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is a subject that we must each follow our personal convictions. In doing this we must remember
that: Whatever we do, we should do it to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)
We cannot offer God glory through our own vain imaginations or in our own way. God
states in Isaiah: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith
the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9) Cain gave God an offering of vegetables he
had grown but God did not respect the offering because he had requested a lamb (Gen. 4:1-5). In
the same way Jesus states that not all those who profess to do the works of righteousness shall
enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 7:21-23). Jesus says they must do the will of the Father.
This is what he did; in the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus was exceedingly sorrowful over the
experience that lay just ahead for him but he prayed “not as I will, but as thou wilt” (Matthew
26:36-42). Jesus not only prayed this prayer but he carried out his Father's will. Likewise, in
music, we should pray to the Father and ask what type of music brings glory to him and this
should be the music that we use for worship and praise.
That being said, what is different about a rock beat? Technical definitions don't mean
much to me and I suppose they don't to the average person either. But I found a definition that I
can understand: “The 'rock beat' is a dominant and repetitious offbeat which competes with the
melody and distracts from the words of a song.”
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Others equate the beat rock ‘n’ roll uses with
the beat that native populations around the world use to summon evil spirits. Natives who have
been converted to Christianity have confirmed this. Stephen Maphosah, a missionary from
Zimbabwe, Africa who visited the U.S. recognizes not only that a demonic beat is used in rock
music but that the same beat is used in Christian rock. He states:
I am very sensitive to the beat in music, because when I was a boy, I
played the drums in our village worship rituals. The beat that I played on the drum
was to get the demon spirits into the people. When I became a Christian, I
rejected this kind of beat because I realized how damaging it was. When I turned
on a Christian radio station in the United States, I was shocked. The same beat
that I used to play to call up the evil spirits is in the music I heard on the Christian
station.
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David Pratt, a former Satanist High Priest, writes of his experience with rock music:
“When I first became involved in the occult, music had a big influence on my life. It was not just
the words but the music itself. Its affect on me spiritually was to bring me into another state of
consciousness.” Pratt further states, “The beat and style of the music used in the occult rituals is
the same that I now hear in 'Christian power tracts', 'Christian rock and roll,' 'Christian rap,' and
in much of what is called 'Christian contemporary' music today.”
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The same is true of rap music. Jack Chick wrote the following in Battle Cry newspaper:
“According to one ex-high satanist, it [rap] is identical with the voodoo chants and rituals used
within Satanism to summon up demons of lust and violence.”
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