I watch American Idol. I usually record it and watch an hour in about 25 minutes. But that show really defines what is going on in America. The songs, the way ordinary people get transformed into Pop Stars. How becoming an Idol is the dream of millions of people. Last Tuesday David Cook from Blue Springs, MO sang a song called Innocent. I was intrigued with the song’s catch phrase “We are all innocent” but I had to look up the lyrics to understand what he was singing about:
INNOCENT
Oh Tina’s losing faith in what she knows
Hates her music
Hates all her clothes
Thinks of surgery
And a new nose
Every calorie is war (He starts after this line)
And while she wishes she was a dancer
And that she never heard of cancer
She wishes God would give her some answers
And make her feel beautiful
I remember feeling low
I remember losing hope
I remember all the feelings and the day they stopped
One day you’ll have to let it go
You’ll have to let it go
One day you’ll stand up on your own
You’ll stand up on your own
We are We are all innocent
We are all innocent
We are, We are”
Now I may be misinterpreting this song but it seems to be about all those people who dream of being something they can never be. Like Tina, who wants to be a dancer, she realizes she isn’t attractive, she is probably over weight. Her clothes don’t fit right. Maybe she even has cancer. She wants some answers from
God. She is feeling low, she is losing hope. But the song says she’ll have to let it go, she’ll have to stand on her own. We are all innocent. We are all special in our own way.
This desire to be special, to “OWN” our destiny is inherent in men and women, boys and girls. We want to discover the reason we are here on earth.
God is crying out-hey it’s my way, I am God! But our ears are clogged up and we say, NO!, it’s my way, I’m am the important one. I can’t relate to you, I can’t get any answers from you! You didn’t create this world There is no sin. There is no hell. We are all innocent. We have to make our own life. I’m not going to ‘DO’ anything to please a God I don’t even know exists. I’m going to ‘DO’ to please me. Sometimes, just in case, we do a little to please God.
This desire to please ourselves is entwined in every aspect of our society. Our children are growing up with this and parents are encouraging it. Our schools are encouraging it. Even grandparents foster it.
This is why the story of Ananias & Sapphira in Acts 5 doesn’t make sense to most of us, especially the younger generation. Preacher’s don’t like preaching on this either. First of all we don’t like talking about a God who makes people drop dead in the middle of the church service. Second, we don’t want to discourage people who want to give money to the church. These verses seem to speak against what this world thinks Pastor’s are most worried about-more people and more money. So we ask “How could God do something like that to Ananias and Sapphira?” After all, they were doing something tremendous for the church They were “OWNING” their destiny. They were in control of their lives.
This is exactly the problem. This is exactly why we are losing the cultural war for the souls of our children today. There is a little verse that I skipped over last week and will be preaching on this Sunday. It contains a phrase that defines the battle we face for this coming generation. It defines the battle that I will face as I try to influence my grandchildren for Jesus.
Acts 4:32 simply says this:
Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
That little phrase “neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own” defines this church that Jesus Christ gave His life to birth.
This is the key element of the Church-It is all about Jesus! It is not about us, it is not about what we have, it is not about what we do. The Church is all about what Jesus has done for us. Only the Son of God gave everything He had for us. Only the Son of God has the right to Redeem us from our sin. Therefore, He has the right to say what goes on in His church. He is more concerned about “WHY” we do rather than “WHAT” we do. When we come to Christ as our Savior, we come possessing nothing. Nothing we have or are is worth holding on to. We are saved by faith in Jesus and Jesus alone. When we give to Him, we hold nothing back. If we do we are lying to the Holy Spirit. We will die in our sins, for we have not been born again. Being “Born from Above” means that all things are new, we are a new creation. The old man has been crucified, we now walk in newness of life. To only go part way to Jesus means we have not truly been born again. There is no room for pretenders in God’s Church, the Bride He is preparing for His Son. Ananias and Sapphira had no part in Jesus Christ, they were still in the flesh. They were lying to each other and the Holy Spirit. Beware, your sin will find you out. We are, we are not innocent. Only Jesus Christ, who walked this earth as a sinless man, can lay claim to that truth. And unless we are willing to submit to Him, to find our identity in Him, to see Him as our Lord and Savior, we are condemned, for we are not innocent.
Loving the Word with the MudPreacher 
With all due respect, you based this all off of a song that you twisted to fit a religious issue. The song actually holds no religious depth or undertones at all; the song “Innocent” by Our Lady Peace (maybe try listening to the whole song as well) is about losing hope in the toughest of times. The song is about not being sure what to do, but soon becoming strong enough to know that we can get out of whatever has made us lose hope. To know, one day we will have to let the past go, and we will have to “stand up on our own” in a world that’s full of no’s and don’t’s. The song is not about snide humans trying to go without God, but about troubled people knowing that they need to have the strength inside of themselves, many times through God, to get through life. The main hook of the song, “We are all innocent,” does NOT secretly mean that we live in a blank world, no heaven or hell, that we own our own destiny. Suggesting that we “own” our own destiny is the exact opposite of what this song is doing. This song suggests that we cannot control a fraction of our destiny.
The main hook of the song, “We are all innocent,” suggests that we are all in the same boat together.
Sorry for your complete misinterpretation, though.
Another thing, I’m going to assume you know who Karl Marx is? The person attributed with coming up with the ideology of communism? Well, that’s not true. The ideology comes straight from the Bible, Acts 4:32 in fact.
While what you say about Jesus is very true, the story of Ananias and Sapphira is an early example of communism. They sold land, and when required to give what they got for it to the church lied about it, each in turn. The reason for the commune was the good of everyone, and they lied to everyone, and more importantly, God. Because they chose to lie, the Holy Spirit struck them down.
As I said, while your idea is quite true, your evidence is terrible. Please do more research.