Worship Killers
Lesson 3
March 5, 2006
Worship Killers
• What Three Hymns Don’t You Like To
See Announced?
• Why Don’t You Like Them?
• What Other Things Make a Hymn
Ineffective to you?
False Teaching
• To God Be The Glory (original 2nd verse)
O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood
To every believer the promise of God
The vilest offender who truly believes
That moment from Jesus a pardon receives
• More modern versions say “the vilest offender who
truly obeys…”
• He Lives (#220) – Last line in the chorus
– “You ask me how I know He lives: He Lives within
my heart.”
False Teaching
• His Grace Reaches Me (#180 in Songs of
the Church)
– The writer has the bass part humming for
the verses and only singing during the
chorus.
– Col 3:16 – teaching and admonishing.
• Humming is neither instructive nor corrective,
but is purely pleasing to the human ear.
False Teaching
• Jesus Is Coming Soon (Original 2nd Verse)
Love of so many cold, losing their home of gold
This in God’s Word is told, evils abound
When these signs come to pass Hearing the end at last
It will come very fast, trumpets will sound
– Matt 24:36 – no one knows the hour…
• But the message of the song could be “Always Be Ready”
– Matt 24:12 – Love of many will grow cold
• This passage is discussing the destruction of Jerusalem and not
the second coming of Christ
– The song writer wrongly applies these passages to
Jesus second coming.
False Teaching
• I Know Not Why God’s Wondrous Grace
(291 – 4th verse)
I know not when my Lord may come
At night or noon day fair
Or if I’ll walk the vale with Him (valley / farewell)
Or meet Him in the air
– 1 Thess 4:17 – then we … shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in
the air.
– I think we do know where we will meet the Lord
False Teaching
• My Hope is Built on Nothing Less (438)
– 4th verse
When He shall come with trumpet sound
O may I then in Him be found
Dressed in His righteousness alone
Faultless to stand before the throne
– Calvinistic Teaching of the Imputed
Righteousness of Jesus.
– Rom 10; 1 Tim 6:11
Unscriptural
• Song Does Not Teach or Admonish
– Precious Memories #807
– I’ll Fly Away #824
– I’ve Got a Mansion #829 (Materialistic)
Precious Memories
Precious Memories, unseen angels
Sent from somewhere to my soul
How they linger, ever near me
And the sacred past unfold
In the stillness of the midnight
Echoes from the past I hear
Old time singing, gladness bringing
From that lovely land somewhere
As I travel on life’s pathway
Know not what the years may hold
As I ponder, hope grows fonder
Precious memories flood my soul
Precious Memories, how they linger,
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight
Precious memories sacred scenes unfold
I’ll Fly Away
Some glad morning when this life is o’er
I’ll fly away
To a home on God’s celestial shore
I’ll fly away
When the shadows of this life have grown
I’ll fly away
Like a bird from prison bars has flown
I’ll fly away
Just a few more weary days and then
I’ll fly away
To a land where joys shall never end
I’ll fly away
I’ll fly away O glory I’ll fly away
When I die hallelujah by and by, I’ll fly away
Other Worship Killers
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Difficult Songs
Over-Used Songs
Songs that have become Secular
Songs that are not MY Favorite
– Lead Slow
– Lead Poorly
– Words Don’t Mean Anything to Me
• Angry Words
• Come Unto Me
Secular Songs?
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Battle Hymn of the Republic #802
Joy to the World #376
O Come All Ye Faithful #464
Silent Night #577
America the Beautiful #801
America #803
Morning Has Broken #879
Whosoever Meaneth Me (#778)
Pray All The Time (#537)
Tune is
Secular
Battle Hymn of the Republic #802
1. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath
are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His
terrible swift sword, His truth is marching on.
2. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never sound
retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before his
judgment seat; O be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be
jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on.
3. In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As
He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free,
while God is marching on
4. Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, Glory,
Glory, Hallelujah, His truth is marching on.
Joy to the Lord #376 (Psa 98:4,9)
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Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room, and heaven and nature
sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and heaven
and nature sing.
Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let men their songs
employ, while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, repeat
the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the
sounding joy.
No more let sins and sorrow grow, nor thorns infest the
ground; He comes to make His blessings flow far as the
curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as the curse is
found, far as, far as the curse is found.
He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the
nations prove the glories of His righteousness, and wonders
of His love, and wonders of His love, and Wonders, and
wonders of His love.
O Come All Ye Faithful (Lk 2:15)
1. O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant O
come ye O come ye to Bethlehem, Come and
behold Him born the King of angels
– O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore
Him, O come let us adore him Christ the Lord.
2. Sing choirs of angels, sing in exultation, O
sing, all ye citizens of heaven above, Glory to
God all glory in the highest.
3. Year Lord we greet thee, Born this happy
morning, Jesus to thee be all glory given,
Word of the Father now in flesh appearing
Silent Night #577 (Lk 2:8-11)
1. Silent night, holy night, all is calm, al is bright, round
yon virgin mother and child. Holy infant so tender
and mild, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly
peace.
2. Silent night holy night, shepherds quake at the sight,
Glories stream from heaven afar, heavenly hosts
sing alleluia, Christ the Savior is born, Christ the
Savior is born.
3. Silent night, holy night, Son of God, love’s pure light.
Radiant beams from they holy face, with the dawn of
redeeming grace, Jesus Lord at the birth, Jesus,
Lord at they birth.
4. Silent night, holy night, Wondrous star, lend they
light, with the angels let us sing, Alleluia to our King;
Christ the Savior is born, Christ the Savior is Born.
Hark the Herald Angels Sing #202
(Lk 2:13)
1. Hark the herald angels sings, “Glory to the King of Kings.”
Peace on earth and mercy mild; God and sinners reconciled.
Joyful all ye nations rise, Join the triumph in the skies, with
angelic hosts proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem
2. 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. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate
deity, Pleased as man with men to dwell, Jesus our Immanuel
3. Hail the heaven born Prince of Peace, Hail the Sun of
righteousness. Light and life to all He brings, risen 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
4. Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the King of Kings
America the Beautiful #801
1. O beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain, for
purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain. America,
America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown they good
with brotherhood from sea to shinning sea.
2. O beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern impassioned stress, a
thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness, America,
America, god mend thine every flaw Confirm they soul, in self
control, they liberty in law
3. O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more
than self their country loved and mercy more than life,
America, America may God they gold refine, till all success be
nobleness, and every gain divine.
4. O beautiful for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years, thine
alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears. America,
America, God shed His grace on thee, And crown they good
with brotherhood from sea to shinning sea.
America #803
1. My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty of thee I
sing, Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims
pride, from every mountain side, let freedom ring
2. My native country thee, land of the noble free, Thy
name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and
templed hills, My heart with rapture thrills Like that
above.
3. Let music swell the breeze and ring from all the trees
Sweet freedoms song, Let mortal tongues awake, let
all that breathe partake, let rocks their silence break,
the sound prolong
4. Our fathers’ God to Thee, Author of liberty, To thee we
sing, Long may our land be bright, with freedom’s
holy light, protect us by thy might, Great God our
King!
Morning Has Broken (879)
1. Morning has broken like the first morning, blackbird
has spoken like the first bird, Praise for the singing!
Praise for the morning! Praise for them springing
fresh from the Word!
2. Sweet the rains new fall sunlit from heaven, like the
first dew fall on the first grass. Praise for the
sweetness of the wet garden, sprung in
completeness where His feet pass.
3. Mine is the sunlight! Mine is the morning born of the
one light Eden saw play! Praise with elation, praise
every morning, God’s recreation of the new day!
Questions
• How has this lesson changed your attitude
toward hymns?
• What song would you sing before you die?
• What are your favorite hymns?
• Why are they your favorites?
• What should a good hymn accomplish?
• Col 3:16 – tells us a hymn should:
• Should a hymn be emotionally powerful?
• What songs would you pick based around
the crucifixion?
He Carried My Sorrows
He carried my sorrows,
He bore my grief’s,
Was pierced for transgression,
Afflicted for peace.
Chorus:
He knew by His stripes I am healed,
Through His blood, I can kneel,
For by His oppression,
I worship my King.
He suffered in anguish,
He writhed in pain,
Was smitten, forsaken,
Abandoned, and slain.
Despised and rejected,
He knew no sin,
Was crushed for His people,
No violence within.
(Chorus)
My heart mourns His chastening,
My tears still fall,
My sin is the reason
He gave me His all.
(Chorus)
Isa 53:3-9
3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces
from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and
afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our
peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned,
every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened
not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He
opened not His mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who
will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the
land of the living; For the transgressions of My people
He was stricken.
9 And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the
rich at His death, Because He had done no
violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.