The Church & Music, Part 4 (TMF:2831)
Monday, March 16, 2026
Peace to Live By: The Church & Music, Part 4 (TMF:2831) - Daniel Litton
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The final part of the verse “with thankfulness in your hearts to God” presents a particular debate about the use of the word “thankfulness.” That’s because the King James translators went with the word “grace.” So it says, “singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” That’s a bit different, and it appears to be a point in the text where it could be translated either way. So, in understanding the grace part of it versus the thankfulness part of it, we might say that songs should be sang with a bit of eloquence, or a spirit of goodwill. What is interesting concerning this, and one thing we can look at to get an idea of music, is actually to see what it is like in the throne room in Heaven. After all, when we are singing to God, we are lifting up our voices to Heaven, and those songs are being lifted up before his throne. In order to get this picture, let’s turn over to Revelation 4, [the last half of verse 8] “and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”