Why Do We Stand When We Sing?
Why are musical instruments a part of the worship service?
“And the Levites…of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high
.”
(2 Chronicles 20:19)
Why Do We Clap Our Hands?
“O clap your hands all ye peoples, shout unto God with the voice of triumph.”
(Psalms 47:1)
Why Do We Lift Our Hands?
“Thus I will bless Thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.”
(Psalms 63:4)
“Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord.”
(Psalms 134:2)
“I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.”
(1 Timothy 2:8)
“Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me bless His holy name.”
(Psalm 103:1)
“I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.”
(Psalms 34:1)
“And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God.”
(Acts 4:24)
Why do we have this type of worship?
(John 4:23-24)
“For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh.”
(Philippians 3:3)
Why do we sing choruses as well as hymns?
“And be not drunk with wine, wherin is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.”
(Ephesians 5:18-19)
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your
hearts to the Lord.”
(Colossians 3:16)
What is Prophecy?
“…the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?”
(Amos 3:8)
“But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.”
(1 Corinthians 14:3)
“Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.”
(1 Corinthians 14:1)
“But the manifestations of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal…To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy.”
(1 Corinthians 12:7 & 10)
“Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the others judge.”
(1 Corinthians 14:29)
Why do we have speaking with tongues and interpretation of those tongues?
“Wherefore brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.”
(1 Corinthians 14:39)
“I would that ye all speak with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied; for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church receive edifying.”
(1 Corinthians 14:5)
“If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course, and let one interpret.”
(1 Corinthians 14:27)
“And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps.”
(Revelation 14:2)
“Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; Praise Him with the psaltry and harp; Praise Him with the timbrel and dance. Praise Him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise Him upon the high sounding cymbals.”
(Psalms 150:3-5)
Why does the whole church pray at once for specific needs?
“And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, Thou art God, which hast made heaven and earth…”
(Acts 4; 24)
Why do we anoint with oil and pray for the sick?
“Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.”
(James 5:14-15)
What does it mean to be “Saved” or “Born Again”?
“A man must be born again to see the Kingdom of God, by receiving the life and nature of God into him, only through the confession of Jesus the Christ as Lord of his life.”
(Read John 3:3; Rom. 19:9, 10, 13; Acts 4:12; Rom. 6:23
“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse...”
Giving is a New Testament grace.
(Read 2 Cor. 9:6-12; 2 Cor. 8:7-9; 3 John 2)
Isa. 43:18-19 “Do not consider the former things; neither consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing, now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it, and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the
wilderness and rivers in the desert.
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