CHAPTER 3 



 				THE REDEMPTION OF ROCK



	The Bible tells us that every good and perfect gift comes from above

from the Father of lights.  I believe music is, in it's purest form, such a gift; that rhythm, melody, harmony, etc. and man's tremendous capacity to respond to all these elements which make up music, is a good gift from above, and that God is the creator of music.  Satan, as we've discussed, on the other hand is not a creator, but an imitator, a counterfeiter, a perverter, and a liar and whatever he's done in any area of music is simply a perversion or something 

that originally came from God.  I believe that in his use of rock music, he 

tapped into something that God intended for good and has so expertly 

twisted and perverted it to his own purposes that he has literally captured the

secular youth of the whole world with a music that transcends cultural barriers,

ethnic lines, and is perhaps the most universally popular music that the word 

has ever seen in any generation.  To me it follows that there is a potential for 

that same kind of music to be redeemed back from the devil, and used to bring 

many to the knowledge of the Lord, as well as to edify and build up people who 

are already members of the Body of Christ.  I can think of no other form of 

music that has the potential to convey joy, to convey a spirit of spiritual 

warfare, to convey the depth of the spirit to more people on the earth today 

than rock.    

	The problem is that many contemporary musicians of the Lord are for

the most part so concerned about the business of cloning the sounds of the 

world, that they haven't even thought of how to truly tap into the power of 

God and get wisdom from Him on how to go about redeeming rock back 

from the devil.  If the best that Satan can do is pervert that which God 

originated, then what we are doing when we listen to the music of the world 

for our inspiration, is copying the counterfeit.  Most Christian rock is 

derivative, uninspired, formulaic, and most important, not anointed.  The only 

way that we will ever begin producing music that will have real power in it, 

will be when we unplug ourselves from a steady diet of worldly music, and 

tap back into the source of real inspiration, which is God.  You could make 

a decision to never again choose to listen to secular music, and you would 

still get quite a diet of it, just by osmosis.  You simply can't get away from 

it!  You hear it in the mall, in clothing stores, in restaurants, and even by 

purposing not to listen to it by choice, you would still hear a lot of it.  So 

if being in touch with musical trends, etc. is your concern, my point is that 

you will still get enough input from worldly music to stay current without even 

trying.  So let's unplug, and go to the source!  We will deal with this subject 

in more depth in a later chapter, but for now I want to examine something that 

the Lord showed me which will shed further light.  Come with me now as we 

examine...



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