Exposing the dangers in music that distract the Christian from his Maker.

"Opus-Identifying the Mind's Mark

presented by Christian Berdahl

God:
wants our willing love & worship wants our minds fully intact and aware

Satan:

wants our willing or ignorant worship wants our minds short-circuited and blinded

A Cosmic Battle Over You!

Both sides are at war for your soul and choice!

God:

wants us to make an intelligent decision based on evidence of His love wants us to know who He is and what He stands for

Satan:

wants us to make an emotional decision based on our own happiness wants to mask who he is and what he stands for

There is a wargoing on inside each of us!

The Carnal Dog The Spiritual Dog

Vs.

Which ever one gets fed is the one that will win!

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

Romans 7:18, 19

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Romans 7:18, 19

2 Corinthians 3:18

"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit (influence or the moving) of the Lord."

2 Corinthians 3:18 (Edited)

"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the sinfulness of the world, are changed into the same image from deformity to deformity even as by the spirit (influence or the moving) of Satan."

How do both sides have access to our mind? The five senses!
Taste Touch
Sight Smell Hearing

We must carefully guard the avenues to the soul...

Those who would not fall a prey to Satan's devices must guard well the avenues of the soul; they must avoid reading, seeing, or hearing that which will suggest impure thoughts.

Adventist Home Pg. 403

The mind must not be left to dwell at random upon every subject that the enemy of souls may suggest. The heart must be faithfully sentineled, or evils without will awaken evils within, and the soul will wander in darkness.

Adventist Home Pg. 403

The battle is for our mind! Why?

The mind is the essence of who we are!

The amazing story of Phineas Gage

25 year old, Vermont railroad worker Three-foot-long, 14 pound tamping iron Packing sand on top of gunpowder No packing sand, it sparked & exploded Rod was propelled through skull He lived to tell about it

Dr. Harlow wrote: Gage was fitful, irreverent, indulging at times in the grossest profanity (which was not previously his custom),.. impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicted with his desires...

A child in his intellectual capacity and manifestations, he has the animal passions of a strong man. Previous to his injury, although untrained in the schools, he possessed a wellbalanced mind,..

Neurologist Dr. Paul MacLean wrote concerning the Limbic lobes:

The Limbic lobes regulate the emotions concerned with the four primal (or base) instincts:

Fight Flight

Feed Fornicate

Neurologist Dr. Paul MacLean wrote concerning the Limbic lobes:

The limbic system as a whole appears to be the primary seat of emotion, attention, and emotionally charged memories.
Neurologist Paul MacLean, director of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior in Poolesville, Maryland.

In this regard his mind was radically changed, so decidedly that his friends and acquaintances said he was 'no longer Gage'.

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Satan knows what organs to excite to animate, engross, and charm the mind so that Christ is not desired. The spiritual longings of the soul for divine knowledge, for growth in grace, are wanting.

The battle is for our mind!

Frontal Lobe

Control Center Problem Solving Seat of Reasoning Filter

In a frontal lobe that is functioning properly Beta waves are present and activeindicating active, sound thinking... Alpha waves
Incoming information is deposited in memory without interpretation!

Beta waves Dynamically, critically

analyzing incoming information!

Modern science has proven that: Illegal drugs damage the frontal lobe Some prescription drugs damage the frontal lobe Alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, certain foods damage the frontal lobe Certain modern movies impair the frontal lobe Many modern television programs impair the frontal lobe

PreFrontal Cortex Crown Character

Will Spirituality Choose Discernment Obey Morality Worship

The battle is for our mind!

Memory
Everything we have done Smelt Tasted Seen Heard Touched All RECORDED!

The battle is for our mind!

Proverbs 23:7 Solomon said, For as [a man] thinketh within himself, so is he.

Music and the Brain

Scientists are finding that the human brain is pre-wired for music. The temporal lobes of the brain, just behind the ears, act as the music center
Newsweek July 2000

Music and the Brain The brain seems to be a sponge for music and like a sponge in water, is changed by it.
Newsweek July 2000

David Merrills High School Science Fair Project

Sixteen-year-old David Merrill, thought that the loud sounds of hard-rock music must have a bad effect on its devoted fans and came up with a way to test that damage.

David Merrills High School Science Fair Project Merrill got 72 mice and divided them into three groups: one to test a mouse's response to hard rock, another to the music of Mozart and a control group that wouldn't listen to any music at all, rock or classical.

David Merrills High School Science Fair Project

The young visionary got all the mice accustomed to living in aquariums in his basement, then started playing music 10 hours a day.

David Merrills High School Science Fair Project

Merrill put each mouse through a maze three times a week that originally had taken the mice an average of 10 minutes to complete.

David Merrills High School Science Fair Project

Over time, the 24 controlgroup mice managed to cut about 5 minutes from their maze-completion time.

David Merrills High School Science Fair Project

The Mozart-listening mice cut their time back 8.5 minutes!

David Merrills High School Science Fair Project But the hard-rock mice added 20 minutes to their time, making their average mazerunning time 300 percent more than their original average. Need we say more? Well maybe we do.

David Merrills High School Science Fair Project

Merrill told the Associated Press that he'd attempted the experiment the year before, allowing mice in the different groups to live together.

David Merrills High School Science Fair Project

"I had to cut my project short because all the hard-rock mice killed each other," Merrill said. "None of the classical mice did that."

Patty Hearst February 1974

Kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army Shortly after she helps to rob banks How was she converted?

Dr. William Sargant

Britain's foremost expert on brainwashing examined Patty Hearst. ". . .she was an unwilling victim of a "FORCED CONVERSION" or brainwashing.

Dr. William Sargant According to Sargant, a person whose nervous system is under constant pressure can "inhibit" and "exhibit paradoxical brain activity - bad becomes good and vice versa."

Dr. William Sargant

And that, Sargant argues, is precisely what happened to Patty.
Newsweek, February 16, 1976

Dr. William Sargant . . .Her nervous system was kept at maximum stress by the continual playing of loud rock music."
Newsweek, February 16, 1976

Jimi Hendrix You can hypnotize people with music and when you get them at their weakest point, you can preach into their subconscious what we want to say."
Life Magazine Oct 1969

Drs. Daniel & Bernadette Skubik

Their studies have proven that any music that contains pounding low frequencies, like the ones we hear at airports or construction sites is considered to be a brain drain. Rock, Hip Hop and Pop music falls into this category, because of the driving bass guitar and other low pounding sounds.

Dr. Alfred Tomatis

Music that contains high frequencies helps the brain recharge: the higher the frequency the more the brain is recharged. Between 5,000htz and 8,000htz. The music of Mozart for example contains more of these frequencies than other composers.

Does Music Affect mans physical body? There is scarcely a single function of the body which cannot be affected by musical tones. The roots of the auditory nerves are more widely distributed and possess more extensive connections than those of any other nerves in the body.
David Tame, The Secret Power of Music, p. 136

Does Music Affect mans physical body? Investigation has shown that music affects digestion, internal secretions, circulation, nutrition and respiration. Even neural networks of the brain have been found to be sensitive to harmonic principles"
David Tame, The Secret Power of Music, p. 136

Mind & Body Altered by music!

Raise or Lower BP Mental Illness Depression Retardation Insomnia Change metabolism Affect muscular energy Influence digestion

Mind & Body Altered by music!

Musicologist Julius Portnoy:

"It may be able to do all these things more successfully... than any other stimulants that produce those changes in our bodies."
Tame, The Secret Power of Music

Fredric Chopin 10 year old pianist & composer Summoned to play for Grand Duke Constantine, governor of Poland

Fredric Chopin
Chopins music controlled his seizures The cure would last for a time, then he would call young Chopin again when the musical medicine wore off.

And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, forehead or in his hand,

Revelation 14:9, 10

Revelation 14:1

And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Fathers name written in their foreheads.

Satans forehead!

Satan was once an honored angel in heaven, next to Christ. His countenance, like those of the other angels, was mild and expressive of happiness.
Ellen White, EW p 146

Satans forehead!

His forehead was high and broad, showing great intelligence. His form was perfect; his bearing noble and majestic....
Ellen White, EW p 146

Satans forehead! ...I was shown Satan as he once was, a happy, exalted angel. Then I was shown him as he now is. He still bears a kingly form. His features are still noble, for he is an angel fallen.

Ellen White, EW p 146

Satans forehead! But the expression of his countenance is full of anxiety, care, unhappiness, malice, hate, mischief, deceit, and every evil. That brow which was once so noble, I particularly noticed.

Ellen White, EW p 146

Satans forehead! His forehead commenced from his eyes to recede. I saw that he had so long bent himself to evil that every good quality was debased, and every evil trait was developed.

Ellen White, EW p 146

Satans forehead! His eyes were cunning, sly, and showed great penetration... A smile was upon his countenance, which made me tremble, it was so full of evil and satanic slyness.

Ellen White, EW p 146

Satans forehead! This smile is the one he wears just before he makes sure of his victim, and as he fastens the victim in his snare, this smile grows horrible.
Ellen White, EW p 146

So, why hasnt Jesus come for us yet?

I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God:
Revelation 7:2, 3

Revelation 7:2, 3

3. and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees,

till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

Revelation 7:2, 3

There is a very real wargoing on for us & inside each of us!

The Carnal Dog The Spiritual Dog

Vs.

Which ever one gets fed wins the fight for your soul!

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