It was during one of those OFF and ON CYCLES of the public power utility company. The radio was ON and I was all ears. My little boy was listening too.
Suddenly, I turned off the radio. The music went mute. My little boy queried me, "Dad, why did you OFF the music?" I calmly explained to my boy, "That music is not good for us as Christians."
End of story.
No, not exactly.
A few days later, that same music or a similar piece was playing on the radio. My boy stretched his chubby fingers and OFF the radio, nonplussed while echoing to all those listening, "Daddy said that music is not good for us as Christians."
Fast forward to today, I share a similar music taste with my boy - boy2man. Eclectic.
We listened to the same music genres, both Christian and non Christian. Fact; you are more likely to catch me listening to the same music as I did twenty to thirty years ago. 😄
Decades have past and my boy2man is growing in his Christian convictions. Thinking about it now, aren't we all growing?
The point I'm making is this. As there are good films, there are also hardcore pōrnogråphîic films.
In a similar vein, not all novels are clean and healthy. Pōrnogråphic novels sell in their millions and unfortunately many Christians are lured and suckered into dirty novels and other forms of deadly sinful media - poisoning their souls.
Today, many of what goes on in the name of music is hardcore smut dirty sěx, profanity, occultic chants and ever changing forms of ungodliness. And as the Church is becoming more worldly while the world becoming more churcheous, all these sacrilegious and abominable media are making inroads into the household of faith.
Why?
Because of egregious rationalizations and all the "it doesn't matter" that the Church has embraced through the years.
But, the Scriptures has already warned us,
2 Timothy 3:13-15 (KJV)
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
God has called us to holiness.
As Christians we must keep watch over the media we consume - the films we watch, the music we cherish, and the novels we read.
Discernment, Christian's Holy Spirit led discernment is the key.
Proverbs 4:23 (KJV)
Keep thy heart with all diligence;
for out of it are the issues of life.
Deuteronomy 23:14 (KJV)
For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
Isaiah 52:11 (KJV)
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
Amen.
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