1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 We are going to have a blast today. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000 I hope this message and service will point your praise to God. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,000 And you are all towards God. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 And just a little disclaimer before we start. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:21,000 I want to point out to all those under 30 years old. 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Do you see what this is up here? 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,000 We called this back in the day, a cassette tape. 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Anybody remember having cassette tapes? 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:39,000 And what we did with cassette tapes is we bought them at a very high price most of the time. 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,000 It depends on what is on the tape and how much we paid for it. 11 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:49,000 And through some magical technology, somehow music got onto actual ribbon. 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,000 And we used to do things called rewinding. 13 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Who remembers rewinding? 14 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,000 And we had a fast forwarding. 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:04,000 And if you had the fancy tape player, it would rewind to the next blank space. 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:11,000 And how many of you had a favorite tape you used to listen to? 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Did you on that tape have the knowledge? 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Because there was two sides to the tape. 19 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:24,000 And do you remember that this song at this time, if you went to the other side, 20 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 you don't remember that. 21 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,000 And there were parts of the album you skipped. 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 And I remember being in church. 23 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:39,000 We had a small church early on and it was growing and went to two services. 24 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:46,000 And literally at 11 years old, 10 years old, my dad had me be the sound guy for the second service. 25 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:53,000 And that was back in the day when we had special music where people would bring a tape that had just 26 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 the background music and you would put it in the tape player. 27 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,000 And my dad taught me how to queue up the tape. 28 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:07,000 You would hit play and the first note you heard, you would stop it and take a pencil and put it in the little thing in there. 29 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,000 And you go back like a half turn. 30 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:18,000 And then it would be ready so when Corey's grandma would sing the special, because she was twice a month at that time. 31 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:24,000 That then when I hit play, that old gospel ship would play right at this right time. 32 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 And it was awesome, right? 33 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 So that's what that is. 34 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,000 This was before CDs and Spotify. 35 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:41,000 So anyway, and then if you were really poor like me when CDs came out, your car still had a tape player. 36 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:49,000 And so we had a tape adapter that had no ribbon that you plugged into the CD player and prayed that it wouldn't skip while you were playing the songs. 37 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Anybody know what I'm talking about? 38 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Okay, you're my people. 39 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 That's good. 40 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Music is a powerful thing. 41 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Today we're beginning a series in Psalms and I've been studying for this series for some time. 42 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:07,000 And the Psalms were the song book for the Jewish people. 43 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:13,000 They were, as part of the scripture, they're written by the Holy Spirit. 44 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:18,000 He used people like David and others to write so many of these songs. 45 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:27,000 And they're what they used to worship the Lord with, but not every Psalm was just about worship or just about praise. 46 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Some of the Psalms, there's actually a wide variety of topics in the Psalms. 47 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:42,000 And actually, for the last few months I've been journaling through them on my own, kind of preparing for this particular series. 48 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,000 And it has the Psalms without the music. 49 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Just the words of them have ministered to my heart and refreshed my relationship with God in ways that have been really good. 50 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 And I hope to bring some of that to you as we teach. 51 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 There's a wide variety. 52 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Not every Psalm is just worship to God. 53 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,000 While they do that, there are many real life issues that come up. 54 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 And I believe that we're going to learn through this series. 55 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Every week the music ministry of our church will sing the Psalm that we're going to study. 56 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:20,000 So next week we're going to be in Psalm chapter 3 and the choir is going to sing a song out of Psalm chapter 3. 57 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:26,000 So we're going to sing the word and we're going to understand the word and it's going to be a great thing. 58 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:36,000 And I think it has the ability to help be a very memorable series for us because music speaks to the head and to the heart in ways that help us remember. 59 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:42,000 So today we're going to study Psalm 150 as you know since we've sung the Psalm now in two different pieces. 60 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 It's difficult to miss the point of this Psalm, isn't it? 61 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,000 It says over and over again, praise ye the Lord. 62 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Say that with me. 63 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Praise ye the Lord. 64 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 That is the point of the Psalm. 65 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 That's that phrase it's said multiple times. 66 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 We're told to praise the Lord. 67 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:09,000 I want us to study this passage today and I want us to do it by considering two questions that we're going to answer. 68 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 We're going to have two questions and we should obey. 69 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 If we're being told to praise the Lord, what should we do? 70 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 If we're told to praise the Lord, we ought to do that today. 71 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,000 And we're going to do that. 72 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 But I'm going to ask these two questions. 73 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Why should we praise the Lord? 74 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 And how should we praise the Lord? 75 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Who agrees? 76 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,000 These are good questions. 77 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 These are the questions that the Psalm answers. 78 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 The first question, why should we praise the Lord? 79 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,000 I want you to say first, I want you to see this. 80 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 We should praise the Lord for who He is. 81 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,000 We should praise the Lord for who He is. 82 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:57,000 There's an old song from the 80's that said, Lord, I worship you not just because of, I worship you for who you are, not just for all the mighty things you've done. 83 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,000 And we see that aspect here in Psalm 1.1.50. 84 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Look at verse 1, it says, praise the Lord. 85 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Praise God in His sanctuary. 86 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Praise Him in the firmament of His power. 87 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Praise Him for His mighty acts. 88 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,000 Praise Him according to His excellent greatness. 89 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,000 We're told in verse 1 to praise God in His sanctuary. 90 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:25,000 The word sanctuary comes from the same word we get, saint or sanctified or sanctification. 91 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,000 It's associated with holiness. 92 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,000 One of the defining attributes, one of the primary attributes of God is that He's holy. 93 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,000 He's holy. 94 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 He's other than. 95 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,000 He is separate. 96 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 God is W-H-O-L-L-Y. 97 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Holy different. 98 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,000 God is holy different from us. 99 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 He's in a holy different place than we are because He is separate from us. 100 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,000 He is different from us in that He is holy. 101 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 It is intrinsic to who He is. 102 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:04,000 To know this about God is to realize that He is worthy of praise. 103 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 We are told in verse 2 to praise Him. 104 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Here it says, according to His excellent greatness. 105 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Say that with me. 106 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Excellent greatness. 107 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Here these two words are used, the two Hebrew words, robe and godel. 108 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,000 The word robe is translated as excellent. 109 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:28,000 But it also includes this idea of immensity or size. 110 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,000 So He's excellent but it's kind of referring to how big He is. 111 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Sometimes this word, 68 times in the Old Testament and in the King James, 112 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 is translated as multitude. 113 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:49,000 35 times as abundance or 8 times as much is translated greatness 9 times. 114 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Here it's translated as excellent. 115 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,000 The word godel, so it's robe, godel, excellent greatness. 116 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 The word godel, which I'm sure I'm pronouncing these wrong. 117 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 That's fine. 118 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Probably in the Hebrew hud-el or something like that. 119 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Like phlegm. 120 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Anyway. 121 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:11,000 The word godel translated here as greatness is more rare, is a more rare 122 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:16,000 word in the Old Testament and it's translated 11 times as greatness. 123 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,000 When you put the words robe and godel together, you get multiplied 124 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,000 greatness. 125 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,000 He's saying praise the Lord to His greatness squared. 126 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Greatness cubed, greatness multiplied upon greatness. 127 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Is our God great? 128 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Our God is so great. 129 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Our God is so great. 130 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:43,000 We praise Him for His multiplied infinite unending greatness. 131 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Greatness times greatness. 132 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 He's not kind of great. 133 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 He's not pretty great. 134 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,000 He is infinitely great. 135 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 He's infinitely great. 136 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,000 He is great in totally separate kind of way. 137 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,000 He's great in an infinite kind of way. 138 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Our praise to Him should attempt to rise to the person of Him, to who He is. 139 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:14,000 We should praise Him because He is great upon great. 140 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 We should praise Him because He is holy. 141 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Would you sing this with me? 142 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty. 143 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee. 144 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty. 145 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:08,000 God in three persons, blessed trinity. 146 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Holy, holy, holy, all the saints adore thee. 147 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea. 148 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee. 149 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Which word and art then evermore shall be. 150 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Holy, holy, holy, though the darkness hitheth thee. 151 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Though the eye of sinful man in our glory shane us see. 152 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Holy, our holy, there is none beside thee. 153 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Perfect in love and love and purity. 154 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:53,000 We should praise God because of who He is. 155 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:59,000 He is infinitely great and He is infinitely holy. 156 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:04,000 The Psalmist points us secondly to another reason why we should praise God. 157 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,000 We should praise God because of what He's done. 158 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 What He's done. 159 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Back to verse 1 and 2. 160 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Praise you the Lord, praise God in His sanctuary. 161 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Praise Him in the firmament of His. 162 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Say the word with me. 163 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 What is it? 164 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Power. 165 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Praise Him for His mighty acts. 166 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,000 Praise Him according to His excellent greatness. 167 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:34,000 We were pointed to where He is and that speaks to who He is and His excellent greatness. 168 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Now we're pointed to what He has done. 169 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Verses 1 and 2 compel us to do that. 170 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 We're told to praise Him in the firmament of His power. 171 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 The word firmament means the heavens or the sky. 172 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Strong defines it this way. 173 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,000 The Hebrew word rakia means properly an expanse. 174 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,000 That is the firmament or apparently visible arch of the sky. 175 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:02,000 The sky, the heavens, the firmament is a display of His power. 176 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Something He has made and where He resides displays what He has done. 177 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:16,000 There is similarly a famous lyric in Psalms in Psalm 191 where it says, 178 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:23,000 The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork. 179 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,000 How many of you saw the eclipse? 180 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Is it God cool? 181 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 God is so cool. 182 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Cool seems like kind of low, Brawl, for what He is. 183 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,000 We saw the sunrise and the sunset and I said out here, it was amazing. 184 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:48,000 God's heavens declare who He is and His works show what He has done. 185 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:53,000 We praise Him because we see what He has made and we praise Him for making it. 186 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,000 We can know something about God by what He's made. 187 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:02,000 In fact, Romans 1 tells us that God's deity is on display through His creation to the degree 188 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:07,000 that those who do not praise Him and worship Him for who He is and for what He's done, 189 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:14,000 they are accountable because they have seen what He's done and should conclude that there is a God. 190 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Romans 1 says it this way, because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, 191 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:26,000 for God has showed it unto them, for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world 192 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:34,000 are clearly seen being understood by the things that are, say it with me, made even His eternal power 193 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,000 and Godhead so that they are without excuse. 194 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,000 He says praise Him for where He is in the firmament of His power. 195 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 It also says similarly, we're told to praise Him for His mighty acts. 196 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Has God acted? 197 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 He has. 198 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,000 God certainly has acted in the world. 199 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,000 He's done so in creation as we have seen. 200 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,000 He's acted through His revelation. 201 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:04,000 He declared Himself both naturally and supernaturally. 202 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:12,000 We can see Him in the book of His creation and we can know Him through the book of His revelation. 203 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:18,000 He is not the deistic God of a few of our founders who believe that He is the distant God unconcerned 204 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000 with the affairs of men. 205 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:27,000 He is a God of more of our founders who believe that God of the Bible had revealed both who He is 206 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 and what He wants in His word. 207 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:38,000 God has acted not just in creation and not just in revelation. 208 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:43,000 God has acted through our redemption. 209 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:59,000 This God came and dwelt among us and He died and He rose again so that we could be made sons and daughters of God. 210 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Is anybody thankful for that today? 211 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Should we praise God for that today? 212 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Should we praise God for what He's done? 213 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,000 We should praise Him not just for who He is but for what He's done. 214 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Listen to the choirs they sing now. 215 00:16:43,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Sing on the hill of Calvary, My Savior, glad for me, My Jesus set me free. 216 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Look at the wounds that give me life, grace flowing from His side, no greater sacrifice. 217 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:30,000 What He's done, what He's done, all the glory and the honor to the Son. 218 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:37,000 My sins are forgiven, my future is heaven. 219 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:49,000 I praise God for what He's done. 220 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Sing for the freedom He has won, even death is dead and gone. 221 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:03,000 His life has overcome. 222 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:12,000 Speak, say the name above all names, over every broken place. 223 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:17,000 He has risen from the grave. 224 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:27,000 What He's done, what He's done, all the glory and the honor 225 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,000 to the Son. 226 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:37,000 My sins are forgiven, my future is heaven. 227 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:44,000 I praise God for what He's done. 228 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:55,000 What He's done, what He's done, all the glory and the honor 229 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,000 to the Son. 230 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:05,000 My sins are forgiven, my future is heaven. 231 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:16,000 I praise God for what He's done. 232 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Now on a throne of majesty, the fathers will complete. 233 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:30,000 He reigns in victory. 234 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:43,000 Sing, hallelujah to the King, He is worthy to receive all the worship we can bring. 235 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:56,000 What He's done, what He's done, all the glory and the honor to the Son. 236 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:03,000 My sins are forgiven, my future is heaven. 237 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:17,000 I praise God for what He's done. 238 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:23,000 All the glory and the honor to the Son. 239 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:30,000 My sins are forgiven, my future is heaven. 240 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:37,000 I praise God for what He's done. 241 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:44,000 I praise God for what He's done. 242 00:20:44,000 --> 00:21:05,000 I praise God for what He's done. 243 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:15,000 He has done so much for us, I need my notes, I got excited. 244 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:20,000 We should praise God because of who He is, we should praise God for what He's done. 245 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Here's a question, question number two, how should we praise the Lord? 246 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,000 How should we praise the Lord? 247 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Today's text we move from why we should praise the Lord to how we should praise the Lord. 248 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Certainly we can praise the Lord without music. 249 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 We can praise the Lord without music. 250 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Have you praised the Lord this week for anything? 251 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 You can praise it without music, you can praise the Lord on your own. 252 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,000 You can do it by yourself, right? 253 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,000 And we should. 254 00:21:52,000 --> 00:22:00,000 If your praise and your prayer life is outpaced here rather than somewhere else, you should look into that. 255 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 You should pray more and you should praise more. 256 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:08,000 That's a good thing, but certainly you can't read this Psalm and go, well, you shouldn't praise the Lord with music. 257 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Because how, one way you should praise the Lord is with music. 258 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,000 We should praise the Lord with music. 259 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Look at verse three, this is awesome. 260 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,000 Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet. 261 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Praise Him with the sultry and harp. 262 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,000 Praise Him with the timbrel and dance. 263 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Praise Him with stringed instruments and organs. 264 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Praise Him with loud cymbals. 265 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Praise Him with high sounding cymbals. 266 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Our Heavenly Father is creative. 267 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 He is creative. 268 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,000 All right, everyone look around you. 269 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Look at each other. 270 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:56,000 He's creative. 271 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Is there any difference between us? 272 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000 I mean, there's a lot similar. 273 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,000 But God makes all of us different ways. 274 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 He made you like that. 275 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,000 There's some things maybe you, some of it's your fault. 276 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:15,000 But there's a lot that's his design. 277 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 We're creative. 278 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000 And he creates. 279 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Now God creates differently than we create. 280 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 God creates ex nihilo. 281 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,000 God creates out of nothing. 282 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Let there be light. 283 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000 There was light. 284 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Right? 285 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,000 We take from what he created and we do something with it. 286 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,000 But we wouldn't have anything to create. 287 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 Look at my guitar. 288 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Somebody had to go get wood. 289 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Somebody had to plant a tree. 290 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Somebody had to steward some conditions. 291 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Someone had to do whatever they do to get metal. 292 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 I don't even want... 293 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:55,000 I have no idea how these strings got made. 294 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 I have no idea. 295 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 I just know I need them if I'm going to use it. 296 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,000 We take what God made and we do something with it. 297 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:07,000 And actually we can take stuff God's made and dishonor him with it. 298 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Has that happened? 299 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Yeah. 300 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,000 But we can also take what God made and we can honor him with it. 301 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,000 And that's what this verse is telling us to do. 302 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Let's take some things and make music with it. 303 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Let's take what God has given to us in doing that. 304 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 There are a few things I can notice when we see what's expressed here. 305 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000 There's a variety of instruments found in these verses. 306 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000 He didn't just say praise the Lord with instruments. 307 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,000 He kind of named some instruments, didn't he? 308 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000 There are wind instruments. 309 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,000 You have the shofar translated... 310 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,000 The word for trumpet here is shofar. 311 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 It was a ram's horn. 312 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,000 It's often. 313 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 That was blown. 314 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,000 You have also what's translated as organs. 315 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:59,000 And verse 4 which comes from the word most like, most literally translated of breath. 316 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:04,000 So when we think of organs, we think of a keyboard-like thing that makes... 317 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 But you know what? 318 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:11,000 At my dad's church, and this church is in town here, they have pipe organs. 319 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 You guys know what I'm talking about? 320 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:18,000 And at my dad's church they have one, Miss Boland who is a professor at Baptist Bible College 321 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,000 for years and years in the music department. 322 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,000 She can play the organ and this huge loud pipe organ. 323 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 And she's got the pedals. 324 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:32,000 But what's actually happening when she presses down is wind is being forced through certain pipes 325 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000 to make those noises. 326 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,000 And if you've ever been where there's a huge pipe organ, it rattles the roof. 327 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 It's amazing. 328 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,000 So here, this ancient thing, he's talking about something that's blown. 329 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:51,000 So today's instruments would be like brass instruments or wind instruments, 330 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:56,000 flutes and reed instruments and organs that push through. 331 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Then there's stringed instruments. 332 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:04,000 He says here, literally in verse 4, stringed instruments. 333 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:09,000 He talks about the sultry and the harp. 334 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:15,000 The harp is mentioned, the sultry is mentioned and is considered by some to be like a lyre, 335 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000 which is a lot like a guitar. 336 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Stringed instruments today would include guitars of all kinds, violins, amen. 337 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Piano has strings, violas, cellos, basses, harps, yes, pianos, guitars, electric and acoustic. 338 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,000 Very similar. 339 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,000 Then there's percussion instruments mentioned. 340 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,000 The word in verse 4 is the timbral. 341 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,000 It's most akin today to the tambourine. 342 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 It's a rhythm instrument. 343 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000 It's a percussion instrument. 344 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000 Verse 5 is a whole verse. 345 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:00,000 And verse 5 is an entire verse in the Bible about cymbals. 346 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,000 You know what cymbals means? 347 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,000 That word for cymbals. 348 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000 You know what it means? 349 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Cymbals. 350 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:12,000 That's a kind of Bible study nugget I give people like you. 351 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 It's really cool. 352 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,000 Notice that they are, what are they? 353 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,000 They're loud. 354 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000 They're loud cymbals. 355 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Praise them with loud cymbals. 356 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,000 Praise them with high sounding cymbals. 357 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,000 These will be closest to drums and cymbals of all kinds today. 358 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:41,000 From the timpani to the drum set to the cahon that we have playing over here. 359 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,000 God makes some people with rhythm. 360 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,000 God makes some of you without rhythm. 361 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:55,000 I almost said before we played that first song, you can clap as long as you do it on the 2 and the 4. 362 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000 Not on the 1 and the 3. 363 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,000 But these would be closest to that. 364 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:07,000 Have you ever seen that middle school kid with pencils and a desk and a little bit too much energy? 365 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,000 Right? 366 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,000 I was that kid. 367 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,000 In some ways I'm still that kid. 368 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:20,000 I notice that this rhythm instrument is the closest to the, it has a word close to it called dance. 369 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000 It says praise them with the timbral and dance. 370 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:27,000 And there is something about rhythm that gets us to move and not all movement is wrong. 371 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:35,000 Certainly there is an evil seductive fleshly dancing that is meant to elicit sinful desire. 372 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,000 But there is also a kind of movement that can honor the Lord. 373 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:44,000 Or else it wouldn't be in the Psalms about praising the Lord. 374 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:51,000 I get sometimes, this happens to me sometimes when I'm in my office studying the Bible. 375 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Sometimes I'm studying the word of God and something finally clicks and I finally get what the guy is saying. 376 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000 What the author is saying. 377 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000 And I just got to get up and I got to walk around. 378 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,000 This is amazing. 379 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000 I'm not trying to say this to show you that I'm so spiritual. 380 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,000 I'm saying, what has he done? 381 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,000 And what has he given us? 382 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,000 And what has he revealed? 383 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000 We have a great God. 384 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,000 We have an incredible God. 385 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,000 And the Bible should get us excited. 386 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,000 And sometimes I go to a basketball game and I watch guys put a leather ball in a round hoop. 387 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,000 And I get excited. 388 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:30,000 And I watch everybody get excited and then I come to church and I'm like, God died for you and he rose from the dead. 389 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:36,000 And everybody's like, cool. 390 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,000 Don't let that get past you. 391 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,000 Who he is? 392 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,000 What he's done? 393 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,000 Music is a powerful thing. 394 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,000 It can be used for good. 395 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000 It can be used for evil. 396 00:29:54,000 --> 00:30:01,000 It's a moral in the sense that what makes it moral or immoral is not necessarily the sound itself, but how the sound is used. 397 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000 There's some subjectivity to it. 398 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,000 Some people like the banjo and some do not. 399 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,000 Some like the drums. 400 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,000 Some do not. 401 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Some like some certain styles that others do not. 402 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,000 But I want you to notice something about all of the mentioning of these instruments. 403 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,000 What's being done with all of them? 404 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:26,000 They're being used to praise the Lord. 405 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:31,000 The music ministry at our church is not a ploy to get people to enjoy the service. 406 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000 It is not just entertainment for the congregation. 407 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:39,000 It's not merely the tip of a hat to tradition or a demonstration of our innovation. 408 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:49,000 It's fundamentally ought to be a vehicle whereby people who live in our context can praise the Lord and honor him. 409 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:56,000 It's an expression of praise from us to the object of our worship. 410 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:04,000 God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. 411 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,000 Sing this with me. 412 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him all creatures here below. 413 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:45,000 Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. 414 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,000 You guys should join the choir. 415 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000 You can be seated. 416 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:55,000 In Psalm 150 we're told to praise the Lord with music. 417 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,000 What should be our philosophy of music? 418 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:05,000 We need spirit-filled, scripture-controlled music. 419 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,000 In Psalm 150 we're told to praise the Lord with music. 420 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:21,000 In Ephesians 5, 18 and Colossians 3, 16 we see parallel passages that tell us the spirit-filled, scripture-soaked Christians will be worshipful. 421 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,000 What does that mean for our church? 422 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:28,000 We should sing songs as people that are led by the Spirit. 423 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000 Who agrees with me? 424 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,000 Okay, so what does it tell us? 425 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000 How does that happen? 426 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:40,000 Well, look at Ephesians 5, 18 with me. We'll put it up on the screen. 427 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,000 Ephesians 5, 18 says this, 428 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:51,000 And be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit. 429 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:56,000 He says there's a Spirit, the Holy Spirit, who indwells every believer. 430 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,000 If you're a believer you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you. 431 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,000 If you do not have the Holy Spirit living inside of you, you're not a believer. 432 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:10,000 Okay? And the Holy Spirit indwells us, but sometimes the Holy Spirit doesn't control us because you can disobey the Holy Spirit. 433 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:23,000 Okay? And so what he's saying is, don't be influenced by wine that leads to excess, leads to sinfulness, leads to debauchery. 434 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,000 Instead, be controlled by the Spirit. 435 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:35,000 In Colossians, we won't go there, but in Colossians 3, 16 he says, let the word of Christ dwell on you richly in all wisdom. 436 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:39,000 And then he says the same fruit of what we're about to look at here. 437 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:45,000 He says the effect of being filled with the Spirit and the effect of letting the word of Christ dwell on us richly will lead to the same things. 438 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000 Well, what does it lead to? 439 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,000 Somebody once asked, what does it lead to? 440 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,000 That's where you say, what does it lead to? 441 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,000 I wasn't that obvious. Okay. 442 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,000 Look at verse 19. 443 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:09,000 It leads to speaking to yourselves in Psalms. 444 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,000 Hey, that sounds familiar, right? It's what we're talking about. 445 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:26,000 And hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. 446 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:32,000 So in this text, we see that Spirit-led music, Spirit-led worship with music. 447 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:37,000 Now, I got to laugh. How many of you are looking at the bulletin right now, or you have it in front of you? 448 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:45,000 I spelled it out and notice how you don't see mistakes until you print out 300 of them? 449 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:52,000 That's when I noticed that it's Spirit-led, L-E-D, not Spirit-L-E-A-D. 450 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,000 So this is evidence that I make mistakes. 451 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:05,000 Okay. Spirit-led, L-E-D, Spirit-led worship with music at some level is man-word. 452 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:11,000 What do I mean? Speaking to yourselves. 453 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:21,000 There is a sense in which music is a vehicle for actual people to speak to God and to themselves. 454 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:28,000 In our church, we're speaking to old and young, rich and poor, and everything in between. 455 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,000 We live in Finley, Ohio in 2024. 456 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:40,000 This means that we should probably not have a staple of polka music. 457 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:44,000 Or like my buddy TJ here, I said, what's like the native music? 458 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:49,000 He said flamenco music. Who would like to hear a flamenco song? 459 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,000 Maybe a couple of people. There's a variety there. 460 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,000 But it's not that this would be wrong. 461 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:00,000 It's just that if all we did was polka music or something, that wouldn't fit here. 462 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,000 It wouldn't fit. It wouldn't fit. 463 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,000 It wouldn't be appropriate. 464 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:14,000 That's not to say we would never have elements of that in our worship songs, but that we're trying to connect with the people where we are. 465 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:19,000 It's not our primary motivation, but a wise leader in church understands their context. 466 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:27,000 The point is that the music has to speak to truth about God, to God, and to those who are here. 467 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,000 Because we're speaking to ourselves. 468 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,000 Are you with me? In songs, in hymns, in spiritual songs. 469 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:38,000 When we get to heaven, I believe there will be all kinds of music there. 470 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:47,000 If you think it will only be bluegrass or only be classical or only insert your favorite genre, here I believe you're genre. 471 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,000 John Ray. Okay. 472 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:54,000 I believe you're going to be mistaken. We'll see God creatively when we get there. 473 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,000 So we see that spirit-led worship is man-word. 474 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000 It's also creative. 475 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:04,000 He says psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. 476 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,000 He uses three terms to describe the kinds of songs that we sing. 477 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,000 The psalms are what we currently are studying. They're poetic. 478 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000 They were written by the Holy Spirit and are part of the Scripture. 479 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:19,000 They are beautifully written and speak to the heart. Who here loves the psalms? 480 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,000 Yeah. Then we have hymns. 481 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,000 Hymns can be defined. Here's a great definition. 482 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:31,000 A metrical composition adapted for singing in a religious service. 483 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Hymns have historically been written in strophic form, consisting of many short verses, sometimes a dozen or more, 484 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,000 normally sung to the same tune. 485 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,000 A hymn is not a hymn because it's in the hymnal. 486 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,000 There are some things in the hymnal that are not hymns. 487 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,000 Okay. 488 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:55,000 But there are some things that are in the hymnal that are hymns and that's good. 489 00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:01,000 Towards the end of the 19th century, refrains were often added, which are somewhat like a modern chorus, 490 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,000 but usually shorter and not necessarily the zenith of the song. 491 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:12,000 The more a song gets away from this simple verse or verse refrained form, the more it becomes less like a hymn. 492 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,000 Hymns are not necessarily old. 493 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:20,000 There are many hymns being written today with a resurgence happening in this craft. 494 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:25,000 A modern hymn is simply a hymn that was written recently. 495 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:31,000 Though sometimes we attach an extra connotation that the hymn is designed to be set to a more modern musical style 496 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,000 like guitar strumming rather than pipe organs blowing. 497 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:44,000 The best hymns are stylistically agnostic, lending themselves to instrumentation and arrangement across a wide variety of musical styles. 498 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:50,000 This allows them to be adapted according to the gifts and musical sensibilities of each local congregation. 499 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000 Hymns are not simply songs in the hymnal. 500 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:57,000 There are clearly many hymns in the hymnal, but not all songs in the hymnal are hymns. 501 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,000 There are songs and spiritual songs in our hymnal. 502 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000 So we have hymns. 503 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,000 We also have spiritual songs. 504 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:12,000 Spiritual songs are songs that may not fit into the other two categories definitionally or stylistically, 505 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:20,000 but would be included in songs that are appropriate to sing to one another in the context of worship and the brotherhood of believers. 506 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:28,000 Notice that we are told here that all three are appropriate and should be used in our lives and in our worship. 507 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,000 Are you with me? 508 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,000 Not just hymns, not just songs, not just spiritual songs. 509 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:38,000 He says use all of it. 510 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:45,000 Spirit-filled people and spirit-filled congregations then would not limit themselves to hymns only or spiritual songs only or songs only. 511 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:50,000 The idea is that we use every one of these as they are appropriate, scriptural and God-honoring. 512 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,000 So spirit-led music is creative. 513 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,000 Spirit-led worship with music is outward. 514 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,000 He says singing and making melody, right? 515 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:09,000 So here's what I want you to do when it's time to sing at church. 516 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,000 Are you ready? 517 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:15,000 Sing. 518 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:21,000 When it's time to sing, sing. 519 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,000 If you're filled with the spirit, you know what you do when the song comes on? 520 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,000 You sing. 521 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,000 You sing. 522 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:28,000 You're like, I can't sing. 523 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,000 I know. 524 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,000 I know what I can sing. 525 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,000 You can sing. 526 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:42,000 You can make sustained noise to words, someone on rhythm to the Lord. 527 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:47,000 And if you can't do it well, God made you that way and He knows. 528 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000 And He'll grade you on a curve. 529 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,000 It's fine. 530 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:59,000 When it's time to sing, it's not about your performance, it's about the God we're worshipping and the truth of what we're singing. 531 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,240 of what we're singing. 532 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:03,240 And so you know how I can tell you're not spirit filled? 533 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,880 That is not spirit filled. 534 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,360 Spirit filled people sing and worship. 535 00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,760 Now not everybody's singing is spirit filled. 536 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,120 Are you with me? 537 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,540 Sometimes people sing and they're thinking about themselves. 538 00:41:25,540 --> 00:41:27,520 How good they sing. 539 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,400 How good they are. 540 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:30,640 We don't want that either. 541 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,080 Who is it for? 542 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:36,400 Well he tells us spirit led music is outward. 543 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,460 We're singing and making melody. 544 00:41:38,460 --> 00:41:41,440 But we're also spirit led worship with music is inward. 545 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:45,520 He says singing and making melody in your hearts. 546 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,080 Some of us aren't as gifted as others at singing. 547 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,040 We can sing in our hearts and from our hearts. 548 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,880 Whenever we sing it should not be about us. 549 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,080 It should be about him. 550 00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,560 Our hearts should be pure and right with our Lord 551 00:41:58,560 --> 00:41:59,520 as we worship. 552 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,560 Give us clean hands and give us pure hearts. 553 00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,640 Let us not lift our souls to another. 554 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:09,720 So what is spirit led worship? 555 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:14,720 It's manward, it's creative, it's outward, it's inward. 556 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,280 And here's the most important part. 557 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:19,240 It's Godward. 558 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:21,240 It's Godward. 559 00:42:21,240 --> 00:42:23,160 We're singing and making melodies in our hearts 560 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,520 to the Lord. 561 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,440 Ultimately the music and church should be the fruit 562 00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,840 of our lips giving praise to his name. 563 00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:32,840 We're not the audience. 564 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,680 We're not the audience. 565 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,360 We are not the audience. 566 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,680 He's the audience. 567 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:42,520 It's for him. 568 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,680 We're not worshiping ourselves. 569 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,920 We're not simply enjoying the music. 570 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,280 This is for him. 571 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,560 Therefore our music should be truthful. 572 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,040 It should be God honoring. 573 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,120 Every song that's written was written 574 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:56,920 or performed by sinful man. 575 00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,240 Even the Psalms were written by God 576 00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:04,000 through people like David who were very flawed. 577 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,580 David wrote a lot of Psalms and killed a guy. 578 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,280 David wrote a lot of Psalms and committed adultery. 579 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:22,280 If we have to sing songs that are by perfect people, 580 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:23,480 we're in trouble. 581 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,680 Because the Psalms are perfect 582 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,600 because God wrote them using those imperfect people. 583 00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,120 So what do we ask? 584 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:36,920 What does the song say? 585 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:37,760 Is it true? 586 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:38,600 Is it appropriate? 587 00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:40,120 Does it honor the Lord? 588 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,360 So let's not fight over music. 589 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:43,960 Let's not get selfish over the vehicle 590 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:48,600 that God wants us to use to bring praise to the Lord. 591 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,900 If you don't like the song, wait till the next one. 592 00:43:52,900 --> 00:43:55,080 If you think the song is unscriptural, 593 00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:56,520 don't gossip about it. 594 00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,720 Go talk to one of us about it 595 00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:01,960 in a spirit of humility and concern. 596 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,640 We are a church family called to love each other 597 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,200 and to worship God. 598 00:44:07,700 --> 00:44:10,760 Let's do that in unity with enthusiasm 599 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,760 and passion as spirit-filled believers, 600 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,200 worshiping our true God. 601 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:18,440 Would you stand with me? 602 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,400 Now, this is not the end of the service. 603 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,680 I want us to, with our whole bodies and our whole hearts, 604 00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,120 sing a song of praise to the Lord. 605 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:27,960 Let's sing this. 606 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:55,400 ["Pomp and Circumstance"] 607 00:44:55,400 --> 00:45:07,400 Jesus keep me near the cross, where all flesh does founted. 608 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:20,400 Free to all our healing stream, close from down, free from death. 609 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:36,400 Near the cross a trembling soul, love and mercy found me. 610 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:49,400 There the bright and boring spark, shed its flames around me. 611 00:45:49,400 --> 00:46:15,400 In the cross, in the cross came my glory ever, till my ransom soul shall find rest beyond the river. 612 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:38,400 Near the cross a tremor died, with its dream before me. 613 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:50,400 Help me, it's off from me to live, live in shadow for me. 614 00:46:50,400 --> 00:47:19,400 Near the cross a watch and rain, hoping trusting ever, till I reach the golden strand just beyond the river. 615 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:47,400 In the cross, in the cross came my glory ever, till my ransom soul shall find rest beyond the river. 616 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:55,400 Rest beyond the river. 617 00:47:55,400 --> 00:48:24,400 I'll never know how much it costs to see my sin upon that cross. 618 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:39,400 I'll never know how much it costs to see my sin upon that cross. 619 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:55,400 I'll never know how much it costs to see my sin upon that cross. 620 00:48:55,400 --> 00:49:23,400 So here I am to worship, here I am to bow down, here I am to say that you're my God, you're all together love me, all together worthy, all together wonderful to me. 621 00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:52,400 So here I am to worship, here I am to bow down, here I am to say that you're my God, you're all together lovely, all together worthy, all together wonderful to me. 622 00:49:53,400 --> 00:50:07,400 You may be seated. 623 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:28,400 There's another verse here, ends the whole Psalm verse 6 says, let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. 624 00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,400 Read the last four words with me. 625 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:33,400 Praise ye the Lord. 626 00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:38,400 The theme and this entire Psalm can be summed up in this verse. 627 00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:44,400 If you have breath in your lungs, you have it because the Lord gives it to you. 628 00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:51,400 If you have a life to live, it's because the Lord gives it to you. 629 00:50:51,400 --> 00:51:03,400 If you enjoy the gifts of God, it's because James 1.17 says it this way, every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. 630 00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:11,400 From the Father of, come it down from the Father of lights and him is no variable this, neither shadow of turning. 631 00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:29,400 He gave us the ability to taste and to feel and to smell and to see and to hear the wind blowing across your skin and the warmth of the sun, the beauty of the sky at sunset and the comfort of the handshake or hug from a friend. 632 00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,400 All of it is a gift from God. 633 00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:39,400 Your husband, your wife, your kids, your friends, your family, your church family, all our gifts from God. 634 00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:48,400 If God has given us breath, we should use our breath in our life to praise the Lord. 635 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:58,400 The greatest gift he gave us to top all of it off is the gift of his dear son. 636 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,400 He came to this earth. 637 00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:04,400 He was born of a virgin with no sin nature. 638 00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:09,400 He kept the law that we did not keep and he died the death that we deserve to die. 639 00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:16,400 He took the punishment for our sin on the cross where God poured out his wrath for our sin. 640 00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:27,400 Second Corinthians 521 says, for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God and him. 641 00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,400 This is the essence of the gospel. 642 00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,400 His life for mine. 643 00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:36,400 His life for mine. 644 00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:43,400 How could that ever be? 645 00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:47,400 His life for mine. 646 00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:58,400 John 1.10 says, he was in the world and the world was made by him. 647 00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:03,400 And the world knew him not. 648 00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:09,400 He came unto his own, but his own received him not. 649 00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:23,400 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. 650 00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:28,400 You receive Jesus Christ and you are saved through faith in him. 651 00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:32,400 That faith can be worded in a prayer when we call on God for salvation. 652 00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,400 Romans 10.9 says this. 653 00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,400 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus. 654 00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:41,400 And shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead. 655 00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:49,400 Thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth under righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 656 00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:55,400 For the scripture sayeth, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 657 00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,400 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek. 658 00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:09,400 For the same Lord over all is rich unto all who call upon him for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 659 00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:18,400 You can offer God worthy worship only because he's made you holy when you put your faith and trust in Jesus. 660 00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:25,400 You can't offer God worship that he'll accept in your own sinfulness and in your own unbelief. 661 00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:30,400 The Bible says that our righteousness is in that state are like filthy rags. 662 00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:33,400 You need a new heart. 663 00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:40,400 God gives it to you when you put your faith and trust in him. 664 00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,400 Today we're going to praise the Lord one more time. 665 00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:47,400 We're going to sing the song we have studied Psalm 150. 666 00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:52,400 We're going to finish out this sermon with that today. 667 00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:58,400 And then after that we're going to sing one more time after that the song of invitation. 668 00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:04,400 And you know walking an aisle doesn't save you. 669 00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:06,400 Praying a prayer in and of itself. 670 00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:13,400 The prayer like you just say a prayer without understanding who you're talking to. 671 00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:14,400 That doesn't save you. 672 00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,400 It's Jesus who saves you. 673 00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:21,400 And so we're going to give you the opportunity to respond. 674 00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:25,400 But if you do come we'll take God's word and show you how you can know for sure. 675 00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,400 Your sins are forgiven that have in your home. 676 00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:32,400 You can put your faith and trust in Christ. 677 00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:37,400 If you're here today and you already know Christ, man you understand what it means to worship God. 678 00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:47,400 And so this second singing of Psalm 150, let it be not just something you're participating in because we're all doing it. 679 00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:50,400 We're singing praise to God. 680 00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,400 So let's all stand and let's do this one more time. 681 00:55:53,400 --> 00:56:13,400 Psalm 150, praise the Lord. 682 00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:26,400 You made the starry host. You grazed the mountain peaks. You made the evening sky with wonders. 683 00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:35,400 Nearer to your town, from desert to the sea, a roi should testify. 684 00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:45,400 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 685 00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:54,400 Sing His greatness, all creation. Praise the Lord. 686 00:56:54,400 --> 00:57:14,400 Raise your voice, you hights in all ye depths, from furthest seas to west. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. 687 00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:27,400 You reached into the dust with love and spirit breath. You've formed us in your very lyingness. 688 00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:39,400 To know your wondrous works, to tell your mighty deeds, to join the everlasting chorus. 689 00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:45,400 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 690 00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:54,400 Sing His greatness, all creation. Praise the Lord. 691 00:57:54,400 --> 00:58:03,400 Raise your voice, you hights in all ye depths, from furthest seas to west. 692 00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:20,400 Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. 693 00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:35,400 That symphony resounds, let love departs me out. All heaven hear the sound of worship that every nation bring. 694 00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:50,400 It's honors to the King, a royal harmonies, eternal. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 695 00:58:50,400 --> 00:59:07,400 Sing His greatness, all creation. Praise the Lord. Raise your voice, you hights in all ye depths, from furthest seas to west. 696 00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:29,400 You're distant burning stars, all creatures near and far. From sky to sea to shore, ring out forevermore. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. 697 00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:38,400 Every head bowed and eye closed, no one looking around. We've responded today in singing and in worship. 698 00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:44,400 If you've been touched by the word of God, you need to make a decision for the Lord. 699 00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:51,400 Maybe you need to come and confess some sin as a believer but not in fellowship with the Lord like you ought to. 700 00:59:51,400 --> 01:00:00,400 Maybe you need to get saved. Whatever your need is, we want to give you that opportunity now. 701 01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:07,400 They're going to sing near the cross and if you need to come, I'm going to pray and give you a chance to respond. 702 01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:22,400 I love you. We do praise you for who you are.