity, it can at least be done skillfully! Yet most of the time, when this mindset is assumed, THE MUSIC IS STRAIGHT SORRY!! We as believers dishonor God by just letting any ole body get up in the church an' SANG! After all, "It's for the Lord?" MEANING? God is...tone deaf? Sorry? Absolutely not! God specifically gave us skills and gifts to use for His glory and enjoyment. One of those possible skills is MUSICAL ABILITY. If a person can't sing, THEY SHOULD NOT, I DO BOLDLY REPEAT, SHOULD NOT, BE ALLOWED TO SING AS THEIR MINISTRY OR JOB!!! (YES, FORBIDDEN, AND IF OFFENDED BY PROHIBITION--BANISHED!!!)
Of course, anybody and everybody can sing in the shower, around the house, karaoke, etc. I'm talking about being ASSIGNED to PRAISE AND WORSHIP OR THE CHOIR WHEN YOU CAN'T SING! We don't do that with the food ministry! Oh No! You BETTER be able to cook if you want to contribute to church dinners!!!
3. Finally, a Christian musician can reject "satan's music," and "old school/old time religion" music, and strike out on his or her own, creating YET ANOTHER cliche "Christian sound" that is...SORRY!...For the most part....After all, there are very many very good Christian musicians making good music with good lyrics. But what do I mean by "good music" and "good lyrics?" And by what standards should we measure musical styles and genres in relation to Christian musicians and their compositions? And indeed, what makes alot of Christian music STRAIGHT SORRY?! Let's discuss this another time....Until we next connect...PRAISE THE LORD SAINTS!!!
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