Review: Bill Lawrence Defending Instrumental Music in Worship

5.06.20 Ephesians 5 commands SPEAKING and in Romans 15 "using one mind and one mouth" to "speak that which is written for our LEARNING. There is no evidence that people who Sow Discord and steal the churches of widows HAVE or evne NEED to understand what they so savagely teach with the command authority of WOLVES. Paul would have understood that the "psalms" or Mizmors in the Book of Psalms are 50 used by their private devotion but never in a Worship Assembly. Furthermore, both ODE and PSALLO are silenced. All "singing" or "names" of instruments are the Carnal Weapons of Sorcerers or Witches.

Ov. Met. 11.146
When Pan had doone, the sacred Tmole to Phebus turnd his looke,
And with the turning of his head his busshye heare he shooke.
Then Phebus [Apollineos] with a crowne of Bay uppon his golden heare
Did sweepe the ground with scarlet robe. In left hand he did beare
His viol made of precious stones [ gemma and Ivorye intermixt.

Ăpollĭnĕus , a, um, adj. id., I.relating or belonging to Apollo (only poet.): “urbs,” i. e. Delos, where Apollo was born and specially honored, Ov. M. 13, 631: “proles,” i. e. Æsculapius, id. ib. 15, 533: “mater,” i. e. Latona, Stat. Th. 11, 12: “vates,” i. e. Orpheus, Ov. M. 11, 8: ars, both the art of soothsaying, id. Ib. 264, and that of healing, id. Tr. 3, 3, 10: “cantus,” id. M. 11, 155 et saep.

Mater Cybele, the mother of all the gods: “matris magnae sacerdos,
cymbala circum, Verg. G. 4,
Venus, Ov. H. 16, 201: “cupidinum,” i. e. Venus, Hor. C. 1, 19,
Of the earth, as the mother of all

Mūsa , ae, f., = Mousa, I.a muse, one of the goddesses of poetry, music, and the other liberal arts. et cum doctrinā habeat aliquod commercium,

gemma “multas in digitis, plures in carmine gemmas Invenies,” Mart. 5, 11, 3:

My friend Stella, Severus, wears on his fingers sardonyxes, emeralds, diamonds, jaspers. Though there are many gems on his fingers, there are more in his verses, whence, I conclude, his hand is so decorated.³ See Ep. 8.

carmen , “also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),” Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.: “carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,” Ov. M. 11, 317; cf. “vocum,” id. ib. 12, 157: “per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis
5. A magic formula, an incantation: incantamenta carminum, “Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi

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Is. 30:32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

Ezek. 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. [Cast as Profane]

Ovid: And in his right hand for to strike,
his bowe was redy fixt.
He was the verrye paterne of a good Musician ryght
Anon he gan with conning hand
the tuned strings to smyght.

plectrum The PSALLO foundation of the musicators OUTLAWS the plectrum. It only permits striking a bow or lyre string with the FINGERS.

artĭfex artificibus eos auloedos esse, qui citharoedi artifices scaenici,
A maker, originator, author, contriver: Also for a sly, cunning contriver, inventor of a thing (cf

căno [cf. kanassō, kanakhē, konabos; clanging bronze to utter melodious notes, to sing, sound, play. A. Of men: “si absurde canat, “tibia canentum “harundine, [flute] “cithara,”

Ovid: The sweetenesse of the which did so the judge of them delyght,
That Pan was willed for to put his Reedepype in his cace,
And not to fiddle nor to sing where viols were in place.

pello , 4. Of a musical instrument, to strike the chords, play: “nervi pulsi,” struck, Cic. Brut. 54, 199: “lyra pulsa manu,” Ov. M. 10, 205;
1. To drive out or away, to banish, expel: Phoebeā morbos arte,
2. To beat, conquer, overcome
morbus B. Grief, sorrow, distress: “nomen insaniae significat mentis

4. Of a musical instrument, to strike the chords, play: “nervi pulsi,” struck, Cic. Brut. 54, 199: “lyra pulsa manu,” Ov. M. 10, 205; cf.: “classica pulsa,” i. e. blown,

John 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said,
        My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
John 7:17 If any man will do his will,
        he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory:
        but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

Devil Do: poiētai 4. after Hom., of Poets, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea, Hdt.1.23, 4.14; “p. theogoniēn

Epos joined with muthos, 1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519.
2. fiction (opp. logos, historic truth), THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE

Hdt. 1.23 Periander, who disclosed the oracle's answer to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth. The Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree) that the most marvellous thing [Lying Wonders] that happened to him in his life was the landing on Taenarus of Arion of Methymna, brought there by a dolphin. This Arion was a lyre-player second to none in that age; he was the first man whom we know to compose and name the dithyramb¹ which he afterwards taught at Corinth.

1 The dithyramb was a kind of dance-music particularly associated with the cult of Dionysus.

Devil Do: LATIN: făcĭo , to make in all senses, to do, perform, accomplish, prepare, produce, bring to pass, cause, effect, create, commit, perpetrate, form, fashion, operor Lying Wonder, “poëma,” to compose, id. Pis. 29, 70: “carmina,” Juv. 7, 28: “versus,” id. 7, 38: “sermonem,” Cic. Fam. 9, 8, 1; cf. “litteram,” id. Ac. 2, 2, 6: ludos, to celebrate, exhibit, admirationem alicujus rei alicui,” to excite [the Laded Burden],

Devil Do: carmen
I.a tune, song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus, and canto). note, sound, both vocal and instrumental “also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),” Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.: “carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,” Ov. M. 11, 317; cf. “vocum,” id. ib. 12, 157: “per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis

“barbaricum,” id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara: The Moher o Harlots in John 17 “Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi,

Devil Do: Commercium sermonis,” 7 In mercant. lang., to practise, exercise, follow any trade or profession: 8. In relig. lang., like the Gr. rhezein, to perform or celebrate a religious rite; to offer sacrifice, make an offering, to sacrifice:

Devil Do: Mousa II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugera” A.Eu.308 (anap.); “euphamos” Id.Supp.695
“Kanakhan .Clanging Brass
Theias as many as made them hope by divinations, Madness caused by Ritual
worship as divine, “Puthagoran [Of the Cosmos, the Ecumenical, Kingdom of the Devil."
Antiluron mousas” S.Tr.643 (lyr.); PLAYING THE LYRE
“Aiakō moisan pherein”I. bear or carry a load, A Laded Burden

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Christopher Darrell Goldman There is no Statute of Limitations for those who "infiltrate" with the driving purpose of diverting a historical, pioneer. established church of Christ by the INSTRUMENTAL SECTARIANS. Paul outlaws the cunning craftsmen or Sophists who are rhetoricians for sale, singers or instrument players.

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU GET "VIPERIZED."
Testimony of my departed Daughter who was DUPED by the VANGUARD troupl

Down from Kingdom Mountain

My name is Catherine Hampton, and for ten years, from 1977 to 1987, I was part of the discipling movement, often called the "Crossroads Movement", within the Churches of Christ. The Boston Church of Christ, and later the International Churches of Christ (ICC), came from this movement.

At this advance I met Milton Jones, the evangelist at Northwest and leader of the mission team that had planted the ministry there. Milton played a tremendous role in the discipling movement, perhaps second only to Kip. Three years after this advance he wrote the book from which the ICC took its discipling methodology, among other things.

I also met Bill Lawrence, the campus minister, and a number of other people who became leaders in the movement later on. (Among them were Tom Reynolds, Rob Jacobsen, and Marv Law, all of whom later led various church plantings from Northwest.) In the next three or four years Northwest became one of the fastest-growing discipling movement churches, with over a hundred baptisms a year for most of that period.
My Late Daughter was active. However, it later became obvious that the Work had shifted with a Christian Church as an early Sower of Discord and REpurposing Churches of Christ especially by Rick Atchley (A closet "christian" church proponent)

Dad,

I will read this more completely later. I fast forwarded to the Northwest section…very troubling. It was starting before I left in December of 1979, so for that reason alone I am grateful that I didn’t stay in Seattle. So many lives destroyed. Thank you for sharing this.

I love you very much. Annette

The rescued Hebrews rose up to PLAY in Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted "play." In 1 Corinthians 10 Paul defined this as the WORSHIP OF DEMONS. Jude warns that the Truth had been ONCE Delivered. There is no more. Jude said that these were FOREORDAINED. Apollo or Apollyon defines the Jacob-cursed and God-abandoned Levites SERVICE under the unlawful KING and commanders of the army. Serpents or Vipers will not confess because. There is only a tiny flock of Lost Spirits who can HEAR the message. Those OF the World or Aborigines with a spirit CANNOT read BLACK text on BROWN paper. They are faithful servants of THEIR father.

John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them,
        When ye have lifted up the Son of man,
        then shall ye know that I am he,
        and that I DO nothing of myself;
      BUT as my Father hath taught me,
          I SPEAK these things

Legalists who DO on their own always REJECT the SPEAK mark of a child of God.

Poieite. LEGALISM make, produce, first of something material, as manufactures, works of art, etc. of building, p. dōma ton Apollōn, p. to problēma effect a solution of the problem, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea 1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519. Saturous [BEAST] kōmōdian, tragōdian, poetry, write as a poet describe in verse, put them into verse, of sacrifices, festivals, etc., celebrate p. tēn mousikēn practise it,

John 8:37 I know that ye are Abrahams seed; but ye seek to kill me,
because my WORD (logos) hath no place in you.

John 8: 38 I SPEAK that which I have seen with my Father:
and ye DO that which ye have seen with YOUR father.

God is WORD, SPIRIT, LIGHT, LIFE, WISDOM. Disciples can see FACE TO FACE when they are Baptized.
All of the ROBBERS of Church property DENY the Word, Logos or Regulative. Thefore they are ANTGod and ANTICHRIST. Music is their REPLACEMENT for the masculine SPEAK or READ.

God is His WORD. Jesus SPOKE without metron or meter. Jesus' Word that He SPOKE is SPIRIT and LIFE. For those who Rock and Roll selling their bodies and talent, God said in Hebrews 12 that GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.   The Singers, Instrument players and GRINDERS are "lusted after fruits" and that is why imposing Self-Exhibiitors forcing you to worship (give attention to) them IMPOSES SORCERERS to Deceive and they along with LIARS will be CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. Jesus says that they are OF the World or BENEATH (Tartarus) and really HAVE NO CHOICE.

Logos computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument, ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas prob. in Heraclit.50; logon ēde noēma amphis alētheiēs discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of the soul, reflection, deliberation Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,

Opposite to epithumia
A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, 3. view as spectators
Opposite Pathos A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident, Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired, “phusis” Pl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose,  OPPOSITE -poiêsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiêtikê, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poiêmata, onomatopoeic word
OPPOSITE emmetra Modus   2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., = mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,

Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT. If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.

mousikos kai melōn poētēs” 2. generally, votary of the Muses, The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses

http://www.piney.com/DocHesTheog.html
[25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: “Shepherds of the wilderness,
        wretched things of shame, mere bellies,
        we know how to speak many false things as though they were true;
        but we know, when we will, to utter true things.”
        ...and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally,
                but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.
pharma^kon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell, Od.4.220 sq., Ar.Pl.302, [Circe, Church, Corinth mother of harlots] Theoc.2.15

The singers [Muses], instrument players and craftsmen as sorcerers in Revelation 18.

THE ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY LED CLERGY LITERALLY CANNOT READ SCRIPTURE. THEY HAVE DISLEXIA OF THE EYES. ANY form of MUSIC is defined as SORCERY or VIPERS.

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Genesis 3.1 sed et serpens erat callidior cunctis animantibus terrae quae fecerat Dominus Deus qui dixit ad mulierem cur praecepit vobis Deus ut non comederetis de omni ligno paradisi

5175 nâchâsh naw-khawsh' From H5172 ; a snake (from its hiss):—serpent.
H5172 nâchash naw-khash' A primitive root; properly to hiss, that is, whisper a (magic) spell; generally to prognosticate:— X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment, learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe.

Serpo , of things, to move slowly or imperceptibly, to creep along, proceed gradually,
Of disease, etc.: “si ulcus latius atque altius serpit,” gradually spreads, “serpentes quasdam (bestias), quasdam esse gradientes,” “chamaeleon,
Fire: “exsistit sacer ignis et urit corpore serpens,” slowly spreading, canam, qui leniter
(cf.: “sermones Repentes per humum,”
A creeping LOUSE

Canam, exsistit sacer ignis et urit corpore serpens,” slowly spreading fire, bring to destruction, reduce to ruin, destroy

Agmĕna crowded into a compact mass, Of a snake winding onwards Eap. of a company of persons, a multitude, troop, crowd, number, band
1. An army, troop, band, multitude: clāmor —Of things, noise, sound, din căvus , “tibia,” id. 2, 620:
“bucina = A. A war-trumpet b. = inanis, vain, empty: “gloria,

Tībĭa , a pipe, flute (orig. made of bone; curva choros indixit tibia Bacchi,” “modulate canentes tibiae,

Bestĭa , 2. As a term of reproach (cf. belua and our beast): “mala tu es bestia,” Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 21; id. Poen. 5, 5, 13.—And, humorously, of the odor of the armpits (cf. ala and caper), Cat. 69, 8.—
căno , cĕcĭni, cantum (ancient I.imp. cante = canite,
“once canituri,” Vulg. Apoc. 8, 13 to utter melodious notes, to sing, sound, play.
tibicen “cithara,” crowing of a cock: “galli victi silere solent, canere victores,” to crow,
to practice magic, to charm, Galli is a word for a Catamite: priest of the Mother Godesses.

"Kenite" is a rendition of Hebrew According to Gesenius, the name is derived from the name Cain (קַיִן Qayin).^[5] According to A. H. Sayce, the name `Kenite', Qéní, is identical an Aramaic word meaning `a smith', which in its turn is a cognate of Hebrew Quayin, with the meaning `a lance'.

H7014 qayin kah'-yin The same as H7013 (with a play upon the affinity to H7069 ); Kajin, the name of the first child, also of a place in Palestine, and of an Oriental tribe:--Cain, Kenite (-s).
H7013 qayin kah'-yin From H6969 in the original sense of fixity; a lance (as striking fast): spear.

H6969 qun koon A primitive root; to strike a musical note, that is, chant or wail (at a funeral): lament, mourning woman.

BEGUILED IS: dē-cĭpĭo , capio, primarily signifies to catch away, catch up, seize an animal while running, fleeing,: “amatorem amicae decipiunt vitia,”Hor . S. 1, 3, 38.—

The Prophets define the Church of Christ both Inclusively and Exclusively. The Holy Spirit asks:

The Sacrificial System was from the Assyrians and their WORSHIP was that of Molech. Today we BURN infants by lying about the WORD.

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Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a feast? and must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel Isaiah 30:29 LXX

Isa 30:30 And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be hearrd
        and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and of anger and devouring flame:
        he shall lighten terribly, and his wrath shall be as water and bionent hail.

Isa 30:31 For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome,
        even by the stroke wherewtith he shall smit them.

Isa 3032 And is shall happen to him from every side,
        that they from whome their hope of assistance was,
        in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp.

Abilene Christian University has long been cuckolded by the NACC or Christian churches. Any one such as Rick Atchley who knows nothing of the MYSTERIES reserved for the Little Flock of Lost Spirits who uses bits and pieces of Scripture to justify sowing of discord and stealing the church property of Widows and Honest workers do not BELIEVE Scripture and boast about being CO-inspirers with God may be Biblically Illiterate. However, Jesus as Spirit is not so meek and mild in Ephesians 4 where the cunning craftsmen or Sophists-speakers, singers, instrument players-are LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.

The evidence is that a SECTARIANIZED congregation doesn't look to great for having COLLECTIVIZED three successful and happy Congregations.

PSALLO as the "proof" for instruments command to SPEAK the Biblical Text. Ode and Psallo are IN the heart which means SILENCED. That is because the PSALLO rooted words were used in the Greek Translation because they MARKED those, like Apollon, who plucked his LYRE to seduce both male and female. He plucked his BOW for anyone, male or female, who would not submit.

SORCERY: I will add the UNIVERSAL understanding that an ABOMINATION, Witchcraft, inducing KOMA and the sting of the Locusts is ANY kind of music when Jesus is still the SENIOR Teacher only when APT elders "teach that which has been taught."

Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
the STAR of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days,
and offered sacrifice unto the idol,
and rejoiced in the works of their own hands

The practice in the wilderness, tyre and Jerusalem

Acts 7:42 Then God turned,
      and gave them up to worship the HOST of heaven;
        as it is written in the book of the prophets,
        O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices
        by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into
        captivity beyond Damascus,
        saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
        and the star of your god Remphan,
        figures which ye made to worship them:
        and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Mark.10.They.Shall.Mock.Him.With.Music

Trumpet, drums, flute, cymbals and castinets with buffoons
Psallo permits ONLY smiting a string with your FINGERS: not a plectrum
Psallo and SOP have the same root meaning.

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Revelation 18F: they are all called Sorcerers who HAD once deceived the whole world.
They WILL BE CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.

Tyre and Babylon explain Lucifer the singing and harp playing prostitute in the garden of Eden.

The Babylon mother of HARLOTS in Revelation 17 use "lusted after fruits" as singers and instrument players. They are called SORCERY and will be cast alive into the Lake of Fire.

And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water. Ezek 26:12

And I will cause the noise of thy SONGS to cease;
and the sound of thy HARPS shall be no more heard.
Ezek 26:13
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God. Ezek 26:14

Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? Ezek 26:15

Sono: to make a noise, to sound, resound: aes sonit, the trumpet sounds “plectra,” Prop. 4 (5), 7, 62. tympana,

Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones,
        and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments:
        they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground,
        and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee. Ezek 26:16

Ezek. 33:4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

Ezek. 33:30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord.

Ezek. 33:31 And they come unto thee AS the people cometh,
      and they sit before thee AS my people,
      and they hear thy WORDS,
           but they will not do them:
for with their MOUTH they shew much love,
          BUT their heart goeth after their covetousness.

WHICH IS COMPARED TO SOMETHING ELSE HYPOCRITICAL
Ezek. 33:32 And, lo, thou art UNTO them
         as a very lovely SONG
         of one that hath a pleasant VOICE,
         and can PLAY WELL on an INSTRUMENT:
                 for they hear thy words,
                 but they do them not.

Tabrets or Drums has the same message as TOPHETH. The Jews had acovenant wiith Death and Hell. Amos 8 and Revelation 18 marks the priesthood of the Babylon Mother of Harlots. Apollyon is 666 and THE Spirituus LEADING the Muses.

Isaiah 3 Women? and "boys" Rullig over you.

The MARK of the BEAST

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BEAST: Thērion ,

to (in form Dim. of thēr), A. wild animal, esp. of such as are hunted, mala gar mega thērion ēen, of a stag, Od.10.171, 180 (never in Il.); in Trag. only in Satyric drama
III. as a term of reproach, beast, creature, , cf. Eq.273; “kolaki, deinō thēriō” Pl.Phdr.240b;

“hē mousikē aei ti kainon thērion tiktei”

mousikê aei ti kainon thêrion tiktei
A. Mousikos, musical, agônes m. kai gumnikoi choroi te kai agônes ta mousika music,

II. of persons, skilled in music, kuknos [minstrel] kai alla zôia; peri aulous - professional musicians, mousikos kai melôn poêtês, use with singing, skilled in speaking before a mob. Melody,

B. aei always
C. kainos , esp. of new dramas, the representation of the new tragedies, (Aphrodisias dedicated to Aphrodite (ZOE); comedy, sexual love, pleasure, a woman's form of oath, Aster or Venus or ZOE Lucifer
D. Therion
E. Tikto mostly of the mother of Rhea one of the zoogonic or vivific principles

WHAT IS A PLAGUE: PLESSO 3. strike or stamp as one does a coin, Kuprios kharaktēr . .
en gunaikeiois tupois “peplēktai” Strike a string with a key,

4. OF MUSICAL SOUNDS, houtôsi plêgenta houtôs ephthenxato ta phônêenta
EPHTHENXATO--trumpet (thunder), flute, lyre, Phormigx (ABADDON'S instrument), melody in a holy place, CLAPPING HANDS. sting, “plēgeisa hupo skorpiou

EXAMPLE: Plato, Euthydemus

[289e] For not only do these speech-writers themselves, when I am in their company, impress me as prodigiously clever, Cleinias, but their art itself seems so exalted as to be almost inspired. However, this is not surprising; for it is a part of the sorcerer's art,

Rev. 19:20 And the beast was taken,
        and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him,
        with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,
        and them that worshipped his image.
        These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

6.02.13 Revised
Northwest Church of Christ Seattle Levites and Soothsayers
We have added notes to prove that if instrumental idolatry doesn't get you, and if sowing discord doesn't get you, them MOCKING Jesus Who wants to be our only TEACHER when the elders "teach that which has been taught" is with us.

Sermon Review, Bill Lawrence Northwest Church of Christ, Seattle. Instrumental music in worship based on No Dispensational Distinction. This is refuted by Campbell, John Locke, John Knox, Martin Luther, John Calvin and Justin Martyr. To that we can add the Old Testament prophets, Jesus, Paul and the collective host of church Fathers. Milton's views sound like they come from Tom Burgess. We have reviewed this book vaguely remembered from living in Seattle. The thesis seems to be that the ANTI-instrument position is based on southern culture and Biblical illiteracy. While Tom Burgess throws the proof text like Saul's lance, they all miss the mark. As in all scholarly works the proofs totally miss the point. The point is that the Greek word PSALLO is a word related to warfare and not to music. Except, of course, the word is related to Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyon. He is the evil musician used as a prophetic model by John in Revelation. The muses are his "team" which was sentenced into the underworld because they did not properly honor the Mother Goddess who, in history is Eve or Zoe. Prophecy has been fulfilled right on time.

See how Milton Jones Led the church into the patternism of the International Church of Christ: a first person horror story.

Down from Kingdom Mountain

My name is Catherine Hampton, and for ten years, from 1977 to 1987, I was part of the discipling movement, often called the "Crossroads Movement", within the Churches of Christ. The Boston Church of Christ, and later the International Churches of Christ (ICC), came from this movement.

At this advance I met Milton Jones, the evangelist at Northwest and leader of the mission team that had planted the ministry there. Milton played a tremendous role in the discipling movement, perhaps second only to Kip. Three years after this advance he wrote the book from which the ICC took its discipling methodology, among other things.

I also met Bill Lawrence, the campus minister, and a number of other people who became leaders in the movement later on. (Among them were Tom Reynolds, Rob Jacobsen, and Marv Law, all of whom later led various church plantings from Northwest.) In the next three or four years Northwest became one of the fastest-growing discipling movement churches, with over a hundred baptisms a year for most of that period.

Dad,

I will read this more completely later. I fast forwarded to the Northwest section…very troubling. It was starting before I left in December of 1979, so for that reason alone I am grateful that I didn’t stay in Seattle. So many lives destroyed. Thank you for sharing this.

I love you very much. Annette

We are not under the slightest delusion that those who would take your church building and sow discord has the slightest interest in the Bible. The UNITY trumps TRUTH is part of the new Stone Campbell Movement which intends to steal the church houses of widows and is propelled by a "scholarly" ignorance of the Word, history or Ethics. Jesus based unity on the same relationship God makes Himself known. As Father in even the trinitarian definitions is the THOUGHT, the Son is the WORD. The Spirit is that flow of knowledge from Father to Son to those of us who are still of the earth. The Son speaks only what He hears from the Father. Because the human identified His Father as God the Jews understood that Jesus was the Christ, the invisible God made visible. The only unity possible is based on "speaking the same things" which is very possible if you see "church" (the holy whore) as the ekklesia or synagogue or school of the Bible. The direct command is to glorify God with one mind and one mouth by speaking "that which is written." Furthermore, Paul in Romans 15 solves the diversity problem of Romans 14 by outlawing PLEASURING one another. This, in turn, speaks of the singing in a secular sense which LIFTED you up. This is the real meaning of HERESY in the Greek resources: singing to create mental excitement to carry you away for THEIR OWN USES.

Another member of the Stoneites pretends not to be and has written some pretty flakey stuff on instrumental music and has been as instrumental a the Northwesterners as deliberately sowing discord. Our partial review of ---

Rick Atchley: Is it I DON'T KNOW or I DON'T CARE

A. Ralph Johnson in Instrumental Music, Sacred or Sinful.

1. Tom Burgess in Documents on Instrumental Music reviewed. Psallo and Instrumental Music: Proofs do not prove anything but the "music-homosexuality" connection. See more on Strabo's definition of the worship of Apollo or Abaddon or Apollyon: his MUSES are the locusts or musical performers in the book of revelation.

2. Tom Burgess More Review of Plutarch: if Psallo authorizes "church music" it authorizes a homosexual gathering.

3. Tom Burgess on Moralia confirms the "Music-Heresy-Perversion" connection which has no historical exception. 10/20/04

4. Tom Burgess on John Chrysostom: are the anti-instrumentalists ignorant rurals? 10/21/04 What about Paul and Martin Luther and John Calvin and Zwingli and--everyone who believed the Bible as authority.

Charles Daily Northwest College of the Bible Part One ..... Part One A .....Part Two ..... THRESKIA or CHARISMATIC

THE PROOF TEXTS POINTED TO AS AUTHORITY TO DELIBERATELY SOW DISCORD AND ATTEMPT TO UNITE BY VICTORY OVER TRUTH IS THAT 100% OF THE TIME THE "MUSICAL" REFERENCES ATTACH TO "RELIGIOUS" PROSTITUTION AND HOMOSEXUALITY.

The major missed point is that music in the worship sense is universally attributed to Lucifer or Zoe. It always points to PROSTITUTES as in the flute-girls or Sodomites. There are several other words similar to PSALLO and they all related to destructive or perverted practices.

In order to ignore direct commands of Paul about music it is convenient to riducule commands, examples and inferences as God's way of communicating His will for our lives. This riducles all of history's scholars and assumes a post-Biblical authority.

Commands, Examples, Necessary Inferences

In the need to impose instrumental music in worship it is not uncommon to claim that Restoration Movement theology gets its authority from John Locke rather than from Jesus. Or that Alexander and Thomas Campbell somehow slipped into southern, red-necked mentality to invent this method of determining God's will.

However, it is difficult for this writer to think of any other way to express my will to my children than the generally-recognized methods unless you have a direct connection to God. For instance,

If we command our child to do something they might assume the "doctor of the law" pose and try to find a legal way to get around it.
If we example refusing to accept a social drink our child absorbs it like a sponge even though we have said nothing.
If we say "I would not do that" they will infer that perhaps they should not either.

Because power corrupts, our "think sos" become a direct revelation from God and our "claiming so" exerts that authority on others. In the end, the error in the book of Enoch for which God will come with ten thousand of his saints to execute judgment is a way to corrupt the Word and the people so that they will not be able to evaluate anything beyond "sound bytes" put to the tune of pagan or contemporary replacements for the Word of God. If one professes to be Post-Modern then getting rid of the Bible as the product of Jesus' assignment for His time is a reasonable conclusion.

Therefore, to reject commands, examples and inferences is often accompanied with the claim of some supernatural connection with God in which one learns His will in some mysterious way. Experiencing God by Henry T. Blackaby and Claude V. King infuses such notions among those needing power.

Tertullian noted that:

For such is the power of earthly pleasures, that, to retain the opportunity of still partaking of them,
it contrives to prolong swilling ignorance, and bribes knowledge into playing a dishonest part. To both things, perhaps, some among you are allured by the views of the heathens who in this matter are wont to press us with arguments, such as these:

(1) That the exquisite enjoyments of ear and eye we have in things external are not in the least opposed to religion in the mind and conscience; and

(2) That surely no offence is offered to God, in any human enjoyment, by any of our pleasures, which it is not sinful to partake of in its own time and place, with all due honour and reverence secured to Him.

But this is precisely what we are ready to prove: That these things are not consistent with true religion and true obedience to the true God. Tertullian De Spectaculis

The only true worship in a physical sense is to "fall on your face" in the awareness of the greatness of God. And you cannot fall on your face when you are confronting a holy God trying to "move the worshipers into His presence" with authentia which is the sexual authority absolutely outlawed by God because authentia is "both erotic and murderous."

Worship, even under the Law, in a spiritual sense was "giving heed to God and His Word." We worship whatever or whomever we "give attention to." If feminine and effeminate performers present themselves as the Willow Creek "image of what a Christian should look like" then we are practicing "the idolatry of talent." We are FORCING people to give heed to the performers and their words. This is another violation of Paul's direct command to give heed to Christ's Word or Spirit power.

The rejection of God's only avenues of communicating authority is as hostile to the Spirit of Christ as any "heretical" view we could invent. Therefore,

"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every part of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, then I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all battlefields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point." Martin Luther

Jefferson stated: "Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery."

Rejecting Rituals Connected to the Sacrificial System as Christian "acts of worship."

David, my servant, whom I chose

To guard my flock, to crush my foes,

And raised him to the Jewish throne,

Was but a shadow of my Son."

Sir Isaac Watts Psalm 89

Sirach in Ecclesiasticus 48:

1. Then the prophet Elijah arose like a fire, and his word burned like a torch.
2. He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal he made them few in number.
3. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens, and also three times brought down fire.
4. How glorious you were, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! And who has the right to boast which you have?
5. You who raised a corpse from death and from Hades, by the word of the Most High;
6. who brought kings down to destruction, and famous men from their beds;
7. who heard rebuke at Sinai and judgments of vengeance at Horeb;
8. who anointed kings to inflict retribution,

and prophets to succeed you.

O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. Hosea 13:9

I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Hosea 13:10

I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. Hosea 13:11

Judah as a nation was little better.

When the "king set over us" is a dominant, Post-Modern preacher then God has appointed him to inflict retribution because you believed his childish belief in the Post Modern (Post-Biblical) children's gibberish.

"The same basic thought is in view throughout all these references, including II Peter 3:3 and Jude 18. Mockers, in the Word of God, are those who "belittle," "ridicule," "scorn," "make light of" both the living Word and the written Word.

Jude and Peter allude to the Book of Enoch and comparable documents. These show that mixed-sex choirs, instrumental music and eye and other sense appeal was introduced by Satan to take the worship away from God and direct it to him.

This ignoring of the Word in order to introduce human forms of worship define one as a liar and Satanic because Jesus defined the Devil based on the fact that he speaks on his own.

Jesus also defined the Pharisees in the same term and identified all of the Jewish leaders as sons of their lying father the Devil for committing the same sin.

God will come with ten thousand of His saints for just these people.

There are many Psalms which ask God to crush my foes but the weapons of Christian warfare are not carnal or lifeless instruments.

The second effort to transfer authority from Christ to a secular society passes Judgment upon Alexander Campbell and others for rejecting playing of loud instruments.

We have found no historical scholar outside of the liberal-tainted 19th century scholarship who agrees that Old Testament ceremonial ritualism can be added to Christian worship

without also resting our faith on the animal sacrifices to which music was exclusively attached in a worship sense. This has historically included rejecting instrumental music.

Hebrews 6 makes this the unforgivable sin.

Contrary to the need to diminish Locke and Campbell in order to personally replace them as authority, both taught principles which would increase religious toleration by limiting, in the collective assembly representing many opinions, only those "acts" for which there is a direct command. This was not to be exclusive but to be inclusive by not doing things not necessary for salvation which would deliberately offend those who did not have the votes to force their will.

Thomas and Alexander Campbell went further than most by teaching that approved examples which seem approved in the Bible also be allowed. Even further toward toleration was to allow "necessary inferences." For instance, the command for the Lord's Supper does not need a direct command to get in out of the rain so we infer that we can meet in a building without changing the nature of the Supper. Nor would we offend anyone.

Later American Restoration participants did not add things such as instrumental music to their existing practices -- rejected by most Protestants and even Catholics at least intellectually -- because there was no command, example or even inference that Christ or Paul or anyone had ever hinted that it would be productive. Furthermore, it would be sectarian because it would automatically "include" in a fraternal sense those who agreed, and it would "exclude" those who could not add music to the historical practice. It also answered to being sectarianism because those who added music had a vested financial interest in increasing attendance (See Vine's definition of sect and heresy). Locke Letter of Toleration

Mass religion fails when the individual believer becomes Post Modern. A gravestone in Rome reads: 'I didn't exist, then I existed, then I died. I don't care.'

Ain't it the truth? for now....

ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN DOCTRINE AND LIFE

Therefore doctrine and life should be distinguished as sharply as possible.

Doctrine belongs to God, not to us; and we are called only as its ministers.

Therefore we cannot give up or change even one dot of it (Matt. 5:18).

Life belongs to us; therefore when it comes to this, there is nothing that the Sacramentarians can demand from us that we are not willing and obliged to undertake, condone, and tolerate (LW 27:37).

With a straight face, yet, people will tell you that music has been the universal rule and to oppose the forced introduction into Christian worship is legalism and sectarianism:

"Those of us who protest against this revolution in Presbyterian worship are by some pitied, by others ridiculed, and by others still denounced as fanatics.

If we are, we share the company of an innumerable host of fanatics extending from the day of Pentecost to tile middle of the nineteenth century.

We refuse not to be classed, although consciously unworthy of the honor, with apostles, martyrs and reformers. But neither were they mad, nor are we. We "speak the words of truth and soberness." Mindful of the apostolic injunction, "Prove all things," we submit arguments derived from Scripture, from the formularies of our church and from the consensus of Christ's people, and respectfully invoke for them the attention of our brethren. George Girardeau, Presbyterian

Review of Sermon, Milton Jones, Northwest Church of Christ, Seattle, Washington.

A visitor taped this sermon and because the preacher outlawed taping it it is not clear enough to transcribe directly. However, Milton Jones makes the common proof-text apology which we wil review:

First, I gather that Alexander Campbell is represented as the first person in the history of the world to have taught that there is a dispensational difference between the Law of Moses (added because of transgression, and that transgression being musical idolatry at Mount Sinai) which also betrayed The Book of The Covenant of God in Christ to Abraham and restated..

Perhaps his uniqueness was to declare the fact to theologians who often "saw godliness as a means of financial gain." Furthermore, Campbell argues that Calvinists need to preach the law in order to radically panic the prospects into some emotional experience which could be translated as conversion and a sign of God's acceptance. This dissociation -- an integral part of the new marketing schemes -- terminated the process and therefore baptism was placed under the "New Covenant" as an optional act. That is, people were saved under law and baptized under grace. In "believer's baptism" one actually "becomes" Christ or Christ comes as in the "mass" and dies again for the personal salvation of the believer.

What I grasp from the words and their tone is that the audience is to see this new, unique but presumptious wall between law and grace as so radical that no "modern" person could possibly agree with them. Connect this with the theme of "breaking down the walls" to any and every system of religion and you see why dispensational distinction stands as an obstacle to ceremonial worship with music.

Grace, like Word, is God's gift to mankind to REMOVE the laded burdens and burden laders. "Burdens" in Greek and Hebrew were the arousal songs with instruments used to ENCHANT or perform sorcery on people.

Titus 2:11 For the grace
        of God
        that bringeth salvation
        hath appeared to all men,
Titus 2:12 Teaching us that,
        denying meaning to contradict, reject, refute
        ungodliness means irreverent, impious: that will get you burned Heb 12. Zoe "calls down the fires."
        and worldly lusts, "A longing for that which is FORBIDDEN." Don't ring a bell?

we should
        live soberly, Sound mind: music deranges the mind.
        righteously, innocent giving NO offense.
        and godly, devout or reverent without which you get burned.
        in this present world;
Charis (g5485) khar'-ece; from 5463; graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstr. or concr.; lit., fig. or spiritual; espec. the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude)

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory,
        the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
        full of grace and truth. John 1:14
John 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses,
        but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

While many of Campbell's contemporaries believed that they could pick parts of the legalistic, ceremonial "like the nations" worship under the Monarchy, the problem with this approach is that Campbell and all of his Reformed and Baptist friends had always rejected instrumental music based on the "Regulative Principle" that -- out of respect for God and mankind -- "where the Bible speaks, we speak but where the Bible is silent we are silent." Many Presbyterians and Baptists are still faithful to that rejection of instruments.

They fully understood that to restore the music was to trust in that part of the Law which governed Israel after they rejected God and lived like the Canaanites in their midst.

And, long before Locke or Campbell we hear: "In essentials, unity, in doubtful matters, liberty; in all things charity." - Pope John XXIII, Ad Petri Cathedram and popularly attributed to Augustine

Second, the Campbells, and therefore the American Restoration Movement, is charged with being disciples of Locke rather than the disciples of Christ. This, of course, denies that they were true-blue scholars and question Locke's Christianity.

John Mark Hicks in defining the Hermeneutics of the Stone-Campbell

First, the false claim that the Churches of Christ and the Christian Churches were ever united or held a SINGLE doctrine in common when Jones etal claim that the groups UNITED in 1832. We will debunk that under John Mark Hicks false document review.

Second, without having read John Locke who gave HIM both religious and civil lliberty, Jones and Hicksmake the false claim that the Campbells taught that they could use their OWN rationalistic, distorted mind to DETERMINE THE WILL OF GOD. That is false: God, Jesus, the writers and all humanoid history teaches that people WRITE documents knowing that readers can read BLACK text on BROWN paper. The Disciples on the other

Anyone who read understands that the SNAKE in Revelation was called a Musical Enchanter(ess). Christ in the prophets identifies the King of Tyre as a LUCIFER type and "She is called a singing and harp playing prostitute in the graden of Eden.

The implication is that Locke was some kind of rationalistic creature who operated from his God-given mind rather than listening to the voice of the Spirit. Locke was not fond of the Calvinistic demand for supernatural signs and this may explain why those who distort Calvin don't like Locke.

Because the audience (nor do most of those camp-following lectureship guys whose "buzz code" is "down with John Locke.") know little about Locke it is easy to minimize one who stands at the top of the heap intellectually and promoted religious tolerance when it was dangerous to do so. Both Locke and Campbell taught that if you don't rely only on direct commands it is not possible to function as a united local body. And that is a self-evident fact of life.

The freedom which we enjoy as citizens under the Constitution of the United States and as free-to-choose worshipers of God depends heavily upon the work of Locke.

As a result of his work, Campbell's approach would promote religious toleration in a polluted ocean of tribal warfare among too many clergy chasing too few dollars.

Third, besides questioning the motives and spirituality of those who oppose music in the modern sectarian movement, the motive seems to be to aggrandize the period of the Monarchy or the Kingdom where God granted Israel a human king to replace Him so that they could worship like the nations and fulfill their sentence at Mount Sinai because of musical "play."

This would not allow, but totally prohibit, women or younger men from being "musical overseerers." If we need a "law" to answer to Paul's absolute prohibition of "non-sedantary" women in the assembly, this is it.

Quoting Psalm 150 as "proof text" shows that the preacher does not share any understanding of the difference between the covenant of grace offered at Sinai and the Book of the Law given to govern a people who turned back to the musical worship of their Egyptian gods.

There is a problem when a Psalm is used as "proof-text" or legal authority to add instruments even if we never see David as a theatrical performer in ceremonial legalism or "church worship." We do see him playing himself into a naked dance with the slave girls. The word "play" of David is identical to the Mount Sinai experience and Condemned by Paul to the Corinthians. The word "halal" means that he "made himself vile" and bragged that the slave followers would hold him in honor.

Nor does he share any understanding with the audience that some of these instruments were not allowed in the temple service (never congregational) and were not allowed on the seventh day sabbath which was to "be kept holy."

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Isaiah 58:13

If we use Psalm 150 as proof text for modern instrumental music what will we do with Psalm 149 which says:

Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; Psalm 149:6

To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the

people; Psalm 149:7

David "sang to the Gentiles" with his feed on their necks as he shed the blood OF the Gentiles. However, Christ shed His blood FOR the gentiles and when He sings we "preach."

The church "fathers" understood these either as written by a vengeful God or must be interpreted in a spiritual sense as Christ "playing" on our heart as we teach His Words (Col 3) or Spirit (Eph 5) to one another.

Fourth, with the destruction of "dispensational distinctions" the legalistic Levitical Musical Teams become the authority for many modern musical worship teams to replace the elders. These teams are now allowable if it can be proven to the audience that songs are to be sung using mechanical instruments with Psalm 150 as the "proof-text."

Once the walls have been broken down between the sacrificial system and the Christian dispensation it is just as reasonable to replace the communion table with sacrificial bodies offered up with musical noise. Paul would associate them with the shaven heads of the pagan prophetesses (1 Cor 11:5)

In fact, the instrumentalist "noise makers" played panic "music" during the sacrifices but this was not "worship."

In the wilderness, the Levites stood between the people and the Tabernacle to prevent them from "coming boldly into the presence of God."

The fact is that the Levitical musicians were later added to the like the nations temple services when Israel fired God and got their "own assignment" from the pagans around them. This put the temple, animal sacrificial and the Levitical musicians under the control of the king and the commanders of the army. This also meant that the literal songs, weapons and instruments were to punish anyone who ventured into the temple rituals or who did not fall down during animal sacrifices.

"To the priests was committed the charge of the sanctuary and the altar,

while the Levites were to take care of everything else about the tabernacle.
The Levites were to attend the priests as servants-- [meaning Hard Bondage]

bestowed on them as "gifts" to aid in the service of the tabernacle--
while the high and dignified office of the priesthood was a "service of gift."

"A stranger," that is, one, neither a priest nor a Levite, who should intrude into any departments of the sacred office, should incur the penalty of death. ROBERT JAMIESON

The "musical noise makers" served in the court which represents the world: they never entered the holy place (church) nor certainly the Most Holy Place where one worshiper at a time goes boldly before the throne of grace. A "musician" who attempted to follow the priest into either place (church or spirit) would be run through with a sword: any theatrical performers who attempts to do it today has been run through with the Sword of the Spirit.

Therefore, to adopt a Monarchy pattern is to adopt "worship like the nations" and to deny the work of Christ Who permits us all to come boldly before the throne of grace. Anyone who pretends to bring you into God's presence has been hatched in downtown Babylon.

It is also a fact that most complex harmony "panics" the enemy into "flight, fight or sex" before the induced morphine-like drug produces the "high" which can be peddled as a "spiritual" feeling.

Fifth, because many might not buy the "no dispensational distinction" argument, the word psallo is dredged up when no one understanding the Bible, the classical writers, church history or that no informed by scholars ever attempted to wrestle Paul's words until challenged about the forceful introduction of instrument.

Except to "poison the wells" it is difficult to understand the string of logic connecting Locke to Campbell to the Greek word "psallo." Rather than the Bible, an obscure but real-life "parasite" called Lucian of Samosata is used as proof that psallo demanded the use of instruments well past the time of Paul.

'It is impossible to pipe [aulein] without a pipe or to strum [psallein] without a lyre or to ride without a horse' (Parasite 17)

My version and other scholars note that you cannot perform LYRIC poetry without a LYRE. You cannot ride a horse without a horse.

This doesn't work either because Lucian of Samosata needed patrons out of the intellectual and ruling classes and therefore used the Attic Greek he had learned in his native land from the Classical writers. That is, his use of "psallo" dates perhaps 400 years before the time of Paul. Furthermore, he always associated this music with pagan or secular rituals dominated by performing women. His writings help explain the Marzeah held by Israel and condemned by Amos.

Tom Burgess has collected some of the Greek texts using the word PSALLO: However, there is no exception to the rule that it was males PLUCKING the harp to seduce a young boy as "minister of the gods."

In Alexander the Oracle Monger, Lucian shows how to construct a seeker form of religion with women a primary attraction.

In addition, external "melody" has its foundation in twanging arrows, plucking hair or abrading the enemy to death with "playing instruments and making a joyful noise before the Lord" which was the Israelite battle cry. Twanging a literal arrow makes the string twang and the arrow sing on its way to your heart: when you hear the twang of a bowstring, therefore, you panic because you know that the arrow is making its "melody" in your heart. See the background to twanging arrows. A similar word defines the SOP Jesus hand abraded as a sign to Judas that He was the prophesied agent of Psalm 41 who would try to triumph over Jesus with the musical warriors of the priests.

Well, it is pretty hard to blow a pipe without a pipe! I can buy that. However, if this is supposed to prove that it is impossible to psallo without a lyre then:

This demands that every singer have their own lyre or harp.

This would exclude theatrical performance for the "audience." .

Sorry, but history, including Lucian, never treats "divine" musicians much better than when Jesus insinuated that the Jews were seeking John because he might be "soft" and Jesus because He might sing and dance the effeminate chorus of Dionysus while they played the pipe:

Pseudo-Apollodorus notes of the word strum that: "The infants were exposed, but a neatherd found and reared them, and he called the one Zethus and the other Amphion.

Now Zethus paid attention to cattle-breeding,
but Amphion practised minstrelsy, for Hermes had given him a lyre

The two brothers are said to have quarrelled, the robust Zethus

blaming Amphion for his passionate addiction to music and
urging him to abandon it for what he deemed the more manly pursuits of agriculture, cattle-breeding and war.

The discussion between the two brothers,

the one advocating the practical life and
the other the contemplative or artistic, seems to have been famous. The gentle Amphion yielded to these exhortations so far as to cease to strum the lyre."

It is illustrated by a fine relief in which we see Amphion standing and holding out his lyre eagerly for the admiration of his athletic brother, who sits regarding it with an air of smiling disdain

This repeats the well-known story of Cain and Able. Cain's descendant, Jubal, was the musical performer. And the story of Genun shows that Satan always leads the musical performers.

Hermes was the agent who was the father of musical instruments, the bow twanging melodious arrows, of liars and of thieves. Because "cows" in the book of Enoch represents people, Hermes represents the Satanic agents who can "walk backward" and hide the cattle he stole from the senior god, Apollo. Apollo is Abbadon or Apollyon or Satan or the beast (Zoe type) who formed an early Seeker Center at Delphi as a theater for "holy entertainment."

However, you cannot blame Locke, or Alexander Campbell or those who insinuated instruments into even non-musical churches by rhetorical force.

Lipscomb wrote as late as 1878 that:

We do not think anyone has ever claimed authority from Scriptures to use the organ in worship. They only claim it is not condemned. It is used as an assister in worship...Prayer, praise, thanksgiving and making melody in the heart (mind) unto the Lord are acts of worship ordained of God, but no authority do we find for the organ."

Sixth, the Lucian quote demands the use of instruments. Therefore, Arndt and Gingrich are used as the modern authority for the allowance of instruments in some, but not all, of the New Testament usages. We have some notes on Arndt-Gingrich here. Many of the Lexicons note that Lucian used a pre Koine Greek language.

The real division over the forced introduction of musical instruments happened after Locke, Campbell or Alexander Campbell

Even though some of the churches had adopted an Old Testament structure to their organization, Alexander Campbell noted that:

"The argument drawn from the Psalms in favor of instrumental music,
is exceedingly apposite to the Roman Catholic, English Protestant, and Scotch Presbyterian churches, and even to the Methodist communities. (Catholic scholarship still rejects the authority of musical instruments)

This proves that the base of the Restoration Movement was consistent with 2,000 years rejection of instrumental or mechanical devices as "the works of human hands" to worship a Spirit God. Therefore, those who add instruments are the MUSICAL SECTARIANS. They know beforehand and with a high hand "sow discord among the brethren" and the claim to being Post Modern includes the right to lie, cheat and steal. Bill Clinton: "I know that I lied but the Republicans made me do it."

"There were those saying that they could "not abide the election of a Republican President." In which event they would destroy the Union. "And then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer." Abraham Lincoln, Frost, Vol. 1, p. 274

However, his primary argument was made against worship directed to the body or carnal nature and to the spirit:

"So to those who have no real devotion or spirituality in them, and whose animal nature flags under the oppression of church service, I think with Mr. G., that instrumental music would be not only a desideratum, but an essential prerequisite to fire up their souls to even animal devotion.

But I presume, to all spiritually-minded Christians, such aids would be as a cow bell in a concert.

Therefore, it is simply wrong to hang the sectarian music issue around the necks of these Godly and scholarly men who are probably chuckling in their graves over the second incarnation of the psalm argument.

Thus ends the major points expressing my opinion to interested parties about the first half of the sermon trying to justify the introduction of instruments into a Christian "worship in spirit and in truth." And, indeed, most of these old scholars would see the self-promotion of performance worship as neither Biblical, rational nor quite as entertaining as all artists believe. This is not "rationalism" but rational which is another word for "spiritual" because God gave us a mind to understand Him and not an antenna to suck truth out of the air.

Seventh. It is easy to get into the "church growth" fad but Paul said that the order is "plant and water and let God give the increase." When there is a deliberate sense of panic to escape the hard work the crowd- or hype-induced new marketing schemes seem so attractive.

However, don't forget that of those whom Paul called the "many" and prophecy calls the "multitite" there will always be witting or unwitting efforts to add ritual to take away the key to knowledge.

In the Post-Modern sense the question is asked:

"Are you having difficulty discerning or receiving this "new revelation"? Then you have been interpreting your Bible in the "old way,"

comparing Scripture with Scripture, studying diligently to account for every jot and tittle and being careful to rightly divide the Word of truth.

If this describes you, then you belong to the "Old Generation"
which will not enter in to "possess the land" in the Latter Rain Revival.

You may even be a member of a denominational church, with its dogmatic confession of faith and statement of doctrine.

These legalistic forms will be relics of the past in the up and coming "Postdenominational Church." Paul Cain advises that you "dump all that carnal stuff" (doctrine) and listen to what the "spirit" is saying to the churches through the Latter Rain Prophets and Apostles, who are dispensing many "new, sacred truths." Source

More Details on Blackaby and your incarnation as Christ.

See what Preachers trying to destroy the Word believe.

In so many of the "uniquely American" churches "testing the spirits" is between relying on the inspired Word which has stood the test of time or rely on those who believe that you should rely on them for faith and practice.

The following added verbage should be considered resources to decide whether you want to trust Jesus and His word which produces unity or the opinions of men who almost always do not understand or who misuse the historical evidence.

In an article on the Second Great Awakening we document the very legalistic nature of the charismatic recapitulation one had to experience to effectively save themselves by bringing Christ to them literally and personally to die for them. In the modern Baptist scheme, which never died in some of the Restoration Movement, God personally picks the person for salvation and in a quieter Presbyterian system makes that known. However, to repudiate Calvinism at Cane Ridge, men like Barton W. Stone still needed some supernatural "exercises" to prove that one could work themselves through the legalistic phase of law and then receive the Atonement. Because these experiences rarely happen in any system, you just have to manufacture them.

Campbell, looking at all of the signs and results, saw this as Satanic and therefore denied that a Christian has to go through the Law and effectively redeem themselve. Then and now music was a powerful machine to "move the worshipers into the presence of God."

Background to the Quoted Resources

We have added the factual information which you can read for yourself to show that:

1. The Law of Moses was added because of Transgression: Instrumental Idolatry

2. Historical scholars agree that the New Covenant dispensed with national legalistic rituals of all kind.

3. They also agree that authority comes -- like all possible authority -- through commands, approved examples and inferences.

4. Lucian did not authorize instruments by using a Post-Paul definition of the Greek word for melody: psallo. His Greek was perhaps 400 years older than Paul's.

5. Only in an after the fact effort to soothe the division caused by adding instruments has psallo ever been used to justify their use.

While the artistics "amphions" of the world are sowing discord by devoting too much attention to their own theatrical performance wouldn't it be wonderful if instead of tackling men like Locke and Campbell the "audience" could have the huge body of information "unchained from the pulpit." While they are creating "body worship" we believe that:

Amphion stands and holds out his lyre eagerly for the admiration of his athletic brother, they sit regarding it with an air of smiling disdain.

Did you know that the Judas bag was for "holding the mouth pieces of wind instruments"? But, according to Psalm 41, Judas would not triumph over (blow the trumpet and rejoice) over Jesus. Look and see how the Judas goats try to triumph over us.

Theologians cannot find God by themselves. Therefore Locke said that God revealed His Word through Jesus Christ, and that this revelation is reasonable to the common mind. He never taught that Christianity can be found by human reasoning. Nor did he advocate using direct commands to regulate the affairs of others but to create the broadest area of reconciliation.

Whence This Judgmentalism Against the American Restoration Movement Founders?

Like the charge of racism against those who refuse to worship with musical instruments, the charge of Locke contamination flows out of those who opposed the Campbell's rejection of ceremonial legalism such as musical worship. Of course they hated Locke for many reasons. They didn't like him or Campbell because both opposed professionalizing the clergy. They didn't like either because they opposed authority which reached outside of the local congregation.

Dr. Robert Richardson wrote in a letter to Isaac Errett:

"The philosophy of Locke with which Bro. Campbell's mind was deeply imbued in youth has insidiously mingled itself with almost all great points in the reformation and has been all the whole like an iceberg in the way - chilling the heart and benumbing the hands, and impeding all progress in the right direction."

What Richardson and the Post Modern Sucked Dry of Scripture detested was that John Locke understood that collective worship cannot take place if we violate the commands of Paul to the Romans in chapter fourteen. Both the Dionysiacs and Orphics both had in common was the use of instrumental music to "make the spirit come" in a sexual sense. Paul issued another "speaking rather than singing" commands in Romans 15 which demands.

The Romans Pattern:

Locke never taught what Campbell is accused of teaching about the three levels of Campbellian Hermeneutics. He simply warned those who rise above "humility" and add to the Word, that their logic must be beyond reproach or they must be inspired. This was because, in his view, all of the philosophers and theologians in the world when combining their rules of morality had no moral authority to make spiritual changes.

Both Locke and Campbell used levels of authority to teach toleration and not to exclude people by introducing unclear rituals which did not have a direct command.

The Reasonableness of Christianity should be read to see that the preacher is treating Locke with a non-Christ-O-Centric sense of tolerance. Locke makes use of the Bible to make his point. However, he will give professional "pastors" a heartburn and this is probably why he must be discredited before the "audience" catches on to the Biblical authority about human teachers.

We think that the preacher probably is quoting quotes from quoted quotes and may be referring to Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration. It is clear that the most intolerant effort within the American Restoration Movement is to become sectarian in order to attract the entertainment-based people and thereby exclude those who know that you can build spiritual life only on Christ at the center rather than the theatrical performance of preacher and musical team at the center.

In 1689 Locke deliberately placed beyond criticism churches which by their nature were not Christian.

By definition, a Muslim could not be called heretical or schismatic by a Christian.
However, within the Christian churches which by definition based their faith and practice on the Bible, Locke like Campbell urged the church not to add anything to the worship which was not explicitly commanded.

This was not to upset grown people who hate authority of any kind: This would allow the broadest possible fellowship.

Those who forcefully add musical instruments make it a "condition of her communion" something which is not commanded become sectarian and therefore idolaters in that they put the "music" ahead of those for whom Christ died. John Locke warns:

But since men are so solicitous about the true church, I would only ask them here, by the way, if it be not more agreeable to the Church of Christ

to make the conditions of her communion consist in such things, and such things only,
as the Holy Spirit has in the Holy Scriptures declared, in express words, to be necessary to salvation;

I ask, I say, whether this be not more agreeable to the Church of Christ

than for men to impose their own inventions and interpretations upon others as if they were of Divine authority,
and to establish by ecclesiastical laws, as absolutely necessary to the profession of Christianity, such things as the Holy Scriptures do either not mention, or at least not expressly command?

Whosoever requires those things in order to ecclesiastical communion, which Christ does not require in order to life eternal,

he may, perhaps, indeed constitute a society accommodated to his own opinion and his own advantage;

but how that can be called the Church of Christ which is established upon laws that are not His, and which excludes such persons from its communion as He will one day receive into the Kingdom of Heaven, I understand not.

If Locke is in the memory bank of preachers who use and abuse him to discredit those who "do not go beyond what is written" he may be crucified because he charged that those who introduce practices which are not commanded are the ones guilty of "excluding from their fellowship" those who rely on the message of the Spirit.

The proof is that those who remain faithful to practices which reach back to the commands of Jesus and the Apostles are labeled as "Sectarian" or even racists.

If the ruling pastor imposes musical worship teams and then mechanical devices, people sensitive to the Spirit of the humble Christ must listen as a condition of her communion otherwise they are excluded and those who make the changes without any Biblical authority are by definition sectarian which word implies some vested financial interest.

Adding Instruments without authority is imposing their own inventions because there is no command, example or inference and the Bible and history are not silent.

Ralph Erskine, The Beauties of Erskine, 1745 A Poem

The law supposing I have all,

Does ever for perfection call;

The gospel suits my total want,

And all the law can seek does grant.

The law could promise life to me,

If my obedience perfect be;

But grace does promise life upon

My Lord's obedience alone.

The law says, Do, and life you'll win;

But grace says, Live, for all is done;

The former cannot ease my grief,

The latter yields me full relief.

The law will not abate a mite,

The gospel all the sum will quit;

There God in thret'nings is array'd

But here in promises display'd.

The law excludes not boasting vain,

But rather feeds it to my bane;

But gospel grace allows no boasts,

Save in the King, the Lord of Hosts.

The law brings terror to molest,

The gospel gives the weary rest;

The one does flags of death display,

The other shows the living way.

The law's a house of bondage sore,

The gospel opens prison doors;

The first me hamer'd in its net,

The last at freedom kindly set.

An angry God the law reveal'd

The gospel shows him reconciled;

By that I know he was displeased,

By this I see his wrath appeased.

The law still shows a fiery face,

The gospel shows a throne of grace;

There justice rides alone in state,

But here she takes the mercy-seat.

Lo! in the law Jehovah dwells,

But Jesus is conceal'd;

Whereas the gospel's nothing else

But Jesus Christ reveal'd.

Thomas Campbell's Declaration and Address

By reading the major work of Thomas Campbell it will be seen that he taught a "minimalist" collective worship which rests on commands in order to keep the unity of the body. Our preacher seems to imply that Thomas and Alexander Campbell taught a radically-new hermeneutic in order to exclude people and thereby pass judgment on them. One might grasp from this that instruments were not used and instrumentalists were excluded from fellowship -- all based on a radical departure from understanding the Bible written without walls of separaton.

Simply by continuing to not use mechanical instruments which they had not used since the Reformation and beyond Campbell and all of his fellow Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians are charged with being sectarian and legalistic because they did not follow the self-elected leaders just out of liberal universities. Now, look at this again:

Reformed churches and all of the reformers (including the Catholic theology) from the first century did not use instrumental music to try to attract God.

Seeker-friendly churches (i.e. Midway, Kentucky) add instruments.

Campbell continues just as he has from the foundation of the church and does not add practices which not commanded and are divisive.

Those adding the instruments then label Campbell (and his modern brethren) as racists, legalists and guilty of "sowing discord among the brethren."

They, of course, deliberately ignore the facts and therefore are lying by transference of guilt. A common children's practice.

Locke showed that if people have any interest in unity they will not impose on others their private opinions not based on direct commands. However, he teaches another fact which disturbs religionists or institution-building people: that each person has their own authority to choose a congregation and therefore the authority to leave a group without being condemned. Because "clergy" in the minds of most writers of that period meant spiritual and financial corruption, Locke and the Campbells gave all of the authority to the individual and none to the self-ordained clergy.

Campbell first made the point made by many before him: the church Christ founded is described only in the New Testament. One may be many things in religion but a Christian is one who accepts the explicit claims of Christ and His Spirit-guided apostles as containing all that we need for life and godliness. If the silence of Scripture is a "divine oversight" and we can make up for God's "failure" then why would He come and declare that His Words are Spirit and Life (John 6:63)?

Contrary to the false charges, Campbell did not lay down some legalistic scheme by which one can exist as a church. Rather, the whole Declaration and Address defines principles which must be followed if various congregations are to walk in fellowship pursuing the same goals.

By analogy, the rule of the hunting camp is: "Thou shalt take a bath at least once a week." Freddy the Fumigant never takes baths. OK! Freddy, you dont have to take baths but you cannot bunk in our cabin but we will still say "hay" outside the camp. Campbell described it this way:

2. That although the Church of Christ upon earth must necessarily exist in particular and distinct societies, locally separate one from another, yet there ought to be no schisms, no uncharitable divisions among them. They ought to receive each other as Christ Jesus hath also received them, to the glory of God.

And for this purpose they ought all to walk by the same rule, to mind and speak the same thing; and to be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

Thomas Campbell might say: "You can burn billy goats and dance naked around the altar if you wish and we will still say 'hay' at the coffee shop. However, you cannot burn goats and 'cry out' to God like a lost David while we are eating the Lord's Supper and 'searching in silence our own hearts' in obedience to the will of Christ." Therefore, in order that we do not become sectarian or:

3. That in order to this, nothing ought to be inculcated upon Christians as articles of faith;

nor required of them as terms of communion,
but what is expressly taught and enjoined upon them in the word of God. Nor ought anything to be admitted, as of Divine obligation, in their Church constitution and managements, (Locke LT)

but what is expressly enjoined by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ and his apostles upon the New Testament Church; either in express terms or by approved precedent.

4. That although the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are inseparably connected, making together but one perfect and entire revelation of the Divine will, for the edification and salvation of the Church, and therefore in that respect can not be separated;

yet as to what directly and properly belongs to their immediate object, the New Testament is as for the worship, discipline, and government of the New Testament Church, and as perfect a rule for the particular duties of its members,

as the Old Testament was for the worship, discipline, and government of the Old Testament Church, and the particular duties of its members. (Declaration And Address)

If you are still using the legalistic Levitical "offering the sacrifice" music while I am trying to take my mind off you as "at the center" and focus on Christ Who is the Center then you may be repudiating the blood of Jesus and you assuredly are being sectarian as you drive away those who cannot engage in The Book of the Law worship after God has restored The Book of the Covenant first given to Abraham.

The Liberalizing Influence of Thomas Campbell

The environment in which Thomas Campbell studied and preached laid down the "rule" that only direct commands could be used as authority for religious practices.

The Campbells had no "direct command" about baptizing babies and so they were excluded from the Presbyterians.
The believed Acts 2:38 to be followed as an act of faith without all of the Baptist baggage and was forced out of the Baptists.

Campbell actually "liberalized" this by permitting approved examples to be used to expand the church's freedom of religious practices. For instance, because Paul laid down no official power to decide who could eat the Lord's Supper he believed that he could offer it to "brand B" presbyterians who did not have their little token of acceptance from "brand A" presbyterians.

He learned that he could not do that and be a Presbyterian.

Later, this was liberalized even further by agreeing that sometimes a necessary inference can be drawn to do things necessary to carry out direct commands. For instance, there is no direct command nor approved example for building church buildings, adding pews, song books or many other things but God gave us credit for having enough sense to get in out of the rain without a direct command.

There is no command, example or necessary inference for mechanical music. It is not necessary to carry out any function of worship. To the contrary, there is a large body of Biblical material which associates music with refusing to listen to God's Words.

Conclusion: Campbell's motive was not to exclude but to eliminate any element of worship which has no clear command because to do so sectiaranizes the church when people have to leave when non-essentials are imposed upon them. He is not responsible for the use or misuse of this principle to which he added approved examples and inferences as Lockean toleration.

Campbell's Sermon on the Law

It is important to understand that adding music to triumph over the others looking for sheep is based on the claim of "putting Christ at the center." The fact is that performing preaching and music is clearly put at the center: you cannot see through any person and see Christ. That is why He commanded us to go into our secret places.

Such churches condemn non-musical churches with being legalistic simply because they do not add rituals out of their own head or paganism from which Catholicism acknowledges borrowing music to aggrandize their ceremonial. In fact, music is an agent of force of mind control to put you into the mood suitable to the group mind -- the collectivistic state in minature.

The repudiation of Campbell's sermon on the law surely has to be based upon the fact that the peak of legalistic worship is musical or theatrical performance. Campbell noted the only reason people charged him with heresy for preaching the sermon as:

"we shall briefly notice the reason commonly assigned for proposing the law as a rule of life to Christians.

"If Christians are taught," say they, "that they are delivered from the law, under it in no sense; that they are dead to it, will not they be led to live rather a licentious life, live as they list;

and will not the non-professing world, hearing that they are not under the law of Moses, become more wicked, more immoral and profane?"

This fits perfectly with so called Post-Modern or Latter Rain religion using shepherding techniques and repudiating paying members for daring to speak against the lone ranger dominant pastor. The law is absolutely required as a source of ceremonial legalism such as music and the control of the body from any upsetting teachings. This is not a sign of freedom in Christ but of the same fearfulness which plagued David, the Psalmist.

Repudiating Campbell is a certain urge to fall back under legalism which is the only security a non Christian has.

The reviewed sermon imagines that Campbell was the first "creature" in the universe who believed that the Old Testament worship ritual had been replaced with worship "in spirit and in truth."

He taught along with most of history's scholars that the Old Testament describes a system of national worship added because of transgression and to remind the people of their continual sinfulness. It prevented them from ever having a clear conscience before God.

He also taught with the worlds scholars (except Catholics) that the dispensation of grace has abrogated all of those rituals by the one righteous act of "worship" by the offering of the blood of Jesus Christ upon the cross.

Therefore, to see this as something outrageous dismisses the intelligence of the "audience" who, if they do much reading of the Bible should know better.

The goal of the sermon seems to be that if Campbell can be discredited then those who think like him can be discredited. This probably intends to prove that the "Musical Worship Teams" under the commanders of the army and used during animal sacrifices can be lifted out of their historical context and plunked down where the table of the Lord's Supper used to rest.

Campbell would have acknowledged that in his own time theology had degenerated so completely that the professors could not grasp that the command to build an ark was not a "direct command" to go thou and do likewise. Heard a sermon where the naked dance of David was an "approved example for Christian worship." I suggested to the preacher that he go first and that would end the "act" of worship. Campbell was aware that then (as now) the Bible was a grab bag for blind men.

In his Sermon on the Law Campbell noted:

"For, in truth, the present popular exhibition of Christianity is a compound of Judaism, Heathen Philosophy, and Christianity; which, like the materials in Nebuchadnezzar's image, does not well cement together."

As a result,

"There are not a few professors of Christianity who suppose themselves under equal obligations to obey Moses or any other Prophet, as Christ and his Apostles. They cannot understand why any part of divine revelation should not be obligatory on a Christian to observe; nor can they see any reason why the New Testament should be preferred to the Old; or why they should not be regulated equally by each. They say, 'Is it not all the word of God, and are not all mankind addressed in it

"A fourth conclusion which is deducible from the above premises is, that all arguments and motives, drawn from the law or Old Testament, to urge the disciples of Christ to baptize their infants (dedicate them); to pay tithes to their teachers; to observe holy days or religious fasts, as preparatory to the observance of the Lord's supper; to sanctify the seventh day; to enter into national covenants; to establish any form of religion by civil law:--and all reasons and motives borrowed from the Jewish law, to excite the disciples of Christ to a compliance with or an imitation of Jewish customs, are inconclusive, repugnant to Christianity, and fall ineffectual to the ground; not being enjoined or countenanced by the authority of Jesus Christ."

Campbell understood the Word of God and the history of theology which acknowledged the distinction between the Old and New Testament. The Jews understood it very well: no Jerusalem, no Temple; no Temple, no music."

The Monarchy period was added as a curse earned at Mount Sinai when Israel rejected the Covenant of Grace, musically worshiped Osiris their old Egyptian god, and later sealed their doom when they demanded a king like the nations so that they could worship like the nations. The "congregation" did not participate with the king and clergy "inside the gates or camp" and therefore Jesus has to be found "outside the camp" and not in connection with music during animal sacrifices. You cannot restore the music without being consistent and sacrificing some of your "lambs."

Failure to understand the difference between the Book of the Covenant and the Book of the Law at Mount Sinai leaves one open to fatal flaws and grace may have been forfeited. Adding instrumental music in worship is both a cause and sign that the first century "god" has been retired.

If you could absolutely prove that the Law of Moses is still binding you would be forced to the conclusion that only the clergy, king and officials engaged in the sacrifice of animals where the loud instruments were used to make a crashing sound. The common people were put "outside the camp" during this process. Furthermore, the people always "synagogued" to hear the Word read by the priests and only "draft age or musterable males" were required to attend the national festivals three times a year.

Summary:

We believe that Bill Lawrence and the Northwest Church of Christ in Seattle does not grasp the significance of instrumental music in worship as a key pagan practice and universally condemned (when God speaks) as evidence that people are saying: "We won't hear any more from you." The claim of being Post Modern and the Seven Ones of Rubel Shelly as the "core" gospel and everything else just interpretation can lead you down some strange paths following the majority.

Both Locke and the Campbells limited tests of fellowship to direct commands so that collectively more people would be able to meet together for worship. Conclusions based on anything else might not prevent fellowship (meeting with) those who did not share your opinion. However, such differences might mean that you may use your God-given authority to find others to worship with. And when others add non-essentials to their worship they may exclude you from their communion.

Most literate scholars from the earliest church history understood the Old Testament and therefore understood that it had nothing to do with "spiritual worship" and that people "outside the camp" could meet God in reading and prayer.

They also understood that the prophets clearly predicted the end of the period of curse as Israel fulfilled their fondest wishes and worshiped like the nations.

They understood that Jesus put an end to the sacrificial system by offering His own body upon the cross "outside the camp." The Jews understood that with the end of the temple came the end of the sacrificial system; and with the end of the sacrificial system they 'hung up their harps" until 1815 AD in a liberal synagogue led back into seeker-friendly legalism by "Christian" practices.

Therefore, to blame Locke and Thomas Campbell and then treat them as some uniquely strange theologians simply lacks a hint of scholarship -- or it intends to distort in order to disturb.

Sermon Review: No Dispensational Distinctions: David's Civil Rituals Authorizes Instruments?
False Conclusions: Lucian of Samosata and Psallo From Attic Greek
False Conclusions:: Lucian of Samosata Explained by The Church Fathers
False Conclusions: How About Psallo and Psalm 150?
Some rebuttal: Reasonableness of Christianity - Locke
Some rebuttal: A Letter of Toleration - Locke
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For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning (didaskalia teaching), that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Rom 15:4 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 1 Pe 1:11
External	That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify (worship) God,	even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Rom 15:6
Internal	Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another	according to Christ Jesus: Rom 15:5

Bill Lawrence Instrumental Music in Worship

plectrum The PSALLO foundation of the musicators OUTLAWS the plectrum. It only permits striking a bow or lyre string with the FINGERS.