{"id":3286,"date":"2021-03-03T02:48:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T02:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2021-03-19T01:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T01:37:34","slug":"what-are-you-listening-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"To What Are You Listening?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a seven when the nineteen sixties arrived and seventeen when they passed.\u00a0 The music of that period had a profound impact on my life up to that point.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Not long after I became a Christian at the age of nineteen, I broke and threw away all the music records that I had collected and listened to up to that point in my life. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of the popular music of the sixties was depressing.\u00a0 It was full of questions, infidelity, despair, and without any real answers\u00a0to life.\u00a0 It was about free love and rebellion.\u00a0 Those who wrote and performed it admitted that their music was about sex and drugs and they lived it to the hilt.\u00a0 Even the country music writers and performers lived it.\u00a0 If you don’t believe me, watch Ken Burn’s documentary on country music’s culture, its stars and performers.\u00a0 They sang about how they lived and they lived what they sang about and the end of it was tragic.<\/p>\n

Some people, usually Christians, say that music is amoral, meaning that it does not influence behaviour one way or the other.\u00a0 Personally, I have never heard an unbeliever say that.\u00a0 Unbelievers know what the world’s music is about.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even casual observation\u00a0shows that music affects behaviour. \u00a0Those who indulge in sinful practices do not listen to hymns and spiritual songs while doing so.\u00a0 Pagans who sacrificed children and worshipped demons did not sing hymns or psalms as they practiced these things.\u00a0 On the other hand shopping centers and grocery stores often play music that relaxes and slows down the customer so that they will spend more time and money in the store. \u00a0There is sensual music and music that is violent. \u00a0Music does influence and reinforce bad behavior.<\/p>\n

One of the characteristics of a Spirit filled Christian in Ephesians 5:19 has to do with music. \u00a0It says that a Spirit filled believer speaks to himself in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in his heart to the Lord.\u00a0 That description sets out a certain quality of music that is manifested\u00a0in the believer by the Holy Spirit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is that the type of song that is in your heart?<\/p>\n

…he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.<\/em> Psalm 40:3<\/strong><\/p>\n

…let the word of Christ dwell in you richly…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a seven when the nineteen sixties arrived and seventeen when they passed.\u00a0 The music of that period had a profound impact on my life up to that point.\u00a0\u00a0Not long after I became a Christian at the age of nineteen, I broke and threw away all the music records that I had collected and … Continue reading To What Are You Listening?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3353,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}