Bill Lawrence Instrumental Music in Worship

Chris Goldman, Piper Ditzler, Brian Heniger, Jessiie Heniger, Kent Landrum, Bill Lawrence, Fred Ricker, Tad McMurray, Bob, Carey, Bob Robbins. The PATTERN of the Texas Vanguard was to get a new property built and then take it over as  a center of Musical Idolatry which is known as sorcery and harlotry.

2Cor. 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
        transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Cor. 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Cor. 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing
        if his ministers also be transformed
        as the ministers of righteousness;
        whose end shall be according to their works.

Angellos “di' aggelōn homileein tini” prov., Arabios a., of a loquacious person, Mousōn aggelos, of a poet, “aggela nikēs” onos,, a braying ass

kheli_d-ōn , the twittering of the swallow was prov. used of barbarous tongues by the Greeks, “eiper esti mē khelidonos dikē   aēdonōn mouseia in E.,

A.   mouseia A.hated, abominated, loathed, or hateful, abominable, loathsome,  M as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugera” The hieros gamos, hateful one.A.hated, abominated, loathed, or hateful, abominable, loathsome,
B. “adein adokimon m. disreputable discredited, reprobate 2 Ep.Tim.3.8, e
C. “kanakhan Clanging brass
D.  Aiakō moisan pherein    [The Laded Burden Jesus died to silence
E. homileein  II. in hostile sense, join battle with, the evil preaching word. joining in company, scholars, ho. tini frequent a teacher's lectures, be his pupil, IV. of marriage or sexual intercourse

Instrumental Music in Worship only for the Serpent, The Beast, Apollyon, the Locusts, Muses, dirty Adulterers. Earth-Born from Tartarus

THE MARK OF LOCUSTS KNOWN AS MUSICAL PROPHESIERS--

Among pagans, words were not for information but for controlling the forces of the universe. If you had "charisma" which according to H.B. Parkes, possessed irrational, emotional or sexual abnormalities.

-Plato Laws 10 [885d] that before threatening us harshly, you should first try to convince and teach us, by producing adequate proofs, that gods exist, and that they are too good to be wheedled by gifts and turned aside from justice. For as it is, this and such as this is the account of them we hear from those who are reputed the best of poets -[poiētōn], orators[rhētorōn], seers -[manteōn], oida], priests [hiereōn], and thousands upon thousands of others; and consequently most of us,
        instead of seeking to avoid wrong-doing,
        do the wrong and then try to make it good.

-manti^s pl. mantides Suid.s.v. Sibulla:— diviner, seer, prophet,. of Apollo and Cassandra, Id.Ag.1275; of the Pythian priestess, II. a kind of grasshopper, the praying mantis, Mantis religiosa

-10.[909a] shall hold intercourse with them, save only those who take part in the nocturnal assembly, and they shall company with them to minister to their souls' salvation by admonition; and when the period of their incarceration has expired, if any of them seems to be reformed, he shall dwell with those who are reformed, but if not, and if he be convicted again on a like charge, he shall be punished by death. But as to all those who have become like ravening beasts, and who, besides holding that the gods are negligent

[909b]  or open to bribes, despise men, charming the souls of many of the living, and claiming that they charm the souls of the dead, and promising to persuade the gods by bewitching them, as it were, with sacrifices, prayers and incantations,1 and who try thus to wreck utterly not only individuals, but whole families [Oikia household] and States for the sake of money

PROOF ONE: IN ADDITION TO "ROBBING TEMPLES" WHY BILL LAWRENCE AND THE EX-CHURCH OF CHRIST CANNOT BE CHRISTIANS.

John 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge of you:
        but he that sent me is true;
        and I SPEAK to the world those things which I have HEARD of him.
John 8:27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them,
        When ye have lifted up the Son of man,
        then shall ye know that I am he,
        and that I do nothing of myself;
                but as my Father hath taught me,
                I speak these things.
John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me:
        the Father hath not left me alone;
         for I DO always those things that PLEASE him.
John 8:30 As he spake these WORDS, many believed on him.
John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,
        IF ye continue in my WORD, then are ye my disciples indeed;

The Word or Logos is not and cannot be a God: God's Word has the same meaning as HIS light or life.  LOGOS is god's regulative principle which heaps BURNING on all who are ANTI-LOGOS.

The Word or Logos is used to REPUDIATE Hermes who was the Pagan gender-conflicted god of merchants, thieves and liars.  He is KAIROS used as a pattern for new PLANTS.  He was the messenger or intercessor of all Cults which go beyong the Ekklesia or a School of Christ.

God's WORD or LOGOS  consists of inclusive and exclusive things connected with how God puts His WORD into the MOUTH of Jesus for the last time without the help of A Holy Spirit person.

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John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth,
        and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed,
        and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
        Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
John 8:35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever:
        but the Son abideth ever.
John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free,
        ye shall be free indeed.
John 8:37 I know that ye are Abraham’s seed;
        but ye seek to kill me, because my WORD hath no place in you.
John 8:38  I SPEAK that which I have seen with my Father:
         and ye DO that which ye have seen with your father

Devil Do: poiētai 4. after Hom., of Poets, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea, Hdt.1.23, 4.14; “p. theogoniēn 

Epos  joined with muthos,     1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519.
2. fiction (opp. logos, historic truth),  THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE

Hdt. 1.23 Periander, who disclosed the oracle's answer to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth. The Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree) that the most marvellous thing [Lying Wonders] that happened to him in his life was the landing on Taenarus of Arion of Methymna, brought there by a dolphin. This Arion was a lyre-player second to none in that age; he was the first man whom we know to compose and name the dithyramb¹ which he afterwards taught at Corinth.

1 The dithyramb was a kind of dance-music particularly associated with the cult of Dionysus.

Devil Do: LATIN:   făcĭo ,  to make in all senses, to do, perform, accomplish, prepare, produce, bring to pass, cause, effect, create, commit, perpetrate, form, fashion,  operor Lying Wonder,  “poëma,” to compose, id. Pis. 29, 70: “carmina,” Juv. 7, 28: “versus,” id. 7, 38: “sermonem,” Cic. Fam. 9, 8, 1; cf. “litteram,” id. Ac. 2, 2, 6: ludos, to celebrate, exhibit, admirationem alicujus rei alicui,” to excite [the Laded Burden],

Devil Do: carmen
 I.a tune, song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus, and canto). note, sound, both vocal and instrumental “also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),” Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.: “carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,” Ov. M. 11, 317; cf. “vocum,” id. ib. 12, 157: “per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis

“barbaricum,” id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara: The Moher o Harlots in John 17 “Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi,

Devil Do:   Commercium sermonis,”   7  In mercant. lang., to practise, exercise, follow any trade or profession:  8. In relig. lang., like the Gr. rhezein, to perform or celebrate a religious rite; to offer sacrifice, make an offering, to sacrifice:

Devil Do: Mousa   II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugera” A.Eu.308 (anap.); “euphamos” Id.Supp.695 
“Kanakhan .Clanging Brass
 Theias  as many as made them hope by divinations, Madness caused by Ritual
        worship as divine, “Puthagoran  [Of the Cosmos, the Ecumenical, Kingdom of the Devil."
Antiluron mousas” S.Tr.643 (lyr.);  PLAYING THE LYRE
“Aiakō moisan pherein”I. bear or carry a load,  A Laded Burden
5.06.20 Ephesians 5 commands SPEAKING and in Romans 15 "using one mind and one mouth" to "speak that which is written for our LEARNING.  There is no evidence that people who Sow Discord and steal the churches of widows HAVE or evne NEED to understand what they so savagely teach with the command authority of WOLVES.  Paul would have understood that the "psalms" or Mizmors in the Book of Psalms are 50 used by their private devotion but never in a Worship Assembly.  Furthermore, both ODE and PSALLO  are silenced.  All "singing" or "names" of instruments are the Carnal Weapons of Sorcerers or Witches.

PROOF TWO:  WHY BILL LAWRENCE CANNOT BE ONE OF THE FEW LOST SPIRITS.

God  didn't command the King, Kingdom, Priests, Levites, Animal Slaughter, singers, instrument players: God abandoned them to this because of their Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted Idolatry at Mount Sinai for which there was no redemption. God saved David from execution:

Acts 7:46 Who found favour before God,
        and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Acts 7:47 But Solomon built him an house.
Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High
        dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 7:49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool:
        what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
Acts 7:50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,
        ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

PROOF THREE: 

There is not a single example of God's people, including David, who is ever said to WORSHIP by preaching, by listening, by singing, by making instrumental noise, acting or building houses and forcing the honest believers to PAY FOR PLAY.

http://pineycom.com/Acts.17.25.God.Not.Worshipped.Mens.Hands.html

Gen. 17:3 And Abram FELL ON HIS FACE: and God talked with him, saying,
Gen. 17:17 Then Abraham FELL UPON HIS FACE, and laughed, and said in his heart,
        Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Gen. 50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
Lev. 9:24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and FELL ON THEIR FACES


Another Version with IOCC Roots

Ov. Met. 11.146
When Pan had doone, the sacred Tmole to Phebus turnd his looke,
And with the turning of his head his busshye heare he shooke.
Then Phebus [Apollineos] with a crowne of Bay uppon his golden heare
Did sweepe the ground with scarlet robe. In left hand he did beare
His viol made of precious stones [ gemma and Ivorye intermixt.

Ăpollĭnĕus , a, um, adj. id.,

I.relating or belonging to Apollo (only poet.): “urbs,” i. e. Delos, where Apollo was born and specially honored, Ov. M. 13, 631: “proles,” i. e. Æsculapius, id. ib. 15, 533: “mater,” i. e. Latona, Stat. Th. 11, 12: “vates,” i. e. Orpheus, Ov. M. 11, 8: ars, both the art of soothsaying, id. Ib. 264, and that of healing, id. Tr. 3, 3, 10: “cantus,” id. M. 11, 155 et saep.

Mater    Cybele, the mother of all the gods: “matris magnae sacerdos,
cymbala circum, Verg. G. 4,
Venus, Ov. H. 16, 201: “cupidinum,” i. e. Venus, Hor. C. 1, 19,
Of the earth, as the mother of all

Mūsa , ae, f., = Mousa, I.a muse, one of the goddesses of poetry, music, and the other liberal arts. et cum doctrinā habeat aliquod commercium,

gemma “multas in digitis, plures in carmine gemmas Invenies,” Mart. 5, 11, 3:

My friend Stella, Severus, wears on his fingers sardonyxes, emeralds, diamonds, jaspers. Though there are many gems on his fingers, there are more in his verses, whence, I conclude, his hand is so decorated.  ³ See Ep. 8.

carmen , “also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),” Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.: “carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,” Ov. M. 11, 317; cf. “vocum,” id. ib. 12, 157: “per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis
5. A magic formula, an incantation:  incantamenta carminum, “Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi

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Is. 30:32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

Ezek. 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. [Cast as Profane]

Ovid: And in his right hand for to
        strike, his bowe was redy fixt.
He was the verrye paterne of a good Musician ryght
Anon he gan with conning hand
        the tuned strings to smyght.

plectrum   The PSALLO foundation of the musicators OUTLAWS the plectrum.  It only permits striking a bow or lyre string with the FINGERS.

artĭfex  artificibus eos auloedos esse, qui citharoedi   artifices scaenici,
A maker, originator, author, contriver: Also for a sly, cunning contriver, inventor of a thing (cf

căno   [cf. kanassō, kanakhē, konabos; clanging bronze  to utter melodious notes, to sing, sound, play. A. Of men: “si absurde canat, “tibia canentum   “harundine,    [flute]  “cithara,”

Ovid: The sweetenesse of the which did so the judge of them delyght,
That Pan was willed for to put his Reedepype in his cace,
And not to fiddle nor to sing where viols were in place.

pello , 4. Of a musical instrument, to strike the chords, play: “nervi pulsi,” struck, Cic. Brut. 54, 199: “lyra pulsa manu,” Ov. M. 10, 205;
1. To drive out or away, to banish, expel: Phoebeā morbos arte, 
2. To beat, conquer, overcome
morbus  B. Grief, sorrow, distress:  “nomen insaniae significat mentis

4. Of a musical instrument, to strike the chords, play: “nervi pulsi,” struck, Cic. Brut. 54, 199: “lyra pulsa manu,” Ov. M. 10, 205; cf.: “classica pulsa,” i. e. blown,

John 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said,
        My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
John 7:17 If any man will do his will,
        he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory:
        but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

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Cat. 63, 78;
Catul. 63 on Atys
Then as the she-he sensed limbs were void of manly strain
And sighted freshly shed a-ground spot of ensanguined stain,
Snatched she the timbrel's legier load with hands as snowdrops white,
Thy timbrel, Mother Cybele, the firstings of thy rite,
And as her tender finger-tips on bull-back hollow rang
She rose a-grieving and her song to listening comrades sang.
"Up Gallae, hie together, haste for Cybele's deep grove,
Hie to the Dindymnean dame, ye flocks that love to rove;
The which affecting stranger steads as bound in exile's brunt
My sect pursuing led by me have nerved you to confront

This speaks of the Mad "Women" of Corinth well documented.

Arist.Metaph.1000a9, The school of Hesiod, and all the cosmologists, considered only what was convincing to themselves, and gave no consideration to us. For they make the first principles Gods or generated from Gods, and say that whatever did not taste of the nectar and ambrosia became mortal—clearly using these terms in a sense significant to themselves; but as regards the actual applications of these causes their statements are beyond our comprehension

mantis  female witchcraft of Spiritual Formation. ho mantis mantin ekpraxas eme, of Apollo and Cassandra,
“ho Thrēxi [Impure Religion] m.” E.Hec.1267 (of Dionysus), That Thracian or Threskia as IMPURE religion. 2. metaph., presager, foreboder,
II. a kind of grasshopper, the praying mantis, Mantis religiosa, Theoc.10.18,

Delphoi , ōn, hoi, A.Delphi, “Delphōn es piona dēmon sacrificial meat.   [Paul cast out the Delphian spirit who used music]

Religious Sorcery or Witchcraft Caused by Instrumental Music

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The Demon or Devil worship at Mount Sinai was Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted.  These arise when the WOMEN rule over the BOYS.

Isaiah.3.Women.and.Children.Rule.Over.Them.html

Did Satan really invent music and give musical skills in exchange for one's soul? This seems to be the message of the king of Tyre and the king of Babylon as they represented Satan's attack against God's people. For instance, Isaiah said that Tyre used "the song of the prostitute" with the harp to subvert the people of Israel in order to sell them into slavery.

If layers of tradition keep us from understanding the Bible aren't we still left with ancient literature to force the conclusion that people believed that many of their demons
        or departed super-heros were worshipped
        because they gave instrumental music as an addition to vocal praise.
The common belief was that Satan taught men to make music
        because he knew that he could win their approval through this skill--

"Slightly less familiar are the Devil's musical exploits. He not only loves singing but is master of the violin, of which instrument of evil he is reputedly the inventor. By the same token he can give mastery of the violin, bartering infernal skill for the pupil's soul.

These legends are related to the larger belief in the supernatural origin of musical skill and individual songs." (Botkin, B. A., A Treasury of American Folklore, Crown Publishers, p. 718; Cf. The Devil and the Fiddle, Herbert Halpert, Hoosier Folklore Bulletin, Vol II (Dec., 1943).

Chaucer collected the folklore of the period and tells us through The Pardoner in The Cantebury Tales about the common opinion of music--

"In flanders there once was a company of young folk, who devoted themselves to such follies as riotous living, gambling, brothels, and taverns. Where, with harps, lutes, and guitars they danced and played at dice day and night, and also ate and drank more than they could handle; and thus they offered sacrifices to the devil within the devils temple, in a cursed manner... singers with harps... all truly the devil's agents." (Bantam Classic edition, p. 345)

Later writers said that Orpheus was also the inventor of music. Others claim that it was Pan, the god of the shepherds, or Mercury who invented the flute. One noted Biblical researcher comments that Amos condemned Israel for using music as worship like David but that David was not the primary inventor of musical instruments--

"In pagan traditions, musical instruments are invented by gods or demi-gods, such as titans (seitans). In the Bible, credit is assigned to antediluvian patriarchs, for example, the descendants of Cain in Genesis 4:21. There is no other biblical tradition about the invention of musical instruments." (Freedman, David Noel, Bible Review, Summer 1985, p. 51).

It was believed that the Cainites were influenced by the giants or titans who were the result of intermarriage between humans and the elders of Lucifer who seduced the children of God through music.

"We see, therefore, that the arts also are consecrated to the services of the beings who dwell in the names of their founders; taints of idolatry whose inventors have got a place among the gods for their discoveries. Nay, as regards the arts, we ought to have gone further back,

and barred all further argument by the position that the demons, predetermining in their own interests from the first, among other evils of idolatry, the pollutions of the public shows,

with the object of drawing man away from his Lord and binding him to their own service, carried out their purpose by bestowing on him the artistic gifts which the shows require'." (Tertullian, de Spectaculis, Ante-Nicene, III, p. 84).

Here are the practices which use ANY kind of metrical or musical MEASURE cannot speak from the Holy Spirit OF God which is not another God..

Abomination, Witchcraft, the BEASTS, Demon worship, Viper worship, Sorcery, Charming, Soothsaying,  enchantment, harlots, beguilers, serpents, vipers, Serpo, Herpo, inducing wine-drinking, Cunning Craftsmen or Sophists, Rhetoricians, Dogs or Catamites, magic, Voodoo in primitive America, Melodies to deceive, Deceiver, Techne. religious craftsmen, Lucifer,  Locusts, Apollyon, Levi-Leviathan

Plat. Euthyd. 290a "and only slightly inferior to that. The sorcerer's art is the charming of snakes and tarantulas and scorpions and other beasts and diseases, while the other is just the charming and soothing of juries, assemblies [Ekklesia or church], crowds, and so forth. Or does it strike you differently? I asked.

No, it appears to me, he replied, to be as you say.

kēl-ēsis , eōs, hē, *A.  bewitching, charming, ekheōn, nosōn, Pl.Euthd. 290a: enchantment by eloquence, dikastōn k. te kai paramuthia ibid.; by music and sweet sounds, Id.R.601b, Stoic.3.97.

Jude 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having mens persons in admiration because of advantage.

-Goēs , ētos, ho, A. SORCERER, wizard, Phoronis 2, Hdt.2.33,4.105, Pl.R. 380d, “g. epōdos Ludias apo khthonos” E.Ba.234,  SPEAK is the OPPOSITE of SING or ODE.

-Epōd-os 

https://onlineservices.ubs.com/wma/totalpicture/holdings  A. singing to or over, using songs or charms to heal wounds, “epōdoi muthoi” Pl.Lg.903b.

b. Subst., enchanter, “e. kai goēs” E.Hipp. 1038 (but “goēs e.” Ba.234): c. gen., a charm for or against, “ethusen hautou paida epōdon Thrēkiōn aēmatōn” A.Ag.1418 ; e. tōn toioutōn one to charm away such fears, Pl.Phd.78a.

c. c. dat., assisting, profitable, “e. gignesthai neois pros aretēn” Id.Lg.671a ; “duspraxia lēphtheis e. esti tō peirōmenō” Trag.Adesp.364.4.

2. Pass., sung to music, “phōnai” Plu.2.622d ; fit for singing, “poiētikēn e. parekhein” S.E.M.6.16.

DEUTERONOMY 18 THE ABOMINATION OF THOSE NATIONS

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Christopher Darrell Goldman There is no Statute of Limitations for those who "infiltrate" with the driving purpose of diverting a historical, pioneer. established church of Christ by the INSTRUMENTAL SECTARIANS.  Paul outlaws the cunning craftsmen or Sophists who are rhetoricians for sale, singers or instrument players.

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU GET "VIPERIZED."
Testimony of my departed Daughter who was DUPED by the VANGUARD troupl

Down from Kingdom Mountain

My name is Catherine Hampton, and for ten years, from 1977 to 1987, I was part of the discipling movement, often called the "Crossroads Movement", within the Churches of Christ. The Boston Church of Christ, and later the International Churches of Christ (ICC), came from this movement.

At this advance I met Milton Jones, the evangelist at Northwest and leader of the mission team that had planted the ministry there. Milton played a tremendous role in the discipling movement, perhaps second only to Kip. Three years after this advance he wrote the book from which the ICC took its discipling methodology, among other things.

I also met Bill Lawrence, the campus minister, and a number of other people who became leaders in the movement later on. (Among them were Tom Reynolds, Rob Jacobsen, and Marv Law, all of whom later led various church plantings from Northwest.) In the next three or four years Northwest became one of the fastest-growing discipling movement churches, with over a hundred baptisms a year for most of that period.

My Late Daughter was active. However, it later became obvious that the Work had shifted with a Christian Church as an early Sower of Discord and REpurposing Churches of Christ especially by Rick Atchley (A closet "christian" church proponent)

Dad,

I will read this more completely later.  I fast forwarded to the Northwest section…very troubling.  It was starting before I left in December of 1979, so for that reason alone I am grateful that I didn’t stay in Seattle.  So many lives destroyed.  Thank you for sharing this.

I love you very much. Annette

The rescued Hebrews rose up to PLAY in Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted "play."  In 1 Corinthians 10 Paul defined this as the WORSHIP OF DEMONS.  Jude warns that the Truth had been ONCE Delivered.  There is no more.  Jude said that these were FOREORDAINED.  Apollo or Apollyon defines the Jacob-cursed and God-abandoned Levites SERVICE under the unlawful KING and commanders of the army.  Serpents or Vipers will not confess because.  There is only a tiny flock of Lost Spirits who can HEAR the message. Those OF the World or Aborigines with a spirit CANNOT read BLACK text on BROWN paper.  They are faithful servants of THEIR father.

John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them,
        When ye have lifted up the Son of man,
        then shall ye know that I am he,
        and that I DO nothing of myself;
              BUT as my Father hath taught me,
              I SPEAK these things 

Legalists who DO on their own always REJECT the SPEAK mark of a child of God.

Poieite. LEGALISM make, produce, first of something material, as manufactures, works of art, etc. of building, p. dōma  ton Apollōn,  p. to problēma effect a solution of the problem, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea 1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519.  Saturous [BEAST] kōmōdian, tragōdian, poetry, write as a poet  describe in verse, put them into verse, of sacrifices, festivals, etc., celebrate  p. tēn mousikēn practise it,

John 8:37 I know that ye are Abrahams seed; but ye seek to kill me,
        because my WORD (logos) hath no place in you.

John 8: 38 I SPEAK that which I have seen with my Father:
        and ye DO that which ye have seen with YOUR father.

God is WORD, SPIRIT, LIGHT, LIFE, WISDOM. Disciples can see FACE TO FACE when they are Baptized.
All of the ROBBERS of Church property DENY the Word, Logos or Regulative. Thefore they are ANTGod and ANTICHRIST. Music is their REPLACEMENT for the masculine SPEAK or READ.

God is Word, Logos or Regulative Principle. Spirit means that God put His WORDS into the MOUTH of a Moses, the Prophets, and Lastly the MAN Jesus of Nazareth.  Jesus SPOKE only what He Heard.  Without measure means without MUSICAL METER which was always the way Evil Men set their lies to music.   God uses LOGOS-WORD versus SOPHIA-music to separate the STRAIGHT from the PERVERSE which in Civilized society identified any male who would self-exhibit with singing and playing an instrument.

Jesus' Word that He SPOKE is SPIRIT and LIFE.  For those who Rock and Roll selling their bodies and talent, God said in Hebrews 12 that GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.   The Singers, Instrument players and GRINDERS are "lusted after fruits" and that is why imposing Self-Exhibiitors forcing you to worship (give attention to) them IMPOSES SORCERERS to Deceive and they along with LIARS will be CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.  Jesus says that they are OF the World or BENEATH (Tartarus) and really HAVE NO CHOICE.

Music intends to SILENCE the Mouth of Jesus the Victim.

Logos  computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument, ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas prob. in Heraclit.50; logon ēde noēma amphis alētheiēs discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of the soul, reflection, deliberation Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,

Opposite to epithumia
 A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, 3. view as spectators
Opposite Pathos  A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident,  Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired, “phusis” Pl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose,  OPPOSITE -poiêsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiêtikê, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poiêmata, onomatopoeic word
OPPOSITE  emmetra Modus   2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., = mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,

Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT.  If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.

mousikos kai melōn poētēs” 2. generally, votary of the Muses,  The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses

http://www.pineycom.com/DocHesTheog.html
[25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: “Shepherds of the wilderness,
        wretched things of shame, mere bellies,
        we know how to speak many false things as though they were true;
        but we know, when we will, to utter true things.”
            ...and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally,
                but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.
pharma^kon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell, Od.4.220 sq., Ar.Pl.302, [Circe, Church, Corinth mother of harlots]  Theoc.2.15

The singers [Muses], instrument players and craftsmen as sorcerers in Revelation 18.

THE ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY LED CLERGY LITERALLY CANNOT READ SCRIPTURE.  THEY HAVE DISLEXIA OF THE EYES.  ANY form of MUSIC is defined as SORCERY or VIPERS.

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Genesis 3.1  sed et serpens erat callidior cunctis animantibus terrae quae fecerat Dominus Deus qui dixit ad mulierem cur praecepit vobis Deus ut non comederetis de omni ligno paradisi

5175 nâchâsh naw-khawsh' From H5172 ; a snake (from its hiss):—serpent.
H5172 nâchash naw-khash' A primitive root; properly to hiss, that is, whisper a (magic) spell; generally to prognosticate:— X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment, learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe.

Serpo , of things, to move slowly or imperceptibly, to creep along, proceed gradually,
Of disease, etc.: “si ulcus latius atque altius serpit,” gradually spreads, “serpentes quasdam (bestias), quasdam esse gradientes,”  “chamaeleon,
 Fire: “exsistit sacer ignis et urit corpore serpens,” slowly spreading,  canam, qui leniter
(cf.: “sermones Repentes per humum,”
A creeping LOUSE

Canam, exsistit sacer ignis et urit corpore serpens,” slowly spreading fire, bring to destruction, reduce to ruin, destroy

Agmĕna  crowded into a compact mass, Of a snake winding onwards Eap. of a company of persons, a multitude, troop, crowd, number, band
1. An army, troop, band, multitude: clāmor  —Of things, noise, sound, din căvus , “tibia,” id. 2, 620:
“bucina = A. A war-trumpet  b. = inanis, vain, empty: “gloria,

Tībĭa , a pipe, flute (orig. made of bone; curva choros indixit tibia Bacchi,” “modulate canentes tibiae,

Bestĭa , 2. As a term of reproach (cf. belua and our beast): “mala tu es bestia,” Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 21; id. Poen. 5, 5, 13.—And, humorously, of the odor of the armpits (cf. ala and caper), Cat. 69, 8.—

căno , cĕcĭni, cantum (ancient I.imp. cante = canite,
“once canituri,” Vulg. Apoc. 8, 13  to utter melodious notes, to sing, sound, play.
tibicen  “cithara,” crowing of a cock: “galli victi silere solent, canere victores,” to crow,
to practice magic, to charm, Galli is a word for a Catamite: priest of the Mother Godesses.

"Kenite" is a rendition of Hebrew According to Gesenius, the name is derived from the name Cain (קַיִן Qayin).^[5] According to A. H. Sayce, the name `Kenite', Qéní, is identical an Aramaic word meaning `a smith', which in its turn is a cognate of Hebrew Quayin, with the meaning `a lance'.

H7014 qayin kah'-yin The same as H7013 (with a play upon the affinity to H7069 ); Kajin, the name of the first child, also of a place in Palestine, and of an Oriental tribe:--Cain, Kenite (-s).
H7013 qayin kah'-yin From H6969 in the original sense of fixity; a lance (as striking fast): spear.

H6969 qun koon A primitive root; to strike a musical note, that is, chant or wail (at a funeral): lament, mourning woman.

BEGUILED IS:   dē-cĭpĭo , capio, primarily signifies to catch away, catch up, seize an animal while running, fleeing,: “amatorem amicae decipiunt vitia,”Hor . S. 1, 3, 38.—

The Prophets define the Church of Christ both Inclusively and Exclusively. The Holy Spirit asks:

The Sacrificial System was from the Assyrians and their WORSHIP was that of Molech. Today we BURN infants by lying about the WORD.

http://www.pineycom.com/Isa30LXX.html

Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a feast? and must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel Isaiah 30:29 LXX

Isa 30:30 And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be hearrd
        and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and of anger and devouring flame:
        he shall lighten terribly, and his wrath shall be as water and bionent hail.

Isa 30:31 For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome,
        even by the stroke wherewtith he shall smit them.

Isa 3032 And is shall happen to him from every side,
        that they from whome their hope of assistance was,
        in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp.


Abilene Christian University has long been cuckolded by the NACC or Christian churches.  Any one such as Rick Atchley who knows nothing of the MYSTERIES reserved for the Little Flock of Lost Spirits who uses bits and pieces of Scripture to justify sowing of discord and stealing the church property of Widows and Honest workers do not BELIEVE Scripture and boast about being CO-inspirers with God may be Biblically Illiterate.  However, Jesus as Spirit is not so meek and mild in Ephesians 4 where the cunning craftsmen or Sophists-speakers, singers, instrument players-are LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.

The evidence is that a SECTARIANIZED congregation doesn't look to great for having COLLECTIVIZED three successful and happy Congregations.

PSALLO as the "proof" for instruments command to SPEAK the Biblical Text.  Ode and Psallo are IN the heart which means SILENCED.  That is because the PSALLO rooted words were used in the Greek Translation because they MARKED those, like Apollon, who plucked his LYRE to seduce both male and female. He plucked his BOW for anyone, male or female, who would not submit.

SORCERY: I will add the UNIVERSAL understanding that an ABOMINATION, Witchcraft, inducing KOMA and the sting of the Locusts is ANY kind of music when Jesus is still the SENIOR Teacher only when APT elders "teach that which has been taught."

Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
        the STAR of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days,
        and offered sacrifice unto the idol,
        and rejoiced in the works of their own hands

The practice in the wilderness, tyre and Jerusalem

Acts 7:42 Then God turned,
        and gave them up to worship the HOST of heaven; 
        as it is written in the book of the prophets,
        O ye house of Israel,  have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices
        by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into
        captivity beyond Damascus,
        saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, 
        and the star of your god Remphan, 
        figures which ye made to worship them: 
        and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Mark.10.They.Shall.Mock.Him.With.Music

Trumpet, drums, flute, cymbals and castinets with buffoons
Psallo permits ONLY smiting a string with your FINGERS: not a plectrum
Psallo and SOP have the same root meaning.

Revelation 18F: they are all called Sorcerers who HAD once deceived the whole world.
They WILL BE CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.

Tyre and Babylon explain Lucifer the singing and harp playing prostitute in the garden of Eden.

The Babylon mother of HARLOTS in Revelation 17 use "lusted after fruits" as singers and instrument players.  They are called SORCERY and will be cast alive into the Lake of Fire.

And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water. Ezek 26:12   And I will cause the noise of thy SONGS to cease;         and the sound of thy HARPS shall be no more heard.          Ezek 26:13 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon;  thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God. Ezek 26:14 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall,  when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? Ezek 26:15 Sono:  to make a noise, to sound, resound: aes sonit, the trumpet sounds “plectra,” Prop. 4 (5), 7, 62. tympana, Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones,         and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments:         they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground,         and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee. Ezek 26:16

Ezek. 33:4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. Ezek. 33:30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord. Ezek. 33:31 And they come unto thee AS the people cometh,       and they sit before thee AS my people,       and they hear thy WORDS,            but they will not do them: for with their MOUTH they shew much love,           BUT their heart goeth after their covetousness. WHICH IS COMPARED TO SOMETHING ELSE HYPOCRITICAL Ezek. 33:32 And, lo, thou art UNTO them          as a very lovely SONG          of one that hath a pleasant VOICE,          and can PLAY WELL on an INSTRUMENT:                  for they hear thy words,                  but they do them not.

Tabrets or Drums has the same message as TOPHETH. The Jews had acovenant wiith Death and Hell. Amos 8 and Revelation 18 marks the priesthood of the Babylon Mother of Harlots.  Apollyon is 666 and THE Spirituus LEADING the Muses.

Isaiah 3 Women?  and "boys" Rullig over you.


The MARK of the BEAST
 




BEAST: Thērion , 

to (in form Dim. of thēr),  A. wild animal, esp. of such as are hunted, mala gar mega thērion ēen, of a stag, Od.10.171, 180 (never in Il.); in Trag. only in Satyric drama
III. as a term of reproach, beast, creature, , cf. Eq.273; “kolaki, deinō thēriō” Pl.Phdr.240b;

 “hē mousikē aei ti kainon thērion tiktei” 

mousikê aei ti kainon thêrion tiktei
A.  Mousikos, musical, agônes m. kai gumnikoi  choroi te kai agônes ta mousika music,  

II. of persons, skilled in music,  kuknos [minstrel]  kai alla zôia; peri aulous - professional musicians, mousikos kai melôn poêtês, use with singing, skilled in speaking before a mob. Melody, 

B. aei always
C. kainos , esp. of new dramas, the representation of the new tragedies,  (Aphrodisias dedicated to Aphrodite (ZOE); comedy, sexual love, pleasure, a woman's form of oath, Aster or Venus or ZOE Lucifer
D. Therion
E. Tikto mostly of the mother  of Rhea one of the zoogonic or vivific principles

WHAT IS A PLAGUE:  PLESSO 3. strike or stamp as one does a coin, Kuprios kharaktēr . .
         en gunaikeiois tupois “peplēktai”   Strike a string with a key,

4. OF MUSICAL SOUNDS, houtôsi plêgenta houtôs ephthenxato ta phônêenta 
EPHTHENXATO--trumpet (thunder), flute, lyre, Phormigx (ABADDON'S instrument), melody in a holy place, CLAPPING HANDS. sting, “plēgeisa hupo skorpiou

EXAMPLE: Plato, Euthydemus

[289e] For not only do these speech-writers themselves, when I am in their company, impress me as prodigiously clever, Cleinias, but their art itself seems so exalted as to be almost inspired.  However, this is not surprising; for it is a part of the sorcerer's art,

Rev. 19:20 And the beast was taken,
        and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him,
        with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,
        and them that worshipped his image. 
        These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.


6.02.13 Revised
Northwest Church of Christ Seattle Levites and Soothsayers
 We have added notes to prove that if instrumental idolatry doesn't get you, and if sowing discord doesn't get you, them MOCKING Jesus Who wants to be our only TEACHER when the elders "teach that which has been taught" is with us.

Sermon Review, Bill Lawrence Northwest Church of Christ, Seattle. Instrumental music in worship based on No Dispensational Distinction. This is refuted by Campbell, John Locke, John Knox, Martin Luther, John Calvin and Justin Martyr. To that we can add the Old Testament prophets, Jesus, Paul and the collective host of church Fathers. Milton's views sound like they come from Tom Burgess. We have reviewed this book vaguely remembered from living in Seattle. The thesis seems to be that the ANTI-instrument position is based on southern culture and Biblical illiteracy. While Tom Burgess throws the proof text like Saul's lance, they all miss the mark. As in all scholarly works the proofs totally miss the point. The point is that the Greek word PSALLO is a word related to warfare and not to music. Except, of course, the word is related to Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyon. He is the evil musician used as a prophetic model by John in Revelation. The muses are his "team" which was sentenced into the underworld because they did not properly honor the Mother Goddess who, in history is Eve or Zoe. Prophecy has been fulfilled right on time.

See how Milton Jones Led the church into the patternism of the International Church of Christ: a first person horror story.

Down from Kingdom Mountain

My name is Catherine Hampton, and for ten years, from 1977 to 1987, I was part of the discipling movement, often called the "Crossroads Movement", within the Churches of Christ. The Boston Church of Christ, and later the International Churches of Christ (ICC), came from this movement.

At this advance I met Milton Jones, the evangelist at Northwest and leader of the mission team that had planted the ministry there. Milton played a tremendous role in the discipling movement, perhaps second only to Kip. Three years after this advance he wrote the book from which the ICC took its discipling methodology, among other things.

I also met Bill Lawrence, the campus minister, and a number of other people who became leaders in the movement later on. (Among them were Tom Reynolds, Rob Jacobsen, and Marv Law, all of whom later led various church plantings from Northwest.) In the next three or four years Northwest became one of the fastest-growing discipling movement churches, with over a hundred baptisms a year for most of that period.

Dad,

I will read this more completely later.  I fast forwarded to the Northwest section…very troubling.  It was starting before I left in December of 1979, so for that reason alone I am grateful that I didn’t stay in Seattle.  So many lives destroyed.  Thank you for sharing this.

I love you very much. Annette

We are not under the slightest delusion that those who would take your church building and sow discord has the slightest interest in the Bible. The UNITY trumps TRUTH is part of the new Stone Campbell Movement which intends to steal the church houses of widows and is propelled by a "scholarly" ignorance of the Word, history or Ethics. Jesus based unity on the same relationship God makes Himself known. As Father in even the trinitarian definitions is the THOUGHT, the Son is the WORD. The Spirit is that flow of knowledge from Father to Son to those of us who are still of the earth. The Son speaks only what He hears from the Father. Because the human identified His Father as God the Jews understood that Jesus was the Christ, the invisible God made visible. The only unity possible is based on "speaking the same things" which is very possible if you see "church" (the holy whore) as the ekklesia or synagogue or school of the Bible. The direct command is to glorify God with one mind and one mouth by speaking "that which is written." Furthermore, Paul in Romans 15 solves the diversity problem of Romans 14 by outlawing PLEASURING one another. This, in turn, speaks of the singing in a secular sense which LIFTED you up. This is the real meaning of HERESY in the Greek resources: singing to create mental excitement to carry you away for THEIR OWN USES. 

Another member of the Stoneites pretends not to be and has written some pretty flakey stuff on instrumental music and has been as instrumental a the Northwesterners as deliberately sowing discord. Our partial review of ---

Rick Atchley: Is it I DON'T KNOW or I DON'T CARE

A. Ralph Johnson in Instrumental Music, Sacred or Sinful.

1. Tom Burgess in Documents on Instrumental Music reviewed. Psallo and Instrumental Music: Proofs do not prove anything but the "music-homosexuality" connection. See more on Strabo's definition of the worship of Apollo or Abaddon or Apollyon: his MUSES are the locusts or musical performers in the book of revelation.

2. Tom Burgess More Review of Plutarch: if Psallo authorizes "church music" it authorizes a homosexual gathering.

3. Tom Burgess on Moralia confirms the "Music-Heresy-Perversion" connection which has no historical exception. 10/20/04

4. Tom Burgess on John Chrysostom: are the anti-instrumentalists ignorant rurals? 10/21/04 What about Paul and Martin Luther and John Calvin and Zwingli and--everyone who believed the Bible as authority.

Charles Daily Northwest College of the Bible Part One ..... Part One A .....Part Two ..... THRESKIA or CHARISMATIC

THE PROOF TEXTS POINTED TO AS AUTHORITY TO DELIBERATELY SOW DISCORD AND ATTEMPT TO UNITE BY VICTORY OVER TRUTH IS THAT 100% OF THE TIME THE "MUSICAL" REFERENCES ATTACH TO "RELIGIOUS" PROSTITUTION AND HOMOSEXUALITY.

The major missed point is that music in the worship sense is universally attributed to Lucifer or Zoe. It always points to PROSTITUTES as in the flute-girls or Sodomites. There are several other words similar to PSALLO and they all related to destructive or perverted practices.

In order to ignore direct commands of Paul about music it is convenient to riducule commands, examples and inferences as God's way of communicating His will for our lives. This riducles all of history's scholars and assumes a post-Biblical authority.

Commands, Examples, Necessary Inferences

In the need to impose instrumental music in worship it is not uncommon to claim that Restoration Movement theology gets its authority from John Locke rather than from Jesus. Or that Alexander and Thomas Campbell somehow slipped into southern, red-necked mentality to invent this method of determining God's will.

However, it is difficult for this writer to think of any other way to express my will to my children than the generally-recognized methods unless you have a direct connection to God. For instance,

If we command our child to do something they might assume the "doctor of the law" pose and try to find a legal way to get around it.
If we example refusing to accept a social drink our child absorbs it like a sponge even though we have said nothing.
If we say "I would not do that" they will infer that perhaps they should not either.

Because power corrupts, our "think sos" become a direct revelation from God and our "claiming so" exerts that authority on others. In the end, the error in the book of Enoch for which God will come with ten thousand of his saints to execute judgment is a way to corrupt the Word and the people so that they will not be able to evaluate anything beyond "sound bytes" put to the tune of pagan or contemporary replacements for the Word of God. If one professes to be Post-Modern then getting rid of the Bible as the product of Jesus' assignment for His time is a reasonable conclusion.

Therefore, to reject commands, examples and inferences is often accompanied with the claim of some supernatural connection with God in which one learns His will in some mysterious way. Experiencing God by Henry T. Blackaby and Claude V. King infuses such notions among those needing power.

Tertullian noted that:

For such is the power of earthly pleasures, that, to retain the opportunity of still partaking of them,
it contrives to prolong swilling ignorance, and bribes knowledge into playing a dishonest part. To both things, perhaps, some among you are allured by the views of the heathens who in this matter are wont to press us with arguments, such as these:

(1) That the exquisite enjoyments of ear and eye we have in things external are not in the least opposed to religion in the mind and conscience; and

(2) That surely no offence is offered to God, in any human enjoyment, by any of our pleasures, which it is not sinful to partake of in its own time and place, with all due honour and reverence secured to Him.

But this is precisely what we are ready to prove: That these things are not consistent with true religion and true obedience to the true God. Tertullian De Spectaculis

The only true worship in a physical sense is to "fall on your face" in the awareness of the greatness of God. And you cannot fall on your face when you are confronting a holy God trying to "move the worshipers into His presence" with authentia which is the sexual authority absolutely outlawed by God because authentia is "both erotic and murderous."

Worship, even under the Law, in a spiritual sense was "giving heed to God and His Word." We worship whatever or whomever we "give attention to." If feminine and effeminate performers present themselves as the Willow Creek "image of what a Christian should look like" then we are practicing "the idolatry of talent." We are FORCING people to give heed to the performers and their words. This is another violation of Paul's direct command to give heed to Christ's Word or Spirit power.

The rejection of God's only avenues of communicating authority is as hostile to the Spirit of Christ as any "heretical" view we could invent. Therefore,

"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every part of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, then I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all battlefields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point." Martin Luther

Jefferson stated: "Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery."

Rejecting Rituals Connected to the Sacrificial System as Christian "acts of worship."

David, my servant, whom I chose

To guard my flock, to crush my foes,

And raised him to the Jewish throne,

Was but a shadow of my Son."

Sir Isaac Watts Psalm 89

Sirach in Ecclesiasticus 48:

1. Then the prophet Elijah arose like a fire, and his word burned like a torch.
2. He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal he made them few in number.
3. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens, and also three times brought down fire.
4. How glorious you were, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! And who has the right to boast which you have?
5. You who raised a corpse from death and from Hades, by the word of the Most High;
6. who brought kings down to destruction, and famous men from their beds;
7. who heard rebuke at Sinai and judgments of vengeance at Horeb;
8. who anointed kings to inflict retribution,

and prophets to succeed you.

O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. Hosea 13:9

I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Hosea 13:10

I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. Hosea 13:11

Judah as a nation was little better.

When the "king set over us" is a dominant, Post-Modern preacher then God has appointed him to inflict retribution because you believed his childish belief in the Post Modern (Post-Biblical) children's gibberish.

"The same basic thought is in view throughout all these references, including II Peter 3:3 and Jude 18. Mockers, in the Word of God, are those who "belittle," "ridicule," "scorn," "make light of" both the living Word and the written Word.

Jude and Peter allude to the Book of Enoch and comparable documents. These show that mixed-sex choirs, instrumental music and eye and other sense appeal was introduced by Satan to take the worship away from God and direct it to him.

This ignoring of the Word in order to introduce human forms of worship define one as a liar and Satanic because Jesus defined the Devil based on the fact that he speaks on his own.

Jesus also defined the Pharisees in the same term and identified all of the Jewish leaders as sons of their lying father the Devil for committing the same sin.

God will come with ten thousand of His saints for just these people.

There are many Psalms which ask God to crush my foes but the weapons of Christian warfare are not carnal or lifeless instruments.

The second effort to transfer authority from Christ to a secular society passes Judgment upon Alexander Campbell and others for rejecting playing of loud instruments.

We have found no historical scholar outside of the liberal-tainted 19th century scholarship who agrees that Old Testament ceremonial ritualism can be added to Christian worship

without also resting our faith on the animal sacrifices to which music was exclusively attached in a worship sense. This has historically included rejecting instrumental music.

Hebrews 6 makes this the unforgivable sin.

Contrary to the need to diminish Locke and Campbell in order to personally replace them as authority, both taught principles which would increase religious toleration by limiting, in the collective assembly representing many opinions, only those "acts" for which there is a direct command. This was not to be exclusive but to be inclusive by not doing things not necessary for salvation which would deliberately offend those who did not have the votes to force their will.

Thomas and Alexander Campbell went further than most by teaching that approved examples which seem approved in the Bible also be allowed. Even further toward toleration was to allow "necessary inferences." For instance, the command for the Lord's Supper does not need a direct command to get in out of the rain so we infer that we can meet in a building without changing the nature of the Supper. Nor would we offend anyone.

Later American Restoration participants did not add things such as instrumental music to their existing practices -- rejected by most Protestants and even Catholics at least intellectually -- because there was no command, example or even inference that Christ or Paul or anyone had ever hinted that it would be productive. Furthermore, it would be sectarian because it would automatically "include" in a fraternal sense those who agreed, and it would "exclude" those who could not add music to the historical practice. It also answered to being sectarianism because those who added music had a vested financial interest in increasing attendance (See Vine's definition of sect and heresy). Locke Letter of Toleration

Mass religion fails when the individual believer becomes Post Modern. A gravestone in Rome reads: 'I didn't exist, then I existed, then I died. I don't care.'

Ain't it the truth? for now....

ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN DOCTRINE AND LIFE

Therefore doctrine and life should be distinguished as sharply as possible.

Doctrine belongs to God, not to us; and we are called only as its ministers.

Therefore we cannot give up or change even one dot of it (Matt. 5:18).

Life belongs to us; therefore when it comes to this, there is nothing that the Sacramentarians can demand from us that we are not willing and obliged to undertake, condone, and tolerate (LW 27:37).

With a straight face, yet, people will tell you that music has been the universal rule and to oppose the forced introduction into Christian worship is legalism and sectarianism:

"Those of us who protest against this revolution in Presbyterian worship are by some pitied, by others ridiculed, and by others still denounced as fanatics.

If we are, we share the company of an innumerable host of fanatics extending from the day of Pentecost to tile middle of the nineteenth century.

We refuse not to be classed, although consciously unworthy of the honor, with apostles, martyrs and reformers. But neither were they mad, nor are we. We "speak the words of truth and soberness." Mindful of the apostolic injunction, "Prove all things," we submit arguments derived from Scripture, from the formularies of our church and from the consensus of Christ's people, and respectfully invoke for them the attention of our brethren. George Girardeau, Presbyterian

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Review of Sermon, Milton Jones, Northwest Church of Christ, Seattle, Washington.

A visitor taped this sermon and because the preacher outlawed taping it it is not clear enough to transcribe directly. However, Milton Jones makes the common proof-text apology which we wil review:

First, I gather that Alexander Campbell is represented as the first person in the history of the world to have taught that there is a dispensational difference between the Law of Moses (added because of transgression, and that transgression being musical idolatry at Mount Sinai) which also betrayed  The Book of The Covenant of God in Christ to Abraham and restated..

Perhaps his uniqueness was to declare the fact to theologians who often "saw godliness as a means of financial gain." Furthermore, Campbell argues that Calvinists need to preach the law in order to radically panic the prospects into some emotional experience which could be translated as conversion and a sign of God's acceptance. This dissociation -- an integral part of the new marketing schemes -- terminated the process and therefore baptism was placed under the "New Covenant" as an optional act. That is, people were saved under law and baptized under grace. In "believer's baptism" one actually "becomes" Christ or Christ comes as in the "mass" and dies again for the personal salvation of the believer.

What I grasp from the words and their tone is that the audience is to see this new, unique but presumptious wall between law and grace as so radical that no "modern" person could possibly agree with them. Connect this with the theme of "breaking down the walls" to any and every system of religion and you see why dispensational distinction stands as an obstacle to ceremonial worship with music.

Grace, like Word, is God's gift to mankind to REMOVE the laded burdens and burden laders.  "Burdens" in Greek and Hebrew were the arousal songs with instruments used to ENCHANT or perform sorcery on people.

Titus 2:11 For the grace
        of God
        that bringeth salvation
        hath appeared to all men,

Titus 2:12 Teaching us that,
        denying meaning to contradict, reject, refute
        ungodliness means irreverent, impious: that will get you burned Heb 12. Zoe "calls down the fires."
        and worldly lusts, "A longing for that which is FORBIDDEN." Don't ring a bell?

we should
        live soberly, Sound mind: music deranges the mind.
        righteously, innocent giving NO offense.
        and godly, devout or reverent without which you get burned.
        in this present world;

Charis (g5485) khar'-ece; from 5463; graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstr. or concr.; lit., fig. or spiritual; espec. the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude)

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory,
        the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
        full of grace and truth. John 1:14
John 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses,
        but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

While many of Campbell's contemporaries believed that they could pick parts of the legalistic, ceremonial "like the nations" worship under the Monarchy, the problem with this approach is that Campbell and all of his Reformed and Baptist friends had always rejected instrumental music based on the "Regulative Principle" that -- out of respect for God and mankind -- "where the Bible speaks, we speak but where the Bible is silent we are silent." Many Presbyterians and Baptists are still faithful to that rejection of instruments.

They fully understood that to restore the music was to trust in that part of the Law which governed Israel after they rejected God and lived like the Canaanites in their midst.

And, long before Locke or Campbell we hear: "In essentials, unity, in doubtful matters, liberty; in all things charity." - Pope John XXIII, Ad Petri Cathedram and popularly attributed to Augustine

Second, the Campbells, and therefore the American Restoration Movement, is charged with being disciples of Locke rather than the disciples of Christ. This, of course, denies that they were true-blue scholars and question Locke's Christianity.

John Mark Hicks in defining the Hermeneutics of the Stone-Campbell

First, the false claim that the Churches of Christ and the Christian Churches were ever united or held a SINGLE doctrine in common when Jones etal claim that the groups UNITED in 1832.  We will debunk that under John Mark Hicks false document review.

Second, without having read John Locke who gave HIM both religious and civil lliberty, Jones and Hicksmake the false claim that the Campbells taught that they could use their OWN rationalistic, distorted mind to DETERMINE THE WILL OF GOD. That is false: God, Jesus, the writers and all humanoid history teaches that people WRITE documents knowing that readers can read BLACK text on BROWN paper.  The Disciples on the other

Anyone who read understands that the SNAKE in Revelation was called a Musical Enchanter(ess). Christ in the prophets identifies the King of Tyre as a LUCIFER type and "She is called a singing and harp playing prostitute in the graden of Eden.

The implication is that Locke was some kind of rationalistic creature who operated from his God-given mind rather than listening to the voice of the Spirit. Locke was not fond of the Calvinistic demand for supernatural signs and this may explain why those who distort Calvin don't like Locke.

Because the audience (nor do most of those camp-following lectureship guys whose "buzz code" is "down with John Locke.") know little about Locke it is easy to minimize one who stands at the top of the heap intellectually and promoted religious tolerance when it was dangerous to do so. Both Locke and Campbell taught that if you don't rely only on direct commands it is not possible to function as a united local body. And that is a self-evident fact of life.

The freedom which we enjoy as citizens under the Constitution of the United States and as free-to-choose worshipers of God depends heavily upon the work of Locke.

As a result of his work, Campbell's approach would promote religious toleration in a polluted ocean of tribal warfare among too many clergy chasing too few dollars.

Third, besides questioning the motives and spirituality of those who oppose music in the modern sectarian movement, the motive seems to be to aggrandize the period of the Monarchy or the Kingdom where God granted Israel a human king to replace Him so that they could worship like the nations and fulfill their sentence at Mount Sinai because of musical "play."

This would not allow, but totally prohibit, women or younger men from being "musical overseerers." If we need a "law" to answer to Paul's absolute prohibition of "non-sedantary" women in the assembly, this is it.

Quoting Psalm 150 as "proof text" shows that the preacher does not share any understanding of the difference between the covenant of grace offered at Sinai and the Book of the Law given to govern a people who turned back to the musical worship of their Egyptian gods.

There is a problem when a Psalm is used as "proof-text" or legal authority to add instruments even if we never see David as a theatrical performer in ceremonial legalism or "church worship." We do see him playing himself into a naked dance with the slave girls. The word "play" of David is identical to the Mount Sinai experience and Condemned by Paul to the Corinthians. The word "halal" means that he "made himself vile" and bragged that the slave followers would hold him in honor.

Nor does he share any understanding with the audience that some of these instruments were not allowed in the temple service (never congregational) and were not allowed on the seventh day sabbath which was to "be kept holy."

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Isaiah 58:13

If we use Psalm 150 as proof text for modern instrumental music what will we do with Psalm 149 which says:

Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; Psalm 149:6

To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the

people; Psalm 149:7

David "sang to the Gentiles" with his feed on their necks as he shed the blood OF the Gentiles. However, Christ shed His blood FOR the gentiles and when He sings we "preach."

The church "fathers" understood these either as written by a vengeful God or must be interpreted in a spiritual sense as Christ "playing" on our heart as we teach His Words (Col 3) or Spirit (Eph 5) to one another.

Fourth, with the destruction of "dispensational distinctions" the legalistic Levitical Musical Teams become the authority for many modern musical worship teams to replace the elders. These teams are now allowable if it can be proven to the audience that songs are to be sung using mechanical instruments with Psalm 150 as the "proof-text."

Once the walls have been broken down between the sacrificial system and the Christian dispensation it is just as reasonable to replace the communion table with sacrificial bodies offered up with musical noise. Paul would associate them with the shaven heads of the pagan prophetesses (1 Cor 11:5)

In fact, the instrumentalist "noise makers" played panic "music" during the sacrifices but this was not "worship."

In the wilderness, the Levites stood between the people and the Tabernacle to prevent them from "coming boldly into the presence of God."

The fact is that the Levitical musicians were later added to the like the nations temple services when Israel fired God and got their "own assignment" from the pagans around them. This put the temple, animal sacrificial and the Levitical musicians under the control of the king and the commanders of the army. This also meant that the literal songs, weapons and instruments were to punish anyone who ventured into the temple rituals or who did not fall down during animal sacrifices.

"To the priests was committed the charge of the sanctuary and the altar,

while the Levites were to take care of everything else about the tabernacle.
The Levites were to attend the priests as servants-- [meaning Hard Bondage]

bestowed on them as "gifts" to aid in the service of the tabernacle--
while the high and dignified office of the priesthood was a "service of gift."

"A stranger," that is, one, neither a priest nor a Levite, who should intrude into any departments of the sacred office, should incur the penalty of death. ROBERT JAMIESON

The "musical noise makers" served in the court which represents the world: they never entered the holy place (church) nor certainly the Most Holy Place where one worshiper at a time goes boldly before the throne of grace. A "musician" who attempted to follow the priest into either place (church or spirit) would be run through with a sword: any theatrical performers who attempts to do it today has been run through with the Sword of the Spirit.

Therefore, to adopt a Monarchy pattern is to adopt "worship like the nations" and to deny the work of Christ Who permits us all to come boldly before the throne of grace. Anyone who pretends to bring you into God's presence has been hatched in downtown Babylon.

It is also a fact that most complex harmony "panics" the enemy into "flight, fight or sex" before the induced morphine-like drug produces the "high" which can be peddled as a "spiritual" feeling.

Fifth, because many might not buy the "no dispensational distinction" argument, the word psallo is dredged up when no one understanding the Bible, the classical writers, church history or that no informed by scholars ever attempted to wrestle Paul's words until challenged about the forceful introduction of instrument.

Except to "poison the wells" it is difficult to understand the string of logic connecting Locke to Campbell to the Greek word "psallo." Rather than the Bible, an obscure but real-life "parasite" called Lucian of Samosata is used as proof that psallo demanded the use of instruments well past the time of Paul.

'It is impossible to pipe [aulein] without a pipe or to strum [psallein] without a lyre or to ride without a horse' (Parasite 17)

My version and other scholars note that you cannot perform LYRIC poetry without a LYRE. You cannot ride a horse without a horse.

This doesn't work either because Lucian of Samosata needed patrons out of the intellectual and ruling classes and therefore used the Attic Greek he had learned in his native land from the Classical writers. That is, his use of "psallo" dates perhaps 400 years before the time of Paul. Furthermore, he always associated this music with pagan or secular rituals dominated by performing women. His writings help explain the Marzeah held by Israel and condemned by Amos.

Tom Burgess has collected some of the Greek texts using the word PSALLO: However, there is no exception to the rule that it was males PLUCKING the harp to seduce a young boy as "minister of the gods."

In Alexander the Oracle Monger, Lucian shows how to construct a seeker form of religion with women a primary attraction.

In addition, external "melody" has its foundation in twanging arrows, plucking hair or abrading the enemy to death with "playing instruments and making a joyful noise before the Lord" which was the Israelite battle cry. Twanging a literal arrow makes the string twang and the arrow sing on its way to your heart: when you hear the twang of a bowstring, therefore, you panic because you know that the arrow is making its "melody" in your heart. See the background to twanging arrows. A similar word defines the SOP Jesus hand abraded as a sign to Judas that He was the prophesied agent of Psalm 41 who would try to triumph over Jesus with the musical warriors of the priests.

Well, it is pretty hard to blow a pipe without a pipe! I can buy that. However, if this is supposed to prove that it is impossible to psallo without a lyre then:

1. This demands that every singer have their own lyre or harp.
2. This would exclude theatrical performance for the "audience." .

Sorry, but history, including Lucian, never treats "divine" musicians much better than when Jesus insinuated that the Jews were seeking John because he might be "soft" and Jesus because He might sing and dance the effeminate chorus of Dionysus while they played the pipe:

Pseudo-Apollodorus notes of the word strum that: "The infants were exposed, but a neatherd found and reared them, and he called the one Zethus and the other Amphion.

Now Zethus paid attention to cattle-breeding,
but Amphion practised minstrelsy, for Hermes had given him a lyre

The two brothers are said to have quarrelled, the robust Zethus

blaming Amphion for his passionate addiction to music and
urging him to abandon it for what he deemed the more manly pursuits of agriculture, cattle-breeding and war.

The discussion between the two brothers,

the one advocating the practical life and
the other the contemplative or artistic, seems to have been famous. The gentle Amphion yielded to these exhortations so far as to cease to strum the lyre."

It is illustrated by a fine relief in which we see Amphion standing and holding out his lyre eagerly for the admiration of his athletic brother, who sits regarding it with an air of smiling disdain

This repeats the well-known story of Cain and Able. Cain's descendant, Jubal, was the musical performer. And the story of Genun shows that Satan always leads the musical performers.

Hermes was the agent who was the father of musical instruments, the bow twanging melodious arrows, of liars and of thieves. Because "cows" in the book of Enoch represents people, Hermes represents the Satanic agents who can "walk backward" and hide the cattle he stole from the senior god, Apollo. Apollo is Abbadon or Apollyon or Satan or the beast (Zoe type) who formed an early Seeker Center at Delphi as a theater for "holy entertainment."

However, you cannot blame Locke, or Alexander Campbell or those who insinuated instruments into even non-musical churches by rhetorical force.

Lipscomb wrote as late as 1878 that:

We do not think anyone has ever claimed authority from Scriptures to use the organ in worship. They only claim it is not condemned. It is used as an assister in worship...Prayer, praise, thanksgiving and making melody in the heart (mind) unto the Lord are acts of worship ordained of God, but no authority do we find for the organ."

Sixth, the Lucian quote demands the use of instruments. Therefore, Arndt and Gingrich are used as the modern authority for the allowance of instruments in some, but not all, of the New Testament usages. We have some notes on Arndt-Gingrich here. Many of the Lexicons note that Lucian used a pre Koine Greek language.

The real division over the forced introduction of musical instruments happened after Locke, Campbell or Alexander Campbell

Even though some of the churches had adopted an Old Testament structure to their organization, Alexander Campbell noted that:

"The argument drawn from the Psalms in favor of instrumental music,
is exceedingly apposite to the Roman Catholic, English Protestant, and Scotch Presbyterian churches, and even to the Methodist communities. (Catholic scholarship still rejects the authority of musical instruments)

This proves that the base of the Restoration Movement was consistent with 2,000 years rejection of instrumental or mechanical devices as "the works of human hands" to worship a Spirit God. Therefore, those who add instruments are the MUSICAL SECTARIANS. They know beforehand and with a high hand "sow discord among the brethren" and the claim to being Post Modern includes the right to lie, cheat and steal. Bill Clinton: "I know that I lied but the Republicans made me do it."

"There were those saying that they could "not abide the election of a Republican President." In which event they would destroy the Union. "And then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer." Abraham Lincoln, Frost, Vol. 1, p. 274

However, his primary argument was made against worship directed to the body or carnal nature and to the spirit:

"So to those who have no real devotion or spirituality in them, and whose animal nature flags under the oppression of church service, I think with Mr. G., that instrumental music would be not only a desideratum, but an essential prerequisite to fire up their souls to even animal devotion.

But I presume, to all spiritually-minded Christians, such aids would be as a cow bell in a concert.

Therefore, it is simply wrong to hang the sectarian music issue around the necks of these Godly and scholarly men who are probably chuckling in their graves over the second incarnation of the psalm argument.

Thus ends the major points expressing my opinion to interested parties about the first half of the sermon trying to justify the introduction of instruments into a Christian "worship in spirit and in truth." And, indeed, most of these old scholars would see the self-promotion of performance worship as neither Biblical, rational nor quite as entertaining as all artists believe. This is not "rationalism" but rational which is another word for "spiritual" because God gave us a mind to understand Him and not an antenna to suck truth out of the air.

Seventh. It is easy to get into the "church growth" fad but Paul said that the order is "plant and water and let God give the increase." When there is a deliberate sense of panic to escape the hard work the crowd- or hype-induced new marketing schemes seem so attractive.

However, don't forget that of those whom Paul called the "many" and prophecy calls the "multitite" there will always be witting or unwitting efforts to add ritual to take away the key to knowledge.

In the Post-Modern sense the question is asked:

"Are you having difficulty discerning or receiving this "new revelation"? Then you have been interpreting your Bible in the "old way,"

comparing Scripture with Scripture, studying diligently to account for every jot and tittle and being careful to rightly divide the Word of truth.

If this describes you, then you belong to the "Old Generation"
which will not enter in to "possess the land" in the Latter Rain Revival.

You may even be a member of a denominational church, with its dogmatic confession of faith and statement of doctrine.

These legalistic forms will be relics of the past in the up and coming "Postdenominational Church." Paul Cain advises that you "dump all that carnal stuff" (doctrine) and listen to what the "spirit" is saying to the churches through the Latter Rain Prophets and Apostles, who are dispensing many "new, sacred truths." Source

More Details on Blackaby and your incarnation as Christ.

See what Preachers trying to destroy the Word believe.

In so many of the "uniquely American" churches "testing the spirits" is between relying on the inspired Word which has stood the test of time or rely on those who believe that you should rely on them for faith and practice.

The following added verbage should be considered resources to decide whether you want to trust Jesus and His word which produces unity or the opinions of men who almost always do not understand or who misuse the historical evidence.

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In an article on the Second Great Awakening we document the very legalistic nature of the charismatic recapitulation one had to experience to effectively save themselves by bringing Christ to them literally and personally to die for them. In the modern Baptist scheme, which never died in some of the Restoration Movement, God personally picks the person for salvation and in a quieter Presbyterian system makes that known. However, to repudiate Calvinism at Cane Ridge, men like Barton W. Stone still needed some supernatural "exercises" to prove that one could work themselves through the legalistic phase of law and then receive the Atonement. Because these experiences rarely happen in any system, you just have to manufacture them.

Campbell, looking at all of the signs and results, saw this as Satanic and therefore denied that a Christian has to go through the Law and effectively redeem themselve. Then and now music was a powerful machine to "move the worshipers into the presence of God."

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Background to the Quoted Resources

We have added the factual information which you can read for yourself to show that:

1.  The Law of Moses was added because of Transgression: Instrumental Idolatry

2.  Historical scholars agree that the New Covenant dispensed with national legalistic rituals of all kind.

3. They also agree that authority comes -- like all possible authority -- through commands, approved examples and inferences.

4. Lucian did not authorize instruments by using a Post-Paul definition of the Greek word for melody: psallo. His Greek was perhaps 400 years older than Paul's.

5. Only in an after the fact effort to soothe the division caused by adding instruments has psallo ever been used to justify their use.

While the artistics "amphions" of the world are sowing discord by devoting too much attention to their own theatrical performance wouldn't it be wonderful if instead of tackling men like Locke and Campbell the "audience" could have the huge body of information "unchained from the pulpit." While they are creating "body worship" we believe that:

Amphion stands and holds out his lyre eagerly for the admiration of his athletic brother, they sit regarding it with an air of smiling disdain.

Did you know that the Judas bag was for "holding the mouth pieces of wind instruments"? But, according to Psalm 41, Judas would not triumph over (blow the trumpet and rejoice) over Jesus. Look and see how the Judas goats try to triumph over us.

Theologians cannot find God by themselves. Therefore Locke said that God revealed His Word through Jesus Christ, and that this revelation is reasonable to the common mind. He never taught that Christianity can be found by human reasoning. Nor did he advocate using direct commands to regulate the affairs of others but to create the broadest area of reconciliation.

Whence This Judgmentalism Against the American Restoration Movement Founders?

Like the charge of racism against those who refuse to worship with musical instruments, the charge of Locke contamination flows out of those who opposed the Campbell's rejection of ceremonial legalism such as musical worship. Of course they hated Locke for many reasons. They didn't like him or Campbell because both opposed professionalizing the clergy. They didn't like either because they opposed authority which reached outside of the local congregation.

Dr. Robert Richardson wrote in a letter to Isaac Errett:

"The philosophy of Locke with which Bro. Campbell's mind was deeply imbued in youth has insidiously mingled itself with almost all great points in the reformation and has been all the whole like an iceberg in the way - chilling the heart and benumbing the hands, and impeding all progress in the right direction."

What Richardson and the Post Modern Sucked Dry of Scripture detested was that John Locke understood that collective worship cannot take place if we violate the commands of Paul to the Romans in chapter fourteen. Both the Dionysiacs and Orphics both had in common was the use of instrumental music to "make the spirit come" in a sexual sense. Paul issued another "speaking rather than singing" commands in Romans 15 which demands.

The Romans Pattern:

Barton W. Stone made the same charge against preaching baptism. However, when his preachers got outside of the charismatic atmosphere they found that the people knew their Bibles and were a movement in search of a leader. True conversion will never create mass movements.

However, introducing Locke and Campbell into the music debate is one way to "poison the wells" so that those who have never heard much true biblical preaching will, like Mary's little lamb, just follow along with all critical thinking silenced. However, most people who adduce Locke have never read either Campbell or Locke. Therefore,

"Critics assume that orthodox Christianity is fideistic and non-rational
They also wrongly fancy that Lockean thought is "rationalistic" in such a sense as to exclude orthodox Christianity.

John Locke (1632--1704) was, to be sure, the author of

The Reasonableness of Christianity, but to make a rationalistic deist or Unitarian out of Locke because he thought of Christianity as rational only shows how little orthodoxy is understood. John H. Gerstner

Locke wrote within an invironment which denied the believer any power to hear the message and decide to believe or not believe. Therefore, the missing facts are, first, that Locke defended inspiration against the natural discoveries of philosophers (theologians). Secondly, Campbell was a Presbyterian and would therefore have subscribed to the 'Regulative Principle' which was taught by all of the reformers and many church Fathers, the exception being the Pope who had his own 'assignment' as Christ's visible manifestation.

As a result, Campbell understood from the Bible and from most scholars who claimed to be "Christian" that authority in worship comes from the Word of God and where God has not spoken man must not presume to "fill in the silence." This is not an "exclusive" law but an "inclusive" principle which broadens fellowship among Bible believers.

From very early even Catholics understood and longed to restore congregational singing and eliminate the theatrical performance which had, as always, been added as an aid to a "seeker-friendly" amalgamation of Christianity and paganism to beat out the fair goers to the nearest city with a cathedral.

When Campbell lived, instruments was rejected by all of the groups out of which the Restoration Movement came. Therefore, it was not an issue until it was added at Lexington, Kentucky again as a Seeker aid to compete with musical denominations.

Only a misunderstanding of ancient Paganism, the Old and New Testament and church history would cause one to accuse those who reject musical worship with concocting a legalistic scheme of "speaking from silence." The opposite is the truth: instrumental worship is derived out of cypr while non-instrumental groups just do what Jesus "exampled" and Paul commanded with some "audibility."

It is clear that "evangelists" who have "come in out of the cold" and become dominant pastors usurping the role of the elders and the body of Christ hate Locke because Locke understood them too well. To understand that Locke was not unique in condemning Catholic-derived clergy you may want to read Erasmus who also condemned musical worship:

In Praise of Folly ("Moriæ Encomium", or "Laus Stultitiæ")

Erasmus Against The Clergy

Erasmus Against the Monks

Erasmus Against the Popes

Erasmus Against the Princes

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Milton Jones ridicules the "dispensational distinctions" of Alexander Campbell because this prevents using the Legalism of Judaism to add clergy, musical performers and a dominant organization. To be consistent one needs animal sacrifices.

Milton etal missed the fact that The Law of Moses was added becausd ot TRANSGRESSION: that was vocal and instrumental idolatry of the Egyptian trinity at Mount Sinai.   The Jacob-Cursed and God-abandoned Levites executed 3000 of the "brethren" and God sentenced them to beyond Babylon meaning "no redemption."  The Levites stood in ranks under the king and commanders of the army: they would EXECUTE the Northwest Worship Team if they came NEAR or into any holy place. The Spirit OF Christ in the Prophets identified INSTRUMENTAL NOISE as a curse imposed on people and was not God's command.

Look at some of the scholars who agree with Alexander Campbell and not with Milton Jones.

Dialogue of Justin Martyr with Trypho, a Jew

b. c. 100,, Flavia Neapolis, Palestine [now Nabulus]

d. c. 165,, Rome [Italy]; feast day June 1

Chapter XI.-The Law Abrogated; The New Testament Promised and Given by God.

"There will be no other God, O Trypho, nor was there from eternity any other existing" (I thus addressed him), "but He who made and disposed all this universe. Nor do we think that there is one God for us, another for you, but that He alone is God who led your fathers out from Egypt with a strong hand and a high arm. Nor have we trusted in any other (for there is no other), but in Him in whom you also have trusted, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. But we do not trust through Moses or through the law; for then we would do the same as yourselves.

But now -(for I have read that there shall be a final law, and a covenant, the chiefest of all, which it is now incumbent on all men to observe, as many as are seeking after the inheritance of God.

For the law promulgated on Horeb is now old, and belongs to yourselves alone;
but this is for all universally.

Now, law placed against law has abrogated that which is before it, and a covenant which comes after in like manner has put an end to the previous one;

and an eternal and final law-namely, Christ-has been given to us, and the covenant is trustworthy, after which there shall be no law, no commandment, no ordinance.

Have you not read this which Isaiah says: `Hearken unto Me, hearken unto Me, my people; and, ye kings, give ear unto Me:

for a law shall go forth from Me, and My judgment shall be for a light to the nations.
My righteousness approaches swiftly, and My salvation shall go forth, and nations shall trust in Mine arm? LXX, Isa. li. 4, 5. '

And by Jeremiah, concerning this same new covenant, He thus speaks: `Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt'23 ).

If, therefore, God proclaimed a new covenant which was to be instituted, and this for a light of the nations,

we see and are persuaded that men approach God, leaving their idols and other unrighteousness, through the name of Him who was crucified, Jesus Christ, and abide by their confession even unto death, and maintain piety.

Moreover, by the works and by the attendant miracles, it is possible for all to understand that He is the new law, and the new covenant, and the expectation of those who out of every people wait for the good things of God.

For the true spiritual Israel, and descendants of Judah, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham (who in uncircumcision was approved of and blessed by God on account of his faith, and called the father of many nations), are we who have been led to God through this crucified Christ, as shall be demonstrated while we proceed.

Chapter XIV.-Righteousness is Not Placed in Jewish Rites, But in the Conversion of the Heart Given in Baptism by Christ.

"By reason, therefore, of this laver of repentance and knowledge of God,

which has been ordained on account of the transgression of God's people,
as Isaiah cries, we have believed, and testify that that very baptism which he announced is alone able to purify those who have repented; and this is the water of life. But the cisterns which you have dug for yourselves are broken and profitless to you.

For what is the use of that baptism which cleanses the flesh and body alone? Baptize the soul from wrath and from covetousness, from envy, and from hatred; and, lo! the body is pure.

For this is the symbolic significance of unleavened bread, that you do not commit the old deeds of wicked leaven. But you have understood all things in a carnal sense, and you suppose it to be piety if you do such things, while your souls are filled with deceit, and, in short, with every wickedness. Accordingly, also, after the seven days of eating unleavened bread, God commanded them to mingle new leaven, that is, the performance of other works, and not the imitation of the old and evil works.

And because this is what this new Lawgiver demands of you, I shall again refer to the words which have been quoted by me, and to others also which have been passed over. They are related by Isaiah to the following effect:

`Hearken to me, and your soul shall live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given Him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the nations. Nations which know not Thee shall call on Thee; and peoples who know not Thee shall escape unto Thee, because of Thy God, the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified Thee. Seek ye God; and when you find Him, call on Him, so long as He may be nigh you. Let the wicked forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will obtain mercy, because He will abundantly pardon your sins.

For my thoughts are not as your thoughts, neither are my ways as your ways; but as far removed as the heavens are from the earth, so far is my way removed from your way, and your thoughts from my thoughts. For as the snow or the rain descends from heaven, and shall not return till it waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread for food,

so shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return until it shall have accomplished all that I desired, and I shall make My commandments prosperous. For ye shall go out with joy, and be taught with gladness. For the mountains and the hills shall leap while they expect you, and all the trees of the fields shall applaud with their branches: and instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle. And the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign, and He shall not fail!'

Of these and such like words written by the prophets, O Trypho," said I, "some have reference to the first advent of Christ, in which He is preached as inglorious, obscure, and of mortal appearance: but others had reference to His second advent, when He shall appear in glory and above the clouds; and your nation shall see and know Him whom they have pierced, as Hosea, one of the twelve prophets, and Daniel, foretold.

Chapter XVIII.-Christians Would Observe the Law, If They Did Not Know Why It Was Instituted.

"For since you have read, O Trypho, as you yourself admitted, the doctrines taught by our Saviour, I do not think that I have done foolishly in adding some short utterances of His to the prophetic statements. Wash therefore, and be now clean, and put away iniquity from your souls, as God bids you be washed in this laver, and be circumcised with the true circumcision.

For we too would observe the fleshly circumcision, and the Sabbaths, and in short all the feasts,

if we did not know for what reason they were enjoined you,-
namely, on account of your transgressions and the hardness of your hearts.

For if we patiently endure all things contrived against us by wicked men and demons, so that even amid cruelties unutterable, death and torments, we pray for mercy to those who inflict such things upon us, and do not wish to give the least retort to any one, even as the new Lawgiver commanded us:

how is it, Trypho, that we would not observe those rites which do not harm us,-I speak of fleshly circumcision, and Sabbaths, and feasts?