Secular music and the Christian. Is it okay to listen to not Christian songs? Is it okay to
listen to music that's made by people that are not believers but it doesn't have any lyrics.
We will discuss that in this video. Sound has a very important value to each and every one of
us. We also see in the Bible that wisdom cries out. Proverbs 8. We see that loud singing is
encouraged. Psalm 66 verse 8. Symbols clash in praise in Psalm 105. We see that God shouts out
loud in Isaiah 42. We see that God's voice is like a sound of many waters. Ezekiel 43. Jesus
prays with loud cries and tears in Hebrews 5 and even creation groans, Romans chapter 8. On the day
of Pentecost, we see that there was a sound like a blowing of a violent wind that came from heaven,
in Acts chapter 2 verse 2. So the idea of sound is very crucial in the Bible. God created that sound.
Heaven is going to be a very loud place. Heaven is going to have a lot of sound. In Revelation
chapter 14 verse 2 it says, And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters,
and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. So
heaven will have music. Heaven will have a sound and God created sound but what I want
to start with is that Satan perverts everything God creates. We see the first mention of music in
the Old Testament in the book of Genesis, actually happens five generations after Cain. Cain leaves
the presence of God because he commits a murder. Five generations after that, evil is still going
through the bloodline of Cain and we see that his generation invents music. Now they didn't
necessarily create music. God invented, created that but they discovered that music and of course,
when people are evil and bent on not worshiping God, they would tend to use the things they create
for their purposes in line with their convictions. So we see in Genesis chapter 4 verses 19 through
21 that the descendants of Cain created those musical instruments. We see also in the study
of the famous scripture, Ezekiel chapter 28 verse 13 that is reference to Lucifer or many times it's
being referenced to Lucifer. We see that there are timbrel, all of the stringed instruments
and pipes, wind instruments are connected to this glorious being, Lucifer. Two major categories of
musical instruments which are wind instruments and all stringed instruments are seemed to be
found in this being, who we see that he fell from heaven and he rebelled against God. So it
would make sense that Satan will try to use music to advance his agenda. He will try to use music
to advance his purpose on earth. What is the purpose of music? Now the Bible gives us very
clear purpose of music. Number one is to worship God. In Psalm 150, 1-6 we see a huge example of
how music is to be used to worship God. The second purpose of music is for relaxing or
refreshing. In 1 Samuel 16:23 we see that David would play music. Now we don't know if he played
worship music or what kind of music he played. I assume it was most likely music that honored God
but this music caused Saul to rest and relax and actually experience relief from the torments that
he was experiencing. The third purpose of music is warning of danger. Nehemiah chapter 4 verse 20,
they would make particular sounds so that everybody will be warned that there's a danger
that's coming up and for them to be prepared like we would have sirens today. The fourth one is to
surprise the enemy. Judges chapter 7 verses 16 through 22 is the sounds were made and God
actually created, used those sounds to confuse and surprise the enemy and the fifth one is so
that we can encourage one another. The Bible says in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 19 that we are to
make songs and to edify one another. So ultimate purpose of music, songs is for us to express our
worship to our Creator. Now there's a purpose of music, there's also the style of music. There's
not really any clear particular verse in the Bible that says certain styles of music are ungodly. Now
the Bible mentions numerous kinds of stringed instruments or wind instruments and while the
Bible also doesn't mention drums, it does mention other percussion instruments in Psalm 68 verse 25
and Ezra 3:10. The church I grew up in like drums were from the devil. Anything that did not involve
a piano and a guitar was just looked at with a lot of hesitancy and so I remember moving to the
United States when I was 13 and my uncle started the church and I was actually part of this little
children's youth worship team and you know we then brought drums and brought other instruments
and I remember struggling, seeing those things on the stage because in my mind those things didn't
belong anywhere near worship of God because the worship to God had to be quiet and it had to be
very reverent. It couldn't be also joyful music and it couldn't be anything that has to do with
just beats and sounds. It was later on that I you know started to renew my mind and look at
the things in the scripture and as well as being taught by my pastor and other people that, Hey
God is not just always a quiet and a still small voice. God could also have some loud stuff. In the
Book of Revelation, Heaven is going to be a pretty joyful place and it's not just gonna be this sour,
sad, depressing, mellow kind of a music playing, it's going to be a really exciting place and so
my mind started to get renewed. So I don't really believe that there are particular instruments that
are demonic. I think the question isn't about the style of music, it's about what is the purpose of
music and the third most important thing which decides really whether we should listen to that
music or not listen to that music is the content of the lyrics, is the content of that music and
I would break that into two different parts. The first one is, 'Who is the person that is playing,
singing or performing?' Because you can listen to music that's like you know jazz or some kind of a
classic music and the person that is performing and playing that music is you know a good human
being, nothing is bad about them and nothing super maybe even Christian about them and it
could be completely fine but there could be a person that is performing, playing that sound
who is demonized, demon possessed and actually be the person who is in covenant with the devil and
extremely public about it. Even though the lyrics or the words might not be bad but the person who
creates that sound, who creates those music is filled with darkness. Honestly, there's two types
of people in this world. They're those who are filled with light and those who are filled with
darkness like David was playing music, we don't see words or lyrics yet there was an effect on
another human being bringing a sense of relaxation and actually causing distressing spirits to
depart. So if a sound made by a musician filled with the Holy Spirit can bring a relief from
demonic oppression, could it be that sounds made by people that are possessed by demonic spirits
could bring demonic torments in their life? Could that form of entertainment be an entry point?
I believe so. The word entertainment actually has the words there 'enter' meaning, something
enters you. Something can enter through your ears. Something can enter through your eyes and we just
have to be careful. It doesn't mean we have to be paranoid but we also have to be careful. The Bible
talks about one prophet, Elisha when he asked for a musician to come before he would prophesy.
Why would a prophetic within a person be almost like aided by a musician? We don't see a singer,
just a musician. Somebody who would come and play an instrument. So this idea that you know it's
just a classic music or it's just a jazz music, it automatically is holy and righteous even if
the person performing it is demon possessed because there's no bad lyrics, we have to
rethink that again like for example Beyonce is one of the singers and one of the entertainers in our
generation, who's very famous and she's not the only one but she's one of the big ones who has an
alter ego called Sasha Fierce. She actually has an album named, I Am Sasha Fierce and she introduces
this character in this album. Now she continues to say that Sasha Fierce is actually a persona
she adopts when she's performing on the stage, providing her with the strength, confidence and
boldness to entertain her audience in the way that she does. Now, she actually says that something
comes on her because she's very shy and then on the stage, she acts very different and she says,
If I would meet this Sasha fierce in real life, I would like her and so she separates and this
is not just an alter ego or something just in her mind, a split personality, she kind of adapts this
on the stage. I believe it's also demonic. What she does is demonic. I wonder how many people
are getting demonic influence in their life and torments in their life through music from artists
like her and many others who Point Blank made a deal with the devil and the music they produce,
the lyrics they produce, they have demonic influence on them and if you don't believe
that music can draw you closer to the spirit realm like read the Bible again like music
is very important in bringing us closer to the Holy Spirit and bringing us closer to the other
spirits if we are not careful. So I would just be very cautious about what kind of music and sounds
you allow in your life on continuous basis. We mentioned there's a purpose of music and that
is to worship God but there's other purposes of music. We mentioned there's a style of music. We
don't necessarily see any scripture specifically condemning drums or guitar or this particular
instrument or particular style of music and then the third list, there's the content of music and
we break the content into who is the person making the sounds and making the music. Their character
should be considered. Now it does not mean you're trying to do their background and trying to watch
for everything but if you are aware of stuff that they do that is just demonic or it gives you kind
of bad vibe, kind of gives you some creeps, it's better to just walk away. When in doubt,
throw it out and just and not listen to that kind of stuff. There's plenty of people who produce
good healthy wholesome music that glorify God and don't have weird people behind the scenes making
it but the part that I think all of us will agree because if you disagree with me up to this point,
you're gonna agree with me now especially if you're a Christian and that is this is that
we have to be very careful on what kind of lyrics are sung because songs have power. The Bible says,
'God inhabits the praises of His people.' Psalm 22 verse 3. So if God you know rests in
the praises of His people, 'Have you ever while singing worship songs and you felt the presence
of Jesus?' Yeah because it almost like draws the presence of God, these worship songs. What
would happen if we sing songs about drugs, gangs, divorce, heartbreak. If we sing songs about beer,
murder. If we sing songs about profanity, sing songs about just abuse, climate change, lgbtq,
social utopia, cry a tear in your beer country song and sing all of these songs about weed
and illicit sex. Could it be that these things will not only draw evil spirits but cause us to
experience demonic attacks? I believe so. The Bible says faith comes by hearing,
Romans chapter 10 verse 17. I wonder what else comes by hearing. Can fear come by hearing? I
bet. Can stress come by hearing? Can lust come by hearing? Can depression come by hearing? Could it
be that some of the things we battle with, some of the lusts we are trying to overcome,
we're actually feeding them and inviting them through the choice of our lyrics. Don't sell
this thing to me like, Oh I just like the beat but it has f-bombs every other sentence. Everything
about the lyrics that sit on those beats are full of sexual immorality and then a person saying,
Why cannot I overcome curse words? Why can I not overcome lustful tendencies? Well,
it's very difficult to overcome them if you have a sewer connected to your head and to your mind
called music that has profanity, sexual immorality and just garbage. So I would really want to
encourage you to be careful on what you listen to. The purpose of music is to worship God. The
style of music is really kind of irrelevant. The content of who's making it should be considered
and the lyrics should be considered because not only you can attract demonic spirits but you
also feed the flesh. The Bible says in Galatians chapter 6 verse 8 that we can sow into the flesh
and we can sow into the Spirit. The Bible says in Romans chapter 13 verse 14, not to make provision
for the flesh. See some of us became Jehovah Jireh for our flesh. We provide for our flesh,
constant fuel and constant food in the form of godless, pagan, guttered type of entertainment
that's just profane like you would never listen to stuff like that with Jesus next to you. You'll
probably never listen to in front of your children or you'll never listen to it with your pastor but
in the privacy of your life, in the privacy of your home, many people just will cause all
kinds of garbage to flow in because they love this artist. Man, I just like the beat and the
devil got you on the hook with the beat so that he can bring his sewer into your life and then cause
you to battle with things you you probably should have not even battled if you would have removed
yourself from sowing into the flesh. So how do you decide which lyrics are acceptable? Is it only
songs that we listen to that have Jesus, the Holy Spirit and biblical worship to God because let's
be honest, there are many Christian songs who are not worship songs. Some Christian songs are
prayer songs and some Christian songs are songs of joy. Some Christian songs are songs of lament
not worship. So should those songs be removed and only songs that have an explicit worship directed
toward God be used by us. I don't think so, the Bible doesn't tell us that we see different types
of songs. So what is the measuring rod that we should use. Should it be my preference, your
parents preference or your pastor's preference? I don't think so. I think the Bible gives us a
standard and that's in Philippians chapter 4 verse 8. Finally brethren, whatever things are true,
whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever
things are lovely and whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there's
anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things. We can add and that's not going to be added to the
scripture, sing on these things, saying these things, celebrate these things. What is true,
what is noble, what is just, what is pure, what is lovely, what is of good report, what is of any
virtue, what is of anything praise worthy and so these eight things are pretty much measuring rod
that you can use. So sex not pure, drugs not pure, a gang mobster lifestyle, lgbtq issues, climate
change stuff you know drinking beer and divorce and headache and all of this stuff, all those
things are not lovely, they don't have a good report in them. Therefore we throw those songs out
and we find something that is positive, we find something that worship Jesus. We find something
that edifies us and something that is of good report, has some virtue, has praiseworthiness,
has purity and has truth and nobleness to it and justice in it. Let me ask you a question.
Is the music you're listening, drawing you near to the Holy Spirit or is it quenching the Holy
Spirit? Let me ask you a question. Is the music you're listening, the songs you're listening,
are they feeding your spiritual man or they are feeding your carnal man, feeding the flesh is
what you're listening? The question is not what can you justify. The question is what are you
feeding today? Not all secular songs are equally bad but none of it is neutral. People who produce
music live in one of the two realms, light or darkness. Special warning to worship leaders,
whose desire to stay relevant, who want to stay in the loop of what is happening with
this culture and who constantly listen to secular songs, secular artists and of course, they say all
the Christian artists are so behind and they're so like not professional, not so good but these you
know heathen artists, who live a life of impurity, who promote cursing, sexual immorality like that
kind of a music is my standard and therefore I always listen to it because I want to stay
relevant. Your goal is not to be relevant, your goal is to be anointed and you can't
be anointed if you are contaminated, if you've got mixture, if you lack purity and our problem today,
we have too many performers and very little worshipers. Why? Because they don't spend time
in the secret place. They don't even know the Holy Spirit. They just know the lyrics, they know the
beats and they know the latest and the coolest and the most trendiest thing and that's why they can
perform but they can't break a yoke. That's why they can perform but they can't lead people into
the presence of God. That's why people love the worship leader but they don't love to worship God.
They love their songs but they don't love the Holy Spirit. That's why there is no sense of anointing
that is oozing from many worship leaders today. They're like sugar when people partake of them,
experience them, they want more of them not like salt because when you come in contact with salt,
salt makes you thirsty for water. Real anointing is not developed when you listen to the garbage in
this world and contaminate yourself. Now I'm not against being aware of what is happening there but
my desire is not to imitate the world. Our calling is to change the world by the renewing of our
mind. The Holy Spirit is greater. He is a Creator and we need to be people that are channels of His
anointing to our generation and that cannot happen if we have mixture and if we are contaminated by
the worldly perversion and the worldly immorality, all under this umbrella of we're just trying to be
relevant. Your goal is to bring revival to your church not relevance because this relevant world
is so broken and messed up. They need a Savior and salvation and our relevance cannot save them. We
will never be as good as the world is in some of these areas but none of their professionalism or
craziness will ever fix a problem that we have the solution, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit,
the power of God. So don't abandon that live a life of purity, live a life of separation and
live a life where it's not contaminated, your soul and your mind so you can be used of God,
be as a consecrated vessel, vessel for honor, used by the Holy Spirit. Thank you for watching
this video. Let me know in the comments below what are your thoughts concerning the secular music.