Hello, I'm
Dwayne. And I'm Lance.
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And we'd like to welcome
you to another episode of TKS,
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a True Knowledge of Self
where we get to know ourselves
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from a biblical perspective.
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In our last episode
we were starting now
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to go down the road
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and discuss this
idea of holy hip-hop.
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Is there such thing?
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Can you truly mix
the sacred and profane?
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And we looked at several
clips that showed ministers,
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gospel ministers
bringing in secular music
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into their
worships and justifying it
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by adding the fact
that we can safely have fun,
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but at the same time
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hold on to Christian principles
and biblical principles
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that Jesus and
God are okay with us
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indulging in
this secular lifestyle
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and still maintaining
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a healthy relationship with Him.
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We saw even ago,
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as far as the
pastor participating fully
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in these things,
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and we noted
that the significance
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of the ministers leading out
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in this mingling
of sacred and profane
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even though they're saying
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that it's not
sacred, not profane.
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We know that these forms
of music are talking about,
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you know, the promiscuity,
and the drugs, and the alcohol,
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and all these things
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even if they're
using foul language or not,
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the subject matter is still
completely and totally worldly.
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And then we saw a current theme
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that was running
through all of them
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where they said, you
know, God is not concerned
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as long as He has our heart,
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we can worship
Him however we like,
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that that He
doesn't have to be censored,
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that we can have the freedom
to worship Him in the way
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that we see fit as opposed
to what the Bible outlines
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and showing that God has a way
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that He desires
to be worshipped.
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God again dictates reality.
How are we to worship God?
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Well, we come to Him
and He gives us instruction.
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We finished off
looking at some verses
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and we're going to
continue to look at a few more
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because we saw that
there can be no mingling
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according to 1 Corinthians...
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2 Corinthians 16:14
all the way to Chapter 7:1
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2 Corinthians 6?
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2 Corinthians
6:14 to Chapter 7:1,
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that showed that we
cannot mingle Christ
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and be light in darkness.
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There's no concord between
the temple of God and idols.
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And then we saw Exodus 32
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and we saw in the
first few verses an instance
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in which God's
people after the Exodus
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were at the base of Mount
Sinai awaiting Moses' return.
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They lost faith.
They thought he was dead.
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And they knew that
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they had to have
some representation of God
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to go before them, to lead them.
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And so they had the great idea
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that they're going
to build golden calves
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similar to the
worship styles and mediums
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that they saw in
Egypt to represent God
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to go before them,
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and Aaron the high priest
led out in this great apostasy.
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And eventually
this became a sign
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of the breaking
of God's covenant
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between Him and His people.
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And Moses came down
and judgment was executed
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against those
that did not repent
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from such an evil
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and those that did
repent were still required
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to suffer the
consequences of such an action,
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and it led to great
harm and great hardship
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to the children of
Israel moving forward.
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Yes, it did.
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So we're going to
look at few more verses
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that highlight this
idea that we cannot...
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It's not safe to mingle
the sacred and the profane.
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It's not okay.
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Again, we're going to talk
more about origins in history
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in a few moments as well
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because we have
to get to the point
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where we draw a line.
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Yes.
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Again we're not
picking on people per se,
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but there has to be
a biblical precedent
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for how we are to worship,
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what is acceptable
versus what is not.
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That's right.
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And again we cannot
dictate to God and say,
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"Here's my worship and
You must accept this,"`
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because we've seen thus far,
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and we're going to
see more forcefully
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that God is the one
that dictates how we worship,
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we cannot dictate unto the Lord.
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So as we saw in
the previous clips,
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the minister that kind
of stuck out to me more
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than many of
the other statements
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made by several
other people and pastors
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that it's not the
method, it's the message.
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It is a truly
erroneous statement
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and that has to be made clear
because the Bible is showing
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as you stated
through these verses
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that God does not
just accept what we give
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because we just add
His message to our method.
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And another
example is in Leviticus 10.
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You know, the Bible says
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that God is a consuming fire.
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And it was in the
sanctuary services
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that when the bullock
or the kid of the goats
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or you know, the
lamb was presented
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that the fire
came down from heaven
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and consumed the sacrifice.
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So it was
something that God kindled.
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It was a fire that
God Himself started
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and then man was
to take the coals
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from that as a priest.
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And then they were to take it in
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and put it upon the censers
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when they would
officiate in the sanctuary.
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Well, in Leviticus
10, notice something
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the Bible says here in verse 1.
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"And Nadab and
Abihu, the sons of Aaron,
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took either of them his
censer, and put fire therein,
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and put incense there
on and offered strange fire
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before the Lord,
which he commanded them not.
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And there went out
fire from the Lord,
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and devoured them, and
they died before the Lord."
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So the Bible
makes it clear that we,
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you know, though
God is the one that
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that would initiate the fire.
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He's the one that
would kindle the fire.
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Nadab and Abihu,
who were priests,
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they were sons of
Aaron who was also a priest,
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the high priest.
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And here it is that Nedab
and Abihu who were priests,
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they wanted to officiate
in the services of the temple.
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This is very important
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because when I
think of ministers,
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I think of ministers
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as those who
officiate in services
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in the temple as well,
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the Church of God today.
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But here it is
that we're looking
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that these men
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who are in ministerial position,
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they're coming in
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and they
decided to present fire,
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but it was one of
their own kindling
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upon which the Bible
calls it strange fire.
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God did not recognize
it, it was a stranger to Him.
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He was like, "What is this?
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What is this...
I don't know this,
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this is not something
I've kindled, man has kindled."
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And it left the most
horrific consequences
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behind which was that the
fire came out of the censer
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and destroyed them.
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One of the
things that we can see
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led to this experience
was in verses 8 to 11.
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It says, "And the
Lord spake unto Aaron,
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saying, do not drink
wine nor strong drink,
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thou nor thy sons with thee,
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when you go into the
tabernacle of the congregation,
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lest ye die.
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It shall be a statue forever
throughout your generations."
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And notice why?
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Verse 10, "And that
ye may put difference
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between holy and unholy,
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and between unclean and clean,
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and that ye may teach
the children of Israel
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all the statutes which
the Lord hath spoken unto them
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by the hand of Moses."
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Nedab and Abihu lost their sight
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or vision or understanding
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of what
constituted holy and unholy,
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clean and unclean.
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As a result of this,
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it caused the very,
very horrific ramifications
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by which God
allowed them to be consumed
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by the very fire
of their own kindling.
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It's kind of
like letting us know
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that we can be consumed by
the decisions that we make,
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the decisions we make
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can have permanent
consequences upon our lives.
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And this is why we should
choose the way of the Lord.
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Well, this is an
example we see in Leviticus 10
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that again man cannot offer God
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what he wants and
think God will accept it.
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The Bible is making it
clear that's not the case.
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And if that wasn't enough,
Genesis the fourth chapter.
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In Genesis 4, how
much more forcefully
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does the Bible
not make this point
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as we look at now verses 1 to 5.
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Again, we are
looking at the issue
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that hip-hop gospel is popular.
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The gospel of
hip-hop is popular.
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Hip-hop churches are popular,
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and we saw a few
examples of how mega churches,
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thousands upon
thousands of people
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in one membership of a church
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are coming together in worship
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and there are ministers, leaders
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that are actually making it seem
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it's okay to worship
God according to the method
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or the style or the way
you want to worship Him,
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just keep the message clear.
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Well, here it is another example
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in Genesis 4:1 to 5,
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the Bible says, "And
Adam knew Eve his wife,
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and she
conceived, and bare Cain,
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and said, I have
gotten a man from the Lord.
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And she again
bare his brother Abel.
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And Abel was a keeper of sheep,
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but Cain was a
tiller of the ground.
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And in process of
time it came to pass,
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that Cain brought of
the fruit of the ground
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an offering unto the Lord.
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And Abel, he also
brought of the first things
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of his flock and
of the fat thereof.
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And the Lord had respect
unto Abel and to his offering:
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but unto Cain
and to his offering
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He had not respect.
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And Cain was very wroth,
and his countenance fell."
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Again, two brothers, both,
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worshipping the
True and Living God,
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both led by godly parents
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are now coming
both to worship God.
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They both brought offerings,
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but one person's
method if you will
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was I'm going to
bring fruits and vegetables.
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The other
person's method if you will
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was I'm going to bring
the first things of the flock
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and I'm going to
bring the fat thereof.
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Now Abel's offering was accepted
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because Abel's
offering was in the instruction
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of how God
wanted to be worshiped
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and how the
offerings were to be presented.
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Hebrews 9:22 clearly says that
without the shedding of blood,
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there is no remission of sins.
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The whole purpose of an offering
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was to make an atonement
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that one could be
forgiven for their sins.
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But it can't happen
except blood be shed.
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So therefore Abel was correct
when he came with his flock
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that could shed blood.
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Fruits, grains, and
nuts and vegetables,
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you know, these
things they don't bleed.
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So therefore God could
not possibly had accepted
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Cain's offering.
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Cain came to worship
God but God rejected it.
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So again, the
Bible is making it clear
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that just because
you come to worship God
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and you may even be
doing it with a sincere heart
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does not mean that
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He by default
accepts that worship.
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One more Revelation 13. I
think this is very profound.
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And so
essentially it does matter.
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It does. It does
matter how you worship.
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That's correct.
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In Revelation 13,
the Bible spells out
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in verses 11 and 12
as well as 16 and 17,
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a class of worshippers.
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The same way in
Genesis 4, it was brothers
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that were worshipping
God, and one was accepted
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and the other one was rejected,
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and it resulted in
brother persecuting brother.
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That's how the world started.
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And the Bible
prophetically shows
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that's how the
world's going to end.
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People are going
to, again come to God
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claiming to be worshippers,
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but one is going to
worship God the way they want to
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according to the
commandments of men,
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another group is
going to worship God
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according to exactly how
He instructed to worship.
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One group receives
the mark of the beast,
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the other group receives
the seal of the Living God.
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And the Bible
spells all of this out
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as we look at
Revelation 13:11-12.
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It says, "And I
beheld another beast
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coming up out of the earth,
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and he had two
horns like a lamb,
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and he spake as a dragon.
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And he exercises all the power
of the first beast before him,
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and causeth the earth and them
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which dwell therein to
worship the first beast,
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whose deadly wound was healed."
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So notice there's a
beast that is being called
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that people are
being called to worship
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and this is an
issue then of worship.
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That's why the mark of the beast
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is not about barcodes,
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it's not about
any of these things,
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it's about worship.
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And then when you
look at verses 16 and 17
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speaking of that same class,
it says, "And he causes all,
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both small and
great, rich and poor,
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free and bond to receive
a mark in their right hand,
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or in their foreheads:
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and that no man
might buy or sell,
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save he that had the
mark, or the name of the beast,
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or the number of his name."
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So here goes a
class of worshippers
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and these
individuals are receiving
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the mark of the beast.
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They were worshipping,
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but they received
the mark of the beast,
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and they're going to
earn the wrath of God
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that's going to fall upon them.
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There's another group
however in Revelation 14,
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in Revelation 14,
it says in verses,
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you know, for times'
sake I'm just going to explain
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verses 1 to 5.
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You know, as a
group of individuals
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they're called the 144,000.
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And these are individuals
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that have a very
close walk with Jesus.
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And one of the
things the Bible shows
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is that this group here
is going to be used mightily
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to give a message as well
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and that message is
found in verse 6 and 7.
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It says, "And I
saw another angel fly
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in the midst of heaven,
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having the everlasting
gospel to preach unto them
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that dwell on the
earth, to every nation,
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and kindred, and
tongue, and people,
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saying with a loud voice,
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fear God, and give glory to Him,
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for the hour of
His judgment is come:
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and worship Him that
made heaven, and earth,
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and the sea, and the
fountains of waters."
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So in this first angel's
message is a group of people
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that actually are calling
individuals into true worship
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to the true creator.
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Those who
faithfully do this work,
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there going to be some of them
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that God is going
to bless in such a way
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that they're
going to get something.
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It's found in Revelation 7.
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In Revelation 7, it
says, "And after these things,
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I saw four angels
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standing on the four
corners of the earth,
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holding the four
winds of the earth,
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that the wind should not blow
on the earth, nor on the sea,
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nor on any tree.
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And I saw another angel
ascending from the east,
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having the seal
of the living God.
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And he cried with a loud
voice to the four angels,
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to whom it was given to
hurt the earth and the sea,
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saying, hurt not the earth,
neither the sea, nor the trees,
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till we have sealed the servants
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of our God in
their foreheads..."
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Verse 4, "And I
heard the number of them
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which were sealed:
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and there were
sealed 144,000 of the tribes
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of the children of Israel."
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And certainly, this
deserves a beautiful explanation
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that when we begin
to talk about prophecy
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and, you know, up
and coming episodes,
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we'll be able to make
these things more plain.
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But the point is,
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there's a group of
worshippers in the last days
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that they're worshipping God
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but because they
were not worshipping God
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according to His dictates,
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they are going to
receive the mark of the beast
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and receive the wrath of God.
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Another group is
going to worship God
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according to God's
dictates and that group,
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they receive the
seal of the Living God
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and they shall be saved.
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So the Bible is
replete with this idea
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that you cannot tell God
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how you are
going to worship Him.
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You cannot think that God
accepts all forms of worship
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just because you're sincere.
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We must worship God
according to His word,
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according to His dictates.
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And this is what
we call pure religion,
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true worship, pure worship.
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So I think that
makes it fairly clear.
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Obviously, we're going to get
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more into this
in later episodes.
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But what I want to do now
is kind of take a step back,
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look at some history,
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because what we
can't get caught up in
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is looking at hip-hop
culture or some of the clips
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that we looked at in
the clip that we looked at
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from that church in Atlanta,
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there was music
for every generation.
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There was secular
music for every generation
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as well as gospel
music for every generation.
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And if we look
at hip-hop culture
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and we say, "Well,
this music is bad."
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Why is it bad?
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"Well, because of its origins
and because of the message
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that it stands for
and that it's promoting."
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We have to also look
at where that came from.
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We have to look at, you know,
take a step back in history
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and look at how these things
developed because pop culture,
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hip-hop culture, all
these things, these are...
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some of them are new phenomenon,
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but pop culture is not new.
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Pop culture has been continuing
generation after generation,
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and what did pop culture
look like throughout history?
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And now that pop
culture is pretty much dominated
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by hip-hop, there's
now, all of a sudden,
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pop culture a problem
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or has it always been a problem,
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has it always been contrary,
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and has there always been
kind of a great controversy
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in a war between those
who want to worship God
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in spirit and in truth,
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and those who want to worship
God however they feel like?
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And so let's
take a look at a clip.
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It's kind of, you
know, it's kind of lengthy
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so what I want you
to do, the audience,
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I want you to
pay close attention
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to a lot of the details,
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we're gonna come
back and comment later,
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but pay attention
to the developments
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in the history
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and the comments that are
given that are going to help
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inform our
present day understanding
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of what's going on and
what we're dealing with.
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Let's go to the clip.
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Beginning in 1817,
slaves in New Orleans
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were permitted to sing and dance
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every Sunday afternoon
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in a place called Congo square.
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To the curious whites,
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who sometimes turned
out to see and hear them,
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the slaves music filled
with complex percussive rhythms
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seem to provide an
authentic glimpse of Africa.
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But most of the
slaves in Congo Square
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have never seen Africa.
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Many were recent
arrivals from the West Indies.
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Their music filled
with the infectious pulse
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of the Caribbean.
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Other slaves had
been brought to the city
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from the interior
of the American South.
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Bringing with them,
work songs, spirituals,
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and the call and
response of the Baptist church.
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New Orleans theaters
also featured minstrel music.
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So called plantation songs
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written by white
and black songwriters,
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performed by whites
blacked up as blacks.
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And sometimes in later years,
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by blacks blacked up
as whites, playing blacks.
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On the surface,
minstrelsy seems simply
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to reinforce ugly
racial stereotypes.
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Minstrelsy was the most popular
form of American entertainment
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for about 80
years in United States,
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beginning in the 1840s.
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It produced the first
body of serious pop songs,
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Steven Foster,
James Blond and others.
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Songs that we still,
all of us, to this day know.
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It produced a national
humor that we all know.
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Why did the
chicken cross the road?
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Who is that woman I
saw you with last night?
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Because you had minstrel
troops very much codified
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all doing the
same kinds of songs,
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same kinds of humor,
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crisscrossing the whole country
not just into major cities
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but to all kinds of towns,
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any place where there was a hall
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where they could perform,
it was like early television.
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It was the first
entertainment form
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that everybody in
the United States knew.
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Everybody heard the same songs.
Everybody heard the same jokes.
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Despite its overt racism,
00:20:36.73\00:20:38.87
the minstrel show was
a blend of lively music,
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knockabout comedy, and
sophisticated elegance,
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the bizarre and
complicated ritual
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in which blacks and whites alike
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would interpret and
misinterpret each other
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for decades.
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And that was the
beginning of a long relationship
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between blacks and whites
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and black entertainment
and white appropriation of it.
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And a strange dance
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that we've been
doing with each other
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since really the beginning
of our relationship in America.
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It's too close,
it's too deeper story,
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so you have to
degrade the relationship,
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you have to do degrading things
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so that you can live
with the tremendous affront
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to humanity that slavery was.
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The first big minstrel hit
was written down and performed
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by a white man
known as Daddy Rice
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who said he first heard it,
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being sung by a
black stable hand.
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Rice named the tune
after the man, Jim Crow.
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The Blues was the
profane twin of the sacred music
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of the black Baptist Church
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filled with call and response,
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shouts, mourns,
exaltations, and signifying.
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One was praying to God
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and the other was
praying to what's human.
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A New Orleans
musician said, "One was saying,
00:22:22.10\00:22:25.57
'Oh, God, let me go.'"
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And the other was
saying, "Oh, mister, let me be."
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You have musicians
playing their horns,
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they have all these instruments
00:22:36.99\00:22:38.32
that are left over
from the civil war,
00:22:38.35\00:22:40.16
and that military
instruments and the trumpets
00:22:40.19\00:22:42.02
are played in a
militaristic style,
00:22:42.06\00:22:43.76
"Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb,
bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb."
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Then all of a
sudden, instead of playing
00:22:47.96\00:22:49.30
in a street military style
00:22:49.33\00:22:51.13
or the hymn or beautiful melody,
00:22:51.17\00:22:52.90
now they're imitating
the sound of the people
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in a church singing.
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They have the
vibrato at the end of a note.
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They're shaking notes...
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Then the music gets
an overpowering feel.
00:23:08.18\00:23:12.29
In a way that profound
things almost always happen,
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a thing and the
opposite of that thing
00:23:16.12\00:23:18.33
are mashed together.
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Now you have the people
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getting a
spiritual sound of the church
00:23:23.63\00:23:25.93
and they're also getting
00:23:25.97\00:23:27.30
that secular sound of the blues.
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And the musicians
who could understand
00:23:29.90\00:23:32.31
both of those
things and put both of them
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in their horn side by side,
00:23:34.88\00:23:36.44
so they could represent
that angel and that devil,
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huh, that was the
ones that could play.
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Over the next century,
00:23:50.99\00:23:52.96
the blues would become
the underground aquifer
00:23:52.99\00:23:56.60
that would feed all the
streams of American music,
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including jazz.
00:24:01.14\00:24:03.04
So there's so much to say
about what we just looked at,
00:24:09.71\00:24:14.15
that we're going to
have to cover a lot of it
00:24:14.18\00:24:16.25
in future episodes.
00:24:16.28\00:24:17.69
I just want to walk
through some bullet points here
00:24:17.72\00:24:19.82
that we're going
to have to develop
00:24:19.85\00:24:21.19
and flesh out a little further.
00:24:21.22\00:24:22.72
Number one, we see that
00:24:22.76\00:24:24.86
there was a very good
job of painting a picture
00:24:24.89\00:24:27.66
of the social climate
that kind of set the stage
00:24:27.70\00:24:31.23
for the development of
what we consider in America
00:24:31.27\00:24:35.70
at least, pop culture
and secular music, slave era,
00:24:35.74\00:24:39.97
and the allowance that
environment in New Orleans
00:24:40.01\00:24:44.91
that kind of
had this melting pot
00:24:44.95\00:24:47.42
of all different cultures,
00:24:47.45\00:24:49.02
and all different sounds,
00:24:49.05\00:24:50.39
and all kinds
of different things
00:24:50.42\00:24:51.75
where you had slaves,
00:24:51.79\00:24:53.12
and free blacks,
and these Creoles,
00:24:53.15\00:24:55.99
and all this thing going on.
00:24:56.02\00:24:57.43
So it was a weird situation
that basically set the stage
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for this musical expression.
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And that's what it became,
you know, when we talked about,
00:25:02.70\00:25:04.83
you know, we talk
about jazz, and the blues,
00:25:04.87\00:25:07.30
and the big bands,
and the gumbo music,
00:25:07.34\00:25:08.90
and all this stuff that
00:25:08.94\00:25:10.27
as it progressed through history
00:25:10.31\00:25:11.64
was just all about expression
00:25:11.67\00:25:13.01
which basically
hip-hop is the same thing,
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it's kind of a
modern descendent,
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if you will, jazz and blues
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and all these
things are ancestors
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to hip-hop culture.
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The next point, again,
we'll talk about it more.
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But we looked at
the minstrel culture.
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These minstrel
shows, black face,
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white people
putting on black face,
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degrading you know black culture
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and basically making a joke
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out of the
plight of the black man
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in the song and dance
and all the popular things
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that still are with us today.
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You know, common jokes,
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how did the
chicken cross the road?
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That came from
the minstrel shows.
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You know a lot of this,
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even songs that are still
in our culture came from that.
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And for 80 years, that
was the most popular form
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of entertainment in America.
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So this is the first
development of pop culture
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when people all over the nation
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were able to share in
common themes and threads
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through entertainment
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because these
shows went on tours.
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And so that's a
whole another thing
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we got to talk about.
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But eventually after
abolition of slavery,
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and then all the
Creoles and everybody,
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the one drop rule where anybody
that had any thing in them
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was now considered,
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you know, and the Jim
Crow era and all this stuff,
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reconstruction,
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it set the stage
for this blues music
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to fully express itself
which eventually became jazz.
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And then we saw that
the essence of the blues
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is the mingling of
a little bit of angel
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and a little bit of devil.
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It's a blending of
the sacred and profane.
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And whoever did that was the one
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who could really play.
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And finally, we
saw that the blues,
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beyond any shadow of a
doubt, the social commentary,
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everyone agrees that the blues
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was as it was said aquifer
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through which all
streams of American music
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and popular music flowed.
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So when we come down to hip-hop,
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we cannot remove hip
hop from its predecessor.
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This is going to be powerful.
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Friends, we are getting
into some deep things here
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but the purpose
of it is to edify.
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The Bible says in
1 Corinthians 14:26,
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"Let all things
be for edification."
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And the way that
we can be edified
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is by getting true knowledge,
true knowledge of ourselves,
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true knowledge of God,
true knowledge of His word.
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And as we receive
these in our hearts,
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it enables us to know
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how to better
discern right from wrong,
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truth from error,
light from darkness.
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So we know that we're
going into some deep things
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and it's going to get deeper
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because we're
really going to talk about,
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is music really neutral,
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or is it
something that we can add
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whatever we want to it?
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Or even in music,
does God give instructions?
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So we're looking
forward to seeing
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how the Lord
reveals these to us.
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And stay tuned, you know,
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for that time
when it shall come.
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But until then, always remember
the words of Proverbs 2:6
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which tells us, "It is
the Lord that gives wisdom,
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and out of His mouth comes
knowledge and understanding."
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God bless you.
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