Why We Sing | Sing it Out Week 1 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

I want you to be convinced and convicted that your job as a Christ follower is to Sing It Out.(MULTILINE)

Exodus 15:1-2 NKJV: “I will sing to the Lord, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea! The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Psalms 81 NIV: Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known: “I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me! There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god. I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes. Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever. But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Why Sing?

1. The What: !(MULTILINE)

Psalms 81:1 NIV: Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Luke 19:37-40 NIV: When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

“Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

“I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

2. The How: A with music!(MULTILINE)

Psalms 81:2 NIV: Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Ephesians 5:19 NIV: speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord,(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

3. The When: There’s always a reason to !(MULTILINE)

Psalms 81:3 NIV: Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

4. The Why: The says so!(MULTILINE)

Psalms 81:3 NIV: For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Revelation 5:9-14 NIV: And they sang a new song, saying:(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. In a loud voice they were saying:(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying:(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

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