Sing! (Part 2 of 2)

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Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Do you sing along at church or just listen? Examine the purpose of the music ministry, its role within corporate worship, and why it’s hard to resist singing God’s praises once we understand who He is. That’s our focus on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg

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0:00.0	You know,
0:13.0	You Do you sing along at church, or do you think I'm not a good singer and you just listen?
0:30.7	Today on Truth for Life, we are unpacking the purpose of music ministry and the significant role it plays in corporate worship,
0:38.5	we're going to find out why it's hard to resist singing God's praises
0:42.1	once we truly understand who he is.
0:45.9	Alistur Begg is looking at the 100th Psalm.
1:04.1	What we sing is a matter of spiritual importance, so that it is framed biblically, that it is framed by the truth of scripture.
1:13.3	And if I may say so, turning to the Psalms, we neglect Jesus' hymn book to our impoverishment.
1:20.0	We are probably, this generation is probably the first generation that has actually ignored the Psalms almost in their entirety. If you have lived long enough, you know that
1:25.8	there may well have been a Psalm that was sung
1:28.2	within the liturgy of your church. Largely gone, something's missing. Because you see,
1:34.8	the truths that God conveys to us in the Psalms, the truth that He gives us to sing back to him,
1:42.4	help us to understand that what we sing is a matter of importance.
1:47.8	Also, how we sing affects our congregational praise. How we sing? Plummer in the 19th century,
1:58.3	the Presbyterian minister here in America, he says, if we are to sing, we must learn to sing.
2:07.1	Otherwise, we will make discord and disturb the devotions of our fellow worshippers.
2:14.2	Isn't that interesting? You hear people all the time and say,
2:18.9	I say, how old are you not?
2:19.7	I'm 64.
2:20.3	What are you doing?
2:22.2	Well, I'm learning how to work my iPhone.
2:23.2	Oh, really?
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