Skillet frontman John Cooper is calling on the rapper to repent after the rapper released a controversial single and music video titled “J. Christ.”
In the music video, Lil Nas . She was also filmed welcoming several celebrity lookalikes to Heaven's gates, including Michael Jackson, Kanye West, and Taylor Swift.
It also depicts a scene in which Satan, wearing Lil Nas X's “Satan Shoes,” is defeated in a basketball game. Elsewhere in the video, Lil Nas is cutting the hair of church leaders I will report it.
Additionally, the rapper appears as a Noah-like character, saving animals from a global flood with an ark emblazoned with his emblem.
“Back back back and get out of the graveyard. Fuck you, I'm back like J. Christ. I want to get gays excited. I appreciate that. Get out of the graveyard, I’m back like J Christ,” the song’s lyrics read in part.
The video ends with a screen displaying text from. 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
As of Monday, the music video has been viewed more than 6 million times since its release on January 12th.
Cooper said this about the music video. church leaders Rappers desperately need to repent and be reborn. He also listed some “problems” based on what he's seen in his music videos.
Mr. Cooper said, “Woe to those who praise Satan; woe to those who arrogantly compare themselves to Jesus Christ; woe to those who crucify their own image as if it were Jesus. Woe to them, and woe to those who disrupt the worship of Satan.” Sex with Jesus. ”
“Woe to those who seek to confuse and lead children astray. Woe to those who liken a musical comeback motivated by sexual immorality to Jesus rising from the dead,” he added. “Woe to those who do not know the difference between Jesus and Satan, woe to those who mock God by disrespecting His death and resurrection, and woe to those who use the name of Christ as a punchline. Do not be deceived. ; God is not mocked.”
The Skillet frontman also called on the church to repent for not speaking out against evil.
Cooper said, “We must repent for saying so little about culture, allowing it to rot, and accepting the public celebration of the work of death in our culture. What is the work of death? “It is defined as the use of sacred symbols to desecrate and destroy something considered sacred.” ”
We also recognized that “state power controls school curricula, sex education, and moral taboos.”
“Similarly, the church must repent for embracing a culture of death that promotes abortion,” Cooper continued. “Hypersexualization, gender confusion, and the sexualization of children are reasonable worldviews, worldviews that Christians cannot condemn, or we would be condemned.” et al. Criticized “Pharisees” by Christians. ”
Just as Cooper calls Lil NasBorn again and renewed into the image of Jesus Christ through His death and resurrection [your] heart. “
He added: “The Church must repent of its unwillingness to call the world to repentance and to defend righteousness, and its incredible lack of moral clarity.”
“It's just as the prophet Jeremiah said in chapter 6, verse 15: We have forgotten how to blush because evil no longer embarrasses us,” Cooper concluded.
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Milton Quintanilla is a freelance writer and content creator. He is a contributor to Christian Headlines and host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast dedicated to sound doctrine and Biblical truth. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Alliance Theological Seminary.
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