Scripture: Ezekiel 28 v 13 - 15; Daniel 3 v 1 - 6.
Music and love and money make the world go round. They
are three great influences on human life. In some cases they are inseparable.
We need to examine the way we are influenced and whether our God is blessed by
it.
Music has a power to reach our soul and cause us to be
emotional. Scary movie makers enhance the fear factor by having creepy music
playing in the background creating spine-tingling emotion while monsters prowl
and hunt their prey. If you watched the same scene without the music it would
affect you differently.
In Ezekiel we learn that Lucifer, before his fall, had
music as part of his make up. He was the Archangel over all the music and
praise of Heaven. When he fell the blessed harmony of heavenly music fell with
him. He, as Satan, now uses music to brainwash and manipulate human beings.
Around the time of the original Woodstock Music Festival
certain bands were boasting that if they played certain chords and riffs it
would cause the hearers to either take drugs of have sexual relations or both
within minutes.
I have personally seen and prayed with people who have
been seriously and negatively affected by Rap music over years of listening to
the foul lyrics accompanied by a rhythm and beat that will lull their instincts
causing them to be brainwashed. Their personality begins to change to be like
gangsters, rapists, haters and demeaners of women, thieves and ghetto rats. We
pray for our chikdren to have a real encounter with Jesus and let them listen
non stop to antichrist music and wonder why our prayers never get answered.
Heavy Metal rock music and the harsher forms of it like
Death Metal and Speed Metal is severely blasphemous against our God. The
satanic lifestyle of bands like KISS, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Cradle of Filth
et al causes the young listeners to become equally rebellious and open to the
Occult and witchcraft.
These are just a few types of music that cause people to
fall into evil lifestyles but we need to know what is influencing our beloved
children to reject the Gospel of Jesus for drug-fuelled Raves.
In Daniel Nebuchanezzar became an evil power over music
by making a statue of himself and commanding all people to worship this image
when any kind of music was played. Anyone who refused would be cast into a
fiery furnace. We know that Jesus appeared in the midst of this furnace when 3
Hebrew men refused to submit to idolatry. Not a scorch mark or burn or even
smell of smoke was upon them and Nebuchadnezzar learnt the error of his ways.
(Read blog "The Fourth Man").
Music will never cease but if parents do not take control
of what their children enjoy listening to and teach them truth from error they
will reap a harvest of pain when their offspring follow the path of least
resistance. The culture of drug addiction is a tidal wave of evil that never
subsides over this world. Prevention is infinitely better than cure.
In Ephesians 5 v 19 we are encouraged to speak to
ourselves in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, to sing and make melody in our
hearts to the Lord. In Psalms it says that God dwells in the praises of His
people and when we have the high praises of God in our heart and mouth He will
bind the satanic kings and defeat them. (Psalm 149).
This is what the enemy does not like to hear as he knows
the very truth of how praising God destroys his kingdom. So teach your children
songs of praise and let them grow up in the knowledge of their mighty King
Jesus instead of being indoctrinated into the pathway to hell through your
indifference.
Prayer: Heavenly Father You warn us throughout Your Word
not to erect or worship idols and the wrong music creates that very evil in our
midst. Forgive us our errors and indifference and ignorance and teach us to be
vigilant so our families can be united in Your kingdom forever. In Jesus' name.
Amen.