Lady Gaga came out with her new single “Judas” this past week, just a week before Easter Sunday. Christians everywhere have been in uproar concerning the message of this song, and rightly so. However, I would like to nickname this song “The Anthem of the Lost.” Listening to the lyrics, it displays the lost, unrepentant heart so truly and clearly. Before we are saved, we all wash the feet of our Lord’s betrayer. We love our sin, we deny the beauty of the Gospel, and we fall for the very thing that is death to us. “The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” Thanks to the blessing of general revelation, every man knows there is a God. Even Lady Gaga states this in her song: “I wanna love [Judas], but something’s pulling me away from you, Jesus is my virtue, Judas is the demon I cling to.”
Friends, we live in a nation “still in love with Judas, baby.” People will be driving along the road singing this song with the radio at the top of their lungs this week. It grieves my heart that hundreds of thousands of people will blast this without a second thought during the time in which we remember Christ’s betrayal. 3,500,000 people have listened to this song on YouTube SINCE YESTERDAY. We have all been in love with Judas. Christians, let us proclaim Christ to a world that does not yet see the glory and majesty of our God!
If you haven’t yet heard “The Anthem of the Lost,” here’s a link:
