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\u201cThe Doxology: Songs that Unite Us” – Hymn 805<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Introduction: Songs that everyone sings<\/h4>\n

It seems to me that our world, our communities, our families don\u2019t sing together as much as we used to in the past. I think that the little beeps and noises of video games have replaced that wholesome entertainment of singing together around a piano or with a guitar. People play those games individually rather than socially. We just don\u2019t sing, and that\u2019s a sad thing.<\/p>\n

Maybe the one exception is if you go to a concert. Tell me\u2026 who has been to a concert of a famous band or group. Tell me what group it was. Tell me what was one of their famous songs.<\/p>\n

Most of the time, when they sing those songs they are famous for, everyone in the auditorium or stadium sings along. They don\u2019t need the words; they know them all by heart. Again, that just doesn\u2019t happen in a lot of contexts these days. But let me tell you about some of those contexts.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re gathered for a house party on New Year\u2019s Eve, you watch the count-down on TV, and then someone breaks into \u201cAuld Lang Syne\u201d\u2026 and everyone sings. Everyone knows the words. Everyone knows the melody.<\/p>\n

Or maybe you\u2019re at a hockey game and the Canucks are winning handily. There\u2019s a minute or two left in the game and the entire crowd starts serenading the other team, \u201cWe Will, We Will Rock You!!\u201d Everybody is in a taunting mood, and everyone sings along, boisterously.<\/p>\n

Or the B.C. Lions football game is about to start. The announcer asks everyone to remove their hats, and an individual or small group begins to sing \u201cO Canada\u201d – and lots of people proudly sing along, maybe even with the French words.<\/p>\n

Or maybe you\u2019re at a baseball game, and the sing-along songs there are either \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d or \u201cTake Me Out to the Ball Game.\u201d You just expect that they are going to be sung, and you join in.<\/p>\n

A cake with some burning candles comes around the corner to surprise someone, and everybody sings \u201cHappy Birthday!\u201d<\/p>\n

What about the wedding that we read about in the Gospel reading from John 2? Would the gathered guests have broken out into a spontaneous \u201cFor they are jolly good fellows.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, there are songs that unite us, because everyone knows and loves the words, and everyone knows the melody. There is some kind of community and oneness expressed by singing them together \u2013 you\u2019re cheering for the same team, you\u2019re wishing a blessing on someone, you\u2019re joining in a common attitude toward life.<\/p>\n

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1. Songs\/hymns that Christians sing<\/h4>\n

The songs and hymns we sing in our worship service are like that. There are hymns that we find in our hymnal, and those hymns are sung by English-speaking Lutherans around the world, and a lot of them are sung by Christians in other denominations, too. That\u2019s something that unites us as Christians. You can go to a church in Hawaii on vacation or in Calgary on business, and you sing the same hymns. The contemporary songs are similar. We may not have collated them into a song book, but the songs that we sing here are sung in thousands of churches around the world, and they unite us in a similar way as we lift our voices to God.<\/p>\n

Today, I am starting a seven-week long series of sermons that are based on hymns and songs. The ones I have chosen are generally songs\/hymns that are known and sung in both our traditional and contemporary services. I will unpack some of the theology in those songs, pull out some of the Bible verse background, and develop the application to our lives. I think Martin Luther, himself, would approve of preaching on hymn texts. One of his students recorded Luther as saying, \u201cI place music next to theology and give it the highest praise.\u201d<\/p>\n

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2. The Doxology<\/h4>\n

The hymn that I want to start the series with \u2013 and I recognize that we probably haven\u2019t sung this much or at all in our normal contemporary service, but I hope you are all still familiar with it \u2013 the hymn that I want to start with is, \u201cPraise God From Whom All Blessings Flow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, speaking of groups that spontaneously break out in song, a couple of times a year, I join the Saturday morning men\u2019s breakfast Bible Study at the local restaurant. After some time spent in God\u2019s Word and just before eating the breakfast the men all break out in \u201cPraise God From Whom All Blessings Flow.\u201d Now, depending on what church tradition you grew up in, the melody or timing may be slightly different. The words \u2013 just one verse \u2013 were actually the last verse of two different hymns written by Thomas Ken in the late 1600\u2019s. Ken encouraged his schoolboys to sing those hymns \u2013 one a morning hymn, the other an evening hymn \u2013 every day. The last verse came to be known simply as the Doxology \u2013 literally \u2018words of praise\u2019 \u2013 and it is most famously sung to a tune known as Old Hundredth \u2013 which itself is most famously connected to Psalm 100.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s stand as we sing this Doxology\u2026 two times. Saturday Bible Study men\u2026 I\u2019ll be listening for you to lead!!<\/p>\n

So, my favourite memory of this hymn was from my days as a teenager attending youth gatherings at a camp an hour outside Regina. Pastor Warren Steckelberg from Regina was quite the character, with his handle-bar moustache. Usually at least once a day, in the dining room, before or after a meal, he would stand up on one of the tables and, like a professional choir director, would conduct a slow and moving a Capella four-part harmony rendition of the Doxology. With arms waving, and bringing in the various voices and parts at the appropriate times, he taught us \u2013 youth and leaders alike – to truly love that hymn. We often referred to our singing as the Lutheran Tabernacle Choir. So, let\u2019s dig in.<\/p>\n

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3. “Praise God from whom all blessings flow.”<\/h4>\n

The words are pretty uncomplicated. \u201cPraise God from whom all blessings flow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Praise \u2013 That\u2019s a verb calling for celebration and appreciation. When we praise someone \u2013 a child who aced a test at school, a co-worker who completed a project on time and on budget, a friend or stranger whose prompt actions saved a life \u2013 when we praise someone, we give them the honour and recognition that they are due.<\/p>\n

Praise God \u2013 In this hymn, we are not praising any person; we are praising God, the Creator and Sustainer of the whole universe. We are acknowledging Him to be holy, and wholly other \u2013 completely different from us mere human beings. We are saying that He is divine, a spirit without beginning and without end. He is all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere present. He is faithful, merciful, and He embodies pure love. That\u2019s who we praise!<\/p>\n

Praise God from whom all blessings flow. In this line of the hymn, we are acknowledging the source of every blessing \u2013 it is God. If we read between the lines, we also recognize here that we don\u2019t deserve God\u2019s blessings! Whereas God is holy, sin stains our lives. Not with our thoughts, not with our words, not with our deeds do we deserve God\u2019s favour and kindness. On the contrary, we deserve only God\u2019s wrath and eternal punishment for our sins, which are many. Author Thomas Ken skips over what we deserve and lands squarely on what we get \u2013 blessings! In Ephesians 2, St. Paul doesn\u2019t skip over our sin-stained lives. He writes about the passions of our flesh, the desires of the body and mind, and refers to us as being dead in our trespasses. Paul doesn\u2019t end there. He gets to the same destination as Thomas Ken did: \u201cBut God, rich in mercy\u2026 made us alive together with Christ \u2013 by grace you have been saved.\u201d That\u2019s from where God\u2019s blessings flow \u2013 His mercy, His grace!<\/p>\n

You know, when one of the Canucks scores a goal, it\u2019s likely that the entire arena will stand in applause \u2013 a standing ovation\u2026 for one goal. God has done much more than score a goal. Thomas Ken wrote \u201cPraise God from whom all blessings flow.\u201d ALL blessings! That includes material blessings \u2013 things like the world in which we live with mountains, trees, rivers, animals, crops, gardens, orchards. It also and especially includes spiritual blessings \u2013 things that Paul wrote about in Ephesians 1. Paul even calls it \u201cevery spiritual blessing\u201d and he lists the things that God has lavished on us \u2013 being chosen, being adopted, being made holy and blameless, being redeemed through Jesus\u2019 blood, being forgiven, receiving an inheritance of salvation, being sealed with the Holy Spirit. Indeed, praise God from whom ALL blessings flow! A standing ovation for God\u2026 all through our life, and for all eternity.<\/p>\n

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4. “Praise Him, all creatures here below.”<\/h4>\n

The second phrase of the Doxology expands the praise: Praise Him, all creatures here below. The first phrase was about why we praise God \u2013 because all blessings come from Him. The second phrase is about who praises God \u2013 all creatures. In the sermon on the mount, when Jesus was teaching people to not be anxious, He pointed to how God provided blessings \u2013 food to the birds of the air, and \u201cclothes\u201d to the flowers of the field. Jesus, doesn\u2019t specifically say that with their songs and with their beauty they were praising God, but sometimes we might talk about birds chirping praise to God. (I just wish they wouldn\u2019t do it at 5:00 in the morning in the summer time when we have our bedroom window open!!)<\/p>\n

Psalm 148 is pretty explicit in calling \u201call creatures here below\u201d to praise the Lord. Here are the \u201ccreatures here below\u201d that the psalmist invites to praise God: great sea creatures, beasts, livestock, creeping things, flying birds. Among human beings called to praise God, the psalmist includes: kings, princes, rulers, old men, young men, maidens, children, and all people. Then there are the inanimate objects: sun, moon, stars, fire, hail, snow, mist, wind, mountains, hills, fruit trees, cedars. On Palm Sunday, when the people of Jerusalem were laying down their palm branches and cloaks and praising Jesus as the coming King, the religious leaders asked Jesus to call for that, in-their-opinion, inappropriate praise to be silenced. Jesus said that if the people stopped praising Him, the inanimate stones would take up the praise. All creatures indeed!!<\/p>\n

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5. “Praise Him, above, ye heav’nly host.”<\/h4>\n

The third phrase of the hymn verse further expands the call to praise. \u201cPraise Him above, ye heav\u2019nly host.\u201d That\u2019s talking about spiritual beings, and that\u2019s where Psalm 148 starts: \u201cPraise the Lord from the heavens; praise Him in the heights! Praise Him, all His angels; praise him, all His hosts!\u201d Psalm 8 says that God made human beings \u201ca little lower than the heavenly beings.\u201d But Thomas Ken\u2019s hymn calls on those in the heights \u2013 the angels \u2013 and the creatures here below \u2013 us \u2013 to join in praising God.<\/p>\n

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6. “Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.”<\/h4>\n

Finally, the last phrase of the hymn identifies the God who is to be praised \u2013 \u201cPraise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.\u201d This is the Triune God of the Bible \u2013 the Father who made us, the Son who redeemed us by His death on the cross and by His victorious resurrection from the dead, the Holy Ghost who calls us to faith and who fills us with His gifts. Any god other than that true God is not to be celebrated, appreciated, praised. Any god other than that true God has not poured out blessings upon us. But the true God who has blessed us is certainly the one who is deserving of our praises \u2013 both now and eternally.<\/p>\n

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7. Psalm 150 – The Doxology of the Book of Psalms<\/h4>\n

On Saturday, we had a Confirmation Course retreat at Faith Lutheran Church in Surrey. We are leading the students through the content of the Bible this year, and our topic on Saturday was the last session on the Old Testament \u2013 the Prophets, the Wisdom Literature, and the Psalms. I was teaching the material on the Psalms. I introduced the kids to the various kinds of psalms, including psalms of praise. In groups of about 6 or 7, I asked the students to look at four psalms, to identify what kind of psalm it was, to summarize the content, and to pick out a key verse. One group had to read through Psalm 150. It\u2019s kind of like a doxology completing the entire book of Psalms, just like Thomas Ken\u2019s verse was a doxology completing both his morning and evening hymns. Let\u2019s wrap up today with a quick look at this doxology psalm.<\/p>\n

The psalm begins with where to praise God, and by implication who should praise God. \u201cPraise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in His mighty heavens!\u201d That\u2019s the where: praise Him here on earth, in the holy place of worship \u2013 the sanctuary \u2013 presumably by human beings; praise Him also in heaven \u2013 presumably that is what Ken referred to as \u201cye heavenly host\u201d \u2013 the angels.<\/p>\n

The psalm continues with why we are to praise God. \u201cPraise Him for His mighty deeds; praise Him according to His excellent greatness!\u201d That is, praise God for who He is \u2013 some of those attributes that I mentioned before \u2013 holy, divine, without beginning, without end, all-powerful, all-knowing, everywhere present, faithful, merciful, and embodying pure love. Also, praise God for what He has done \u2013 His mighty deeds. For the Israelites, that would be His great Old Testament act of deliverance \u2013 being freed from slavery in Egypt, and the crossing of the Red Sea. For us, that would be praising God for His great New Testament act of deliverance \u2013 sending Jesus to free us from slavery to sin, from death, from the power of the devil, accomplished in His death and resurrection.<\/p>\n

Next, the psalm talks about with what we should praise God \u2013 with trumpet, lute, harp, tambourine, strings, pipe, and loud clashing cymbals. It seems we\u2019re missing a few of those instruments today. Our praise of God is to be exuberant, joyous, extravagant, and heartfelt. Oh\u2026 and dance\u2026 we\u2019re called on to praise God with dance. So, even if you\u2019re older than 3 or 4 years old, feel free to praise God with some rhythmic movement of your body in time to the music, and with gratitude for who God is and what He has done.<\/p>\n

The last phrase in psalm 150 points out who is to praise God \u2013 \u201cLet everything that has breath praise the Lord!\u201d That matches Thomas Ken\u2019s call for \u201call creatures here below\u201d to praise the \u201cGod from whom all blessings flow!\u201d It\u2019s a hymn that unites us \u2013 all Christ-followers here below. It\u2019s a hymn that connects us with the heavenly host. It\u2019s a hymn that praises Father, Son and Holy Ghost.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s sing it one more time (twice!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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