Pop Goes the Gospel #131

The human mind is complex and wonderful. It appears that it can pick up messages without our consciously knowing the content of those messages. For example, a message can be flashed on the TV screen so fast we don't even consciously see it. But our minds click and our appetite for a pizza is triggered. We don't know why. Selling products in this way is really a little underhanded. That's why TV commercials using subliminal advertising are not permitted.

There is even mounting evidence that hidden messages placed on recordings can be received, stored, unscrambled and impressed on our minds without our knowledge. But when you play the recording at a slow speed or backwards you can hear the message. I heard about this when friends of our family borrowed a popular record from the library for a Sunday school demonstration. They played the record backwards to hear the hidden message. The message was there all right, a call to worship Satan.

Some recording stars have a message to proclaim to us. They not only bombard our ears and eyes with the so called "good news" of promiscuous sex and Satanism, they are playing dirty tricks. They are trying to capture a following by manipulating our minds with hidden messages. In the end, the real effort is to turn you and me away from the living God. Why? Misery loves company. Those who reject God want you to reject Him too. Don't follow the gospel of popular culture! Follow the real gospel, the gospel of Christ. "For the wages of sin is death [eternal death], but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23).

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