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Question #1
What stood-out for you in the message?
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.
God has Always Provided Detailed Instructions
God has Always Provided Detailed Instructions
God Specifies Who will Play Musical Instruments
God Specifies Who will Play Musical Instruments
And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
God Explains When and Why Instruments will be used
God Explains When and Why Instruments will be used
On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”
In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Questions #2
Given that Christ has set us free, why can I be free to do as I please in my worship practices?
We human beings have no right to formulate our own ideas concerning religious truth. We must have God’s approval for everything we do.
We human beings have no right to formulate our own ideas concerning religious truth. We must have God’s approval for everything we do.
And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well.
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Jesus Instructed the Apostles Concerning Approved Music
Jesus Instructed the Apostles Concerning Approved Music
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Instrumental music in worship is not authorized. While some people may think it qualifies as an expedient—an aid to their singing—it does not. It may drown out their singing, or so overshadow their singing that they think it sounds better, but in actuality a musical instrument merely supplements singing.
Instrumental music in worship is not authorized. While some people may think it qualifies as an expedient—an aid to their singing—it does not. It may drown out their singing, or so overshadow their singing that they think it sounds better, but in actuality a musical instrument merely supplements singing.
It is another form of music in the same way that seeing and hearing are two distinct ways of perceiving.
It is another form of music in the same way that seeing and hearing are two distinct ways of perceiving.
