SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/21/2019
9:03 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-3 “The
Consequence with Ourselves: Singing”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Eph. 5:19-21
Message of the verses: “19 speaking to one
another in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing and making
melody with your heart to the Lord; 20 always giving thanks for all things in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; 21 and be subject to one another in the fear
of Christ.”
Singing
is something that all true believers in Jesus Christ should do because of what
the Lord did for us in dying in our place, and so we have the privilege of
singing about the wonderful salvation that God provided for us. Singing is very important to believers. The last thing Jesus and His disciples did
after the “Last Supper was to sing a hymn before they went out to the Garden of
Gethsemane, where Jesus was arrested as seen in Matthew 26:30. Another thing we can learn from Scripture
about singing is that Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise
to God, and the prisoners were listening to them as they were in jail after
being beaten for the cause of Christ, and yet even after this they began to sing
to the Lord. (Acts 16:25)
John
MacArthur writes “In Ephesians 5:19 Paul explains among whom, from where, with
what, to whom, and how Spirit-filled believers are to sing.
“Among whom do believers sing? The primary audience for our singing is to be
fellow believers, ‘one another.’
Throughout Scripture the singing of God’s people is shown to be within
the fellowship of believers. No music in
the Bible is ever characterized as being or intended to be evangelistic. God may use the gospel content set to music
to bring the truth to the lost and thus lead them to Himself. Since the message is so powerful, the open
heart may receive it even though it comes with a melody. But that is not the intent for music, and
when emotions are played on without a clear or complete presentation of God’s
truth to the mind, such music can be counterproductive by producing a feeling
of well-being and contentment that is a counterfeit of God’s peace and that
serves to further insulate an unbeliever form the saving gospel.”
I
have issues with the rock style “gospel” music as at times it produces feelings
that are not really what it takes to bring about true salvation, and at times
it is only used for entertainment.
At
this point I am not going to say anymore about this subject, as my feelings my
offend someone and I do not wish to do that, as I have my opinion on what type
of music that I like to listen to and sing in our church services and am very
content with what we sing. I mentioned
that in Dr. Warren Wiersbe’s book entitled “Real Worship” that he stated that
music was one of the biggest dividing points with people as it seems that in
every generation the younger people want to have a different kind of music to
sing in churches which at times offends the older saints in the church and this
causes trouble and division.
In
our evening service we sang a newer song, well the words were not new as they
came from one of the Psalms, I think Psalm 52 and after the singing of that
song our Pastor said that in certain churches all the songs that are sung come
from the Psalter and it was refreshing to sing one of those songs. Since I am teaching through the book of
Psalms I have to agree with his statement.
Lord
willing, in our next SD we will be looking at the sub-section entitled “How do
Believers sing?
Our quotation today comes from Billy
Sunday who stated “One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream
puff instead of a rattlesnake.”
7/21/2019 9:27 PM
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