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INTRO: Music and the heart
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…be filled by the Spirit: speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord.
Music engages our subconscious mind (the heart)
Inspires what we love
Music engages our beliefs
Troublesomeness of modern music
sex and drugs
sex and drugs
violence—women and racial
suicide and depression
TRANSITION—the heart effects the mind…
Music and the intelect
Memorization (rhyming and rhythm)
Memorization (rhyming and rhythm)
Increased Neuro-plasticity (minds ability to change, including learning, unlearning, habit forming, etc.)
Music in the scriptures
Eph :19
…psalms, hymns, spiritual songs…
Psalms—experiential heart expressions.
Psalms—experiential heart expressions.
Hymns—doctrinal
“Invariably the hymn is focused on God or Christ and praises some aspect of the divine nature or activity.”
Ralph P. Martin, “Hymns, Hymn Fragments, Songs, Spiritual Songs,” ed.
Gerald F. Hawthorne, Ralph P. Martin, and Daniel G. Reid, Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993), 421.
Spiritual Songs (Other Psalms—expressions of the heart)
OT
Song of Moses ()
Hannah’s song ()
NT
Mary’s song ()
NT Hymns—concerned with hymns today, doctrinal songs (Note: Paul likes to reference)
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4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope, at your calling—5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope, at your calling—
3 making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
Analysis—a quick song about the foundations of the Christian faith.
REVISIT
Hymn=doctrinal
Music=heart
Hymn=biblical method for getting doctrine into your heart
There is one body (One Church), “He is also the head of the body, the church;”
and one Spirit (there are other spirits, but one Spirit of God)
1 cor 12
—just as you were called to one hope, at your calling— (everyone doesn’t get to go to their own idealized eternal reality; there is one perfect hope for all who believe)
one Lord (Only one master)
one faith (One set of right doctrines— “In essentials unity; in doubtful matters, liberty; in all things charity.”)
one baptism (Into whom were you baptised?
— re-baptism?)
one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
(vs.
other gods)
Application
This is why we sing
to remember (mind)
to train the heart (beliefs)
Be careful what songs you sing
Live a Life Worth (Part 2) — A life lived for Christ is demonstrated by the song in your heart.
This is Paul’s doxology that flowed from his recollection of Christ.
What makes a great worship song?
the 150 psalms in the OT (me focused is OK sometimes)
hymns—doctrinal songs
spiritual songs—songs that inspire us today
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