Live a Life Worthy (Part 2)

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INTRO: Music and the heart

Ephesians 5:18–19 CSB
And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit: speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord,
Ephesians 5:18–19 CSB
And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit: speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord,
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be filled by the Spirit: speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord.
Music engages our subconscious mind (the heart)
Inspires what we love
Music engages our beliefs
Troublesomeness of modern music
sex and drugs
sex and drugs
violence—women and racial
suicide and depression
TRANSITION—the heart effects the mind…

Music and the intelect

Memorization (rhyming and rhythm)
Memorization (rhyming and rhythm)
Increased Neuro-plasticity (minds ability to change, including learning, unlearning, habit forming, etc.)

Music in the scriptures

Eph :19
Ephesians 5:19 CSB
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord,
…psalms, hymns, spiritual songs…
Psalms—experiential heart expressions.
Psalms—experiential heart expressions.
Hymns—doctrinal
“Invariably the hymn is focused on God or Christ and praises some aspect of the divine nature or activity.”
Ralph P. Martin, “Hymns, Hymn Fragments, Songs, Spiritual Songs,” ed. Gerald F. Hawthorne, Ralph P. Martin, and Daniel G. Reid, Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993), 421.
Spiritual Songs (Other Psalms—expressions of the heart)
OT
Song of Moses ()
Hannah’s song ()
NT
Mary’s song ()

NT Hymns—concerned with hymns today, doctrinal songs (Note: Paul likes to reference)

Ephesians 4:4–6 CSB
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope at your calling—one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
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4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope, at your calling—5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope, at your calling—
3 making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

Analysis—a quick song about the foundations of the Christian faith.

REVISIT
Hymn=doctrinal
Music=heart
Hymn=biblical method for getting doctrine into your heart
There is one body (One Church), “He is also the head of the body, the church;”
Colossians 1:18 CSB
He is also the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.
and one Spirit (there are other spirits, but one Spirit of God)
1 cor 12
1 Corinthians 12:13 CSB
For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
—just as you were called to one hope, at your calling— (everyone doesn’t get to go to their own idealized eternal reality; there is one perfect hope for all who believe)
Romans 5:5 CSB
This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
one Lord (Only one master)
1 Corinthians 8:6 CSB
yet for us there is one God, the Father. All things are from him, and we exist for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things are through him, and we exist through him.
one faith (One set of right doctrines— “In essentials unity; in doubtful matters, liberty; in all things charity.”)
one baptism (Into whom were you baptised? — re-baptism?)
one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all. (vs. other gods)

Application

This is why we sing
to remember (mind)
to train the heart (beliefs)
Be careful what songs you sing
Live a Life Worth (Part 2) — A life lived for Christ is demonstrated by the song in your heart.
This is Paul’s doxology that flowed from his recollection of Christ.
What makes a great worship song?
the 150 psalms in the OT (me focused is OK sometimes)
hymns—doctrinal songs
spiritual songs—songs that inspire us today
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