We’re not just to love righteousness, but to also hate wickedness [Psa 45:7].
Jesus enjoys music [Psa 45:8].
The New Jerusalem is the Royal Bride and other capital cities are the Daughters of kings among here honoured women [Psa 45:9].
We’re to sing to one another, but also to sing to the Lord [Eph 5:19].
Making music to the Lord in one’s heart doesn’t mean not using instruments. David made music to God in His heart, yet he also used instruments and instituted the use of the same [1Chr 23:5]. His use of instruments didn’t
mean he wasn’t making music to God in His heart.
The instruments help us—not God in worship. The music is a type of catalyst that helps make music in our hearts.
The music is an external factor that can affect our hearts/emotions.
The prophet Elisha was in a foul mood after seeing Joram the son of Ahab and could only prophesy after calling a harpist to play—obviously to lighten his mood [2Kgs 3:1-19].
If the music is unpleasant, it can’t stir up pleasant emotions, and this would hamper the heart, but if the music is good, it can stir up the right feelings, helping the heart.
We get filled with the Spirit by speaking to ourselves in Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs [Eph 5 18:19].
Just as one gets drunk with excess wine and loses control of himself, one can also get filled with the Spirit—having his faculties taken over by the Spirit [Eph 5:18].
To be filled with the Spirit doesn’t mean one didn’t have the Spirit beforehand, but that the Spirit is activated.
Jesus being in the boat didn’t automatically stop the waves, neither did it stop when He awoke, but when He rebuked the waves.
In the same way, the inactivity of the Spirit doesn’t mean the Spirit isn’t present, but that it has not been activated.