Addendum
- Christian Liberty - Romans 14
- Bibliography
- Media Links
- Music Quotes
- Circle of Fifths
- What the Bible Says About Music
Christian Liberty - Romans 14
Romans 14 Christian Liberty
Galatians 5:1 ¶ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
1 Corinthians 10:23 ¶ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Verse By Verse
- “Him that is weak in faith” receive but not to “doubtful disputations”
Receive him that is weak in faith in tenderness and not engage him in arguements to his hurt concerning disputable matters.
- A) may **eat **all things B) (weak) **eateth **herbs.
- A) may not despise B) && visa versa => for God hath received him.
- Don’t judge another man’s servant => God is able to make him stand”
- C) esteemeth one day above another: D) every day alike. “Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind” => CONSCIENCE
- A) C) does it unto the Lord; and B) D) does it unto the Lord
- & 8) We do not LIVE or DIE unto “ourself” but “to the Lord”, we are the lord’s
- Christ is Lord both of the dead and living.
- Why do you judge your brother? = all shall stand before the judgment
- &= every tongue shall confess to God
- &= every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
- Judge not one another any more: but j**udge this rather,** that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
- there is nothing unclean of itself: him that esteemeth to him it is unclean/clean
- SCENARIO: if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
- Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
- For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
- For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
- follow after the things which make for peace and edify
- For meat destroy not the work of God. “All things indeed are pure” “it is evil for that man who eateth with offence”
- It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
- Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
- And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Overview
- MEAT & DRINK & … MUSIC ?
Where can we apply these?
Verses 6,7, & 8 can be applied to things that CAN be done unto the Lord” and (v.14,16) are not particularly clear elsewhere in Scripture.
Christians were no longer obligated to keep these laws, but neither were they commanded to forsake them
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Are we all using music “as unto the Lord”?
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Honestly choose our music as we will give an account to God.
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If you believe it is wrong, you should NOT listen to it! And DO NOT CAUSE OTHERS TO SIN.
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Respect each other’s views and CONSCIENCE. V.15 & v 20 For meat destroy not your brother or the work of God => The Gospel is Bigger and More Important than Our Disagreements
Bibliography
Bibliography:
- http://www.bible-researcher.com/shafer1.html
- https://teach4theheart.com/the-biblical-response-to-the-christian-music-debate/
- https://www.ccel.org/ccel/ccel/eee/files/calvinps.htm John Calvin’s preface to “Psalter”
- https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/guide-to-musical-modes/
- https://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/otesources/19-psalms/text/books/thirtle-pstitles/thirtle-pstitles.pdf Titles of the Psalms and their Meanings
- http://lavistachurchofchrist.org/LVarticles/EarlyEnglishHymns.html The Young Person's Guide to the Hymnbook
Media Links
- John Calvin's Introduction to his Psalter
- All about the The Geneva Psaltar
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulxmGx57CSA (Instrumental) Psalm 1 - Genevan Psalter 1539, In a setting by Claude Goudimel 1564
- Music by Wally Brath
- https://youtu.be/MBV0tf_j6V4
Music Quotes
MUSIC
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of women.
-Beethoven
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. -Carlyle
Music is love in search of a word. -Lanier
Music is the universal language of mankind. -Longfellow
Music is the poetry of the air. -Richter
Singing is the highest expression of music because it is the most direct expression of the emotions of the soul. -Rogers
Our singing should be such that God hears it with pleasure-singing in which there is not so much art as heart, not so much of musical sound as of spiritual emotion. -Spurgeon
When your heart is full of Christ, you will want to sing. -Spurgeon
A friend once asked the great composer Haydn why his church music was always so full of gladness. He answered: "I cannot make it otherwise. I write according to the thoughts I feel. When I think upon my God, my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen; and since God has given me a cheerful heart, it will be pardoned me that I serve Him with a cheerful spirit." -Van Dyke
Circle of Fifths
C F B E | A | D | 1-FRET 2-FRET 3-FRET 4-FRET 5-FRET 6-FRET 7-FRET 8-FRET OPEN STRINGS G |
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There Is Power In The Blood Key: G
Verse 1
G C G
Would you be free from the burden of sin?
D G
There's power in the blood, power in the blood;
C G
Would you oe'r evil a victory win?
D G
There's wonderful power in the blood.
G
Power, Power,
C G
Wonder-working power
D7 G
In the blood of the Lamb;
G
Power, Power,
C G
Wonder-working power
D7 G
In the precious blood of the Lamb.
Verse 2
G C G
Would you be free from your passion and pride?
D G
There's power in the blood, power in the blood;
C G
Come for a cleansing to Calvary’s tide,
D G
There's wonderful power in the blood.
What the Bible Says About Music
Scriptures on Music:
(Harp, harps, sing, song, singing, Psalter, trumpet, timbrel, etc)
Remember that narrative is not normative. The “SOUND” of music in the Bible is all but lost to us, but we can glean valuable insights from the descriptions and settings of music in the Bible.
Old Testament
1. Jubal
Genesis 4:21 — And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
2. Moses 3 Songs
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a. Exodus 15 — God Delivered Israel from Egypt in Parting the Red Sea
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b. Deuteronomy 32:1-43 — God is that Rock of Our Salvation
- A Song as a Memorial Witness
Deuteronomy 31:19,21,22 — Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. 22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
Israel will in a time to come forget God, but this song that won't be forgotten by their children will stand as a witness to God's power and faithfulness.
… for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed…
- c. Psalm 90 — From Everlasting to Everlasting, thou Art God.
3. King David Instructed for the Appointment of Levites as Singers and Musicians
1 Chronicles 15:16 — And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
1 Chronicles 23:5 — Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
- 4000 out of 38,000 priests were singers or musicians — 1 in 10 Levites were singers or musicians. (1 Chronicles 23:4 38,000 priests;)
- Among the temple singers (a total of 4,000; see 23:5) were 288 specially skilled musicians. Included in these were twenty-four leaders (25:1-7). These 288 musicians were also divided into twenty-four groups that served in rotation. Their job was apparently to train and lead the section to which they were assigned (8-31).
- There wre more priests than necessary for the service of the tabernalce for most of the year so David divided the Levites into 24 different groups (1 Chronicles 23:7-19) that would serve for 2 weeks out of the year each. The last unnaccounted 4 weeks of the year all priests would be on duty ( Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles).
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2 Chronicles 5:13 — It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
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