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Welcome back this afternoon and 
sorry to throw things off. 

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Y'all have rearranged things to 
listen to me again. 

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What were you thinking? 
But what I want to do is talk 

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about seeing this afternoon is 
specifically Take a look at what

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the early church did. 
Why do we practice what? 

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We do kind of, it will take a 
look at internal evidence 

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external evidence of what the 
church did for singing, you 

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know, God he is blessed us with 
the gift of song, and we've been

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blessed to be able to sing just 
in general, but we've done it 

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today and are worshipped and 
unto him when we come to 

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singing. 
There are some that are better 

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at it at others, but it's still 
a gift. 

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It's a gift from God. 
And as such, we've been singing 

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through the years about all 
kinds of things. 

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We've been singing when we've 
been happy, we've been singing 

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when we've been sad, singing, 
tell story. 

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And it expresses joy to express 
his sorrow and expresses love. 

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Expresses praise as we've done 
today. 

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And so with this blessing of 
song, God wants to church, to 

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use it for his glory and praise 
and our worship unto him. 

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And so the purpose of our How do
you this afternoon is to examine

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how the church use singing in 
worship. 

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And as we begin our study of 
this afternoon, I want to talk 

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about these new testament 
scriptures that actually mention

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singing and music in the in the 
New Testament was actually used 

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on several different occasions. 
It was a, it was used for 

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funerals. 
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and it was also used for worship
depending on Where you read it 

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with in the scriptures when the 
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mentions music with instruments,
it is actually used 44 times in 

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the scriptures and ever. 
And when it's used, 44 times 

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when referring to instruments, 
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of it being used as it at a 
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pleasure or like a celebration 
of when instruments were used 

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when singing. 
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So, for example, you have here 
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18, through 23, there's this, 
there's this ruler whose 

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daughter had died and he 
approached Jesus because he had 

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faith that Jesus would be able 
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to life. 
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says, here, when Jesus came into
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flute players and The noisy 
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And so, we have an example of 
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scriptures. 
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in a setting of being a funeral,
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music that's used for a joyous 
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When he out when he taught the 
prodigal son, how he came back 

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home and what happened after 
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Prodigal son came back home, 
Luke 15. 25 says that there was 

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music, there was dancing. 
There was a celebration because 

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the son came back home and 
changed his mind for the better.

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There are allusions to Heavenly 
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In the New Testament scripture 
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there's music that allusions to 
heavily music when it comes to 

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the New Testament, writing about
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Like for example, The Book of 
Revelation there's a trumpet 

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that is used as a means to kind 
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book. 
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their seven trumpets. 
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down Revelation, chapter 8 and 
verse number 6 and they 

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successively blue on them again,
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and also chapter 11, but in 
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8, John sees these 24 elders. 
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the Lord and they're each 
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And along with these seven, 
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And we find this in Revelation, 
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2, and I Heard a Voice from 
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Waters and like the voice of 
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And I heard the sound of 
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They sing as it were a new song 
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four living creatures and the 
elders and one could learn that 

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song and no man could learn that
song except the 144,000 who were

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redeemed from. 
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And so we have this picture of 
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John season it and as he writes 
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But what I want us to understand
it it when we see these 

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references in the Book of 
Revelation regarding music and 

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using instruments, they do not 
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of Revelations provide any 
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necessary inference about. 
About the church coming together

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for worship. 
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idea, when we see passages like 
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Revelation. 
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kind of provides a good 
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consider music specifically what
it comes when the church 

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assembles together for worship 
and how it is to be used in the 

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church assembly and don't worry 
about writing all these down. 

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Because we're going to look at 
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passages. 
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pretty much all I believe in 
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Testament consists of when it 
specifically mentions music in a

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congregation setting. 
So, let's begin with the first 

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one Acts chapter 16. 
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So for this, this is a looking 
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at midnight, Paul and Silas were
praying and singing hymns to God

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in the prisoners were listening 
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Now, I will say this, these are 
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This is not a worship assembly. 
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Yet there found to be singing, 
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And we have no way of knowing 
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what words, but we do know that 
their hymns and they're singing 

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that they were directed to God. 
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object of their singing, and 
they're praying on that night. 

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Another observation about this 
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Paul and Silas were in was that 
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public assembly for worship is 
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In fact I greatly encouraged Is 
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With every one of us, you can 
sing praises to God while you're

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driving along in the car, you 
can sing. 

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While you're gathered with your 
family, you can sing. 

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While you're carrying about at 
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like me and can break out and 
and karaoke Tourette's at work. 

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And have to apologize later on, 
but it's a you talk about a mood

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booster. 
It really brightens your day 

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especially when you could sing a
spiritual song or praise to God 

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during your day. 
It does something for you and I 

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can imagine it was helping Paul 
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held in prison that night. 
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acts 16 and verse 25, when it 
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let's move on to another 
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And this is found a Romans 
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And verse number 9, it says, and
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God for his Mercy as it is 
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For this reason, I will confess 
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Among the Gentiles and seeing to
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So, in the context that were 
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he's expressing that now, 
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changed now, Jews. 
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Grace from God and have the 
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together. 
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And so, he actually quotes David
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But there's this idea of these 
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people at once singing together.
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David from Psalm 18 and 49 
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God and specifically talking 
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join in that action, where 
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Now, Gentiles had that same 
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so that's our observation from 
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comes to Christians singing, 
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We now move on to 1st 
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singing with Christians. 
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14, Paul here was discussing 
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church assembly so that there 
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within the church assembly and 
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Ever. 
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number 15, he said I will sing 
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will also sing with the 
understanding there's another 

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thing that he writes later on, 
in verse number 26, how was it, 

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then Brethren whenever you come 
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song, has a teaching, has a 
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Has a revelation has an 
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let all things be done. 
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I want to notice here that 
singing involves understanding 

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what we're singing. 
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that we see from this passage. 
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we concentrate on the meaning of
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Sometimes it's a bit difficult 
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of the meaning of the song when 
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Because at that time, we're kind
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notes. 
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on, naturally will begin to 
understand the words and the 

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meaning of the word of that song
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But at other times, it is 
possible to sing a song and 

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completely miss the meaning of 
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And so music in itself is not 
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But it's the meaning of that 
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That's just as important, 
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that's mentioned by Paul as We 
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the fact that the church comes 
together for worship And as one 

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congregation, they have the 
teaching from God's word, they 

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pray together but they also sing
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at the scriptures. 
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you'll never find choirs in a 
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gathered for worship. 
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Well, that's all we really see 
from this passage here in 1st 

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Corinthians, chapter 14, moving 
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in scripture regarding Christian
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Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 
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And then we'll consider 
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I'm going to kind of group these
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similar meaning and we're going 
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these two passages Ephesians 95.
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another in Psalms, and hymns, 
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making melody in your heart, to 
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And then Colossians, 3:16 let 
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richly in all wisdom teaching 
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One, another in Psalms and 
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he says singing with Grace, in 
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There is the one thing I want to
Mentor our kind of notice or 

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Draw from these two passages is 
that we are commanded to sing as

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a church. church or as a 
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to sing There's a and there's no
out with that. 

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The passage in Colossians tells 
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form of teaching, and it's also 
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And so we are to deduce from 
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making musical sounds. 
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more be spiritually. 
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than he can buy. 
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that he doesn't understand. 
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actually already, as we've 
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chapter 14, but Paul said, our 
music should be such to kind of 

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create an understanding. 
On the part of those who are 

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involved in. 
So this implies words, not just 

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sounds within music. 
And the second thing that I want

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to notice here is that we can't 
just sing anything that we want 

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to and me and worship. 
It is limited to what we could 

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see. 
Paul mentions weird to sing 

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Psalms, hymns, and spiritual 
songs. 

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Now, I looked at all kinds of 
Scholars and commentators about 

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if there's a difference between 
a Psalm and a him, and his 

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spiritual Psalm some say yes, 
same some say, no, It would, if 

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you say yes, if there is a 
difference, I guess today we 

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would liken it to in, are some 
books that we sing from, we have

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hymns and then we have songs of 
the southern gospel kind of 

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Nature. 
And we also have songs of like a

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contemporary nature kind of 
those differences. 

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So if you were to say those are 
three different things, I guess 

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you could relate it to that but 
they all share one thing. 

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And that one thing is that the 
songs bring our minds to 

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spiritual things, like God, and 
Jesus, and heaven, and love for 

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one another and the church and 
you could go on and on, in fact,

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we are told to sing to the Lord 
Within These two passages here. 

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And so from that, it eliminates 
secular music We can't just sing

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congregation is to participate 
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Me in both of these passages and
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meaning that it represents kind 
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and you as we sing together. 
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that to notice about this in 
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making our meta make Melody. 
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solemn and there is a history to
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meaning of a word could change 
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year about 900. 
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Saul. 

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Oh the word, psallo carry the 
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sharply or to move by touching 
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And so saw low was used of 
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to kind of leave a mark. 
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chalk line and you pull that 
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But Saul could also be used to 
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the strings of an instrument. 
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the cross between 900 and 330, 
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now, till after the cross. 
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the New Testament was being 
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acknowledge that the fact that 
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actually changed, and let me 
give you a few references 

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regarding this. 
They are says about this word, 

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psallo, he says, and I quote, in
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signifies to seeing a him to 
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psalm, Let me reference, someone
else dubbing evine, another 

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great scholar own words said 
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He said the word psallo 
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stringed instrument with the 
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accompaniment of heart of a harp
later. 

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However, and in the New 
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simply to praise without the 
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Alton snipe Snyder says this. 
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saw low. 
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praise to God. 
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understand the term had changed 
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And if solid did retain some 
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Paul was writing this letter to 
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would have to be identified by 
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Would it not wouldn't you think?
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author FF Bruce says, he made 
this observation that The Melody

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of which Paul is principally 
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heart. 
Which accompanies the vocal 

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singing. 
So the hearts will, that's the 

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spiritual instrument of this 
context. 

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There is no mechanical 
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Impulse teaching, And as we've 
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would church assembly, we don't 
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instrumental music and we're 
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then we'll come to the 
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and that's all I really going to
say about instrumental music in 

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our study. 
I want to kind of keep it down 

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to what did the church do as we 
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We have Hebrews 2:12, which 
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when it comes to Christians and 
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And he says here, Hebrews 2 
verse 12 saying, I will declare 

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your name to my brother and in 
the midst of the assembly, I 

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will sing praise to you. 
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he writes this, he's actually 
quoting from David. 

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And the passage is from Psalm 22
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Now, the speaker In this passage
with, if you look at the context

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of Psalm, 22 was talking about 
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So this passage is the Lord 
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prophecy. 
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understanding some of argued 
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fulfilled, this passage or the 
prophecy when Jesus, when he 

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some that him, what the 
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feast the very night where he 
would be betrayed that, they 

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sung that him after that 
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before he instituted the Lord's 
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So most agree. 
This is this is that and that's 

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pretty much all we know about 
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So this has nothing to do with 
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but yet it is a reference to 
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Scriptures, Hebrews 13 and 15. 
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let us continually offer the 
sacrifice of praise to God. 

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That is the fruit of our lips 
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This giving of thanks from the 
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reference to us doing that 
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That can involve that way. 
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We find another passage here in 
James 5, and verse 13 regarding,

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Christian singing, where it says
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Psalms And again, we find that 
filling the certain way. 

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In this case, he's saying if 
you're in a good mood, sing Sing

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about God's goodness. 
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the love of Christ saying. 
Burst forth and song, and that 

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was a quick little run down that
we that we made in observation 

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of all those and to kind of 
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it went. 
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passages, we've examined 
regarding Christians in the 

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church, singing of that there to
do, just that there to sing and 

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to sing together as a 
congregation when the church 

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assembles for worship and our 
song. 

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Um, should take our minds to 
spiritual things so that we can 

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lift each other up and praise 
and honor the Lord while we do 

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so. 
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conclusion of all these passages
that we've seen regarding music 

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or singing and Christians. 
Now, in addition, now to the 

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inspired word, There are 
historical references that speak

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to the practice of the how the 
early church saying as they 

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assembled for worship. 
I want to say this as a 

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disclaimer before we move on. 
When we reference external 

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evidences and even in our study 
we do not Place those opinions 

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of man or observations any 
higher or at any level than what

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we've seen in the Holy 
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All I'm doing is referencing 
what other men have observed the

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early church doing. 
And seeing if they did, what was

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what we've seen with in the 
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And so, having stated that the 
first description of Christians 

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coming together, that's actually
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scriptures that actually comes 
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was planning the younger. 
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the other church and wrote it in
about the year 110, And this is 

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his observation and you'll 
notice he is very doubtful, this

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man to Christian because of his 
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But he says affirmed. 
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guilt or there are was that they
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a certain fixed day before. 
It was light, when they sang, an

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alternate versus a him to Christ
as to a God and bound themselves

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by solemn oath. oh, What we see 
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people coming together. 
And they're seeing and these 

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alternate versus it could kind 
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Maybe before there were some 
books, back in the day, you 

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would have a leader who would 
sing a phrase? 

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on during the song and that 
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singing Back Then. 
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notice from Pliny, the Younger 
regarding them coming together. 

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You have another in his 
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You have used to use of BS. 
Who says this about the church, 

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he says, throughout the world 
and cities and Villages and in 

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the country, in all the Churches
of God, the people of Christ who

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have been chosen out of all the 
nations, send up, not to the 

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native Gods, nor two demons. 
But to the one God, God spoken 

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of by the prophets. 
He says, hymns and samedi with a

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loud voice so that the sound of 
those singing can be heard by 

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those standing outside. 
And how can that be done a Tokyo

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be done with a large group of 
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people singing together, and 
that's what we see from his 

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observation. 
It takes my mind back to My mom 

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and dad would take us to these 
to the soul from eating. 

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If you've never been there, 
they've got this Tabernacle just

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out out in the open and around 
there, just surrounding 

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neighborhood. 
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people gathered there for 
worship and singing together, 

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all the neighbors could hear. 
I imagine he would be able to 

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make that same observation with 
the church coming together to 

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hear that sound of those singing
together. 

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And so that's what we know his 
or about the the church. 

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Would they assemble for worship 
and how they sing together as a 

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congregation. 
And I'm just kind of, kind of, 

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leave it at. 
Just those two observations from

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external sources, but singing in
the church is a wonderful thing.

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There's a reason why God 
commanded for the church to 

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worship Him and song. 
If I were to brainstorm, I would

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say singing brings people 
together, doesn't it? 

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Singing. 
Unites us. 

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Singing creates emotions within 
us. 

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Singing touches Our Hearts 
singing creates an opportunity 

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for us to praise him. 
It doesn't matter if you're good

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at it or not. 
Just sing. 

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And sing from your heart. 
And sing, praise to him. 

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That's really all that matters 
to God is when you do that. 

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What a wonderful privilege. 
We have to be able to do that. 

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Every time we come to worship, 
don't lie? 

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It's not because the leaders of 
the congregation have decided. 

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Well this we've had to tradition
of always singing. 

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So people like singing. 
So this is what we're going to 

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do know. 
But God blessed us with the gift

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of song and he says, I want you 
to praise me in that. 

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And it's a beautiful thing. 
And so I hope that what we've 

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seen in the New Testament 
scriptures were in regards to 

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Christians and the church coming
together to sing. 

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This is a maybe give you some 
ammunition of why don't you guys

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use answer them instrumental 
music. 

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Well, Let's go to the scriptures
and find out. 

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We're just trying to follow the 
pattern of the early church so 

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that we could be well, pleasing 
to God. 

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So I leave these with you again.
I hope you've been edified in 

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our study this afternoon and 
again that God has been 

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glorified through the teaching 
of his word. 

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