A Warning To America - Part 4

Don't come and preach to us like we're old lonesomers. We're Christians. What do you think you're doing? Don't you ever use these words again. Repent. Don't you ever use that word again. Everybody's behind him. Well, this man went home with his wife after his first sermon and his heart was down. Oh, what have I come to? I can't say a man must be born again. And the one thing Jesus said that has to happen for you to have any hope of heaven, I can't tell. Do we? I'm forbidden to say what God says has to happen for you to get to heaven. Oh, he was very heavy. Had a few weeps. And then he was heartbroken at the new proof that he's now finding himself. Well, comes Saturday night. It was the youth meeting. So he and his wife decided we'd better go and show our faces to the youth, see what's going on. So they went out the house, down the block, around to where the church stands, and they stood. He said he started to weep within seconds. On the corner. The music that was coming out of the house of God. You'd think it was coming out of the devil's house. It was the devil's music. He said, what is going on? Listen to this music. Full blast. What you'd expect in a nightclub or a disco with drugs and sin and sensual perversions going on. Where people who hate God go. Where no one who names the name of Christ could dare venture. Because you would never have the right to have a name, the name of Christ again in your life. If you did. Hear this music. It's coming out of the house of God. Out of the hall. Attached to the church where the youth gather. Well, he started weeping. Oh, it was the devil's music. How did the devil get that right? Church of this generation. How did the devil get it right that we're playing his music? Honestly, you might say it's called gospel rock or whatever you want to say. Where do we become like the world to win the world? When did the church decide to do that? Listen to me, you church leaders. Listen carefully. You may be offended. But this is the truth. You cannot win the world by being like the world. The world will win you the day you start that. That's all that will happen. All that will happen is the world will win you. The world will sit comfortably in your church and be comfortable in their sin. They won't come to repentance. And tragically, you'll find the heart of the church will be in the world when it gets to that state. That the church finds the world comfortable with them. You cannot use worldly methods. Man, this music is devilish. It's devilish. I don't know how the devil got it right. The moment I hear this music, you know, I think it's the closest I've ever been to hell. I don't think I've ever sensed what hell must be like more than when I hear this modern day music. It's ugly. And the Christians could say you like it. And young people. Be careful. Once you condition yourself to listen to your like, you could get to like the devil's music. I sit in a car. At the red lights. Traffic lights. And a car pulls up next to me. The young fellow. His radio, his music is on full blast these days, you know. They don't say it's late. It has to be full blast. I don't understand. Why? Why don't you just suffer yourself? Why doesn't everybody suffer with you? It has to be blast. Now all his windows are shut, by the way. And you're sitting there waiting like a decent human being for the red lights to go green. And this guy pulls up next to you. And all you hear is BOOM! BOOM! And you're, you know, you hold on. You think, well, this is my end. And you look. What's happening, you know. And you see this fellow's in jail. And his windows are shut. And your ears are nearly blasted, you know. How can you be in there and stay alive? You're nearly dead. What shocks me is that he's in jail. You know, I think if we hadn't conditioned the children, and we suddenly placed today's devilish music to a generation that hadn't heard for twenty years, just twenty years, you'd play today's music and most people would fall down dead of heart failure, even the young people. We've conditioned ourselves to like it. Be careful what you listen to, what you lie, even if it's because of friends, just to impress friends. Just give it a little chance. You'll find yourself appreciating, you know, he was enjoying what wasn't beautiful. But think about this. There was nothing beautiful. It's just this BADA BOOM! BADA BOOM! And every now and again some scream. RAAA! RAAA! You know. How could anybody stay sane listening to that? What worries me is they're enjoying it. You could enjoy the worst form of anything if you allowed yourself to be conditioned. You young people, don't give yourself a chance to put on modern radio stations. Trust me. You think that it won't affect you. What you listen to just once, it might be ugly the first time. After a while, I guarantee you, you'll enjoy it if you listen to it for a while. Jesus says to you, if you'll name the name of Christ, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely. If there be any virtue, think in these things. In other words, allow these things into your mind. Even music. How can you allow yourself to enjoy ugly music? There's nothing lovely in this. This rap, this is the worst I've ever heard. I thought underground music was bad when they played it. I ran screaming. Well, they can tell you about that. But this thing of rap, I mean, it's so ugly, it's demoralizing. You defile it, even if you don't understand the words, by the way they're singing. There's something defiling. There's something satanic about it. Don't let's argue anymore. Let me tell you something. You haven't got any argument. You want the world's music and the church. Most of the music, the record publishers will admit are Satanists. They admit they're Satanists. There's no shame to them anymore about it. Just take a look at their photographs to know if they're Satanists. How can we do it? They're Satanists. And do you know what percentage the record companies of the world will tell you? You've got no argument, church. The record companies of the world will back me up, though they're unsaved. They'll tell you what percentage of the record sold out with the defiling language, the blaspheme, the filth, the depravity, this young fellow telling the children to rise up and stab their fathers to death or to commit suicide. What happened to the governments of the world? I'd like to ask you, when did you become so weak? When I was young, we'd put people like that into a mental home. Or in jail. Today, we're too scared because money speaks. So we don't mind a whole generation being defiled by the most immoral young man alive. What went wrong with you? Does freedom of speech mean you can defile my children and a whole generation? Wait, sir. Wait until that generation has grown up. You won't know how to walk out of your front door without fearing for your life because what you sow, you reap. You don't only sow it individually. You want to sow nationally perversion. You reap perverts. You reap them in their millions. And how many millions are you making through these records that tell people to kill their fathers? And just because of money, you live. What you sow, you reap, America. You're sowing men who are allowed to say these things. You reap nothing but young children swearing filthy, vile language, the violence that you would expect from the gutters. It'll become the language of the home because you made it. Because of money. The language of entertainment. Because he makes money, he can stand up there on a stage. Because he makes money, all the world's in a state. But let me tell you something. When that type of music, just to win the world, comes into the church, then we're worse. You want to stand up and tell me there's fruit, sir? Yes. I have no doubt some miracle of God's divine grace might have taken one statement, perhaps through that worldly music, but the majority of it will produce nothing but people saying they're born again, that look like the world, behave like the world, and sin like the world, and they say they're saved. You can't win the world by being like the world, sir. You can't. And that music should not be allowed in our churches. Heavens, where did you bury the heritage God gave us of the beautiful hymns? To substitute it through these things that sound like you're in the world. And God took me out of the world. I don't want to come to the house of God. You want to play dance music? They'll dance in the church. What do you expect?