No one could learn that song

First Reading: Psalm: Gospel:

Revelation 14:1-5 Psalm 24:1-6 Luke 21:1-4

Revelation 14:3  and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.

It is disturbing to me just how much the churches today are trying to be like the culture in order to get new people to come to their church.  The music is even becoming more and more like the music of the culture, even to the point where you can't tell if it is Christian music or not.

The Bible says that when we are redeemed we will sing a new song, that the others can't learn.  They don't get it.  They can't because they don't understand God's grace, so their music is just like all the others.

As Christians we are called to lead the people out of this world, not fall back into it ourselves.

Father, help me by your Holy Spirit to always seek to sing songs of praise to you and not to sing songs that will titillate the unwashed.  Help me to be true the you and to the faith.

Amen