Instrumental WorshipInter-Generational Class – Auditorium

June 1, 2014

Deuteronomy 31:19Now write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them.

2 Samuel 22:1David sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

Psalm 40:3He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.

Psalm 51:14,15Save me from bloodguilt, O God, the God who saves me, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.

Isaiah 52:8Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they shout for joy. When the LORD returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes.

2 Samuel 6:5David and the whole house of Israel were celebrating with all their might before the LORD, with songs and with harps, lyres, tambourines, sistrums and cymbals.

1 Chronicles 23:5Four thousand are to be gatekeepers and four thousand are to praise the LORD with the musical instruments I have provided for that purpose.

2 Chronicles 7:6The priests took their positions, as did the Levities with the LORD’s musical instruments, which King David had made for praising the LORD and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, “His loved endures forever.”

Psalm 68:25In front are the singers, after them the musicians; with them are the maidens playing tambourines.

Psalm 150:3-5Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute, praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.

Matthew 26:30When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Acts 16:25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

Ephesians 5:19Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,

Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Hebrew 13:15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise – the fruit of lips that confess his name.

Music in Culture (NT)• Banquets• Weddings• Funerals • Official Occasions • Accompaniment to sacrifice and other ritual acts

in cultic practice. o 1 Corinthians 14:7-8 – aulos, kithara, and trumpet.

Restoration Movement • Second Great Awakening (19th

Century)o Barton Stone – Cane Ridge Revival o Thomas and Alexander Campbell o “New Testament Model”

L.L. Pinkerton, 1859A minister from Midway, Kentucky who brought a mandolin to worship because the singing was so poor. Pinkerton stated of the worship that it, “Scared even the rats from worship.”

Post-Civil War• Many churches began bringing in

instruments• Southern opposition was social and

economic

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