The Spiritual Significance and Legacy of Hymn Singing

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"Speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, so we sing with our voice but it's coming from a heart and the the object the audience is the lord singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things unto God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." [00:23:31]

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. We're going to think about this morning him singing and hymn writers and some lessons we can learn and apply so him singing the word him the dictionary definition is somewhat secular but with religious connotations as well." [01:00:29]

"Throughout church history great periods of revival and movements of the Holy Spirit were marked by great reviving of in a great renewal of congregational singing and so you see that when churches are truly alive to truth and the Holy Spirit is at work among them, they love singing and they're singing evidences it being from the heart." [09:51:26]

"Isaac Watts, 1674-1748, considered the father of English hymnody at least the earliest when there were there were some fertig in hymn writers in England a little bit later right and we'll talk about one of them but watch is considered the father father of English hymnody. 6,000 hymns are attributed to his pen some of which did not get published were probably lost." [10:34:46]

"Charles Wesley, 1707-1788, 81 years of life, 50 years as a Methodist. He and his brother John founded Methodism. Well really Whitfield kind of did but they got the credit cuz they organized it and so Charles Wesley an evangelist a powerful preacher you read dial Moore's life a Whitfield and you see amazing accounts of Charles Wesley preaching." [17:56:30]

"John Newton, his years 1725 to 1807, born July 24th and London. His mother died when he was 6 years old and his father an unbeliever was a sea captain of merchant ships a hard and dangerous life for anyone but his father took John into life at sea when he was 11 years old and he was in that life for 17 years." [25:00:59]

"Newton became an avid abolitionist being convinced that slavery in any level is immoral and wicked and he became completely ashamed the rest of his life for his past life. In 1785 he began preaching sermons on the subject when no political grouping in Britain would even touch it historians credit John Newton for revealing during the time publicly." [28:57:63]

"Francis Jane Fannie Crosby, 1822-1915, the most prolific a be the most prolific productive heme writer a guest of all time over 8,000 hymns 95 years of life 95 years blind probably 85 years as a true Christian she became one of the best-known women in US history by the end of the 19th century born in New York she died in Connecticut at home." [37:42:69]

"Her most well known hymns all the way my Saviour leads me to God be the glory pass me not o gentle Savior praise Him praise Him Jesus Our Blessed Verdie myrrh tell me the story of Jesus now pause when you're not a Christian you don't like these hymns I grew up in a non gospel preaching legalistic dead church on Sunday night every Sunday night." [40:33:71]

"Learn to read hymns on your own pray them and Appling sing them privately as a couple as a family as a bunch of single guys at your house sing hymns more in private in public I never will forget years ago on a heartcry trip bunch of us were driving from Romania ten hours into Ukraine it was a cold van cold morning and so we had some hymnals with us." [52:42:17]

"John Wesley's admonition to the Methodist congregations and the Methodists evangelists number one learn the words and tunes now some of us aren't gifted musically we can't read music but we can learn the tunes get used to them because it helps in singing the praises of God to not only be familiar with the lyrics the content the doctor and the devotion." [54:00:52]

"Sing heartily with good courage John Wesley said beware of singing he said as if you were half dead or half asleep guilty we got to get hold of ourselves right the singing the praises of God the worship of God is right alongside the Ministry of the word of God in both our biblical and both are important your contribution in worship as a sacrifice." [55:30:20]

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