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Title: Restoring Your Life Through Worship in Song


1
Restoring Your Life Through Worship in Song
  • Ephesians 517-20

2
Remember What Worship Is?
  • The main Hebrew word
  • Shacah to bow down in obedient reverence
  • The main Greek Word
  • Proskuneo to bow down and kiss the hand of
  • The Old English
  • Derived from the word worth-ship.
  • Meaning to denote worthiness to the one receiving
    the honor or devotion.

3
Remember Gods Word on Authority
One God and one guide. (2 Timothy 316-17)
  • Authority is vital
  • not beyond the things that are written. (1
    Corinthians 46)
  • Abide in the doctrine of Christ. (2 John 9)
  • Spirit and truth (John 424)
  • Do not transgress. (1 John 34)

4
Singing Holds a Special Place
Could it make or break our hearts?
  • Singing lifts our lives
  • Victory after the Red Sea (Exodus 15)
  • Commitment in Prison (Acts 1625)
  • Exhortation (Colossians 316)

5
A cappella Singing?
A distinctive trait of the first century church
was the absence of the instrument in praising God.
  • The real a cappella
  • A cappella is an Italian word meaning music from
    the chapel

Pope Vitalian is noted as bringing the instrument
into worship services in the late 600s.
6
Why Worship in Song?
Do we sing when we are feeling materially joyful?
  • Why not sing when we are spiritually joyful?
  • James 513
  • Psalm 276
  • Colossians 316

7
Why Worship in Song?
Is Sunday the only time we praise God in song?
  • Our purpose in song
  • To praise God (see Acts 1625)
  • To speak to one another (see Ephesians 519)
  • To teach one another (see Colossians 316)
  • To admonish one another (see Colossians 316)

8
How Should We Sing?
Should our singing be a ritual formed or a joyful
praise from sacred hearts?
  • Ephesians 519
  • Psalms inspired writings of the Psalter or the
    books of Psalms
  • Hymns songs directed toward God
  • Spiritual Songs songs of the Christian
    experience, songs to each other

9
How Should We Sing?
Should our singing be a ritual formed or a joyful
praise from sacred hearts?
  • Ephesians 519
  • Filled with the spirit - our relationship to God
  • Speaking to one another our relationship with
    our brethren
  • Note 1 Corinthians 1415

10
How Have You Been Singing?
Did your emotions blend with the words of each
song to kiss the hand of God?
  • How will you sing?
  • Will you understand each song? (1 Corinthians
    1415)
  • Will it be mechanical singing? (Amos 521-24)

Will you sing in joyful, thankful reverence to
the Father of all blessings?
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