Well just the other week in her Sunday School class they were watching a DVD lesson about the arts. She found out that many types of arts have had evil influence to them. She learned that the type of mask she had created came from occult practices of mixing good and evil together in their arts. Well she decided to throw it away. I encouraged her first to take a picture of it for the sake of sharing her testimony about it.
In the arts we know that a good story can be tainted with a little sin in order to bring across a message of sin being okay in some situations. The Bible is very clear that this is wrong.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20
Ken Hovind in his DVD series on creation versus evolution tells how text books will be 90 % good science and 10 % lies. In doing so it makes the lies seem good being mixed with truth. He also uses the illustration that rat poison is 95% good food and only 5% poison therefore the rat will eat it.
Now let me bring this around to the subject of worship. I first read this illustration in an old book of David Wilkerson's called Set The Trumpet To Thy Mouth. In 2 Kings 16 we read the story of King Ahaz the king of Judah. The Bible tells us that the king of Syria and the king of Israel joined forces to fight against King Ahaz. King Ahaz sent money to the king of Assyria asking him to help fight off his enemies. The king of Assyria came to help and defeated the Syrian and Israelite armies in Damascus. King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet with the king of Assyria. But King Ahaz saw something in Damascus that caught his attention. It was a foreign altar made to a foreign god. King Ahaz was impressed with the artistry of this altar and sent the design of it to Urijah the priest in order for him to build a replica of it for the temple. When King Ahaz returned to Jerusalem he offered his offerings on this new altar. We see that Kings Ahaz totally messed up the temple. Thankfully when his son, Hezekiah, became king God was honored and proper worship was restored. This may sound critical but in the world of Christian music there are too many who are supposed to be ministers who are more concerned with the newest trends. They try to imitate the styles of worldly music in order to "relate to people." We cannot do that with the talents and gifts God has given us. We know in worldly entertainment that there are ungodly messages being mixed in with the arts. These ungodly messages come from evil and when we try to imitate that which is worldly we are inviting worldly spirits into our worship. I know this may be a hard thought to swallow but I promise it is true. Let's not let the songs we use to worship or the songs we write be the result of trying to be an alternative to the latest trendy band out their. Let it be the result of a heart and life that is totally consecrated to God. When He is the inspiration than He is also the one who inspires. We know when He creates things they are good and perfect.
16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians 6
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