SinnerSavedByChrist
Puritan Board Freshman
Regulative Principle | Mars Hill Church
http://download.marshill.com/files/2008/03/02/20080302_regulative-principle_en_transcript.pdf
Click on "Transcript" and do a ctrl+f search on the word "Regulative". I'm very very disappointed that a pastor with such widespread influence would talk such rubbish on such a glorious doctrine as the RPW. How people give him a free pass on anything is astounding.
If someone would like to blog about this, please do so!!! My Pastor's really into Driscoll (and so are heaps of the young restless and "reformed" (ugh)... But anyway.
Secondly, I have a few questions regarding EP. I am fully RPW and Psalm-singing. Yet I have a few questions especially regarding how the RPW was practiced in the OT and the extent of it.
1. Reading through 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel, I have noticed that David frequently breaks the RPW. He inquires of the LORD without the help of the High priest. He just grabs the Linen ephod and seeks God. I thought it was the job of the High priest to ask of God??? And only the Aaronites were to wear the ephod? And yet God did not strike him down, but answered his prayer!!!!!
2. David dances before the LORD, even wearing a linen ephod!?!?!?!! only Aaronites/Levites were supposed to!?!?!(2 Sam 6:14). There is NO command to wear the linen ephod as a non-levite, and NO command to dance before the LORD as a form of worship. YET God did not strike him down. Was God pleased with such worship? Does that mean we ought to dance before the LORD? What is the extent of the RPW in dancing?
3. David ordered music to be played and singers to sing praises to God when carrying up the ark in 2 Samuel 6:5 / 1 Chronicles 15:27---. Until this point God had NEVER commanded music to be played, nor praises to be sung to Him!!!! And God did not strike anyone down as He did in Leviticus 10 for doing something He had not commanded. (yes, trumpets were to signal the moving of the camp in Exodus, but that's not worship). what is even more interesting is that EVEN before the temple worship is established, musical instruments were used and songs were sung!?!!?! What songs were they singing? Inspired? Non-inspired? ARGH....
4. In a bitter argument with Michal, he then says "Therefore I will play music before the LORD". (2 Samuel 6:21). Since when did God command people to worship Him by playing music!?!?!
In Support of the RPW from 2 Samuel / 1+2 Chronicles:
1. David didn't tell the Levitical priests to carry the ark the first time round. 1 Chronicles 15:13 does say that God broke out against Uzzah (and David) that day because they had not done what God had commanded...
2. 2 Samuel 22 that David as a prophet wrote an inspired song, which was then given over to the Levitical guild of seers ... Asaph, Jeduthun, Heman,...
3. 1 Chronicles 6:31 also mentions that it is after the ark was brought up from Obed-edom's house, that David then appointed the Levitical seers for Inspired worship... so all sung worship was inspired!!!
4. 2 Chronicles 35:15, 2 Chronicles 29:30, 1 Chronicles 25:5 all demonstrate that Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun are Seers, literally, prophets who speak the Words of God
http://download.marshill.com/files/2008/03/02/20080302_regulative-principle_en_transcript.pdf
Click on "Transcript" and do a ctrl+f search on the word "Regulative". I'm very very disappointed that a pastor with such widespread influence would talk such rubbish on such a glorious doctrine as the RPW. How people give him a free pass on anything is astounding.
If someone would like to blog about this, please do so!!! My Pastor's really into Driscoll (and so are heaps of the young restless and "reformed" (ugh)... But anyway.
Secondly, I have a few questions regarding EP. I am fully RPW and Psalm-singing. Yet I have a few questions especially regarding how the RPW was practiced in the OT and the extent of it.
1. Reading through 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel, I have noticed that David frequently breaks the RPW. He inquires of the LORD without the help of the High priest. He just grabs the Linen ephod and seeks God. I thought it was the job of the High priest to ask of God??? And only the Aaronites were to wear the ephod? And yet God did not strike him down, but answered his prayer!!!!!
2. David dances before the LORD, even wearing a linen ephod!?!?!?!! only Aaronites/Levites were supposed to!?!?!(2 Sam 6:14). There is NO command to wear the linen ephod as a non-levite, and NO command to dance before the LORD as a form of worship. YET God did not strike him down. Was God pleased with such worship? Does that mean we ought to dance before the LORD? What is the extent of the RPW in dancing?
3. David ordered music to be played and singers to sing praises to God when carrying up the ark in 2 Samuel 6:5 / 1 Chronicles 15:27---. Until this point God had NEVER commanded music to be played, nor praises to be sung to Him!!!! And God did not strike anyone down as He did in Leviticus 10 for doing something He had not commanded. (yes, trumpets were to signal the moving of the camp in Exodus, but that's not worship). what is even more interesting is that EVEN before the temple worship is established, musical instruments were used and songs were sung!?!!?! What songs were they singing? Inspired? Non-inspired? ARGH....
4. In a bitter argument with Michal, he then says "Therefore I will play music before the LORD". (2 Samuel 6:21). Since when did God command people to worship Him by playing music!?!?!
In Support of the RPW from 2 Samuel / 1+2 Chronicles:
1. David didn't tell the Levitical priests to carry the ark the first time round. 1 Chronicles 15:13 does say that God broke out against Uzzah (and David) that day because they had not done what God had commanded...
2. 2 Samuel 22 that David as a prophet wrote an inspired song, which was then given over to the Levitical guild of seers ... Asaph, Jeduthun, Heman,...
3. 1 Chronicles 6:31 also mentions that it is after the ark was brought up from Obed-edom's house, that David then appointed the Levitical seers for Inspired worship... so all sung worship was inspired!!!
4. 2 Chronicles 35:15, 2 Chronicles 29:30, 1 Chronicles 25:5 all demonstrate that Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun are Seers, literally, prophets who speak the Words of God
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