Speaking To One Another In Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs

EPHESIANS 5:19

Five Books

• My Bible • Concordance • Nave’s Topical • Encyclopedia • Hymn Book

EPHESIANS 5:15-21 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. .. speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord

Colossians 3:12-17 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another… teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord

The Power of Music • power to communicate

(love, defiance, protest, depression, etc) • power to inspire

(myself, others) • power to change

(attitude, circumstances)

Do You Have to Sing • The question is not whether you can

carry a tune (even in a bucket)…

• The question is do you so love God

that you just “have” to sing?

Worship in Song •  Anywhere:

in prison (Ac 16:25) in assembly (Heb 2:12)

•  Anytime:

when cheerful (Jam 5:13) when teaching (Deut 32)

Singing fresh from great escape

Exodus 15:1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying: "I will sing to the LORD, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!

Singing women too

Exodus 15:21 And Miriam answered them:

"Sing to the LORD, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!"

David’s Head and Heart 2 Samuel 23:1

Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel

Mind & Heart Worship has 2 components:

1. The Intellect (Mind) 2. The Emotion (Heart)

John 4:23 "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.”

GOD-WORSHIP Head + Heart

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Colossians 3:16

Why Did God Say “SING”

Reading ? Analyzing ? Discussing ? Teaching ?

WHAT TO SING

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Hymns & Praise Songs

•  Old Farmer - home from church - tells wife difference between hymn & spiritual song:

•  “Martha, the cows are in the corn!” (praise) •  “Martha, Martha, Martha, Oh Martha,

Martha, Martha, the cows, the big cows, the brown cows, the black cows, the cows, cows, cows, are in the corn, in the corn, in the corn, corn, corn!” (hymn)

COUNTRY SONGS vs SPIRITUAL SONGS

•  If You Can’t Live Without Me, Why Aren’t You Dead? •  I Went Back To My 4th Wife For The 3rd Time And Gave Her

A 2nd Chance To Make A 1st Class Fool Out Of Me •  You’re The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly •  If My Nose Was Running Money, Honey, I’d Blow It All On You •  I’d Kiss You Through The Screen-door, But It’d Strain Our

Love •  I Wouldn’t Take Her To A Dogfight, Even If I Thought She

Could Win

SINGING & MELODY WITH THE HEART

An inner valuing of God - a longing

Why Singing Is Important Music stirs the emotions

(heart, spirit)

The work of the heart is as important as the work of the head in glorifying God

Singing releases many emotions not found in reading prose, or even poetry

Depths & Heights reached in song

Our Song Services “REDEEMING THE TIME”

• Speaking (singing) to one another

• Make melody and grace in heart to the Lord

Sing With The Spirit “Born To Be Wild”

Sing With The Spirit Spirited or fast? No!

Singing what we really feel Singing in tune with our inner spirit Singing what we mean in our heart – it shows!

Closest thing to heaven on earth

Sing With The Spirit Gettysburg Address – (Nov, 1863) not just

eloquence, but setting of 23,000 graves (July, 1863)

Star Spangled Banner – not beauty, but the setting felt by Francis Scott Key after bombing all night and flag is still waving

Sing With The Spirit Faith Of Our Father – Mamertine Prison, Rome

It Is Well With My Soul – H. G. Spafford Our God, He is Alive – A. W. Dicus Amazing Grace – John Newton story Jesus Loves Me – Anna Warner

The Lord Desires My Heart!

Psalm 42:1-8

Sing With The Spirit COLOSSIANS 3:12-16

• Bearing One Another • Forgiving One Another • Loving One Another • Teaching One Another

(Singing)

•  Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom

•  Eph 5:15-19 ...not as fools but as wise ... 17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Sing With Understanding FROM THE HEAD

Understanding The Lord’s Will

• Not My Will

• But Your Will

KNOW WHAT SINGING •  O Thou Fount Of Every Blessing

“here I raise my ebenezer”

•  Night With Ebon Pinion “brooded o’er the vale”

•  A Mighty Fortress “a bulwark never failing”

IF FIRST FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT

TREASURE TIME: BEING TOGETHER !

• Speaking To One Another

• Submitting To One Another