good music is proven to provide many
benefits for your mind body and spirit
learn how music is central to God's plan
next on the key of David with Gerald
flurry greetings everyone how much do
you know about music great music
benefits our mental physical and
emotional health it aids our thinking
and helps us get rid of our moods the
wrong kinds of moods so say many of the
experts now you can prove that to
yourself but on the contrary there is a
wrong kind of music that will have just
about the reverse effect of that and can
damage your mental and physical and
emotional health something we need to be
very careful about great music also can
remove some depression that depression
can be caused by the contrary type of
music
perverted music or anything like that
but we have a new booklet that it's just
absolutely outstanding it's a title the
measure of music by Ryan Malone our
music director and choir master and it
this is just one of the most dynamic
unique books booklets that you'll ever
find on this earth I do believe and I
wish their hope that you'll send for it
we'll give you the information at the
end of this program and of course all of
our literature is free but in another
book of Mister Malone's called the
institution of praise he quotes a
Professor Levitin the professor says
music is clearly a means for improving
people's moods improving your mood and
people's moods to illustrate this idea
we first need to understand the Nobel
prize-winning discovery made in 1998
about how cells in our bodies create
nitric oxide and waves a gas that they
release into the body tissue around them
a process called puffing
this puffing can boost cell vitality and
vascular flow a Eden resistance of
stress strengthen the immune system
diminished depression improved digestion
and in part higher levels of energy
stamina and mental clarity now that's
quite a statement that this great music
can benefit you in that way that is
something that I think all of us should
be concerned about when you look at just
the mental and emotional effects of
music great music it's astounding it
seems like all of us would be very much
involved in dr. Oliver Sacks musician
and neurologist had this to say he was
quoting music therapists Greta shil
Thorpe and sax writes quote there are
disturbed people who become calm because
of good music sax also discusses musics
profound effects on Parkinson's patients
and amnesiacs at the end of the book he
states that to those who are lost in
dementia music is not some trivial
luxury of life but a necessity and can
have a power beyond anything else to
restore them to themselves and to others
at least for a while and then you may
have to repeat the process from time to
time but just think about all of the
wonderful blessings that come from great
music in the music in childhood points
out that to buy into the myth that few
children are musically endowed and one
that threatens the right of all musical
education and may even endanger a
musical culture see again that's that's
a myth we actually teach all of our
young children elementary children and
high school children and on into college
that they can develop musical skills and
that we
we prove it by doing it I I think the
understanding that many of the experts
clearly tell us is something we need to
look into closely or study closely and
scrutinize everything they say because
there are so many wonderful benefits but
there is an added dimension to this and
and that is what the Bible says about
music there is there are just all kinds
of scriptures and examples of music in
the Bible and God reveals to us how
important it is to our lives if it's
great music the best of the human spirit
and the best that God can inspire in us
in 1st Samuel 16 and verse 18 it talks
about David being cunning in his playing
and David was it says in acts 13 and
verse 22 he was a man after God's own
heart and and he would fulfill all of
God's will and and and he was cunning
and playing so that cunning and playing
actually literally means to be skillful
and striking the strings and it connotes
an ability to teach let me read to you
first Samuel 16 in verse 23 until one of
the most powerful scriptures in the
Bible about music just notice this
amazing example verse 23 and it came to
pass when the evil spirit from God was
upon Saul that David took a harp and
played with his hand so saul was
refreshed and was well and the evil
spirit departed from him
that's just something that is almost
mind stretching when you start thinking
about it here we have the music therapy
first talked about in the Bible it
really is and can be great therapy and
here is specifically a cure for
spiritual mental and emotional ailments
so says your Bible and there are studies
plenty of them in this world that show
you the positive effects on the mind and
the physical health of the you of human
being when you look at first Samuel 16
and verse 23 just look at it more
closely and what did what it says there
it say but it shows that it's a soothing
remedy that is available to us if we
really do trust and believe in God the
word says David played with his hand in
that verse for Samuel 16 and verse 23 it
should read better translated David
played with his hand day by day I mean
he really was into this music and really
was good at it playing instruments psalm
57 has this to say it from David of
quote wake up my glory awake psaltery
and harp my self will awake early I will
praise you Lord among the people I will
sing unto you among the nations now at
that time he was hiding in a cave
because Saul was trying to kill him but
he was writing about he his music it was
so important to him and he knew he knew
if you read that correctly I it
definitely does say I believe very
strongly that David knew this music he
was writing was going to go to all the
nations through his people and
especially wouldn't you
get into the New Testament church that
David Psalms are certainly taught by
God's people around the world and many
people maybe that don't even have a
religion they may be studying and
understanding those Psalms because they
love the Psalms or maybe they have at
least some faith in God but think about
the David's realized that this is music
that he was into that was for the whole
world and all the nations he realized
that even well a thousand years before
Christ came these Psalms are really they
are songs
there are also poetry but their songs to
be sung for us to be singing 1st
chronicles 23 shows that 4000 priests
played instruments that David made he
composed much music 75 Psalms has his
name directly in the inscription this is
taken from mr. Malone's book and there
are quite a few more Psalms that he
wrote that you can also prove from your
Bible but with a little more research
but our hymnal book is essentially about
the songs we sing the songs and they're
the most beautiful powerful music in the
world and most people don't know that
but they are and they will actually even
increase your faith if you look at it
spiritually because they are statements
right out of the Bible and promises that
God makes to us time and time again if
you want to look to a New Testament
group of verses let me read something
just a little to you from revelation 4
verses 3 & 4 I'll just give you the
highlights here but it talks about God's
throne room and then it talks about a
rainbow round about the throne the four
and twenty elders are there and they had
on their heads crowns of gold and this
is the environment that we're talking
that God is illustrating here
and the 24 elders did sing a new song
that's in verse nine but just think
about a this visually rich environment
there were harps being played and
singing and there was all kinds of
constant music
but look especially to verse 11 well
it's 11 to 13 but it's specifically in
verse 11 but there's an angelic course
of 100 million voices can you fathom
land listen you'd think God loves music
100 million voices can you imagine what
an impact that would have on human
beings and certainly it has a great
impact on God because he has created it
for his pleasure and for his good that's
that's just mind-bending when you think
about it you mean God really puts this
much emphasis on music well it must have
some good benefits or God would never do
that and that certainly is in your New
Testament if you believe in the Old and
New Testament then well there's if you
don't believe in the Old Testament well
it's in the New Testament but we really
should believe in both of them they are
tightly intertwined and about 25 percent
of the New Testament is is direct
quotations from the Old Testament but in
Psalm 45 in verse 8 notice this it says
all the garments smell of myrrh and
aloes and cassia out of the ivory
palaces whereby they have made you glad
but that's not a good translation there
where it says whereby the verse should
read this way out of the ivory palaces
string instruments gladden you they
gladden you they really do have an
impact on the mind and the mood and the
mentality that of the human being the
emotions of the human being and even the
physical health of the human being just
think of all those majestic surroundings
God doesn't he lives in great luxury
and he wants that for man he would in
man would have it even now if he obeyed
God but in the world tomorrow this this
world is going to be filled with the
same kind of luxury that God is talking
about that he has he has his throne
culture that is is something that is so
majestic that we've never even seen
anything like it
but it gladdens you you see it has a
real impact on making you more positive
and who could well avoid something like
that if they really understand it
Ezekiel 28 and verse 13 says the
workmanship of your Tabriz and your
pipes was prepared in you in the day
that you were created talking about
Lucifer God created this great Archangel
Lucifer and notice he gave him all of
this musical talent he was in charge of
music and other things but the
workmanship of the Tabriz and the pipes
that were prepared in you and the day
that you were created he had this the
superior musical skills and God planned
on him taking that and the angels taking
that end to the entire universe but the
Angels failed and now God wants human
beings to be created in his character
and in his with his mind and go out into
the universe and fill it with that kind
of music will even be given greater
music than what Lucifer was given
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and he rebelled and became Satan the
devil and the god of this world and he
has perverted the music of this world
most of it is perverted certainly much
of it but there are certainly good
musicians great musicians in this world
and there's great music and you'll see
in in this auditorium some of the best
of the human spirit there is on this
earth through music singing and dancing
that is something that benefits our
students benefits all of our people in
every way do you think about the entire
universe and in taking this kind of
music out into the entire universe
that's something to really contemplate
and think about how wonderful this
future is going to be in Deuteronomy
four verses five through eight I'll just
give you one quote here from those
verses it talks about God intending for
the Israelites to live by his type of
culture and here's a quote from mr.
Malone he says the nation's progenitor
Abraham was an extremely well educated
well-traveled refined man according to
the austrian chronicle of the
ninety-five rulers he established
austria as the cultural center of europe
it still is today over four thousand
years later the evidence of abraham's
influence in austria is found mostly in
its musical culture Vienna remains the
musical capital of the world
Salzburg was the film location for much
of the sound of music and his world
famous as the birthplace of Mozart the
great musical genius revered in the city
as well as in Greater Austria and of
course all over the world today I think
about that we have all kinds of
outstanding concerts in this auditorium
and we have the best artists from
performing artists from all over the
world and many of our people will
livestream those
those concerts and so they benefit from
it as well in many many occasions but
they again that fulfills David's
prophecy about him taking his music to
the nation's he knew there was a future
for that nation's because that of that
music because he knew it was revealed to
him by God
and he knew that God was doing it for a
much bigger purpose than just his time
he had the vision to see far down into
the world tomorrow and the time to the
time when the very well the city of New
Jerusalem was coming to this earth
Isaiah 51 in verse 3 says for the
eternal shall comfort Zion he will
comfort all our waste places and he will
make her wilderness like Eden and her
desert like the Garden of the Lord joy
and gladness shall be found therein
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody
they're going to be singing and having a
joyful rejoicing time what could be more
wonderful than a that that kind of a
future we can enjoy much of that today
that's what God wants us to see and
understand the voice of melody the sea
all kinds of music and spiritual Eden
there I mean the real Eden is yet to
come and what a wonderful time that's
going to be well it talks about in
jeremiah 31 verses 11 through 14 I'll
just paraphrase that but it says
therefore they shall come and sing in
the height of Zion the virgin rejoice in
the dance this is of talking about that
wonderful world tomorrow and I will turn
their mourning into joy and will comfort
them and I will satiate the soul of the
priest with fatness and my people shall
be satisfied with my goodness says the
eternal and he's talking about in depth
and of dancing that really is the
hardest dancing to learn in the world
God wants us to create the very best of
music that we possibly can and dancing
and and have the the most awesome
singing that you could hear that is what
God wants for us whether it's on the
human level or the gods gods level but
it'd be much greater on God's level for
sure
he will rejoice over you with joy he
will rest in his love he will joy over
you with singing this is now how God is
going to build happiness in the world
real joy and a big part of that is comes
through God's music are they even the
classical music that we hear today in
many cases it is very beautiful and
certainly can have an amazing impact on
human beings but God is getting ready to
plant all of that in the heavens it says
in 2nd Samuel 23 and verse 1 that it
says the sweet psalmist of Israel
talking about David and what a what a
sweet psalmist he was and how he loved
music
well there are other scriptures like
first chronicles 13 and verse 8 about
and all Israel played before God with
all their might and with singing and
with harps and with psalteries and with
timbrels and with cymbals and with
trumpets think about all of that verse
16 says and David spoke to the chief of
the Levites to appoint their brethren to
be the singers with instruments of music
literally singing and psalteries and
harps and cymbals and sounding by
lifting up the voice with joy singing
with joy and it had really uplifted all
of them and we need that in our culture
that is a part of God's culture to be
sure one scripture I'll just conclude
with this but Asaph who was a poet and a
prophet
certainly was in charge of much of the
Israelite singing he said asf of all the
psalmist seems to discuss the hands more
than others psalm 18 verse 17 says let
your right hand be upon the man of your
right hand and then he goes on to say a
self could see God's hand guiding his
nation and a chosen leader just as a
conductor would that's what he's talking
about God guides all of this if we'll
let him orchestrate his plan and it's
going to bring us great joy I mean
that's the spiritual dimension that we
all want he's going to spread that glory
to all of this world all of the heathen
as it says in 1st chronicles 16 verses 8
and 9 and verses 23 and 24
God says sing unto Him sing songs and to
him talk to you of all his wondrous
works are saying about God and all that
he does for all of us and the kind of
throw his throne room culture he wants
to bring to this world and he's going to
bring it to this world he's going to do
so very very soon and you can see that
and you can prove that in Bible prophecy
so let's learn everything we can about
great music until next week this is
Gerald flurry goodbye friends
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