Death Music.

Rock bands since the 1960s have sought to entice young people to sin in order to induce death.

This is death to God as described by St. Paul.

"For the wages of sin is death."  Romans 6:23 (NRSV)

But this is by no means certain.

We cannot be separated from God.

And God will forgive.

But the damage done by sex and drugs remains.

It has ruined three generations of youth.

So do not be seduced by the excess and hedonism encouraged by rock bands.

Their music contains a death-wish.

And their videos are violent and evil.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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Good News.

When we are young we hear many things about God.

Mostly we hear that God is harsh and touchy and that He punishes us and judges us.

But "All go to God when they are sorely placed." (Deitrich Bonhoffer hymn)

When we are desperate we start praying.

Ideally this will give us confidence to establish a relationship with God.

And if we do this through prayer, study, and contemplation we find that God loves us.

That in fact God is not harsh and touchy at all.   

God is Love.

And "What you seek seeks you." (Rumi)

God wishes to establish a relationship of trust and love with us.

And so we need not be afraid.

We need not hold back or hesitate out of fear.

Love God and love your neighbor.

This is Good News.

 

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The Water of Life.

Jesus said: "'The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.'"  John 4:14 (NRSV)

What is this mysterious water?

I believe it is love.

"'As the scripture has said, "Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water."""  John 7:38 (NRSV)

And so if we love God and love our neighbor as Jesus has instructed us then we will open our hearts and partake of the Water of Life.

"God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them."  1 John 4:16 (NRSV)

And so we know Life.

For life comes from God.

It is God who gives us life.

And it to God that we return.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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New and Old.

"'Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.'"  Matthew 13:52 (NRSV)

And so we have the best of both worlds - what is new and what is old.

What is new is the new scholarship that is being aired in the churches.

And with it comes a new revelation from God.

What is old is the treasure of the scriptures - Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist.....

But the new revelation shows us that not all that is written in the scriptures is true.    

We can see that some scripture is inspired by fear.

But there is no fear in God.

Because God is Love.

And perfect love casts out fear. (1 John 4:18)

So, as with our behavior, we should ask whether a passage of scripture is inspired by love or fear.*

Often we find that the threatening or violent passages of scripture are tacked on to the end of a story or parable.

This is fear asserting itself after revelation.

We see it in the Old Testament and we see it in the New Testament.

But 90% of these passages in the New Testament are in Matthew.

And several stories appear in the other Gospels without the threatening attachments.

And so, as the new scholarship suggests, we are to decant the treasure of the scriptures through the filter of love.

And leave fear behind.

(*If it is inspired by love it is from God.  If it is inspired by fear it is of human origin.)

{Scripture quotation (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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Rock and Roll.

Satanism is a form of hedonism.

And it is this which infects rock music.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll has ruined three generations of youth.

And the music contains a death-wish which leads to depression and suicide.

This is the dark side of rock and roll.

And its diabolical secret.

The basis of Satanism is death.

Death to God.

And it has been linked to sex.

But there is no truth is Satanism.

It is lies and deception.

Sex leads to life not death.

And as the creator of life it is intimately associated with God the Creator.

Jesus said: "he would have given you living water."  John 4:10 (NRSV)

This is the Water of Life which comes from the Living God.  

And it flows from your heart.

"'"Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water."'"  John 7:38 (NRSV)

And this is the antidote to the death which infects rock music and popular culture.

It is not pleasure which is the answer.

The answer is Love.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.] 

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Reconciling the Sexes.

The age-old battle of the sexes has descended into full-scale war.

Abuse and oppression versus rejection and revenge is a recipe for disaster.

And the cause of this is fear on both sides.

Fear of rejection versus fear of domination.

Fear of sex versus fear of emasculation.

This has led to an escalation of hostilities which has given rise to the present crisis.

The only answer to this is to address the fears on both sides.

The objective should not be suppression or revenge but reconciliation.

And for this to come about there must be equality.

The time has come to look at our fears.

Only then will there be reconciliation.

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Money for Nothing.

"Money for nothing and your chicks for free."

This song, which became the theme song of MTV, betrays the motivation of Satanism in rock music.

Money and sex.

This is because they had been told that God was anti-money and anti-sex.

But this is not entirely true.

God is not anti-sex.

He created it after all.

 

And God's attitude to money is that there will always be enough.

So the motivation for Satanism is invalid.

And money and sex will not bring you happiness in any case.

Only love brings happiness.

And God is Love.

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Fire and Ice.

 A major theme of Satanism in our modern world is Fire and Ice.

Fire is associated with sex and represents the fires of hell.

Ice is associated with Heaven and is intended to imply that Heaven and the Spirit are cold and frigid.

But the truth is that the soul resides in the human heart.

 

The heart is warm and loving.

And sex is the consummation of our hearts desire.

And so sex is not the exclusive domain of the devil.

You can be sexually active and still go to Heaven.

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The Devil's Music.

Rock music is Satanic.

They have admitted it in as many words.

And it is not just openly Satanic rock bands that practise Satanism and black magic.

Rock legends, superstars, and pop stars are all involved in modern Satanism.

They sell their souls to the devil and do evil in the world.

Many follow the teachings of Aleister Crowley - a Satanist and black magician from the turn of the 20th Century.

He encouraged drug taking in conjunction with Yoga - a practice which the rock bands of the 1960s pushed on their fans.

And he instructed them how to make pacts with the devil.

So do not listen to rock music.

It is riddled with subconscious suggestion.

And it is addictive like a drug.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll will ruin you.

It will leave you burnt-out and empty.

Because rock music is Satanic.   

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Backwards.

"Devils in Heaven; Hippies in hell."

This is what Generation X proclaimed.

It is backwards.

And the reason it is backwards is because they turned to the devil to win.

And Satan's magic is backwards. 

Hence all the backwards letters and upside-down images.

But the light of Aquarius will show their apostasy for what it is and they will be bad forever.

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Most Favored Nation.

Generation X were the corporate world's most favored nation.

They were bad. 

They were delinquents.

They were evil.

And this is because the corporate bosses were evil themselves.

They conceived an evil plot to enslave humanity.

And they used evil and the devil to achieve it.

Their Last Judgement was backwards.

And The End of History is a lie.

Their actions have been hidden by darkness.

But the Light is coming into the world.

And their evil will be revealed.

The Light shows us the truth.

That their actions were evil.

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