SEQUEL TO "MUSICAL KEY"!                  DFO 326A                  1/75

         1. WHEN YOU WANT TO GET ACROSS A PARTICULAR MESSAGE OF IMPORTANT WORDS as well as a sweet melody, there is nothing like a good soloist who gets them across clearly & with genuine emotion. Never underestimate the power of the individual under the anointing of the Spirit of God, when a SINGER becomes as important as the PROPHET, like the Psalms of King David himself! Your songs are like the key of love which unlocks hearts to find a responsive chord that longs to harmonise with you!
         2. MUSIC SPEAKS A LANGUAGE. Music SAYS something, & some songs say, "Oh what a weariness!" Some words are tremendous, straight from the Scripture, but the MUSIC doesn't fit the WORDS. Some really great songs, if they're not sung right, can be real duds!
         3. IN WHAT THE LORD SHOWED US IN THE FORMER LETTER, "THE MUSICAL KEY", we tried to show you what power music has over our lives, emotions & actions, which can be either good or evil. Music has such an effect on me personally that I cannot stand to listen to anything which does not influence me in the right direction, positively, constructively, encouragingly, inspiringly & uplifting.
         4. WE HAVE BEEN AMAZED AT SOME OF THE OLD TRASH FROM THE OLD LIFE YOU USED TO LIVE THAT SOME OF YOU ARE STILL LISTENING TO! It reminds me of the Scripture about the dog returning to his vomit & the sow to her wallowing in the mire, & I could hardly term them much better than puke & garbage from that awful life you once lived, & I don't understand how you can carry over with you into this new wonderful life with Jesus that same smell of smoke of the fiendish fires of Hell!--2Pet.2:22. There must be something wrong or perverted about your appetite or your New Birth, & you didn't make it WHOLE!
         5. YOU MUST STILL BE A LITTLE RETARDED OR DEFORMED TO STILL ENJOY THAT JUNK! You may not yet be a sinless saint but the Bible does say something about your being a NEW CREATURE in Christ Jesus to the extent that such old things should have passed away & your present life become all new so that you couldn't possibly stand that stuff anymore!--2Cor.5:17.
         6. BEING A CHILD OF GOD IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE & you should have fairly new tastes & appetites & interests & should not continue to desire to submerge yourself in that kind of filth which arouses nothing in me but rage at the God-damned Devil & his works, & how you can tolerate him in listening to it anymore is beyond me!
         7. WE THINK IT'S TIME YOU CHANGED YOUR WAYS IF YOU'RE A TRULY BORN-AGAIN CHILD OF GOD, & no longer a Child of the Devil revelling in the awful sounds of Satan's offspring! God help us & deliver us from the Old Man & his dirty duds that have damned the World & wrecked their children!
         8. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU CAN DO IT & KEEP IN THE VICTORY. It's like torturing yourself--it feels so good when it stops! I can't even take too much of Don McLean or Beethoven & others like them, they are all so sad & hopeless & helpless & without any answers. Too much of even their best is really depressing.
         9. WE HAVE BEEN SAVED AS BRANDS FROM THE BURNING & snatched from the Enemy's claws, hating even the garments still spotted by the old flesh, & we should be very thankful to have saved the fat from the fire & not to have thrown the baby out with the dirty laundry!--Zech.3:2; Jude 23. o
         10. BUT SOME OF YOU STILL SEEM TO BE FASCINATED BY THE FLAMES & INTOXICATED BY THE SMELL of the old, stinking, soiled, filthy clothes of your old past life, so there must be something haywire somewhere with your personal regenerative experience! You either need another dose of new wine to flush you out, or a good clean bath in the pure water of the Word to thoroughly cleanse you from all this old pollution & any further taste for it!
         11. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE A NEW MAN WITH NEW GOOD CLEAN APPETITES for good clean healthful things, a joyful re-Creation of a healthy fun-loving life with a good sound body, clean heart, pure mind & a new, regenerated, reborn spirit within you which no longer likes the old. This Conversion should make some difference & you should really be a changed person compared to what you used to be.
         12. BUT SOME OF YOU STILL SEEM TO HAVE DRAGGED SOME OF THE OLD DIRTY EMPTY HUSKS FROM THE SWINEPIT ALONG WITH YOU & are still chewing on these polluted morsels of emptiness or still licking at the old vomit which the Lord had you throw up a long time ago!--My God!--What is wrong with you? You must be still sick spiritually to want to go back to that stuff! May God deliver us from these old diabolical influences of our former filthy fiendish lives! Amen?
         13. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOU & DELIVER YOU! No wonder you're so weak spiritually & so often down & out of the victory & half sick & barely able to drag around! I would be too if I had to listen to that kind of stuff very much! I've got to have something that feeds my soul & strengthens my body & renews my mind & lifts my spirit & encourages my heart & purifies my whole being, such as the refreshing Water of the Word or the inspiring songs of the Revolution!
         14. IF SOME PEOPLE CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD & BAD MUSIC any better than that, I'd rather dump the whole load & stick to nothing but our OWN rather than having some of you getting mixed up again in the old dung-heap of the old Devil's diabolical divinations!
         15. SO IF YOU CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE, FOR GOD'S SAKE, STICK TO WHAT YOU KNOW IS OF THE LORD & what you know is good & fresh & clean & pure & of GOD! If your spiritual senses of smell & taste are so perverted, benumbed or lost that you can't tell which is which, for God's sake only eat & drink that which you know comes from a good source, & remember you can't get good fruit from an evil tree! So lay off it & stick to the trees you know are OK!
         16. MAY GOD DELIVER US ALL FROM THESE SATANIC SOUNDS OF THE DEVIL'S DAMNED DOMAIN! If you're still eating this kind of stuff you need a change of diet for something more wholesome & healthful! Amen? This goes for any of the rest of your old perverted appetites as well, for anything that is not natural, God-made & God-ordained, so for God's sake get rid of it & clean out the pantry from these contaminants & pollutions of the old life of spiritual & physical perversion! Amen? And may God help you to know the difference!
         17. THE CHURCHES HAVE CONDEMNED SEX & NUDITY AS SOMETHING NASTY WHILE IGNORING THE DIABOLICAL INFLUENCE OF THIS FIENDISH MUSIC. While horrified at the natural nudity & open normal sexual activities of the natives, they have listened to their devilish & truly evil rhythms as merely amusing. Personally, my attitude would be just the opposite: Their MUSIC is more harmful than NATURE! Look what it's done to the SAVAGES & BEWARE! Don't YOU become its VICTIM! God help you!--Love, Dad.

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