A
Biblical perspective of the influence of the Holy Spirit on church music is
essential if a minister of music is going to have an efficacious balanced music
ministry. Church musicians must remember that the Bible commands musicians to
be filled with the Spirit. In Ephesians 5:18-20 we read: “And be not drunk with wine wherein 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.” A companion musical discourse to the
Ephesians scripture is found in Colossians 3:15-17: And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are
called in one body: and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you
richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns
and spiritual song, sing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever
ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to
God and the Father by Him.”
Notice
that the musician is command to no be drunk and is command to be filled with
the Spirit. The musician who is filled
with the Spirit has as the Wesleyan Bible commentary states “. . . a reckless
abandonment to the will of God. . . “Wesleyan Bible Commentary p. 424 Pulpit points out
that, “. . . we can never be too much abandoned to the spiritual appetite. It
can never grow in us to dangerous strength." [1] Pulpit
Commentary p. 238 Beacon
states that: The verb 'filled' is a
present imperative and can be translated 'be continually filled with the Spirit.'
But are stands to reason that a Christian cannot go on being filled until he
has first been filled at some given time, as was true on the Day of Pentecost.
Ralph Earle comments, 'This is not to be a transitory experience, but as
abiding one.' The verbs in 19 - 21 suggest that Paul is not here calling his
readers to the crisis of being sanctified wholly, but rather to the subsequent
life in which the Holy Spirit fills us moment by moment, having already been
'sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise. . . .”
[1] Beacon
Bible Commentary p. 235
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