This topic is relevant to the young people and what the Bible says. It's about Music. Love Songs. It's hard to imagine without Music in our Life. Cats, Monsters and Broken Hearts will help us to realize what the purpose of God in our lives is.
We're looking at three of the most popular music, wherein most listen of the young people today. Most downloaded songs of our generation.
What is Music???
Music is powerful. "Make your words count" - Taylor Swift
Music can change the world. Music is not just for entertainment.
Music is powerful because it produces various emotions in our hearts. Produces relaxing feeling.
Music is Unsettling. Music with songs convey ideas and send messages that affect our perceptions.
Sometimes, it generates a behavioral pattern whether we are conscious or not.
Napoleon Bonaparte: Musicians and singers are more powerful and influencial than senators.
Let's now see the three most popular songs of our generation and let us also see what the Bible says for our generation:
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>>Find Love and do everything and have SEX and don't worry about the consequences because we'll be young forever
"You make me feel
Like I'm livin' a
Teenage dream
The way you turn me on
I can't sleep
Let's run away and
Don't ever look back,
Don't ever look back"
" Let's go all the way tonight
No regrets, just love
We can dance, until we die
You and I, will be young forever"
= Let's go all the way and will be young.
Solomon wrote a song- "The days of your youth are numbered." In other words, you're not gonna be young forever.
The Bible says on Ecclesiastes 12:1
" Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
and the years approach when you will say,
“I find no pleasure in them”—"
1. Remember
>remember that you have a creator.
>remember that you were created.
>>You will not stay young forever.
>>REMEMBER YOUR CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF YOUR YOUTH!
Every decision we make today will impact our future.
Life is short. It just a matter of time. Death is the destiny of a man.
2. Creator
God said: You came from me. I'm your creator. I created you.
On Colossians 1:16
" For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him."
We are created by Him and for Him.
On Ephesians 2:10
" For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
Other Words: We are God's "Masterpiece"
NLT: For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
There's a purpose assigned in our lives. You may look ordinary to other people but you are valuable because of the One who made you. Jesus paid the high price to redeem you and I.God is a Big dream for your life. Instead of embracing the Teenage Dream, God wants us to embrace God's Dream for our lives.
Remember your Creator! Fullfill God's word when you are young. Give your best years to God.
Our Life came from God. For a child to be conceived in the mother's womb, it takes one sperm and one cell to come together for Life to be produced. The probability of living and having a life is one out of 500Million. God has given you a once in a lifetime chance to live. God gave us an opportunity to exists.
Remember your Creator in the days of your Youth, there's a creator who created you and gave you the chance to live, don't throw it away. Don't embrace a teenage dream that suggest you to go all the way.
There's a hole in our lives that only God can fill it. We're always searching for something. We can search everything in this world, but the Bible says, at the end of your Life apart from God, you will find no fulfillment.
We're created by Him and we're created for Him. God wants us to embrace His dream not a Teenage dream.
II. Born this way by Mama Monster (Lady Gaga)
>>I love myself, I was born this way
-talking about homosexuals, thieves, murderers
We need to have standards, basis, filters.
Syncretism - combining of different (often contradictory) beliefs, often while melding practices of various schools of thought.
"There's nothing wrong with loving who you are" - in the bible. love your neighbor as you love yourselves.
"Cause he made you perfect, babe" - We know that we are not perfect.
"I'm beautiful in my way
'Cause God makes no mistakes" - God makes no mistakes. -God is sovereign.
"I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way"
this way. - There is no reason to change. You don't have to be change if you are born.
"Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Whether you're broke or evergreen
You're black, white, beige, chola descent
You're Lebanese, you're orient
Whether life's disabilities
Left you outcast, bullied, or teased
Rejoice and love yourself today
'cause baby you were born this way" - Wherever you came from you need to love people.
"No matter gay, straight, or bi,
Lesbian, transgendered life,
I'm on the right track baby,
I was born to survive." - That's not true.
The Bible says in Genesis 1:27
" So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them."
-God made clearly made a line. Male and Female.
"Oh there ain't no other way
Baby I was born this way" - you don't have no choice.
What Jesus is saying: We have a choice. Choice to be reborn.
Just because you were born that way, it doesn't mean that you have to stay that way.
God said, "Yes, you were born that way but I don't want you to stay that way."
Bible: We are unique and special.We were created in the image of God. We are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Don't let others dictate for who you are, because you were created in the image of God.
John 3:3
" Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. "
A. Jesus said, I tell you the truth.
Sincerity without the truth is dangerous.
If what you believe today is not founded on the truth no matter how sincere you are the life that God has given you will be destroyed. God is holy, so that He can not tolerate the sin.
1 Corinthians 13:4-6(Love)
...Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
Boundaries are expression of God's love.
B. ...no one can see the kingdom of God
Kingdom of God: the area of rulership of God.
In Romans 14:11-12
It is written:
“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”
12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
When are you going to bow your knees to Him as Lord?
C. Born Again
Jesus did not come to establish religion but Jesus came to restore relationships. Religion can not save you. Unless you are reborn, transformed, changed.
Lady gaga said: You were born that way. There's no other choice. Just accept who you are out.
Jesus said: You can be born again.
We all need to be born again because we are born with Sin.
SIN: Electrochemical balances leading to biological disfunctions. the solution is not repentance and not forgiveness from God. it takes medicine.
In Psalm 51:5
" Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me. "
What we need is an ultimate acceptance. But the Bible says, we need a Savior. Sin is basically rebelling God, insulting God.
In Romans 5:8
" But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. "
For once and for all, our sins can be forgiven. The only way for sin to dealt with and to be paid for is for someone without sin to pay for it.Only Jesus has no sin. Very relentless. Standing face to face.
Just like in the Movie: Blood Diamond with Leonardo De Caprio. When the Father helped his son to realize that whatever happened in the past, he is still his son and he loves him so much.
Here's the link: http://youtu.be/QRWve1dr2JI
In John 1:12-13
" Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God — children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. "
We all need to be born again because we are not supposed to be born this way.
III. Someone Like You by Adele>>About a person who is inlove with someone but this someone is already inlove with someone else.
Dream: Happily ever after
Reality: Broken Hearts
A lot of people end up of broken marriages, divorce, married yet unhappily married.
What we do is to fill the gap. Some people, they hop to a relationship to a relationship.
Some didn't believe in marriage.
For some, same sex marriage.
First love story in the bible: Genesis 2: 18-22
" The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man."
When God created everything, there's a benediction (blessing). It is good. God said that it is not good when He saw Adam was alone.
God initiated Adam's lovelife. God initiated lovelife.
Observations:
1. Adam wasn't crazy about love.
Contrast with our generation today.
Because Adam was busy not idle fullfilling the purpose of God for his life. God is busy using Adam to change the world.
2. God brought Eve to Adam
-God is love. If you remove God in the equation, it will never gonna be work.
-Let's go back to the author of Love and let God be involve in your love story.
3. Adam was secure in God
-He trusted God to fill his every needs.
In Genesis 1:26-27
"Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them."
God created as whole.
In the Movie: Jerry Magguire
"You complete me"
We think that somebody complete us.
Each time your heart is broken, a piece of your life gets broken.
Everytime you are trying to fill the emptiness with someone you get broken and broken, then the right one came along you were already crushed and you can't make it worked.
There's always an emptiness in our life.
In 1 Peter 2:6
See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
will never be put to shame.
Anyone who trusts in him
will never be disappointed. (NCV)
Whoever trusts in this stone as a foundation
will never have cause to regret it. (The message)
Trust God to fill your emotional needs. You will never disappointed and never regret it, you will end up a happy love life.
How?: Just come back, Come to Him.
Are you willing to give up everything you have to have Me? -Jesus
The "Someone Like You" that we need in our Life is Jesus Christ, the precious Cornerstone.
Reference: victoryubelt.org (Youth Series)
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