Sermon Notes, March 8, 2015
Rev.
Dick Guizar
Rev.
Guizar, our new interim pastor, preached Sunday. His message was titled “Don’t Let the Music
Stop,” and his scripture basis was 1 Samuel 16:14-23 and 18:5-10, the story of
David in Saul’s service, playing the harp to soothe his moods, as well as his
military victories.
When
the plane carrying Buddy Holly and several other musicians crashed in 1959,
people called it “The day music died.” Music
calms the emotions. David was hired to
bring comfort and to calm the king, but music died for Saul when the women sang
“Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.” Saul figured that David was so successful and
well-loved that all that was left for him was the kingdom. Saul wanted to hurt David.
Any
time we allow hatred and ill will to overcome us is the day the music stops for
us. There is even a chance the music
will stop in church, when jealousy and selfishness intrude. Jesus came that we may have life. (John
10:10)
Singing and music are at the
heart of worship. We see it in the
Bible, after the Israelites crossed the Red Sea (Exodus 15), and when Paul and
Silas sang in jail (Acts 16).
When a loved one dies, the music
stops. We remember where we were when we
got the news. When someone hurts you or
your children the music stops. When
someone makes fun of you, or you receive bad news, the music stops.
If we don’t deal with the hurt,
we cover it with anger, then with resentment, then with revenge. Replace it with love from Jesus, as described
in the old hymn “Rescue the Perishing.”
Churches in general are going
through hard times. The music’s
stopped. But as Ruben Welch says “When
nothing is happening, something is happening.”
Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. (1 John 4:4) Down in the depths of the human heart, don’t
let the music stop. “The only time you
fail is when you quit.”
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