Music In Worship

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MAN IS A WORSHIPING CREATURE
How God is worshiped is either SPECIFIED, or it
is not SPECIFIED
Our discussion centers on just one of the acts of
worship
SINGING
Music
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Music In Worship
Ps 951 O come, let us sing unto the LORD let
us make a joyful noise to the rock of our
salvation.
Heb 212 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my
brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing
praise unto thee.
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Famous Quotes

• The organ in the worship of God is an ensign
  of Baal.
• Martin Luther
• I have no objection to the organ in our
  chapels provided it is neither seen nor heard.
• John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church

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Famous Quotes

• It is no more suitable than the burning of
  incense, the lighting up of tapers or revival of
  the other shadows of the law. The Catholics
  borrowed it from the Jews.
• John Calvin, Originator of the Presbyterian
  Church

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Famous Quotes

• I am an old man and an old minister and I here
  declare that I have never known instrumental
  music to be productive of any good in the worship
  of God, and have reason to believe that it has
  been productive of much evilthis is the abuse of
  music, and I here registry protest against all
  such corruptions in the worship of that Infinite
  Spirit who requires His followers to worship Him
  in spirit and truth.
• Adam Clark

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Famous Quotes

• What is it then? I will pray with the spirit,
  and I will pray with the understanding also I
  will sing with the spirit and I will sing with
  the understanding alsoI had as soon pray to God
  with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.
• Charles H. Spurgeon, Baptist preacher on 1 Cor
  1415

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Types Of Authority

• Genericincludes
• Specific...excludes

• Example
• And he said unto them, Go ye into all the
  world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
• Go.Generic
• Preach...Specific

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Methods Of Establishment

• Statement of command (1 Cor. 1124)
• Approved example (Acts 207)
• Inescapable conclusion Acts 207 1Cor 161-2)

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Examples Of Types Of Authority
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Examples Of Types Of Authority
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Examples Of Types Of Authority
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Examples Of Types Of Authority
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Examples Of Types Of Authority
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Sing

• Sing, (aido) Verb, to sing
• Psalms, (psalmos) Noun, a set piece of music
  (accompanied with voice, harp or other)
• Hymns, (hoomnos) Noun, religious ode
• Songs, (odai) Noun, chant or ode, especially
  of a religious nature.
• Making melody (psallo) Verb, to twitch, pluck,
  twang (Root of psao, rub, touch the surface)

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How Do We Sing?

• Sing with the right attitude (Jn. 423-24)
• Sing with spirit and understanding (1 Cor.
  1415)
• Remembering the purpose (Heb. 212 Jas 513
  Ps. 951)

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Popular Arguments

• Instruments were used in OT worship.
• There are harps in heaven.
• Bible doesnt say not to.

• Dont see the harm.
• The Greek word psallo involves an instrument.
• The mechanical instrument is an expedient, not
  an addition.

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Popular Arguments

• Instruments were used in OT worship.

THE SABBATH
INCENSE
POLYGAMY
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Popular Arguments

• Instruments were used in OT worship.

2 Chr 2925 And he set the Levites in the house
of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and
with harps, according to the commandment of
David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the
prophet for so was the commandment of the LORD
by his prophets.
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Popular Arguments

• There are harps in heaven.

Rev 58 And when he had taken the book, the four
beasts and four and twenty elders fell down
before the Lamb, having every one of them harps,
and golden vials full of odours, which are the
prayers of saints.
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Popular Arguments

• Bible doesnt say not to.

Acts 1524 Forasmuch as we have heard, that
certain which went out from us have troubled you
with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye
must be circumcised, and keep the law to whom we
gave no such commandment
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Popular Arguments

• Bible doesnt say not to.

II Jn 19 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth
not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He
that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath
both the Father and the Son.
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Popular Arguments

• Bible doesnt say not to.

1 Cor 46 And these things, brethren, I have in
a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for
your sakes that ye might learn in us not to
think of men above that which is written, that no
one of you be puffed up for one against
another.
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Popular Arguments

• Dont see the harm.

NO COMMANDMENT
IT GOES BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN
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Popular Arguments

• The Greek word psallo involves an instrument.

Eph 519 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making
melody in your heart to the Lord
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Popular Arguments
Addition.

• The mechanical instrument is an expedient

NOAH BUILDING AN ARK
Hammer
Would expedite the command
Saw
Would expedite the command
Wood - Gopher - not Oak
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Aids Or Additions?
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Aids Or Additions?
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Rules Of Expediency

• An expedient must
• Edify (1 Cor. 1023-33)
• Not offend the conscience of a brother (Rom.
  141-154 1 Cor. 87-13)

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Rev 2218-19 For I testify unto every man that
heareth the words of the prophecy of this book,
If any man shall add unto these things, God shall
add unto him the plagues that are written in this
book And if any man shall take away from the
words of the book of this prophecy, God shall
take away his part out of the book of life, and
out of the holy city, and from the things which
are written in this book.
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