There
is also another companion passage found in Ephesians 5:19-21, “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving
thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the
fear of God.”
I
would like to take a brief moment to remind Christian musicians of the main
reasons for our musicing. First, we must always music “in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ”. The Greek
word used here is kurios (2962) which
connotes supreme authority, or the one who is the Christian’s Savior, Lord and
Master. Christian musicians often tend
to get lost in the fact that they are giving a music performance or that they
work for and represent a particular church or Christian organization. All of
the above may be true, but a Christian musician’s supreme authority is God the
Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Second, the Christian
musician who is performing the psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs does so as a
vehicle for giving thanks to God the Father by the mediatorial agency of God
the Son. Third, our performances are
“submitted” (hupotasso 523), performances
unto God and His people. These
performances are not event opportunities for a musician to hock his or her
musical wares. Forth, (Colossians
3:16) a musician who performs or leads others in sacred music must have the
grace (charis 5485) God in his or her
heart. This Scripture is not referring
to man’s charisma or the joy of performance but rather God’s grace.
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