Featured What Do You Believe about Instrumental Music?

Okay, well, then the next time you offer a burnt offering, you make sure you blow those silver trumpets.

 

Indeed you should when Judaizing.

 

God is about as pleased with the sounds of trumpets as He is with the blood of bulls and goats.

 

Ever heard the instrumental song "Rumble" by Link Wray? Listen to it & judge for yourself if it'd please God if played during a service!

 

Is this done simply because no one sings spiritual songs in your church, or because there is a prideful distain for anything new or different from the group comfort zone?

 

And instruments play a vital God-ward function in the Church worship today.

 

If music was only for us hee hee youmins what are these verses all about?

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Gird up now thy loins like a man;
for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Where wast thou
when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding,
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?
or who hast stretched the line upon it?
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?
or who laid the corner stone thereof;
When the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:1-7

 

Ephesians 5:18-21

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

God ordained human use of instruments to make a joyful noise and "make a melody" to glorify Him. This started when God gave Jubal the ability to create musical instruments.

The reality is that we humans make laws so we can maintain control and get our own way. Then we find Bible verses we think will justify the laws we have made for the church. The laws that some congregations make regarding music are often times just selfish means of controlling culture in the body and excluding other cultures from fellowship. It is almost like creating a "whites only" church. It is exclusionary and it goes contrary to the heart of God.

 

Yeah! What is wrong with tapping your feet or swinging your hips during a worship service?

It's called "being moved".

I have seen this in bible churches, so what?

 

This song could easily be played to the glory of God. The song is quite unremarkable and most beginner musicians could play this song on their guitar or with their drums, but there is nothing morally wrong with the notes being played by the instruments.
Why would God not be glorified by the musician who plays it to give God glory?

 

LOL, have you read the entire book of Job? If you have, you would know your verses have nothing to do with instrumental music.
Job and his friends have discussed theology from chapter 3 through chapter 37. Job has bemoaned God's silence and expressed to his friends that he has some questions to ask God so he can get some answers.
In chapter 38, God comes in a whirlwind and we see the Sovereign King never gives Job a chance to ask questions. The King asks questions of Job and expects answers. The King is in control. Job is a subject in the Kingdom who answers to the King. The King does not answer to the subject below Him.
God asks Job questions and puts Job in his place of inferiority to show Job how lowly Job is and how high and lifted up God is.

It's actually shocking to me that you think you are making a point about music from the dialogue God is having with Job. Do you not recognize figurative language when you see it?

 

I did not say they had anything to do with instrumental music but to show there was music at the creation, before man was made.

And it is not Job or his friends who are speaking in this passage.

It is straight from God's mouth and not figurative like only in some piece of fictional literature.

Sorry to shock you that there was singing for joy at the creation.

 

Lol. You presented me with no such thing, but it is a fitting response to the puerile notion that God takes pleasure in the types and shadows of the law, and that they are imperitives to the church, which knows those things fulfilled in Christ.

Those who worship God must worship in truth and in spirit. There is no machine that is an element thereof.