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To: .45 Long Colt; LearsFool

Read the Psalms - David, as inspired by the Holy Spirit, writes repeatedly about using a number of different instruments to worship The Lord. We are to worship The Lord in all that we do, if a mechanic - it can be with your wrenches, a writer, with your pen, a musician, with your neutral instruments of melody. When any instrument becomes a distraction by your ignorance, then you modify to not be a distraction. If you purposely use any instrument to bring glory to yourself instead - then it is wrong. Doesn’t matter if it’s the ‘voice’ you were born with.


25 posted on 10/12/2014 5:27:23 PM PDT by time4good
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To: time4good; .45 Long Colt

David lived under a different covenant than we do. However, his example of obedience to the laws of that covenant is a good one for us.

Yes, we are to offer ourselves as “a living sacrifice” to God. In some areas, however, God has given us specific instructions. In these areas, we are limited by those instructions.

(For instance, someone from the tribe of Simeon might have made an excellent priest. Yet when God selected the tribe of Levi as the one from which priests were to be taken, that excluded Simeonites.)

Let’s be content with God’s instructions, and not try to come up with better ideas than He did for how to please Him.


29 posted on 10/12/2014 6:31:07 PM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: time4good

That’s my long held view as well. I hope I didn’t say something to make you think otherwise.


32 posted on 10/12/2014 8:02:32 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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