It
is a fair question to ask why I purport that all ministering musicians. The answers to this hypothesis are found
first in the statement in 2Timothy 2:15: “Study to shew thyself approved (dokimos 1384) unto God”. Dokimos means, in this situation, that the musician’s
serious and accurate study will cause that musician to music in a way that will
render this music and musicing acceptable in the sight of God. This phrase would also connote that the
musician has, by study, has “tried” the music and the way he or she plans to
musics so that it will be acceptable unto God.
Second,
the statement “a workman that needeth not to be ashamed” is self- explanatory—those
who study music and music in the Bible are a lot less apt to later be ashamed
of how thy musiced unto God, than those who rush in like a bull in a china shop
and find themselves in the unfortunate situation mentioned in 1Timothy 1:5-7,.
“Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good
conscience, and of faith unfeigned: From which some having swerved have turned
aside unto vain jangling; desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding
neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.”
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