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Sure it does. It shows you that God is not angry with anyone who worships Him in Spirit and Truth. God's grace trumps your laws.

 

I assert grace is greater than your law and I back it up with scripture.
You keep going to the law, you create your own law from that and then tell everyone that they must follow your law or else God will hate them.
SMA, you are a graceless person and you get upset when I don't play the game according to your law.
God's grace gives us freedom from your law and I will eternally rejoice that God's grace is greater than your law.
I have nothing more to say. Your pride and ego will likely remain ensconced in your law so that anyone not following it will be berated. I can live with that.

 

From what you have written on this post you seem to think that you are to live under the OT laws. You have decided that only certain types of music are ok as those are the only ones you see in the OT. But you do not get to choose what OT laws you want to follow, so I have to ask you when did you do your last sacrifice to cover your sins and where and who did them for you? You come across being very legalistic but what you seem to overlook is this verse in the bible that is for all Christians.
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Note the bold text and think about what you have been posting and be thankful that you are not under law.

 

And it appears that you have set yourself up as the judge of what is to be considered occult as far as music goes. A bit prideful it would seem.

 

Just read through your responses to comments re music on this thread. Or just look at the comment you made to me, very aggressive tone. Why? You have not come across as a person that is willing to listen to others comments.

The style of music is the least of the problems that we have in a number of our churches, many have forgotten why they are gathering together in the first place. It is not to be entertained it is to worship the creator and our Lord.

 

You are entitled to your opinion just as I am to mine. You think the style of music is the major problem we have in our churches I disagree. But then I am not attending the church you do so perhaps the music at your is really bad.

As to any shortcomings that you may have those are for you to work out but I just pointed out some things you may want to attend to.

It does seem odd that you would raise music choice as a major problem in churches today above the lack of the gospel message being preached. But it seems your priorities are different than mine.

 

Read your posts regarding music. You see it as a major problem where others do not. If you are going to become so invested in something regarding the church service then do you not think concern about the message would be a better use of your time?

You have spent 11 days on this and your focus has been the music even when others have pointed out the error of your view.
You said in a prior post "
You consider divine commands to be optional?
Mouthing the words or not singing at all in corporate worship is not acceptable to God. Giving God glory through singing to Him in corporate worship is not optional."

So my question for you is do you fulfill all of God divine commands or are some only optional? You do remind me of legalists that I have dealt with, you pick one command and you hang your hat on it as the test of orthodoxy.

You have a good day and I hope you can find a church that can adhere to your high standard.

 

My question for you is; are we to judge who are "Consecrated believers" by the way they sing? Or should we trust that God looks at the heart of those that worship Him. We do not have to sing lustily to get His attention. I think you are being overly legalistic in your approach to scripture.

As I said before do you SMA adhere to all God's commands in this way or just the ones that you think you fulfill.

 

Isaiah 29 has nothing to do with whispered singing.

*Isaiah 29:1-16*
“What sorrow awaits Ariel, the City of David. Year after year you celebrate your feasts. Yet I will bring disaster upon you, and there will be much weeping and sorrow. For Jerusalem will become what her name Ariel means— an altar covered with blood. I will be your enemy, surrounding Jerusalem and attacking its walls. I will build siege towers and destroy it.

Then deep from the earth you will speak; from low in the dust your words will come. Your voice will whisper from the ground like a ghost conjured up from the grave.

“But suddenly, your ruthless enemies will be crushed like the finest of dust. Your many attackers will be driven away like chaff before the wind. Suddenly, in an instant, I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, will act for you with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and storm and consuming fire. All the nations fighting against Jerusalem will vanish like a dream! Those who are attacking her walls will vanish like a vision in the night. A hungry person dreams of eating but wakes up still hungry. A thirsty person dreams of drinking but is still faint from thirst when morning comes. So it will be with your enemies, with those who attack Mount Zion.” Are you amazed and incredulous? Don’t you believe it? Then go ahead and be blind. You are stupid, but not from wine! You stagger, but not from liquor! For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries. All the future events in this vision are like a sealed book to them. When you give it to those who can read, they will say, “We can’t read it because it is sealed.” When you give it to those who cannot read, they will say, “We don’t know how to read.” And so the Lord says, “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote. Because of this, I will once again astound these hypocrites with amazing wonders. The wisdom of the wise will pass away, and the intelligence of the intelligent will disappear.” What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their evil deeds in the dark! “The Lord can’t see us,” they say. “He doesn’t know what’s going on!” How foolish can you be? He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay! Should the created thing say of the one who made it, “He didn’t make me”? Does a jar ever say, “The potter who made me is stupid”?