Our God is still on his throne and ruling the affairs of man, even as he does not change.
His truths have not changed.
Thankfully, God still has a people which proclaim that old time religion setting forth his sovereignty
and the old passive truth where we can find rest for our souls.
Welcome to Word of Sovereign Grace, a ministry of Paradise Primitive Baptist Church in Arlington,
Texas.
Get your Bible, call your friends and sit back as we open the King James scriptures to
explore the glorious Word of Sovereign Grace.
Here's this week's message.
I am very much aware that it is afternoon after lunch, after lunch we get up and preach
and get sat down with someone else to get up and I thought, oh, there was another one.
So without you, I'll be mindful of the time, that's what I'm saying, to be able to do those
things which are honoring God and whatever that is.
I've heard so many times that my thoughts are directed so many times that when we visit
so many different places, we'll hear someone say, well, their doctrine is good, but there
is no doctrine in practice, I've never heard that, rather than I keep somebody to do it.
It's very, very difficult when we get to the fundamentals to separate doctrine and practice
because the way this Old Agus Church conducts themselves, the practice that you've seen
is doctrine to me.
Now, what do I mean by that?
Hustle Paul, talking to the Church of Corinth over the first Corinthians, the 14th chapter,
the 15th first, said something that's very, very difficult.
In a manner unless you think of it, he said, we were saying with the Spirit, and there
certainly had that, and we were saying with the understanding also, what does that mean?
That can be saying with the Spirit, and what does it mean to say with the understanding
also?
I will submit to you that you'll be able to do that, because even our method of saying
is doctrine on the phones.
Now, let's go back to the Old Testament to start.
Those of you who know me, maybe I'll get out of the Old Testament, but I don't know if
you're going to start there.
And why is it that we come together as we have this morning, saying these beautiful songs
that we have?
Without some pen or something else, what does that mean?
How can I say that's doctrine on behalf of an instrument in the Church?
When we look at the altar back in the Old Testament and look at how the worship service
was conducted around that altar.
And people have time to get into a lot of that.
The 20th chapter of the book of Exodus, about the 24th verse, tells how that altar was made.
And the materials used are so important.
Even in the material used in that altar.
If you remember the 20th chapter of Exodus, it has, but it's sometimes talked about,
thou shalt not.
All of those chemical mantises that we use that during, I found it about the 20th chapter.
But in the same chapter it tells about the altar.
Now how can all we relate worship around an altar
with singing in the modern or the recent current church?
Let's go to look at the first chronicles for the 23rd chapter starting...
and these are very familiar to you. These are very basic things
because they get to the fundamentals of why we worship the way that we do in church.
Now, we have to remind the students sometimes
that these are not just words in a page or a book.
These things really happen, folks.
I mean, no things were written for our learning
that we can patient and comfort in the Scriptures might have hope.
Moment of truth for you.
So these things picture what is happening as we learn about why the altar was the way it was.
Now, time is right now talking 970 years before Christ was upon this dessert
because David, his son Solomon, was being made king at that time.
Now, I want you to picture David calling all these priests and leaf-outs together
and they numbered 38,000. He numbered them above the age of 30.
There were 38,000 of those that was brought forward.
Now, he divided those in groups and why in these groups? Because that's important.
Now, you, 24,000 over here, 38,000, these 24,000 over here
are going to be responsible for the thanks and the torture of the Lord
and the way the process was done at that time.
You, 6,000, are going to win a priest and judges.
You, 4,000 over here are quarters.
We have a quarter and I'm going to take an imagine.
4,000 quarters straight.
4,000 quarters over here.
And you, 4,000 over here are the same praise with the instruments
which I have made, like it said, you know, the praise.
Now, does that sound like a band and church?
I mean, he sent them aside to praise him with the instruments which he had made.
Is that clear?
I've heard people use that first to get all through the Psalms,
especially after the 150th Psalm.
David says, use those instruments to praise the Lord with the instruments
which I have made to praise their way, all through the day.
Why, why is it getting, how is that done?
When they had the altar here, how did the worship service,
how was it conducted without that altar?
Let's go to 2nd Chronicles real quick, about the 29th chapter,
starting with the 26th verse.
Now, Hezekiah gives us a lot of detail about how that service was conducted.
Now, the burnt offering that was put on that,
when that burnt offering began, or when that altar which was made
under the specifications of the 20th chapter of the book of Exodus,
when it began, guess what?
The Psalms started singing.
The priests had the trumpet, so you leave eyes to the Lord with the instruments,
and the priests had the trumpet, even though that's an instrument,
there was a little bit different reason for the trumpet.
When that burnt offering began, the Psalms began to sing,
the trumpeters began to play, and the leave eyes began to praise the Lord
with all the instruments which they had made, which He had ordained.
Now, how long did the service go?
Was it an hour, like we do, or whatever?
The service went until that burnt offering was finished.
When the burnt offering was finished, the trumpeters stopped playing the trumpet,
the singers stopped singing, the musical instruments stopped playing,
but that was not the end of the entire service.
When the burnt offering was being conducted, the music was going on.
When the sacrifice was finished, when it was finished in the Old Testament,
the music stopped playing, folks, but the service continued because
Hezekiah and all the congregations bowed in worship.
Now, there was more singing after that, but don't you look at a change in a word
it said, they worshiped, the leave eyes sang the words of David.
Now, what was different than the first?
While the sacrifice was going on, they praised with the instruments of David.
When the sacrifice was finished, they praised with the words of David.
What does John 19 and 30 tell us?
It is finished, and that sacrifice was finished, folks.
There was a change in the method of worshiping even in the Old Testament.
The instruments were used to that sacrifice were finished.
Let's jump forward about 200 years for time sake and look at Brother Amos.
Amos preached for 45 years, from 785 to 740 BC.
He preached for 45 years, but Amos was a prophet.
Amos was looking forward to something.
Let's go to the 5th chapter and look at Amos starting at the 22nd verse.
And he was looking at that altar worship when he was off the sign of something in the future.
He said, though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them.
Neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beast.
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs for I will not hear the melody of the live.
What does that tell us?
There is something coming where I will not accept your burnt offerings and your meat offerings.
Take away from me the noise of thy songs.
What is that those instruments that they use?
Take that away from me.
Well, listen to this for I will not hear the melody of the live.
You know, if there was a pen that said, don't run, somebody was playing at it.
Did you realize that Lord, don't even hear that?
Don't even hear it. If he says, take away that melody, how are we to make that melody?
That way that 6th chapter of the book of Amos starts with a woe unto them.
Let me tell you something. If the Lord says, woe folks, you better woe.
You better woe unto them.
The scripture says, that chant to the sound of the vile
and then unto themselves instruments of music like they do.
You see what it is?
You know, the Lord will give that chant to that. No one is insane to it.
Number one, no more burnt offerings.
Number two, no more instruments.
Number three, no one is insane to them.
Take them away. Don't play those things.
We are still in the Old Testament.
Can you see how that is all laid out and how we were even in the Old Testament?
How the worship service changed right at the end of that?
You know, you go to the 3rd chapter of the book of Daniel
and hope never to measure we're going to have a worship service too.
Because if you want to give them a worship, this is going to go tonight.
So he Jews now. He blew children.
When we start the sound of the music,
all those instruments, just talking about the 3rd chapter of Daniel,
you bow and worship at that time.
Of course they refused it, and we don't want to happen.
And Christ himself went into that fight.
But how are we to say with brother,
this is a beautiful melody we've heard in our song service this morning.
The Apostle Paul writing in the Church of Ephesus, the 5th chapter of 19,
first singing, you know, because he starts out,
and singing praises, you know, in ourselves,
making melody for in your heart to whom to the Lord.
Folks don't set back like I always feel like I need to,
and not sing out very loud because I don't have a good singing voice.
We are not singing to each other.
We are saying to God, sing out.
And I heard good singing out this morning.
Colossians, the Apostle Paul writing in the Church of Colossians,
the 3rd chapter in the 16th verse,
says teaching and admonishing one another in songs and healings
and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to God.
We're singing with all of that grace in our heart to God.
You know, in Hebrews, when Paul was writing to Hebrews,
well, I've already heard some kind of Paul didn't like to go to Hebrews
because it's different. Of course it's different.
He was writing to people that understood things in the Old Testament
that the New Testament, the other folks did not.
So Paul brought up that fact in the New Testament
about the alternate set, the book of Hebrews, the 13th chapter,
starting in the 10th verse. He told those, we have an altar.
Can you imagine telling me that we're going to give you that altar?
Now that would be kind of upsetting.
Paul said that we have an altar.
Do you realize that the Old Baptist Church now has an altar, folks?
What does it tell us that altar is,
and do we still sacrifice before that altar?
I also meant we do, because that altar is Christ Himself.
In the 13th chapter of Hebrews, starting with the 10th verse,
he says, we have an altar.
And what sacrifice are we to praise?
Are you used to praise before that altar?
Let us therefore open up the sacrifice of praise to God continually.
That is, the fruit of our lips giving praise into His name.
Can you see that Christ is the altar that we have now?
And the sacrifice we're still to give is praise to His name.
That is a lot better than the blood offering and the burn-off offering
and all of those things that they had to in the Old Testament.
You know, Romans 12th chapter, we're also very familiar with that.
You know, our bodies are living to sacrifice to God.
That's our reasonable service.
That we cease to be breathed by the mercies of God.
And that mercies is very unusual in this particular one,
because only David and Paul, and in prayer Bible,
use the term mercies in the plural, the mercies of God,
when they was talking about that.
That is our reasonable service.
Our bodies as a living sacrifice.
You know, we wonder about those trumpets and some of that.
When you have a funeral, you'll usually, one of the verses that you'll hear
talking about is in the 1st Corinthians, the 15th chapter and the 52nd verse.
Because it says, in the moment of Quentin Benive,
when that last trumpet shall sound, why trumpet?
Now that's a musical instrument, isn't it?
You know, wasn't it used in the Old Testament?
Why then are we using the trumpet in the New Testament?
Let's look how the trumpets were used.
There's many, many meanings, but for time sake,
let's go to the book of Numbers of Quentin's chapter,
the first two or three verses right there.
Moses had two trumpets of silver.
He was told about two trumpets of silver.
And those had initially, there was other reasons later on,
but initially two purposes.
One was the gathering of the assembly together,
running the assembly together, and the movement of the camp.
Now those priests with both those trumpets,
everyone would assemble together, and the count would move.
Can you now see from that last trumpet shall sound what's happening?
The Lord is assembling his people together,
and moving them eternally to heaven.
That last trumpet has the same meaning as the Old Testament,
except it's the last one.
We were assembled together and moved to heaven.
You know, when we begin looking at the book of Exodus,
and then going to the New Testament,
what happened when Moses and those children crossed the sea
when they opened up in all of those ranks?
What did they do on the other side?
They sang a hymn, folks.
Fifteen chapters, the first two or three verses there,
talks about they sang a hymn.
Then we can go to the fifteenth chapter of Revelation,
the third verse, and it tells us that they sang the hymn of Moses.
Well, hymn of Moses that they sang in the New Testament,
and it was a song of deliverance
because of his almighty power
and all those things that the count accomplished.
They sang that hymn when the Lord delivered the hymn
from the Egyptian army across the Red Sea.
A song of deliverance.
Fifteen chapters of Revelation,
they sang that song of Moses, folks.
It's a song of deliverance.
There are so many.
You know, the Lord himself sang, you know,
they sang a hymn, they sang a hymn,
they said, every time you look at that,
what about the Lord has made trumpets here,
part of vocal chords,
to say praises to him in the New Testament?
So when you begin looking at how the old bag was worshiped,
if we had a musical instrument in this church,
now I'm not saying musical instruments bad.
I love your brother Elton Bass,
they root bass.
You know, I enjoy music,
but we're not talking about music like that.
We're talking about in the worship service.
If we had something that a musical instrument
was being used in the church service,
you know what I'm saying?
That means, doctrinally,
I do not believe that sacrifices finished
because it ceased in the old testament,
we're not too used to the mood,
because if we still had that big thing,
well, the sacrifice has not been finished yet,
even the Lord, even though he said it is finished.
Can you see the meaning of how important it is
to follow doctrine and practice
the way that we worship here?
Raising our voices to the Lord, to him,
because actually we're singing too.
Don't add anything to or take anything away,
O Baptist, from the way that we worship ourselves.
It is a doctrinal point that we don't use as an instrument,
because we understand, O Baptist,
that that sacrifice is finished,
it's completed as a sweet speech
for the sake of God when he's talking about it.
You will never find any work
talking about Ephesians 15 or the 2nd verse,
where God, where Christ ever offered himself to man
to be accepted or rejected for eternal purposes.
You won't find that, folks.
Christ never offered himself to us
to be accepted or rejected for eternal purposes.
He offered himself to God.
Now, if that offering, if that sacrifice to God,
if that offering, if that sacrifice
was completed and accepted when it was,
then that is finished, folks.
I understand how there's so much we can talk about
but I don't think you did all of that right now.
But that offer, we do have one, folks.
Don't ever think that O Baptist don't have an offer
because we do, because that is Christ himself,
and we sacrifice, before that offer,
the sacrifices to praise.
I think that's what we're doing here today,
giving praise to him for what he has done for us.
What a beautiful man that we have,
singing all the colors we have.
Such beautiful voices.
Think when you're singing, folks.
You're singing to the Lord.
Do you realize that Trinity is always involved?
The Trinity is always involved
in our relationship to God.
Romans 8.26, you've heard so many people
bow in prayer and say,
I don't know what to ask for in the art.
Now, how is the Trinity involved again?
The Spirit itself takes out a normal prayer
to Christ himself in heaven.
Or just sitting around here and saying,
He's one of mine, Father, hear this prayer.
Trinity is involved in all the different aspects
of worship together.
You know what he said?
In this manner of praying, I've heard people ask me,
I don't want to pray because I can't remember
that prayer that we were taught.
It didn't say, with these words, pray.
It said, in this manner, pray.
And there's a difference.
You don't have to remember,
our Father, which art in heaven,
how it would be that way when you say,
heaven, Father, that's the manner that we realize
that we're talking to.
Don't worry about the phrase.
You know, sometimes the most beautiful prayer
is going to help.
Going to help.
You think it's not a beautiful prayer,
but it goes to the eternal having itself
because we're recognizing our weakness
and our innate abilities.
We're recognizing the great power
and strength of our reading.
Don't worry about it, folks.
In this manner,
when we bow before the Lord and ask for His help,
don't change.
You know, traveling over the world so many times
and go into what my daughter used to be all about,
and she said, there's two primitives churches there.
Which one am I going to?
I've experienced that myself.
When you go in and experience what we're hearing today,
you know that there's an old line,
good old primitives church.
I walked into work one time at a piano session there.
That's not what I believe, folks.
And it was a doctrinal point.
Not a practice point, a doctrine point.
Because by that, they are not showing me
that it's finished.
That old John 15 is finished.
Come ahead, brother.
I want to keep it short
as the good is after the Lord of Sovereign Grace.
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