| ARGUMENT - Jesus ate with sinners and was around them all the time. That's how he reached them. Why can't these Gospel artists go to the world by recording with secular artists? What's the difference? |
RESPONSE - Yes, Jesus did reach out to sinners to win them. He did eat and spent time with them. This argument had me stumped! I searched for an answer to this argument and couldn't seem to find one. But the Holy Spirit answered me very clearly one day. He told me to go to this scripture: Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. I still didn't understand the answer. But the Spirit spoke to me and said that the key to this verse is not the word "fellowship" because Jesus did fellowship with unbelievers. But the key is the word "Works". The Lord asked me what does BMI called a published song? A "work"! I was shocked. The Lord said that he indeed fellowshipped with sinners, but he never produced unfruitful "works" with them. When you record on a secular CD, you are apart of an unfruitful work of darkness. When Christian artists record on these sinful Hip Hop albums, their intentions may be good, yet because the content of the rest of the cd is sex, drugs, and sin, it is an unfruitful "work" of darkness! If you call BMI and ask them about that CD, they will refer to it as a "work". And because of the sin, the CD is promoting the kingdom of "darkness" right? So is this the type of fellowship of an unfruitful work that the Lord was referring to? You bet! If it hurts the minds of people in anyway, it is not a work of Christ. PROOF - If you are riding in a car with someone and they get pulled over for having drugs in the car, guess who goes to jail? Even if you didn't know, you will go down because by riding with that person, you are saying "I agree" or "I condone your actions". People of God, when you record, listen to, or in anyway support this Hip Hop movement, you are in agreement with it fully. You are condoning by association! SCRIPTURE - 2 Corinthians
6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion
hath light with darkness? |