1 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,600 Welcome today to New Life Community Church. 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,900 Glad that you're here. My name is Kyle serve as lead. 3 00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:13,900 Pastor here. If you're visiting extra, thanks 4 00:00:13,900 --> 00:00:19,000 to you today from showing up and we pray that your heart would be 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 edified along with the rest of ours. 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,800 If you have your Bible with you today, you can open the 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:30,800 Colossians chapter 3, the book of Colossians chapter 3, they're 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:37,000 kind of in the middle of those New Testament letters and give 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,600 you a second to find it. We are entering the the very 10 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,500 home stretch of this series on worship. 11 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:50,000 This is the first of our last four weeks together in the 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,300 series and which we've been examining what happens when we 13 00:00:54,300 --> 00:00:56,700 worship. And again, we're faking not 14 00:00:56,700 --> 00:01:00,800 specifically about the songs, we sing, but more of the totality 15 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,800 of the service, what's going on in the worship service? 16 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,400 Why does it matter? And so today, we're going to 17 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:12,500 examine a bit more closely songs why We sing and worship service. 18 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:15,900 What's the purpose of singing? The title of today's sermon is 19 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:18,500 singing a new song. In the point, I want to make to 20 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:21,500 you, is this that you have been given. 21 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:24,800 If you have been regenerated by the holy, spirit's you've been 22 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,100 saved to new lives by the work of Christ and the work of the 23 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:31,500 father through him. Then you have been given a new 24 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:33,200 song to sing. Amen. 25 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:36,300 We're going to talk more about that in a moment. 26 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,700 Martin Luther said this Martin Luther, was one of the initial 27 00:01:42,700 --> 00:01:49,400 reformers in the early 1500s and he said, this about singing. 28 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:53,300 He said the good news of Christ, great Deliverance, Tunes. 29 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:58,900 The heart to sing Luther was big on singing, especially singing 30 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:02,600 the word of Christ. And so the good news of Christ, 31 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,200 great Deliverance, Tunes, the heart to see, regenerated 32 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,100 Hearts. Then what we're saying is, Is 33 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:12,000 that regenerated heart, sing a new song, quite literally. 34 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 And so to do, they sing and worship of their great Lord and 35 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,400 Savior Jesus Christ. So Jonathan Cruz and his book 36 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,600 lays out a helpful outline for singing. 37 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,100 Why? It's important and I've summed 38 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:27,700 it up this way, you can write this down. 39 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:32,800 If you're taking notes, God's Gift of song, equips us with a 40 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:40,000 fitting way to praise him. Pray to him and Proclaim him. 41 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:45,000 God's Gift of song, equips us with a fitting way to praise 42 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,400 him, pray to him and Proclaim him. 43 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:52,700 Now, if you would, would you stand to your feet, as we read 44 00:02:52,700 --> 00:02:55,700 God's word. Today, Colossians 3 just reading 45 00:02:55,700 --> 00:02:57,300 one verse today. Verse 16. 46 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:00,100 When I'm finished, I'll say this is the word of the Lord and I 47 00:03:00,108 --> 00:03:02,700 would ask that you respond. Thanks be to God. 48 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:09,700 Austin's 3, verse 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in 49 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:13,100 you richly teaching and admonishing one. 50 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:18,700 Another in all wisdom, singing, Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual 51 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:22,800 songs with thankfulness in your hearts, to God. 52 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,300 This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God, let me pray 53 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:28,600 for something, you can be seated. 54 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,600 Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word. 55 00:03:32,100 --> 00:03:36,600 We thank you for christ and his work of Salvation that by him. 56 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:42,400 We have a new identity. We are brothers and sisters with 57 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,700 our lord Jesus. We are children of God, born of 58 00:03:46,700 --> 00:03:51,300 your spirit and we praise you for that literally, Lord wheat, 59 00:03:51,300 --> 00:03:56,100 seeing a new song, You have given us a new identity and out 60 00:03:56,100 --> 00:03:58,500 of that new identity, we praise you. 61 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:03,900 And you've given us the gift of Saul Lord, music is yours, and 62 00:04:03,900 --> 00:04:08,500 you've created it so that people might worship and magnify and 63 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:12,700 pray, and pray. Claim truths to one another 64 00:04:13,500 --> 00:04:15,600 Lord, we love you and we thank you for this gift. 65 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,700 I pray. Now that as we study your word, 66 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:20,300 that you would open our hearts and Minds by your spirit that we 67 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:24,000 might understand. It may our hearts be good soil 68 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,100 today. Soil, that the word is planted 69 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:32,300 into and bears fruit in due season for Generation season. 70 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:35,200 Lord, we love you. It's in the Name of Christ. 71 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:36,700 We pray. Amen. 72 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,600 So just want to start with this general question of why do we 73 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,600 sing? Because if we're honest, singing 74 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:51,800 in community seems to be coming becoming this extinct not 75 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,100 distinct. We wanted to be distinct but 76 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:59,100 seems to be coming more and more extinct, right? 77 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:03,500 It's not normal for us to see people singing in communities 78 00:05:03,900 --> 00:05:06,300 anymore. There once was a time really not 79 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:10,200 too long ago where it was perfectly commonplace. 80 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,700 Ace to sing at parties neighborhood, Gatherings or with 81 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:19,200 a few close friends over dinner, or after dinner with your family 82 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:25,100 after dinner, you see in many war movies men, singing together 83 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:29,200 after battles, or as they're gathered in foxholes, as ways to 84 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:34,800 encourage their own heart, for the battle that lays ahead But 85 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,400 now our singing is largely limited to the privacy of the 86 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,300 shower or our vehicle rights. Like I'm going to sing there 87 00:05:42,300 --> 00:05:44,700 because no one hears me. I'm going to sing there because 88 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:49,000 I won't embarrass myself. I'm going to sing there because 89 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,700 it's Anonymous, right? And there's nothing wrong with 90 00:05:52,700 --> 00:05:54,700 that. We might sing happy birthday, 91 00:05:54,700 --> 00:05:56,300 right? I was at a party yesterday from 92 00:05:56,300 --> 00:05:58,200 mr. Ethan we say, happy birthday to 93 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:02,500 him and Easton as well. And we might seem Take Me Out to 94 00:06:02,500 --> 00:06:04,300 the Ballgame if we're at a baseball field. 95 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,700 You might sing at a concert with a bunch of strangers may be 96 00:06:08,707 --> 00:06:11,400 there with a few friends but it's a collection of strangers 97 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:18,000 singing familiar songs together. So people do sing but it takes a 98 00:06:18,008 --> 00:06:22,500 special occasion to get the majority of people singing, One 99 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:25,700 author, wrote about The Disappearance of singing in the 100 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:29,500 Atlantic the on the website, the Atlantic. 101 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:33,500 She said this, she said the reasons why we do not sing or 102 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:37,900 many We are insecure about our voices, we don't know the words 103 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:41,500 we resent being forced into an activity together. 104 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,700 We feel uncool, and since we're out of practice as a society, 105 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:51,300 the person who dares, to begin a song risk, having no one join 106 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:54,400 them, right? So, you end up seeing alone. 107 00:06:54,500 --> 00:06:58,300 And what this means is that our culture may find our weekly 108 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:04,500 congregational singing weird, It's weird to come together and 109 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:08,300 seeing if you're not normally, in places where you sing now, 110 00:07:08,300 --> 00:07:11,500 you might think of color racial seeing is perfectly normal. 111 00:07:11,900 --> 00:07:15,400 I hope that you do right, and it's not so recently where we've 112 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,700 inserted singing in the home groups, or even a Biblical 113 00:07:17,700 --> 00:07:20,400 manhood where you start to think menaces kind of strange, right? 114 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,200 Because it's supposed to happen here but we start taking out of 115 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:29,000 here and it gets odd. Some may find it surprising But 116 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 there's nothing quite like a church of people who were 117 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,300 willing to sing together, we're willing to lift their voices, 118 00:07:35,300 --> 00:07:39,000 and proclaim, the truths of God's word, alongside one 119 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,500 another. So, why do we sing? 120 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:43,900 Why do we do it? Why, and why do we do so much of 121 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:47,000 it? The short answer is that 122 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,900 regardless of our culture's feelings, about singing God 123 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:54,600 commands, his church to sing God's gifted. 124 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:59,900 His church with voices to sing, God has created Created music 125 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,500 for singing. He's given his people, a new 126 00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:07,000 song to say. And so it's important for us to 127 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,500 understand why we sing on Sundays. 128 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:11,300 Why are we seeing on Wednesdays and hungry? 129 00:08:11,300 --> 00:08:12,900 Why are we singing biblical manhood? 130 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,500 We need to know what is happening when we worship 131 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,900 through song. And the main thing I want to 132 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:23,700 show you is that God's gift to the main truth. 133 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:26,400 We're going to Rally around. Is it God's Gift of song, equips 134 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:32,000 us with a fitting way to praise him to pray to him and to 135 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,600 Proclaim him? Amen. 136 00:08:35,700 --> 00:08:38,100 Let's talk a bit more about singing. 137 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:42,900 Singing is intended to be Melody, with theological 138 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:47,700 meaning, Christian singing ought to be Melody with theological 139 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,200 meaning so looking Again, at Colossians 3:16, let the word of 140 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:58,400 Christ dwell richly in you or in you richly teaching and 141 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:03,200 admonishing one. Another in all wisdom, singing, 142 00:09:03,300 --> 00:09:06,700 Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs. 143 00:09:06,700 --> 00:09:09,900 I want to say something about that, that's not necessarily 144 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:14,400 categories for, so that was the way. 145 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,700 Let me, let me do it this way. That was the way the Septuagint, 146 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:20,800 which was the Greek old. But that's the way it breaks up 147 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:26,000 the Psalms it, breaks them up into songs and hymns and 148 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,200 spiritual songs. Those are categories in the 149 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:32,200 Septuagint, for the songs. And so we may rightly deduce 150 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,200 that these are the kinds of songs we can sing. 151 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:39,700 Yes, but not just any song, not just any him and not just any 152 00:09:39,700 --> 00:09:44,500 Psalm, the ones that the word of God would approve of amen. 153 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,100 And we're to do that with thankfulness, you do it with 154 00:09:48,100 --> 00:09:51,000 thankfulness and in your heart to God. 155 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,600 And so first, we must understand that all our singing is Melody 156 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:00,100 with theological meaning. In other words, both the roots 157 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:06,100 and the aim of singing is theological it must form from 158 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:10,400 Theology and it must declare. The words of theology. 159 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:15,600 It must declare truth about God and beef come come from be 160 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,300 rooted in the truths of God's word. 161 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,500 It's rooted in the work of God through Jesus Christ. 162 00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:27,000 And so, therefore, it is aimed at worshiping God for his work 163 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,500 through Jesus on our behalf. If we don't understand this and 164 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:36,200 we began to see, we are going to write songs and sings songs that 165 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:41,900 are vain, they're going to have no meaning, worshipful singing 166 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:45,400 is not determined by the emotions that you feel. 167 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,000 As you see, whether it is about understanding that God, God is 168 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:52,600 worthy of our songs. He is worthy because of the 169 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,700 Redemption, we have through the Gospel of Jesus. 170 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:58,700 Now, this is not to say that worship should have no emotion 171 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:00,700 to it. That's not what we're saying. 172 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:04,200 But worship is not only emotional, amen. 173 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,700 We should sing songs that make us joyous. 174 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:11,100 We should sing songs that inform our tears, whether they're happy 175 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:14,100 tears, or sad tears. We should sing songs that are a 176 00:11:14,108 --> 00:11:17,300 buttress and a truth for us. When we're going through great 177 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,300 sadness or Darkness. Or that help us fly high on the 178 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:23,800 wings of the Lord. Amen. 179 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:28,300 And so there is much emotion in singing. 180 00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:31,200 You know this if you've heard any song at any point in your 181 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,300 life that moved you in some way, whether it moved your foot to 182 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:38,700 start tapping or your body to start making movements that you 183 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:44,700 shouldn't have done in public or it moved your heart toward your 184 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:48,600 wife or toward your husband, or it moves you to tears. 185 00:11:48,700 --> 00:11:52,000 Tears in some way, or cause you to reflect on the goodness of 186 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,000 God, right? Music moves. 187 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,600 But I want you to understand that music moves, because God 188 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,300 designed it to do this. It's his first. 189 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,200 And so, like anything else that belongs to the Lord, we can 190 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,200 misuse it. And so not all music is good. 191 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,100 Not all music is healthy for you. 192 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,400 Not all music is good for you spiritually and I'm not going to 193 00:12:14,700 --> 00:12:17,500 preach that sermon this morning. We don't have time for that. 194 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,500 We just need to recognize this, that, just because something is 195 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:22,800 musical, does it mean it's Godly? 196 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,900 Amen. We want to be careful of that. 197 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:30,600 And so, our songs are worshipful when the word of Christ dwells 198 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,700 richly in us. That's what Colossians is laying 199 00:12:33,700 --> 00:12:37,000 out here. When our songs, teach us, when 200 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,000 our songs admonish Us in all wisdom, then we can understand 201 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,500 that, we are singing the word of Christ, and then we can sing 202 00:12:44,500 --> 00:12:49,800 with thankfulness to God. And the songs which is the 203 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,400 greatest song book of God's covenant, worshippers we are 204 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:56,100 instructed repeatedly to sing a new song. 205 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,800 One old comment, one Old Testament. 206 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,400 He was probably old as well, but one Old Testament, commentator 207 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:07,200 said this, he said a new song is a, what is in? 208 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,600 So he's talking about, what is Psalms mean? 209 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:14,100 When it says, we are to sing a new song, he sang a new song is 210 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:18,600 a Hymn of victory. It's sung after God has made all 211 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,900 things new by his defeat of the forces of evil. 212 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:25,200 And so on the songs when they were instructed to sing a new 213 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:29,300 song, it was to declare something that the Lord had done 214 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,300 on their behalf in the defeat of evil. 215 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:36,800 And so singing songs like that, only come from receiving a new 216 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:42,100 song from God, which really means that we sing songs with 217 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:47,500 new songs with a new heart. Once your heart seems one at one 218 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:51,100 time, your heart saying the songs of the world but now your 219 00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:53,800 heart sings, the songs of worship to God. 220 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,600 If you've been redeemed by him Jesus Christ victory over sin 221 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,600 and death by his death on a cross and his resurrection from 222 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:07,000 the tomb informs and inspires all of our worship, all of our 223 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 sons. And so we have said over and 224 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,400 over again during the series that there is no part of our 225 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,000 worship. There's nothing that we're doing 226 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,300 when we come together. There's nothing in our meeting 227 00:14:16,300 --> 00:14:21,200 with God, that is possible without the past, present, and 228 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,500 future work of Jesus Christ in view. 229 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:27,200 The same is true for our singing. 230 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:32,600 It must declare the truths of the Lord, it is Jesus who gives 231 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,400 us a new song to sing? He is the content of the songs 232 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:38,400 in heaven. As we look at Revelation in the 233 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,500 songs that will be sung and heaven, or at least get glimpses 234 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:43,200 of the kinds of songs that will be sung of Heaven. 235 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:49,600 Guess who the man Main player is and all of those songs Christ, 236 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,800 the Risen Christ, the one who triumphed over death and sin, 237 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:57,100 the one who has brought to himself a people from every 238 00:14:57,100 --> 00:15:00,100 tribe tongue and nation that. They might declare the 239 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:05,500 excellencies of the Lord and to enjoy new excellency's from the 240 00:15:05,500 --> 00:15:11,800 Lord Without End for eternity. They are singing the victory of 241 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,000 Christ. And so of Christ is the message 242 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,400 of the song is of heaven, then we can Riley. 243 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:21,700 Say the Christ has to be the message of the songs of Earth. 244 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:28,100 Amen, the ones that were singing here he informs and inspires all 245 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:34,700 of our songs And so we must be the constant and so God gives us 246 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:38,100 with Saul. It gives us with the ability to 247 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:42,200 sing and to play music. All of this as a fitting way to 248 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:47,100 praise him, to pray to him to Proclaim him to one another, 249 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:49,700 don't think Cruz said this, he said, so whether we were 250 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:51,400 praising God for the work he's done. 251 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,500 Whether we're praying to him and our trouble or were proclaiming 252 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:56,400 the truth of the Bible to one another. 253 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:01,200 Every song is Possible. Only Because Jesus has made it 254 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:05,600 so amen. So let's look at praising him. 255 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:10,200 As first point of Praise Him, let the word of Christ dwell in 256 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,100 you richly teaching and admonishing one. 257 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:17,900 Another in all wisdom singing songs, and hymns, and spiritual 258 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:24,500 songs with thankfulness in your hearts, to God, in a word, you 259 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:28,700 are praising God. The gift of song equips us to 260 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:33,300 praise God. For his work in us, and to 261 00:16:33,300 --> 00:16:35,800 praise him. For his work, for us. 262 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,400 And this is Is what Paul was charging this church of colossi, 263 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,300 these Colossians and this is what he's telling them to do. 264 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:45,400 He's saying let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly 265 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:49,000 singing songs with thankfulness in your hearts. 266 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:53,600 The word of Christ here is the content of the good news of 267 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,400 Salvation. It's the same word of Christ 268 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:00,300 that's mentioned in Revelation. Sorry, Romans chapter 10, where 269 00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:04,700 we read there that, how can they believe if they have not heard. 270 00:17:04,700 --> 00:17:07,800 And how will they hear if they've not have a preacher and 271 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,500 then says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of the 272 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:15,200 Lord or by the word of Christ? When we say the word of Christ 273 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,400 were talking about the totality of the Gospel. 274 00:17:19,099 --> 00:17:21,800 We're talking about the content of your new testament. 275 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,300 We're talking about all the things that are revealed in Old, 276 00:17:24,300 --> 00:17:28,200 and New Testaments about the work and the person of Jesus 277 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,900 Christ. Amen, this is what's to dwell in 278 00:17:30,900 --> 00:17:34,700 US richly As we sing. It's the word of Christ. 279 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,400 It's the content of the good news of Salvation through Jesus 280 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,500 Christ God's word teaches us. And when that gospel word, 281 00:17:42,500 --> 00:17:48,000 dwells in you, or in other words lives in you, When you are a 282 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Made Alive by this word of Christ and that word of Christ 283 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:56,300 is what causes you, your heart to beat, and your mouth to sing. 284 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,400 That's when you sing the new song that you've been given its 285 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,900 by a redeemed heart and you'll sing it with great thankfulness. 286 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,300 In other words, you will praise him. 287 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:14,600 To say more bluntly, you can't help but praise him. 288 00:18:15,300 --> 00:18:18,500 It's the natural response of a heart that is overflowing with, 289 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:22,100 love for God. C.s., Lewis. 290 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:29,700 Once said this. he said to not appreciate God is to have lost 291 00:18:29,900 --> 00:18:36,900 the greatest experience and in the end to have lost all when I 292 00:18:36,900 --> 00:18:38,700 read it again, because I think it's really important for us to 293 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:44,600 understand this To not appreciate God is to have lost 294 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,700 the greatest experience. What's the experience? 295 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:53,000 The appreciation of God is the greatest experience of the human 296 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,900 heart and mind and soul. And if you don't have that, he 297 00:18:56,900 --> 00:18:59,400 says in the end you have lost all. 298 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:00,900 I don't want you to miss this point either. 299 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:06,500 Praise is a command from God, yes, but it's a command that's 300 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:09,100 meant for the Delight of your soul. 301 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,700 Amen. Praise is a command from God. 302 00:19:12,700 --> 00:19:15,200 That's meant to be a delight for you. 303 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:19,200 And here's something else to understand, God, never, ever, 304 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:23,100 not once commands, his people to do something that if they obey, 305 00:19:23,100 --> 00:19:27,500 it won't result in their deepest delight and all satisfying 306 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:32,500 pleasure in God himself, This is the point of the commands of 307 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:34,700 God, they're not to put a thumb on you. 308 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:39,000 They're not so just box you in and keep you from experiencing 309 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,200 the greatest Pleasures that you might experience as the world 310 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,300 would have you believe. But they're actually to unleash 311 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:49,200 upon you the greatest Pleasures available to man which are the 312 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:53,000 very pleasures of God himself and this is why the psalmist in 313 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,200 psalm 16 says you make known to me the path of Life at your 314 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,600 right hand, another words as were walking together on this 315 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,000 path. Your right hand is just leaving 316 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,400 for me Pleasures forevermore he says, Incredible. 317 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,100 This is the greatest experience for you is to know the all 318 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:13,600 satisfying, deepest delight in God. 319 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,000 C.s. Lewis went on to say this which 320 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:21,100 is again, very hopeful. We Delight to praise what we 321 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:26,900 enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes 322 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,300 the enjoyment. It is the appointed 323 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:33,500 consummation. That means it is the appointed 324 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,700 end of the prey. Raise. 325 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:38,800 And so let me explain it to you this way. 326 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:43,200 A husband who enjoys his wife Her beauty. 327 00:20:44,300 --> 00:20:49,600 Her love her presence. Her feminine nature. 328 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:54,000 Her glory. A husband who enjoys all of 329 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,500 those things about his wife, yet never expresses, his enjoyment 330 00:20:57,500 --> 00:21:03,000 and verbal praise or in gift to giving, or in an Embrace is 331 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,700 missing out on the divinely designed consummation of his 332 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:13,100 enjoyments at best. It's only a partial enjoyment to 333 00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:16,800 look at something that is beautiful and lovely, and not 334 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,600 say that's beautiful. And lovely to not, praise it. 335 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:26,900 In some way is to It's to relinquish or to hold onto the 336 00:21:27,300 --> 00:21:30,500 designed end of noticing, the something as beautiful and 337 00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:34,100 lovely, you're withholding it. And so, you're missing out on 338 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:36,900 the greatest experience. And so, we take this to our 339 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:40,300 thoughts about the Lord, to recognize that the Lord is 340 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:45,300 awesome. To recognize that the Lord Is 341 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:49,400 Holy and just that he is altogether different than I am. 342 00:21:51,100 --> 00:21:54,600 Where I am riddled with sin and a nature that wants to run as 343 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:59,500 far from God as I could, he is in his goodness pursuing me. 344 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:04,200 He is in his goodness, allowing me to persevere by his Spirit. 345 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:10,200 He is in his goodness. Holding me so to speak. and if I 346 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:15,700 look at that, And I don't say something about it, and it just 347 00:22:15,700 --> 00:22:20,200 sits here. I've not finished the praise 348 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,600 yet. I'm not come to the end of the 349 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:24,200 praise. Yet. 350 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,300 The end of the praise is to acknowledge that he is good and 351 00:22:28,300 --> 00:22:32,700 holy and just and righteous and altogether different and lovely 352 00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:34,800 and perfect and all of his attributes. 353 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:39,400 Rice. The enjoyment comes, as you 354 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,100 begin to say those things about the Lord, the enjoyment comes as 355 00:22:42,100 --> 00:22:47,600 you as I praise my wife. That's where it comes. 356 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:51,900 And so God commands us to praise him because he is the expression 357 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,700 of true enjoyment. Listen to this, God is the only 358 00:22:57,900 --> 00:23:03,900 He's the only being who can demand praise for for himself. 359 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:09,100 And it not be egomaniac. Equal, right? 360 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,700 Because he's the only one worthy of Praise. 361 00:23:13,700 --> 00:23:16,800 Anyone else demands? That someone Praises them. 362 00:23:17,100 --> 00:23:20,700 They're an egomaniac. But when God does it, he's 363 00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:24,500 perfect and he's righteous and he understands that your 364 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:28,000 greatest enjoyment and all of life will come in the praise of 365 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,200 his glorious name. but the greatest enjoyment in all of 366 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,800 your life will come as you recognize his glorious Grace 367 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:39,100 Amen. And this is the purpose of 368 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:41,600 worship. It's the purpose of what God's 369 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,400 done in your life. It's to create a people for 370 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:49,200 himself, who loved him and who Praise Him and who submit to him 371 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,500 and all of life and bring him the utmost Glory, because giving 372 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:56,400 God, the utmost glory is for the utmost, good of his people. 373 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,800 Amen. And you don't want to miss that. 374 00:24:01,900 --> 00:24:04,300 You don't want to miss that because all of the commands of 375 00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:09,000 God are tied to pleasure. They're tied to your pleasure, 376 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:13,300 all of the commands of God are tied to bringing him glory. 377 00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:19,500 And if you start thinking that God is Like a disgruntled 378 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:23,900 parent, who's just trying to keep you from having fun? 379 00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:27,500 You're going to resent God and you're not going to want to 380 00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:31,600 submit to him anymore. You're going to really struggle 381 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,400 with sin. Not only, you're going to 382 00:24:33,408 --> 00:24:35,300 struggle with sin. You're going to struggle with 383 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:39,100 his providential acts in your life, the giving and The Taking 384 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:42,100 of things because you won't see those as good either. 385 00:24:42,900 --> 00:24:47,400 And you'll think that God is like a maniac, will lover, whose 386 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:52,000 emotions go up and down, who are like the wind or the waves 387 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:57,800 they're unpredictable. But he's not, he's not he's 388 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,400 well-thought-out everything that he does is according to the 389 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,700 counsel of his perfect will for the praise of his glorious 390 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:07,800 Grace, and his name in all the Earth. 391 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,800 Amen. And when we see that will trust 392 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,600 him. Will live for will honor. 393 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:17,300 Him will sing songs that magnify his name? 394 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:19,800 Above all names? Amen. 395 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,600 The psalmist in Psalm 92 verse 1 says, it is good to give, thanks 396 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,900 to the Lord to sing, praises to your name. 397 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,600 Almost hi, that's the response of a heart that's been 398 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,600 transformed by the love of Christ. 399 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:39,600 It is good to give, thanks to the Lord, to sing, praises to 400 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,700 your name. O, most high to praise him, is 401 00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:46,600 to be an all of him to praise him as to Revere him. 402 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:50,000 And this must be the posture of our heart. 403 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,500 As we sing these songs to God, alongside our brothers and 404 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:56,400 sisters each week. We rightly praised God as he 405 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,800 calls us into worship as he pardons us of sin as he 406 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,800 illuminates, our hearts and minds and with the word as he 407 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,400 invites us to his Heavenly table as he blessed. 408 00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:08,700 Those with this high and holy calling and purpose. 409 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:11,800 We sing to him because of these things. 410 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:16,300 And so God's Gift of song, equips us with a fitting way to 411 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:18,700 praise him. The second thing it does, is it 412 00:26:18,700 --> 00:26:21,000 equips us with a fitting way to pray to him. 413 00:26:21,700 --> 00:26:25,400 Again, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly teaching and 414 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,200 admonishing one. Another in all wisdom, singing, 415 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:32,500 Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your 416 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:40,700 hearts, to God, We are commanded to do all of those things to God 417 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,800 with thankfulness and our hearts to God. 418 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:47,800 And so, truly Christian singing is an address to God. 419 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:50,900 Its first and foremost in addressed to God, truly 420 00:26:50,900 --> 00:26:54,000 Christian singing is not about the congregation singing. 421 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,700 It it's not about the songwriter thinking of those people. 422 00:26:57,700 --> 00:27:00,900 It's not about thinking first, and foremost of how will this 423 00:27:00,900 --> 00:27:03,300 song Moves someone? It's not about how to get, you 424 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:06,500 know, this course right with this bridge or this verse with 425 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:09,000 this chorus. It's none of those things are 426 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,800 first and foremost, and singing. Singing is first and addressed 427 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,400 to God, We're addressing the Lord, and if we're addressing 428 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:21,400 the Lord, then it is prayer. It's a form of Prayer. 429 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,400 Now, we are going to look at in just a moment. 430 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,500 How singing also does address those around us but first and 431 00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:32,100 foremost, it's about addressing the Lord in prayer, is any type 432 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:35,200 of direct address to God and so singing falls into this 433 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:39,700 category. the reformer, John Calvin taught this, he said, as 434 00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:43,900 for public prayers, there are two kinds The one consists 435 00:27:43,900 --> 00:27:48,100 simply of speech, which is when we say, let's pray as I did 436 00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:51,700 before the sermon, the other is song. 437 00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:58,400 The idea of sung prayer goes against the grain of mainstream 438 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:02,600 evangelicalism which mostly employees upbeat and joyful 439 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,700 songs and worship. Should we sing songs of praise? 440 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:08,800 Yes. And amen. 441 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,900 Absolutely. We should we've noted this just 442 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:14,400 a second ago, right? This is one of the first things 443 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,800 were meant to do is to praise the name of the Lord to sing in 444 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,700 major Keys. Amen. 445 00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:24,400 However, we must also leave room for songs of petition and 446 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:29,700 supplication. I'll admit that when it comes to 447 00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:32,900 music, I'm boxing way outside my weight class. 448 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,100 All right, I cannot sing. I cannot play. 449 00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:40,600 I cannot do any of the sort mostly what my music knowledge 450 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:45,400 is is some weird form of preacher theory about music, 451 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,600 right? I'm just analyzing songs, that's 452 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,600 what I do. And I'll analyze the mess out of 453 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,700 them from the tune to the words. All of it. 454 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:57,700 I want to know why we're seeing what we're seeing. 455 00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:00,200 Why it matters. I'll let the professionals do 456 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,500 the playing amen. They're the ones that need to 457 00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:07,200 lead us in that. The crews had a quote in his 458 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,400 book. Deeply resonated with me that I 459 00:29:10,408 --> 00:29:13,200 want to read the see, it's a bit lengthy and so I apologize for 460 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,000 that. I try not to use leafy quotes 461 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:19,000 but I did want to read this one to you because it it struck me 462 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,700 in a profound way and I think it's worth reading life. 463 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,000 He says does not always play out in a major key. 464 00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:30,000 So why should our salts The students to be more of an issue 465 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,700 in those striving after an entertainment aesthetic and 466 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:35,100 worship after. All, what does entertaining 467 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:41,600 about Sin Calamity or distress? But life, he says it's difficult 468 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,500 and messy. Can God wants us to come and 469 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:47,300 cast our cares before him? Moreover. 470 00:29:47,300 --> 00:29:51,700 He goes on to say church singing offers a cathartic forum for us 471 00:29:51,700 --> 00:29:55,600 to express our deepest troubles without having to pretend like 472 00:29:55,600 --> 00:30:01,400 everything in life is a okay. The heavy concentration of 473 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,900 Psalms of lament and distress, and the Psalms he says, shows 474 00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:09,000 that it is appropriate to come to God with our troubles, 475 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:14,000 concerns problems and worries. And not just come to him, but to 476 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,900 come to him insult. Amen. 477 00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:23,900 Over the last six months since when he passed Psalms of Lament. 478 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:30,400 Songs of despair. Songs of trust when trust is not 479 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,200 what you want to do. Songs of Hope. 480 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:37,000 When Hope is the last thing, you think you have have been really 481 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:42,000 close friends for our family. There are many times I've 482 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,000 struggled to pray. I've struggled to get words out 483 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,800 and so songs become my prayers. I have to playlist on Spotify 484 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,500 for this very reason. One is Hope and Christ, oh, 485 00:30:55,500 --> 00:30:59,700 aching heart and the other is heart strengthening jams. 486 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:07,500 These have taught me a first-hand experience this 487 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,300 season of life. I should say his taught me by 488 00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:13,900 first-hand, experience the importance of singing songs of 489 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:17,700 lament. That provide deep gospel truths 490 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:23,000 and so they enrich our petitions to God in times of trouble and 491 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:29,600 trial So many of modern worship songs are really just all about 492 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:34,400 us. The focus is on our side 493 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:39,200 typically and it's not nice but I typically call them Jesus is 494 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,300 my boyfriend songs. And I've joked with Patricia 495 00:31:43,300 --> 00:31:46,200 that I could insert her name where his name is and it would 496 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,400 just be a love song to her because there's nothing deeply 497 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,700 theological about them, the songs. 498 00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:58,100 We sung this morning I could not sing to my wife Right. 499 00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:03,600 It declared things about God that no human possess his. 500 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,400 And so it matters what we sing but many songs today are all 501 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,900 about me. Me and me why? 502 00:32:11,900 --> 00:32:17,700 Because me sells itself help music in a self-help world. 503 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,600 And we must be very careful. But let me tell you when you 504 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,400 lose your daughter. Or you come face-to-face with 505 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:33,600 some other tragedy, you're not going to go searching for a song 506 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:35,900 that makes Christ your boyfriend. 507 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,100 You're going to go searching for a song that comforts you and 508 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:43,200 strengthens your faith. You're going to crave something. 509 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,900 With some meat in it, you're going to sing songs that dwell 510 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,900 richly in the word of Christ, because that's what your soul 511 00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:56,600 needs in those moments. and so singing songs that have the word 512 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:01,100 of Christ dwell in you richly in them each week, those songs are 513 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:04,200 going to become the soundtrack for your life. 514 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:07,400 And so it matters. I praise God. 515 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,500 We have a team that thinks deeply about what we seeing and 516 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:14,500 why we sing it. Our singing must teach us how to 517 00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:17,700 pray it. Informs our prayers. 518 00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:19,600 They must teach us how to praise God. 519 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:23,200 And how to cry out to God. At the same time, when we call 520 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:28,500 out to him in prayer or singing, he hears us because of Christ 521 00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:32,600 Our mediator, amen? We know the Christ. 522 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:37,200 Takes our cares before the father. 523 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,800 We know that in Christ, our prayers, become his prayers are 524 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:50,600 request, become his petitions to the father and as our great high 525 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:56,000 priest, he sings our humble Soul into the father's ear and so we 526 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,600 can know that we are heard, amen, this is why you're 527 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,000 instructed in Hebrews 4 to come boldly to the throne of grace, 528 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,800 that you might receive grace and mercy and your time of need, 529 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,500 because you have a great high priest in heaven, who is not 530 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:11,699 unable. Able but is totally able to 531 00:34:11,699 --> 00:34:14,699 sympathize with you and your weaknesses though he was 532 00:34:14,699 --> 00:34:19,600 tempted. He is without sin. and so you 533 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,300 can be confident, you can come boldly to him and he hears you 534 00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:29,900 God's Gift of song, equips us with a fitting way, to praise 535 00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:33,500 him to pray to him, and finally, to Proclaim him. 536 00:34:36,300 --> 00:34:38,100 Want to read Colossians 3. One more time. 537 00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:42,199 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly teaching and 538 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:45,600 admonishing one. Another in all wisdom, singing, 539 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:50,199 Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your 540 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:56,500 hearts, to God, so what we learned here is that singing is 541 00:34:56,500 --> 00:35:02,000 a means of proclaiming God's truth to one another It's not 542 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,000 just from the worship team to us, right? 543 00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:07,600 It's not just that they're up here singing songs and we're 544 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:13,400 just joining in the focus of the team up here is to hear our 545 00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:14,800 voices. Amen. 546 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,100 And so that we Proclaim truth to one another. 547 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,800 So our singing though, we're looking this way are singing is 548 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,100 also sideways It's to the person sitting next to you. 549 00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:26,100 The person in front of you, the person behind you. 550 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:30,100 And so, when we sing on Sunday mornings, we are proclaiming. 551 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:33,200 We're doing so much so much has happened. 552 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,300 But one for sure, thing that we're wanting to get right in 553 00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:39,900 our singing is that were proclaiming truths. 554 00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:44,200 Deep, gospel, truths, that are going to grow your face. 555 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:48,700 Grow your love for others. To one another, amen, we're 556 00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:51,900 trying to edify one another in our singing. 557 00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:58,000 It's why we won't have a drum solo or a guitar solo or 558 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,900 something that's drawing the attention away from the singing. 559 00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:03,400 We want to promote the singing. Amen. 560 00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:06,800 It's about the voice. And so whether we've got a full 561 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:11,800 team up here, where we come in, and no one's available, Right? 562 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,900 And somebody's going to stand up here, I'll do it. 563 00:36:13,908 --> 00:36:17,900 If I have to, okay, I don't want to, but I will, if I have to 564 00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:20,200 somebody's going to stand up here, and we're going to sing 565 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,100 together, amen. Because we're going to proclaim 566 00:36:23,100 --> 00:36:26,100 the truths. Alan said, it really well in an 567 00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:29,200 elder meeting recently. That what we do in here must be 568 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,300 able to be replicated, anywhere else in the world, Right. 569 00:36:33,300 --> 00:36:36,600 If I can't do in here, if you can't take these songs and sing 570 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,900 them in a group in the jungle of Brazil somewhere. 571 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:44,200 Then what we're doing here isn't gospel-centered, it's not 572 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,700 christ-centered, he goes everywhere. 573 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,800 Amen. Pragmatism does not. 574 00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:53,100 And so we must not be pragmatics first. 575 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,700 We must be gospel-centered christ-centered men and women 576 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,500 first. Amen that travels that goes 577 00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:02,100 everywhere. Cruz says this congregational 578 00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:05,300 singing acts as a sort of communal preaching, singing 579 00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:07,600 allows the word of Christ dwell in us. 580 00:37:07,700 --> 00:37:10,700 Singing as a means by which faith in the gospel is plan. 581 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,100 Stood. And cultivated in our hearts, a 582 00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:18,900 moon, one of the tried and trued ways of learning, anything is in 583 00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:21,300 song, you learn this in grade school, right? 584 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,300 Used to and in many ways, it still is grade. 585 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:28,100 School is the time where you're memorizing things. 586 00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:31,300 Why are you memorizing things? So that you can later build on 587 00:37:31,300 --> 00:37:35,200 the things, you've memorized it's the learn things. 588 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,100 And so many of the things in kindergarten grade school are 589 00:37:38,107 --> 00:37:40,500 taught through song. How did you learn your ABCs 590 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:46,600 assault? Right, catechism with children 591 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,600 throughout church history and even in adults, as largely 592 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:55,000 happened in song or just in short memorization of truths 593 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,200 about the Lord, memorizing things is essential to learning 594 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:03,000 things to getting truths in us so that we can build on those 595 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:07,200 trees expound on the streets. And so we sing for memorization, 596 00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:13,600 it's a great tool to memorize And so this is an effective 597 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,000 Communicator of God's truths. I would dare say, it's one of 598 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,000 the great things that God has wired into music. 599 00:38:22,700 --> 00:38:25,300 I've messed with people for a long time who say they don't pay 600 00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:26,900 attention to the lyrics of songs. 601 00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:29,200 And yet when I hear them, they're not reciting. 602 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,800 The beat of the song, The reciting the words of the psalm, 603 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,600 right? Those things stick driving down 604 00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:37,900 the road and you're listening to your radio. 605 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,700 Those those things stick even if you're not totally paying 606 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:44,300 attention, but you'll find yourself singing along. 607 00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:51,000 Why God has made music powerful? It's impressive. 608 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:56,300 What music does? Martin Luther new this again, 609 00:38:56,300 --> 00:38:57,900 he's the reformer. I mentioned earlier, he knew 610 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:01,100 this and so he began to write music like crazy that he could 611 00:39:01,100 --> 00:39:04,600 get into the hands of people that they might sing God's 612 00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:07,400 truths. And he said this, he said music 613 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,700 and notes which are wonderful gifts and Creations of God, do 614 00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:13,900 help gain a better understanding of the text talking about the 615 00:39:13,908 --> 00:39:17,200 scriptures especially when sung by a congregation and sung 616 00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:19,200 earnestly. We are made better. 617 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:23,500 He goes on to say and stronger and Faith when his holy word 618 00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:26,900 isn't Pressed on our hearts by sweet music. 619 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:31,300 Amen. Like a good singing German man, 620 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,700 right? And this kind of gospel 621 00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:39,200 saturated truth. This magnifying singing is never 622 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,500 better than when song in the company of the Saints in the 623 00:39:41,508 --> 00:39:45,100 house of God. This is where truly shines, 624 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,200 Yeah, I mentioned to you earlier that I listened to songs to help 625 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,800 my prayers, to help my heart, seeing when it didn't want to. 626 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,100 But my favorite place to sing is every Sunday in here with you 627 00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:01,400 guys. My favorite place to saying is 628 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,200 on Wednesday night, sitting in a circle in my whole group 629 00:40:04,300 --> 00:40:07,200 awkwardly trying to figure this out, right? 630 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,600 But it's amazing once it starts to come together. 631 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,200 And it's important for what we're doing. 632 00:40:17,700 --> 00:40:21,600 Singing must be a part of weekly worship so that we learn to 633 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,200 praise God. For his work. 634 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,600 So we learn to pray to him and are desperate times and we learn 635 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,600 to Proclaim God's truth to one another. 636 00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:33,900 Again Alan read Psalm 149 earlier but verse ones can read 637 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:39,600 it, praise the Lord, sing to the Lord, a new song, his praise in 638 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:44,300 the Assembly of The Godly. This is what we're after the 639 00:40:44,300 --> 00:40:46,400 best part of singing. God's truth says that we are 640 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,300 teaching God's truths to one another. 641 00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:53,400 When we sing songs that are soaked in the word of God, we 642 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,900 must realize that God is using those songs to deepen our faith 643 00:40:56,900 --> 00:41:00,300 in Christ to grow our love for our neighbor. 644 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,500 Where and when we sing, We partake of the glory and the 645 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:07,500 Splendor of God. John Wesley. 646 00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:13,300 Methodist, you know, basically founder of the Methodist 647 00:41:13,300 --> 00:41:16,100 movement but he wrote this at the beginning of his hymnal. 648 00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:20,300 He said, Beware of singing, as if you were half dead or half 649 00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:25,200 asleep, but lift up your voice with strength, be no more afraid 650 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,800 of your voice noun or more ashamed of its being heard. 651 00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:32,500 Then, when you sung the songs of Satan, he just said it. 652 00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:36,100 Like it was. He goes on to say have an eye to 653 00:41:36,100 --> 00:41:40,100 God and every word you sing aim at pleasing him more than 654 00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:45,100 yourself or any other creature. So, shall your singing be such 655 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,700 as the Lord will approve of here and reward when he cometh and 656 00:41:49,700 --> 00:41:58,300 the Clouds Of Heaven, Hey Beth God gives us with song and in 657 00:41:58,300 --> 00:42:01,600 doing so he's equipping us with a fitting way to praise him. 658 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:07,300 Pray to him and Proclaim him. Let me see if I can tie all this 659 00:42:07,300 --> 00:42:10,100 together real quick. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 660 00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:13,400 Once said this he said the heart sings because it is overflowing 661 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,900 with Christ. If the word of Christ is 662 00:42:16,900 --> 00:42:21,700 dwelling richly within you, you will be unable to do anything 663 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:27,000 but sing. Therefore, it is of utmost 664 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,200 importance than that. Our songs be richly filled with 665 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,200 the word of Christ and nothing but the word of Christ. 666 00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:40,200 Amen. Again, a helpful quote, from 667 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:43,600 Crews word, centered songs will produce a word centered people 668 00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:47,100 songs based on in filled with scripture songs that are 669 00:42:47,100 --> 00:42:52,800 godward, not man word Christ, Focus not self-indulgent, 670 00:42:52,900 --> 00:42:56,400 grounded and objectivity not aimlessly, floating and 671 00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,900 subjectivity. Amen. 672 00:43:01,700 --> 00:43:05,600 And so brothers and sisters, we aim then to be the kind of 673 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:10,400 church where men and women and boys and girls sing aloud. 674 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:17,200 The new song that God has put into our hearts, we need not be 675 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:18,300 a shame. Amen. 676 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,700 And Men, I always want to encourage you but I especially 677 00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:27,000 want to encourage you in singing. 678 00:43:28,700 --> 00:43:31,800 We Must lead the congregation in singing. 679 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:37,700 Men's voices must be loud and singing not to drown out the 680 00:43:37,700 --> 00:43:39,200 women. I'm not saying anything of the 681 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:43,000 sort, but we are under the assumption, I think. 682 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:49,000 At least in practice that singing is effeminate mostly. 683 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:56,200 But singing is masculine as well, singing is meant for boys, 684 00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,500 and it's meant for girls. Singing is meant for men and 685 00:44:00,500 --> 00:44:02,600 it's meant for women. Amen. 686 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:10,600 Singing is for all of God's people, and it's must be a big 687 00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:14,100 Mark of a congregation. That's pursuing the Lord 688 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,800 faithfully and so men, I encourage you to sing. 689 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:22,800 If we want to lead our holes, we must be men who sing if we want 690 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,900 to lead our church and having the word of Christ dwell richly. 691 00:44:25,900 --> 00:44:28,000 And us, we need to be Men Who scene. 692 00:44:29,100 --> 00:44:32,400 It must be deeply committed to singing songs that teach and 693 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:36,100 admonish us with the word of Christ and we must do so with 694 00:44:36,100 --> 00:44:40,500 thankfulness in our heart to God, we don't want to sing 695 00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:44,400 begrudgingly. We don't want to sing shyly. 696 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,700 We don't want to sing without courage or without boldness, we 697 00:44:49,700 --> 00:44:52,800 want to be courageous and bold and singing. 698 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:57,700 We want to sing with Vigor with love for Christ, with love, for 699 00:44:57,700 --> 00:45:00,700 our family and with love for our church. 700 00:45:01,100 --> 00:45:03,000 Amen. Amen. 701 00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,800 Let me pray for us, heavenly father. 702 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:10,200 I thank you for today. I think you for your word, I 703 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,700 thank you, Lord that you have created song that you've given 704 00:45:13,700 --> 00:45:15,800 it as a gift to us that we might one. 705 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:21,000 Praise you? That we might to Proclaim your 706 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,800 name and three pray to you father. 707 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:30,300 Oh Lord, all of these things are great benefits of song, their 708 00:45:30,300 --> 00:45:36,600 huge, huge Health, to our spirits I thank you Lord for 709 00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,400 these truths. I thank you Father for a people. 710 00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:44,900 Who loved you enough to examine the songs. 711 00:45:44,900 --> 00:45:48,300 We sing to think deeply about them. 712 00:45:50,100 --> 00:45:55,900 And to not be unafraid father to just say that one's not for us. 713 00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:01,700 Let's sing this one Lord. We pray that you would help us 714 00:46:02,100 --> 00:46:07,200 to be a people of men and women and boys and girls who love you 715 00:46:08,100 --> 00:46:13,700 whose Hearts so singing to you. Because of all that you've done 716 00:46:14,300 --> 00:46:19,000 and our lives and for us through Christ Jesus, our lord. 717 00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,900 Lord, forgive us for being shy and singing. 718 00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,600 Forgive us for thinking that singing is mostly about how I 719 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,300 sound. Lord, it's true. 720 00:46:32,300 --> 00:46:36,800 You've gifted some of us. With a voice that should be 721 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:40,900 heard allowed. From a stage leading. 722 00:46:40,900 --> 00:46:47,300 Others in singing. you've gifted some of us with music ability to 723 00:46:47,300 --> 00:46:55,500 pluck, it strings, and to beat on drums, But Lord, all of us, 724 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,200 all of us have been given the gift of solo. 725 00:46:59,100 --> 00:47:02,100 All of us have been given the gift of belonging to the people 726 00:47:02,300 --> 00:47:05,300 of God redeemed as those who are in Christ. 727 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,700 And we've been given a new song in this. 728 00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:11,500 And then our new song We Are to sing loudly. 729 00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,200 But we might not be on the worship team. 730 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,300 But oh, are we in the congregation? 731 00:47:19,500 --> 00:47:23,200 Are we among the saints, the people of God who are belting it 732 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:28,800 out week after week. So Lord is true. 733 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,100 Sometimes we come in here and our hearts fail us. 734 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:38,500 Hope Wayne's were overcome with difficulty and pain and trouble. 735 00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:49,200 And so your Saul lifts us as though, an eagle on wings, And 736 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,900 we praise you for it, Lord. We praise you. 737 00:47:54,700 --> 00:47:58,300 Thank you, Lord. Let us commit now to be men and 738 00:47:58,300 --> 00:48:02,200 women and boys and girls who seem to hear it's in the Name of 739 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:03,100 Christ. I pray. 740 00:48:03,700 --> 00:48:04,300 Amen.