Making Music in Your HeartsCol 3:14-17, Eph 5:15-21

What does a holiday sound

like?

Christmas is a special holiday season filled with opportunities for singing the GOSPEL.

Introduction

What is on your PLAYLIST during this holiday?

Are you WORSHIPING this Christmas or just pumping in more NOISE?

Introduction

Colossians 3:12-17

Ephesians 5:15-21

The traditional songs of the season are loaded with THEOLOGICAL

truth.

Key thought

• v.2 a question – “Why this jubilee? Why your joyous strains prolong? Say, what may the tidings be, which inspire your heavenly song?”

• v. 3 an answer – “Come adore on bended knee Christ the Lord, the newborn King.”

Angels We Have Heard on High

• v. 2 to the shepherds… “God with man is now residing”

• v. 3 to the sages… “seek the great Desire of nations”

• v.4 to the saints “before the altar bending, watching long in hope and fear, suddenly the Lord descending in His temple (his body) shall appear”

Angels From the Realms of Glory

• v.1 – “…Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!”

• v. 2 – “offspring of the virgin’s womb, veiled in flesh the God-head see, hail the Incarnate Deity, pleased as men with men to dwell, Jesus, our Emmanuel”

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

• v.3 – “light and life to all He brings, ris’n with healing in his wings. Mild He lays his glory by, born that man no more may die, born to raise the sons of earth, born to give them second birth.”

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

The best Christmas music is offered as a spiritual act of WORSHIP.

Key thought

• It begins in a changed heart• It is a spiritual activity• It is to be sung to each other as an

encouragement

Worship music

• It is an expression of thanks sung to God because of Jesus the Christ

• It is a harmonious submission to each other out of reverence for Christ

Worship music

The best Christmas music is offered as a spiritual act of WORSHIP.

Key thought

Is your Christmas music

merry and worshipful?