larryjf
Puritan Board Senior
Actually, teaching and admonishing with the words of Christ has to do more with preaching than with singing psalms.Colossians 3:16
"Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you," What words of Christ? Christ is the author of the Psalms so when we sing the Psalms the words of Christ is truly and really richly dwelling within us.... We speak the very words of Christ on lips and take them within our hearts...
"with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another" The fact that we are teaching and admonishing makes this a corporate setting... This is Worship and we are teaching and admonishing one another. To ourselves and to our neighbors around us and we are teaching with the pure words of Christ the very words of Christ when we sing "MY God MY God OH why have you forsaken me" Psalm 22:1. We become part of the body of Christ we when sing and offer up our spiritual sacrifice of Praise with the very words of Christ on our lips....
Show me where the scriptures use "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs" as a triadic expression."with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God" With What, Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs which are what? What does the scripture interpret them to be? Scripture interprets scripture and they say that Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs are Triadic Expression which are all subcategories of the Book of Tehillem or the Book of Praises i.e. The book of Psalms. And we sing with thankfulness with the words of Christ on our lips, how much more thankful in our hearts can we be with the pure words of Christ on our lips and how He spoke them and how He groaned them... May we groan with passion and with our full larynx may we sing the Psalms on our lips and on our hearts more then any mere Human song.....
The pure words of Christ are not limited to the book of Psalms.
And i have to wonder...are you for singing the Psalms as they are literally translated, or do you prefer to sing them in a man-made arrangement of them?
But the Hebrew word chadash does not mean "a new way of understanding an old thing"...it simply means "new" as in "a new thing"...just as in Ex 1:8 in reference to a "new" king. It was not the old king understood in a different light...it was actually a new and different king.Sing to him a new song? what song? Could it be talking about Psalm 33 itself. But also the word does not mean brand new. It means new in quality not in quantity.... When a Hebrew knew the Psalms from infancy and later became saved, the Psalms became NEW to him. Sung in a New Light. Sung knowing his Redeemer, and Sung as a New Man.. When a Man becomes New, does it have a new body? When we are resurrected and we receive our new bodies, are they different bodies? No, our confessions tell us they are SELFsame bodies, only glorified..... When the Earth is consumed in fire and we have the new heavens and new earth are they different bodies? No the earth will be restored after the day of fire. It will be the same Earth and Heavens only New and Restored. New in biblical terms when restored and and better quality and not new in quantity.. It is the same quantity only in new and restored light... So when we are saved we sing the Psalms like the hebrew and they become new to us in a very real sense...
Wow! you are going to restrict us to only use the scriptures between Matthew and Jude?...Are you willing to have the same restriction placed on yourself for proving the EP doctrine?Q. Where in the New Covenant are we told to Sing a New Song between Matthew and Jude? Revelation is excluded since that is future and not relevant since that is a time with new revelation if they are new compositions to begin with and not the Psalms being spoken of?
Need I quote the others? They are all talking about the Psalms themselves... Not new compositions.... Let us sing the New Songs and may they always be New for the New Man who has the Spirit Dwelling within him..
Clearly singing "new songs" doesn't only mean the Psalms in a new light since Rev 5:9 lists words to a "new song" that is not found in the book of Psalms.