Concerning Secular and Sacred Music part 7

 

Concerning Secular and Sacred Music part 7

God desires that we should love and serve Him.  This we know from Deuteronomy 10:12-13, “And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good”?  Matthew 22:37 affirms this teaching when  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind”.  However, I find no Bible lesson where Jesus taught that every life action of a Christian must be directed toward Him.

 Our life actions must bring honor to his name, but they are not all elevated to the position of being considered sacred or direct continual worship or offerings made to Him.  In view of this, Christians are commanded may times in the Bible to sing and to music directly unto God, but they are not commanded in the Bible that all of their singing and all of their musicing must be directed to Him.  This we know because all of the music and musicing mentioned in the Bible is not of a sacred nature.  Furthermore, not all of the secular music mentioned in the Bible is condemned.  Noteworthy is the fact that although some secular music and musicing is condemned in the Bible, so is some religious music and musicing.