Doing the Work of God Deceitfully—part 2
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.
Thought for the Day
As
Christian musicians we sometimes erroneously believe the notion that, since we
love and serve the Lord, we are exempt from being influenced by this present
world system. This happens to us because
of the constant subtle ways that the various popular music styles influence our
psyche.
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