God Said: Don’t Do It!
There are religious groups who justify the use of mechanical instruments of music in their worship services based upon the absence of a command that forbids it. And, of course, there is no command in the New Testament that states: “Thou shall not use the mechanical instrument of music in the worship service.”
However, when one looks into the Bible, he learns that, in fact, instrumental music is excluded from the worship service and there are verses in both the Old Testament and the New Testament that teach the principal by which that is accomplished.
After God led Israel’s children out of Egypt by the hand of Moses, they wandered around in the wilderness, grumbling and complaining about almost everything and everybody. They were not …show more content…
Just imagine: “Momma, I know you asked for peas, but yesterday you said tomatoes; so, here is a jar of tomatoes. Or, I might have said, “Momma, I know you said peas, but I brought pinto beans because I like them. That’s not obedience. Obedience requires doing exactly what God specified and nothing more or less.
Now, over in the New Testament, after the church was established on the first Pentecost after my Lord returned to heaven, there are a number of verses that mention music in the worship service and every single one of them says “sing”. They never do say “play”. (Col.3:16; James 5:13)
I’m glad they don’t say play, because if they did, I’d be up a creek without a paddle. Musical instruments and I never have gotten along very well. I’ve played with a few musical instruments, but never have been able to play one of them successfully.
Someone says, “Oh, we could get somebody to play the piano for us”. No! No! No! There is not a single command in the entire Bible that we can get someone else to do for us. God will allow me to “Get somebody” to sing for me. And if He had said sing and play, that’s exactly what each person, would be required to
There are religious groups who justify the use of mechanical instruments of music in their worship services based upon the absence of a command that forbids it. And, of course, there is no command in the New Testament that states: “Thou shall not use the mechanical instrument of music in the worship service.”
However, when one looks into the Bible, he learns that, in fact, instrumental music is excluded from the worship service and there are verses in both the Old Testament and the New Testament that teach the principal by which that is accomplished.
After God led Israel’s children out of Egypt by the hand of Moses, they wandered around in the wilderness, grumbling and complaining about almost everything and everybody. They were not …show more content…
Just imagine: “Momma, I know you asked for peas, but yesterday you said tomatoes; so, here is a jar of tomatoes. Or, I might have said, “Momma, I know you said peas, but I brought pinto beans because I like them. That’s not obedience. Obedience requires doing exactly what God specified and nothing more or less.
Now, over in the New Testament, after the church was established on the first Pentecost after my Lord returned to heaven, there are a number of verses that mention music in the worship service and every single one of them says “sing”. They never do say “play”. (Col.3:16; James 5:13)
I’m glad they don’t say play, because if they did, I’d be up a creek without a paddle. Musical instruments and I never have gotten along very well. I’ve played with a few musical instruments, but never have been able to play one of them successfully.
Someone says, “Oh, we could get somebody to play the piano for us”. No! No! No! There is not a single command in the entire Bible that we can get someone else to do for us. God will allow me to “Get somebody” to sing for me. And if He had said sing and play, that’s exactly what each person, would be required to