Insights Magazine: Number Seven, 2020

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ends with a comma, not a period? The next verse describes the very first result of being under the Spirit’s control...we sing! We make melody with our hearts. We communicate His presence within us by presenting our own, individual concert of sacred music to Him. Let’s take it another step. The church building is not once referred to in Ephesians 5. I mention that because we Christians have so centralized our singing that we seldom engage in it once we drive away

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was on a scriptural safari. Prowling through the Ephesian letter, I was tracking an elusive, totally unrelated verse when God’s sharp sword flashed, suddenly slicing me to the core. ...speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord. (Ephesians 5:19 NASB) Everyone knows Ephesians 5:18, where we are told to “be filled with the Spirit”... but have you ever noticed that verse 18


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