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apostle Dr. Benjamin R. Moore, Founder

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Food For Thought --- 16JUNE25

 ABBA IS EXALTED, satan IS DEFEATED and JESUS/YESHUA IS L-RD Of L-RDS and He is coming back again!  (Pastor Charles Capps)

Greeting Men of Abba:

 The Food For Thought – It’s A Family Affair: “The Effects and Influences of Music!”

• The Effects and Influence of Music

Strong black families used to be the norm. But by the mid-1980s, black fatherlessness skyrocketed. Today, only 44% of black children have a father in the home.

Music is used to worship and praise God. In Psalms 150:1-6—which is where the scripture let everything that has breath praise the Lord comes from—they used lyres, tambourines, strings, flutes, cymbals, loud clanging cymbals to be exact, to worship and praise God.

Music is a source of relief. 1 Samuel 16:23. An evil spirit was tormenting Saul, but when David played his lyre (liars—stringed instruments that are in the same class as a harp but it’s u-shaped and smaller so instead of sitting on the floor it’s usually sitting in someone’s lap as they play), but as David played his lyre, King Saul was able to rest and relax and experience relief from the torment because the evil spirit would leave.

Music is used to warn of impending danger. Nehemiah 4;20. kinda like how sirens are used. “When you hear the blast of the trumpet, rush to wherever it is sounding. Then our God will fight for us!”

Startle and confuse the enemy. Judges 7:16-22. “When the 300 Israelites blew their rams’ horns, the Lord caused the warriors in the [enemy’s] camp to fight against each other with their swords.

This is how powerful music is in the spirit realm.

We can play music and sing it in the natural realm and it shifts the atmosphere in the realm of the spirit.

When we engage with music singing praises to God, we open ourselves up for the spirits behind that music—like angels, the holy spirit, Jesus, and God—to interact with us. Music allows God to inhabit a place. Inhabit means to live. God lives where there is worship. He lives where there is praise. 

***There is music that can cause us to interact with demonic spirits that can agitate us, make us angry, anxious, depressed, suicidal, put us in bondage, and so on.***

Origin matters. Daniel 1:8 says that Daniel was determined not to defile himself by eating the food and wine given to them by the king.

That word defile means to pollute, which means to make ceremonially or morally impure; to contaminate. It also means profane which means to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt.

Our eyes and ears are gates or gateways to the spirit realm. You also hear them being referred to as portals, a place of entrance. So our eyes and ears are places where things can enter our bodies, specifically spiritual things.

Chris Brown has a song called Yellow Tape. Here’s what they say.

“Had a meeting with the devil last week

Couldn’t believe what he said to me, huh

“Here take this contract, signature please

You can have it all but you know your soul, I’ma keep”

Bad luck, bad luck, yeah, you know it come in threes

Battling my demons, I’m the only one who sees, ha”

The thing about these lyrics is that this is how satan operates, especially with people he promotes and elevates. He gets them to enter into a contract. You’re probably wondering why he does that. 

Here’s why: satan operates based on legality. He gets legal rights to operate in people’s lives in various ways depending on what he needs.

He says these lines twice in the song. He’s literally telling us what’s going on. Noticeably, what he doesn’t say is whether he signed it.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44

Billie Eillish

She has a song called All the Good Girls Go to Hell which the title alone is a problem already. 

• • In the song she calls the devil hers. She says “[her] Lucifer is lonely.” She says “my”. 
  • She also says, the “Pearly gates look more like a picket fence” and “once the water starts to rise. And heaven’s out of sight. She’ll want the devil on her team.”

In the video for this song, Billie Eillish is dressed like one of the devil’s angels—in all black with black bat-like wings. This video has 227 millions views on YouTube.

Hip hop, a cultural movement born in the 1970s, has long been a reflection of the experiences, struggles, and triumphs of its creators and consumers. As hip hop has evolved, so too has its portrayal of fatherhood.

Hip hop emerged in the 1970s in urban areas, primarily among African American youth. The genre was shaped by the social, economic, and cultural realities of black America, including poverty, racism, and family structures

In the 1980s and 1990s, hip hop began to gain mainstream popularity, and with it, the portrayal of fatherhood became more complex. Artists like Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. often referenced their own experiences with absent or troubled fathers, highlighting the pain and struggle that these absences caused.

Black fathers in America face a range of systemic barriers and challenges, from racism and economic inequality to lack of access to education and job opportunities. These challenges can have a profound impact on family structures and dynamics, making it more difficult for black men to play a positive and engaged role in their children's lives.

For example, black men are disproportionately represented in the US prison system, with many facing barriers to employment, housing, and other opportunities after release.

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57.6% of black children, 31.2% of Hispanic children, and 20.7% of white children are living absent their biological fathers.

In 2008, President Barack Obama said during his Father’s Day speech that “more than half of all black children live in single-parent households… children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. 

They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home or become teenage parents themselves. And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it.”

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AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK THE TRUTH BEHIND HIP HOP BY: G. CRAIGE LEWIS

Hip-hop is not music! It is not a genre; it is not a specific sound or art form. Hip-hop is not rap either, but it is a religion/culture or a belief system that was birthed out of a desire to manifest one’s self in a society that was deemed unfair to African-American’s in the early 1970’s. Because of the negative environments and social situations that plagued the black race at the time, Afrika Bambataa and others created a way of temporarily overcoming these social obstacles by partying, making music, and believing in one’s self and one’s own power. These parties were called Hip-Hop parties and they were viewed at the time as opportunity to preach a newfound doctrine of self-worship and hate for the establishment (the white race).

Hip-Hop targeted rap music and used music to preach a message that empowered the black race as “true god’s” and made Jesus Christ the “white man’s religion”. Hip-Hop taught the youth at the time, and still teaches indirectly, that you can be who you want to be in the sense of not being what people want you to be. That has a certain truth to it, but if taken the wrong way, it turns into rebellion against basic laws and truths that govern our society as a whole. Hip-Hop began to change the very appearance of its followers by creating a look, a way of governing yourself, and a language that should be spoken. What this created was a subculture of our American culture, and it caused our youth to go against the basic pattern of society and manifest their own will regardless of what it cost them socially and spiritually.

If all you see is what you see, then you will believe that’s all there is to be. By growing up in impoverished neighborhoods and ghettos, many of our black youth began to believe that their role models needed to be found among their peers. They would see pimps making all kinds of money, so they would emulate the pimp by dressing like him, talking like him, and pretending to be him. They would see thugs and gangsters going in and out of prison, so they would begin to walk like them, dress like them, and emulate them. Well, Hip-Hop was birthed out of poverty and in the streets of NY where the in thing was selling drugs, pimping, and going in and out of prison. So our young boys began to emulate the look of thugs and gangsters because there were no real positive role models among them to emulate. Our young girls would begin dressing like the whores or the loose women they would see on a day-to-day basis.

Hip-hop was created to be the voice of those that felt they were denied opportunity and fairness by our society. They believed that the white man was to blame for the social and economical deficits that plagued the black race. They believed that we as a black race should not subscribe to the white man’s laws or his religion.

Hip-hop has literally changed the face of our nation. It has caused our youth to lower their standards and set their sights on themselves and their own feelings rather than taking the harder road to success. They now see what is acceptable or fashionable to our society as being “weak or wak.” Hip-hop has turned our young boys into thugs and our young girls into young whores. It has caused marijuana and other illegal substances to become acceptable among our youth and is stopping our people from achieving real success. Whether we want to admit it or not we must adhere to the fact that we live in a society that promotes educated, properly dressed, well-mannered men and women. Hip-hop, however, tells our youth that it’s okay to wear your clothes like a criminal, or dress like a bum. It’s okay to look evil and talk in slang as long as you stay true to the culture of Hip-hop. But the real scary part is that many want the church of God to accept Hip-hop as a way to reach they youth that are already in it

The spirit of witchcraft began to be released through the satanic artist who made the music. Understand that when a Satan worshipping musician plays music he gives spirits of darkness a vessel to work through. Through an evolution of the genre and the culture the gothic spirit manifested and those that wanted to rebel and be outcast of their mainstream culture subscribed to it

Eph. 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

We cannot pretend we’re one thing to get people’s attention and then show them that we are another thing. In other words, you can’t use the actual music of the “real” hip-hop and the religion of Hip-hop to get the youth’s attention so you can minister to them. The only reason they are drawn to this culture, in the first place is because of its supernatural pull and how it agrees with their lifestyle.

• • There is “Soul” in Black music but it is not the soul of Christ.  
  • There is “Spiritedness” in Black music but it is not the Spirit of Christ.  
  • There is “Passion” in Black music but it is not the passion of Christ who wants to see every person saved.  
  • There is “Feeling” in Black music but it is the feelings of devils who continue to possess many artists whose personal lives are falling apart. 

These are the spirits and demons who are controlling the Black music industry: telling them what to write in lyrics, crafting catchy rhythms and baselines, and parading men who are sexual predators and women who are glorified prostitutes.  

This is the kingdom of darkness

Black music as Trap music: it traps the listener, it traps the artist and it traps the world in a seduction that only the Holy Spirit can exorcise.  

• • There is freedom in Jesus Christ who gives victory to anyone who believes (John 8:36).
  • “Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers and we are escaped” (Psalm 124:7). 

Much of Hip Hop music does not have Christian values.  From the vulgar language, idolatry, degrading of women, racism, victimology, pride and haughtiness, vanity, gluttony, violence and pure hatred, devaluation of human life by promoting the abuse of drugs, rape and abortion to complete rebellion and subversion of any parental, legal or spiritual authority.

“For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?  And what communion hath light with darkness?  And what concord hath Christ with Belial?  Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?  And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?...Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you” (2 Corinthians 6:14-17).

We need to pray for a spirit of discernment and wisdom

• • But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. James 1:6

• • And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Ephesians 5:11

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