Posted on 10/12/2014 9:42:31 AM PDT by daniel1212
Serious question: Do you celebrate Christmas and Easter?
Lately I’ve been studying whether or not manmade holy days please the Lord. Most Christians I’ve discussed it with are shocked I think it’s even an issue. I don’t come down on your side of the instrument question, but I know it’s an issue and I respect your position.
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. (1 Corinthians 14:10-11)
Read the Psalms - David, as inspired by the Holy Spirit, writes repeatedly about using a number of different instruments to worship The Lord. We are to worship The Lord in all that we do, if a mechanic - it can be with your wrenches, a writer, with your pen, a musician, with your neutral instruments of melody. When any instrument becomes a distraction by your ignorance, then you modify to not be a distraction. If you purposely use any instrument to bring glory to yourself instead - then it is wrong. Doesn’t matter if it’s the ‘voice’ you were born with.
Thank you so much! I can’t believe Annie is 69 years old. I had the pleasure of meeting with them many times while they toured, wonderful people. Great music!
Heartfelt, while their harmonizing in live concert it as if was a recording! Praise God.
David lived under a different covenant than we do. However, his example of obedience to the laws of that covenant is a good one for us.
Yes, we are to offer ourselves as “a living sacrifice” to God. In some areas, however, God has given us specific instructions. In these areas, we are limited by those instructions.
(For instance, someone from the tribe of Simeon might have made an excellent priest. Yet when God selected the tribe of Levi as the one from which priests were to be taken, that excluded Simeonites.)
Let’s be content with God’s instructions, and not try to come up with better ideas than He did for how to please Him.
Praise God, absolutely! So wonderful to worship with you and other believers today. God bless your week!
You’re being strongly considered for MVF 2014.
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That’s my long held view as well. I hope I didn’t say something to make you think otherwise.
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Daniel....those chants sounded pretty desolate to me....like someone on a far barren mountain echoing back... but no one can hear.
I guess each to his own in regard to what they listen to...and somehow find enjoyment or something from.
Hardly. Maybe most scorned by some, but praise God for whatever is good.
Thank you so very much, dear brother in Christ!
Specific instructions? Selection of priests? I think you’re confusing things here. Can you tell me where God says ‘Only use your voice to worship me - no musical instruments.’
Come up with better ideas? Huh? I don’t think that’s what David was doing. Also, read the Scriptures that describe God telling the Children of Israel to put the musicians out front when going into a battle. Very inspiring - and instructive, if you can understand WHY God is saying that.
No, not at all.
People often confuse ‘old convenant’ and ‘new covenant’ for things that transcend both - because they are missing the Spirit of the old covenant AND the new covenant. I think you are doing that with this topic. I like the way this author makes the point clear:
Examples of worship pleasing to God by means of instruments and voice, come primarily from the Old Testament Scriptures. (See MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT)
Specific New Testament reference to musical instruments is limited to the Apostle John’s vision of heaven: “And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and standing beside the sea those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and over the number of his name. They held harps given them by God.” (Revelations 15:2 NIV).
Few would argue that this comparative silence indicates God’s disapproval of instruments as a part of New Testament church worship. The Apostle Paul assures that all Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in what is right (2Timothy 3:16). The Psalms is a part of the all Scripture that Paul refers to. The book of Psalms is filled with examples of praise and worship methods that are pleasing to God. (See VARIOUS FORMS OF WORSHIP IN THE CHURCH PART I)
The New Testament tells us that the Psalms are most definitely to be a part of the worship practice of believers (Eph. 5:19, Colossians 3:16). The book of Psalms is filled with references to praising God with musical instruments.
The Hebrew Old Testament word for psalms is Tehillim, or ‘praises.’ (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The Greek New Testament word for Psalms is: Psalmoi, originally meaning “songs sung to a harp,” from psallein “play on a stringed instrument.” (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
According to the New Testament definition for the word psalms, and according New Testament Scripture regarding the Psalms, God is pleased with worship that comes from the heart, with or without instruments. (See WHAT IS WORSHIP?)
Again - let me ask you - do you eat with a knife and fork? Why? Jesus only used his hands. Nowhere did he break the fish and loaves with a knife and fork. You’d say I’m being silly. But I ask again - do you worship The Lord in ALL that you do?
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