What did Jesus say on this? Didn't He say He came to fulfill? This is true, and in Matthew 9:23 is a good example of this. He didn't come to destroy the temple. God's people already were going to unwittingly do that by their legalism and lack of true faith in God and His power. Jesus didn't come to destroy the status quo, part of which contained instruments. What He wanted to change was the party atmosphere and the laws that bound people to performance rather than being heartfelt. At the Last Supper, in Mark 14:26, Jesus and the apostles sang a hymn. It didn't mention instruments were there, as are mentioned in passages where there are actual instrument used. There are those who would say it didn't mention the lack of instrumentation. Did they or didn't they have instruments? In Ephesians 5:19, "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the LORD" and in Colossians 3:16, "Let the word of Christ dwell in your heart richly to all wisdom: teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the LORD". And in Hebrews, "Saying, I will declare Thy Name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto Thee." The operative word is sing. Does "psalms" refer to the use of instruments? It could be both. In this instance, I would think that it just meant the use of then voice rather than the use of the stringed instrument. As mentioned above, isn't it interesting that none of the music has come down through the generations, but the words have, and the significance of that is that the words are more important than the music, although in my heart I can still sing using my own melody to the same words toward God. The whole focus of this not to see if I can use instruments, actually a moot point, but to see how much I want to be concerned about being in His presence in His throne room. After all,I think Paul worshipped God singing from prison with more focus that I can in my freedom to use or not use an instrument because His focus was on the Almighty and mine would be on practicing and getting the notes right. If I have to practice before worship that becomes performance during worship and is not totally me.