{"id":1884,"date":"2013-10-13T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2013-10-13T16:13:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T21:13:02","slug":"songs-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"Songs in the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song-of-Solomon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1889\" alt=\"Song of Solomon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song-of-Solomon-300x197.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>In our last blog we discovered that music has a powerful impact on people. God created music and it is good. It seems so sad that this wonderful creation of God has caused so much division in his church.<\/p>\n<p>When I became Worship Ministry Director for our church about twelve years ago I discovered that music is a subject near and dear to people\u2019s hearts. And through study I\u2019ve discovered it\u2019s something near and dear to God\u2019s heart as well. Music is mentioned over 800 times in the Bible. The Psalms teach us that music was used to praise and worship God and other passages show it was used for other purposes as well. Here we have a few famous songs from the Bible.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exodus 15:1-2: Moses\u2019 song of victory and praise after God led Israel out of Egypt and saved them by parting the Red Sea; Miriam joined in the singing too<\/li>\n<li>Numbers 21:17: Israel\u2019s song of praise to God for giving them water in the desert<\/li>\n<li>Deuteronomy 32:1-43: Moses\u2019 song of Israel\u2019s history with thanksgiving and praise as the Hebrews were about to enter the Promised Land<\/li>\n<li>Judges 5:2-31: Deborah and Barak\u2019s song of praise thanking God for Israel\u2019s victory over King Jabin\u2019s army at Mount Tabor<\/li>\n<li>2 Samuel 22:2-51: David\u2019s song of thanks and praise to God for rescuing him from Saul and his other enemies<\/li>\n<li>Song of Solomon 1-8: Solomon\u2019s song of love celebrating the union of husband and wife<\/li>\n<li>Isaiah 26:1: Isaiah\u2019s prophetic song about how the redeemed will sing in the New Jerusalem<\/li>\n<li>Ezra 3:11: Israel\u2019s song of praise at the completion of the temple\u2019s foundation<\/li>\n<li>Luke 1:46-55: Mary\u2019s song of praise to God for the conception of Jesus<\/li>\n<li>Luke 1:68-79: Zechariah\u2019s song of praise for the promise of a son<\/li>\n<li>Acts 16:25: Paul and Silas sang hymns in prison<\/li>\n<li>Revelation 5:9-10: The \u201cnew song\u201d of the 24 elders acclaiming Christ as worthy to break the seven seals of God\u2019s scroll<\/li>\n<li>Revelation 14:3: The song of the 144,000 redeemed from the earth<\/li>\n<li>Revelation 15:3-4: The song of all the redeemed in praise of the Lamb who redeemed them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In biblical times music didn\u2019t seem to be controversial with God\u2019s people. Unfortunately that has not been true throughout church history, nor is it true today. People have definite opinions about what they like and don\u2019t like about music \u2013 and most seem to have the delusion of thinking their opinions are God\u2019s opinions. What we prefer, we think God prefers. We\u2019ll take a closer look at this in our next few blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our last blog we discovered that music has a powerful impact on people. God created music and it is good. It seems so sad that this wonderful creation of God has caused so much division in his church. 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