the purpose driven music paradigm - Escape Babylon's Demons

Jesus preached the words below to the hypocritical religious leaders of his day who
gave more authority to traditional man-made methods and teachings than the
principles and commands of his holy word. They’re a warning to anyone promoting
cultural traditions which are clearly prohibited by the commands and principles of
scripture like secular based worship music is.
But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your
tradition? Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me
with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far f rom me. But in vain they do
worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Then came his disciples, and said
unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? But he
answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let
them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the
ditch. (Matthew 15:3, 7-9, 12-14)
The golden calf provided the Israelites a god they could see and enjoy. Even though
they were laughing, playing and enjoying themselves, they angered the Lord with
their pride and the graven image of the calf. They’d clearly rejected the word of the
Lord and incorporated the forbidden into their worship. Regarding the incident of the
golden calf, Stephen said in Acts 7:41 that Israel was rejoicing in the works of their
own hands. They weren’t rejoicing in the Lord and glorifying him. Like those that
mock services lacking the exciting syncopated backbeat and tone of modern rock
based worship music, they rose up in pride and laughingly mocked the true solemn,
reverent worship of the Lord by replacing it with something they’d made.
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire , nor unto
blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which
voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (For they
could not endure that which was commanded, And if so m uch as a beast touch the mountain, it
shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I
exceedingly fear and quake:) But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and
church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, an d to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of
just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to t he blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh.
For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we
turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath
promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once
more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those
things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be
moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For
our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:18-29)
The Lord had made it clear as recorded in Exodus 20:25 that man’s tools were not to
be used on the altar of worship. Rock music is clearly man made. Yet we break this
biblical principle for the sake of our rock tradition like the Israelites did in the fun and
excitement of the golden calf incident.