2. Instrumental music in worship
Why?
Why we do not use
Instrumental music in worship

3. We don’t like it We can’t afford it We’ve never had it
It Is Not Because:

4. Why we do not use
Instrumental music
I. It Is Not Authorized

5. Must Have Bible Authority
It Is Not Authorized
Must Have Bible Authority
God, because He is God - has authority over man (Gen. 1:1)
Must abide by His authority
Col. 3:17
2 John 9
Heb. 8:5
Col. 1:18

6. How To Determine What Is
Authorized
Observance
1 Cor. 11:23-24
Time of Ob.
Acts 20:7
Frequency
Illustracted
Lord’s Supper vv
v. 12
vv. 7-11
Acts 15
Circumcision
Command/
Direct
Statement
Approved
Example
Necessary
Inference

7. Must Have Bible Authority Silence of God Prohibitive
It Is Not Authorized
Must Have Bible Authority
Silence of God Prohibitive

8. God’s Silence Is Not Authority
Two Mindsets
Permissive
At liberty to do what
is not
condemned
Prohibitive
Forbidden to act
Without authority
Heb. 7:14
For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood

9. Must Have Bible Authority Silence of God Prohibitive
It Is Not Authorized
Must Have Bible Authority
Silence of God Prohibitive
Heb. 7:14
Moses spake NOTHING
about tribe of JUDAH
God Did Not Say:
Not to have jam in LS
Not to use oak wood

10. It Is Not Authorized Must Have Bible Authority
Silence of God Prohibitive
God only Authorized Singing

11. Singing Is All That
God Has Authorized

12. It Is Not Authorized Must Have Bible Authority
Silence of God Prohibitive
God only Authorized Singing
No Passage Authorizes Inst. Music

13. Why we do not use Instrumental music I. It Is Not Authorized
II. God Has Specified Singing

14. Singing Is All That
God Has Authorized

15. Generic & Specific Authority
Command
Generic
Specific
Build ark - Gen. 6:14
Wood
Gopher
Wash 7 Times - 2 Kings 5
River
Jordan
Offer – Lev. 14:12-13
Animal
Lamb
Praise – Eph. 5:19
Music
Sing
Buy me a canned drink
Cola
Pepsi

16. Why we do not use Instrumental music I. It Is Not Authorized
II. God Has Specified Singing
III. It Is An Addition To God’s Word

17. Must Not Add To Or Take From
The Word of God
Deut. 4:2
Num. 22:18
Prov. 30:5-7
Rev. 22:18-19

18. Aids Are Authorized, Additions Are Not
An Addition Involves Another Element Being Added!
Command
Aid
Addition
Eat Bread – 1 Cor. 11
Table, plates …
Jam, beef, cola
Baptize – Matt. 28:19
Baptistry, heater
Sprinkling
Build an ark – Gen. 6:14
Tool, Animal
Oak, Cedar
Sing – Eph. 5:19
Books, Tuner
Instrumental
Music
Contribute – 1 Cor. 16
Basket, Account
Mon. / Sat.

19. “It helps the singing / Lord’s Supper”
If One
Why Not The Other?
“I like it”
“Just an aid”
“It helps the singing / Lord’s Supper”
“God didn’t say not to”

20. Why we do not use Instrumental music I. It Is Not Authorized
II. God Has Specified Singing
III. It Is An Addition To God’s Word