PASSIONATE PURSUIT...WHAT IS THAT SOUND?

WHAT IS THAT SOUND? DANIEL 3:4-7

THEN THE PRINCES, THE GOVERNORS, AND CAPTAINS, THE JUDGES, THE TREASURERS, THE COUNSELORS, THE SHERIFFS, AND ALL THE RULERS OF THE PROVINCES, WERE GATHERED TOGETHER INTO THE DEDICATION  OF THE IMAGE THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING HAD SET UP.
THEN A HERALD CRIED ALOUD TO YOU IT IS COMMANDED, A PEOPLE, NATIONS, AND LANGUAGES,
THAT AT WHAT TIME YE HEAR THE SOUND OF THE CORNET, FLUTE, HARP, SACKBUT,PSALTERY, DULCIMER, AND ALL KINDS OF MUSIC, YE FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP THE GOLDEN IMAGE THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD SET UP.

 THERE IS A SOUND OF HOLINESS. THERE IS A SOUND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. THERE IS A RHYTHM THAT ACCOMPANIES THE SOUND OF HOLINESS. THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD HAS ATRUE SOUND OF HOLY WORSHIP WITHIN HIS SPIRIT THAT CANNOT BE FEIGNED. HE INHABIT’S THE PRAISES OF HIS PEOPLE WHICH ARE TRUE WORSHIPPERS AND SEEKETH SUCH TO WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.

THE WORD SPEAKS THAT EXPRESSLY THAT IN THE LAST DAYS THERE WILL BE PERILOUS TIMES AND THAT THE END SHALL NOT COME UNTIL THERE BE A FALLING AWAY. TAKE HEED THAT YOU NOT GIVE IN TO SEDUCING SPIRITS AND DOCTRINES OF DEMONS. THESE SEDUCING SPIRITS ARE IN THE MUSIC. BEWARE OF CERTAIN TYPES OF MUSIC IN THE FORM OF WORSHIP BUT IS REALLY COUNTERFEIT AND FILLED WITH SENSUAL AND DEMONIC TO STEER YOU AWAY FROM THE FAITH AND HAVE YOU FALL. REMEMBER TO SEDUCE IS A FORM OF DECEPTION WHICH IS TO GET YOU TO DO SOMETHING YOU WOULDN’T UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES DO. THE ENEMY IS VERY CRAFTY. TAKE HEED THOSE WHO THINK THEY STAND.

WORSHIP AND MUSIC HAS BEEN ORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLDS. THERE IS POWER IN MUSIC AND THERE ARE SPIRITS WITHIN MUSIC. THE LORD REVEALS THESE THINGS IN THE PROPHETIC BOOK OF DANIEL AND SHOWS THAT NOT ONLY IS THERE STRENTH IN UNITY BUT THE PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER IN A FLESHLY UNITY THAT WAS CONTRARY TO THE WORD OF GOD AND UTILIZED ALL SORTS OF INSTRUMENTS THE MAKE MUSIC OF FALSEHOOD AND IDOLATRY. THE MUSIC PORTRAYED WITHIN THESE SCRIPTED TEMPTED THE LORD TO WRATH TOWARD THE CHILDREN OF GOD.

THE PEOPLE WERE ALREADY LED INTO CAPTIVITY TO BE CHASTENED AND JUDGED BY GOD FOR THEIR DISOBEDIENCE AND IDAOLATRY. SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO WEREN’T THE ONLY JEWS THAT HAD THEIR FAITH TESTED DURING THIS TIME CONCERNING WORSHIP. THE LORD WANTS TRUE HEARTS OF SURRENDER. HE CHASTENS THOSE HE LOVES TO BRING THEM TO A PLACE OF RESTORATION.

THE PEOPLE WHO WERE IN AUTHORITY AT THE TIME CAME TOGETHER AND THE LORD ALLOWED THEM TO TRY HIS CHOSEN AND THEY THREATENED THEM WITH A BURNING FIERY FURNACE FOR THOSE WHO DID NOT WORSHIP THE IDOL. MEANING THAT THIS WAS A REPLICA OF HELL. THOUGH, JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY CONSUMING FIRE. DON’T ALLOW THE ADVERSARY TO CHASTEN YOU AND PUT GOD’S NAME ON IT. THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE BEING TRIED BY FIRE IN HOPES THAT THEY WILL TAKE DOWN AND GIVE IN TO THE ADVERSARY. FALSE HUMILTY AND WORSHIP IS ONLY ONE OF THOSE WAYS. 
MANY CHRISTIANS AND SAINTS OF GOD ARE BEING PERSECUTED FOR THEIR TRUE BELIEF IN THE LORD JESUS. ONCE THE REVELATION IS GIVEN BE SURE THAT YOU’RE NOT JUST A HEARER BUT A DOER ALSO. WE MUST APPLY THE WORD OF GOD TO OUR LIVES. THE ADVERSARY IS VERY CRAFTY. WE KNOW HE DOESN’T ATTEMPT TO COME THROUGH THE FRONT ON BACK DOOR. HE COMES OFTENTIMES AS A WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING. BY MEANS OF FALSE BRETHREN. THEY COME LIKE THEY ARE ON YOUR SIDE BUT WANT YOU TO FEEL GUILTY FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. THEY WANT YOU TO BE INTIMIDATED AND FEAR AND PRESENT IT IN A WAY THAT IF YOU DON’T DO SOMETHING A CERTAIN WAY THEN YOU HAVE HELL TO PAY. THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION IN CHRIST. JESUS LOVES YOU. HE WILL NOT FORCE YOU TO LOVE HIM. HE WILL NOT FORCE YOU TO PRAISE HIM. THE LORD IS A GENTLEMAN. THE CHURCH IS HIS BRIDE. HE WILL NOT BULLY HIS CHOSEN. HE WILL LEAD AND GUIDE HIS CHILDREN BY HIS HOLY SPIRIT IN THE PATH OF RGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS. HE WILL GUIDE YOU TO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICES THAT PLEASE HIM. KNOW THAT THERE IS A FORCE BEHIND EVERY GOING THHROUGH. HOWEVER, THE LORD IS WITH YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. REMEMBER, NOTHING IS DONE UNLESS HE ALLOWED IT. LO, I AM  WITH YOU ALWAYS EVEN UNTIL THE END SAYS THE LORD. CHOOSE HIM NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE AND NO MATTER THE SITUATION. CALL ON THE LORD. SEEK HIM AND PRAY. WAIT ON THE ANSWER AND HE WILL SHOW UP IN THE MIDST WITH A STRETCHED OUT ARM. IS ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR THE LORD? HE WILL NOT PUT ANYMORE ON US THAN WE CAN BEAR. TRUST IN THE LORD AND LEAN NOT TOWARD YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. WAIT PATIENTLY ON THE LORD.