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Praise Dancing
Because you do it in a church or in a worship service doesn’t make it righteous or holy.
Because you do it to the beat of gospel music and praise music doesn’t make it apart of acceptable praise and worship for God.
Just because you call it holy doesn’t make it holy.
Satan can dance many of us under the pews.
Unrepentant, disobedient, fornicating practitioners can out shout the holiest of Saints.
Many folks come to “church” or worship just to be seen of men and to put on a demonstration whereby they are perceived by others as being saved and full of the Spirit of GOD. (They are full of something.)
But God Has Left His Ordained plan of Salvation in Holy Scriptures whereby one may be saved and their salvation confirmed and sealed by the gifting of the HOLY SPIRIT that speaks out of us in tongue. (John 3:3-7, Acts 2:38)
AMEN!
NOW DON’T GET IT TWISTED!
I am not condemning any Holy Spirit Led expression of praise to God and I am not ridiculing anyone’s tradition or culture of dancing as an expression of worship to GOD. What I am doing is trying to put things in their proper perspective relative to Salvation and obeying the WORD of GOD.
There is no need to shout about something or someone who you haven’t obeyed or kept His Commandments. You are not fooling God and you sure aren’t fooling His Holy Spirit.
Judge what is right for yourselves.
If I tell my child to empty the trash on Friday and he does it on Tuesday, he has not done what I commanded and he has demonstrated disrespect and unfaithfulness toward me and my authority as his parent. (Matthew 7:21-23)
If I tell my child not to drive my car like her friends drive their parent’s cars and don’t put oversize rims on my car and she does it anyway, she has disobeyed me and violated the trust and defaced the property that I entrusted to her. (Leviticus 19:28)
Many believers don’t see themselves as clearly as they see the wrongs of others.
Judge What Is Right For Yourselves!
Note: The heathens danced and yelled to their idol gods and performed many acts of extreme personal sacrifice and physical praises. But God forbid his children from worshiping HIM like the heathens worshiped their false idol gods. (Deuteronomy 12:4 and Deuteronomy 12:31)
Judge For Yourselves What Is Acceptable To God.
There is no need to come to a church to shout and dance and yell and roll around on the floor and run around the pews when you haven’t obeyed GOD’S orders of how to enter into HIS Ekklesia (CHURCH) through repentance and water baptism in HIS name.
There is no need to visit a church just to “get your praise on.” Many so-called Christians act irreverently toward the House of Prayer as if worshiping the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY was a dance club and a place for them to be made to feel good although you haven’t been good, holy or saved.
DON’T GET IT TWISTED!!!!
DANCING AND SHOUTING IS NOT SALVATION!
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DOES THE LORD TAKE PLEASURE IN YOUR DANCE?
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SOME HAVE BROUGHT THE CLUB INTO THE CHURCH
Psalm 149:2-4
Let Israel be glad in his Maker; Let the sons of Zion rejoice in their King. Let them praise His name with dancing; Let them sing praises to Him with timbrel and lyre. For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation.
Now the scripture indicates that those who are Israel, i.e., princes that have power with God and with men and hast prevailed, shall rejoice in the LORD their KING. They shall praise FATHER YAHWEH with dancing and with musical instruments.
Then the scriptures say the most important and wonderful thing. It says that “the LORD takes pleasure in His people.”
No other people does God take pleasure in other than “HIS people” who are under HIS Covenant and Obey HIS ETERNAL COMMANDMENTS.
No Other People Can Offer Dance And Music As An Acts Of Worship And Praise Before The LORD And It Be Considered Holy Or Pleasurable To Father YHVH Other Than Those Whom He Has Chosen And Called Out From The World And Put His Name Upon.
No Rebellious, Fornicating, Adulterous, Perverted, Homosexual, Murderer, Drunkard, Prostitute, Practicing Liar, Extortioners, Lesbian, Transvestite, Licentious Parting Person Can Offer Any Melodies Or Dance In Worship To The LORD And It Be Considered Holy Or Pleasurable To Father YHVH. The Worship Performances Of The Wicked Are Never Pleasing To Him Nor Does He Accept Their Acts Of Praise.
We can’t willfully disobey God’s Commandments and perform all types of sexual and moral immoralities then get up in a worship service and perform a praise dance or a shouting frenzy and think that GOD is pleased with our praise. We may deceive the onlooker but we have not fooled GOD.
Even the music that is played in some worship services are unholy because the persons playing the instruments are unholy and those who dance to such music participates in their wickedness.
BEWARE! SATAN is a Deceiver of Souls and He can imitate almost everything that GOD has created and called Holy. However, his imitations are perverted and contrary to GOD for he is contrary to God
The Scriptures Seems To indicate That Satan Is A Master Musician And Unmatched Performer And Artist. He Was The Most Beautiful And Excellent Among The Anointed Cherubs Who walked On the Fiery Stones Around GOD’S Throne Until Iniquity Was Found In him. He Desired The Throne Of God For Himself For He Wanted To Be Like The MOST HIGH. And Because Of His Rebellion, Satan Was Expelled And Thrown Down Out Of Heaven To Earth Where He Now Rules As Its god And Prince Of The Air.
Make No Mistake. Satan Is In The Business Of “Church.” And he Is Also In The Business Of Pretending To Worship And Praise God With Dance And With Instruments. And one of Satan’s goals is to deceive us into believing that it is the HOLY SPIRIT of FATHER YAHWEH that causes one to dance and perform unseemly during Worship.
The Devil Is A Liar!!!
Father GOD through Christ promised that the Holy Spirit would be given as a gift to those who believed on the name of Yehowshua Ha’ Mashiach (Jesus CHRIST) and were buried (Baptized) in water In His name. And the sign of their adoption and acceptance as Saints of God would be them speaking in tongues as the HOLY SPIRIT GIVES THEM THE UTTERANCE. GOD never said that dancing was THE SIGN of the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT or a manifestation of His Power but that Speaking In Tongues was the sign.
Dancing can be performed by anyone and of their own free will and in their own strength without them ever having to be born again in accordance with HOLY SCRIPTURES.
Music can be played and performed with power and exceptional depth with extraordinary emotional impact and flare that can cause anybody to move to the beat and/or to the melody without them ever having believed the Gospel Of the KINGDOM OF GOD, Surrendered to the Will Of God, Obeyed the Commandments of God or Repented for their sins.
A practicing sinner can perform a dance of praise to God during a worship service while folks are watching and the music is playing but that doesn’t mean that they are under the power or anointing of the HOLY SPIRIT.
BEWARE! Don’t confuse talent and practiced dance moves and emotional outbursts with the anointing of the HOLY GHOST!
It is actually blasphemous for someone to call what some of these so-called worshipers are doing anointed and of the HOLY SPIRIT.
Don’t get it twisted! Dancing and shouting out aloud in worship doesn’t make one Holy Ghost Filled or Anointed of God.
We must be born again of the Water and of the Spirit. We must repent of our first birth which was carnal and earthly and be born again into the Spirit and Truth of Christ Yeshua. No Exceptions!!!
Only when we have been born again and translated into HIS righteousness through the Blood of Christ that was applied at our baptism wherein we put on Christ and became Christ’s; only then have we become Spiritual Israel and our praises in dance and music may be pleasing to God.
BEWARE Of WHO AND WHAT YOU CALL ANOINTED.
BEWARE OF THE DECEPTIONS OF SATAN THAT LABELS HIS WORK AS BEING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
What some have come to believe is Holy may actually be demonically contrived and influenced. And it is definitely blasphemous to marry GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT to something wicked and of the devil.
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT ONLY HOLY BUT INTELLIGENT!!!
One evening while visiting a revival, I witnessed a person leading prayer. After they were through praying in a sing-song, melodic and rhythmic tone of voice, they then proceeded to convulse and make grunting and barking sounds like an animal – performing as if they were trying to spit up something – hunching their shoulders and carrying on. This unintelligible and animated behavior was perceived by many as a manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
Then someone jumped out of their seats and began to run around the perimeter of the sanctuary and the musicians began to play what has been termed as praise break music and folks began to dance in what can best be described as distorted rhythmic stomping, twisting, writhing and tremors; all in harmony to the beat of the music and as long as the music played they danced, ran, hollered and rolled around on the floor. The musicians seem to have the power to make these worshipers dance, run and holler unto physically exhaustion. This unintelligible and animated behavior also was perceived by many as a manifestation of the Holy Spirit of God.
I contend that it is not a representation of God’s Holy Spirit but a performance intended to seduce and persuade the viewing audience that they were praying in the spirit, dancing in the spirit, running in the spirit and hollering because of the spiritual unction to do so. They may have been in the spirit but it sure wasn’t the HOLY SPIRIT.
The Bible indicates plainly that it is demonic spirits that cause people to cry out disorderly and uncontrollably and make strange vocal sounds and act unseemly. (Mark 1:27, Mark 9:26, Mark 13:22)
DON’T BE DECEIVED!
Let it be known that the Holy Spirit is intelligent, decent and in order. (1 Corinthians 14:26-33)
1 Corinthians 14:26-33 (NIV)
God’s Has Order In Worship
26 What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation.Everything must be done so that the church may be built up. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. 28 If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God.
29 Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. 30 And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. 31 For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. 32 The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets.33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people.
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The devil is a master of disguise and deceit. He is the author of confusion and the architect of identity theft. Satan is the progenitor of lies. He is ambitious, crafty, imaginative, intriguing, captivating, entertaining and convincing. He is one slick dude.
He wanted to be like the Most High and he has not ceased to try to ascend to the throne of God. And although he has been cast down out of the Kingdom of God and temporarily assigned as god of this world, he still seeks to be like the Most High God by imitating what is God’s and God’s alone. The problem is that he can only imitate and counterfeit what is God’s. He can never duplicate God’s perfection and holiness. He can only twist, pervert, distort and lie which is his nature.
The devil took the human and secular art of interpretive dance and replaced the word “interpretive” with the word “praise” and added some music that he placed the word “gospel” in front of and called the combination “Praise Dancing.”
The problem is that every gospel song isn’t the gospel and every praise dance doesn’t praise the Lord. It is mostly entertaining theater these days with painted face and costumes. But didn’t the LORD warn us not to worship him in the manner that the heathens and the ungodly worship their gods? Weren’t we admonished not to bring the secular into the sacred? (Deuteronomy 12:4)
Although the scriptures instructs us to “Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!” (Psalm 105:1-6)
The Word of God also says that “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24)
There is no worship or honor in praise dancing when the dancers aren’t born again and worshipping in The Spirit of God’s Holiness and Truth. It is only entertainment with a religious twist (Perversion).
I am not criticizing anyone’s practice of praise dancing no more than I would criticize anyone practice of singing on the choir or preaching from the pulpit while unsaved, unrepentant and sexually immoral.
What I am saying is that whatever you do for the LORD, let it be REAL! And in order to be real, we have to be born again – born of the Water and of the Spirit.
There is no need to try to praise the Lord when your praises are defiled by your sinful unrepentant heart and sexual immoralities. You must repent and be born again!
The Bible says that God doesn’t hear the prayers of sinners. He says that “your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.” (Isaiah 59:2) Therefore it stands to reason that God will not hear or acknowledge the praises of sinners either.
Your church and congregation may hear and applaud the acts of praises of practicing and unrepentful sinners but God does not.
However, Psalm 51:17 tells us that “a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.”
We must first and foremost become broken and contrite about our sinful nature and practices and repent of our sins before we can offer any acceptable sacrifice of praises to God.
The prophet Samuel told us that “To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.” (1 Samuel 15:22)
Before we can offer any acceptable praises to God, we must first be repentant and obedient to God – not just in words but in spirit and truth.
Don’t let the sounds, drama and theater of the performing arts of dance and music fool you. Just because they move us emotionally and entertain us physically doesn’t mean that they are anointed and acceptable to God. The devil has talents and gifts too. He was the brightest and most talented cherub in Heaven.
Satan has fooled a lot of folks into believing that a lot of talented folks are actually anointed by God when in fact they are just gifted by Satan. The devil is a liar and he is great at making wrongs look right and sinners look like saints.
“Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” (1 John 4:1)
All things come out of the spirit realm, including praise dancing and it must be examined to see whether it is from God or man.
Don’t get it twisted. Anything that is from God and that God ordains and anoints as His own can stand to be questioned and examined. However, the devil doesn’t want us to look too closely at what he is doing. We may find that it is twisted just like him and contrary to the Will, Purpose and Spirit of God.
I am just trying to keep it REAL!
One more thing. I’ve got to get some answers on another dance that is now becoming popular in some of our churches. That is the tendency to have black people performing as “mimes” in whiteface. Can anyone else besides me see the hypocrisy in our getting mad over white people in blackface, then put the exact opposite in our churches as an acceptable form of entertainment?
Again, I am just trying to keep it REAL!
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