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Good morning. I have two texts for you to turn with me today. The first is Colossians chapter 3 and verse 16.
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! So you turn there and mark it with your finger or your handy ribbon marker. And if you're doing this digitally, tough. Still some advantages to the paper version. Colossians 3.16 and Ephesians chapter 5 verses 18 and 19.
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Normatively, we preach verse by verse through the Bible and we are presently in John chapter 4. The last time we were there, just this last week, I made some corrective comments from the phrase spirit and truth.
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God is seeking those who will worship Him in spirit and truth. And so today we thought it wise to pause for a week to speak positively about the matter.
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John, am I not on? Okay. That was a inquisitive look, I thought, so I'm sorry.
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The last time that we considered musical worship was almost exactly a year ago. Almost to the week exactly a year ago.
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I want to comfort you if you've been here for quite some time that I do not intend to address the matter yearly, but we thought it wise today.
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So, occasionally we do these sermons that kind of fall under a category that we call why we do what we do.
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And then we like to add to that why we do what we do and why we do what we do the way we do what we do.
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When we gather together as a church, why do we engage in musical worship and why do we engage in musical worship the particular way that we engage in musical worship?
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I want to begin with an aside concerning our language concerning music.
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You may already be hearing me use a different phrase, musical worship.
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In recent decades, for most of our lives, the music sung in church has been often referred to simply as worship and the individual leading the music as the worship leader.
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Music, rightly sung in our church gatherings or otherwise, certainly is worship.
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It ought to be that.
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But it is not the totality of worship.
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And the individual leading music is certainly leading us in worship, if it's being done properly, but not in the totality of our worship.
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So to call our singing together worship and the individual leading the music as the worship leader suggests that our worship of God is reduced to a bit of time during a service on Sunday morning.
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And implies the exclusion of our worship.
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And our prayer is a prayer of God.
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And our scripture reading, of our ordinance administering, of our preaching and hearing of preaching, and certainly the rest of our living when we part ways.
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Paul stated in Romans chapter 12 in verse 1.
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I appeal to you, therefore, brothers.
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Everything he has said, all the doctrinal richness in the first 11 chapters.
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He says, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice.
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Holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
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God means for all of ourselves, all of our lives to be committed to his praise.
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Every ounce of it.
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Not just the songs that we sing, although they're included in that greater reality.
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So, we will never call the music here worship or the individual leading the music the worship leader because it's just confusing.
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I encourage you to join us in this, to toe this line, to be careful with your words.
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Some will say, well, you know what I mean when being confronted on this matter.
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But the problem is, words have meaning.
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They carry along ideas, and we ought to be careful.
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We shouldn't be cavalier with our use of words.
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If you say something, and I'm corrective, and you say, you know what I mean, I'll say, no, I don't know what you mean.
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That's why I brought the issue up.
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So, today, and I hope on into the future, we will speak in terms of musical worship and whoever is leading us in that, our music leader.
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The subject of musical worship in churches has been a highly contested subject, especially over these past decades.
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These conflicts are often called the worship wars.
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As you know, there's actually been a label given to all of this conflict.
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And they revolve particularly around a debate between contemporary and traditional music.
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Lots of heat, very little light.
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The current solution has seemed to be for small churches to work to serve a particular demographic.
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We're going to find the people who like a certain style of music.
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And for larger churches to cater to every demographic with multiple services.
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Different offerings for different preferences.
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None of this is good for your faith or for the community of faith.
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It is not proper for a church to serve preference over purpose.
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Preference itself isn't a bad thing.
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We can like particular styles or particular songs.
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We sing some songs here that I don't really care for all that much.
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But when preference begins to rule over purpose in the way that we gather, we are on a road to trouble.
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It is not healthy to meet felt needs at the expense of real needs.
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To promulgate consumerism in the worship of our God.
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We should not say to people, it's totally okay to be a consumer.
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Rather, how can we come together and serve one another as we sing?
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In the barely early days of our church, Wes, one of our founding elders and our music leader for the first nine years of our existence,
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and myself were frustrated with the conflict we saw on this matter.
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We just thought the church can be better at this.
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And we wanted to lead our small gathering well.
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So we're so very grateful for a massive story I could tell you,
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but how God brought us to believe in the sufficiency of Scripture.
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That the Bible has something to say about how we gather together as a church,
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and it has something to say about how we should sing when we are together.
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So, Colossians chapter 3 and verse 16, and Ephesians chapter 5, verse 18 and 19.
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We'll take a look at today and draw some implications out of it.
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Before I read it though, let me pray on our behalf.
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Our Father and our God, what a good thing it is for us to be together this morning,
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to be reminded of your grace to us in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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And I am glad that we have already been so clearly reminded of this in our reading,
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and in our prayers, and in our songs.
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My Father, as we open your word together this morning,
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we want to rightly understand it.
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We know that we need your help to do this.
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We humbly recognize that it was written ultimately for your glory,
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and also for our good.
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Would you help us to believe its promises, and obey its commands,
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and to have affection for you, its author.
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We pray this in Christ's name.
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Amen.
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So, Colossians 3.16 says, Paul here writes,
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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly,
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teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom,
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singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
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with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
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Now turn to Ephesians chapter 5,
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verse 18 and 19.
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There Paul says,
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We'll make a connection between those two texts here momentarily.
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So why do we do what we do?
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Why do we sing together when we gather?
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Singing is a significant part of our Lord's Day liturgy.
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A big part of the plan for when we come together.
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Why?
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The Bible commands it.
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For God's glory,
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and for our good.
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Some examples.
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We read already from Colossians 3 and Ephesians chapter 5,
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but also Psalm 33 and verse 3.
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Sing to Him a new song.
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Play skillfully on the strings with loud shouts.
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Psalm 47 and verse 6.
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Sing praises to God.
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Sing praises.
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Sing praises to our King.
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Sing praises.
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The Bible contains over 400 references to singing
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and 50 direct commands to sing.
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The longest book of the Bible,
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by verse count,
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the Psalms is a book of songs.
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And we have the example of Jesus in Matthew chapter 26 and verse 30.
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There Matthew records,
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And when they had sung a hymn,
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they went out to the Mount of Olives.
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At the Last Supper,
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they sang together.
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And we have the example of heaven
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in the book of Revelation.
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Did you know that the book of Revelation has more songs in it
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than any other book except the Psalms?
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There is singing in heaven.
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And if we are a people who belong there,
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we should sing.
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Revelation chapter 15,
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verse 2 and 3.
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There John says,
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And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass
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mingled with fire,
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and also those who had conquered the beast
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and its image and the number of its name,
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standing beside the sea of glass
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with harps of God in their hands.
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And they sing the song of Moses,
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the servant of God,
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and the song of the Lamb,
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saying,
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Great and amazing are your deeds,
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O Lord God the Almighty,
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just and true are your ways,
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O King of the nations.
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Singing in heaven.
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And the example of Paul and Silas
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in the Philippian jail,
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Acts chapter 16 and verse 25.
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About midnight,
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Paul and Silas were praying
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and singing hymns to God.
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And there's an earthquake
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and the jail cell is opened.
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James says in James chapter 5 and verse 13,
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Is anyone cheerful?
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Let him sing praise.
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It's all over the place.
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And perhaps we read past those commands
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too often.
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God's people sing.
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John Calvin once said,
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Wherever faith is lively,
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wherever faith is lively,
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holy rejoicing will follow.
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So, it's fitting.
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We should sing when we are gathered.
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I don't think this should be a thing
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that's forced upon us.
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I think we should want to come together
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and sing.
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But what are we to sing
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when we come together?
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Psalms and hymns
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and spiritual songs.
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Now, I will tell you,
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you can read a lot of things
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about these three things.
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There's a lot of conjecture
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out there about them.
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I think simply we could think
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in these terms about psalms
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and hymns
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and spiritual songs.
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First, we should sing
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from God's songbook.
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It makes sense
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that we would pick up
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the book of psalms.
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We sing quite a few songs,
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none this morning.
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Alex and I did not coordinate
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this morning.
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But that are directly
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from the psalms.
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For example,
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we sing a song
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that we call Psalm 43.
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You may or may not be
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familiar with that.
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We also sing a lot of songs
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that are directly adapted
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from the psalms.
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So we lose the rhythm
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and the rhyming
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when we go from Hebrew
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to English.
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So it can be a little clunky
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to directly sing a psalm
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in English.
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But there's a lot
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that are really,
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really, really close.
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A mighty fortress
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is our God,
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for example,
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is an expression
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of a psalm.
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I think it's Psalm 46,
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if I'm remembering correctly.
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So we have a songbook
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and we should sing psalms.
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That's probably happening
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more often
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than you may even realize.
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We should also sing hymns.
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Hymns are songs
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to or about God
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and what He has done.
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It's kind of the locus,
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the focus of it.
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That's often why
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we want to have
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a big view of God,
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the things we sing from,
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like our hymnal.
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This one's called
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Hymns of Grace.
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So a broad category,
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songs to or about God
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and what He has done.
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Some examples,
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How Great Thou Art
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or Holy, Holy, Holy.
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Colossians 1,
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verse 15-20,
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by many scholars,
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is understood to be
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an early hymn.
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They think there,
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Paul is actually citing
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a hymn
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that the church at Colossae
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would have been
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familiar with.
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It says,
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Jesus is the image
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of the invisible
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in heaven and on earth,
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visible and invisible,
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whether thrones
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or dominions
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or rulers
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or authorities,
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all things were created
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through Him
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and for Him.
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That feels like a verse,
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doesn't it?
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And He is before all things
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and in Him
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all things hold together
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and He is the head
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of the body,
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the church.
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He is the beginning,
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the firstborn from the dead,
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that in everything
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He might be preeminent.
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For in Him
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all the fullness of God
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was pleased to dwell
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and through Him
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to reconcile to Himself
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all things,
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whether on earth
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or in heaven,
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making peace
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by the blood of His cross.
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We sing a hymn together
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called All Things,
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which is an adaptation
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of those six verses.
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We're also to sing
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spiritual songs.
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This is the one
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that gets the most debate
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about exactly what
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is meant by this.
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But we think
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kind of the category left
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are songs
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to or about us.
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We sing to one another
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about us
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in relation to God
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and what spiritual songs
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if defined in this way.
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Songs like Amazing Grace
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or It Is Well.
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The focus is more
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on our experience
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in relation to God.
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So we're to sing.
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We're to sing psalms
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and hymns
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and spiritual songs.
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We're commanded to do so
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and I would hope
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that that would be enough
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for each and every one of us.
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But maybe a little more
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thinking serves us as well.
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humans are wired
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to give and receive
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through song.
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People will inevitably sing.
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Go to a sporting event
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and you will find men
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who in church
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would fold their arms
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and not open their mouth
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singing heartily.
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heartily.
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I just answered a phone call
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on my iPad.
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I hope that sales call
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got a little bite there.
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I should have left it on.
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Just preach to them.
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We are wired.
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Our culture loves musicians
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for good and bad
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throughout history.
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This has always been true.
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Musicians have been popular.
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Every movement,
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every uprising,
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every cultural expression
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has its music.
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We're musical beings.
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Everyone will tap their foot
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or bob their head
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to something.
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You may not like
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the music I tap my foot
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and bob my head to
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but you will find music.
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You will do that too.
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I've been sharing
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some of the classics
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from my high school years
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with my boys
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and it's really amazing to me
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how every song
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I listened to
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in high school
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now seems really fast.
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Like,
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is this the right tempo?
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I think they sped this song
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up in this recording.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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My brain is slowing down
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and I'm having a
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hard time processing music
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at the pace
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that I once did.
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We're musical people though,
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right?
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It's part of who we are designed
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to be in the church
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should engage our minds.
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So hear me,
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it should engage
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our minds
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and I'll make a
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stronger point to this
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in a moment
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but it also
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connects
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to our affections.
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I think this is why
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we're so wired up
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in this
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way.
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We are moved
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along
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by
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music.
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So,
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when we sing
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and we are gathered
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it is our hope
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that our feelings
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catch up
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to the truth
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that we believe.
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We want to sing
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the truth.
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We want to accompany
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the singing
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of that truth
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in the hope
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that our affections
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and the truth
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line up
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with one another.
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The two set
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right on top
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of one another.
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We should
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feel
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the truth.
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It's good
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for us
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to do this.
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Jonathan Edwards
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in his book
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Religious
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Affections
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said this,
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quote,
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the duty of
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singing praises
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to God
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seems to be
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appointed
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wholly to
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excite
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and express
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religious
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affections.
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That our
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feelings,
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that we would
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have these
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great truths
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before us
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and that we
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would sing
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them and give
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us opportunity
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to emote
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the wonderful
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truths
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of God.
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And so we
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sing.
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We take up
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the commands
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together.
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Why do we
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do it the way
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that we
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do it?
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Colossians 3.16
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and Ephesians
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5.18-19
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show us
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that our
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singing together
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is the result
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of the
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Spirit of
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Christ
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dwelling
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within us.
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There's a
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striking
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parallel
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between
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much of
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Colossians 3
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and Ephesians
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5.
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They both
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have Paul
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as their
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author,
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which allows
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for an
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incredible
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connection
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to be drawn
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from them.
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So once again,
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you can flip
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back and forth,
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look at these
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two texts.
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Colossians 3.16,
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there he says,
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let the
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word of
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Christ dwell
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in you
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richly.
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And then
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it follows,
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teaching and
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admonishing one
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another in all
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wisdom,
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singing psalms
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and hymns
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and spiritual
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songs with
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thankfulness in
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your hearts
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to God.
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So the
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outflow of
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letting the
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word of
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Christ dwell
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in your
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richly is
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that we
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will be
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teaching and
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admonishing
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through our
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singing.
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And then in
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Ephesians 5,
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he says,
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do not get
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drunk with
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wine,
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for that is
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debauchery,
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but be filled
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with the
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Spirit.
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And then
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what did
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you say?
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Addressing
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one another
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in psalms
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and hymns
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and spiritual
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songs,
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singing and
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making melody
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to the
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Lord with
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your heart.
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And the
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argument that
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I want you
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to see from
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this parallel
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text is that
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to be filled
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with the
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Spirit is
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to let the
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word of
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Christ dwell
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in you
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richly.
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The way
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that the
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Spirit works
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in us,
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that the
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word of
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Christ would
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dwell,
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take up
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residence,
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that it
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would inhabit
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us in
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abundance
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richly,
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which means
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it's going
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to come
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out of
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us as
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well.
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Let the
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word of
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Christ fill
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you,
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read,
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meditate,
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memorize.
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If you're
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in Christ,
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you will want
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to be a
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person of
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his word.
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And it's
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going to
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come out
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of us.
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It's going
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to come
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out of
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us in
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psalms
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and hymns
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and
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spiritual
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songs.
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Now,
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just in
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case this
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connection
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between
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Colossians
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and
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Ephesians
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is too
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vague,
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I don't
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think it
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is,
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but just
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in case
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it is,
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we can
22:47
look a
22:47
couple
22:47
other
22:47
places
22:48
very
22:48
quickly.
22:48
Romans
22:49
chapter 8
22:49
and
22:49
verse 5.
22:51
There Paul
22:51
says,
22:52
those who
22:52
live according
22:52
to the
22:53
flesh set
22:54
their minds
22:54
on the
22:55
things of
22:55
the
22:55
flesh,
22:56
but those
22:57
who live
22:57
according
22:57
to the
22:58
Spirit
22:58
set
22:59
their
23:00
minds
23:00
on the
23:01
things
23:02
of the
23:03
Spirit.
23:04
What are
23:04
the things
23:05
of the
23:05
Spirit?
23:06
Oh,
23:06
well,
23:06
most certainly
23:07
the word
23:07
that he
23:08
inspired.
23:10
Galatians
23:11
5.16,
23:12
walk by
23:12
the Spirit
23:13
and you
23:14
will not
23:14
gratify
23:15
the desires
23:16
of the
23:17
flesh.
23:19
Proper
23:19
worship
23:20
of God
23:20
is
23:21
Spirit-filled
23:22
worship
23:23
of God,
23:24
which is
23:25
mindful
23:26
worship
23:27
of God.
23:29
If
23:29
you're
23:30
seeking
23:30
experiences
23:32
to get
23:33
your
23:33
religious
23:34
affections
23:35
going
23:35
all the
23:35
time,
23:36
I would
23:36
suggest
23:37
to you
23:37
that that's
23:37
going to
23:38
be a
23:38
dry
23:39
well
23:40
to drink
23:41
from.
23:42
It needs
23:42
to be
23:42
truth-driven,
23:45
mindful
23:46
all the
23:47
time.
23:49
Our
23:49
singing
23:50
together
23:50
should be
23:52
mindful
23:53
and it
23:54
should be
23:55
affectionate.
23:57
Our
23:57
feelings
23:57
should
23:58
accompany
23:59
it,
24:00
whether or
24:01
not,
24:02
that's
24:02
very
24:02
expressive.
24:04
Our
24:04
emotions
24:05
should
24:05
catch up
24:06
to the
24:07
very
24:07
things
24:08
that
24:08
we're
24:08
singing.
24:09
We
24:09
sing
24:09
things
24:10
together
24:11
that are
24:11
wholeheartedly
24:12
amen,
24:13
yes and
24:13
amen to
24:14
every one
24:14
of them,
24:15
but I
24:15
don't know
24:16
that my
24:16
heart is
24:16
always
24:17
caught up
24:17
to the
24:18
things
24:18
that I'm
24:18
singing
24:18
and it's
24:19
good
24:19
for me
24:20
to see
24:21
it
24:21
and to
24:22
hear it
24:22
coming
24:23
from
24:23
you.
24:24
I need
24:26
my
24:26
heart
24:27
tuned
24:28
to come
24:29
together
24:29
and worship
24:30
in music.
24:33
Colossians
24:34
3.16
24:34
again,
24:35
teaching
24:35
and admonishing
24:36
one another
24:37
in all
24:38
wisdom,
24:39
addressing
24:40
one
24:41
another.
24:42
We
24:43
come
24:43
together
24:44
to remind
24:45
one another
24:46
and teach
24:47
one another
24:48
of deeply
24:49
important
24:50
things.
24:53
John Owen
24:53
once said,
24:54
quote,
24:54
we must
24:54
not allow
24:55
ourselves
24:55
to be
24:56
satisfied
24:56
with vague
24:58
ideas
24:58
of the
24:59
love of
24:59
Christ,
25:00
which present
25:01
nothing of
25:02
his glory
25:02
to our
25:03
minds.
25:05
Vague
25:05
ideas,
25:06
right?
25:07
We need
25:07
deep
25:08
truth,
25:09
mindful
25:10
truth,
25:11
stuff that
25:12
makes us
25:12
wrestle,
25:13
stuff that
25:13
makes us
25:14
go,
25:14
oh,
25:15
this is
25:15
vast
25:16
and difficult
25:17
to understand.
25:18
We want
25:18
to mine
25:19
the depths
25:20
of God's
25:21
goodness
25:21
to us
25:22
in Christ
25:23
and we
25:23
can do
25:24
that
25:24
in song.
25:27
Paul writes
25:28
in 1 Corinthians
25:28
14 and
25:29
verse 15,
25:31
I will
25:31
sing praise
25:32
with my
25:33
spirit,
25:34
but I
25:34
will sing
25:35
with my
25:35
mind
25:36
also.
25:39
And then
25:39
back to our
25:40
text from
25:40
last week,
25:41
John 4 and
25:42
verse 23,
25:43
Jesus says,
25:44
but the hour
25:44
is coming,
25:45
it is now
25:45
here when
25:46
the true
25:46
worshipers
25:47
will worship
25:47
the Father
25:48
in spirit
25:49
and truth.
25:51
For the
25:51
Father is
25:52
seeking such
25:53
people to
25:54
worship Him.
25:57
So why do we
25:58
do what we
25:58
do the way
25:58
we do what
25:59
we do?
26:00
We're not
26:01
trying to
26:01
create for
26:02
you a
26:03
high religious
26:05
moment.
26:06
We don't
26:07
want you to
26:07
be moved
26:08
by a
26:08
particular
26:09
crescendo.
26:10
We want you
26:11
to be moved
26:11
by the
26:13
truth.
26:14
Music
26:15
helps us
26:15
do that.
26:16
We don't
26:16
want to
26:17
mitigate
26:17
that
26:17
reality.
26:19
But we
26:19
want to
26:19
present to
26:20
you true
26:21
things when
26:22
we come
26:22
together and
26:23
we sing.
26:26
So we
26:27
use parameters
26:27
in considering
26:29
the songs
26:30
that we
26:30
sing together.
26:33
We think
26:34
about this
26:34
kind of
26:36
thing.
26:36
I don't
26:37
know that we
26:37
always nail
26:38
it.
26:38
I'm saying
26:38
we because
26:38
I'm part of
26:39
that process.
26:40
I suggest
26:40
things and
26:41
it doesn't
26:41
always go the
26:42
way we hope
26:43
that it will
26:43
go.
26:44
But we've
26:44
got some
26:44
guiding principles
26:45
for how
26:46
it is we
26:47
take up the
26:48
music that
26:48
we take
26:49
up.
26:50
But before
26:51
I get into
26:51
those principles
26:52
I want you
26:54
to know even
26:54
the way that
26:55
we're doing
26:55
this with
26:57
a hymnal
26:57
and a
26:59
bulletin is
27:00
a thoughtful
27:01
thing.
27:02
Why?
27:03
Why do
27:04
this?
27:04
It's clunky.
27:05
I get it.
27:06
It's a lot
27:07
to hold.
27:07
And some
27:08
of you are
27:08
also holding
27:09
babies.
27:10
And there's
27:10
a lot of
27:10
stuff going
27:11
on in our
27:12
hands.
27:13
Wouldn't it
27:13
be nice if
27:14
each verse was
27:14
fed to you on
27:15
a screen?
27:15
We used
27:16
to do
27:16
that.
27:17
There's a
27:17
screen over
27:17
my left
27:18
shoulder.
27:20
Why?
27:20
Why do we
27:20
do this?
27:21
Because we
27:21
think you
27:22
should take
27:22
it home.
27:24
I need
27:24
this.
27:25
I muse
27:26
over this
27:26
throughout the
27:27
week.
27:27
This lives
27:28
here and
27:28
here.
27:29
This is my
27:30
personal copy
27:31
that I bought.
27:32
It's got all
27:33
my post-it
27:34
notes in it.
27:36
I go through
27:36
this thing
27:37
devotionally.
27:38
I read
27:39
songs.
27:40
Complete in me,
27:41
I've had marked
27:42
for months.
27:43
And I
27:44
thought I
27:45
had passed
27:45
it along
27:46
as a song
27:46
that we
27:46
should sing.
27:47
And apparently
27:47
I hadn't,
27:48
but I'm so
27:48
thankful we
27:48
sang it this
27:49
morning.
27:50
I've had it
27:50
marked here.
27:52
And I need
27:52
to go through
27:53
this again
27:54
and again
27:54
to be reminded
27:55
of these
27:55
wonderful truths
27:56
put to poetry.
27:58
Right?
27:58
I sing
28:00
sometimes by
28:01
myself.
28:02
You don't
28:03
want to hear
28:03
it.
28:05
It's good
28:06
for my heart
28:06
to do
28:08
this very
28:09
thing.
28:10
So,
28:10
we have a
28:11
hymnal,
28:11
a hymnal
28:11
that we have
28:12
said,
28:12
true,
28:12
right?
28:13
There's good,
28:13
good songs
28:14
for us to
28:15
explore and
28:16
understand in
28:17
this book.
28:18
I'm not saying
28:19
it's an
28:19
inspired work.
28:20
Don't hear
28:20
me,
28:21
right?
28:21
But it
28:22
speaks to
28:22
us,
28:23
the truth
28:24
of the
28:25
Bible.
28:26
And we
28:26
don't want
28:27
to limit
28:27
ourselves to
28:27
a single
28:28
book,
28:28
so we
28:28
add a
28:29
bulletin
28:29
in there.
28:29
We pick
28:30
up other
28:30
wonderful
28:31
and beautiful
28:32
songs.
28:34
So,
28:35
we use
28:35
three parameters
28:35
in considering
28:36
the songs
28:36
that we sing
28:37
together.
28:39
Number one,
28:40
this should
28:40
come as no
28:40
surprise,
28:41
I've been
28:41
leading you
28:41
to this
28:41
place the
28:42
entire time,
28:43
truth.
28:44
I know
28:45
that that's
28:45
probably a
28:46
given,
28:47
but,
28:48
beloved,
28:49
you could
28:49
go to
28:49
many,
28:50
many churches,
28:51
many churches
28:52
this morning,
28:53
and they are
28:53
not singing
28:54
songs that
28:55
are true.
28:55
is the
28:58
song
28:58
true?
29:00
Does it
29:00
clearly express
29:01
what the
29:02
Bible teaches?
29:03
Does it
29:04
contain within
29:05
it any
29:06
error?
29:07
It's a very
29:08
important question
29:09
to ask.
29:11
It's a kind of
29:12
wildly popular
29:13
song.
29:14
I don't know
29:14
how often it's
29:15
being sung these
29:16
days,
29:16
but there was a
29:16
half a decade
29:18
ago,
29:18
it was
29:19
everywhere.
29:20
You couldn't
29:21
avoid the
29:21
song,
29:22
Reckless
29:23
Love by
29:23
Corey
29:24
Asbury.
29:26
It's a
29:26
beautiful song.
29:28
This is how
29:29
it goes,
29:29
the verse of
29:30
it.
29:30
Oh,
29:30
the overwhelming,
29:32
never-ending,
29:33
reckless love
29:34
of God.
29:36
Oh,
29:36
it chases me
29:37
down,
29:37
fights till I'm
29:38
found,
29:38
leaves the
29:39
99.
29:40
I couldn't
29:41
earn it,
29:41
and I don't
29:42
deserve it.
29:43
But still,
29:44
you give
29:44
yourself away.
29:46
Oh,
29:46
the overwhelming,
29:47
never-ending,
29:48
reckless love
29:50
of God.
29:52
Unless I
29:53
be called
29:55
out for
29:56
copyright
29:56
infringement,
29:57
yeah,
29:57
is at the
29:58
end of
29:58
that.
29:59
Well,
29:59
here's the
30:02
problem.
30:03
So much of
30:04
that is good.
30:05
Oh,
30:05
so much of
30:05
that is
30:06
beautiful.
30:08
But the
30:08
word reckless
30:09
means something.
30:12
It means
30:13
something.
30:14
I think
30:15
what he's
30:15
aiming at,
30:17
I guess I
30:17
want to hope
30:17
he's aiming
30:18
at is a
30:19
bounding,
30:21
overwhelming,
30:22
oh,
30:22
he says
30:23
overwhelming,
30:24
some other
30:24
synonym for
30:25
big,
30:27
huge,
30:28
you can
30:28
fill a lot
30:29
of words
30:29
into that.
30:32
But
30:32
recklessness
30:33
is without
30:34
purpose.
30:36
And
30:36
Christ's
30:37
love is
30:37
not
30:38
reckless.
30:40
It had
30:40
a very
30:40
specific
30:41
purpose
30:41
to come
30:43
and accomplish
30:44
on behalf
30:45
of his
30:45
people.
30:46
people.
30:47
This is
30:48
misleading.
30:49
We need
30:50
to be
30:50
very clear
30:51
about the
30:52
love of
30:52
God and
30:52
how it
30:53
works in
30:54
the world.
30:56
The very
30:56
gospel is
30:58
getting on
30:58
an unfirm
31:00
foundation if
31:01
we're not
31:01
careful with
31:02
our words.
31:04
So we
31:04
wouldn't sing
31:05
this song.
31:05
This would
31:06
not be a
31:06
song that
31:06
we would
31:06
want to
31:07
sing.
31:10
It's a
31:10
song as
31:11
precise as
31:12
it should
31:12
be.
31:12
There's
31:14
a song
31:14
called
31:15
How Deep
31:15
the Father's
31:15
Love for
31:16
Us.
31:16
It is in
31:17
our hymnal
31:17
and we
31:17
have sung
31:18
it from
31:18
the hymnal.
31:19
There's a
31:19
line in
31:19
it that
31:20
we're not
31:20
crazy about
31:21
though.
31:22
And I
31:22
think that
31:22
the author
31:23
doesn't
31:24
mean to
31:25
be confusing
31:25
but he
31:26
says,
31:27
I think
31:27
it's in
31:27
the second
31:27
verse,
31:28
it was
31:29
my sin
31:32
that held
31:33
him there.
31:34
So on
31:34
the cross,
31:35
it was
31:35
my sin.
31:36
And the
31:36
idea is
31:36
that he's
31:37
atoning for
31:38
our sin.
31:39
So he's
31:39
paying the
31:40
price for
31:41
our sin.
31:42
But we
31:43
just didn't
31:43
love the
31:43
idea of
31:45
our sin
31:46
seeming to
31:47
have a
31:47
power to
31:49
hold Jesus
31:50
on the
31:51
cross.
31:52
He says
31:52
in John
31:52
10
31:52
verse 18,
31:53
no one
31:54
takes my
31:55
life from
31:56
me,
31:57
but I lay
31:57
it down
31:57
of my
31:58
own
31:58
accord.
32:01
And so,
32:01
most regularly,
32:03
we put it
32:03
in the
32:04
bulletin and
32:05
we replace
32:05
that line
32:05
with,
32:06
it was
32:07
his love
32:08
that held
32:09
him there.
32:11
Right?
32:11
Purposeful.
32:12
not
32:13
reckless,
32:14
purposeful
32:14
love,
32:15
while he
32:15
paid for
32:16
the sins
32:17
of all
32:17
who had
32:18
placed their
32:18
faith in
32:19
him.
32:21
Thirdly,
32:21
is the
32:22
song tied
32:22
to any
32:23
false
32:24
teaching
32:24
movements?
32:26
There are
32:26
some
32:27
beautiful
32:28
songs
32:28
that express
32:30
the truth.
32:31
They don't
32:31
contain within
32:32
them any
32:32
error,
32:33
but they're
32:33
so tied
32:34
to a
32:35
particular
32:36
church
32:36
or
32:37
teaching.
32:38
They're
32:39
part and
32:39
parcel
32:39
with,
32:40
connected
32:40
to a
32:42
particular
32:42
movement,
32:43
particular
32:43
teaching,
32:44
particular
32:44
church,
32:45
that we
32:46
don't sing
32:46
them because
32:47
we don't
32:48
want to
32:48
give tacit
32:50
approval to
32:51
false teachers.
32:52
We don't
32:53
want somebody
32:53
to come
32:53
here,
32:54
hear a
32:54
song,
32:55
and go,
32:55
oh,
32:56
that's so
32:56
great,
32:56
who sings
32:57
that?
32:57
Oh,
32:58
that's so
32:58
great,
32:59
what church
32:59
do they
32:59
sing that
33:00
in?
33:00
Oh,
33:00
I must
33:01
listen to
33:01
this
33:01
pastor
33:02
when he's
33:04
a false
33:06
teacher.
33:08
So,
33:08
examples.
33:09
This is
33:09
controversial,
33:10
and I
33:10
don't think
33:10
it should
33:11
be.
33:12
We don't
33:12
sing songs
33:13
from
33:13
Elevation
33:14
Worship,
33:15
or Hillsong
33:15
United,
33:16
or Bethel
33:17
Music.
33:19
Can you
33:20
enjoy some
33:20
songs from
33:21
them?
33:21
Sure,
33:22
but oh,
33:22
don't think
33:23
that we
33:23
approve of
33:24
the teaching
33:25
that's part
33:25
of those
33:26
movements.
33:28
The songs
33:28
we sing
33:29
together
33:29
should be
33:30
true,
33:31
and they
33:31
should
33:31
support
33:32
truth.
33:34
Second
33:35
parameter
33:36
is the
33:36
parameter
33:37
of
33:37
depth.
33:40
Does a
33:40
song merely
33:41
skip a
33:41
stone off
33:42
the surface
33:42
of the
33:43
truth,
33:44
or does
33:44
it sink
33:45
deep
33:46
into it?
33:47
Does a
33:48
song teach
33:48
us something
33:49
about God
33:51
and His
33:52
work?
33:53
Is it
33:53
content
33:54
rich?
33:57
I had
33:57
at a
33:58
conference
33:58
one time
33:58
at a
34:00
mixed bag
34:00
of traditions.
34:01
I had
34:01
an older
34:02
pastor
34:03
asking me
34:04
about our
34:04
church,
34:04
and I
34:04
was telling
34:05
him a
34:05
little bit
34:05
about us
34:06
and the
34:06
demographic
34:06
and that
34:07
we have
34:07
a lot
34:07
of young
34:07
people.
34:08
And he
34:08
said,
34:09
what is
34:09
the style
34:10
of your
34:11
music?
34:11
And as
34:12
you can
34:12
probably tell,
34:13
I didn't
34:13
like the
34:13
question at
34:14
the outset.
34:15
And so I
34:15
just shot
34:16
back,
34:17
content
34:17
rich.
34:18
And he
34:19
went,
34:19
oh,
34:19
that's a
34:20
great
34:20
answer.
34:21
I said,
34:22
thank you.
34:25
Yeah,
34:25
and then he
34:25
was just
34:26
astounded
34:26
that young
34:26
people wanted
34:27
to come
34:28
together and
34:28
sing songs
34:29
that were
34:29
content
34:30
rich.
34:32
And I
34:33
encouraged him
34:34
that God
34:34
has people
34:35
in the
34:36
city.
34:37
Wordy
34:38
songs.
34:39
Wordy
34:40
songs.
34:40
I want to
34:40
contemplate
34:41
songs.
34:43
Sometimes at
34:43
the risk of
34:44
singing right
34:45
over things
34:45
that are so
34:46
good, but
34:46
take it
34:46
home.
34:47
You can
34:48
buy copies
34:48
of this
34:49
hymnal.
34:49
You can
34:49
take the
34:50
bulletin.
34:51
Look it
34:51
over.
34:52
Think it
34:52
through.
34:53
We have
34:54
a limited
34:54
time
34:55
together.
34:57
We're
34:58
going to
34:58
sing this
34:58
morning
34:58
six songs.
35:01
I think Alex
35:01
is going to
35:01
tack on the
35:02
doxology,
35:02
so we can
35:03
call it
35:03
seven songs.
35:05
It's a
35:05
very limited
35:06
amount of
35:06
time together,
35:08
so let's
35:09
just not
35:09
waste a
35:10
moment of
35:11
it.
35:13
It's not
35:13
against some
35:14
repetition from
35:14
time to
35:15
time.
35:15
That's okay.
35:16
It drives
35:17
a point.
35:18
But let's
35:19
not sing
35:19
songs that
35:20
just repeat
35:20
one thing
35:21
over and
35:22
over and
35:22
over again
35:23
until we're
35:23
all lulled
35:24
into a
35:24
trance.
35:25
Let's keep
35:26
our minds
35:26
engaged because
35:28
we have such
35:28
precious moments
35:29
together.
35:33
Thirdly,
35:34
last parameter
35:35
is singability.
35:38
Is a song
35:39
congregational?
35:41
There are
35:42
some songs
35:43
that are
35:43
great songs
35:44
meant to be
35:45
performed,
35:46
listened to.
35:48
The songs we
35:49
sing together,
35:50
we should be
35:51
able to
35:51
sing together.
35:54
The primary
35:55
instrument when
35:57
we come
35:57
together is
35:59
your heart
36:00
tuned by the
36:01
grace of
36:02
God overflowing
36:04
in song.
36:05
You're the
36:06
primary,
36:07
right?
36:07
Not what's
36:08
happening on
36:08
stage.
36:08
That's
36:09
accompaniment.
36:10
That's the
36:10
leadership,
36:11
right?
36:12
We all need
36:12
some help
36:13
with our
36:13
tempo.
36:14
We need to
36:15
know when
36:15
to start
36:16
singing the
36:17
next verse,
36:18
right?
36:19
That's what
36:19
these people
36:19
are here
36:20
for,
36:20
and they
36:20
understand
36:21
that to
36:21
be true.
36:22
What they're
36:22
mostly trying
36:23
to do is
36:24
not be
36:24
distracting to
36:26
what we
36:26
do together.
36:29
That's why
36:30
we have the
36:30
lights on
36:31
in here,
36:32
and the
36:33
volume.
36:34
It depends
36:35
on where
36:35
you're sitting
36:35
in this room
36:36
sometimes,
36:36
but we want
36:37
you to be
36:37
able to
36:38
hear the
36:38
people in
36:39
these rooms.
36:41
We want
36:41
you to be
36:42
able to
36:42
sing to
36:43
each other.
36:44
remember,
36:45
this is
36:45
not a
36:46
concert
36:46
time.
36:48
This is
36:49
congregational
36:50
gathering,
36:50
and we're
36:51
working at
36:52
trying to
36:52
obey this
36:53
command to
36:53
teach and
36:54
admonish one
36:54
another in
36:55
all wisdom,
36:56
addressing
36:57
one another.
36:59
Psalms and
37:00
hymns and
37:00
spiritual songs.
37:03
So we should
37:04
ask the
37:04
question,
37:05
this is
37:05
probably the
37:06
point at
37:06
which we
37:06
may fail
37:07
most often.
37:08
Does the
37:09
song have a
37:10
recognizable
37:10
rhythm?
37:11
Sometimes we
37:13
try a song
37:13
and it just
37:14
doesn't work
37:14
great.
37:15
We thought
37:15
it would
37:16
and it
37:16
doesn't
37:16
always pan
37:16
out.
37:19
Does the
37:19
song have
37:20
a range
37:21
designed for
37:22
the average
37:22
human?
37:23
There's some
37:23
beautiful songs
37:24
that the
37:24
average person
37:25
just shouldn't
37:26
sing.
37:28
Oh,
37:28
holy night.
37:29
Every year
37:29
at Christmas
37:30
we sure
37:30
give it a
37:31
try and
37:32
a couple
37:34
of people
37:34
pull it
37:35
off.
37:35
There's
37:35
like a
37:35
handful
37:36
of people
37:36
that can
37:36
actually go
37:37
from the
37:38
bottom end
37:38
of that
37:39
to the
37:39
top end
37:40
of that.
37:41
So does
37:42
it have a
37:42
range?
37:42
Is it in
37:43
a key
37:43
that's
37:44
singable?
37:45
Right?
37:45
Are we
37:45
actually in
37:45
this spot?
37:46
I'm so
37:46
thankful for
37:48
the sacrifice.
37:50
I mean,
37:50
you should
37:50
know this,
37:51
the sacrifice
37:51
of the
37:52
women in
37:53
our church
37:53
because we
37:54
are often
37:55
singing in
37:55
a key
37:56
that's
37:56
difficult
37:56
for them.
37:57
They have
37:58
to pick
37:58
an octave
37:58
low that's
38:00
hard for
38:00
them,
38:00
a register
38:01
that's
38:01
difficult for
38:01
them,
38:02
or be
38:02
really,
38:02
really high.
38:03
And you
38:03
know why?
38:04
Because we're
38:04
trying to
38:04
sing so that
38:05
the men
38:05
can sing.
38:07
Early in
38:07
the life of
38:08
our church,
38:08
as we're
38:09
picking out
38:09
keys,
38:10
the question
38:11
was,
38:11
do we want
38:11
men to
38:12
sing?
38:12
And the
38:12
answer was
38:13
yes.
38:13
We want
38:14
men to
38:14
give leadership
38:15
in singing.
38:16
We're going
38:16
to have to
38:16
pick keys
38:17
that work.
38:19
If you're
38:20
not feeling
38:20
this,
38:21
ladies,
38:21
I'm thankful.
38:22
Maybe we
38:22
found the
38:22
magic in
38:23
between
38:23
place.
38:25
But we
38:25
really labor
38:26
to do
38:26
this.
38:27
We want
38:28
the men
38:28
to lead
38:28
out in
38:29
song.
38:31
I think
38:31
a lot of
38:32
women are
38:32
being very
38:33
kind to
38:33
us so that
38:35
we can
38:35
sing.
38:37
Can a
38:37
song be
38:37
played well
38:38
by our
38:38
musicians?
38:40
Style not
38:40
the question
38:41
here,
38:41
but can
38:42
they
38:42
actually
38:43
accompany
38:44
us well
38:44
and not
38:46
be distracting?
38:48
So we
38:49
want to
38:49
come together
38:50
and we
38:50
want to
38:51
sing.
38:52
And we
38:52
have
38:52
instructed
38:53
one another
38:53
already
38:54
this morning.
38:56
We've
38:56
done this
38:57
work already.
38:59
Again,
38:59
Alex and
38:59
I did not
39:00
coordinate
39:00
this together.
39:02
He did
39:03
what he
39:03
would have
39:03
done on
39:04
any other
39:04
Sunday.
39:06
Alex and
39:06
Jordan and
39:08
Ben do
39:08
a good
39:08
job and
39:09
all the
39:09
people that
39:10
have come
39:10
alongside
39:11
them and
39:11
help and
39:12
serve in
39:13
this way.
39:13
We are
39:13
so blessed
39:14
to be led
39:16
to sing
39:16
well.
39:19
So for the
39:19
sake of time,
39:20
you don't have
39:20
to look at it,
39:21
but just the
39:22
five songs that
39:23
we've sung here
39:24
together.
39:26
First,
39:27
turn your eyes
39:28
upon Jesus.
39:29
We administered
39:30
comfort for the
39:31
troubled,
39:33
trialed soul
39:34
by reminding
39:35
one another
39:36
to trust
39:36
in God's
39:37
promises,
39:37
and then we
39:38
turn one
39:39
another toward
39:39
evangelism,
39:41
to not be
39:41
self-absorbed,
39:42
but then to
39:43
take this
39:43
good news
39:44
to the
39:45
world.
39:46
All creatures
39:47
of our God
39:47
and King,
39:48
we exhort
39:48
one another
39:49
to the
39:49
befitting
39:50
praise of
39:51
created
39:51
beings for
39:52
their
39:52
creator.
39:55
Complete
39:55
in thee,
39:56
we were
39:57
reminded that
39:57
we are
39:58
justified,
39:59
set free
39:59
from the
40:00
power of
40:00
sin,
40:00
and helped
40:01
by the
40:02
finished
40:02
work
40:03
of
40:04
Christ.
40:06
Yet not
40:06
I,
40:06
but through
40:07
Christ in
40:08
me,
40:08
I had a
40:09
really hard
40:09
time writing
40:09
a single
40:10
sentence for
40:11
this song.
40:11
It's got
40:12
a lot
40:13
in it.
40:14
We spoke
40:15
to one
40:15
another
40:15
of the
40:16
hope
40:17
and power
40:18
and pardon
40:19
and security
40:20
that is
40:21
ours
40:21
in Jesus
40:23
Christ.
40:25
Whatever
40:25
my God
40:26
ordains
40:27
is right.
40:29
We
40:29
encourage
40:30
one another
40:30
to be
40:31
faithful
40:31
as
40:32
God's
40:33
providence
40:34
reigns
40:35
in our
40:36
lives.
40:38
I don't
40:38
know about
40:38
you,
40:38
but I
40:39
needed to
40:39
hear every
40:40
bit of
40:41
that
40:41
this
40:42
morning.
40:44
Not
40:44
every song
40:45
that we
40:45
sing
40:45
contains
40:46
within it
40:47
the entirety
40:47
of the
40:47
gospel or
40:48
unpacks
40:49
all the
40:49
implications
40:50
of the
40:50
gospel,
40:51
but a
40:51
lot of
40:52
it
40:52
does.
40:54
A
40:55
year ago
40:55
I went
40:55
on a
40:56
sabbatical
40:56
and I
40:57
took my
40:58
family as
40:58
a learning
40:59
experience
41:00
to a
41:00
local
41:02
popular
41:02
large
41:03
attractional
41:04
church.
41:06
And in
41:06
our time
41:06
there
41:07
lots of
41:08
songs were
41:08
sung,
41:09
prayers were
41:09
offered,
41:11
they even
41:11
took the
41:11
Lord's
41:12
Supper,
41:13
put my
41:14
quotation
41:14
fingers,
41:15
they took
41:15
the Lord's
41:15
Supper,
41:16
there was a
41:17
sermon of
41:18
sorts,
41:19
and afterwards
41:20
I asked my
41:20
boys,
41:21
I said,
41:22
boys,
41:22
how many
41:23
times did
41:25
you hear
41:25
the gospel
41:26
this morning?
41:28
And my
41:28
oldest,
41:29
Cade,
41:29
who's now
41:30
15,
41:31
14 at
41:31
the time,
41:32
he said,
41:33
once,
41:35
sort of,
41:37
and we
41:37
got to
41:37
unpack
41:38
what that
41:39
meant,
41:39
once,
41:41
sort of,
41:42
gospel
41:43
people
41:44
ought to
41:45
gather
41:45
and
41:46
proliferate
41:47
the gospel.
41:50
You've
41:50
heard the
41:51
gospel,
41:51
there's more
41:52
of guests
41:52
at it,
41:52
but in
41:53
reading and
41:54
praying and
41:55
in singing,
41:56
five,
41:57
six times,
41:58
it's been
41:59
laid out
42:00
before you.
42:02
This ought
42:03
to change
42:04
us.
42:05
We come,
42:07
we engage,
42:08
we expect
42:08
God to
42:09
work through
42:09
his truth
42:11
in our
42:11
lives as
42:12
we come
42:12
together.
42:13
It ought
42:14
to cause
42:16
us to
42:16
grow in
42:17
Christ and
42:17
leave here
42:18
one degree
42:18
of glory
42:19
to another
42:19
degree of
42:20
glory for
42:21
the praise
42:21
of his
42:21
name.
42:22
Truth,
42:24
depth,
42:25
and
42:25
singability
42:25
singability
42:26
all for
42:28
the glory
42:28
of God
42:28
and for
42:29
the good
42:29
of his
42:31
people.
42:32
Let us
42:33
be a
42:33
people who
42:35
sing to
42:35
one another
42:36
and who
42:37
know why
42:39
we sing to
42:39
one another
42:40
and who
42:41
know why
42:42
or what
42:42
and how
42:43
we should
42:44
sing to
42:46
one another.
42:47
Let's pray.
42:47
five