In many parts you think that He is only dimly and distantly to be found, and even passages fullest of Him do not bring Him as speaking personally to you. THEY MUST BE SUNG UNTO THE LORD. But, lo! It is connected with some marked crisis; as a whisper of consolation, a breath of pity in sinfulness, felt as the Word of Christ just then wanted. Manifestly all this lies solely in the Scriptures. As to matter: they treat of spiritual things, relating to the glory of God and our salvation; not of secular and vain matters.II. This she did, placing her hands firmly on his shoulders, and resting there until, her strength becoming exhausted, she said, "I can hold on no longer!" LET THE WORD OF CHRIST DWELL IN YOU.1. Then let me remember the Word of Christ as a word of assured salvation, saving the eyes from tears, the feet from falling, and the soul from death. The recognition of sweetness and pleasingness as an element of public worship is very interesting and important. 158 Myers Corners Road 1. ITS UTILITY. Verse 16 says to sing with thankful hearts, and verse 17 says that whatever we do or say, we need to be giving thanks to God. "Try a little longer," was the response of the wearied and agonized husband, "let us sing 'Rock of Ages.'" The psalms, then, which the apostle would have the faithful to sing to one another are those of David, Asaph, and the other sweet singers of Israel.II. This would include many of our modern choruses as well as songs such as My Jesus, I Love Thee, He Touched me, Just as I Am and Have Thine Own Way, Lord. There was a special impressiveness in the use of psalms and hymns in the early Church. This is diversely interpreted; some understand it of the dexterity that should be used in singing; others of the comeliness, right order, reverence, or delight of the heart; others of thanksgiving. These virtues are not limited to friends and loved ones, but are extended to all men. 6:08). "(Canadian Baptist).LinksColossians 3:16 NIVColossians 3:16 NLTColossians 3:16 ESVColossians 3:16 NASBColossians 3:16 KJVColossians 3:16 Bible AppsColossians 3:16 ParallelColossians 3:16 Biblia ParalelaColossians 3:16 Chinese BibleColossians 3:16 French BibleColossians 3:16 German BibleColossians 3:16 CommentariesBible Hub, 1. (1)As to outward expression "gracefully, sweetly, so as to give pleasure and be attractive. THEY MUST BE SUNG IN THE HEART, i.e., from the inmost affection. Davenant. The Word is useful for teaching and for warning. It must be to God.But though "hymn" was a word freely adopted in the fourth century, it nowhere occurs in the early Fathers, probably because it was so steeped in heathenism, so linked with profane associations, there were so many hymns to Zeus, Hermes, Aphrodite, etc., that the early Christians shrank from it. Let your inner life, nourished by the indwelling Word, have not ostentatious and noisy, but natural and continuous expression. )Power of a hymnW. Satan hinders; cumbering with much business, diverting with trifles, or disturbing with wicked imaginations or affections.I. Psalm comes from a word signifying properly a touching, and then a touching of a stringed instrument with a plectrum, and next the instrument itself, and lastly the song sung with this musical accompaniment. ; but it is only when received in faith that it can really profit.III. Colossians 3:16. We do not have that sort of psalmody now. "(3)As to the Being addressed "to the Lord. In our own day, with the power of the printing press, this may not be so necessary; but when books had to be copied in MS., and books were scanty, the citation of song and psalm formed an important element of instruction. Christ's Word is to be as the Shekinah.2. In either view this indwelling is not to be like a mass of dead matter crammed into a dead receptacle; as bales are packed in a warehouse, or loads of unread learning are crowded on library shelves for show. (d) With compassion and tenderness (2 Corinthians 2:4). The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life, making it truly the living Word of a living Christ. Baxendale. A friend's letter is his word to me when by means of it I call him up before me in his own loved person speaking to me. They are fruitful or barren, corrupt or chaste. If we turn, e.g., to Herbert's Temple, or Keble's Christian Year, there are many poems in both, which, as certainly they are not "psalms," so as little do they possess the characteristics of hymns. If a man had some fragment of an old psalm, or some strain that bad come fresh from the Christian heart, he might sing it, and his brethren would listen. For reproof of such as delight in profane songs.(N. And there is clear reference here to the written as well as the spoken Word. Supplemental Passage: (1 Corinthians 13:11 NASB) When I was a child, I It has soothed my affliction, it has endeared solitude, and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that surrounds me."2. We should sing in our houses as well as in our Churches. Byfield. F. Pentecost, D. D.)Saved by a hymnCanadian BaptistOn board the ill-fated steamer Seawanhaka was one of the Fisk University singers. Its indwelling is personal, and is not to be evaporated, as if it referred to the Church collective (Romans 8:11; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 3:17; 2 Timothy 1:5, 14).I. 14-15); and with the outward expression in which it finds vent (ver. The felt preciousness of real present and living intercourse between Christ and you will cause the Word, as His, to abide in you. It has been said, by a well-known author, that if he were allowed to make the songs of a nation, he cared not who made the laws. In many parts you think that He is only dimly and distantly to be found, and even passages fullest of Him do not bring Him as speaking personally to you. Love, hope, and gratitude filled her heart as she sang the hymn commencing "Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah!" It is the polar star which shines out in the spiritual firmament to point you to Christ; and yet in how many instances is the glimmering taper of human reason preferred! How many there are who give it only the entertainment of a wayfaring man who obtains with difficulty a lodging for the night, and in the morning is gone. (3) Up higher yet, where imagination lights her lamp, and invention stirs her fires, and desire bends the knee, looking upward, and hope sits watching with nothing between her and the stars.3. Singing still, they tried, and soon with superhuman strength, laid hold of the lifeboat, upon which they were borne in safety to land. Human beings all tend to agree that different people have different styles. Baxendale.On one of the days when President Garfield lay dying at the seaside, he was a little better, and was permitted to sit by the window, while Mrs. Garfield was in the adjoining room. (5) All sound Christian profit. In a special and limited sense this is the gospel, because He preached and published it.2. Scripture: Colossians 3:16 Denomination: Baptist Bad Behaviors That Always Betray You Series Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Mar 18, 2011 based on 1 rating | 4,161 views We don't just give up bad behaviors; we put to death the old self. Whether or not that Word would have lived without a literary embodiment we are not required to settle. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and As important as this is, it is becoming increasingly hard to find professing believers that actually know even the basics of Scripture much less know it richly. Is it any wonder then that there is little difference between the manner of life between most people who claim to be Christians and those that do not. Christ appointed the Church to teach His Word, and His Word forms the basis of her creeds, and the final authority when those creeds are questioned. Worship (PROSKUNEO) is a conscious glorification of God flowing from an inner attitude of lowly submission to His authority and awe at His majesty. Maclaren, D. D.Whenever a great quickening of religious life comes, a great burst of Christian song comes with it. It must be praise.3. RICHLY.1. St. Paul, on the two occasions when he employs it, adds "spiritual" to it, and this, no doubt, because "Ode" by itself might mean any kind of song, as of battle, of harvest, or festal, or hymeneal, while "psalm," from its Hebrew use, and "hymn," from its Greek, did not need such qualification. It is of social utility. Facts of history, deeds of prowess, wonderful providences, are handed down in song, and are in this form better remembered and more easily preserved. Lifestyles define a person, because other people can watch that person in action. THEY MUST BE SUNG UNTO THE LORD. The first forms of literature in every country and in great national movements are for the most part in song. Expressing the Indwelling Word of Christ Colossians 3:16, True Christians are radically ______________- they are redeemed, regenerated and reconciled with God, The Old Man is ____________, quit dragging the corpse around and put on the New Man, The Word of Christ = the _____________, and in particular the teachings and commands of Jesus, Jesus is our redeemer and the architect, builder, possessor and sustainer of all _____________, Jesus is the __________ of the church and the fullness of the Godhead in bodily form, We have both died and been _____________with Christ and will be glorified with Him when He returns, To dwell (ejnoikevw / enoike) is to resided in, abide in, _____________- see John 15, Psalm 119:11. (3) And how penetrating, as well as powerful, should be its virtue. As to the origin. There is (according to Paul) a definite relationship between our knowledge of the Bible . Scripture: Colossians 3:16 Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational Atlas For The Soul Contributed by Perry Anderson on Sep 29, 2013 | 3,319 views God gives us His word to guide us through life. It is to be exalted in her worship, commemorated in her sacraments, and proclaimed and defended in her pulpits.2. Rut I think that to sing with grace is to exercise the graces of the heart in singing, i.e., with holy joy (Psalm 9:2); trust in God's mercies (Psalm 13:5); a holy commemoration of God's benefits (Psalm 47:6); yea, with the desire of our hearts that our singing may be acceptable (Psalm 104:33-34).3. This is no fiction; it was related by the singer himself, who said he believed Toplady's sweet "Rock of Ages" saved many another besides himself and wife. LET THE WORD OF CHRIST DWELL IN YOU.1. This is no fiction; it was related by the singer himself, who said he believed Toplady's sweet "Rock of Ages" saved many another besides himself and wife. THE MEASURE IN WHICH IT IS TO DWELL IN US. Baxendale. And as the sweet strains floated over the troubled waters, reaching the ears of the sinking and dying, little did they know, those sweet singers of Israel, whom they comforted. The mediaeval Latin hymns cluster round the early pure days of the monastic orders; Luther's rough stormy hymns were as powerful as his treatises; the mystic tenderness and rapture of Charles Wesley have become the possession of the whole Church. Scripture Images; Bible Book List TAMIRV; 3 (TAMIRV) 3:16 Bible Verse Image (TAMIRV) Bible Book (TAMIRV) Old Testament. (view less), Denomination: And unless it is so written it is quite certain that we have no interest in the covenant. It was the essence of a Greek "hymn" that it should be addressed to, or be in praise of a god or a hero, i.e., a deified man, as Callisthenes reminded Alexander, who, claiming hymns for himself, or suffering them to be addressed to him, implicitly accepted divine honours. Thoughts and words of men, plans of earthly ambition, pleasures of sin away! In all probability the word here and in Ephesians 5:19 refers to the inspired Psalms of the Hebrew canon, and certainly designates these on all other occasions where it is met with in the New Testament, with the doubtful exception of 1 Corinthians 14:16. Notice the social hearing of the precept as embedded in the context (vers. Love, hope, and gratitude filled her heart as she sang the hymn commencing "Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah!" 2. A non-Christian can sing a song about our Lord, as many of them do in singing Christmas carols or some popular gospel song, but it is not worship. St. Paul, on the two occasions when he employs it, adds "spiritual" to it, and this, no doubt, because "Ode" by itself might mean any kind of song, as of battle, of harvest, or festal, or hymeneal, while "psalm," from its Hebrew use, and "hymn," from its Greek, did not need such qualification. read more, Scripture: Let your inner life, nourished by the indwelling Word, have not ostentatious and noisy, but natural and continuous expression. read more, Denomination: 12 And so, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. Hence David not only tunes his voice to the harp, but his voice before either (Psalm 57:7-8). How constantly did David find relief in expressing his hopes and fears, his joys and sorrows in song; and in the record of his experience how precious is the boon he has left for the instruction and encouragement of God's children in all ages. "They would both profit and delight." It is sometimes called the Word of the Kingdom, because it shows the way to the kingdom of grace, that we may be partakers of the kingdom of glory; "the Word of life," because the instrument of regeneration and spiritual sustentation. "(2)As to inward devotion "heartfelt. This was high with the primitive Christians. "(3)As to the Being addressed "to the Lord. But what a long way we have travelled from it to a modern congregation, standing with hooks that they scarcely look at, and "worshipping" in a hymn which half of them do not open their mouths to sing at all, and the other half do in a voice inaudible three pews off.(A. Singing still, they tried, and soon with superhuman strength, laid hold of the lifeboat, upon which they were borne in safety to land. Colossians 3:16. Open all the doors, fling wide the windows. This exhortation is connected with the exhortation out of which it springs (vers. "The entrance of Thy Word giveth light." Fill yourselves with it. Then we must sing earnestly and awake out of our lethargy (Psalm 57:8).4. For a deep feeling of anxiety on the part of a ruler in the ancient Church that sacred song should be beautiful, see the story how Ignatius brought back the melody of angels heard in vision to his Church at Antioch (Socrates, Hist. 6:08). It was originated by Christ. Any music that ___________ God or promotes righteousness or admonishes sin is acceptable. In the gradual breaking down of the distinction between the human and the divine which marked the fallen days of Greece and Rome, with the usurping on the part of men of divine honours, the hymn came more and more to be applied to men; although this was not without remonstrance. This she did, placing her hands firmly on his shoulders, and resting there until, her strength becoming exhausted, she said, "I can hold on no longer!" And as the sweet strains floated over the troubled waters, reaching the ears of the sinking and dying, little did they know, those sweet singers of Israel, whom they comforted. They first obtained such in the Septuagint. (1) This points out a contrast between a settled and vagrant life. Such care for singing, again, is quite of a piece with Paul's high ideal of womanly grace and beauty in youth (1 Corinthians 11:15), priestlike dignity in age (Titus 2:3), with his recognition of things "lovely" (Philippians 4:3), with his appeal to primary aesthetic instincts (1 Corinthians 11:13), with his horror of "confusion" in public worship (1 Corinthians 14:33), with the word for agrave and majestic beauty in public service expressed in that great foundation-rubric (1 Corinthians 14:40). There are three things which determine the value of poetry.1. Baxendale.On one of the days when President Garfield lay dying at the seaside, he was a little better, and was permitted to sit by the window, while Mrs. Garfield was in the adjoining room. "They would both profit and delight." "The clue to the real meaning of the passage is to bear in mind that the apostle is speaking of singing as a Church duty, a part of the Church's corporate life, a declaration of peace among her children, and a means of edification. "Freely ye have received, freely give." I love to travel. The highest strains of the orator are poetical.2. There are several ramifications in this verse to our use of music within the church and as individual Christians which I want to expand on, but first I want to make some general comments about music in the church and explain the general meaning of each of these types of music. We may dream of this mutual indwelling after some vague, sleepy fashion; but if it is to be more than a dream there must be talk between us. "The Word of Christ ". (1)For daily exercise (Psalm 101:1-2). Colossians 3:16, Denomination: This is diversely interpreted; some understand it of the dexterity that should be used in singing; others of the comeliness, right order, reverence, or delight of the heart; others of thanksgiving. The literal Word of Christ is one of the most wonderful things that ever has been in the world. And cultivate thankfulness. ITS UTILITY. The word sometimes means this (1 Corinthians 15:57; 2 Corinthians 2:14). That is why God only commands us to be at peace with all men so far as it depends on you. What does it mean to sing with thankfulness in your heart to God? Warren W. Wiersbe talks briefly on the subject of worship in his commentary of the book of Colossians 3:16. This Word ought to dwell in us. Baxendale.On one of the days when President Garfield lay dying at the seaside, he was a little better, and was permitted to sit by the window, while Mrs. Garfield was in the adjoining room. Do not think one thing and sing another.IV. )The service of songN. "The Word" is one of His titles, and He would have us honour it by honouring the Scriptures which testify of Him.4. Meantime it is a great matter to know what is daily bread for this day. republic or Shakespeare in his plays, but as a living and operating power. The phrase make a joyful noise unto the Lord occurs seven times in the Psalms. Spence, D. D.has from the first been a most important element in her holy progress and means of usefulness. Open all the doors, fling wide the windows. There is authoritative Word of Christ for us nowhere else. In our own day, with the power of the printing press, this may not be so necessary; but when books had to be copied in MS., and books were scanty, the citation of song and psalm formed an important element of instruction. 14-15); and with the outward expression in which it finds vent (ver. (3) And how penetrating, as well as powerful, should be its virtue. 2. As Plato says, "The Phrygian strain was adapted for sacred rites and fanatical excitement, being of almost frenzied wildness."(Bp. The first forms of literature in every country and in great national movements are for the most part in song. The whole written Word is the soul's pasturage. Spence, D. D.)Singing with grace in your hearts unto the LordPhrygia was proverbially a land of musicBp. Byfield.I. So Mary (Luke 1:46-47). THE MANNER.1. This is diversely interpreted; some understand it of the dexterity that should be used in singing; others of the comeliness, right order, reverence, or delight of the heart; others of thanksgiving. Heartfelt singing is not voiceless singing (Psalm 111:1). Then let me take some strong promise, adapted to the need, and drink it up as a tainting man would drink a cordial until I am refreshed. Maclaren, D. D.Whenever a great quickening of religious life comes, a great burst of Christian song comes with it. Admonishing, nouqetevw / nouthete, has a root meaning of to put in mind. It can also be translated as exhort, teach or give instruction though it is from the negative side of pointing out things that are wrong and giving warning about them. It is to dwell in you, not only as rich receivers, but dispensers. It's a life of thankful worship: The Lord's people should be marked by thankful worship engaging the whole person in all of life. Heartfelt singing is not voiceless singing (Psalm 111:1). SPIRITUAL SONGS. ITS CHARACTER. Riches of goodness, glory, wisdom, knowledge, grace; unsearchable riches of Christ.4. Whether or not that Word would have lived without a literary embodiment we are not required to settle. Watson, B. A.There is nothing easier than to hear the Word with a general regard, and few things more difficult than to receive it as a principle of spiritual life. Could they hold out a little longer? ; but it is only when received in faith that it can really profit.III. When the word was assumed into the language of the Church, this essential distinction clung to it still. In the gradual breaking down of the distinction between the human and the divine which marked the fallen days of Greece and Rome, with the usurping on the part of men of divine honours, the hymn came more and more to be applied to men; although this was not without remonstrance. God does not allow us to shoulder out this with other recreations.3. Do they teach you about God, His character, His will, how to live a righteous life? Raleigh, D. D.)Psalms and hymns and spiritual songsArchbishop Trench.I. The Blessing of the Indwelling Word to Others. But what a long way we have travelled from it to a modern congregation, standing with hooks that they scarcely look at, and "worshipping" in a hymn which half of them do not open their mouths to sing at all, and the other half do in a voice inaudible three pews off.(A. Much "wisdom" is needed for the due remembrance and seasonable entertainment of the various parts in order to apply it to meet the wants of life as they arise. The beginning of the story of the race is told that the first Adam may prepare the way for the second: then the mass of the race is forgotten, and one chosen family selected because Christ was to come out of it. The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life, making it truly the living Word of a living Christ. But though necessary, how many unnecessary things are preferred before it. Won't you give us one, sir?"(G. )The indwelling Word of ChristR. Then we must sing earnestly and awake out of our lethargy (Psalm 57:8).4. With the mere wanderer we hold little in common: the resident is well known. October 7, 2018 To sing with the heart is to sing with the understanding (Psalm 47:7; 1 Corinthians 14:14), with sense and feeling. Matthew 6:7-8, Psalms 136:1-26, Psalms 119:1-176, Colossians 3:16, Denomination: What the hymns were we have seen; but Christian thought and feeling will soon have expanded into a wider range of poetic utterances than those in which there is a direct address to the Deity. And rightly is an ardent emotion required, for the action of singing declares the inward exultation of the heart. But here is more than a mere passive allowance. So Mary (Luke 1:46-47). THEY MUST BE SUNG IN THE HEART, i.e., from the inmost affection. Can I forget "Let not your heart ,be troubled. 1. (1) Am I in the dark about myself, about the world? The Mystery of Christ (Colossians 2:2 and Luke 16:16) Living God's Way with Scott LaPierre. 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