THE LIVING WORD TRANSCRIPT
PROGRAM AIR DATE: 3-17-19
LESSON TITLE: "A NEW SONG"
WELCOME
TODAY WE ARE BLESSED WITH A WONDERFUL GIFT FROM GOD, THE BIBLE. THIS BOOK IS GOD'S LIVING WORD. IN ITS PAGES, WE ARE TOLD "FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD." IT IS IN THIS BOOK OF BOOKS THAT WE FIND THE ANSWERS TO ALL OF MAN'S QUESTIONS AND NEEDS. THIS MORNING YOUR AREA CHURCHES OF CHRIST WELCOME YOU TO A PROGRAM COMMITTED TO THAT PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY AS WE PRESENT THE LIVING WORD. NOW HERE IS YOUR HOST, RAY SULLINS.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS MORNING FOR THE LIVING WORD PROGRAM. A WORK OF OUR LORD COMMITTED TO STUDYING HIS WILL AND TO DOING THINGS IN HIS WAY. AS ALWAYS, IT IS OUR HOPE AND PRAYER THAT EVERYTHING WE DO TOGETHER WILL BE EDIFYING TO EACH OF US, BUT ULTIMATELY IT IS OUR GOAL TO GLORIFY GOD, THE ALMIGHTY! LET ME ENCOURAGE EACH OF US TO DO OUR PART THIS MORNING IN MAKING THIS TIME TOGETHER PROFITABLE IN HIS SIGHT. NOW, LET'S TALK TO THE FATHER IN PRAYER!
PRAYER: OUR GOD AND FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE ARE THANKFUL FOR THIS, ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE, WE ARE THANKFUL FOR ALL PHYSICAL BLESSINGS AND SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS. FOR GOD, WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS COME FROM YOU. AND HELP US THIS DAY TO GIVE YOU ARE VERY BEST AS WE CONSIDER THE GREAT GIFTS YOU HAVE GIVEN US THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS KNOWING THAT ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE ONLY THROUGH THE GREAT SACRIFICE HE MADE ON THE CROSS, AS WELL AS HIS BURIAL AND RESURRECTION. FATHER, WE ASK THIS DAY THAT YOU HELP US TO ALWAYS SHINE AS LIGHTS IN THE WORLD THAT OTHERS MIGHT KNOW YOU AND FIND THEIR WAY INTO SALVATION AS WELL. IN JESUS NAME WE PRAY, AMEN.
OUR FIRST HYMN OF THE MORNING IS FOCUSED ON THE COST OF SERVICE TO OUR GOD. I HOPE YOU ALL WILL JOIN WITH THE CONGREGATION AND LIFT UP YOUR VOICE IN PRAISE TO GOD AS WE SING TOGETHER, "HAVE YOU COUNTED THE COST."
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS
SOMETIMES WE FORGET JUST HOW BLESSED WE ARE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE OUR OWN COPIES OF GOD'S WORD. THE WHOLE BIBLE IS SUCH A WONDERFUL GIFT FROM GOD, WHICH PROVIDES US WITH ALL THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE NEED FROM HIM. EVEN THE OLD TESTAMENT IS SO PROFITABLE FOR OUR LEARNING. IN FACT, IT WAS PAUL WHO SAID, "FOR WHATEVER THINGS WERE WRITTEN BEFORE WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING, THAT WE THROUGH THE PATIENCE AND COMFORT OF THE SCRIPTURES MIGHT HAVE HOPE," ROMANS 15:4.
ONE GREAT AND ENCOURAGING PASSAGE WHICH IS FOUND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IS PSALMS 16:11. THERE DAVID GAVE US SEVERAL THINGS TO THINK ABOUT, CONCERNING OUR WONDROUS GOD. IN THAT VERSE WE READ, "YOU WILL SHOW ME THE PATH OF LIFE; IN YOUR PRESENCE IS FULLNESS OF JOY; AT YOUR RIGHT HAND ARE PLEASURES FOREVERMORE." NOTICE THE MANY AREA'S OF INSTRUCTION COVERED HERE IN THIS ONE SHORT VERSE.
FIRST, WE ARE REMINDED THAT GOD SHOWS US THE WAY TO LIVE IN HIS HOLY BOOK. HOW WONDERFUL IT IS TO HAVE A GUIDE THAT GIVES US THE ANSWERS, AS TO HOW WE SHOULD ACT AND WHAT WE SHOULD SAY. WHAT GREATER GUIDE COULD WE HAVE TODAY THAN THAT WHICH IS FROM THE CREATOR HIMSELF!
THE SECOND THING DAVID REMINDED US OF IS THAT GOD IS WITH US. HOW EXCITING IT IS TO KNOW THAT WE ARE NEVER ALONE AND THAT GOD WILL ALWAYS BE BY OUR SIDE. FURTHERMORE, NOTICE THAT THIS PRESENCE OF GOD BRINGS US JOY. WHAT GREATER JOY CAN WE EXPERIENCE, AS FOLLOWERS OF GOD, THAN TO KNOW THAT GOD IS ALWAYS THERE FOR US, HELPING US, CARING FOR US, PROVIDING FOR US, AND PROTECTING US.
THE FINAL THING MENTIONED BY DAVID IS CONCERNING OUR REWARD, IF WE ARE FOUND FAITHFUL. WE HAVE BEEN PROMISED THAT WE WILL LIVE WITH GOD FOREVER, BECAUSE OF THE HOPE WE HAVE THROUGH CHRIST JESUS. WHAT GREATER PROMISE COULD WE HAVE THAN ETERNAL LIFE. ESPECIALLY, WHEN THAT ETERNAL LIFE IS PROMISED IN AN ETERNAL PARADISE!
AS YOU SEE, TRULY THE THINGS OF OLD ARE VERY PROFITABLE TO THOSE WHO DESIRE TO PLEASE GOD TODAY. WE CAN LEARN SO MUCH FROM THE LIVES OF OTHERS WHO HAVE GONE ON BEFORE. SOMETIMES THE LESSONS ARE POSITIVE IN THE FACT THAT WE FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN PLEASING TO GOD. HOWEVER, SOMETIMES THE EXAMPLES ARE NEGATIVE, IN THAT WE CAN LEARN NOT TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES THAT OTHERS HAVE MADE AS FOLLOWERS OF GOD IN THE PAST. MAY WE ALL LEARN TO STUDY GOD'S WORD MORE OFTEN, SO THAT WE CAN LEARN THE THINGS WHICH HE WOULD HAVE US TO DO.
TODAY WE WILL BE CONTINUING OUR SERIES ENTITLED, "BEHOLD, ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW." OUR SPECIFIC LESSON TODAY WILL FOCUS ON, "A NEW SONG." SO PLEASE STAY WITH US THIS MORNING, AND AFTER OUR NEXT SONG TOGETHER I WILL RETURN WITH THIS STUDY FROM GOD'S WORD. FOR NOW, WON'T YOU RETURN WITH THE CONGREGATION TO OUR SONGS OF PRAISE? LET'S ALL JOIN TOGETHER IN THE NEXT SONG OF THE DAY, IT'S NAME, "HE IS ABLE TO DELIVER THEE!"
LESSON
BY RAY SULLINS
WE'RE SO GLAD YOU HAVE CONTINUED WITH US NOW AND THE LIVING WORD PROGRAM THAT WE MIGHT LOOK NOW TO GOD'S WORD SPECIFICALLY AT ANOTHER LESSON IN RELATIONSHIP TO THOSE THINGS THAT ARE NEW. AND TOGETHER WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT MANY THINGS THAT REALLY ARE FRESH AND NEW IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE THINGS THAT JESUS HAS DONE THAT WE MIGHT HAVE A GREATER AND A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING ESPECIALLY TO THE NEW LAW OF WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR US. AND SO WE'VE MADE THOSE COMPARISONS AND THOSE CONTRASTS WE'VE REALLY SEEN WHAT IT IS THAT THE BIBLE CONTINUES TO EMPHASIZE OVER AND OVER AGAIN ABOUT THIS NEWNESS.
NOW WITH THOSE THINGS IN MIND TODAY WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT IS THE IDEA OF SINGING. AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE BIBLE, THE BIBLE DOES TALK ABOUT THE CONCEPTS OF SONG THROUGHOUT THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. WE ACTUALLY FIND THAT THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THE BEGINNING HAVE SUNG PRAISES TO GOD. EVEN ISRAEL AT TIMES AS THEY CAME OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WOULD SING PRAISES TO GOD. AND LATER WITHIN THEIR WORSHIP THEY WOULD LIFT UP THE NAME OF GOD IN PRAISE AND GIVE HIM ADORATION THROUGH SONG. AND OFTEN IT WAS THE CONCEPTS OF SONGS THAT ACTUALLY GAVE THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT THE ABILITY OF INDIVIDUALS, NOT ONLY TO PRAISE GOD, BUT PERHAPS TO REMEMBER MANY OF THE GREAT STORIES OF OLD AND ENCOURAGING STORIES THAT CHALLENGE PEOPLE TO NOT ONLY KNOW GOD BUT DO WANT TO DO THE WILL OF GOD UNDERSTANDING ALL THE THINGS, ALL THE BLESSINGS, ALL THE WONDERS THAT HE HAS DONE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE. WITH THAT IN MIND THEN, WE MOVE INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT. AND AGAIN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WE FIND THAT THE PEOPLE OF GOD WERE A SINGING PEOPLE. EVEN JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES ARE SAID TO HAVE SUNG A SONG AND THEN GONE OUT TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. AND WE FIND THAT CHURCHES FOR INSTANCE IN EPHESUS AND COLOSSAE WERE EDIFIED TO SING AND MAKE MELODY IN THEIR HEARTS TO THE LORD TO PRAISE THEIR GOD, TO ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER THROUGH SUCH ACTS, AND EVEN TO TEACH THROUGH THEIR SONGS. BUT THEN THERE'S THIS CONCEPT THAT IS FOUND ACCORDING TO OUR SERIES OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT TOGETHER CONCERNING A NEW SONG. IF YOU REALLY GO BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT WE BEGIN TO FIND EVEN THROUGHOUT THE PSALMS THIS IDEA IS USED. THERE IN PSALM 40 AND SPECIFICALLY VERSE THREE THE BIBLE SAYS, "HE HAS PUT A NEW SONG IN MY MOUTH - PRAISE TO OUR GOD; MANY WILL SEE IT AND FEAR, AND WILL TRUST IN THE LORD." DAVID SPEAKS HERE ABOUT A SONG THAT IS NEW A SONG, THAT IS BEING SUNG AND PROCLAIMED THAT GLORIFIES GOD AND HELPS THE HEARERS TO BE ABLE TO KNOW WHO GOD IS. OVER IN PSALM 96 AND VERSE ONE IT SAYS THERE, "OH, SING TO THE LORD A NEW SONG! SING TO THE LORD, ALL TO THE EARTH. SING TO THE LORD, BLESS HIS NAME; PROCLAIM THE GOOD NEWS OF HIS SALVATION FROM DAY TO DAY." AND IN VERSE THREE IT SAYS, GO ON TO "DECLARE HIS GLORY AMONG THE NATIONS." IN SONG WHAT DO WE SEE? THE ABILITY TO PROCLAIM THE GOOD NEWS, THE ABILITY TO DECLARE THE NAME OF GOD, AND EVEN AS IT SAYS HERE, THE ABILITY TO DECLARE THAT WHICH IS NEW. THAT WHICH IS EXCITING CONCERNING GOD AND THE WILL OF GOD. WE CAN ALSO GO TO PSALM 149 VERSE ONE THAT SAYS A SIMILAR THING. WE CAN ALSO LOOK AT ISAIAH 42 VERSE 10. AND IN ALL OF THESE TEXTS IT HELP US TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS THIS CONCEPT OF A SONG THAT IS TO BE SUNG. BUT NOT JUST A SONG THAT IS TO BE SUNG BUT A SONG THAT IS TO BE SUNG NEW. AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK SPECIFICALLY AT PERHAPS WHAT THAT SEEMS TO SUGGEST IN JUST A MOMENT. THERE'S ANOTHER IDEA THAT IS FOUND THERE IN PSALM 149 AND VERSE ONE WHEN HE SAYS, "PRAISE THE LORD! AND SING A NEW SONG." HE ALSO SAYS IN THAT TEXT, "AND HIS PRAISE IS THE ASSEMBLY OF THE SAINTS." SO NOW WE NOT ONLY SEE DAVID SPEAKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE WOULD SING A NEW SONG AND THE EFFECT THAT THAT WOULD HAVE AND THE ABILITY IT MIGHT HAVE TO TEACH OTHERS ABOUT THE GOOD NEWS AND TO DECLARE WHO GOD IS AND THE WONDERS OF GOD BUT NOW WE SEE THE PEOPLE OF GOD. WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING WHAT? SINGING PRAISES TO GOD. AND EVEN AS WE LOOK AT THE LATTER PART OF THE PSALMS WE SEE THAT THE EARTH REALLY DECLARES THE GLORY OF GOD IN A WAY THAT ALMOST SINGS PRAISES TO GOD THROUGH THE BEAUTY AND THE WONDER OF THE MAJESTY OF GOD'S CREATION. ALL THESE THINGS OUGHT TO REALLY ENCOURAGE US ALL TO HELP US TO UNDERSTAND THIS. CERTAINLY THERE'S A NEED TO SING PRAISES TO GOD, THERE'S A NEED TO SING THE NEW SONG. THE SONG THAT IS REALLY OF GOD AND ABOUT GOD TO DECLARE GOD AND THAT REALLY HELPS MAN TO KNOW GOD. AND REALLY IN THAT WAY ESPECIALLY WE MIGHT SAY THAT SONG THEN WOULD BE CONSIDERED AS NEW BY THOSE WHO HEAR IT OR ANEW OR FRESH.
NOW AS WE KEEP THAT IN MIND THOUGH, LET'S NOW GO TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION. IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION WE CONTINUE TO SEE THIS CONCEPT USED. AND I WANT YOU TO BEGIN TO THINK WITH ME THERE BECAUSE WHAT WE SEE IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS OF COURSE THE SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY JESUS THROUGH JOHN AND THEN ALSO WE KNOW THAT THESE ARE THINGS ACCORDING TO AS JESUS AND JOHN INDICATE THE WILL OF GOD. AND AS WE LOOK AT THESE THINGS AS THEY PLAY OUT, AS THEY ARE DECLARED, THERE'S A WORD HERE THAT IS USED FOR THE WORD NEW. AND WE TALKED ABOUT IT ONE OTHER TIME IN RELATIONSHIP TO OUR LESSON THAT TALKED ABOUT THE IDEA THAT WE WERE TO HAVE A NEW COMMANDMENT OR A NEW IDEA AND THAT IS WHERE THIS WORD KAINOS AGAIN IS USED. ALL THE WORDS IN THE GREEK EVEN IN THE SEPTUAGINT FORM OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IS THIS WORD KAINOS OR A FORM OF KAINOS THAT IS USED. AND THAT WORD DOES MEAN NEW BUT THERE'S REALLY A SLANT TO THAT WORD AS MANY OF YOU MIGHT REMEMBER. THAT WORD ACTUALLY CAN MEAN SOMETHING AS NEW. SOMETHING EVEN AS IS FRESH THAT IS FRESH OR EVEN THE IDEA SOMETHING THAT HAS A NEW QUALITY OR A FRESH DEVELOPMENT TO IT. NOW I THINK THAT'S KIND OF NEAT IN RELATIONSHIP TO SINGING. BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES WHAT HAPPENS IN WORSHIP AS WE GET COMPLACENT IN WORSHIP AND WE BEGIN TO PRAISE GOD AND WE BEGIN TO SING OUR SONGS AND WE BEGIN TO PRAY AND OFTEN THINGS ARE VERY REPETITIVE. AND WE MIGHT SING A SONG OF PRAISE TO GOD AND WE ARE JUST SINGING AND WE ALMOST FINISH AND WE WONDER WHAT WE EVEN SAID BECAUSE WE HAVE SANG IT SO MANY TIMES BEFORE. BUT TO SING A SONG THAT IS NEW OR WE MIGHT SAY ANEW OR FRESH OR AS IF WE'VE SUNG IT FOR THE FIRST TIME OR AS IF IT HAS REALLY FILLED OUR HEARTS. WE MIGHT GIVE GLORY TO GOD. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT IF YOU'RE LIKE ME YOU LIKE TO SING. I LOVE TO SING PRAISES TO GOD. AND THERE ARE SOME OF THOSE SONGS YOU SING THAT REALLY JUST PRICK THE HEART, THEY REALLY CUT TO THE DEPTHS OF OUR SOUL. AND WE SING THEM SOMETIMES WE MIGHT EVEN GET EMOTIONAL, WE MIGHT EVEN FEEL LIKE WE WE'RE TEARING UP A BIT BECAUSE OF OUR COMMITMENT AND IN THE MOMENT OF THE SONG, AND FRANKLY THEY ARE SONGS THAT WE HAVE MOST LIKELY SANG BEFORE IN ASSEMBLY AND PERHAPS EVEN BY OURSELVES BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS AND AT THOSE TIMES IT'S AS IF IT IS ANEW OR FRESH. OH, IF ALL OF OUR SONGS COULD BE NEW SONGS. OH, IF ALL OF OUR WORSHIP COULD BE AS A NEW WORSHIP. SO WHEN I SPEAK THOSE SAME THINGS TO GOD OR I SING THOSE SAME PRAISES TO GOD, SONGS PERHAPS THAT I'VE SUNG BEFORE AND I READ THOSE PASSAGES THAT ARE PASSAGES ABOUT GOD PERTAINING TO THE COMMANDS OF GOD, IT'S AS IF I'VE NEVER READ THEM BEFORE, BECOMING ALIVE IN A NEW AND FRESH IN MY LIFE AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT REALLY IS WARM TO THE HEART AND CHALLENGING TO THE SOUL. YOU KNOW, TO HAVE THAT CONCEPT OF THE NEW SONG WOULD BE A BEAUTIFUL, A BEAUTIFUL UNDERSTANDING. A BEAUTIFUL THING THAT WE AGAIN COULD MAKE ALL ANEW! MAKE ALL FRESH! MAKE ALL WITH A QUALITY AS IF WE HAD NEVER SUNG IT BEFORE.
NOW WE THINK ABOUT THAT THOUGH THERE'S A PICTURE THAT JOHN GIVES US IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION WITHIN WHAT HE IS SHOWN BY GOD CONCERNING THE THRONE ROOM. AS HE SEES THE THRONE ROOM, OBVIOUSLY NEVER HAVING BEEN THERE BEFORE IN THIS VISION, OBVIOUSLY NEVER HAVING HEARD THE SONGS OF PRAISE BEFORE, IT'S INTERESTING THAT AS HE NOW HAS INTRODUCED IN CHAPTER FOUR THE THRONE OF GOD THE FATHER AND THEN IN A CHAPTER FIVE JESUS THE LAMB COMING UP TO THAT THRONE, I WANT YOU NOW TO NOTICE WHAT TAKES PLACE. WHEN THAT LAMP COMES FORWARD, THE ONE WHO ALONE IS ABLE TO TAKE THE SCROLL, TO OPEN THE SCROLL, TO BREAK THE SEALS. VERSE EIGHT SAYS, "NOW WHEN HE HAD TAKEN THE SCROLL, THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES AND THE TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS ALL FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LAMB, EACH HAVING A HARP, AND GOLDEN BOWLS FULL OF INCENSE WHICH ARE THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS. AND THEY SANG A NEW SONG." OH, IT WAS A SONG THAT PROBABLY JOHN HAD NEVER HEARD BEFORE, HE HAD NEVER BEEN TO HEAVEN. CERTAINLY IT WAS A GLORIOUS AND A BEAUTIFUL SONG. THEY SANG A NEW SONG THAT WAS FRESH. A SONG THAT WAS MOVING, A SONG THAT WAS EXCITING, A SONG THAT HAD QUALITY AS IF THEY HAD NEVER HEARD THESE THINGS BEFORE. IN THE SONG, THINGS THE SONG SAYS REALLY ARE NOT NEW EVEN TO JOHN. BECAUSE NOTICE WHAT HE DECLARES AND THIS GOES BACK TO WHAT DAVID SAID. REMEMBER WHAT DAVID SAID? THAT HE WOULD DECLARE GOD IN THOSE THINGS AND THAT HE WOULD DECLARE THE GOOD NEWS! NOTICE THE GOOD NEWS OF THIS SONG, THIS NEW SONG. "'YOU ARE WORTHY TO TAKE THE SCROLL.'" WHO? THE LAMB, THE SLAIN LAMB. YOU ARE WORTHY TO OPEN IT SEALS YOU WHO WERE SLAIN AND EVER DEEMED US BY GOD. HOW? BY YOUR BLOOD. THAT'S IN THE SONG. THE NEXT PART OF THE SONG, "'OUT OF EVERY TRIBE AND TONGUE AND PEOPLE AND NATION, AND HAVE MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS TO GOD.'" OH, A BEAUTIFUL PART OF THIS FRESH AND THIS NEW SONG. AND WE SHALL THEREFORE WHAT? REIGN ON THE EARTH. OH, WHAT GLORY! OH, WHAT PRAISE TO GOD! OVER IN CHAPTER 14 WE SEE A SIMILAR CONCEPT THAT IS GIVEN HERE AS THE LAMB IS ON THE MOUNTAIN WITH HIS ARMIES WE MIGHT SAY READY TO REALLY DECLARE THE POWER AND THE WONDER AND THE MAJESTY OF GOD AND TO SHOW THE EARTH THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE BUT THAT JESUS IS GOING TO RECEIVE THEM BY HIS POWER AND HIS GLORY. WITHIN THAT CONCEPT IN VERSE THREE IT SAYS, "THEY SING AS IT WERE A NEW SONG BEFORE THE THRONE." AND I REALLY LIKE THE WAY IT IS WORDED THERE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T JUST SAY A NEW SONG OR A FRESH AND EXCITING SONG AS IF NEVER HEARD BEFORE. IT ACTUALLY SAYS AS IT WERE A NEW SONG. WELL, IT IS NOT NEW. THE INFORMATION IS NOT NECESSARILY NEW. IT IS NOT THAT THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT. PERHAPS IT IS NOT THAT THEY HAVEN'T HEARD IT BEFORE BUT IT'S AS IF IT WERE NEW. TO STAND BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD, TO STAND BEFORE THE CREATOR OF ALL AND TO PRAISE HIM WITH A SONG WITH FULL HEART, FULL SOUL, FULL BODY. OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL THING! WHAT A GLORIOUS THING AS IS DEPICTED THERE! AND EVEN WITHIN THAT CONCEPT I THINK IT'S ALWAYS EXCITING AND INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT IT IS WITHIN THE SAME TEXT THAT EVEN WE FIND A MENTION OF A SONG IN HEAVEN THAT IS ABOUT MOSES AND THE LAMB. AND WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THAT OVER IN CHAPTER 15 AS IT SAYS AND THEY SANG A SONG OF MOSES, THE SERVANT OF GOD AND THE SONG OF THE LAMB.
AND WITHIN THIS BOOK AS WE CONTINUE TO SEE THE BUILD OF THE 24 ELDERS AND THE REALLY THE REPRESENTATION OF THE COVENANTS, THE OLD COVENANT AND THE NEW COVENANT, AS WE CONTINUE TO SEE THAT MOSES WAS GIVEN THAT OLD COVENANT AND HE DELIVERED IT TO THE PEOPLE AND THAT JESUS BROUGHT ABOUT THE NEW COVENANT AS HE WAS ON THE EARTH AND SEALED IT WITH HIS BLOOD AND HE DELIVERED IT ALSO TO THE PEOPLE. AND WE SEE HERE THAT THE SONG OF PRAISE THAT THEY SING IN HEAVEN IS FOR WHO? ALL MEN OF ALL AGES. THE SONG OF GLORY TO GOD IS THAT, THAT NOT ONLY IS THERE A SONG THAT HAS BEEN SUNG AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE COVENANT OF GOD, THE REWARD, THE BLESSINGS OF GOD, THAT IT EXTENDS TO ALL MANKIND OF EVERY AGE. AND THE SONG THAT THEY ARE SINGING IS A GLORY TO GOD ABOUT WHAT? THE MIGHTY AND MAGNIFICENT WORKS OF OLD, VERSE THREE SAYS, THAT HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY! THAT THE SAINTS ARE SAVED WHETHER UNDER THE DAYS OF MOSES OR WHETHER UNDER THE DAYS OF CHRIST. NOTICE THE WORDS OF THIS SONG, "'GREAT AND MARVELOUS ARE YOUR WORKS, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY! JUST AND TRUE ARE YOUR WAYS, O KING OF THE SAINTS! WHO SHALL NOT FEAR YOU, O LORD, AND GLORIFY YOUR NAME? FOR YOU ALONE ARE HOLY. FOR ALL NATIONS SHALL COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE YOU.'" O, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SONG. O, WHAT A SONG THAT OUGHT TO BE AS NEW. A SONG THAT OUGHT TO BE AFRESH IN OUR HEARTS. SOMETHING FROM, AGAIN, THE DEPTHS OF OUR SOUL THAT OUGHT TO REALLY ILLUMINATE TO THE WORLD THAT THE WORLD MIGHT KNOW GOD AND SEE GOD IN US AND HEAR GOD THROUGH THE SONG OF OUR MOUTH. THROUGH THE SONG OF OUR LIFE. THROUGH THE INFLUENCE AND THE WORDS THAT WE SPEAK THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW GOD, THAT THEY MIGHT FIND SALVATION, THAT THEY MIGHT BE FOUND JUSTIFIED, NOT NECESSARILY BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN GOODNESS OR OUR OWN PERFECTION, BUT OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE OF THE WONDROUS GRACE, THE LOVE, AND MERCY OF OUR GOD. WILL YOU NOT SERVE THAT GOD WITH A SONG? THE NEW SONG. A PROPER SONG TO GIVE HIM. GLORY NOT ONLY NOW BUT FOREVERMORE!
CLOSING COMMENTS
AGAIN, LET ME THANK YOU FOR PUTTING GOD FIRST AND CHOOSING TO GIVE THIS TIME TO HIM. IT IS ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU WITH US. WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US EVERY SUNDAY MORNING AT 7:30, AS WE COMMIT OURSELVES TO WORSHIPING GOD IN HIS WAY!
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