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         It is the little foxes that spoil the vine. And what great vines these seemingly little foxes of worldly music, distorted sounds and tunes and lyrics, spoil. Satan mixes the good among the bad, a touch of truth mixed in with the lie, and he often wraps the most poisonous fruit in pretty packages.
         I pray not that you are taken out of the world, but that you will be kept from evil. For you must be in the world, yet you are not of the world. Therefore be separate and touch not the unclean thing, and sanctify yourselves through the truth of My Word. Have I not spoken on this subject of music? Have I not spelled out the dangers? Therefore I challenge you, My Family, to take a stand. If you would be pure, if you would stand strong, purge out the little foxes that spoil the vine. Be in the world but not of the world.
         For you are in the world, yet you are not of the world. Therefore be separate, and touch not the unclean thing. Touch not the sounds of Satan. Wallow not willfully in them, freely listening to the bells of hell.
         My Family, if you desire to be strengthened, if you desire to follow closely, if you desire to be endowed with the wisdom that is from above, then sanctify yourselves through My Word, so you may be clean. Do not allow the little foxes to spoil My vine, but come out from among them and be separate.
         For just as junk food will spoil the body and will slowly take its toll, as you become weakened and fattened and bogged down with extra baggage and nonessential fats, so will a steady diet of the junk food of this music bog down your spirit, until your spiritual muscles become weakened, flabby and out of shape. Eventually they will lose their tone and elasticity, as you become weaker and weaker. Therefore fall not for the subtle ways of Satan who would have you think you will not be affected by such sounds, for it is a slow fading away; a slow, steady deafening of the ear; a slow, steady hardening and numbness to My Spirit and My truth. It is quicker for some than others, but it takes its toll.
         Therefore, take a stand! Sanctify yourselves through the Word that I have spoken on this subject. Speak to yourselves in song--My song, My music and My Heavenly tunes. Put off the old man and walk in newness of life. If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.



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