Thinking Through What Really Matters-part 3

 

Thinking Through What Really Matters-part 3

            I hear well-meaning pastors and worship leaders assert that we do not have to preserve our Christian heritage of how we have musiced unto God.  That is seriously flawed logic if I ever heard it.  Nothing lasts unless it has a champion.  We are unwise if we think for one single moment that Christian musical worship cannot be, over a period of time, debauched by secular influences.  If the church persists in its assertion that there is no difference between the sacred and the profane, our musical worship will without doubt amalgamate and mutate into a new synthesis that is not Christian.

Although the inspired writer was not addressing music or musicing, what is being taught in Ezekiel 44:23 extends to how we music unto God.  Eze 44:23 very clearly that it is the responsibility of leadership to make a distinction between the sacred and the profane when it states, “And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.” One of Satan’s stratagems is to amalgamate music styles to the point that the church has no way to separate sacred music from secular music.  He is doing the same thing with God’s plan for the family.  Same sex marriage so confuses gender and the holy bond of marriage that future generations will have very twisted views concerning marriage and family.  Satan is doing the same thing with our understanding that being a born-again Christian means a total life changing relationship with a personal infinite God.  The whole “added dimension” theory effectively does away from the “old man” versus the “new man” and passing from death unto life when one becomes a truly born-again Christian.  Once Satan has convinced the church that becoming a Christian only means the old man plus an encounter with Christ, being born again has lost its former meaning.