The Greek word psallo includes instruments.

• Look in Greek dictionaries.
• Look in reliable English translations.
  • Romans 15:9; I Corinthians 14:15; Ephesians 5:19; James 5:13
  • Ephesians 5:19 – This context is referring to what happens in your heart.

Harps are used in Heaven.

• Revelation 5:8; 14:2; 15:2; 18:21-22
• The first challenge is to prove these are even literal harps.
• Second, why stop with the harps?
• Events in Heaven aren’t instructions for Christians on earth.
  • Matthew 22:30

We should use our God-given talents to worship Him.

• I Peter 4:11
• I Peter 4:15? – What about talents we have that are sinful? Can those also be used for worship?
• I Peter 4:3, 5?
• I John 5:3?
• God wants us to follow His instructions in worship.
  • John 4:24
  • Genesis 4:2-5; Hebrews 11:4
  • Leviticus 10:1-2

Instruments were used for Old Covenant worship.

• That’s right!
  • Numbers 10:10; II Chronicles 29:25-28
• But we follow the New Covenant, not the Old Covenant.
  • Hebrews 8:7-8, 13
  • Acts 15
  • Galatians 5:1-3

No one can argue that we should use instruments because they are clearly authorized as acceptable in the New Testament.

• Colossians 3:16
• They are not clearly authorized in the New Testament.