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Hank Smith & John Bytheway

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🗓️ 7 August 2022

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Hank Smith and John Bytheway answer a question from this week's Come, Follow Me study.

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0:00.0	My friends, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. This year we are taking on a single question
0:10.9	from each lesson. John, the lesson for this week is basically the first third of the
0:17.3	Psalms. Psalms 1 through 50. And I don't know if how many people realize it, but Psalms
0:23.7	are hymns, they're songs. And so the question may come up this week. Why do we sing so much?
0:31.0	Why is music so important to the church in religion? John, if someone asks you, dad or brother
0:37.6	by the way or bishop by the way, why do we sing so much? Why is music almost a part of
0:42.9	everything we do? What would you say? One school of thought is that we sing so that the
0:48.8	late people can come in and find a seat before the real meeting starts. Right? Okay, that's the
0:55.1	and we still have a lot of it. Now let's have a special musical number. Let's have a really
1:01.2	special musical number. I used to wonder that myself and then you start noticing in the
1:07.7	scriptures how often they sang that Jesus so that they sang in him before the Passover.
1:13.8	So the question became, well, it must be important because Jesus did it. Why did Jesus do it? And
1:20.0	so many of these Psalms that we've looked at are talking about the greatness of God and teaching
1:26.2	us how to reverence him and to honor him. And I guess it's an inviting the spirit type of a thing.
1:33.0	Not all music does that. That's a whole nother discussion isn't it Hank, but the music that
1:38.9	invites the spirit of the Lord to come because boy, once we have the spirit of the Lord,
1:42.9	then our meeting is going to be wonderful and successful. So that's probably the short answer is
1:48.3	we know the Lord wants us to, but it's an invitation to the spirit. Yeah, the Lord commands us to
1:54.0	pray always. That's pretty hard to do to pray always until you hear that singing is a form of prayer.
2:01.9	That's section 25 of the Doctrine Covenants. The song of the righteous is a prayer unto me and it
2:07.6	shall be answered with a blessing upon their heads. Yeah. So if we can keep the songs of the restoration,
2:14.6	the hymns in our head, that's that's part of praying always. And to me, that's a pretty cool way
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