Singing A New Song (2 of 5)
Series: All Things Made New
Jeff Strite
Psalm 40:1-5
OPEN with song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjF_xGUS6X8 gives example of melody)
‘‘Sing unto the Lord a new song,
Sing unto the Lord all the earth (repeat);
For God is great and greatly to be praised (repeat).
OPEN: Years ago, I was at a Christian camp, where the Dean of that week challenged the Hi School campers to think of a popular song that was entirely instrumental. Just instruments... no words. AND they couldn’t think of a single song. He then pointed out that most people can’t think of a top-100 song played on the radio that had NO WORDS in the song.
Since then, I done a little research and I’ve found a few you might know.
• The theme from Hawaii 5-0 by the Ventures;
• Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs;
• Telstar by the Tornados;
• Jessica by the Allman Brothers;
• Wipeout by the Safaris. (Ok, so it has one word)
But out of the 1000s of popular songs played on the radio, a very small percentage that have no words. Words seem to be important in popular music. And that’s probably why the Bible admonishes us to sing! Not just listen to music... but to actually sing stuff.
Ephesians 5:19 tells us we should ‘‘speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord.’’
Colossians 3:16 ‘‘Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.’’
And, of course, in our text today, David tells us ‘‘(God) put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God’’ (Psalm 40:3) David was given a song... a reason to sing!
ILLUS: Several years back, a group of missionaries spent 25 years translating the New Testament into the language of the Chol Indians. Today the Chol Church is thriving - more than 12,000 believers. What’s interesting is that when ...
Series: All Things Made New
Jeff Strite
Psalm 40:1-5
OPEN with song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjF_xGUS6X8 gives example of melody)
‘‘Sing unto the Lord a new song,
Sing unto the Lord all the earth (repeat);
For God is great and greatly to be praised (repeat).
OPEN: Years ago, I was at a Christian camp, where the Dean of that week challenged the Hi School campers to think of a popular song that was entirely instrumental. Just instruments... no words. AND they couldn’t think of a single song. He then pointed out that most people can’t think of a top-100 song played on the radio that had NO WORDS in the song.
Since then, I done a little research and I’ve found a few you might know.
• The theme from Hawaii 5-0 by the Ventures;
• Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs;
• Telstar by the Tornados;
• Jessica by the Allman Brothers;
• Wipeout by the Safaris. (Ok, so it has one word)
But out of the 1000s of popular songs played on the radio, a very small percentage that have no words. Words seem to be important in popular music. And that’s probably why the Bible admonishes us to sing! Not just listen to music... but to actually sing stuff.
Ephesians 5:19 tells us we should ‘‘speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord.’’
Colossians 3:16 ‘‘Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.’’
And, of course, in our text today, David tells us ‘‘(God) put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God’’ (Psalm 40:3) David was given a song... a reason to sing!
ILLUS: Several years back, a group of missionaries spent 25 years translating the New Testament into the language of the Chol Indians. Today the Chol Church is thriving - more than 12,000 believers. What’s interesting is that when ...
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