About Goliath's Sword

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

About Goliath's Sword

Goliath's Sword is a Band Located in Marion, IN. It was formed to portray before Israel, (the Church) what can be done by faith in Jah. We the members of the band believe the best way to defeat and enemy, is to disable him by the word, and then destroy him by his own sword.

Of course by using his sword, we are not talking about using the Giants means, of taunting and accusation. We are talking about taking the thing out of his hand that he would have used to destroy you, and then, bringing that thing to the cross, and thereby making that thing, a powerful agent of change in our lives.

There is something that the enemy wields against you that he intends to kill you with. But is the thing evil, or is the enemy (and his lies) the real evil?

You see I believe music can be used for Godly purposes or evil. A certain type of music is not inherently evil. The heart's condition of the musician is the determining factor. Now having said that I must say my personal preference in music is that it would be not overbearingly loud, and that it would carry the message of the King, and His Kingdom.

Now back to the main message here. Joseph's testimony to his brothers, was that "what they meant for evil, Jah meant for good". The use of music to sway the minds of the young has been a constant since the fifties. But we all know that some of the best music written in that time period was found in the Pop, and Rock Genre.

I don't know if Larry Black first originated this question, but it was a timely word from God in the seventies. His query:

“Why should the devil, have all the good music?”

My belief is he should not. Now we since have seen a positive change in church music in the last twenty years. But there is a music that is now coming forth, that will not be just a copy of what the world is doing or has done. It will not be a copy of Israel's great praise under David. That fallen tent has already been restored. The music I speak of is new, vibrant, and will contain elements you will recognize from every expression of faith in the past. But it will be new. It is this music we seek, and promote as a band. It is music of the king, and will establish the kingdom.

Goliath’s Sword’s music is rooted in the sixties and seventies sound. It also incorporates sounds that may be unfamiliar to the church. It is made to bring the listener to a new understanding of the kingdom of God. What we have done is to take something from the enemy’s work in the last thirty–five years in music and church, and turn it into Jah Praise. We are wielding the felled enemy’s, sword-the music he used to steal a generation- and are putting it to use for the expansion of Jah's kingdom here in this day.

The members of this band are lovers of music and Jah. So, as we have noted when we were younger people the enemy used rock music to gain inroads into our lives, we are committed to bring that music through the cross and use it to establish our Lord's present kingdom expression.

As young people we experienced the Rock and Roll explosion in the fifties and sixties and the seventies. In 1978, I gave my life to Jesus. For years after that through influence of the religious church and through the change of life style, that had occurred, I no longer listened to "secular music".

The people I was with in those day's did a pretty good job at convincing me that it would be wrong to continue to listen to what the rest of society was listening to. However, I was led to a life changing moment in which the Lord restored my passion for Rock music. In a coming article I will share about that experience.