But what is the situation now? Satan, who stepped into Eden, controls the horizon of music. This topic needs a serious discussion.
Statistics shows that the suicide rate is increasing in Western countries. I read a piece of news about five students committing suicide in a room in their school in the United States. All of them were aged between 17 and 19. This was sensational news at that time.
A group of people did an investigation about it. In their studies it was revealed that all the students who committed suicide listened to a particular kind of music. This music affected them deeply. They found ecstasy in death; their veins were filled with a desire to die. They sang songs, danced and embraced death. Once in England people listened to a certain song and jumped to the river Thames to commit suicide. The song asked the young people to embrace death and find happiness.
The influence of negative music is not limited to Western countries. Slowly it’s growing in India. Not only in the metro cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Bengaluru, but towns like Kottayam and Cochin in Kerala also fall prey to it. Many thousands of youngsters use alcohol, heroin and marijuana under the influence of this music.
We read in the Gospel according to John, chapter 10, verse 10, that the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.
The demonic power can sneak into human minds through the area of music and enter deeply into our minds. It influences our thoughts deeply. It affects our thoughts, desires and decisions.
In the book of Proverbs, chapter 4, verse 23, it says like this, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” From there comes the decision to live or to die.
Brother or sister, what type of music do your children listen to in your home? Think about it. Have you ever noticed the change in their behavior?
Let me tell you a real example. One college-going person had an ambition to maintain good conduct throughout his life. But his friends compelled him to listen to a particular type of music. Through the cassettes they gave him he started listening to a particular type of song. In the midst of all these things he was going to church, attending prayer and trying to obey his parents. But his heart was filled with the thoughts of sin. He couldn’t control himself. Slowly his nature started changing.
At this time he visited a pastor and opened his heart in front of the pastor. The pastor was a person who talked about Christ among college students.
After listening to his problems, the pastor asked the students:
“Do you listen to music? Do you have such a habit?”
His answer was yes.
“What type of music do you listen to?”
He explained the type of music he usually listened to.
The pastor said, “Your problem is the music you were listening to.”
In a serious manner the pastor explained things to him: “Consider your heart is like a big white paper. And the music you listen is the tip of burning match stick. Think of what will happen when a match stick falls on your heart. A part of the paper burns. Some parts will get scratched by the smoke of the match stick. Like this your heart, your mind, gets deformed with the scratches. It loses its natural innocence, holiness and creativity. Due to that people become the owner of deformed personality and disgusting behavior.”
Hopelessness, distress, fear, vengeance, cruelty, perverse thoughts, suicidal thoughts, hatred for society, an affinity for evil, isolation, disobedience and ungratefulness to parents, worshiping Satan and a mindset to do anything for their own gain: do these things now define our new generation? “I don’t want anybody’s help, I can do everything.” The negative music which this generation listens to is causing this type of arrogant thoughts and making people slip into a virtual world far removed from reality.
Deuteronomy 31:22 says, “So Moses wrote down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.” Music had an important place in the Word of God. Psalm, Proverbs, Song of Songs, Lamentations—all these are songs. In the first part of the 98th Psalm it asks us to “sing to the LORD a new song”.
How Music Can Boost the Quality of Your Daily Life
Does your family lack peace? Is happiness lost in your family? Are you living in a condition where you have lost your well-being, lost the aim of your life? In the deepest part of your heart, does this haunt you? There is an important thing which you have to do in your life and family. Stop listening to the music which is against the will of God. When you turn on the radio, you are the one who decides which station to tune in to; you are the one who decides which song to play.
There is one thing which you can do always. You can always sing the songs of gratitude to God in your heart. If you try, you can make some rhymes by yourself. Learn by heart some songs which praise the Lord. This will give you relief and courage, your heart will be pure and that purity of heart will make you happy.
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K.P. Yohannan ( - Present)
Dr. K.P. Yohannan, the Metropolitan Bishop of Believers Church, was born and brought up in Niranam, Kerala. Niranam has immense historical significance in the tradition of Saint Thomas, a disciple of Jesus Christ who planted the first church there in AD 52. K.P. Yohannan dedicated his life to God at a young age to serve the needy and downtrodden. He prayed, “Oh my Lord, let my heart break with the things that break Your heart” and his life was never the same. It’s his belief that one can only demonstrate God’s love by loving people. After over four decades of selfless service, he says, I have no regrets in praying that prayer for I know God has touched millions through what He did in and through me. It is all God’s grace.He spent the early years of his service in North India and traveled to the remote villages sharing the love of Christ and doing charitable works. Through numerous encounters during those years, he was instilled with an increasing passion to bring hope, peace, and comfort to the needy and deprived. His sacrificial commitment, farsightedness and aptitude to perceive helped him to lead a life of unhindered devotion to serve Christ and His church. K.P. Yohannan is also the voice of Athmeeya Yathra, touching millions through his daily radio and TV broadcasts. His 250 books offer practical and spiritual guidance on hundreds of subjects.
Recommends these books by K.P. Yohannan:
Living in the Light of Eternity: Discovering God's Design For Your Life by K.P. Yohannan
The Beauty of Christ through Brokenness by K.P. Yohannan
Crisis in Leadership by K.P. Yohannan
K.P. Yohannan is the founder and president of Gospel for Asia, a mission organization involved in evangelism and church planting in the unreached regions of Asia. Currently Gospel for Asia supports thousands of church planters in the heart of the 10/40 window.
Born in a remote village of South India, K.P. Yohannan's personal journey toward spiritual reality began at the age of eight when he gave his heart to Christ. While he was still a young boy, his mother began fasting each week, praying God would call one of her six sons into full-time gospel ministry. Her prayers were answered in 1966 when 16 year-old K.P., her youngest, volunteered to serve in North India with Operation Mobilization.
From 1974 to 1979 K.P. attended Criswell Bible College in Dallas, Texas, where he earned his B.A. in Biblical Studies. He was also awarded an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Hindustan Bible College in Madras, India. During the time he attended Criswell, he pastored a local church in Dallas. However, he was unable to forget the millions still lost without Christ in his homeland of India, and knew God was calling him to reach his own people. In 1978 K.P. resigned his pastorate and he and his wife, Gisela, organized what is now Gospel for Asia.