John Cooper Calls Lil Nas X to Repentance After Rapper Releases ‘J Christ’ Video

In one of the song’s verses, Lil Nas X relates his experiences to Christ’s death and resurrection. “Back-back-back up out the gravesite. B**ch, I’m back like J Christ. I’m finna get the gays hyped. I’m finna take it yay high. Back up out the gravesite B**ch, I’m back like J Christ,” Lil Nas X raps.

After witnessing how Lil Nas X publicly mocked Christianity this week, which was encapsulated by his “J Christ” video on Friday, Skillet’s John Cooper told ChurchLeaders that the rapper desperately, like all of us in this world, needs to repent so that he can be saved and born again.

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Cooper gave a list of “woes” that came to mind after watching Lil Nas X’s video. “Woe to those who celebrate Satan,” he said, “woe to those who arrogantly compare themselves to Jesus Christ, woe to those who put their own image on a cross as if they are Jesus, and woe to those who confuse the worship of Jesus with sex.”

“Woe to those who try to confuse children, leading them astray. Woe to those who compare a musical comeback that motivates sexual immorality to Jesus rising from the dead,” Cooper continued. “Woe to those who do not know the difference between Jesus and Satan, woe to those who mock God by belittling His death and resurrection, and woe to those who invoke Christ’s name as a punch line. Do not be deceived; God is not mocked.”

Cooper then directed his attention to the Christian church and said that we Christians need to repent for not speaking up against evil. “We must repent for allowing the culture to rot without barely saying a word about it,” said Cooper, “and accepting the public celebration of deathworks in our culture—deathwork is defined as using a sacred symbol to defile and destroy what was deemed sacred.”

We have also allowed “the power of the state to be in charge of school curriculum, sex education, and our moral taboos.”

“Likewise, the church must repent for accepting the culture of death that promotes abortion,” Cooper continued, “hyper-sexuality, gender confusion, and the sexualization of children as a reasonable worldview, a worldview that Christians cannot condemn or we will be deemed judgmental ‘Pharisees’ by other Christians.”

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