Sin Wagon, Mattress Dancin'

I imagine I caught a few peoples' attention from my blog title. I hope so. Those words are actually from a Dixie Chicks song I had no intention of listening to except for the fact, possibly with you, the words "Sin Wagon" piqued my curiosity. Let me first say, I do not listen to nor do I purchase any secular music. I am no longer interested in it. However, as I was researching something online an unexpected advertisement popped up on the right-hand column of my laptop. It was an advertisement for an upcoming concert starring the Dixie Chicks who are back on tour and would be performing their newest hit, "Sin Wagon." And though the group is secular and that I never cared much for country music, I wanted to hear what they meant by Sin Wagon. I went to YouTube, brought up the song with lyrics, and watched the Dixie Chicks perform. What did I find out? Well, I learned that this song glorifies the concept of sin number one. Not a surprise really as so many songs today actually extol and pay tribute to fornication and adultery. Something was different about these lyrics though and that's what I want to blog about today. That is, living a life of sin and basically having no remorse about it. The woman in this song leaves her husband because she basically wants a life of debauchery and goes looking for an extramarital affair. Here is a taste of the lyrics:

Need a little bit more
Of what I've been missin'
I don't know where I'll be crashin'
But I'm arrivin' on a sin wagon

When it's my turn to march up to old glory
I'm gonna have one hell of a story
That's if He forgives me
Oh, Lord please forgive me

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Need a little bit more of that sweet salvation
They may take me with my feet draggin'
But I'll fly away on a sin wagon
I'll fly away on a sin wagon

It's not difficult to interpret those lyrics. The words are admired by the world and are cringe-worthy to every moral Christian. I read the comments left on the YouTube page and the comments prove my opinion as correct. So what is my point? Simply that in the song, the woman asks for forgiveness, but with no intention of repenting. She intends to live as she wants, ignoring what's right, then hoping she'll make it into heaven if she begs God at the last minute. What else can be expected of the world ... referring to sex as "salvation" and chortling how the Lord will have to "take me with my feet draggin" (I assume she's referring to heaven). After all, what sinner wants to give up the pleasure of sin for some stupid concept called heaven, right? The life her lyrics describes will get her what she wants, flying away on a sin wagon but right into hell. However, the worst part of this song's message to me is that people can live a life of wantonness and sin and then believe when their fun and games are over they will be accepted into heaven by merely pleading, "Lord, please forgive me." It doesn't work like that for either believer or non-believer! PLEASE GET THIS - THOSE OF YOU CALLING YOURSELVES CHRISTIANS! Personally, I know two women right now who say they are Christians but are committing fornication and refuse to repent, to stop, and turn back to the Lord. Regardless of correction, chastisement, or warning, they ignore the Word they claim to follow, "The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body." (1Corinthians 6:13) I sometimes refer to the Message Bible because it can strike a chord with people when I need a "modern-day" clear explanation of certain verses. I'm going to quote it now:

"Since the Master honors you with a body, honor Him with your body! God honored the Master's body by raising Him from the grave, He'll treat yours with the same resurrection power. Until that time, remember that your bodies are created with the same dignity as the Master's body. You wouldn't take the Master's body off to a whorehouse, would you? I should hope not. There's more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in scripture, "The two become one." Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever- the kind of sex that can never "become one." There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin, we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for "becoming one" with another. Or didn't you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don't you see that you can't live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body."

Jesus came to earth to take away sin (John 1:29) not so that after you are made clean, you as a sow, go back to your 'wallowing in the mire' or as 'a dog that returns to its vomit '(2 Peter 2:22). YES, THAT REALLY IS IN THE BIBLE! Jesus lived a sinless life (Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 John 3:5). He kept all the laws neither you nor I have or ever will keep! And this, so we might have HIS forgiveness for our transgressions (Romans 5:8; Romans 8:3; Hebrews 9:26), and thus we are freed from the punishment due us. CHRISTIANS! --- If you have accepted Christ, but refuse to obey His commands by willfully sinning against Him over and over when you know better, you are spitting in His face and mocking Him (Hebrews 10:26-28). Every person saved or unsaved that lives the life portrayed in the Dixie Chicks song WILL NOT go to heaven. The Bible says if they remain unrepentant, they will be kindling for the fires of hell (Revelation 21:8). I concur with the apostle Paul, "Awake to righteousness, AND SIN NOT; for some have not the knowledge of God; I speak this to your shame" (1 Corinthians 10:34). Please, time is drawing short, make a commitment right now to pray and seek God's face and turn from your mattress dancing. Proverbs 28:13 "He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper. But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion."
Until next time,
-Pat-