Secular Music; Right or wrong ~ Filtered Harmonies

It been like 3days after such a sermon that really got me thinking till i can't sleep all nite thinking about it. How My Jesus is really Misrepresentated and How they really take advantage in the bible to approve all that they are doing.

I WANT TO MAKE MYSELF CLEAR :

1. I AM NOT AGAINST SECULAR MUSIC.
2. I LISTEN TO SECULAR MUSIC.
3. I DON'T THINK IT IS WRONG TO LISTEN TO SECULAR MUSIC.

Then why this blog? The thing that got my attention was the way Bible is misrepresentated. The preacher merely just copy pasting the sermon; ' we are convertionist' and 'evanglism in the marketplace' by Reverend Kong Hee from City Harvest Singapore. I listen to that sermons dozen and dozen of times. The thing is, People can be charismatic when they preach. But PLEASE DO NOT ABUSE THE WORD OF GOD.

Is everything God Created is Good ? the preacher quote John 1:3 Which part of the verse approve it to be good ? Well please read the whole passage John 1:5 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood[a] it.

God made it Clear, Everything that God Created was good and perfect untill the fall. When Man fall, now we live in fallen world that full of sin. Thus Evil sneak in and everything could possibly dangerous if WE ABUSE IT.

question to think about :
1. IF GOD CREATED EVERYTHING TO BE GOOD... then drugs like marijuana and heroin is good. Thus consuming them and using them it's a praise unto God. Try imagine high on marijuana and singing praise God .. how ridiculous that could be.

2. IF GOD CREATED EVERYTHING TO BE GOOD.. then Homosexuality is good, because the act of man accepting another man's beauty is praise Unto God.

look at what the bible says:
Romans 1:18-32
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.


The whole in the context say it all. Men perversing the truth and then last verse says Approve of those who practice them. This is the kind of generations that we are in.

The bible say many in (2timothy 4:3-4) 3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

So we Chrisitian need to be very careful. at First people will take bible verse to approve anything they like. Then they will go a step further approving things that unrighteous. SO Discerment is needed here.

On the part he mention about stumbling others:
he quote Romans 14

but my question is, which part of the Romans 14:15 that he doesn't understand so plain and so clear.

Romans 14:15 If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.

but also look Romans 14:16 Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil.

Secular music is neither evil nor Good. Bible is silent on this matter. Thus Do not preach thing that is not relevant. If you may think secular music is ok, fine go head with it. If you think it is wrong the live on with it. Secular music is all base on personal conviction. it is not a matter to be preach in the pulpit. What is not essentially biblical it is not essentially theology. when it is not biblical then it is not matter to be preach.


Finally. Do note Get me wrong, what i am trying to say, i love secular music, i listen to them, i keep tonnes of tonnes of MTV clip, u'll be suprised by my hardisk content but i don't go around preaching Secular music is good. Neither i make stage show to approve what i am doing. I just don't want to stumble brothers who are weak on this area. This is what romans 14:15 is talking about it. We don't have to win arguement to prove it's ok to listen to world music. we just silently disagree to what people think. Neither we have the right to change their mindset. This is how we are suppose to walk in love and care for each other as Christians.

well i sincerely know that this is a very offending Blog i ever did, for those who are offended i am really sorry, i seriously need to stand of Jesus, i will not buy in when Jesus is misrepresentated.

Quote of the day " An Half truth is more dangerous than full lie, for a full lie we may find a way to detect and reject it, but a half truth;NO!"

thus Gospel must be presented the way it is and not the way we want it.

HIS VESSSEL for VOICE.

NARESH.