Why We Do Not Use Handmade Music In Worship Acts 17:22-28.

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Why We Do Not Use Handmade Music In Worship Acts 17:22-28

1.Our worship is not in handmade tabernacles – Heb 9:11 2.Worship therefore cannot be handmade – Acts 17:25 3.Christ not in handmade temple – Acts 17:24; Heb 9:24 4.God is not worshipped by manmade system – Mt 15:9 5.Worship must be in Spirit and Truth – Jn 4:24

A. Our Reasons For Opposing the Instrument in Worship 1.Must not go beyond the doctrine of Christ – 1Cor 4:6 2.Must not add to what is written – Rev 22:18 3.Must walk by faith – 2Cor 5:7 a. Faith obtained only through words – Rom 10:17 b. Whatsoever is not faith, is sin – Rom 14:23

A. Our Reasons For Opposing the Instrument in Worship 4. Instrument not a part of truth – Jn 16:13 a. Worship must be in truth – Jn 4:24 b. Not a part of the counsel of God – Acts 20:27 c. Peter never bound it – Mt 16:19 5. God is not worshipped with man’s hands – Acts 17:24

A. Our Reasons For Opposing the Instrument in Worship 6. We do not pray with machinery – 1Cor 14:15 a. Why use it in worship in singing? 7. God’s silence is not authority for anything a. If silence is authority then scripture is nothing – 2Tim 3:16-17

B. Our Objections to the Instrument: 1.It was not used in OT worship before David 2.It was condemned by Amos – Amos 6:1-5 3.Cannot justify NT worship by OT scriptures – Gal 5:4 4.We are opposed to worship AS tradition – Mk 7:1-9 5.Introduced by Pope Vitalian in 666AD

C. The New Testament - Authorizes & Commands Singing 1.Jesus introduced it – Mt 26:30; Mk 14:26 2.Practiced by apostles – Acts 16:25; James 5:13 3.Taught to disciples – Eph 5:19; Col 3:16; 1Cor 14:15 4.Singing in Worship is For: a. Edification – Col 3:19; Acts 16 (Paul/Silas) b. Praise – Rom 15:9; Heb 2:12 c. Joy – James 5:13

CONCLUSION: How does the matter look to you? Had you not rather be right and be saved, than to be wrong and be lost?