Restoring Your Life Through Worship in Song

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Restoring Your Life Through Worship in Song

• Ephesians 517-20

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Remember What Worship Is?

• The main Hebrew word
• Shacah to bow down in obedient reverence
• The main Greek Word
• Proskuneo to bow down and kiss the hand of

• The Old English
• Derived from the word worth-ship.
• Meaning to denote worthiness to the one receiving
  the honor or devotion.

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Remember Gods Word on Authority
One God and one guide. (2 Timothy 316-17)

• Authority is vital
• not beyond the things that are written. (1
  Corinthians 46)
• Abide in the doctrine of Christ. (2 John 9)
• Spirit and truth (John 424)
• Do not transgress. (1 John 34)

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Singing Holds a Special Place
Could it make or break our hearts?

• Singing lifts our lives
• Victory after the Red Sea (Exodus 15)
• Commitment in Prison (Acts 1625)
• Exhortation (Colossians 316)

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A cappella Singing?
A distinctive trait of the first century church
was the absence of the instrument in praising God.

• The real a cappella
• A cappella is an Italian word meaning music from
  the chapel

Pope Vitalian is noted as bringing the instrument
into worship services in the late 600s.
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Why Worship in Song?
Do we sing when we are feeling materially joyful?

• Why not sing when we are spiritually joyful?
• James 513
• Psalm 276
• Colossians 316

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Why Worship in Song?
Is Sunday the only time we praise God in song?

• Our purpose in song
• To praise God (see Acts 1625)
• To speak to one another (see Ephesians 519)
• To teach one another (see Colossians 316)
• To admonish one another (see Colossians 316)

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How Should We Sing?
Should our singing be a ritual formed or a joyful
praise from sacred hearts?

• Ephesians 519
• Psalms inspired writings of the Psalter or the
  books of Psalms
• Hymns songs directed toward God
• Spiritual Songs songs of the Christian
  experience, songs to each other

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How Should We Sing?
Should our singing be a ritual formed or a joyful
praise from sacred hearts?

• Ephesians 519
• Filled with the spirit - our relationship to God
• Speaking to one another our relationship with
  our brethren
• Note 1 Corinthians 1415

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How Have You Been Singing?
Did your emotions blend with the words of each
song to kiss the hand of God?

• How will you sing?
• Will you understand each song? (1 Corinthians
  1415)
• Will it be mechanical singing? (Amos 521-24)

Will you sing in joyful, thankful reverence to
the Father of all blessings?