Worship In Song Part 1
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· 8 viewsThis sermon will focus on the authority of worshiping in song to God.
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings...
Throughout time people have recognized the importance of worshiping God through in song.
Martin Luther, the great antagonist to Catholicism, once wrote...
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The sole purpose of all music is to bring praise to God
Martin Luther, the great antagonist to Catholicism, once wrote...
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Next to the Word of God music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through music.
There’s a Jewish legend that states...
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that after God had created the world He called the angels to Himself and asked them what they thought of it. One of them said, “The only thing lacking is the sound of praise to the Creator.” So God created music, and it was heard in the whisper of the wind and in the song of the birds. He also gave man the gift of song.
The point is this, music has almost always played a vital role in humanity and worship in particular.
History Of Music In The Bible
History Of Music In The Bible
It’s beginning.
It’s beginning.
We read, in , of Jubal (eighth generation) the father of all the lyre & pipe players.
21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
Though this doesn’t mention singing, it is the first account of “music” in the Bible.
The earliest mentions of humans singing, in the Bible, is found in .
27 Why did you flee secretly and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?
From here through Malachi we find this Hebrew word for songs found 77 more times in 75 verses.
There are actually five different Hebrew words for song/sing in the O.T.
When we read of “early” singing in the Bible we must keep in mind that it wasn’t like what our “four part harmonizes” are today.
Four part harmony seems to really get started around the sixteenth or seventeenth century which means what we read about in the Bible wasn’t the same.
Though there singing wasn’t necessarily in “four part harmony” it was still beautiful especially to God when joyfully and truthfully done.
It’s usage in the Bible.
It’s usage in the Bible.
It’s clear that daily life, for the child of God, evolved music.
We see it at homecomings.
34 Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
We see it done while digging wells.
17 Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well!—Sing to it!— 18 the well that the princes made, that the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter and with their staffs.” And from the wilderness they went on to Mattanah,
We see it while grape trampling.
33 Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.
We also see music as a vital part of special events.
We see after victories over an enemy.
20 Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. 21 And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
We see it being used to sooth the mentally challenged.
10 The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.
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We see it at funerals.
25 Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.
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We find it used after the anointing of a king.
34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
Now, without doubt, we read much more about the Israelites use of music in worship than the patriarchs.
This is because we have the “Law of Moses” for us to examine.
We don’t actually have the Patriarchal Law written down.
In the Law of Moses we find the mechanical instrument used in worship.
One only needs to look at the last .e. to see this clearly demonstrated.
10 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.”
For a detailed usage see .
1 Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! 2 Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! 3 Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! 4 Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! 5 Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! 6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
One only needs to look at the last .e. to see this truth.
1 Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! 2 Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! 3 Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! 4 Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! 5 Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! 6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Summery
Summery
For the Hebrew people, poetry and music, was their only form of “art.”
The Jews weren’t painters or really even sculptures, no their art was in the form of poetry and music.
Worship In Song Today
Worship In Song Today
Worshiping in song to God is vital.
Worshiping in song to God is vital.
Now we have already discussed, a few weeks back, the importance of worshiping in “spirit and truth.”
Proper worship can only be done in this way () and thus when we worship it must be done according to God’s Word “truth” and with a heart felt desire for giving homage to our God.
Worshiping in song to God “in spirit & truth” means we long and yearn to worship God through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with our voices or equivalent.
By equivalent I mean there are those that can’t worship with their voice, because they have none and therefore must worship with their communication devices.
To sing with spirit and truth means...
Yearning to singing with the understanding.
15 What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.
15 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.
This means when we sing “The Great Physician” we know what “seraph song” is.
This means when we sing “Mansion Over The Hilltop” we know what “And, like the prophet, my pillow a stone” means.
This means when we sing “Wonderful Love Of Jesus” we understand what “In vain in high and holy lays” is talking about.
Yearning to singing according to divine pattern.
When we are gathered together we are all to “pluck the strings of our heart” as we praise God while also teaching and admonishing each other in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.
18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
16 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. 17 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.
16 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.
These passages teach us that we must be “filled with the Spirit” i.e. “letting the Word dwell in us richly.”
We must be “filled with the Spirit” i.e. “letting the Word dwell in us richly.”
This means we are filled with righteousness.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
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22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
Ephesians & Colossians teach us that we must be “speaking/teaching and admonishing one another.”
This means we are “required” to communicate in song to each other.
No one can do this by sitting there in silence, others must be able to hear you singing.
Even the mute must be heard visually.
How many have come forward after the sermon, not because of the sermon alone but because the invitation song, they heard everyone singing, admonished them i.e. convicted their hearts to repentance?
Ephesians & Colossians teach us we must sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.
Psalms are that which we find in the Old Testament within the book of Psalms.
“How Great Thou Art” is from .
Hymns denote…a song of praise addressed to God i.e. “Praise Him Praise Him.”
a song of praise addressed to God
Spiritual song: These are any other song meant to be spiritual in nature.
Many of our “invitation songs” would fit this category “Just As I Am” or “All Hail The Power Of Jesus Name.”
Ephesians and Colossians teach us we must “sing with grace” while making “melody in our hearts.”
Our worship in song is us giving grace to God i.e. us giving our gift of song to Him.
The word “melody” means to pluck the strings and thus when we worship God in song we are to pluck the strings of our heart.
Summery
Summery
All of this demonstrates just how important worshiping in song to our God is.
Conclusion
Conclusion
The Psalmist rightfully stated...
1 Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
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1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.