WWUTT 540 Q&A Flee Rapture Music?

Music Beds, Revelation, and the “Zappa” Question

Where do the what music beds come from? What's my view concerning the rapture? Where can you find some good reform praise and worship music? And how do you flee from sexual immorality? The answers to these questions, when we understand the text.

You're listening to when we understand the text, a verse by verse Bible study to help encourage your time in the word. Let your friends know about our ministry at www .utt .com. Now here's your host, Pastor Gabe.

Along with my cold co-host.

Hello.

Rebecca Hughes, who's got the sweater around her and her shoulders all squinted up to her ears and her teeth are chattering.

Is it cold? A little bit.

Is it cold down here?

More than what I'm used to and what I like.

Is it?

I'm in a short sleeve shirt, I feel okay. Well, how about some warmth from our listeners in the lovely emails that they sent our way?

Sounds good.

Think that might warm you up?

Yes, most definitely.

She looks a little skeptical if you couldn't hear by her tone. Our email address is whenweunderstandthetextatgmail .com. This first question comes from Heidi in California. It's not a real deep question, but it's a question we get a lot related to the music that we use in the what videos.

So, but this one was funny, the way that she approached it. I was just watching the video called, How to Study the Book of Revelation. And I was wondering what the background music was. Just curious, is it Zappa?

Like Frank Zappa?

Oh, got it.

I think, isn't that who she's referring to?

I don't know.

Do you know any Frank Zappa songs?

I don't know Heidi.

Maybe she likes Zappa.

Maybe.

I can honestly say, I don't know a single Frank Zappa song.

I know, I actually know his, oh, hello.

Your alarm's going off again.

I'm sorry.

Is this every show?

Just about, yeah.

Most of the time, you, the listeners, don't hear it because we cut out the alarm. But I think I'm just gonna leave that one in there. I'm not even gonna bother with this one.

Sorry guys.

So, you said you know some Zappa? I don't know Zappa.

No, I know the name. But surprisingly, I do know that name.

Well, let me.

Because I'm not a name person.

Well, you and your brothers used to, you and your brother, you only had one brother, you used to listen to your parents' records.

Yeah, oh yeah.

And you said you didn't know the names of the titles or anything, but you knew the music.

Yes.

Right.

Anyway, well, if you do know some Zappa, I'm gonna play this video, you'll have to let me know if it sounds like Zappa.

Okay.

Because I don't know.

Okay.

The most popular way to study the book of Revelation is with a globe in one hand and a newspaper in the other, but that's not how it works. Revelation was as relevant in the first century as it is in any century as it is today.

Seven Things to Look for in Revelation

Here are seven things to look for when you study the book of Revelation. First, the glory of the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Trinity is not only mentioned, it's an underscoring theme.

Numbers are symbolic, especially the number three and things being presented in threes. Second, the relevance and reliability of the whole Bible. There are 404 verses in Revelation, over 500 references to the Old Testament.

The better you know the whole Bible, the easier it is to understand Revelation. Third, the sovereignty of God, and how God has ordained all things from beginning to end. Fourth, the reality of suffering.

The book affirms that Christians will go through tribulation, but we have hope knowing that Christ has the final victory. Fifth, the inevitability and severity of God's judgment. Revelation is not just about the deliverance of God's people, it's also about the judgment of the ungodly, along with the devil and his angels.

Sixth, the certainty of Christ's return. Jesus said, behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me to repay each one for what he has done. I am the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

Seventh, the consummation of redemptive history. The Bible is not a group of stories, it's one story about how God is reconciling all things to himself, whether on earth or in heaven, through the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Revelation is the last page of that story, when we understand the text. So did that sound to you like Zappa?

I'm not sure. Maybe, I mean, it sounded familiar.

I guess.

It sounded like that era, you know?

Maybe, I don't have any idea.

So it's not Zappa?

No, it's not Zappa. Okay, so I'm gonna tie this question into the one that we get frequently about, where do the what video music beds come from?

There you go.

They come from a couple of different places. I have written a few of those beds. So they are original creations. Other music beds have come from my years in radio. I actually saved a lot of the spots that I did, including the music beds that I use for those spots.

And so whatever random music library I was pulling those music beds from, I still have. Now, every single music bed that is used in a what video has been altered. So it's not exactly what I pulled from the music library that we were using.

We do those music beds under the spots and things like that. I've moved pieces around. I even have a program that allows me to eliminate certain instruments. So it all sounds different. All of these music beds are unique to what videos, and you will never hear those music beds exactly like that anywhere else.

Cool.

I will say I was watching Forensic Files. So the whole true crime drama, Forensic Files on Netflix.

The ones that I don't watch.

Yeah, Becky doesn't watch them because I watch them late at night and it's a bad note for her to go to bed on. So they always catch the guy. That's the whole point of Forensic Files.

I know, but it still creeps me out. I can't explain it.

The music's dark. The guy's voice is like, and then they were, anyway, I'm not gonna. They found the guy lying in a gutter and his head was split open.

Stop.

I might as well go watch it.

Anyway, so what was I saying about that? Oh, there was actually a music bed in that show.

Oh, neat.

That I was like, I have that bed. I know exactly which music bed it is that they're using. So anyway, but all of those beds are unique to the what videos and some of them are original. And I have had a couple of people contact me and say, hey, if I wrote a music bed for you, would you put it in a what video?

If I know you, yes, but I would rather not do a thing where I'm using a music bed and then you come at me 10 years later and go, I had that bed that was copyrighted and it was mine. So if you're gonna contribute something like that, it better remain in that video and we better not have an issue in the future.

That's kind of the,.

So all of that stuff is mostly done in house so that I don't have those concerns in the future. But yeah, that's where the music beds come from. So that one that you heard sounded a little bit different than that.

I actually added some instruments with a keyboard even to that particular music bed. So all of the beds are unique to the videos that you hear them on, but I'm glad they're catchy.

Yeah.

Thank you for enjoying those music beds along with the what videos. Okay, this next question is in the same line of kind of what we just watched related to the book of Revelation. So this one is about end times.

Okay.

And this is from Nathan, not Nathan, but Nathan. Hey, Pastor Gabriel, I had a general question on your opinion and exegesis of the rapture. Do you believe in it as MacArthur or are you all millennial or post-millennial as some reformed individuals?

Thanks so much for your ministry. It has been a feast for my soul and a growth in the faith.

Aw.

My response to that question is none of the above.

Right.

I don't agree with MacArthur's view of the rapture. I'm not really totally in on all millennialism or post-millennialism either. Well, I guess as far as the rapture is concerned, I believe that the coming of the Lord in judgment and his receiving his saints unto himself, that's all the same event.

So all of that's happening at the same time. There's not a rapture, a secret rapture where people disappear, then a seven-year period of tribulation, and then Christ comes back again to rapture more Christians who were saved during that seven-year period and coming back with the Christians that he raptured the first time seven years ago.

You know, that's not in the Bible. And that's kind of what I've been showing as we've gone through first and second Thessalonians together. But I will say that, you know, I love MacArthur. I listened to his Bible teaching.

I don't agree with him and his dispensational view on end times eschatology. But look at how good of friends MacArthur is with somebody like Al Mohler, who's also not a dispensationalist. He is a historic pre-millennial.

And how good of friends he is with R .C. Sproul, also not a dispensationalist. He's kind of the blend of amillennial and postmillennial. And these guys set great examples for different viewpoints on eschatology, and yet they're great friends and they do ministry together, conferences together, so on and so forth.

And I think when it comes to that kind of camaraderie, we need to imitate that. Because I see way too much division over differences of opinion on eschatology. The things that I've been teaching this past week coming out of 2 Thessalonians, you may not agree with all of that.

And you may not have agreed with my exposition of 1 Thessalonians chapters four and five either. I hope that you can rejoice with me in knowing that Christ is gonna return.

Amen.

That's the promise that we've been given in scripture. That is our hope. That is what we're looking forward to. And we'll probably disagree on the specifics on the things that are gonna take place prior to his return, or even how those things are gonna play out even right after his return.

That's what I was gonna say.

Yeah, right.

About to go there, because that's basically the millennial viewpoints, everything that happens after that. So differing on those opinions. But hey, we can rejoice together in celebrating that our Lord Christ has saved us from our sins by his death on the cross, was resurrected from the grave so that we can share in a resurrection like his, and we know he's coming back and he's gonna win.

Amen.

My friend, Nate Pickowitz, who is the author of the book, Why We're Protestant, especially here in the month of October, highly encourage you to check that book out.

Yes.

He's a pastor up in New Hampshire and he is dispensational. And I am not, but we had a conversation with somebody that came up to us and was asking us about this at ShepCon. Actually, they were asking us about end times.

Oh dear.

I looked at Nate and I said, I said, look, if Nate's right and I'm wrong, I'm gonna be the first one standing up to him in heaven and going, you know what? You were right. But here we are. I'm perfectly fine with admitting that he was right and I was wrong, but then I added, but I'm right.

Anyway, so you can have a good natured ribbing with that. I think it is good to challenge one another because in challenging each other, it drives us to go back to the scriptures and make sure we understand what we are to understand related to what the Bible says.

In context, yeah. Our authority is the word of God. Our authority is not that somebody came up with a system of studying end times. And so that's what we need to adhere to. If you're reading something in the Bible and you're going, you know what?

That doesn't match up with this version of end times that I have adopted. You probably have a good reason to challenge that and wonder if something that you've believed all this while because somebody taught you that way of interpreting end times theology is reason for you to go.

That might be wrong.

And sometimes if it sounds like a stretch, it probably is.

Maybe so.

So anyway.

Something to look into anyway.

So thank you for the question, Nithin. And I hope that that was sufficient. It may not help you in your understanding of eschatology, but I hope that it helps you in the way that you relate to fellow saints in the ways that you talk about eschatology.

With charity, with love and encouragement of one another, do not be divisive over differences of opinion on end times unless they're doing something like the false teachers did to the Thessalonians telling them that the rapture has already occurred.

Or you got somebody that comes along and goes, oh no, I know exactly what year it's gonna happen. No, these guys don't know anything like that.

They need to study their Bible better.

Yes. According to the scriptures, the word of God is our authority. Next question. This comes from Daryl in New Jersey. And he says, Pastor Gabe, thank you so much for the hard work that you do in your podcasts and videos.

You have been such a blessing in my walk. I really have been enjoying your Friday podcast with your wife. It has inspired me to perhaps start a podcast with my wife.

Aw.

We are currently worship leaders at our church. Now, I love that. I love husband and wife duos leading worship. It's one of the reasons why I love Keith and Kristen Getty so much.

Right?

They're fun.

In fact, there was at one point several years back where we were looking for a new worship leader at our church, which we still are, by the way, if somebody wants to move to Junction City, can't pay you.

But.

Yes.

You're welcome to come be worship leaders.

I recommend getting a job first.

Maybe so. You would be bivocational, but would love to have you.

Anyway.

No, I mean like, cause jobs are hard to come by around here.

Are they?

I don't know.

I think there's a lot of openings for stuff.

For like entry level.

Well, that's true.

Yeah.

I mean, it's not really career level stuff.

Right.

That's a little harder to come by.

I guess. Unless you want to, you know, work at the police department and your name's Anonymou. You know, that, I'm just kidding. Just kidding. I've ribbed him enough on that. So, but I love husband and wife duos.

Anyway, when we were looking several years back, that was what I was hoping to get in our applications. I was looking for somebody who was, you know, I sing a little bit and my wife sings too. And I would have gone sold.

Come on guys. Come on down here. Would love to have you lead worship at our church. I lead worship. That's how, that's actually what I did when I first started at First Southern Baptist in Junction City.

And I still do it. And I don't have a problem doing it. I love singing. I love singing the hymns and playing piano, which is what I do. And we've got a great band and we've got some other great singers that come up there.

But hey, I would love to hand it off to somebody else. Doesn't have to be me doing all of that. But anyway, so all of that to say, I love husband and wife duos that lead worship together. The question that I have for you, Daryl says, concerns music.

Surprise, surprise. Recently, we were being encouraged by leadership to do songs by Hillsong and Elevation Worship. I feel convicted about playing their music because I know about the false teaching that comes from their ministries.

I like to do hymns, but leadership is trying to reach a younger generation that feels some of the hymns sing in a language that may be foreign to them. Do you have any songs that you would suggest that are modern and won't cause us to compromise on our consciences?

Thank you for your help and your ministry. May God continue to bless you and your family and to you as well, Daryl. I pray that the Lord would bless you in your ministry and thank you for the conviction that you have because the doctrine that's in our songs is just as important as the doctrine that comes from the pulpit.

Oh, definitely.

Now, I'll tell you that Chris Tomlin songs are fine. I don't think there's anything really inherently wrong with the stuff that Chris Tomlin does, regardless of what you think about Louis Giglio and the stuff that goes on at the Passion Conferences.

I just prefer not to do Chris Tomlin songs because they're just way overdone. There's a lot of them and everybody does them. My son's favorite song is still How Great Is Our God. So for the sake of my son, I have to sneak that song in every once in a while.

It's not for the sake of my son, it's to the glory of God. But that song is kept in my mind because I know Zeej likes it too. And I love Matt Redman. And I know that Redman is one who has, he's kind of put his chips behind guys like Furtick and has partnered with Hillsong and stuff like that in the past.

I know that's Matt Redman, but he does such great songs that are doctrinally sound, whereas the Hillsong tunes are not even doctrinally sound. A lot of them aren't anyway. Redman's very much are. He wrote Blessed Be Your Name.

Blessed Be The Name, Blessed Be Your Name. Yeah, there's Blessed Be The Name, which is the classic hymn, and there's Blessed Be Your Name, which is Matt Redman. He did A Heart of Worship, Better Is One Day In Your Courts.

And he does a song that's not as common. I don't hear as many people do this, but I love the song, You Alone Can Rescue. That's a great song.

I love that one. That is a great song.

Anyway, so Redman is one that I like. Look Up Andrew Peterson. We've mentioned Keith and Kristen Getty. They have more songs than just In Christ Alone. That is a fantastic hymn, but there's other stuff that Keith and Kristen Getty have done.

Yeah, because they lead worship too, so they have tons of songs.

Of course, yeah. They've got a whole library and CDs, so you can buy their CDs and

And music.

That's right. They have the sheet music and the books and stuff too. So that's real good.

And even like Christmas time stuff too.

Christmas tunes. Okay, so I've got four website. But yeah, that is coming up. Oh, man. Well, yeah, coming up, it's already, there's Christmas trees in all the department stores.

Oh, I know.

That was, oh, that was months ago.

Christmas in July. And then we just have

It was.

Christmas trees up for half the year.

It was very surprising.

Anyway, so I've got four websites for you to check out. Cityhymns .com, thousandtongues .org, sovereigngracemusic .org, and seedsfamilyworship .com. Actually, let me check that last one one more time, because I did not check to see if that was a .com or a .org, seedsfamilyworship .com.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Is that right? Is this the site? Yeah, there it is. Okay, good. That's right. So seedsfamilyworship .com, that is the website.

Yes.

So those four sites. Now you won't come up with the commonly known stuff, but honestly, I got to tell you the

But they're catchy.

Oh, yeah.

They're really catchy.

Wonderfully catchy songs in all four websites. All four websites have great modern worship songs that you can find that are doctrinally sound. Now they're not gonna be as widespread as the Jesus Culture or Elevation Music or Hillsong Tunes, but those songs are not as popular as you think they are.

The thing is that you get caught in those bubbles, in that kind of world where only that kind of music is surrounding you, and you think that that's the stuff that's out there.

Right.

And as far as Christian praise and worship goes, yeah, it's the most popular stuff, but it's not like everyone has heard those songs. And so they're therefore coming to your church expecting to hear those songs.

Right.

Don't have that impression of people that are coming into your church, especially if you've got leadership that has that seeker-friendly mentality. And so they're looking for songs that they think would draw a younger generation in.

That younger generation probably doesn't know Elevation Hillsong and Jesus Culture.

No.

So if you're

They probably don't even know the gospel or the basics.

There's that as well. So if you're looking for something that has that sound that you think would appeal to a younger generation, those four websites will get you the songs that you want. And in fact, I wanna play one here.

This isn't gonna be one of the heavier tunes, but I just love this song. And I found it through City Hymns. Cityhymns .com? Yeah, cityhymns .com. Getting mixed up on the dot coms and the dot orgs. But anyway, City Hymns did this song.

And the first time I heard it, I learned it on piano immediately and did it at church the next Sunday. This is a kind of a rehash of a Horatio Bonner song called Not What My Hands Have Done. And this song is called Holy Hands.

So take a listen to this.

Not what my hands have done can save my guilty soul Not what my toiling flesh has borne can make my spirit whole Not what I feel or do can give me peace with God Not all my prayers and sighs and tears can bear my awful load These guilty hands are raised, filthy rags are all I bring And I have come to hide beneath your feet These holy hands are raised, washed in the fountain of your grace I wear your right of sin, give me peace within Set my spirit free, these filthy rags are all I've come with These holy hands are raised, washed in the fountain of your grace And now I wear your righteousness, grace alone, O God, to me Can pardon speak, by power alone, O Lamb of God, can this sore bondage break?

No other work save thine, no other blood will do No strength save that which is divine can bear me safely through These guilty hands are raised, rags are all I bring These holy hands are raised, washed in the fountain of your grace And now I wear your righteousness, grace alone, O God, to me I praise the God of grace, I trust his truth and hold me as I go in mine My God, my joy, my light is he who saveth me, because he loveth me Because he lives, these holy hands are raised, washed in the fountain of your grace And now I wear your righteousness, grace alone, O God, to me

Is that not just a great song?

Oh, it's great.

Fantastic doctrine and theology in addition to just being a great song. It's gonna be stuck in your head now and you're gonna be singing that one all day.

Enjoy.

That'll replace the song that was stuck in your head earlier.

Oh no, probably not. It's the spinning song, however.

Yeah, if you wait and listen to the outtakes at the end of this episode, you'll hear the joke related to that. So those four websites, once again, cityhymns .com, thousandtongues .org, sovereigngracemusic .org, and seedsfamilyworship .com.

Also, the Grace Notes hymnal that comes from Grace To You, the hymnal that they put together, can't remember if it was last year or the year before, but anyway, it's got tons of great stuff in it, new and modern, as well as classic hymns.

So I would encourage you to check that one out as well. I don't know if you can pick it up at gracetoyou, gty .org. I don't know if they're a .org or a .com either. Or can't we just be .ministry?

Right?

What .ministry? Anyway, so, and thank you again, Daryl, for your conviction and dedication to great music serving the people of God in the church. All right, so this portion now, this is where I get to that question that's a little bit more on the adult side.

And so if you, it's almost like a spoiler alert. So if you need to stop the audio now and screen the program before you let your kids listen to it, this person who has written in has asked to remain anonymous.

He says, hello, Pastor Gabe and Becky. If this question makes it onto the podcast, please refrain from using my name on the air. I'm emailing you in regards to a struggle I'm currently facing in my life.

I know you've received emails like this before, but I'm struggling with sexual addiction and my salvation. This is an issue that I've kept from everyone close to me. I understand the severity of this sin and I've tried repenting several times, but I keep coming back to it.

I've seen your what video, how to stop watching porn. And although I like the video, the only thing I would say in response is that to an addict, it just isn't that simple. As a sex addict, I'm tempted every minute of every day.

Just catching a glance of an attractive woman out in public will send my mind places that it should never go. I know the right things to say to people to make them believe I'm saved from this sin, but truthfully, I know I'm going to hell if I keep this up.

Every time I've repented, I just feel like I'm doing it on my own with no help from God. I don't feel Christ intervening in my life. And what terrifies me most is wondering whether or not it's even his will to save me.

I guess my question is, do you think that there is any hope for someone like me? Thank you for what you do. And I hope to hear back, God bless. So in the video, how to stop looking at porn, which is the what video that was done, said here is a simple solution for stopping what you're doing.

And it's just this, stop. And that is still true. And I still hold to that answer. That does not mean, nor does the video allude to solving an addiction mindset. So yes, your brain has now been conditioned to look at women a certain way and to crave a certain thing.

And whenever you look at that thing, there are certain hormones, chemicals that are released in your brain, and it develops a sense of euphoria and you are addicted to that feeling. And so you still want to look at women to release those chemicals so that you can have the feeling that you're used to having because of your lust.

And it's an enslavement to your flesh. If you are addicted to the chemical releases in your body, you are being enslaved to your own body. That's where you are. And it's the constant looking at that that has conditioned you to keep coming back and looking at that.

So just because you need to stop looking at porn does not mean you've solved your problem with lust. That may still be a struggle that you will have in your body for a long time. But as far as the feeding the urge goes, you've got to stop and you absolutely have control over that.

You can stop looking at porn and you just don't want to. A person who keeps looking at it just doesn't want to stop. That's really what it comes down to. So once you've done that, once you have made that commitment and you've said before God and you've cried before him and you have actually felt bad for what it is that you've done, you know what you're doing is evil and you need to stop doing it.

Once you've done that, you've made that, this is it, cold turkey, I'm repenting, which means you're gonna turn away from this and you're not gonna go back to it anymore. I've repented of this. So you've stopped looking at porn.

That you are gonna need God's help to get your brain away from what it has now been conditioned to long for and desire, that sense of lust that you are constantly battling in your flesh and it's gonna take a long time and the length of time is different for every person, but these are the kinds of things that's gonna require discipline and accountability.

And setting up boundaries.

Right.

One of the issues that you have even mentioned in your email is that you're doing this in secret and you're not letting anyone know about it. That's a problem.

That's a huge problem.

If you want to solve this and if you're truly repentant, you are gonna have to go to somebody and tell them. So let me read you a couple of passages here. First Corinthians seven, beginning in 17, flee from sexual immorality.

Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you whom you have from God?

You are not your own for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. And before that, Paul said, do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is written, the two will become one flesh.

And then again, verse 17, but he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. So if you are with the Lord and you do have the spirit of God, then you are desecrating the temple of the Holy Spirit whenever you chase after sexual sin.

It is a serious sin that is unique to all other sins. The solution is given here from the Apostle Paul, very simply verse 18, flee from sexual immorality, run away from it, get as far from it as you possibly can.

Put yourself in a place where you will not be tempted to click on the wrong thing on the computer or watch the wrong thing on Netflix or flip through the wrong thing in a magazine. Whatever it takes for you to get your eyes away from that, get away from it.

And it's everywhere.

Especially in this culture. You can drive down the interstate and pass by a billboard. So I understand the temptation. And when you mentioned I lust for a woman who walks by me, she's probably not wearing much.

I mean, just here in Junction City, going down to the grocery store and buying groceries. I've seen women down there that need to put way more clothes on. I sleep in more than that. So this is from James chapter four, and this is like 12 verses out of James four.