SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/23/2019
10:10 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
From Where Do Believers Sing
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Eph. 5:19
Message of the verse: “19 speaking to one
another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the
Lord;”
As
seen in the highlighted portion of this verse the salvation songs originate “with
your heart.” John MacArthur
explains: “The Greek form of this phrase
allows for several meanings. There is no
preposition here in the Greek, and in such cases the preposition is determined
by the case of the noun—which here has several possibilities, all of which seem
appropriate to the context. If the case
of ‘heart’ is taken as an instrumental of cause, the idea is that our hearts
cause us to sin and make melody to God.
As an instrumental of means, the idea is that our hearts are the
channels through which we sing praises.
As a locative, the idea is that the singing is centered in our hearts.”
The
Spirit-filled believer sings from his heart as his heart is where his songs originate
from, but a person who is not a believer cannot sing from his heart, only from
his lips. I mentioned about whether
angels sing or not and the reason why people believe that they do not sing goes
along with what we have just stated, that is a person has to be born-again, to
be saved from his sins in order to be able to truly sing to the Lord.
In
John MacArthur commentary he once again gets into what kind of music is suitable
for believers to sing, and as stated in an earlier SD I have my opinion on what
kind of music believers should listen to and sing, and others have their own
idea. There are pros and cons for each
side of the argument. I have listened to
a couple of DVD’s that originated from Israel believers and their singing and
playing of musical instruments gets pretty loud and there are also some dancing
to the Lord in these DVD’s. I have to say that this appealed to me as I watched
and listened to this and before looking at this on the DVD I had bought a CD of
the music and it is one of my favorite CD’s that I own.
I
have to say that some of the Christian “Rock” music seems a bit too much for me
and although it does appeal to younger people, of which I am not, there seems
to me to have some red flags arise as I listen to some of it.
We
have one more sub-section to look at and Lord willing will do it tomorrow.
7/23/2019 10:30 AM
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