I Want To Sing Louder Than The Angels!

“Louder Than The Angels” is Joel Engle’s way of saying that our worship services should, figuratively speaking, “blow the doors off their hinges” even more so than the worship scene in Isaiah:

In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple. Hovering around him were mighty seraphim, each with six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with the remaining two they flew. In a great chorus they sang, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty! The whole earth is filled with his glory!" The glorious singing shook the Temple to its foundations, and the entire sanctuary was filled with smoke.
Is 6:1 (NLT)

In this picture of the throne room of God the angels are praising the Lord so powerfully that the temple is shaken to its very foundations at the sound of their voices. But the angels don’t know what it means to be redeemed. The angels in this picture who are praising God with such intensity around His throne were never lost and don’t know what it means to have the Son of God die for them. But we do. We know the pain of being separated from God and we know the joy of redemption when God reached down into our filthy lives and hearts and gave us the gift of salvation which He paid so dearly for.

So I want to sing louder than the angels for I have a thousand times more reason to glorify God and to sing thanks and praise to Him than the angels do.

Father God, Thank you for your redeeming love that has captured me and causes my life to declare the glories of your name. Give me the means to glorify you even more in everything I do.

Lyrics:

O Lord our Lord, how majestic is Your name
The hosts of Heaven lift their songs of praise… to You
O Lord our Lord, Your Holy throne it thunders with worship
As the angels sing “worthy is Your name!”

Chorus
But I want to sing louder than the angels, oh yes
An ocean of praise, I will bring to You
And I want to sing louder than the angels, oh yes
A thousand songs of praise, I will sing

O Lord our Lord, how majestic is Your name
The reason why I sing, the angels long to know
O Lord our Lord, redeeming love has captured me
And made my life declare the glories of Your name

Chorus

I will sing
A thousand songs, I will sing

Chorus

 

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