Comments for Eternal Life Music http://www.eternallifemusic.com Fri, 04 May 2012 21:41:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on BET’s “The Celebration of Gospel”: But Where’s The Holy Hip-Hop? by Chelsea http://www.eternallifemusic.com/2012/05/02/bets-the-celebration-of-gospel-but-wheres-the-holy-hip-hop/#comment-8 Chelsea Fri, 04 May 2012 21:41:34 +0000 http://www.eternallifemusic.com/?p=314#comment-8 Yup TB, Matthew 6:24 kinda wraps it up in my eyes! Yup TB, Matthew 6:24 kinda wraps it up in my eyes!

]]> Comment on BET’s “The Celebration of Gospel”: But Where’s The Holy Hip-Hop? by brother tb http://www.eternallifemusic.com/2012/05/02/bets-the-celebration-of-gospel-but-wheres-the-holy-hip-hop/#comment-7 brother tb Fri, 04 May 2012 06:04:55 +0000 http://www.eternallifemusic.com/?p=314#comment-7 Good word!! Mathew 6:24! Good word!! Mathew 6:24!

]]> Comment on BET’s “The Celebration of Gospel”: But Where’s The Holy Hip-Hop? by Chelsea http://www.eternallifemusic.com/2012/05/02/bets-the-celebration-of-gospel-but-wheres-the-holy-hip-hop/#comment-6 Chelsea Thu, 03 May 2012 18:33:35 +0000 http://www.eternallifemusic.com/?p=314#comment-6 I didn't even have to see the Event to see where you're coming from. Like TB said, BET is a Brand, a secular business enterprise. Usually once the “Christian/Gospel Shows” are over on BET, BET jumps right back into "Routine", and all that other secular music (mostly "Junk" in my opinion), and Videos start playing again. BET nice effort, but you can't serve 2 Masters. I’m just sayin. Matthew 6:24 "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. I didn’t even have to see the Event to see where you’re coming from. Like TB said, BET is a Brand, a secular business enterprise. Usually once the “Christian/Gospel Shows” are over on BET, BET jumps right back into “Routine”, and all that other secular music (mostly “Junk” in my opinion), and Videos start playing again. BET nice effort, but you can’t serve 2 Masters. I’m just sayin.

Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

]]> Comment on BET’s “The Celebration of Gospel”: But Where’s The Holy Hip-Hop? by brother tb http://www.eternallifemusic.com/2012/05/02/bets-the-celebration-of-gospel-but-wheres-the-holy-hip-hop/#comment-4 brother tb Thu, 03 May 2012 06:19:09 +0000 http://www.eternallifemusic.com/?p=314#comment-4 Good post K-Dizzle! Seems to me that BET has no interest in adding anything "holy" to the gospel music industry, but that the aim is to make more and more money by taking what was supposed to be holy and making it more and more secular. See Black Entertainment Television (BET) "is a brand!!" All these "gospel" artists (along with the secular artists) have, as you said, "become Pinocchio puppets for [this] Gepetto" aka BET. While the artists are promoting self and the music they sell for the labels they serve, BET, a secular business enterprise that spends the vast majority of its efforts profiteering through the promotion of outright sinfulness and the very "do what thou wilt" mentality that ultimately amounts to satanism, is using them to promote itself, and all for the love of money which is the root of all evil. The big wigs behind BET love the idea of church folk getting good and comfortable with their brand, as opposed to being instantly turned off by it, which we probably should be. And I suspect, that the folks at BET aren't concerned with making gospel music more relevant to this generation of youth in the black church, because they know that their brand is already very relevant to those same youth, the vast majority of whom are watching BET when it's doing everything but celebrating the true Gospel or "celebrating" "gospel music." Ultimately, the message being put out there is hey, you can be a BET type Christian, live like the world most of the time, sing about Jesus on Sunday morning, then when "church" is over, go 'head and do what you do. I believe we need to turn back to radical, i.e., biblical Christianity, by taking principles from the Word of life and and actually applying them to our lives in full view of "this generation of youth," so they can see what it looks like. We can't expect BET to aid us in this effort; for BET that would be counter-productive. I think Christian Hip-Hop artists tend to be too raw and radical for BET, saying stuff like "BET tonight becomes addiction to pornography / that's in no way honoring the God who's ruling sovereign" (Lecrae). The last thing BET wants to see is this generation of youth in the church embracing the concept of holiness! As ancient as it is, I think Exodus 34:12-16 is highly relevant to the church today. Peep what it says: "12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. 13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images 14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods." Those are the type of results you get when you team up with entities like BET for selfish abmition and financial gain, but it seems the Bible is calling us to the exact opposite. Perhaps this is the failure of the "gospel" music INDUSTRY. "The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured people; they have taken treasure and precious things.... Her priests have violated [God's] law and profaned [God's] holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from [God's requirements], so that [He is] profaned among them. Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy people, and to get dishonest gain. Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken." Ezekiel 22:25-28. When the focus is really on making money, you can run side by side with Jesus and be a Judas the whole time. So if you ask me, the church shouldn't push to get HHH on BET, but should be pushing to get the rest of the Christian artists off of BET. I mean, if you can use BET to reach the lost then cool, but do we expect non-believers to sit back and watch this "celebration of gospel" and to get saved as a result? Seeing some of their favorite secular artists on there, they're more likely to think they can be good with God without any repentance at all. All that said, coming squarely back to the topic at hand: why is BET failing to make an effort to make the church relevant to this generation of youth by excluding CHH from the "celebration of gospel"? I can't see why BET would want to make the church relevant to the youth to begin with. On Satan's part, if the ol' heads insist on "celebrating gospel" it's like Pharaoh told Moses = you can do that ... but stay here and do it, don't seperate youself as your God has commanded (Ex. 8:25) ... ok, you can do that ... but just leave your little ones, your sons and daughters behind. Ex. 10:9-11. See, if you insist on honoring God, the enemy always has an invitation for compromise. I think BET's "celebration of gospel" shows us, to some extent, what compromise looks like. They could rename it: "Egypt's celebration of the God of Israel." Yeah, right. As far as I'm concerned they can keep all of it. Let's celebrate the true Gospel by how we honor God with our daily lives without compromise and without watering down the Word of Truth. "But as the One Who called you is holy [i.e., set-apart], you yourselves also be [set-apart] in all your conduct and manner of living." 1 Pet. 1:15. If that aint the heart of HHH in the first place, we need to go 'head and stop calling it that. Good post K-Dizzle! Seems to me that BET has no interest in adding anything “holy” to the gospel music industry, but that the aim is to make more and more money by taking what was supposed to be holy and making it more and more secular. See Black Entertainment Television (BET) “is a brand!!” All these “gospel” artists (along with the secular artists) have, as you said, “become Pinocchio puppets for [this] Gepetto” aka BET. While the artists are promoting self and the music they sell for the labels they serve, BET, a secular business enterprise that spends the vast majority of its efforts profiteering through the promotion of outright sinfulness and the very “do what thou wilt” mentality that ultimately amounts to satanism, is using them to promote itself, and all for the love of money which is the root of all evil. The big wigs behind BET love the idea of church folk getting good and comfortable with their brand, as opposed to being instantly turned off by it, which we probably should be. And I suspect, that the folks at BET aren’t concerned with making gospel music more relevant to this generation of youth in the black church, because they know that their brand is already very relevant to those same youth, the vast majority of whom are watching BET when it’s doing everything but celebrating the true Gospel or “celebrating” “gospel music.” Ultimately, the message being put out there is hey, you can be a BET type Christian, live like the world most of the time, sing about Jesus on Sunday morning, then when “church” is over, go ‘head and do what you do.

I believe we need to turn back to radical, i.e., biblical Christianity, by taking principles from the Word of life and and actually applying them to our lives in full view of “this generation of youth,” so they can see what it looks like. We can’t expect BET to aid us in this effort; for BET that would be counter-productive. I think Christian Hip-Hop artists tend to be too raw and radical for BET, saying stuff like “BET tonight becomes addiction to pornography / that’s in no way honoring the God who’s ruling sovereign” (Lecrae). The last thing BET wants to see is this generation of youth in the church embracing the concept of holiness!

As ancient as it is, I think Exodus 34:12-16 is highly relevant to the church today. Peep what it says:
“12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. 13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images 14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.”

Those are the type of results you get when you team up with entities like BET for selfish abmition and financial gain, but it seems the Bible is calling us to the exact opposite. Perhaps this is the failure of the “gospel” music INDUSTRY. “The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured people; they have taken treasure and precious things…. Her priests have violated [God's] law and profaned [God's] holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from [God's requirements], so that [He is] profaned among them. Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy people, and to get dishonest gain. Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken.” Ezekiel 22:25-28.

When the focus is really on making money, you can run side by side with Jesus and be a Judas the whole time. So if you ask me, the church shouldn’t push to get HHH on BET, but should be pushing to get the rest of the Christian artists off of BET. I mean, if you can use BET to reach the lost then cool, but do we expect non-believers to sit back and watch this “celebration of gospel” and to get saved as a result? Seeing some of their favorite secular artists on there, they’re more likely to think they can be good with God without any repentance at all.

All that said, coming squarely back to the topic at hand: why is BET failing to make an effort to make the church relevant to this generation of youth by excluding CHH from the “celebration of gospel”? I can’t see why BET would want to make the church relevant to the youth to begin with. On Satan’s part, if the ol’ heads insist on “celebrating gospel” it’s like Pharaoh told Moses = you can do that … but stay here and do it, don’t seperate youself as your God has commanded (Ex. 8:25) … ok, you can do that … but just leave your little ones, your sons and daughters behind. Ex. 10:9-11. See, if you insist on honoring God, the enemy always has an invitation for compromise. I think BET’s “celebration of gospel” shows us, to some extent, what compromise looks like. They could rename it: “Egypt’s celebration of the God of Israel.” Yeah, right. As far as I’m concerned they can keep all of it. Let’s celebrate the true Gospel by how we honor God with our daily lives without compromise and without watering down the Word of Truth. “But as the One Who called you is holy [i.e., set-apart], you yourselves also be [set-apart] in all your conduct and manner of living.” 1 Pet. 1:15. If that aint the heart of HHH in the first place, we need to go ‘head and stop calling it that.

]]> Comment on Ya Gotta Watch ‘Em (False Prophets) by brother tb http://www.eternallifemusic.com/2012/04/23/ya-gotta-watch-em-false-prophets/#comment-3 brother tb Tue, 01 May 2012 03:00:41 +0000 http://www.eternallifemusic.com/?p=196#comment-3 Thanks brother LeRoy! Appreciate your support! Thanks brother LeRoy! Appreciate your support!

]]> Comment on Ya Gotta Watch ‘Em (False Prophets) by LeRoy Mace http://www.eternallifemusic.com/2012/04/23/ya-gotta-watch-em-false-prophets/#comment-2 LeRoy Mace Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:58:35 +0000 http://www.eternallifemusic.com/?p=196#comment-2 Hey man congradualations on your music. Hey man congradualations on your music.

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