What Role Does Music Play in Worship?
What Role Does Music Play in Worship? Music is a God-ordained vehicle for worship, praise, prayer, teaching, and spiritual warfare — woven throughout Scripture from Moses' song to the hymns of heaven.
Key verse: Psalm 150:3-6 (KJV)
Music is a God-ordained vehicle for worship, praise, prayer, teaching, and spiritual warfare — woven throughout Scripture from Moses' song to the hymns of heaven.
Music is a God-ordained vehicle for worship, praise, prayer, teaching, and spiritual warfare — woven throughout Scripture from Moses' song to the hymns of heaven.
"Praise him with the sound of the trumpet... Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD." — Psalm 150:3-6 (KJV)
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Music fills Scripture from beginning to end. After the Red Sea crossing, Moses and Israel sang (Exodus 15). David — 'the sweet psalmist of Israel' (2 Samuel 23:1) — wrote scores of psalms and organized temple worship with musicians (1 Chronicles 25). The Psalms command musical worship: 'Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp' (Psalm 150:3). 'O come, let us sing unto the LORD' (Psalm 95:1). Music has spiritual power — David's harp soothed Saul's tormented spirit (1 Samuel 16:23). Jehoshaphat sent singers before the army, and God defeated the enemy (2 Chronicles 20:21-22). Paul and Silas sang hymns in prison, and an earthquake opened the doors (Acts 16:25-26). Paul commanded, 'Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord' (Ephesians 5:19). Colossians 3:16 links singing with teaching: 'Teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns.' Heaven itself is filled with music (Revelation 5:9, 14:3, 15:3).
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"Praise him with the sound of the trumpet... Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD."
"Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord."
"Teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs."
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