Not only Beautiful but also Suitable—part 15

Not only Beautiful but also Suitable—part 15

          I’m not advocating any kind of religious fanaticism or out of contol  musical performance, but I am contending that “out of the abundance of the heart a musician musics”.  A careful exegesis of Ephesians 5:18-19 will reveal that the musicing which is mentioned in verse 19 must be done by a Christian musician that is submitted to the Holy Spirit (verse 18) and allows the Spirit to continually fill his or her life with the Spirit’s control and power.  The Ephesian writer makes an analogy of  a person who does not control his actions because he is under the control of wine and the Christian who does not music in his own power because he has steped off of the seat of control and has allowed the Holy Spirit to continually fill his life with power.  Surely the blessed Holy Spirit inspired the writer of the Ephesian letter to preface the mighty  musical teachings of Ephesians 5:19 by the necessary spiritual preperations  taught in verse eighteen.

          In the truest sense, beautiful musical offerings to God can only exude grom a holy heart life.  Galations 5:17 teaches, For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”  I am not contending or intimating that beautiful musicing can not be accormpihed by a musician who is not a born again Christian.   Also, I am not declaring that when God’s Word that is set to so called  religious music that is anti-music, because  its aesthetic basis consists of music that is grotesque or ugly, is not ever used by the Holy Spirit to reach a lost soul.  I do contend, however, that it is the Word that the Holy Spirit is able to use rather than the music part of the music.  I believe this because, Isaiah 55:11 teaches, “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”  So, God can use His Word to reach a lost soul in spite of the music part of a piece of music.