Dead Men Walking Podcast Episode #1 The importance of hymns

I feel like there's a lack of maturity when people seek out those type of songs and not like an immaturity

In in like mental immaturity. I think it's an immaturity in their Relationship and understanding of who

God is in his character. Yeah Because I'll tell you what when you you know Proverbs says the beginning of wisdom is to fear the

Lord right not to be scared of him But that word fear actually means to reverence in awe to understand his character the closer you get to understanding his character and who he is

The closer you get to wisdom. Yeah, okay So, you know when you have that in in your head and you understand he is an all -sovereign all -powerful all -knowing loving merciful

God Which is also 100 % justice righteousness holiness and wrathful because he has to also have wrath because he is just And you understand what you are in comparison to him dead in your sins slave to sin

No work can please him except through Christ's work on the cross and then you understand his grace and mercy through those lens

I'll tell you what a song that treats Jesus like my sugar daddy or boyfriend just or you know, whatever

Yeah, they'd be weird if I thought Christ was my boyfriend. That's a whole nother subject. You get what I'm saying When us when a worship song treats him like that It feels such lacking in foundation and truth and understanding of who

God really is Yeah, and for me, I I can't even those those songs that do absolutely nothing for me

I can't there's you know, every worship song that I sing. I want it to be uplifting and glorifying to him, right?

You know, that's why I had a phase where just you know for two or three years I went back to hymns just in not even you know, it wasn't the

IF IFB him Organ and a vocalist.

I mean there's artists out there, you know Shane and Shane Eddie Eddie James does a whole whole album of just him and a piano on hymns you know

Shane and Shane the same thing with two guitars and two voices and Even jars of clay years ago redid some hymns and I mean they sound contemporary

But the words are so powerful. I heard a Preacher and boy, I wish

I could remember who it was, but it stuck with me for years He said the difference between secular music and Christian music is secular music.

It's all about the sound Christian music it's all about the words. Yeah, and I went there's some truth to that now there's exceptions to the rule, but generally

That's what we're doing where you know corporate worship isn't necessarily about the music, right?

The music does help created by God and for his glory, but the words are usually what's so important in an uplifting words

I mean you go back to you know, you read about These hymns and how they were written, you know when we were talking about John Newton, you know amazing grace slave trader.

That's own slave boats, you know Took guys and basically beat him in the club within the shins until they couldn't walk anymore

I mean just a total wretch got radically saved wrote You know amazing grace.

It saved a wretch like me Two days before he died. He said my memory has faded but two things

I do remember I was a wretch I'm a horrible sinner, but God's mercy and grace is greater.

Yeah, and then two days later he died So he had this whole thought of who he was and then how

God saved him and who God was in relation to him And out of that we've get one of the greatest hymns of all times.