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The line would be crossed if the music would
contain outright blasphemous contents, if it would
promote pornography and violence or hatret. There
are most definitely certain tracks and artists
that will never be reviewed on this website.
The line would also be crossed if the Dubroom
would publish articles about Yesus Kristos and the
Gospel written by people who do not have a faith
in Him. We might review the works of an artist who
sings that Yesus is not the only Way to the
Father, but we would not place an article wherein
such a doctrine would be presented as a teaching
for the disciples of Yesus Kristos.
Yesus Kristos clearly said: "Do unto
others, like you would have them do unto
you". This is exactly what we are doing with
the reviewing. In Reggae Music, there's allways
respect for the other musician.
Yesus Kristos also said that whoever is not
against Him, is before Him. He told His disciples
that when they would be well received, when they
were being treated with respect, He would consider
that as for Him. Yesus Kristos has said, that the
way His disciples are treated is the way He
considers Himself to be treated.
This becomes clear in the teachings of Yesus
Kristos concerning the Great Day of Judgement,
when all the wicked people will be judged for
their wicked acts. In Matthew 25:32-46, we can
read something remarkable:
When the Son of man shall come in his glory,
and all the holy angels with him, then shall he
sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him
shall be gathered all nations: and he shall
separate them one from another, as a shepherd
divideth [his] sheep from the goats: And he
shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the
goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto
them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world: For I was an
hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and
ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took
me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and
ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto
me. Then shall the righteous answer him,
saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred,
and fed [thee]? or thirsty, and gave [thee]
drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took
[thee] in? or naked, and clothed [thee]? Or when
saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto
thee? And the King shall answer and say unto
them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye
have done [it] unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done [it] unto me. Then
shall he say also unto them on the left hand,
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting
fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For
I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was
thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a
stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye
clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye
visited me not. Then shall they also answer him,
saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or
athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in
prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then
shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say
unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of
the least of these, ye did [it] not to me.
And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
This is how Yesus Kristos judges those who are outside.
He looks carefully as to how His disciples, The
Least Of His Brethen are treated. And much can
be said about this particular scripture, but it is
clear that Yesus Kristos knows how to judge those
who are outside in a righteous way. This
is also the way we should look to those outside.
Yes, we should invite them to come inside,
definitely. But we shouldn't deny their works, we
should respect these works and we should review
them when they are reviewable. And we should let
Jah be their judge in the end. Is this a reason
not to spread the Good News of Salvation, the
Gospel of Yesus Kristos? Absolutely not! Quite the
contrary, it's a motivation to keep spreading the
Gospel! And as long as the Dubroom is ran by a
born again Christian, the Gospel of Yesus Kristos
will shine bright through this website. The
issue requires a continual meditation fe true. In
John 17:15, Yesus Kristos prayed to the Father
about His disciples:
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out
of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them
from the evil.
And so, here we are. In the world. Jah does not
take us out of this world, but He surely keeps us
from evil. And while we are in this world, we will
have to deal with the fact that not all the music
we play is neccesarily containing Christian
Lyrics. But we should know and let know that we
ourselves believe in Him, in Yesus Kristos! Reggae is not a rich
man's industry. All true Reggae Artists need each
other. Because only together we can forward true
Reggae into this new generation that keeps being
confronted with the most abominable filth through
the mainstream media. Is
this a reason to promote just about everything on
every site? Absolutely not! The Biblical
principles proposed in this lengthy article can
definitely not be applied to just about every
music there is, either. But it is why a
born again Christian Reggae artist can run a
Reggae website, promoting Reggae Music that may
not allways carry lyrics considered to be sound
teachings in the Christian Church.
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