We
are now in the twenty-third month of our blogging venture. It is my desire that my efforts have caused
you to have greater insights into the Scriptures concerning music in the Bible
and that the language studies have helped you to develop a deeper functional
Bible based music philosophy. Church
musicians are not usually language scholars and, on the contrary, they have
general tendency to avoid original language study concerning Bible music and
music philosophy.
All
too many musicians' libraries consist of a host of volumes on music history,
theory, literature, a few volumes of hymn stories, and their favorite hypnology
text without a single concordance or lexicon to study the original Bible
languages. I hope that your word study
appetite has been stimulated until you will at least invest in the standard
works that are now keyed to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance.
As
we have entered the first part of the twenty-first century, you will need to
not only be prepared spiritually and musically, but also have a deep
understanding of the significance of music in the Bible. It is important that you be able to
understand the music of the Bible in Christian perspective so you will be able
to develop a Christocentric music philosophy.
I Corinthians 2:12-13 states, "Now ye have received, not of the
spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that ye might know the
things that are freely given to us of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with
spiritual."
No
music blog will be able to completely guide Christian musicians in the
twenty-first century. Only an
understanding of what the Book of Books has to say about sacred music and the
application of that knowledge to a serious study of music philosophy will serve
as a guide for Christian musicians in this century. If my blog has stimulated you to study music
in the Book of Books, the time that it has taken to prepare the daily posts has
been well spent.
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