And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
I see a minimum of three times in Exodus 15:1-21 the Bible says they sang “to the LORD.”
The song was not an expression of joy, it was for sure not a moment of entertainment. They sang as an act of thanksgiving and worship.
In the book of Ephesians, we read,
Ephesians 5:19 (KJV)
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
There is a time and place to sing spiritual songs “to yourselves” but even then, it is in the heart and to the Lord. There is no occasion I can find where singing is purely for the benefit of a human audience.
Our hearts are so wicked that we become easily deceived. Modern American Christianity has been duped into believing that Christian music is an acceptable form of entertainment. We have musicians who make a living hosting huge concerts where they “sing to the Lord” gospel songs meant to entertain large gatherings of Christians. There are whole cities that are known for being a Mecca for Christian music. People travel there just to vacation around the gospel singing. It is a multi-million, if not billion, dollar industry, and it is idolatry.
I don’t want to make it sound wicked. But it is evil in the sense that it is not what the Bible teaches music is for. It becomes a wicked thing when we bring it into our churches where we have transitioned now to making the service about ministering to the people who assemble rather than the God they were supposed to have assembled before.
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