Pop-Idiom Music
In Worship and Evangelism
by Dr Peter Masters
Dr Peter Masters is minister of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London,
England (C.H. Spurgeon's church) and has kindly granted us permission
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Section 11b
Instruments for Sung Praise
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The Psalms give divine approval to
the use of instruments to accompany
the singing of spiritual songs. In prvate
and family worship, and also in
the village synagogues, stringed
instruments appear to have been the
general rule.
Psalm 92, which is a psalm for the
sabbath day, refers to praise being
accompanied by various harp-like
instruments and the psaltery. Psalm
144 also shows that these were the
instruments which were used to
accompany the songs of praise, thus
verse 9 reads -
I will sing a new song unto thee, O
God: upon a psaltery and an instrument
of ten strings will I sing praises
unto thee.
Other instruments were not normally
used for accompanying the singing
of psalms, contrary to what is sometimes
claimed. The references to other
instruments in the Psalms refer sometimes
to the special feast days when
these other instruments were used in
the Temple, and sometimes to the civic
festivities and processions.
This is an important distinction
which must be amplified in the next
few paragraphs because it is repeatedly
being stated by Gospel-pop advocates that in
addition to stringed instruments, trumpets, cymbals and
tambourines were also constantly used
to liven up the family and synagogue
worship of the ancient Israelites!
This is certainly not true and is an
idea which comes from a highly superficial and
uninformed use of Scripture.
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