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Musical Worship
Musical worship is worship
& is governed by God’s word,
Col. 3:16, 17
God provides a pattern
Worship in every age
Not one pattern for all ages
Musical worship in the gospel age
Singing: Jesus, disciples, saints
Praise God & teach one another
Respect singing as worshipSlide3
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Our worship must be by His will, not ours
Worthy of worship,
Rev. 4:11
Musical worship due to love & devotion, not to please our earsSlide4
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Not All Worship Is Accepted
Arguments For Instruments
Sober StatementsSlide5
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Worship through idols is rejected,
Ex. 20:1-5
Golden calf,
Ex. 32:1-10
Idols at Dan & Bethel,
1 Kgs. 12:26-30
Not All Worship Is AcceptedSlide6
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Worship offered sincerely,
but without authority, is rejected
Nadab & Abihu,
Lev. 10:1-3
Sincerity is not enough,
1 Kgs. 18:25-29
Rejected at Judgment,
Mt. 7:21-23
Not All Worship Is AcceptedSlide7
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Not all beliefs are right
Water boils at 211 degrees
Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim
If God accepted all worship – hypocrite
Presbyterian & Baptist cannot be right
Catholic & Episcopal cannot be right
Pentecostal & Mormon cannot be right
Not All Worship Is AcceptedSlide8
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Changes to worship are sinful
Divinely given worship,
Acts 2:42; Col. 3:16
Man’s changes
Images & figures
Women leaders,
1 Tim. 2:11, 12
Instruments of music
Not All Worship Is AcceptedSlide9
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David used them,
Psa. 71:22
Dancing,
Psa. 150:3-5
Animal sacrifice,
Psa. 66:13, 15
Polygamy,
2 Sam. 3:2-5; 5:13
Arguments For InstrumentsSlide10
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The New Testament doesn’t say not to
Argument from silence,
Heb. 7:12-14
NT doesn’t say “thou shalt not…”
Gamble,
Eph. 4:28
Baptize
babies,
Mk. 16:16Pray to Mary, 1 Tim. 2:5
Arguments For InstrumentsSlide11
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God has given me a talent
and I feel I should use it to praise Him
Saul felt compelled,
1 Sam. 13:12
Juggler?
Magic tricks?
Sword swallower?
Arguments For InstrumentsSlide12
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Instruments are expedients like songbooks
The Lord’s Supper,
Mt. 26:26-29
Expedients: tray, cups, napkins
Non-expedients: cake, tea
Arguments For InstrumentsSlide13
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Instruments are expedients like songbooks
Baptism,
Col. 2:12
Expedients: river, lake, baptistery
Non-expedients: sprinkle, pour
Arguments For InstrumentsSlide14
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Instruments are expedients like songbooks
Sing,
Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16
Expedients: book, projector, memory
Non-expedients: piano, guitar
Arguments For InstrumentsSlide15
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Instruments are in heaven,
Rev. 5:8; 14:2
Golden bowls & incense
Lamb on Mt. Zion,
Rev. 14:1
144,000 virgin men,
Rev. 14:3, 4
Symbolic language,
Rev. 1:1
Arguments For InstrumentsSlide16
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“An
organ in the worship of
God
is
an ensign of Baal
”
Martin Luther
- Founder of Lutheran Church
- Quoted in McClintock & Strong’s Encyclopedia
Sober StatementsSlide17
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“
Musical
instruments
in
the celebration of praises to
God
would
be no more
suitablethan the burning of incenseand the
restoration
of
other shadows of the
law”
John Calvin
- Founder of Presbyterian Church
- Commentary on Psalm 33:2
Sober StatementsSlide18
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“
I have no
objections
to
instruments in our
chapels
provided
they
areneither seen nor heard”
John Wesley
- Founder of Methodist Church
- Quoted by Adam Clarke in Commentary on Amos 6:5
Sober StatementsSlide19
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“
What a
degradation
to
supplant the intelligent
song
of
the whole
congregationby the theatrical prettinesses of a quartette,
the
refined niceties of a choir
,
or
the blowing off of
wind
from
inanimate bellows and pipes
!
We
might as well pray by
machinery
as
praise by it
”
Charles Spurgeon
- Baptist Preacher 1800s
-
Treasury of David
Vol. 1, p. 272
Sober StatementsSlide20
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Sober Statements
“Speaking to one another
In psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
Singing and making melody
In your heart to the Lord”
The Holy Spirit
- Ephesians 5:19Slide21
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Sober Statements
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly
in all wisdom,
teaching and admonishing one another
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts
to the Lord”
The Holy Spirit
- Colossians 3:16Slide22