Read Revelation 2:1-7. The Church at Ephesus had many great deeds (works); Jesus noted those works. He also told them that if they did not repent He would remove their lampstand.
Works do not cover sin, and neither do music and singing. The devil uses music to entice, deceive, and seduce people in the world and in the Church. False ministers use a certain kind and degree of music and singing to entice, deceive, and seduce professing Christians to give money. They also use music and singing to cause professing Christians to excuse or overlook their false messages.
Jesus is looking for worship in the spirit and truth along with the preaching and teaching of truth! True and mature apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers are associated with both. They seek to minister truth to those who worship in spirit and truth. They minister to equip the saints in the truth of God so that they will do the following: be sanctified by truth, be mature in Christ, be unified in faith, and be a glorious Church that does the work of the ministry (Ephesians 4:13-16; Ephesians 5:26,27; Mark 16:15-20).
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I call false preaching "entertainment christianity". The word of God is not preached to the people going to these churches. Instead, they rely on being entertained instead of having their lives transformed by hearing the word of God. The old hymnals spoke of the cross, the blood and Jesus. You will not hear hymnals at the entertainment churches. I was in a church where I heard a "pastor" say the hymnals were old fashioned and out of touch. It was the hymns that brought me out of darkness and I would not trade them for anything.
We sing hymns every week. The messages within them are so wonderful and meaningful.
Many of the people who wrote them had to have known God in a very special way. God bless you,Wayne
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