The New Song-part 3

The New Song-part 3

           It matters how a Christian presents the "New song" which is mentioned in the Bible. What many Christian musicians have forgotten is that direction determines destiny.  If you start west on I 70 from Indianapolis Indiana in the USA, you will not arrive in Columbus, Ohio, no matter how much you desire to go there because you are going the wrong direction.  Getting a crowd’s attention by emphasizing the flesh will by no means draw them to Christ.  If a performer maximizes the physical, by doing so he or she minimizes the spiritual.  If a performer sings religious music and at the same time draws attention to the flesh, he or she will get a message across to the audience, but it will not be the "new song" of the gospel.  The reason one cannot successfully sell sacred things with the sensual is that it just won’t work. Galatians 6:6-9 states:  Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption: but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.  And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

      God’s ways are higher than the ways of the world. The "new song" of the Bible always takes the high road.  The world uses man’s depraved nature and man’s natural sexual appetite to sell its music.  Why can’t Christians take advantage of man’s depraved nature and his natural sexual appetite for that matter to present the good news of the gospel?

      One of the reasons is that as Galatians 5:17 explains, “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”  The Galatian writer makes it very clear that the flesh and the spirit are contrary one to the other.  Therefore it is deceitful to gain people's attention with sexual innuendos and then present the "new song" which is the life-changing gospel of Jesus Christ.

      The Bible teaches that the flesh and the spirit are not compatible.  It is a mystery to me that so many Christian musicians are determined to try to present the "New song" and the lust of the flesh side by side as a team of horses.  Placing the flesh and the spirit side by side is like placing a lion and a lamb in the same harness.  If one does, there is no doubt about it, the lion will eat the lamb.