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Eric Walsh: Must Be the Music

Eric Walsh

Culture, Sex, and the Fight for Purity

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Culture, Spiritualism, and the War for Your Soul

I kind of last minute I changed a little bit.

Tonight I'm gonna go through kind of 1 of the talks I do that kind of set the stage for what I'll do tomorrow afternoon.

I do these talks all over the country on music, and specifically the music that I try to address is hip hop music.

I actually deal with a lot of reggae music as well, only mainly because those are the 2 forms of music I'm most familiar with from my past.

But you can kind of extrapolate a lot of these messages into many forms of modern music.

I kind of need to give you a few kind of statements, qualifying statements before I start.

1 of them is I'm not, I do not consider myself to be a fanatic when it comes to music or no music.

I've learned that God doesn't really function in fanaticism and Spirit of Prophecy really I think backs me up on that.

But I do believe that anything we use, especially when we call it worship, we must be very careful that it is used actually to worship because the devil is really really really slick in the area of transforming worship into self-worship.

And that's 1 of the big problems that I see.

So oftentimes I tell people, people say, you know, they have a drum in that church and they'll march out of the church and I say you know I'm not as concerned about the drum as I am the spirit with which they do their services because you could be very quiet and only have a piano and a violin but if you're arrogant and prideful and showman and it's a lot of showmanship and you're showing off your talents and your skills I don't really see any difference between that and if they you know they're playing James Brown funky drummer on the drums the spirit with which things are done is important.

That's what got Satan in trouble in heaven.

Ironically, Satan actually was doing the right things a lot of the times.

He was just doing them for the wrong reasons and he was able to draw attention to himself and change the worship of God and he began to believe people were worshiping him.

We'll deal more with that a little bit later on.

I say so I qualify myself with that because I don't want you.

I don't tell people I'm not 1 of those types of people when it comes to these issues to tell you what to do.

I believe that once you read the evidence, the scriptures and especially the the scriptures combined with the spirit of prophecy are very clear.

So I can tell you that I no longer listen to hip-hop music.

I no longer listen to reggae music and I'm very careful with what Christian music I listen to because I've learned that it's easy.

So I'm not actually, this talk actually includes some stuff on television because it's an older version.

But I want to use this older version because you are probably primarily health, medical, dental, students, residents.

So some of this stuff might actually be of interest to you on a kind of another level.

The talk I'm going to do tomorrow night is a lot more edgy.

Tomorrow afternoon it's going to have a lot more images of modern stars and actually going to show you some of the lyrics.

And I realize that you guys probably don't listen to Jackie O and Jay Z and those people, but I think you're going to come across patients who do, and you live in a world where many and most people do.

And so hopefully it'll give you a bridge to be able to reach people that do listen to this music without coming across too judgmental or too ignorant, because then a lot of times people just shut down and don't wanna hear anything else you have to say.

So tomorrow night we'll do that more edgy, racy talk.

And you'll see it really is edgy and racy.

I have to block out parts of some of the songs.

The lyrics are so incredibly provocative and so we're actually so just rude.

Let me let us all suffer it all through at 1 time.

I promise there's probably only 1 more slide that does anything like that.

I make these 3 points because a lot of times when I'm doing these talks, I'm doing them at local churches.

Some of them are suburban affluent churches.

Many of them are churches in the heart of the city and some of the roughest parts of the country.

And so I do the talk and 1 of the things I like to set up is that we truly are still in the midst of a technological revolution.

I was reading an article on Bluetooth and the fact that now cars are going to begin to come, so that your cell phone, by Bluetooth, hooks into your car system.

And so that when you look in your rear view mirror, if someone's calling, the person's name and phone number will appear in your rear view mirror by Bluetooth.

Now just 20 years ago, 10 years ago, that would be Star Trek science fiction.

In the 80s when I was growing up, I mean, the cell phones were like VCRs, you know, these giant white things with long black antennas, you're like dragging them.

But now, you know, they got phones so small, you can hide it in your sleeve.

I believe 1 of the texts that fits that, I don't think I know if I have the text on this 1, is in Founding Revelation chapter 12.

At the end of the chapter, John the Revelator says something very powerful.

He says that the dragon opened his mouth.

Now to the mouth of the dragon came a flood.

And there are a lot of ways that that's probably interpreted.

1 of the things I see that as saying is that the dragon when he in the last days when the dragon speaks He will speak with great volume he will be able to pass a lot of information through at 1 time and You're gonna see that the devil has the ability to send messages and information now like he never had before.

I tell parents all the time, a hundred years ago, if the devil wanted to get into your house, you had to open the door.

Today, the devil can get into your house through high speed, telephone, wireless internet, your cell phone, pager, two-way, sidekick.

There's so many intangible ways for him to get to your child without you having any idea he's getting there.

And you see this Dateline NBC runs these specials on these internet predators.

And a lot of them are men of the cloth rabbis, preachers, priests, teachers, youth workers caught because now these predators can go into your house and try and get at your child without you even know your child can be upstairs being being approached and and and and and encouraged by a predator while you're downstairs preparing dinner a hundred years ago that was impossible so we live in a different age this is biblical Bible says in the last days knowledge would increase.

Knowledge has so rapidly increased that we are doing things that were just your imagination just 20 years ago.

You couldn't even have imagined what we're doing today.

So the children are being influenced by these new and evolving sources, things like video games.

When I was a kid, the first video game I saw had a bar on this side, a bar on this side, this little dot, doop, doop, doop, bounced around.

We thought it was just like the coolest thing ever invented.

Today I can't even figure out how you use the joystick for the new video games.

And I think the biggest thing, especially inside of the church and inside Adventism, is that parents and even youth workers often are unprepared for what's going on.

You know, I see a lot of parents who their kids get online for them.

The child has to load the computer up, get online, send emails for them.

Even still, when you figure out how to spend enough time now, parents still don't know how to do that.

Parents still don't know how to use PowerPoint.

And the devil will work this to his advantage as a way of getting to the children without the parent being able to defend or protect the child.

So I talk to a lot of parents about that, and becoming computer savvy being important.

And all of the things that we've seen, we've seen this recent scandal with a senator.

All of these things show you the power of being able to communicate with someone when you never have to see them or hear them.

All right, here's a quote, we are living in the midst of an epidemic of crime at which thoughtful God-fearing men everywhere stand aghast.

The corruption that prevails it is beyond the pen to describe.

Every day brings fresh revelations of political strife, bribery and fraud.

Every day brings its heart-sickening record of violence and lawlessness, of indifference to human suffering, of brutal fiendish destruction of human life.

Every day testifies to the increase of insanity, murder, and suicide.

Who can doubt that satanic agencies are at work among men with increasing activity to distract and corrupt the mind and defile and destroy the body and that is from the book counsels on health page 25 it was a be almost as if sister white was right right read wrote this after she read USA Today I mean it's it applies that well to modern times.

Every single day that makes this testimony.

When I logged on to AOL this morning to check my emails, the front page cover, I don't read newspapers anymore, I get all my news mainly through AOL, honestly.

The front page cover, that's where I first see it, was that the head of the National Association of Evangelicals was caught in a gay scandal.

Now, I don't know if a man is guilty, innocent.

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