Ephesians 5:19 - 21
19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of [fn3] God.
What does it mean to address one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart? This is worship in spirit and truth. This is genuine worship. This is not just singing Christian songs for their own sake or thinking that by singing these songs it is somehow worship. It is singing to the Lord in worship because of who He is and what He has done. It is a worship that expresses delight in Him for who He is and what His attributes are.
For instance, we praise Him for His immutability. He never changes. If he makes a promise, He will keep it. That is why we know that we, who are saved, don’t have to fear that He will change His mind and cut us off. Worship that is genuine is inhabited by the Holy Spirit. He is right in the middle of it. He is both edifying our hearts and glorifying God (because he is God) in the midst of it.
How can this cause us to be Spirit-filled? Look at v20. “giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ”…
As we worship Him as a way of walking, we also thank Him in all that we do. This is praying continually with a grateful heart. This is walking in the Spirit. This is walking with our minds on the things of “god rather than the things of men. This is walking in humility as pride is being ripped up by the roots. This suffocates and strangles our sin nature because we give no opening to it to blossom its vileness through our members. We give no provision for the flesh, therefore, we are in the process of killing our sin.
How often should we do this? Come back tomorrow for Part 4. To be continued…
1 comment:
Excellent word sister. I have observed many over the years who appear to be more in love with worship than the truth of the gospel. It was an idol in their lives. Unless we worship Him in Spirit and in Truth, we worship in vain.We are not to worship for our own fleshly pleasure, but as a true act of sacrificial Worship to Him who is worthy of all Praise, Amen
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