Worshiping God with Music Shadow REALITY Worshiping God with Music

Worshiping God with Music Shadow REALITY Worshiping God with Music 1 Corinthians 14 15 … I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also. 

Worshiping God with Music Shadow REALITY Worshiping God with Music Colossians 3 16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Worshiping God with Music Shadow REALITY Worshiping God with Music Ephesians 5 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord 

Worshiping God with Music Shadow REALITY Worshiping God with Music Psalm 150 3 Praise Him with trumpet sound; Praise Him with harp and lyre. 4 Praise Him with timbrel and dancing; Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe. Ephesians 5 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord 

Shadow REALITY Sychar

Up to now, Jews were right Shadow REALITY John 419 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20  Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22  You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”  Who is right? Sychar Soon, neither Up to now, Jews were right

Shadow REALITY OT service NT service CONTRAST CONTRAST Hebrews 9:6-7 By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing (which is symbolic for the present age). … Hebrews 9:11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)… OT service NT service Hebrews 9:23 Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. CONTRAST Hb. 9:11 made with hands of this creation Hb. 9:11 not made with hands…not of this creation Hb. 8:5 heavenly things Of this Creation SPIRIT Hebrews 8:5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” CONTRAST Hb. 8:5 copy and shadow of the heavenly things Hb. 9:9 Symbolic Hb. 9:23 copies of the heavenly things Hb. 9:24 copies of the true things Hebrews 9:24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Hb. 9:24 the true things Mere Copy TRUTH

Shadow REALITY OT NT the instructional value of shadows Psalm 33:2 …Sing praises to Him with a harp of ten strings. Ephesians 5:19 …singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord the instructional value of shadows Hebrews 98 The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the holy place has not yet been disclosed… CALVIN, 16th century “I have no doubt that playing upon cymbals, touching the harp and the viol, and all that kind of music, which is so frequently mentioned in the Psalms, was a part of the education; that is to say, the puerile instruction of the law” Priests Dietary Laws Mixing fabrics Incense Instrumental Music

Shadow REALITY OT NT the instructional value of shadows Psalm 33:2 …Sing praises to Him with a harp of ten strings. Ephesians 5:19 …singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord the instructional value of shadows Hebrews 98 The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the holy place has not yet been disclosed… CALVIN, 16th century "Musical instruments in celebrating the praises of God would be no more suitable than the burning of incense, the lighting of lamps, and the restoration of the other shadows of the law. The Papists therefore, have foolishly borrowed, this, as well as many other things, from the Jews.”   Priests Dietary Laws Mixing fabrics Incense Instrumental Music

Shadow REALITY OT NT the instructional value of shadows Psalm 33:2 …Sing praises to Him with a harp of ten strings. Ephesians 5:19 …singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord the instructional value of shadows Hebrews 98 The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the holy place has not yet been disclosed… Catholics didn’t always use musical instruments… AQUINAS, 13th century "Our church does not use musical instruments, as harps and psalteries, to praise God withal, that she may not seem to Judaize." (Thomas Aquinas, Bingham's Antiquities, Vol. 3, page 137) Priests Dietary Laws Mixing fabrics Incense Instrumental Music