Truth Is Our Authority
Informed persons know that the infant church did not use mechanical music in worship. It is indisputable that the apostolic church did not use flute, harp, cornet, trumpet, cymbal, sackbut, and such like in worship pf God, even though such devices were readily available to them and had been used by the Jews for a long time. In the earliest days of the cgurch, disciples of Jesus rejected musical instruments in worship of God.
Instruments of music were not in the apostolic tradition, and first century apostles and prophets pointedly refused them.
It is a basic principle that specific commands and words limit and prohibit. It is a fact that the New Testament scriptures never speak of music in worship and praise of God as anything other than vocal. Every New testament statement on music says sing. All one need to do to disprove this is to point to a verse in the New Testament/ new covenant that mentions instruments of music in worship of the Lord.
Conclusion: To use an instrument when God said sing is to go beyond the will of God 2 John 9. That concludes the matter.To use the instrument in worship is to go beyond the teaching of Christ and consequently not to have a relationship with God. It is sin.
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