What many Christian musicians have
forgotten is that direction determines destiny.
If you start west on I 70 from Indianapolis, you will not arrive in
Columbus, Ohio, no matter how much you desire to go east to Columbus,
Ohio. 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 this message will not be good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The reason one cannot successfully sell
sacred things with the sensual is that the Bible states in Galatians 6:6-9
that it just won’t work.
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. We, as Christian
musicians, should notice that the world sells everything from food to liquor
with sex. The world uses man’s depraved
nature and man’s natural sexual appetite for that matter, to present a
multiplicity of products. 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? The reason is that as Galatians 5:17 states,
“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 sprit are contrary one to the
other when verse seventeen tells us that the flesh lusts against the
spirit. 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 work
them side by side as a team. 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.
There is another reason that
Christian musicians should not sell sacred things with sex. It is deceitful to get people’s attention
with sexual innuendoes and then hit them with the life-changing gospel of Jesus
Christ.
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