Church Music Matters-part 3

 

Church Music Matters-part 3 

          As church leaders we must continuously encourage, admonish, and instruct our church musicians to “prophesy” with music.  Now in order to prophesy, the man of God had to discern the mind of God.  It should be pointed out that by the term “prophesy”, I only mean our music should be God’s message to the people.  I do not mean that our music ministry should be divinely inspired or that church musicians in this dispensation receive divinely inspired messages from God.   Note that these musicians were not only seers but also tellers. 

The fathers of the Levite musicians trained these musicians to seek and find the will and word of Jehovah and tell it to the people through the medium of music.  When we look at music ministry from this perspective, we understand that in ancient Israel church music mattered.  It is my belief that in the 21st century, church music matters.  The reason it matters is that church musicians are still commanded to find the will and mind of the Holy Spirit and then deliver (tell) this message to the church through the medium of music.  Unless our church music presents the Logos Christos (Word 3056 of  Christ 5547), it really doesn’t matter very much.  Church music is hollow unless it is a vehicle upon which the Word of Christ rides into the hearts of men and women.

          Verse 5 of I Chronicles 25 states that Heman was the Kings seer in the words (dabar 1697) of God.  The Hebrew word dabar was used in the Old Testament with some latitude.  Its meaning included: words, matters, advise, business, language, promise, and message.  So we may conclude that Heman was a seer of the message of God through music.  We know that a seer was a beholder of visions of God.  Heman, the chief musician, was therefore a spiritual musical messenger.  He came with a distinct message from God for the people.  In II Chronicles 35:15, Jeduthun was mentioned as a seer (chozeh 2734) and in II Chronicles 29:30, Asaph was said to be a seer.  All three of these Chief Musicians who were the teachers of the young Levite musicians understood that they were to present God’s musical message to the congregation.  They were seers or beholders of the vision of God in music.