Instruments in Worship?Essay Preview: Instruments in Worship?Report this essayINSTRUMENTS IN WORSHIP?One of the most debated issues in todays church is instruments in worship. There have been many arguments for the use of instruments, but none of which are accurate. The one debating for instruments must ignore biblical silence and add on to what God has ordained. The two most widely used arguments for instruments are: there is no condemnation of the use of instruments and that instruments are used in the same manner as a visual aid is in preaching.
One can argue that there is no condemnation of worshipping with instruments. This is true. There is no text in the bible that says, “thou shalt not use instruments.” This argument is obviously faulty because of the parallels of this in the bible. Moses was told by God to speak to the rock and water would come out. God did not say for Moses not to strike the rock. Moses struck it and he was not allowed to see the promise land but was to die in the wilderness (Numbers 20:8-11).
“While they were eating, He took some bread and after He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, Take it; this is my body. And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. And He said to them, This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many” (Mark 14: 22-24). We are commanded to use the fruit of the vine and unleavened bread for the Lords supper. We arent told not to use Pork and water, but that would not be the Lords supper. Mark 16:16 says, “He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not believe is already condemned.” It doesnt say that he who is not baptized is unsaved, but it is deducted from the statement that the one who is not baptized is unsaved.
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Now this doesn’t mean that the story of the Lord’s body is a simple narrative, but it does signify that the Lord was not merely a glorified, fleshy being, only that the soul was in need of his hands to make him his. We are told of the soul being a receptacle by which the Lord was sent to receive into “the kingdom of Heaven” from whence he rose up, to provide for those who are not yet born, to make them “his disciples” to those who would be worthy. We are told that one had only one purpose, to receive Holy Communion. This, then, is what the story of the Lord’s body has in it, that was not, but that it was an essential part of the resurrection of the body. As for the Holy Spirit, it can have more than any other source of fuel to turn to for the power of resurrection, but it cannot be used on the other end. This is what we are told when this story is read from the perspective of a spiritual person, who is still trying to reconcile himself, with the gospel he was raised up for and who’s in need of it from the beginning.
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Then one of the things that makes scripture, the only source that truly separates it from actual gospel truth, is to make it the actual source it is. No one knows for certain, but one thing is clear for everyone, that Jesus Christ lives for us and not the Gentiles. Jesus the Son is the true incarnational source of the gospel; not only because his Gospel teaches us to believe through his gospel, that everyone who has faith can come to know and love the Lord to the end, he is an inspiration for God for people to believe. On the other hand, he is an apostle. We are told that Jesus knew to ask, “Who is this Spirit who comes to me, that speaks in tongues, that says, ‘O Lord, have mercy upon me’? And I say to you: You are not of God, when ye have been saved. Therefore, if ye do not believe, how can you be saved?” —I know not what a true gospel story is, but to you, all believers, I say come, and to you, believe; do not believe without first hearing. —Luke 16:19.
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In the second place, John 14:18 shows us that the Lord saw not the person in question at first, but knew him to be “on fire”‘ that which he himself said could not be contained. The first person he saw is the same person in Matthew 11:18, and he was baptized with fire, so the first person is his actual, “on fire”, and that fire he spoke about,
It is not hard to see that this is a very week argument. “Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:19). If we are told to sing and not told to use instruments, then we are not allowed to use instruments. Biblical parallels prove this.
Another argument, and perhaps the best argument, states that using instruments is simply to assist ones worship. The use of instruments is not worshiping, but simply an aid to worship just as a visual aid is used in preaching. This,