LOBOTOMY

Today I’m writing about one of the new songs that I just wrote for our band which is called, Violent By Nature. The name of the band comes from the scripture Mt 11:12, “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” We have an evil and malicious enemy and we must resist Him by force. The violence is not violence for evil, but violence for good against evil. And the force is the power and energy of the Almighty to overcome evil. Because the Bible says, “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.” (I Jn 3:8) and Jesus said that the works that He did believers will do also (Jn 14:12) and that is to “destroy the works of the devil.” We are not to “…be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Rom 12:21) So we resist the enemy by being empowered by God to be violent for good against all evil. The music is Punk, Thrash and Metal and that’s because the vision is to take the light into the darkness that they may see and be free.

The new song is called Lobotomy and it refers to the human tendency of humanity to try to make others conform to their own way of thinking. Anyone who doesn’t think within the “box” is apparently “out of their mind” so most people consciously or subconsciously take it upon themselves to try to get others back in their box. It’s the pot of their own perception and they can’t see past it. People that don’t think “right” are tormented and pressured to fit in, and get in the pot. If they can not then society offers the option of Lobotomy. Pioneered by Walter J. Freeman the process involved shocking the patient unconscious and then inserting an ice pick through the eye socket, tapping it in with a hammer and then wiggling it around in the frontal lobe. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0aNILW6ILk) Once lobotomized the patient might reformed and able to conform to the norm. The process was mostly replace by the drug Thorazine, originally market as chemical lobotomy. Also referred to as a chemical straight jacket for the mind and body.

Most people don’t go to these lengths but instead resort reform their “patients” by informational lobotomy. They inform to deform and Jesus said to “Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod. (Mark 8:15)

But God offers the real answer for all mental and emotional distress, “do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Rom 12:2) “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ” (Phil 2:5) And “…we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Cor 2:16b)

The “mind of Christ” is contrary to the World and all of mans mindsets that seek to control. Such as: different forms of religion, political correctness, psychology, peer pressure, culture, traditions, etc. But we are called and created to be controlled by God and not man or evil. When we seek Him, make Him our Lord and yield to Him then we are conformed to His love and likeness. However, apparently even Jesus Himself became a misfit in His own society. He didn’t “fit in” where the people, politicians or the Pharisees wanted Him to “fit in” thus misfit. He would not get in their pot because He came to do the will of God and not of man. And it’s still the same today, when you sincerely step out to obey God you inevitably go against someone’s grain. Then they will try to “inform” to help you conform their norm. And to whom and what you give your mind to is to whom and what you will be conformed.

Rom 12:2
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
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Acts 4:19-20
19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."
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Acts 5:27-30
27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, 28 saying,"Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man's blood on us!"

29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: "We ought to obey God rather than men.
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So here’s the song. The music is up on our MySpace page and we’ll be getting it up with the lyrics also - soon. And I’m believing that somewhere somehow that this song will be used to set the captives free so they may see and have the mind of Christ. I’ll be ministering on it tonight and we will play it at the gang meeting. You’re welcome to come or bring someone if you desire and you’re in our area. (388 9th St. Meeker, CO)

1 Cor 4:9-10a
It seems to me that God has put us who bear his Message on stage in a theater in which no one wants to buy a ticket. We're something everyone stands around and stares at, like an accident in the street. 10 We're the Messiah's misfits.
MES

LOBOTOMY

THEY INFORM
TO DEFORM
WITCHES BREW
NICE AND WARM

Tried to put us in their pot, but we wouldn’t fit.
Told to toe a sacred line but we couldn’t find it.
Tried until we almost died, but we couldn’t do it.
Finally went out of our minds, became Messiah’s misfits.

DON’T CONFORM
TO THE SWARM
MIND OF CHRIST
BE TRANSFORMED

They said to bid our pain adieu, ice pick will reform.
Came to make our life a stew - driven to perform.
Upon our flesh they want to chew, the pot is nice and warm.
Consume our brain – like fondue, WE WILL NOT CONFORM!

Got the fire blazing hot, and they came to find us.
Hounded us till we were shot, but they couldn’t bind us.
Disemboweled and left to rot, but they couldn’t grind us.
WE WILL NOT GET IN THE POT! We’re Messiah’s misfits.

THEY INFORM
TO DEFORM
WITCHES BREW
NICE AND WARM
DON’T CONFORM
TO THE SWARM
MIND OF CHRIST
BE TRANSFORMED

(Violent by Nature, Copyright © 2011, All rights reserved)

References: for LOBOTOMY

Most of the ideas are found in Romans and Galatians. But there are many others. Here’s a few and there are many more but my time for writing this has expired. Cheers!

THEY INFORM (Gen 3: 4-5, Mt 16:6, Mk 8:15, Lu 12:1)
TO DEFORM ( 1 Cor 5:6)
WITCHES BREW ( Gal 3:1-3, 5:1-9)
NICE AND WARM

Tried to put us in their pot, but we wouldn’t fit. (Jn 1:11, 17:14, Mt 10:24-31)
Told to toe a sacred line but we couldn’t find it. (Mt 15:1-9)
Tried until we almost died, but we couldn’t do it. (Gal 3:11, 5:4)
Finally went out of our minds, became Messiah’s misfits. ( 2 Cor 5:12-13, 1 Cor 4:9-10MES)

DON’T CONFORM
TO THE SWARM
MIND OF CHRIST
BE TRANSFORMED (Rom 12:2, Php 2:5, I Cor 2:16, Eph 4:22-24, Lu 1:74-75)

They said to bid our pain adieu, ice pick will reform. (Lobotomy)
Came to make our life a stew - driven to perform. (Lu 18:9-14,)
Upon our flesh they want to chew, the pot is nice and warm. (Gal 6:13-14, Mt 23:13-39)
Consume our brain – like fondue, WE WILL NOT CONFORM! (Rom 12:2, Jam 4:7, 1 Pe 5:8-9)

Got the fire blazing hot, and they came to find us. (Mt 23:13)
Hounded us till we were shot, but they couldn’t bind us. (Gal 5:1, Mt 23:4, Heb 2:14-15, Ac 8:23, 2 Tim 2:9)
Disemboweled and left to rot, but they couldn’t grind us. (Disemboweled – to try and control by guilt and condemnation, fear, rejection, etc. - in the gut – Rom 8:1)
WE WILL NOT GET IN THE POT! We’re Messiah’s misfits. (Mt 11:12, Rom 12:2, 1 Cor 4:9-10MES)

THEY INFORM
TO DEFORM
WITCHES BREW
NICE AND WARM
DON’T CONFORM
TO THE SWARM
MIND OF CHRIST
BE TRANSFORMED

(Violent by Nature, Copyright © 2011, All rights reserved)