Music as a consciousness-shifting Spiritual technology (Yet Not I) //Jervis Djokoto

This is a message preached on October 21st at the Grapeview Free Methodist Church in Saint Catharines Ontario, Canada.

Grapeview Free Methodist Church youtube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDWd811PPd6qXb2GehSLbeQ/videos

Jervis's book on Spiritual Renewal
https://www.amazon.ca/Re-Spiritual-Renewal-Century-Church/dp/B09J7G1MYQ/

Jervis's website
https://jervisdjokoto.com/home

Key Quotes/Texts from the sermon
“…a consciousness-shifting spiritual technology [that] is not only gaining wider acceptance, but that it is also part of a larger paradigm shift away from a view of science and spirituality as mortal enemies to one in which they actually work together as allies” —Sylvan, Robin. A Groundbreaking Study on Music, Spirituality, Religion, and the Human Brain, Page 18

Ephesians 5:18-19 (KJV)
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Colossians 3:16 (KJV)
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

The persons of the Trinity never self-glorify, seeking to draw attention to themselves. Rather, they point to each other.

Quote by Hendrickus Berkhof, "The Spirit constantly leads our attention away from himself to Jesus Christ…”

1 Corinthians 15:10— NIV
“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.”

Lucifer's Fall
Ezekiel 28:13-15
Isaiah 14:12-15

Luke 14:11
“For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.”

James 4:6
“…That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor (gives grace) to the humble.”