Worship Killers

Lesson 3March 5, 2006

Worship Killers

• What Three Hymns Don’t You Like To See Announced?

• Why Don’t You Like Them?

• What Other Things Make a Hymn Ineffective to you?

False Teaching

• To God Be The Glory (original 2nd verse)O perfect redemption, the purchase of bloodTo every believer the promise of GodThe vilest offender who truly believesThat moment from Jesus a pardon receives

• More modern versions say “the vilest offender who truly obeys…”

• He Lives (#220) – Last line in the chorus– “You ask me how I know He lives: He Lives within

my heart.”

False Teaching

• His Grace Reaches Me (#180 in Songs of the Church)– The writer has the bass part humming for

the verses and only singing during the chorus.

– Col 3:16 – teaching and admonishing. • Humming is neither instructive nor corrective,

but is purely pleasing to the human ear.

False Teaching• Jesus Is Coming Soon (Original 2nd Verse)

Love of so many cold, losing their home of gold

This in God’s Word is told, evils abound

When these signs come to pass Hearing the end at last

It will come very fast, trumpets will sound

– Matt 24:36 – no one knows the hour…• But the message of the song could be “Always Be Ready”

– Matt 24:12 – Love of many will grow cold• This passage is discussing the destruction of Jerusalem and

not the second coming of Christ

– The song writer wrongly applies these passages to Jesus second coming.

False Teaching

• I Know Not Why God’s Wondrous Grace (291 – 4th verse)

I know not when my Lord may come

At night or noon day fair

Or if I’ll walk the vale with Him (valley / farewell)

Or meet Him in the air

– 1 Thess 4:17 – then we … shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

– I think we do know where we will meet the Lord

False Teaching

• My Hope is Built on Nothing Less (438)– 4th verse

When He shall come with trumpet sound

O may I then in Him be found

Dressed in His righteousness alone

Faultless to stand before the throne

– Calvinistic Teaching of the Imputed Righteousness of Jesus.

– Rom 10; 1 Tim 6:11

Unscriptural

• Song Does Not Teach or Admonish– Precious Memories #807– I’ll Fly Away #824– I’ve Got a Mansion #829 (Materialistic)

Precious MemoriesPrecious Memories, unseen angelsSent from somewhere to my soulHow they linger, ever near meAnd the sacred past unfold

In the stillness of the midnightEchoes from the past I hearOld time singing, gladness bringingFrom that lovely land somewhere

As I travel on life’s pathwayKnow not what the years may holdAs I ponder, hope grows fonderPrecious memories flood my soul

Precious Memories, how they linger,How they ever flood my soulIn the stillness of the midnightPrecious memories sacred scenes unfold

I’ll Fly AwaySome glad morning when this life is o’erI’ll fly awayTo a home on God’s celestial shoreI’ll fly away

When the shadows of this life have grownI’ll fly awayLike a bird from prison bars has flownI’ll fly away

Just a few more weary days and thenI’ll fly awayTo a land where joys shall never end

I’ll fly awayI’ll fly away O glory I’ll fly awayWhen I die hallelujah by and by, I’ll fly away

Other Worship Killers

• Difficult Songs

• Over-Used Songs

• Songs that have become Secular

• Songs that are not MY Favorite– Lead Slow– Lead Poorly– Words Don’t Mean Anything to Me

• Angry Words• Come Unto Me

Secular Songs?• Battle Hymn of the Republic #802• Joy to the World #376• O Come All Ye Faithful #464• Silent Night #577• America the Beautiful #801• America #803• Morning Has Broken #879• Whosoever Meaneth Me (#778)• Pray All The Time (#537)

Tune isSecular

Battle Hymn of the Republic #8021. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword, His truth is marching on.

2. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat; O be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on.

3. In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free, while God is marching on

4. Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, His truth is marching on.

Joy to the Lord #376 (Psa 98:4,9)1. Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King;

Let every heart prepare Him room, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and heaven and nature sing.

2. Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let men their songs employ, while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

3. No more let sins and sorrow grow, nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found.

4. He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove the glories of His righteousness, and wonders of His love, and wonders of His love, and Wonders, and wonders of His love.

O Come All Ye Faithful (Lk 2:15)1. O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant O

come ye O come ye to Bethlehem, Come and behold Him born the King of angels

– O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore him Christ the Lord.

2. Sing choirs of angels, sing in exultation, O sing, all ye citizens of heaven above, Glory to God all glory in the highest.

3. Year Lord we greet thee, Born this happy morning, Jesus to thee be all glory given, Word of the Father now in flesh appearing

Silent Night #577 (Lk 2:8-11)1. Silent night, holy night, all is calm, al is bright, round

yon virgin mother and child. Holy infant so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.

2. Silent night holy night, shepherds quake at the sight, Glories stream from heaven afar, heavenly hosts sing alleluia, Christ the Savior is born, Christ the Savior is born.

3. Silent night, holy night, Son of God, love’s pure light. Radiant beams from they holy face, with the dawn of redeeming grace, Jesus Lord at the birth, Jesus, Lord at they birth.

4. Silent night, holy night, Wondrous star, lend they light, with the angels let us sing, Alleluia to our King; Christ the Savior is born, Christ the Savior is Born.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing #202 (Lk 2:13)

1. Hark the herald angels sings, “Glory to the King of Kings.” Peace on earth and mercy mild; God and sinners reconciled. Joyful all ye nations rise, Join the triumph in the skies, with angelic hosts proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem

2. Mild He lays His glory by, Born that man no more may die, Born to raise the sons of earth, born to give them second birth. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate deity, Pleased as man with men to dwell, Jesus our Immanuel

3. Hail the heaven born Prince of Peace, Hail the Sun of righteousness. Light and life to all He brings, risen with healing in His wings. Mild He lays His glory by, born that man no more may die, born to raise the sons of earth, born to give them second birth

4. Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the King of Kings

America the Beautiful #8011. O beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain, for

purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain. America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown they good with brotherhood from sea to shinning sea.

2. O beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern impassioned stress, a thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness, America, America, god mend thine every flaw Confirm they soul, in self control, they liberty in law

3. O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved and mercy more than life, America, America may God they gold refine, till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine.

4. O beautiful for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years, thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears. America, America, God shed His grace on thee, And crown they good with brotherhood from sea to shinning sea.

America #8031. My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty of thee I

sing, Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims pride, from every mountain side, let freedom ring

2. My native country thee, land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills, My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.

3. Let music swell the breeze and ring from all the trees Sweet freedoms song, Let mortal tongues awake, let all that breathe partake, let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong

4. Our fathers’ God to Thee, Author of liberty, To thee we sing, Long may our land be bright, with freedom’s holy light, protect us by thy might, Great God our King!

Morning Has Broken (879)1. Morning has broken like the first morning, blackbird

has spoken like the first bird, Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them springing fresh from the Word!

2. Sweet the rains new fall sunlit from heaven, like the first dew fall on the first grass. Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden, sprung in completeness where His feet pass.

3. Mine is the sunlight! Mine is the morning born of the one light Eden saw play! Praise with elation, praise every morning, God’s recreation of the new day!

Questions

• How has this lesson changed your attitude toward hymns?

• What song would you sing before you die?• What are your favorite hymns?• Why are they your favorites?• What should a good hymn accomplish?• Col 3:16 – tells us a hymn should:• Should a hymn be emotionally powerful?• What songs would you pick based around

the crucifixion?

He Carried My SorrowsHe carried my sorrows,He bore my grief’s,Was pierced for transgression,Afflicted for peace.

Chorus:He knew by His stripes I am healed,Through His blood, I can kneel,For by His oppression,I worship my King.

He suffered in anguish,He writhed in pain,Was smitten, forsaken,Abandoned, and slain.

Despised and rejected,He knew no sin,Was crushed for His people,No violence within.

(Chorus)My heart mourns His chastening,My tears still fall,My sin is the reasonHe gave me His all.(Chorus)

Isa 53:3-9 3 He is despised and rejected by men,  A Man of sorrows and

acquainted with grief.  And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;

    He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.4    Surely He has borne our griefs  And carried our sorrows;    Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and

afflicted.5    But He was wounded for our transgressions,    He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our

peace was upon Him,     And by His stripes we are healed.6    All we like sheep have gone astray;     We have turned,

every one, to his own way;     And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

7    He was oppressed and He was afflicted,     Yet He opened not His mouth;     He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,

    And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,     So He opened not His mouth.

8    He was taken from prison and from judgment,     And who will declare His generation?     For He was cut off from the land of the living;     For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

9    And they made His grave with the wicked—     But with the rich at His death,     Because He had done no violence,     Nor was any deceit in His mouth.