hand clapping
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Is it OK to clap hands during the worship to God?TRANSCRIPT
Hand Clapping
Trending Today – Hand Clapping in Worship
What does the Bible teach?
Trending Today
With each decade there are things that lose popularity / others that become popular
More and more congregations are including applause into the worship After a baptism After a sermon When a guest speaker is introduced During a song – with the tempo of the music
Does the Bible approve?
Psalm 47:1
Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
Clap – 6 times in the Old Testament None in the New Testament
3 times – in bad sense – clap and hiss at evil
2 times – figurative – water and trees clap
Psalm 47:1
Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
Notice that this verse also says “Shout” And vs. 5 - God has gone up with a shout, The
Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Vs. 5 includes “a shout” and “the sound of a
trumpet.” Adam Clarke suggests that this psalm says all
(Jew and Gentile) should magnify God.
Terms
Applause, Clap hands Approval Accompaniment with music
Worship To show reverence, deep respect, attribute worth to
God Worship must always be toward God
Terms
God Prescribed Worship What – sing, pray, communion, study, give When – Sunday, Lord's day, 1st day of week Why – God is worthy of our praise How – As commanded in the New Testament
John 4:23-24 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
Arguments for Hand Clapping
It is a matter of culture
Arguments for Hand Clapping
It is a matter of culture
What would it hurt?
Arguments for Hand Clapping
It is a matter of culture
What would it hurt?
Unavoidable celebration
Arguments for Hand Clapping
It is a matter of culture
What would it hurt? Unavoidable
celebration
It is not instrumental music
Arguments for Hand Clapping
It is a matter of culture
What would it hurt? Unavoidable
celebration It is not instrumental
music
It is OK in the OT
Arguments for Hand Clapping
It is a matter of culture
What would it hurt? Unavoidable
celebration It is not instrumental
music
It is OK in the OT
The same as saying, “Amen”
Arguments for Hand Clapping
It is a matter of culture
What would it hurt? Unavoidable
celebration It is not instrumental
music
It is OK in the OT The same as saying,
“Amen”
It is not forbidden
Arguments for Hand Clapping
It is a matter of culture
What would it hurt? Unavoidable
celebration It is not instrumental
music
It is OK in the OT The same as saying,
“Amen” It is not forbidden
It is appropriate at a baptism
Conclusions
Hand clapping is not Biblical for New Testament Christians
Worship must be directed toward God Worship is not about men, Worship should not honor men Most of the arguments for hand clapping are
the same arguments made to add instrumental music to the worship