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Great topic Diane , I love music, it was a big part of my childhood as my dad and brother were musically inclined. We all sang in our family, or tried to.
I remember hearing this song by the New Seekers , called, I’d Like To Teach
The World To Sing in Perfect Harmony. It was short and easy to learn and so it was one that I hummed or sang until a new song came about.

Well here we are so many years later singing a new song , this time in spirit.

Exo.15:2….The Lord is my strength and my SONG  and He has become my
salvation.

Rev.14:2… and I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters
and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of
harpists playing on their harps,3…. and they were singing A NEW SONG 🎶
before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders.
No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
Rev.5:9…. And they sang a NEW SONG 🎶 saying “ worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people
for God, from every tribe, and language and people and nation,10… and you have
made them a kingdom and priests to our God and they shall reign on the earth.


This is music to my ears and there is no shortage of heavenly songs in the scriptures. God taught the angels to sing. I wonder what 10,000 angels sound
like together singing the praises of Jesus and our Father . I am so exceedingly
happy to hear ; Psalm 66:4…. All the earth worships you and sing praises to you.
They sing praises to your name.( Jesus/ Jehovah) Selah.

Ray said he really liked Psalm 150, the last one.

A beautiful suuny morning today; amazing how a little sunshine can boost ones spirit 

Would like to know your thoughts as to how to do what these versus say ie sing in the spirit with one another if we have physically come out of the church. 

1 COR 14:15  "I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding." 

I see how this relates individually but the centre note takes you to the following versus:

COL 3:16    Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another  in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

EPH 5:19   Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord.

Also, what would spiritual songs be?

PS: we have musicians on BT...maybe we could do an online meet and sing together 

Diane

It's been a rough night, but I just wanted to say that you are all are some “beautiful feet” 
 Isa 52:6  Therefore My people shall know what My name is and what it means; therefore they shall know in that day that I am He who speaks; behold, I AM! 

Isa 52:7  How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace, who brings good tidings of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns!

Matt.4:19… and He said to them,” follow Me…….a command.


John 10:4…. When He has brought out all His own, He goes before them,
and the sheep follow Him, for they know His voice.

John 10:27…. My sheep hear My voice and i know them, and they follow Me.

John 10:5… a stranger they will not follow……

Rev.14:4… It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins, it is these who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb.

These sheep were born to obey the shepherds commands. 

I had absolutely no idea that the "coming out of her" was a commandment I'd "obeyed" without even knowing it was a commandment.  We are HIS workmanship.  He is the potter, we are the clay.

What a good point to emphasize that the "coming out of her" is a commandment and as Porter had mentioned NOT a plea.  For whom God has chosen or commanded to "come out of her" will definitely come out.   

John 15:16 - You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide..."

That does cover my question, thanks. Furthermore, a special thanks for showing me the verse to “come out of her” in a different light. I thought it of it as more of a plea, but now I see how stupid that would be.

Porter, I think I can say that in many ways I began "leaving my first love and falling away" not long after I began my
"christian life".  That didn't mean I lost enthusiasm or interest.  If anything, those grew the further I went.  But both the means and the ends of my "walk" was carnal.  That process was maybe "subtle" and not recognized until I "looked back".  Like you said, by the time I had made a more distinct "decision" to walk away, I certainly did not see myself as one of the good guys.  Far from it.  I saw myself (and was) a miserable failure at "christian living".

Though I was becoming increasingly aware of the twisted contradictions inherent in christian doctrine, and of hypocrisies large and small in "the church" the primary motivation in my own mind for walking away was my own failings.  It made sense to me that, if I was to avoid hypocrisy, it would be better if I no longer made any claim to or effort towards "righteousness".  I sucked at it. 

What really was absolutely NOT subtle was the looking back when I came to believe and seeing the Hand of Sovereign God in absolutely all of it.  I think what preceded that revelation--decades of it--was the "building of the house on sand" and the revelation and it's effects was the actual fall, or at least the major completion of the fall.  I had absolutely no idea that the "coming out of her" was a commandment I'd "obeyed" without even knowing it was a commandment.  We are HIS workmanship.  He is the potter, we are the clay.

Did I cover your question? 

The comment section is like Acts 17. 

God draws whom he will when he will.  For the vast majority this goes over their head, for the few that are drawn it is a hook in their mouth as it was many years ago now with Ray’s paper on tithing for me of all things.  You never know what God will use.   I’m on a few different discussion forums and I use a provocative links to chapter #1 on the lake of fire series.  After all these years I’ve had about five or six people thank me or ask questions out of the tens of thousands who have seen it but that is o.k.

God’s will be done in each life in his timing.  It’s all good!

The vitriol from the comment section of that video is heartbreaking. Thanks for posting the video's and keep it up!