What is Wrong with Instrumental Music in Worship?

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What is Wrong with Instrumental Musicin Worship?
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Does Jesus authorize the use of instrumental
music in worship?

• And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All
  authority has been given to Me in heaven and on
  earth. (Matt. 2818)
• God, who at various times and in various ways
  spoke in time past to the fathers by the
  prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by
  His Son (Heb 11-2)
• Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar.
  (Rom. 34)
• Test all things hold fast what is good. (1
  Thess. 521)

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Violates the Law of Faith

• For we walk by faith, not by sight. (2 Cor. 57)
• But without faith it is impossible to please Him,
  for he who comes to God must believe that He is,
  and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently
  seek Him. (Heb. 116)
• So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
  the word of God. (Rom. 1017)
• There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus,
  a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by
  night (Jn. 31-2)

Faith
Opinion--Why?
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We Sing By Faith
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. (1 Cor. 1415)
Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody in
your heart to the Lord (Eph. 519)
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all
wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
with grace in your hearts to the Lord. (Col. 316)
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Corrupts the Worship

• And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in
  the name of the Lord Jesus (Col. 317)
• God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must
  worship in spirit and truth. (Jn. 424)
• Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
  (Jn. 1717)
• And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall
  make you free. (Jn. 832)
• However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come,
  He will guide you into all truth (Jn. 1613)

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We Worship According to the Truth
The baptism of Johnwhere was it from? From
heaven or from men? (Matt. 2125)
Instrumental Music

• Sing (Eph. 519)
• Pray (1 Cor. 1415)
• Preach (Acts 242)
• Lords Supper (Acts 207)
• Give (1 Cor. 161-2)

And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as
doctrines the commandments of men. (Matt. 159)
Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each
took his censer and put fire in it, put incense
on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD,
which He had not commanded them. So fire went out
from the LORD and devoured them, and they died
before the LORD. (Lev. 101-2)
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Disrupts Unity

• Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of
  our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the
  same thing, and that there be no divisions among
  you, but that you be perfectly joined together in
  the same mind and in the same judgment. (1 Cor.
  110)
• He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words,
  has that which judges himthe word that I have
  spoken will judge him in the last day. (Jn.
  1248)
• I do not pray for these alone, but also for those
  who will believe in Me through their word that
  they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me,
  and I in You that they also may be one in Us,
  that the world may believe that You sent Me.
  (Jn. 1720-21)
• Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in
  the bond of peace. (Eph. 43)

• Two Kinds of Music
• Vocal (2) Instrumental
• Where is Division Created?
• Over what God says or over what He does NOT say?

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Justification of Instruments in Worship Doesnt
Say Not to use them.

• Elevates the Silence of God to the same level as
  the Scriptures.
• What God Does NOT Say What God HAS Said!
• If Valid Argument
• Pray through Mary (1 Tim. 25)
• Chocolate Cake on Lords Table (Matt. 2626-28)
• Baptize Infants (Mk. 1615-16)

Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the
doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who
abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the
Father and the Son. (2 Jn. 9)
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 (1 Cor. 46)
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Justification of Instruments in Worship They
were used in the Old Testament

• Elevates the Law of Moses to the same level as
  the Law of Christ. (Mk. 97)
• If Valid Argument
• Burn incense, animal sacrifices (Jas. 210)
• Infant church membership (Mk. 1615-16)
• Polygamy acceptable (Matt. 193-9)
• Used in OT By Faith! (Num. 101-10)

Also in the day of your gladness, in your
appointed feasts, and at the beginning of your
months, you shall blow the trumpets over your
burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your
peace offerings and they shall be a memorial for
you before your God I am the LORD your God.
(Num. 1010)
And he stationed the Levites in the house of the
LORD with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and
with harps, according to the commandment of
David, of Gad the kings seer, and of Nathan the
prophet for thus was the commandment of the LORD
by His prophets. (2 Chron. 2925)
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Justification of Instruments in Worship Its
only an Aid in the Worship.

• Not an Aid, but an Addition of another kind of
  music.

Passage Command Command Addition
Passage Specific General Addition
Gen. 614 Gopher Wood Tools, Place Oak, Elm
Exodus 125 Lamb No Blemish Knife, Wood for Fire Horse, Pig
Eph. 519 Sing Song Books, Leader Piano, Organ, Humming
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Justification of Instruments in Worship They
are used in the Home.

• Many things morally right, but religiously wrong
• Washing hands (Mk. 73-7)
• Washing feet (1 Tim. 510)
• Calling dad, father (Matt. 239)

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Justification of Instruments in Worship Some
have talent to play instruments
And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some
prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and
teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the
work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of
Christ. (Eph. 411-12)
pianists,

• Some have talent to
• Build fine furniture
• Cook
• Stand on their hands
• Yodel

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Justification of Instruments in Worship Theyre
found the Book of Revelation.
Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living
creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down
before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden
bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of
the saints. (Rev. 58)
And I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound
of many waters and like the sound of loud
thunder, and the voice which I heard was like the
sound of harpists playing on their harps. (Rev.
142)

• Many things in heaven that are not in the church
• Angels (Rev. 52)
• Altar (Rev. 69)
• Babies (Matt. 183)

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What is Wrong with Instrumental Musicin Worship?
There is No Authority in the New Testament for
its use!