What Jesus Said

  • An Invitation to All on WordPress and All Readers and Music Lovers.

    An Invitation to All on WordPress and All Readers and Music Lovers.

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    Love Songs to God, Psalms and Prayers is a collection of psalms and Scripture-shaped songs offered as prayer, reflection, and worship. Many of these pieces stay close to the words of the Bible, re-voiced in a simple musical language shaped by personal devotion and lived experience.

    The Psalms have been sung and carried across generations, and this playlist stands within that long tradition — not as performance, but as worship: love songs to God, prayers for the weary, and songs for those learning to trust Him again.

    David set the ark in a tent in Jerusalem and appointed Levites to minister there regularly, day by day (1 Chronicles 16:37)—a picture of worship that was established, public, and ongoing.

    Scripture itself gives a wide, unembarrassed picture of praise. The Psalms call us to sing, to make melody, to “make a joyful noise,” and they even name instruments and movement in worship: lyre, trumpet, horn, strings, pipe, cymbals, and dance (Psalm 98; Psalm 150). “Let everything that has breath praise the LORD” (Psalm 150) widens the invitation to every voice, every age, and every season.

    Some tracks here are near-direct Scripture; others are written as responses to Scripture — keeping the same aim: truth, reverence, and a heart turned toward God.

    Come Support My New Channel. 🙏🎧”🔔”

    Thank you so much. This is a labour of love, and any encouragement is genuinely appreciated. Listen 🎧, Like👍, and Subscribe “🔔” — it really helps the YouTube algorithm test my content by showing it to more people as I try to share the good news through songs and music. I’m limited in how I can take part in the Great Commission, so this is one way I can still serve.

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  • WordPress Blog – Vision: The Hybrid Music Project

    WordPress Blog – Vision: The Hybrid Music Project

    A Change of Direction. 7th February 2026

    Over recent months, my health has continued to narrow what I’m practically able to do day to day. Writing long-form blog posts, even when meaningful, has become increasingly difficult to sustain.

    What has remained possible — and life-giving — is songwriting.

    Music allows me to work within limitation without forcing productivity, explanation, or volume. It lets the words breathe, and often says what prose cannot. For this season, that’s where I’m focusing my creative energy.

    I’ve started sharing my Christian and life songs on YouTube under Matthias Music (98% Human). The songs are reflective, scripture-shaped, and written from lived experience — prayer, lament, hope, and trust — not for effect or performance.

    If you’d like to listen, you can find the channel here:
    👉 https://www.youtube.com/@Matthias-Music-98

    Description–

    Vision: The Hybrid Music Project

    This channel is a space for original songs, reflections, and music shaped by faith, Scripture, and lived experience. It is for everyone — Christians, seekers, music lovers, and those curious to hear something from someone new to songwriting.

    Music has been a big part of my life. Across history, worship has found musical languages — from King David’s lyre (1 Samuel 16:23) to public praise with strings and percussion (2 Samuel 6:5). Styles change with culture and technology, and Christians have debated the sound for generations — sometimes passionately — yet the aim remains: to honour God with sincerity, truth, and reverence.

    Some pieces draw directly from the Psalms and the words of the Bible. Others are original songs, written as prayers, love songs to God, or honest responses to life, faith, and the struggle to walk faithfully in a difficult world. These songs are intended for personal listening, reflection, and quiet devotion — music for moments when faith is real, but not always easy.

    Vision: The Hybrid Music Project

    Welcome to the 2026 season of my musical journey. This playlist serves as a living documentary of my creative process — a unique blend of human heart and technological innovation.

    The Workflow: From Soul to Sound:

    Once the lyrics and musical foundation are set, I import everything into the studio section. Here, I integrate my original music and lyrics with advanced AI music generators to mix and refine the final 2% of the workflow.

    Foundation:

    Each song begins with the written word. I start by writing the lyrics to every original song in Microsoft Word, checking spelling and grammar, and making sure the message of my heart — and what I would want to listen to — is present. The “soul” of the track is established before any notes are played.

    Composition: Moving into DAW

    Put simply, a DAW is a software application that runs on your computer and lets you record, edit, and produce music. An acronym for Digital Audio Workstation, DAWs cover every part of the music-making process — from recording digital audio, to creating beats and melodies with virtual instruments, to adding effects and perfecting your final mix.

    I build out the musical architecture on a blank canvas. This involves selecting samples and stems, creating the core melodic structure, and establishing the atmosphere.

    The Studio Hybrid:

    Once the lyrics and musical foundation are set, I import everything into the studio section. Here, I integrate my original music and lyrics with advanced AI music generators to mix and refine the final 2% of the workflow.

    The Result:

    The final generation is the culmination of hours of manual mixing, lyrical intent, and the use of modern AI song-generation tools to pull everything together. This playlist is a testament to what is possible when we use the latest technology to create music — not for worship music or the timeless truth of the Gospel and the grit of the human experience.

    #Christian, #Music, #Songwritingsince2025, #MusicProduction, #IndependentArtist

    If you’d like to listen, you can find the channel here:
    👉 https://www.youtube.com/@Matthias-Music-98

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  • The Gospel According to John. ESV Bible

    The Gospel According to John. ESV Bible

    Reformation Study Bible

    Chapter 1

    1:1–18 This “prologue” to the gospel is a preface to the narrative beginning at v. 19. It introduces the gospel’s central character (the divine Creator who “became flesh”) and many of its themes (life, light vs. darkness, witness, rejection vs. reception, birth from God, truth).

    1:1 In the beginning. John links his gospel to the original creation by echoing the opening words of the first book of Moses (and of the Bible; Gen. 1:1). Matthew’s reference to “book of the genealogy” (Greek: “generation”) likewise echoes Genesis (2:4), signaling that Christ’s appearance in history initiates a new creation.

    the Word. The term “Word” (Greek: logos) designates God the Son with respect to His deity; “Jesus” and “Christ” refer to His incarnation and saving work. During the first three centuries, doctrines of the person of Christ focused intensely on His identity as the Logos. In Greek philosophy, the Logos was “reason” or “logic” as an abstract force that brought order and harmony to the universe. But in John’s writings, such qualities of the Logos are gathered in the person of Christ. In Neo-platonic philosophy and the Gnostic heresy (second and third centuries a.d.), the Logos was seen as one of many intermediate powers between God and the world. Such notions are far removed from the simplicity of John’s gospel.[1]

    ESV Bible

    Chapter 1 1: 1-18

    1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

    6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. 9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

    14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’ ”) 16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

    Fair Use Notice

    Study notes quoted are from the Reformation Study Bible (R.C. Sproul, ed.) and are used under fair use for commentary and teaching, limited to 250 words per post.
    Scripture quotations are from the ESV and used in accordance with its permissions.

    [1] The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2025), Jn 1:1–18.

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  • Here Is a Song I wrote, Have a Listen.

    Here Is a Song I wrote, Have a Listen.

    This song began with my own lyrics and style choices.
    Suno was used as a tool to help bring the music and vocals to life, using the voice and sound I selected.

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  • Coming Clean. Total Transparency.

    Coming Clean. Total Transparency.

    Dear Readers,

    I have health issues serious enough to make me housebound and isolated.

    I prayed, and an idea formed to start a blogging website; this was to continue in the Great Commission in the extremely limited circumstances I found myself in.

    I started to think of ideas, I started writing, I found that my mind was now in a fog from all the pain management, this was when I thought of using AI assistance for my Biblical blog posts.

    This did not sit well with me, and I prayed on this feeling of unease, and still I decided to continue.

    The unease never fully went away; I have been wrestling with this decision to use AI for a while now.

    My discission or discernment is that using AI to polish and tighten my writing is unfaithful to the calling and obedience to Jesus for the Great Commission.

    I have decided to write this disclaimer as I am completely stopping all blog posts with AI assistance.

    I am thinking of new ideas I can manage, like, ESV 2015 verses expounded by R.C. Sproul, The source of my new work will be from The Reformation Study Bible. See below for copyright information and permissions.

    This will help me with my health issues, but most of all, I can stop wrestling with this.

    I now discern, using AI to tighten and polish my blog posts is not faithful, as an AI has no soul, feels nothing, and has experienced nothing.

    If I have offended anyone, I am sorry. I should have listened to my heart at the beginning when I was first convicted.

    The previous Biblical blog posts, which I felt called to write on, specifically the Biblical posts, should never have been polished or the wording tightened with Artificial Intelligence.

    I hope anyone reading this understands.

    Thank You,

    Jo Blogs.

    The Reformation Study Bible

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    Scripture: Quotations are from The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Standard permissions allow for the use of up to 1,000 verses per post).

    Study Notes: Commentary excerpts are from The Reformation Study Bible™, copyright © 2015 by Reformation Trust Publishing, a division of Ligonier Ministries. (Ligonier policy allows for brief excerpts/quotes not to exceed 250 words without written permission).

    Disclaimer: This material is used for non-commercial, educational purposes. No content has been altered, and no revenue is generated from this post.

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    [1] R. C. Sproul, ed., The Reformation Study Bible: English Standard Version (2015 Edition) (Orlando, FL: Reformation Trust, 2015), iii–iv.