

But false worship leadersPretend singing the same words over and over and over and over again isContrary, Jesus commands us: “use not vainHeathen use chants – the vain repetition of words. The same words were repeated over and over and over and over andVain repetition of words is just as wrong in music worship as prayer: “useNot vain repetitions, as the heathen do.” The vain repetition of words is not a moving of the HolySpirit it is a moving of the carnal spirit. It is his marketing strategy to enlarge his viewing audience andIncrease sales of JSM merchandise on SBN – the Jimmy Swaggart shoppingHis wife Frances also denounces Christian entertainment on her SBN programJimmy Swaggart Ministries denounces the modern church and at theSame time they are the modern church! For example, they have replaced gospel music with pop/rockContemporary music casual dress on Wednesday nights (Jimmy wears noNecktie, Frances wears slacks, etc.) and other signs of the transition ofYet they point the finger of shame at others! JSM, shame on you! O ye hypocrites!During the Family Worship Center Sunday service, a female soloist sang aTrite, repetitive song about a river. A nd now he's promoting it!Was a hypocrite when denouncing “whores” and “whoremongers”And at the same time he was a-whoring after pornography andHe is a hypocrite denouncing contemporary Christian music as entertainmentAnd at the same time he is a-whoring after worldly music -“Christian” jazz, rock, and other popular music to please man, notHypocrisy is a perfect example of Matthew 7:For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measureYe mete, it shall be measured to you again.And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, butConsiderest not the beam that is in thine own eye?Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thineEye and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye and thenThou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.Jimmy Swaggart condemns contemporary Christian music as worldly, yetJSM’s music is worldly - “Christian” jazz, rock, and other popularMusic to please the carnal spirit of revelry. Ago, Jimmy Swaggart preached during a crusade…Is no such thing as Christian entertainment.”Contemporary Christian music strives to make Christ acceptable to man,Rather than elevating man to Jesus’ level.Swaggart’s Sonlife Broadcasting Network (SBN) lately?There's the electric guitar player whose style is rock“Christian” entertainment to expand Swaggart'sSwaggart said in the above video: “There is no such thing as Christian entertainment.”Watch these JSM music performances on Youtube…Boo Pourciau, Randy Knaps - "He'll Calm Your Storms"Boo Pourciau, Drum Solo - Family Worship Center (FWC)Swaggart condemned contemporary Christian music as entertainment for years. Keith Green , the Police , the Rolling Stones , and Jimmy Swaggart.
And yes I stillListen to his music today, but I would like to comment how the standardAbout 16 years old when I heard the very first sermon preached by JimmySwaggart. His music over the years has transitioned from gospel to worldly.The world, Christians expose Swaggart’s hypocrisy concerningCook of Truth Life Way Ministries in South Africa writes:Many years I have listened to Jimmy Swaggart’s music. More important, hype quenches the moving of the Spirit!Other words, the false worship of exaggerated, worldly reveling is hype– a deception to replace true holy worship and the moving of the Spirit.And Jimmy Swaggart uses worldly, deceptive hype to please man. In fact, hype isA substitute for a genuine move of the Holy Spirit.
Because I am somewhat of a musician and a worship-leaderHimself has through the years been very outspoken concerning this newStyle of music called Contemporary Christian Music, because of its worldlyForm. Because I myself have experienced this happen, whenAnointed music\singing has drawn or even brought some backslidden personBack to the Lord. I believed then as I even do todayThat the anointed songs and music can draw someone into a saving knowledgeOf Jesus Christ. Afterwards came the 4 track tapes Then the videos came and in more recent years the DVD’s and CD’s etc.And all through the years it was always the anointing on Swaggart’sBelieved that whenever someone can sing a song with an anointing, thatSong can draw you closer to Christ. I’m talking about the vinyl LPRecords, and then the 8 track-tapes.
Then there are some that I believe are no-where near toAnything one can call sacred or that even brings honour to our Lord. There are some very beautiful songs that haveBeen written. And I am not saying allContemporary music is wrong.
NotEven forgetting Lester and Holly Rector who was quite an act.Swaggart has certainly allowed the standard of wonderful, anointed musicAnd singing to be replaced by contemporary gospel music, andSingers\musicians who have obviously brought in the style of singing andMusic he has preached against for many years. And I don’t mean thesePeople are evil in any way, but just listening to the likes of RandyKnaps, or a Tareva Henderson and Allison Collins-Rhys you realise theyHave all brought in that world-like spirit. In comparison to his earlier gospel singers in the genre of JohnStarnes, Janet Paschal, Dudley Smith and Thomas Sloan, who were anointedSingers to say the least, because one could see Jesus Christ in them Looking at the singers Swaggart has employed this past decade one reallyCan see that the standard has certainly dropped.
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