1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,120 Pastor did ask me to teach a lesson on Psalm singing. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:08,200 And so turn with me to Ephesians chapter 5, Ephesians chapter 5. 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,720 Last night when I was getting up to preach the last session at 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:15,000 the conference there, or my last session, I told the people 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,560 there, I said, I've decided to switch sides to the Rebel South 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:20,520 and I'm going to the South tomorrow. 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:22,280 I've heard the Confederates are winning down there. 8 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:25,040 Nobody laughed, but you laughed, so that's good. 9 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,400 No one laughed. I thought that that I was trying 10 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:29,640 to be funny, but I thought I'll back out of that one. 11 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,880 I'm about to get shot by these Yankees up there. 12 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,360 OK, Ephesians chapter 5. Ephesians chapter 5. 13 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,200 And we're going to read some well known verses here and and 14 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,240 I'm going to speak about Psalm singing tonight and we'll get to 15 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:42,440 that. But I think it's important to 16 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,880 see it in context. And so I'm going to teach a bit 17 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,560 of a lesson here on spirit filled church music. 18 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,920 And so some of the points we'll just touch on give you the the 19 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,960 fill in there. And then we'll do some some some 20 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,040 teaching on the Psalm singing aspect of the passage here. 21 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:02,120 But Ephesians chapter 5. And let's read verse 18 and 19 22 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:10,440 together on the count of 3123. And be not drunk with wine, 23 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:14,440 wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to 24 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:19,120 yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and 25 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,680 making melody in your heart to the Lord. 26 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,080 All right, let's pray and ask for the Lord's blessing on our 27 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,520 lesson tonight. Gracious God in Heavenly Father, 28 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,080 I thank you for the privilege of being here in this church. 29 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:31,360 Thank you, Lord, for the oneness of Spirit. 30 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,560 I sense already with the brethren here, Lord, and we just 31 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,040 thank you for faithful churches dotted across the globe for the 32 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,200 family of God. Thank you for the pastor of this 33 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,760 church, Lord, and His stand. Thank you for the church. 34 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,080 We just pray for your hand to be upon our time together tonight 35 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:47,920 in your word. We pray that Your Holy Spirit 36 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,840 would give us guidance and direction and help as we look 37 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,520 into your word tonight. We pray for your blessing on the 38 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,000 weekend to come with the missions emphasis that you'd be 39 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,040 with us there and that you just give us a good time together in 40 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,800 your word. We pray in Jesus name, Amen. 41 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,840 I know you already take a good stand on the subject of music 42 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,680 tonight and that's wonderful, but it's always good to revisit 43 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,400 these texts of scripture and be equipped with what the word of 44 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,560 God says concerning this important subject. 45 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,080 Now as you look at the passage here, verse 18 and 19 of 46 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:23,880 Ephesians 5, in verse 18, you'll notice the command there to not 47 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:27,160 be drunk with wine, but to be filled with the Spirit. 48 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,160 And that's a very significant statement there, very 49 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,720 significant command. And what follows is really the 50 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:38,320 outflow of a spirit filled life. If you turn over to Colossians 51 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,960 three, you don't have to do that now, but Colossians 316 says, 52 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:45,320 let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, OK. 53 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,840 And similar words, teaching and admonishing one another in 54 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,320 psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, OK singing, you're making 55 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:52,560 melody in your heart to the Lord. 56 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,400 And So what we see is these two verses go together. 57 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,600 You say, well, is it the word of God in my life that produces the 58 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,680 right kind of music? Or is the Spirit, is it the 59 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,720 Spirit of God? Well, it's both because the 60 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,720 Spirit of God uses the Word of God in our lives. 61 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:11,440 And So what we see in this passage is that when our lives 62 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:15,000 are full of the Word of God and when our lives are full of the 63 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,840 Spirit of God, it produces the right kind of music. 64 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,440 It produces the right kind of family life, It produces the 65 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:27,640 right kind of church life. And so in your introductory 66 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:30,960 notes there, you could just note that the spirit filled life 67 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,240 produces harmony in these three areas. 68 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,720 We could say it produces harmony in God's house. 69 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,480 That's true, isn't it? When we're full of the Spirit of 70 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,440 God and we're being controlled by the Spirit and and influenced 71 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,800 and controlled by the word of God, that brings harmony in the 72 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,560 church house. Then it brings harmony at my 73 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,600 house. This is all the outflow of the 74 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,920 Spirit filled life. How are you going to have the 75 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,440 right kind of husband, wife, relationship, the feeling of the 76 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,600 Spirit of God? You've got to be filled with the 77 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:03,200 Spirit to be the right kind of husband. 78 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,640 You've got to be filled with the Spirit of God to be the right 79 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,440 kind of wife. OK. 80 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,920 And then we could also say that it produces harmony at the 81 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:15,320 workhouse. OK, so between masters and 82 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:20,440 servants and so, but tonight we're focusing on how the Spirit 83 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:25,200 of God produces in our lives the right kind of music. 84 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,960 And what you're going to find is that the kind of music that the 85 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,960 Spirit of God is interested in producing or interested in 86 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,080 blessing is actually very different to the world's music. 87 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:39,200 It's very different to the music that's often played as spirit 88 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,080 filled music in churches today. Well, we just need to have, we 89 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,400 just need to be full of the spirit man and, and just have 90 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,360 this, have this rock'n'roll and this band. 91 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,680 And no, the Spirit of God has nothing to do with that. 92 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,680 That's a false spirit. That's a manufactured spirit. 93 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,960 We want to have the right kind of music, and the Spirit of God 94 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:58,360 is the Holy Spirit. And so therefore anything that 95 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,800 that he puts his touch upon is going to have holiness. 96 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,600 OK. The Holy Spirit is interested in 97 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,440 holiness, not wilderness. That's right. 98 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:14,080 So what we're going to do is we're going to look at six, six 99 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,600 lessons really in relation to church music and with an 100 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,920 emphasis tonight on as the past is requested, the singing of 101 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,440 Psalms. But let me just give you these 102 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,760 points 1 by 1 and you can fill them in there. 103 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,120 We'll see how we go for time and and trust the Lord with that. 104 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,600 So firstly, the musicians of spirit filled music, the 105 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,280 musicians of spirit filled music. 106 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:35,480 Again, I've already spoken about this, but we see that the 107 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,880 filling of the Spirit of God produces the right kind of 108 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:40,840 singing, the right kind of music. 109 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:44,200 So as we think about what kind of music is acceptable to God, 110 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,760 we do need to think about the source of that music. 111 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,280 Are the producers of that music spirit filled people? 112 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,360 Are they people who are filled with the word of God? 113 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,040 What kind of people are producing the music? 114 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,280 That's an important consideration because, you know, 115 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:00,160 a lot of the music that's produced out there, that's 116 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,920 called Christian music is actually produced by very 117 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,640 wicked, sinful people. And now they often have a facade 118 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:07,920 of Christianity and a facade of holiness. 119 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,080 But it happens all the time where, you know, it hits the 120 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,120 news that these Christian musicians have been been up to 121 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,000 their eyeballs in a whole bunch of sin. 122 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,520 OK, So we do need to think about that and and also think about 123 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:25,480 that in our church ministry, as you play an instrument, as you 124 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:27,960 maybe sing in the choir, remember you need the help of 125 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,960 the Spirit of God in order to really minister. 126 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,320 Remember that you need to you need to be empty yourself and 127 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,120 full of the Spirit. In fact, that would be a great 128 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,400 prayer to to pray before you get up to play an instrument, before 129 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:41,680 you get up to sing, say Lord, empty me yourself because it's 130 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,960 not about me, is it? And fill me with your spirit. 131 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:50,040 OK, so the musicians, but let's move to the next point #2 the 132 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,240 message of spirit filled music. And here we draw on Colossians 133 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,800 316, that parallel verse. You might like to turn there and 134 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:58,400 just have a look at it if you would like to there. 135 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:02,120 But Colossians 316 says, let the word of Christ dwell in you 136 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:10,760 richly in all wisdom. So good music in the church, 137 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:16,840 good music in our lives as believers is music that 138 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:22,440 communicates truth. OK, It communicates truth. 139 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:27,120 In John chapter 4 verse 24, Jesus said God is a spirit and 140 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,520 they that worship Him must worship him in spirit and in 141 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,240 truth. The Spirit of God is interested 142 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,280 in truth. There are people today say, 143 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:38,840 well, I don't really care what the Bible says. 144 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,200 The Spirit told me this, well, I'm sorry you didn't hear the 145 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,320 voice of the Spirit because the Spirit of God will never lead 146 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:50,080 you contrary to the word of God. In fact, he's called the Spirit 147 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,360 of truth three times in the Gospel of John. 148 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:58,680 And so the Spirit of God is not going to produce worship that is 149 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,840 contrary to the word he inspired. 150 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,800 And so as we think about acceptable music, godly music in 151 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,360 the church, we need to think about whether that music 152 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:14,280 conforms to the truth of God's Word, both in its lyrics and in 153 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:18,240 its music. What we want in good, what we 154 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,760 want in our music is a consistent message between the 155 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,440 sound and the words. That's right. 156 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:29,520 Because what you have in some some modern contemporary songs, 157 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,400 sometimes the words are actually, oftentimes the words 158 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,039 are shallow. But sometimes, let's be fair, 159 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,480 sometimes the words are good in some of the songs. 160 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:40,679 But the problem is you've got maybe good words to music that 161 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,720 sounds like the nightclub. And so you have a contradictory 162 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:45,920 message there. The words are trying to say one 163 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,800 thing, but the music is communicating a very different 164 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,120 message. And, and, and, and music is a 165 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:53,080 very powerful form of communication. 166 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,680 In fact, I find when I listen to maybe a new song, a sacred song, 167 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,760 often I'm impacted by the music before I really digest the 168 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:01,440 words. Sometimes I have to listen to it 169 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,320 several times before the words start to sink in because the the 170 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,600 music itself is saying something. 171 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,840 And so we want to have music that's governed by the truth of 172 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:14,520 God's word, both in the music and that's found here in the 173 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,320 passage very clear. It's not rocket science and what 174 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,800 what and in the words So we could say good Christian music 175 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,360 should be a vehicle for the truth of God's word. 176 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,600 That's the that's the that's the purpose of it. 177 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,480 Good Christian music needs to be doctrinally sound and good 178 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,760 Christian music needs to have lyrics with substance. 179 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:37,880 Now, that doesn't mean a song can't be a convey a simple 180 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:39,720 message. There can be a song with a 181 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,120 simple message, but it needs to be a scriptural message. 182 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,720 It needs to be something that's that's that's in line with the 183 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:47,480 word of God. And so we really need a mix. 184 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:49,400 It's good to have simple songs of testimony. 185 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,680 It's also good to have some to sing hymns that are very 186 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:55,880 theologically rich. And, and in fact, I love hymns 187 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,480 that make me think. It's great to sing hymns that 188 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:05,960 make you think and, and that's it's very edifying experience #3 189 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:09,680 #3 the ministry of spirit filled music. 190 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,200 What is church music actually for? 191 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,280 And this is very important. Look back at verse 19 of 192 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:22,600 Ephesians 5, speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns 193 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:27,520 and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to 194 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:29,280 the Lord. It'd be good for you to 195 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:33,880 underline the words to yourselves and then to the Lord. 196 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:40,480 Music in the church is for each other, and it is for the Lord. 197 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:47,040 We could say #1 under that that church music is for the 198 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:51,880 edification of the Saints and #2 the exhortation of the Savior, 199 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:57,440 the edification of the Saints and the exhortation of the 200 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,560 Savior. Or we could put it this way, 201 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:05,160 Church worship music is for Christians and for Christ, for 202 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,640 Christians and for Christ. So that means that Christian 203 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:13,680 music is for edification, not entertainment, not 204 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:16,720 entertainment. And this is the problem. 205 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,720 The contemporary church has done the truth of great disservice 206 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:24,160 because it's conditioned literally hundreds of thousands 207 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:28,200 of people, if not millions of people to expect a low standard, 208 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,040 sloppy entertainment orientated service. 209 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,080 And I'm sure you have the same problem here. 210 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,240 Sometimes people come to a church like this and go, boy, I 211 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,880 love the preaching, but I can't. It's just the music where the 212 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,120 music, it's so dead. But the problem is they've been 213 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,920 conditioned to expect this high energy, pounding, kind of a 214 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,920 shallow entertainment kind of service. 215 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,360 But that's not what we find in the Bible. 216 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:56,120 Now we can enjoy and we should enjoy sacred music. 217 00:11:56,680 --> 00:11:59,440 We can even feel moved emotionally. 218 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,040 That's OK as long as the emotions are under the control 219 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:06,120 of the Spirit of God and really what the proper order in good 220 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,920 sacred music is. You're impacted by the truth of 221 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:10,600 that song and then the emotions follow. 222 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,560 So your mind digests the truth and you know, you sing some of 223 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:16,400 those hymns and you can't but be moved by the message of those 224 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,520 hymns. And can it be that I should gain 225 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,160 an interest in the Savior's blood? 226 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,800 And, and, and you just go on there amazing love. 227 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,920 How can it be that thou, my God should die for me? 228 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,040 Your hearts move. But it's being moved not by this 229 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,240 shallow emotionalism. It's being moved by truth. 230 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:38,160 That's right. So Christian music is for 231 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:42,120 edification, not entertainment. And Colossians 316 really 232 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:45,280 emphasizes that. It says teaching and 233 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,640 admonishing. So can you see that good music 234 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:50,960 in the church has an instructional element to it? 235 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,480 It's teaching you. You're learning something or 236 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,600 you're at least being reminded of truth. 237 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,960 And it even admonishes you. That's interesting, isn't it? 238 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:04,360 Did you know you can actually be convicted and even reproved 239 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,200 singing a good song? Good music will actually at 240 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,960 times, good sacred music will actually make you pause and 241 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:13,640 reflect. So how many of you know that 242 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:15,800 hymn, eh? You left your room this morning. 243 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,000 Did you think to pray? That's admonishment because 244 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,200 you're standing there thinking, singing that and going. 245 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,960 I didn't pray. Lord forgive me. 246 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,360 OK, so admonishment, the word admonish there means to caution 247 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,520 or to reprove gently. Now the modern contemporary 248 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,160 church doesn't want it's completely, this idea is 249 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,080 completely absent from the whole contemporary Christian movement 250 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,040 out there. They don't want to sing anything 251 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,000 that's going to make them actually feel convicted. 252 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,640 It's all about making me feel good, making me feel pumped up 253 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:50,200 in some false sort of sense of, you know, God's presence. 254 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,520 So that's where when we're going to get to this. 255 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,320 The Psalms actually contain sometimes themes of God's 256 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,440 judgment. Now, how many churches today 257 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,360 sing anything that speaks about God's judgment? 258 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,880 It's totally foreign people just even in independent Baptist 259 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:09,640 churches, I think would freak out a bit at that. 260 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,640 How you, how you going to sing this Psalm that's talking about 261 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,840 God's judgment and God's wrath? Well, obviously God wants us to 262 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,920 sing those things. We sang in hymn recently we 263 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:20,600 found an old hymn by Isaac Watts. 264 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:22,560 How many of you have heard of Isaac Watts, the famous hymn 265 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,400 writer? And it's, it's, it's called the 266 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,760 Last Judgment in Hell. I mean, it is a, it's a very 267 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:29,440 powerful hymn and a very sobering hymn. 268 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:31,000 It's a real challenge to the lost. 269 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,920 And it's all about God's fiery wrath being poured out. 270 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,440 I mean, are you going to ever hear hymn like that in the 271 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:43,080 contemporary church? So music is for edification, not 272 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,400 entertainment. We can say that Christian music 273 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,880 is for edification, not evangelism. 274 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,280 Now, I would challenge you to show me one verse in the Bible 275 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,560 that says that music is the primary means of bringing 276 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:02,200 sinners to Christ. Now, can God, as a part of His 277 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,920 working in a sinner's life, use the truth of a good evangelistic 278 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:07,640 song? I'm sure he can. 279 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,560 But what I'm saying is, scripturally, the preaching of 280 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:13,880 the gospel is the primary means of evangelism. 281 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,840 That is absolutely clear as crystal in the Bible. 282 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:19,720 You say why do you emphasise that? 283 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,680 Well, do you know why? Because most churches that bring 284 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,520 rock'n'roll music in, guess why they guess their guess. 285 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:27,800 Guess what excuse they use? We need to reach people. 286 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,720 If you don't have the band, if you don't have some, some drop 287 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,280 kick of a bloke with his pink hair spiked there belting your 288 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:36,920 drum, you're not going to reach the young people. 289 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,720 And so the argument, I've heard it so many times, you're not 290 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,640 going to reach people, you're not going to get the young 291 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,200 people. You've got to bring the band in 292 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,560 to reach people. Excuse me, where in the Bible do 293 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,560 we read that music is the primary means of evangelism? 294 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:51,840 The apostles did not go around holding concerts to reach 295 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,520 people. They preached the gospel, and it 296 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,720 was the gospel that brought people to repentance and brought 297 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,680 people to salvation. And then the primary function of 298 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,880 music then is for the edification of the Saints and 299 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:05,960 the exhortation of the Savior in the church. 300 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,240 It's more for Christians really in the church. 301 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,280 And again, I'm not saying God can't use God will always bless 302 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,160 his word. And, and I've heard of 303 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:17,120 testimonies of people who've maybe got something, an unsaved 304 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,720 person who's got something out of a good, a good evangelistic 305 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:22,320 song. And when we have evangelistic 306 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,600 meetings, we normally have a, if we're going to have a choir 307 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,560 song, we'll normally pick something with a strong gospel 308 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,960 emphasis. Sure, but I'm just saying we 309 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,040 have to push back on this idea that's being promoted out there 310 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,320 that you have to have the band, otherwise you're not going to 311 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:35,960 reach people. No, we reach people with the 312 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:37,840 gospel. We reach people with the 313 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,000 preaching of the word of God. And then the music is there to 314 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:46,800 edify the Saints, please God by the foolishness of what 315 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,480 preaching to save them that believe. 316 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:54,000 And God hasn't changed on that. I remember listening to listen 317 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,480 listen to an interview with a Christian filmmaker once, and he 318 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,640 made this statement. He said if the apostle Paul was 319 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,600 alive today, he wouldn't go around preaching to everybody. 320 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,960 He'd make a movie. No, if the apostle Paul was 321 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:11,440 alive today in Virginia, he would preach the gospel because 322 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,760 it's the preaching of the gospel that God uses to save people. 323 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,720 So let's we have to get those things into our minds. 324 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:20,280 It might sound very basic, but you're going to be confronted 325 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:22,800 with those kinds of arguments how you're going to reach people 326 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,760 without this rock'n'roll music. Well, excuse me, music is not 327 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,560 the primary means that God uses to reach people. 328 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:36,720 So it's for the edification of the Saints and the exhortation 329 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:41,440 of the Savior to yourselves and to the Lord. 330 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,200 That means that our music in the church needs to be Christ 331 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:50,640 centered and Christ focused rather than artist centered. 332 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:54,800 OK, what you see out there in the world is and in the 333 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,920 contemporary church is a, is really almost a, it's getting to 334 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,560 the point where it's almost worshipping the singers and it's 335 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:06,240 all about the performers. OK, Now again, I'm not, I'm all 336 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,800 for choirs and for good music in the church. 337 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,960 That's wonderful. But just remember, if you get up 338 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,080 to sing, it's not about you. You're not, you're not a pop 339 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,080 star. You're not there to try and be a 340 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,280 Taylor Swift. You're not there to be some rock 341 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,040 star. You are there to exalt the Lord 342 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:26,440 and edify God's people. Keep cross. 343 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,680 We have a motto for our choir. Sing for the audience of one. 344 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:32,760 Why? Because we want our people to 345 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:34,840 focus on who they're really singing for. 346 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,840 You're singing for the Lord 1st and then each other. 347 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:40,200 Really. That's really the way the order 348 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:45,320 works. OK #4 #4 the medium of spirit 349 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:46,840 filled music. Did you say there was some water 350 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:57,250 up here somewhere? There it is, the medium of 351 00:18:57,250 --> 00:18:59,930 spirit filled music. And here we see that there are 352 00:18:59,930 --> 00:19:03,330 three musical genres that God has ordained for use in His 353 00:19:03,330 --> 00:19:07,970 local churches. Look at verse 19 again, speaking 354 00:19:07,970 --> 00:19:10,250 to yourselves in what say with me? 355 00:19:10,250 --> 00:19:13,730 Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. 356 00:19:14,490 --> 00:19:18,480 That's it. And by the way, you should not 357 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,680 have a double standard where you sing psalms, where you have 358 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,960 psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs in the church, but then 359 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,160 you rock, you rock away in the car, you come and sing. 360 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,640 You come and sing hymns in church and then you're listening 361 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,680 to junk in the car. Because I even met one guy who 362 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:34,880 said he told me that. He said, Oh no, I agree with 363 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:35,960 you. We shouldn't have rock'n'roll in 364 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:37,320 the church, but in my car, it's fine. 365 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,240 Well, hang on a second. The Holy Spirit of God wants 366 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,320 this kind of music to be the soundtrack of your life, OK, 367 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,880 whether in the church or outside of the church. 368 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:52,320 Now, as we think about this psalms, hymns, and spiritual 369 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,840 songs, we could say there's both scope and constraint in those 370 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,640 three categories. Scope meaning there is 371 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,680 tremendous room for godly creativity in produce in the 372 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,200 producing of sacred songs for worship within the boundaries of 373 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,120 God's Word, God's laws for music. 374 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,800 And I'll tell people there is no need to turn to the garbage can 375 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:13,960 of CCM. We have just a wonderful 376 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,680 treasure trove of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs that we can 377 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,040 sing, OK? And so there's no need for that. 378 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,480 So there's there's there's some wonderful scope there for godly 379 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:28,120 creativity, not against believers today writing new 380 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:30,040 sacred songs. Really, it doesn't matter 381 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,840 whether the song was written 5 minutes ago or 500 years ago, as 382 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:34,840 long as it conforms to scriptural principles. 383 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:40,160 OK, so there's scope there, but also constraint. 384 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,920 It's there's constraint because clearly this instruction rules 385 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,320 out the kind of music that the world has. 386 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,520 There's just no doubt you read this passage. 387 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,360 It's no, there's no doubt. These verses teach that worship 388 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:59,000 music is something distinct from the wicked world. 389 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,440 You know, when the Lord saved you, he put a new song in your 390 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,200 mouth and that new song probably sounds different to the old song 391 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,160 you used to sing. That used to be the way it was. 392 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,240 You got saved you. You got rid of your, you got rid 393 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,240 of your old rock'n'roll records. You got rid of Elvis. 394 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,560 Elvis was not a godly person. You know, some people say, oh, I 395 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,600 don't listen to all that modern junk pastor, just the oldie 396 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,200 Goldie's. No, Elvis was a wicked 397 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,400 fornicator as serial adulterer. Oh, I just listened to The 398 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,120 Beatles. No, they were very wicked men, 399 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:31,480 had a very destructive effect upon our societies in the 400 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:35,440 Western world. So let's look at these three 401 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,440 categories. And I'm going to spend a bit of 402 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,040 time now on the Psalms. How much time we've got left 403 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:44,120 Now? I'm from Australia. 404 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:46,040 I can't interpret American times, so that means I can keep 405 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,080 going. All right, So you wave at me 406 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,520 when you want me to stop there. When did we start? 407 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,160 It was about 25 minutes ago, wasn't it? 408 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:53,200 OK, we've got a little bit of time. 409 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:53,960 Yeah. OK. 410 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,760 Back at the verse there. Speaking to yourselves in 411 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,880 Psalms. What's the first one on the 412 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,360 list? What's the first one on the 413 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:01,920 list? Psalms. 414 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,320 So it really shouldn't be too controversial that we would want 415 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:11,240 to sing Psalms in church. It's the first one on the list. 416 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,800 True. And this is a New Testament 417 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:20,040 passage. So the psalms were the psalms 418 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,200 were the were sung by Israel in the Old Testament. 419 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,840 It was the hymn book of the Old Testament, you could say, but 420 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,240 clearly it's meant to carry over into the New Testament church 421 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,720 because here we have an instruction to the New Testament 422 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,960 church. And the first one on the list is 423 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:39,360 psalms. Now that word psalms comes from 424 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:41,720 the root word basically meaning to pluck a string. 425 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,040 That's the original word as I understand it. 426 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,520 And obviously it's a reference to the psalms of the Old 427 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,440 Testament, which was the was the hymn book of Israel. 428 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,320 James 513 says, is any among you afflicted? 429 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,360 Let him pray is any Mary, let him sing psalms. 430 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,520 So if you're happy, sing a Psalm. 431 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,320 How are you going to sing a Psalm if you don't know a Psalm? 432 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,920 OK, so it shouldn't be a controversial thing that your 433 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,440 pastor wants to bring some psalms singing to the church. 434 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,080 It's very scriptural. In fact, it's not even, it's not 435 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:20,840 suggested here. It's actually commanded. 436 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,080 So if we're going to be a New Testament church and we're going 437 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,960 to be biblical, then we do need to try and sing Psalms in the 438 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,600 church. Now for those who might object, 439 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,240 you do actually have in living hymns, a few psalms, not many, 440 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,080 but one one's there. Psalm 23, it's from the Scottish 441 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,360 Psalter. You can look it up. 442 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,160 So we even, we do have a few psalms in there, which is, which 443 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,880 is good. So we could say number one there 444 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:49,360 we need to sing Scripture songs, Scripture songs, Scripture 445 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:52,600 songs, Psalms. So why sing Psalms in church? 446 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:57,040 Or very simple answer, because it is biblical to sing Psalms in 447 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,440 church. Now the challenge then is, well, 448 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,560 how do we do that? How do we in a practical way 449 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:07,200 fulfill that command? Well, in the past churches used 450 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,840 to use psalters, Psalters in order to do this, and I want to 451 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:17,240 explain what that is. A Psalter is basically a book 452 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,640 containing A hymn rendition of the hymn renditions of the 453 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,640 Psalms. And there are a number of 454 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,600 soldiers out there, and some of them go back literally hundreds 455 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,320 of years. And Psalm singing was a very 456 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:34,320 strong practice even in Baptist churches in bygone years. 457 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,760 So we could say it's a biblical practice, and it's even a 458 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,560 Baptist practice. So don't let people tell you, 459 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,240 well, that's just something for the Reformed churches. 460 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,320 No Baptist. Baptist churches have sung 461 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,880 Psalms for hundreds of years. It did fall into disuse at the 462 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,480 turn of the of the century. But you go back in history and 463 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:56,680 Baptist sang psalms. So you have, for example, the 464 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:01,880 Scottish soldier of 1650. And then you have a lot of 465 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,640 psalms or renditions of the Psalms written by Isaac Watts. 466 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,480 Again, how many of you have heard of Isaac Watts, famous 467 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,440 hymn writer? He wrote a lot of hymn 468 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,800 renditions, I call them of the Psalms. 469 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,720 Basically what he did was take the themes of a Psalm and put it 470 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,480 into a hymn. And when you think about it, 471 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,160 that's really what a good hymn is. 472 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,840 It's taking a truth from Scripture and putting it into a 473 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,720 singable format. Makes sense. 474 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,480 So if you. Let's see. 475 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:31,520 Yeah, I'll get to that in a moment. 476 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:35,680 So. And then Charles Wesley also 477 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:43,120 wrote, for example, renditions or hymn versions, hymn Singapore 478 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:45,400 hymn versions of the Psalms. So you've heard of Charles 479 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:50,840 Wesley and can it be that's one of his famous hymns, for 480 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,080 example. So for our church, we've been 481 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,880 basically using those three at the moment. 482 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,640 There are some other ones, but they're probably three of the 483 00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,720 most famous. We have the Wesley insulver, you 484 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,480 have the you have Watts renditions of the Psalms, you 485 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,480 have the Scottish soldier of 1650. 486 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,200 Spurgeon had a whole section on psalms in his hymn book heard of 487 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,520 HCH Spurgeon, and he entitled that section The Spirit of the 488 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,360 Psalms. And I like that. 489 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,440 What are we trying to do? We're trying to sing the spirit 490 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,320 of the Psalms because sometimes people object, object and say, 491 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,120 well, hang on, when when you talk about singing psalms, 492 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:24,360 pastor, we're singing this Psalm, but it doesn't sound 493 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:26,560 exactly like the King James. Well, it's basically like any 494 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,480 other hymn, OK? It's taking the truth of that 495 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,000 passage and putting it into a singable format. 496 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,200 So it's singing the spirit of the Psalms. 497 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,400 It's seeking to sing the truth of the psalms, and it's a good 498 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,880 practical way of doing it. Now, a psalter is basically 499 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,720 where you have the psalms put into a poetic form. 500 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,880 It's put into meter to be sung as a hymn. 501 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,400 Now, you know that all of our hymns are actually in meter. 502 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,320 So let me give you an example. Do you have your Living Hymns 503 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,320 hymn book there? Turn to hymn 418 and we're going 504 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:04,840 to use this tune a little bit later to sing a Psalm 505 00:27:16,110 --> 00:27:24,630 so that the psalters, OK, or the metrical psalms are where you 506 00:27:24,630 --> 00:27:29,270 have the Psalm put into a poetic form so it can be sung as a 507 00:27:29,270 --> 00:27:32,240 hymn. And you know, if you read a hymn 508 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,400 out loud without singing it, you will notice it's basically 509 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,320 poetry. So let's look at verse one of 510 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,280 faith Is the victory there? And let's read it all out 511 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,360 together. Following my lead on the count 512 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:46,960 of 3123. Encamped along the hills of 513 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,000 light, ye Christian soldiers, rise and press the battle. 514 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:55,280 Uh, the night shall veil the glowing skies against the foe in 515 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,840 veils below. Let all our strength be held. 516 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,440 Faith is the victory we know that overcomes the world. 517 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,160 Can you see that has a rhyme to it? 518 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:06,400 It's it's beautiful. And you read most of the hymns. 519 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,120 They have that sort of rhyming to it. 520 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,200 And so that's what they did with the Salters. 521 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,720 Believers evolved. They basically took the Psalms 522 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,320 and tried to put them into a meter like that, similar to the 523 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,920 basically the same thing as a hymn so that it could be sung. 524 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:22,760 Makes sense. And that's where you actually 525 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,000 find in some hymn books, you can actually see sometimes the 526 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,680 meter, and often we don't notice it. 527 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,120 A common meter, for example, in fact, it's called the common 528 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:34,440 meter is 8686. And this hymn here is an 8686 529 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:35,520 meter. You say, what does that mean? 530 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,880 It means the first line has 8 syllables, the second line has 531 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,880 86 syllables, the third line has 8 syllables, and the fourth line 532 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,640 has 6 syllables. And it goes through like that. 533 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,360 So think about that. You can actually count out the 534 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,560 syllables with the first line. There, encamped along the hills 535 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:55,720 of light is 8. Ye Christian soldiers rise 6 And 536 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,120 press the battle air the night 8 syllables shall avail the 537 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,560 glowing skies 6. So when we're talking about 538 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,920 meter, that's what it means. And you've got different 539 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,920 different meters. 8686 is a very common one for hymns. 540 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,520 It's called the common meter. For example, Amazing Grace, how 541 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,920 sweet this sound 8 syllables. First line that say the Wretch 542 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,640 like me 6 syllables. I once was lost, but now I am 543 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:24,800 found was blind, but now I see 8686 right? 544 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,520 And so the the Psalm we're going to sing tonight is like that. 545 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,600 It's from Psalm 1 and we're going to use the Scottish solder 546 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,960 for this one. That man hath perfect 547 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,400 blessedness, who walketh not astray in counsel of ungodly 548 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,240 men, nor stands in sinners way, nor sitteth in the scorner's 549 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,960 chair, but placeth his delight upon God's law and meditates on 550 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,040 his Lord day and night. You see that? 551 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,080 That's a beautiful way to sing that Psalm. 552 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,800 We're not we're not messing with the King James or doing anything 553 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:55,120 like that. It's just like any other hymn. 554 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,080 We're taking that passage of Scripture and very often with 555 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,480 the Psalms in a in a really wonderful way, bringing even a 556 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,720 lot of the words from the very Psalm into the into the poetic 557 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,320 form there so we can sing the truth of that Psalm and be 558 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,440 edified by it in song. Does that make sense? 559 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:17,320 OK, so that's what we're talking about. 560 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:22,400 So when we, when we're talking about singing a Psalm, A 561 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,400 metrical Psalm or a Psalm from a Psalter, we're just talking 562 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:31,040 about a Psalm that is being put into a, a, a meter like a hymn 563 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,800 so it can be sung like a hymn. And that's a great practical way 564 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,840 to be able to fulfill that command to sing psalms in 565 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,040 church. Now let me just address what 566 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,480 could be a few possible objections to psalms singing in 567 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,320 church that may come up. The first one, we've never done 568 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:51,240 this before. OK, Now we're not for changing 569 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,240 when it comes to the clear. You know, a lot of churches 570 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,080 today out there are changing and going against the word of God. 571 00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:58,840 We don't want that kind of change. 572 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,800 All right. But if there's something so 573 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,000 plainly commanded in Scripture that we're not doing, we need to 574 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,040 do it. OK, There's, it's absolutely 575 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:09,880 right and appropriate to do that. 576 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,880 So we believe, don't we? Or at least we say we do as 577 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:18,160 Baptists in that the Bible is the sole authority for faith and 578 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,640 practice. So the fact that maybe 579 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,880 independent Baptists haven't been real strong on Psalms 580 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,760 singing is not a reason not to sing the Psalms. 581 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,720 OK. And I'm not saying we should 582 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,640 throw out all of our godly selection of hymns. 583 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,880 No, we, we need both. We need a good mix there. 584 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:38,800 Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs. And some churches have gone to 585 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,240 extremes. I know that there are some 586 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,520 churches that, for example, that only sing psalms. 587 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,320 They won't sing any hymns, nothing else. 588 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,240 Especially in the Presbyterian, some of the Presbyterian 589 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,040 churches. In fact, I met a man once and he 590 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,560 would, he'd, he'd actually taken a vow to only sing metrical 591 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,680 psalms with no instruments. Might sound spiritual, but it's 592 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:57,680 not scriptural. OK. 593 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,000 In fact, I met another guy who also was of that persuasion and 594 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,400 he was against instruments in church. 595 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,400 I said, that's interesting you say we should only sing the 596 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:06,920 Psalms. Do you know how many references 597 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,280 in the Psalms? There are two musical 598 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,560 instruments. So you're saying you want the 599 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,120 text of the Psalms but not the instrumentation of the Psalms 600 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,400 Because you see both. In fact, sometimes there were 601 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,560 little musical instructions at the beginning of the Psalms, you 602 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,440 know, upon the string instrument, instruments or 603 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,600 whatever. So instrumentation in church is 604 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,400 actually biblical. It's biblical to have 605 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,160 instruments to accompany the singing. 606 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,960 OK, OK, God's words, the final authority and it's just plainly 607 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,360 commanded here, Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs. 608 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:39,800 So it's absolutely biblical and right for you as a church to to 609 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,920 seek to do that under the leadership of your pastor. 610 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,480 So get behind him with that. Then another one that I heard 611 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,600 and this was it came from a sincere hearted St. 612 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,880 He was confused. He said we're singing Psalm one, 613 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,720 for example, but it doesn't sound exactly like the King 614 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,600 James. And what I had to explain to him 615 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,600 is no, what we're doing here is is like like what we do with any 616 00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,360 other hymn. We're basically singing a hymn 617 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:04,640 version of this. So if you turn to Revelation 19 618 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,400 verse 12, let me just illustrate this as we think about what 619 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,680 we're doing here. Revelation 19, verse 12, 620 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,760 Revelation 19, verse 12. His eyes were as a flame of 621 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:24,120 fire, and on his head were many what crowns. 622 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,560 And he had a name written that no man knew, but he himself does 623 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,160 any. Can anybody think of a hymn 624 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,200 based on that text of Scripture? Crown him with many crowns. 625 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,480 So has the hymn writer done something wrong against the King 626 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,960 James? No, He's taken the verse and 627 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,160 he's put into a beautiful he's put together a beautiful hymn 628 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,840 that makes us really think about the truth of that verse. 629 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,040 OK, So what we're doing with the Psalms is the same thing. 630 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,240 We're going to the Psalm. Well, this is what what's been 631 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:56,280 done, OK, that the Psalm has been meditated upon and then the 632 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,240 themes of the psalms of that Psalm have been put into a 633 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,680 singable format. Makes sense. 634 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,720 That's what Watson Wesley did, for example. 635 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,920 And I love Watson Wesley's psalms because often they bring 636 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,239 in some New Testament truth as well. 637 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:09,800 So you have Christ mentioned in there. 638 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,040 That's fine. We have the the New Testament 639 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,120 light and Revelation and many of the Psalms do speak of the Lord 640 00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:19,440 Jesus Christ. So what I do is just compare the 641 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,760 three and sometimes maybe even tweak the wording a little bit 642 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,000 just to make sure everything's accurate. 643 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,639 And then it it, it's a wonderful way to sing the Psalms. 644 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:34,600 All right. Another objection might be, 645 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,199 well, don't the Reformed churches sing Psalms like the 646 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:39,000 Presbyterians? Well, I don't think that's a 647 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,280 good argument because they also sing many of the great hymns of 648 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,080 the faith that we sing. And like I said to you before, 649 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,000 Baptists also used to sing the Psalms. 650 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,239 It's a biblical and we could say a Baptist practice. 651 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,920 So that's very, very, very good to do that. 652 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:55,679 OK. So hopefully that'll help you. 653 00:34:55,679 --> 00:35:00,040 And in a moment we will, we'll have a try of singing through a 654 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,640 Psalm together so you can get a sense for it. 655 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,560 Now, you will find this, that the Psalms are going to make you 656 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,920 think, singing the Psalms in church. 657 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:12,080 It's going to make you think that the words are often very 658 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,080 rich. There's a lot of depth in the 659 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:18,800 words and that's a good thing. We found as a church we had to 660 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,800 grow a little bit of muscle, if I could put it that way, when it 661 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,080 came, when it when it came to singing the Psalms. 662 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,320 And the more we've done it, the more we've enjoyed. 663 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,800 The more, the more we have been edified by it, the more we enjoy 664 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,240 it. But you know, it is going to 665 00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:34,720 take a little bit of work for you just to get used to singing 666 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,240 the Psalms. But it's a wonderful edifying 667 00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:41,960 experience. All right, so we have Scripture 668 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:47,920 songs, the Psalms, then we have sacred songs, hymns. 669 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:51,800 What? What time do you normally finish 670 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:56,000 on Wednesday night? And I'll just stop then. 9:30. 671 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,920 Oh, beautiful. OK. 672 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:00,400 All right, I'll wrap up soon then. 673 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,280 So we have scripture song. Is that making sense? 674 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,360 Yep, making sense. All right, we had to sing Psalms 675 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:12,000 and and in the church. All right, sacred songs, hymns, 676 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:16,240 so we have the first one, Psalm. Moist is the Greek word hymns, 677 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,360 whom noise is the Greek word there. 678 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:24,760 And hymns are poetic material that that hymns are poetic 679 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,360 material and either a sighted or sung in praise to God. 680 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,200 And there's an emphasis on praise, as I understand it, with 681 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,080 a hymn. OK, it's a hymn of praise. 682 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:38,080 It's focusing on on God, Jesus and his disciples. 683 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,800 They sang a hymn at the conclusion of the Last Supper. 684 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,080 So if you don't like hymns, you don't like the music the Son of 685 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,720 God likes. OK, Jesus loves hymns, So should 686 00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:53,480 you. So it's wonderful to sing the 687 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:54,880 great hymns of the faith, isn't it? 688 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,280 So it's so edifying and encouraging. 689 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,440 Such a wonderful, wonderful thing. 690 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,440 Then we have this third category, spiritual songs. 691 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,640 So what kind of music should we have in the church? 692 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,600 What kind of music should we have in our lives? 693 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:13,520 Well, Scripture songs, the Psalms, sacred songs, hymns, and 694 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,920 then spiritual songs. Now this word song is a more 695 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:22,000 general word. In fact, it's the word hodice. 696 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,640 Our English word ode is derived from this Greek word. 697 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,200 Now if it just said songs, that would be a very broad category. 698 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,320 But notice it's qualified by the word. 699 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:37,880 What spiritual you say? What's spiritual? 700 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,600 Well, I guarantee you it's opposite to worldly. 701 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,000 I guarantee you it's opposite to fleshly, right? 702 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,200 OK, it's spiritual. In fact, that word spiritual 703 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:54,440 comes from the same root word as the as, as Spirit, Holy Spirit. 704 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,160 So, so it's, it's a spiritual kind of music. 705 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,760 Spiritual music is opposite to that which is carnal and that 706 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,360 which is fleshly. We could say it's music that 707 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,960 ministers to the spirit rather than the fleshly appetites of 708 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:09,600 the body. That's actually what we want. 709 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,800 We want music that ministers first and foremost to the Spirit 710 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:16,240 that can impact us, yes, on emotional and even physical 711 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:19,560 level, but it's the right order there, OK? 712 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:23,120 We're under God's control and we're being ruled by the in the 713 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,880 spiritual realm and the body and the emotions coming under that 714 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,040 that control. So while godly music can stir 715 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,080 the emotions in a balanced and a controlled way, it is not 716 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,800 experienced, focused or targeted towards the emotions. 717 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,760 Like contemporary praise in sacred songs. 718 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,560 The truth of God's Word ministers to the Spirit through 719 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,600 the mind and the feelings follow. 720 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:51,840 OK, lesson #5 and I'll only just be able to touch on this and I 721 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:55,360 know I'm sure your past has taught you on these things #5 722 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,320 the melody of Spirit filled music. 723 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:03,280 Look back at verse 19 again, the melody of spirit filled music. 724 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,040 Let's read the verse again just to make sure we're all awake. 725 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:13,440 123 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual 726 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,360 songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. 727 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:22,640 I find it very significant that the Bible highlights melody as 728 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,960 being a key feature of spirit filled music. 729 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,360 When when it comes to the world's music, what is 730 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,080 emphasized? Melody or rhythm? 731 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,560 It's rhythm, isn't it? In fact, it's interesting, isn't 732 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:37,160 it? When, when, when man gets away 733 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:38,880 from God. It seems the further man gets 734 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,360 away from God, the more rhythmic his music becomes and you end up 735 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,920 with jungle music which is basically banging sticks and 736 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:50,600 shouting no tune, no melody at all, just just heathen Pagan 737 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,920 drumming. That's, that's not like rap 738 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:54,480 music. It's like virtually no melody. 739 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:58,000 There's like just a beat and shouting that, that that's not, 740 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,280 that's not something the Spirit of God has produced. 741 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:05,080 These Christian rap artists. What utter rubbish. 742 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,480 What? How ridiculous to even suggest 743 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,160 there's such a thing as a Christian rap artist. 744 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:21,240 So melody highlights that aspect of music which is to dominate. 745 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:25,720 And it's the it's the tune, it's the tune, it's the simple tune. 746 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,400 And so good music is melodious music. 747 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,040 It's it's full of melody. You listen to some of the old 748 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:37,640 composers like Bach and there was just often his songs were a 749 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:45,840 tapestry of melodies, beautiful melodies there in his excellent 750 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:50,200 book, A Music in the Balance by Frank Garlock, he says the part 751 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,720 of music to which the Spirit responds is the melody. 752 00:40:53,240 --> 00:40:57,040 Ephesians 518 and 19 gives us a clear indication that the part 753 00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,760 of music which God wants to be preeminent in the music of a 754 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,720 Sorry. Ephesians 518 to 19 gives us a 755 00:41:02,720 --> 00:41:05,680 clear indication the part of music which God wants to be 756 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,400 preeminent in the music of a Christian. 757 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:12,040 Verse 18 commands us to be filled with the Spirit. 758 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,160 The word filled literally means to be controlled. 759 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,360 The very next verse then states that we should be making melody. 760 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,280 Thus, when the King James Version of Scripture follows the 761 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,240 command to be filled with the Spirit, with the musical form 762 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,200 melody, it is accurately teaching that this element of 763 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:32,360 music and God's control in our lives are closely related. 764 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,640 So this verse clearly teaches that the kind of music the Holy 765 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:40,440 Spirit Spirit's feeling produces is melodious, tuneful music. 766 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,760 This is the opposite to rock'n'roll music with its 767 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,760 rhythm dominated, which is rhythm dominated with its 768 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,040 backbeat and central dance rhythms. 769 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,600 OK, to understand that on a very basic level, you say what's 770 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,520 wrong with rock music? Well, the, one of the main 771 00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,960 issues is the beat and they're pushing in this beat that 772 00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,680 doesn't even conform to the melody. 773 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,120 And it's just, it's a, it's actually a rebellious element 774 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:07,120 that's actually forced in on the music and, and it's rhythm based 775 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:08,400 there. And that's, that's the, that's 776 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:12,320 the trend today, isn't it, towards music that is very much 777 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,520 rhythm focused. It's all about the beat. 778 00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,280 You know, that's where people come and they try and sing the 779 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,040 hymns and they go, I can't feel it, you know, because they're 780 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:24,400 used to, you know, they're used to this, this, this beat all the 781 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:25,600 time. Well, that's, that's not the 782 00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,240 right kind of music they've gotten. 783 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,240 They've gotten used to fleshly music. 784 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:36,040 That's the problem. And so you can even read, for 785 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:43,760 example, quotes by secular rock'n'roll musicians and they 786 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,680 will tell you exactly what their music is about. 787 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:54,040 That will just tell you that their music is beat orientated, 788 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:57,320 Jimi Hendrix said perhaps my music is sexy, but what music 789 00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:02,480 with a big beat isn't? Gene Simmons of the band Kiss, 790 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,280 Extremely popular rock band, one of the world's most popular. 791 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,200 He said that's what rock is all about. 792 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,000 Sex with 100 megatone bomb the beat. 793 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:15,920 So these secular rock'n'roll as they know what their music's 794 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,800 about, and they're just stating a fact that their music is all 795 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:23,880 about immorality and that immorality is promoted by the 796 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:24,960 beat. Listen, there's something wrong, 797 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:29,000 isn't there, when people can dance in the nightclub to that 798 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,480 kind of beat and then come and hear that same beat in church? 799 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,680 Something terribly wrong with that, where your church is using 800 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,400 the same kind of music you would expect in the nightclub. 801 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:43,400 And it produces, unsurprisingly, very bitter fruit. 802 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:45,960 Because if you sow the flesh, you're going to of the flesh 803 00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:51,480 reap corruption. OK, Is there a one and two under 804 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,320 that? OK, so just to fill in, just so 805 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,760 you've got the fillings there. Number one, this I call that the 806 00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:00,760 standard of melody in godly music, the standard of melody in 807 00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,960 godly music. So melody is to be the dominant 808 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:08,360 element and then harmony and rhythm really come under the 809 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,080 control of melody, just like we need to come under the control 810 00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,240 of the Spirit of God. Good music has to be dominated 811 00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:16,800 by the melody. And yes, there is, there is 812 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,560 actually rhythm in a good hymn. That's why sometimes you find 813 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,160 yourself tapping your foot. You can't help it. 814 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:28,840 Onward, Christian soldiers. OK, there is there is some pulse 815 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,800 in the song there, but it's it's not drawing attention to itself. 816 00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:33,600 It's in submission to the melody. 817 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:38,400 The melody's governing the song. And I haven't seen anybody 818 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,200 rapping out to that song yet. OK All right. 819 00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,000 It's like when you do, you have military parades here sometimes 820 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,960 with your veterans and things. You hear that powerful March 821 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,040 music, there's a powerful beat there, but doesn't make you want 822 00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,640 to do that, does it? You know, I mean, if you want to 823 00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,960 get an illustration of what the beat does to the body, just take 824 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:59,480 your 3 year old to the shops and they haven't learned anything 825 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,240 about music. But all of a sudden you see your 826 00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:04,600 little, your little child doing this in the trolley or you call 827 00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:05,840 it a cart, don't you? A trolley? 828 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:10,720 Why were they just doing what their bodies just responding to 829 00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:11,880 what the beat's telling them to do? 830 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:17,200 All right, so in many ways the we could say that melody affects 831 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:21,360 the spirit harmony to a degree the mind and rhythm speaks in 832 00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:26,040 many ways to the body. And, and so yes, every song has 833 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,920 rhythm, but with, with rock'n'roll, it's, it's rhythmic 834 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:33,600 based and rhythmic focused. And you've actually got 835 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,280 something being forced into the music there because rock'n'roll 836 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,440 music emphasizes weak beats. OK, you have strong, weak, 837 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,680 strong, weak in music. And so it's actually a 838 00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,840 rebellious element that's being forced into the music. 839 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,160 It's not, it's not in submission to the, to what the melody is 840 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,120 trying to do at all. And we could, you know, you 841 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,000 could do a whole series on all of that and we did in our 842 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,160 church, but hopefully that just gives you a little summary 843 00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,240 there. So we have the, the, the 844 00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:57,800 standard of melody and godly music. 845 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,280 Then we have the source of melody and godly music. 846 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,280 It's in your heart. So it's the work of the Spirit 847 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,080 God. It is the work of the Spirit of 848 00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:08,520 God in the heart which produces godly melody. 849 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,040 Beautiful, tuneful, melodious music is the fruit of revival 850 00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:13,800 and the genuine work of the Spirit. 851 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,920 That's why the greatest hymns of the faith have come out of times 852 00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,200 of spiritual reformation, revival and refreshing. 853 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,040 Think about that. You you go back and look at the 854 00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,440 hymns we've got. Many of them came out of times 855 00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,720 of spiritual revival. Or maybe we're written by a dear 856 00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:34,600 St. in a time of deep trial. OK, like it is. 857 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,280 Well, with my soul. You're probably familiar with 858 00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,440 the story behind that. And so you can see that's, 859 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,960 that's the kind of music the Holy Spirit produces in the 860 00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,760 heart. And it's, it's, it's, it's 861 00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,160 melodious. It's, it's beautiful. 862 00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:52,080 It's, it's full of light. On the other hand, dark rhythmic 863 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,880 beat dominated music is the fruit of man's deprived 864 00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,240 appetites under the influence and control of Satan. 865 00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,120 And there's a lot of very dark demonic music out there, isn't 866 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:02,600 there? Just dark and demonic. 867 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:04,200 You hear it almost makes you feel afraid. 868 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,200 You can feel the presence of the devil there. 869 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,800 Well, no surprise, a lot of these pop stars and singers have 870 00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:12,760 given themselves over literally to the devil. 871 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,480 They they literally actually sometimes even pray satanic 872 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:20,320 prayers over their albums. And so there is power in rock 873 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,280 music, but it's a satanic and dark power and it's believes we 874 00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,200 don't want that kind of music in our lives at all. 875 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,160 Last point, if you notice there the motive, the motive of 876 00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:33,360 spiritual music, singing and making melody in your heart to 877 00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:36,680 the Lord, and we've already talked about that and emphasized 878 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,240 that in a previous point, but the motive there is for the 879 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:41,440 Lord, for each other and for the Lord. 880 00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,360 Johann Sebastian Bach said, I believe he was probably, 881 00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:47,960 probably was a saved man. He said the aim of all music is 882 00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:51,720 the glory of God. The aim of all music is the 883 00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:55,640 glory of God. Read Revelation sometime and see 884 00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:59,880 as God rolls back the curtains of heaven there and you get a 885 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,440 window into the kind of worship that takes place in heaven. 886 00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:06,120 It's not a rock'n'roll concert. It's worship that's emphasizing 887 00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:10,720 the Lamb, the Lamb on the throne and glory to the Lamb of God. 888 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:13,640 They're worthy is the Lamb. That's the kind of music Christ 889 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,240 centered, Christ focused, Christ honoring music that we need. 890 00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:20,400 So hope that's helped you. We got through the lesson and 891 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,920 we'll do something else on for Sunday school on on on Sunday 892 00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,640 morning, the Lord willing. All right, with that in mind, 893 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,520 let's get those words up on the screen. 894 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,600 We'll have Missus boots come and play the tune for us. 895 00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:36,000 So what we've been doing as a church is basically finding well 896 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,160 known tunes that we're all familiar with and then singing 897 00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,280 the Psalms to those tunes. And what's good about that is it 898 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,320 means you can go straight into singing the Psalms. 899 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:49,800 You can learn the words, but you don't have to learn a new tune. 900 00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:53,720 So we're going to sing to the tune 418 in Living Hymns. 901 00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:55,040 Now, how many of you know that tune? 902 00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,600 Faith is the Victory? Very well known hymn, isn't it? 903 00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,600 All right, Encamped along the hills of life. 904 00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,040 You Christian soldiers rise. OK, And we're going to sing the 905 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:09,080 Psalm to that tune. So why don't we stand up? 906 00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:17,640 OK, let's give. It a try that man hath perfect 907 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:25,560 blessedness, who walketh not astray in counsel of ungodly 908 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:32,920 men, nor stands in sinner's way, nor siteth in the scorner's 909 00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:42,720 chair, but placeth his delight upon God's law, and meditate on 910 00:49:42,720 --> 00:49:46,000 his Lord day and night. Now the chorus. 911 00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:45,080 Of all the word of God, think on the word of God, and thou shalt 912 00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:54,040 fruitful be and walk in victory. Verse 3 In judgment, therefore 913 00:50:54,040 --> 00:51:03,440 shall not stand such as ungodly, nor in the assembly of the just 914 00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:11,400 shall wicked man appear. For why the way of godly men 915 00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:21,360 unto the Lord is known, whereas the way of wicked man shall 916 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:28,920 quite be overthrown. Love, O the word of God. 917 00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:53,760 Plenty of plenty to pull from with that. 918 00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,320 But you know, one of the things and and we're just going to 919 00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:58,400 close in a word of prayer here, but one of the things that I 920 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,960 thought of while you especially there at the end, you know, when 921 00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,960 it comes to like contemporary Christian music and things, if 922 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:09,440 if you're going to accept CCM, then by the very nature of what 923 00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,160 that is, you have to accept every other form of music too, 924 00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:14,160 right? I mean, if you're going to say 925 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:17,360 that that singing rock music with Christian words is OK, then 926 00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,800 how are you going to say that rap music with Christian words 927 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:21,880 is not OK, right? Or that.