Old Song, New Song

Q: What does the Bible say about election?

The Bible teaches that God sovereignly elects individuals for salvation according to His mercy, as seen in Romans 9:11-13. Election is a fundamental doctrine within Reformed theology, emphasizing that God, in His sovereign will, chooses specific individuals for salvation. Romans 9:11-13 illustrates this by stating, 'For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth.' This scripture shows that God's choice does not depend on human action but rather on His grace and divine purpose. Election, therefore, highlights God's mercy in choosing individuals who, by nature, are undeserving of His favor.

Q: Why is the law important for Christians?

The law reveals our sin, illustrating our need for Christ, and serves as a guide for holy living. The law is critical for Christians because it acts as a mirror, reflecting our sinful state and our inability to attain righteousness on our own. As stated in Deuteronomy 32, the law speaks against us, highlighting our transgressions and our need for repentance. It shows that we are guilty before a holy God, emphasizing that 'by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified' (Romans 3:20). The law's purpose is to lead us to Christ, who fulfills the requirements of the law on our behalf. Understanding the law helps believers appreciate the grace of God in the gospel, as true joy and mercy can only be fully understood after recognizing our failure and Christ's redemptive work.

Q: How do we know the gospel is for sinners?

The gospel is fundamentally about God's mercy for those who recognize their sin and need for salvation. The gospel message is inherently designed for sinners, underscoring the truth that it offers hope and redemption to those who are burdened by their guilt. According to Revelation 5:9, the song of the redeemed acknowledges that 'Thou hast redeemed us to God by thy blood,' indicating that salvation is predicated on the recognition of our sinful state and need for a Savior. Only those who are aware of their wretchedness can rejoice in the good news of Christ's redemptive work. This highlights that the gospel is not merely a moral lesson, but rather a proclamation of grace extended to the undeserving, offering pardon to those who repent and trust in Christ alone.

Q: What does it mean to sing the new song?

Singing the new song means praising God for redemption through Christ, after recognizing our sin through the law. Singing the new song is a profound expression of gratitude and worship that arises from an understanding of our failure under the law and the grace extended to us through Jesus Christ. In Revelation 5, the redeemed sing, 'Worthy is the Lamb that was slain,' which reflects their acknowledgment of Christ’s sacrificial love and redemptive power. This new song can only be sung by those whose hearts have been softened and transformed by the realization of their sinfulness and the mercy of God. The old song of Moses, representing the law and its conviction of sin, must precede the new song, which celebrates the victory and grace found in Christ. Thus, the new song serves as both a reminder of our past and an eternal celebration of God’s ongoing salvation.

Go back with me to, well, first
let's go to Revelation 15. Revelation 15.
And you can also mark Deuteronomy chapter 32. Revelation 15. Let's read verses
1 through 3. Revelation 15. I saw another sign in heaven,
great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues,
for in them is filled up the wrath of God. And I saw, as it
were, a sea of glass mingled with fire, them that had gotten
the victory over the beasts, over his image. and over his
mark and over the number of his name stand on the sea of glass. Having the harps of God, every
one of them are given a harp. Would you like to play an instrument?
You will. We all will sometimes. Verse 3, And they sing the song
of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. I believe that's quite literal. I believe that our brethren right
now in glory sing the old song and the new. I really do. They sing the song of Moses. Now go back there. We read the
song of Moses. They sing the song of Moses and
the song of the Lamb. They sing the old song and the
new. Everyone in heaven. Because you
must know the old to appreciate the new. You must
learn the old song to be able to sing the new. You must have a heart broken
by the law of God in order for it to be healed
by the gospel of Christ. The old song of Moses is, look
what you've done against your God. And the song of the Lamb is,
look what He's done for you. There's weeping before there's
joy. There's sorrow before there's
laughter. There's conviction of sin. Every
gospel message must begin like this. When Paul said in his last message
to the church at Ephesus, the elders, his very last sermon
was this. He said, I've not failed to preach unto you the whole
counsel of God. I've kept back nothing profitable unto you.
And he said, I've preached faithfully. repentance toward God, and faith
toward the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the psalm of these two
psalms, the old psalm and the new. The old psalm, oh, it's
a psalm of God's great mercy and grace, but look at chapter
31. Look at chapter 31, verse 16. The Lord said to Moses, you shall
sleep with your fathers, but this people will rise up and
go a-whoring after the gods of this land. And my anger will
be kindled against them. They're going to know my anger.
Got to, to appreciate my mercy. Verse 19. He said, therefore,
write this song. Teach it to the children of Israel.
Who's going to learn this song? The children of Israel. The sons
of Jacob. God's people. That's who learned
this song. The world doesn't know the song
of Moses, nor the song of the Lamb. But God's people, they
all sing this. All of them. Now look at verse
19 there. It says, This song is going to
be a witness for me against the children of Israel. The son of Moses is against them. It testifies against them. Are you with me? You know where
I'm going with this. Where the Lord is going. The law. is against us. Whatsoever things
the law saith, saith to them that are under it, that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before
God. Guilty against thee, and say
with David, against thee and thee only have I sinned and done
this evil in thy sight. that he might be just. It's against us. But now, if God be for us, who
can be against us? The law is against us. That's
what this song says. Did it strike you as you read
it? Look at verses 1 through 4 now. It's a blessed doctrine
of our God, teaching of our God. The law tells us who our God
is. Give ear, O heavens, and I'll
speak. Hear, O earth, the words of my
mouth. My doctrine, as teaching, shall drop as the rain. Scripture
says he'll come down like rain. My speech shall distill as the
dew, as a small rain upon the tender herb, as showers upon
the grass, sweet, soul-refreshing words of life, life-giving doctrine
of who our God is, the Rock. Publish the name of the Lord,
the greatness of our God. He is the Rock. Another foundation
can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Christ the
Lord. Rock, His work, is perfect. The law speaks of Christ. convicts the law, says we're guilty, but the law
also says somebody came. He's the rock. His work is perfect. You see? All his ways are judgment. The rock, which is cry. That
rock is cry. He's the God of truth. He said,
I am the truth, without iniquity, with no sin, just, the just one,
the holy one of Israel. And right is he. There's not
a just man on earth that doeth good and saith not. That's what
the law says of that. But when Christ came, he said,
Lo, I come, the just one. That's the essence of the law
is what it tells us. We're guilty. Christ is the guiltless one,
the sinless one who came. God made him to be sin. For us,
he who knew no sin. Why? That we might be made the
righteousness of God. Look at verse 5. It says, They
have corrupted themselves. We're not only born with Adam's
sin, but we sin Adam's sin. We do what he sinned. And we
will do until the day we die. That's no excuse. John wrote
in 1 John 2, little children, these things I write unto you
that you sin not. And do you think a man sins? We have an advocate. We have
an advocate. The law says it shall be perfect
to be accepted. That's what the law, I like that.
I want to be perfect. I want to be sinless, don't you?
I find in myself a delight in the law of God to the inward
man, the new man. I do. But I find also in myself
a law worried against my members so that I cannot do the things
that I would. And then I hear the blessed gospel.
It is a music to my ears that Christ did. He came. Not to show
us how to live per se, although He did, but to live for us, to
be our life. To be our salvation. Oh my. Doctrine. He'll drop that doctrine. The
doctrine of Christ drops like dew. Like tender rain on the
mown grass. Those that are cut down by the
law. They've corrupted themselves.
Verses 6, verse 5 and 6 are perverse. Is this the spot of His children?
We call ourselves children of God. Now I'm talking to those
that profess to be believers. Because that's who this is to.
Israel. Sons of Jacob. Sons of Jacob. Jacob was a just
man. Jacob was chosen. Jacob was God's
man. He changed his name to Israel.
Was Jacob a sinner? Oh yeah. Did he die a sinner? Oh yeah, he did. How did his
sons turn out sinners like him? He writes to the sons of Jacob.
And he says in another psalm, Blessed, happy is he that hath
the God of Jacob for his help. This is written to Jacob. And
he says to the sons of Jacob, you don't act like his children. You don't act like his children.
Now, who in here would possibly say for a moment that we've been
faithful sons and daughters? You don't act like his children.
Oh, my. Verse 6, he said, Do you thus
requite the Lord? Is this how you repay Him? Is that how you repay Him who
has done so much for you? He said, you need to remember,
verse 7, remember the days of old. Your father will tell you.
The elders will tell you. In verse 8 and 9, He said how
God, when He separated the people of the world, in verse 9, He
said, I chose Jacob. Jacob have I loved. That's election. That's sovereign election. That's
how He began. He said, remember this. Go way
back, and where it will all start is in the sovereign, predestinating
purpose of God according to election. That God in eternity past said,
I'm going to choose a people out of the mass of humanity,
sinful humanity, rebels against me. There won't be one of them
that seek me. There won't be a one that knows
me. There won't be one that doeth good and saith not. There won't
be one righteous person. There won't be one person worthy
of me saving them. But I am merciful. I am gracious.
I will be gracious. I will be merciful to whom I
will be merciful. Jacob have I loved. I'm going
to choose Jacob. Not the good son, Esau, not the
tall one, not the best one, not the one that his father would
choose, but a cheap, a supplant. I choose Jacob. Jacob have I
loved. I have set my love upon him,
and I will not take it back. Sovereign election. Oh, don't
you love it? God who chose a people like Jacob. The world hates that. Religious
people hate that. Self-righteous people hate that.
Who loves that? Jacob loves that. Jacob. This is where he started. He
said, remember that. Jacob have I loved. Where did he find Jacob? He says, wandering in a waste,
howling wilderness. Running from God. He didn't even
know God. He didn't care for God. He's
a cheat. He's no good. He's a rebel. He's a usurper. He's a liar. He's running from God. Jacob's
running from God, and God's running after him. Bless his holy name. Oh, it's good doctrine. It's
more than doctrine. Barney used to say, election's
not a doctrine, but it's a person. Choosing persons according to
His wonderful mercy and grace. Those that don't deserve it.
Don't deserve it. He said, I found Him. I found
Him in a desert, in a wasteland wilderness, verse 10. I led Him
about. I instructed Him. I taught Him.
Let us all be taught of God. We're not self-taught. If you taught yourself, you learned
wrong. They're all taught of God. And
he instructed them. He kept him as the apple of his
eye. Who? Jacob? Yeah. As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
fluttereth over and spreadeth her wing, taketh them, carries
them under her wing. And he led him. There wasn't
anybody with him. No one else did this. God did
it all. The Lord did it all. Oh, Gomer, it wasn't your lovers.
It's your Maker who's your husband. Verse 13, made him ride on the
high places, eat the increase, suck honey out of the rock. Oh,
wouldn't you love to dwell there a little while? Oil out of the
plenty rock. What's the rock? I'll just say
this. What's the rock? Where's honey?
How could honey come out of a rock? Oil out of the rock. Water out
of the rock. That rock is Christ. That's the
only place you're going to find honey. Only place you're going
to get sweet oil. Only place water for the thirsty. Butter of thyme, milk of sheep,
fat of lambs, good lamb, strong rams, goats, fat bread of wheat,
thou didst drink the pure blood, the wine on the leaves, and well
refined. But he got fat. He got filled like Gomer. I made you beautiful. I sanctified
you. I set you apart. And then you
trusted in that beauty. And you got puffed up like it's
something you did. When you were beautiful through
My coming, I said to you, everything you have, by My grace. Everything
you know. Everything you have. Everything
you can do. By My grace. And you got puffed
up. And you got fat, full of vain
glory, vain conceit, puffed up with knowledge. I know something. I am something. I can do something. And you're kicked. And you're
kicked. Sounds like Saul of Tarsus, doesn't
it? Sounds like the rich young ruler,
doesn't it? I had an old horse one time.
Kelly can give you hundreds of illustrations like this. We went
and bought an old mare. She was in her later years. And
she was ready for the glue factory. You could see every rib. Couldn't
you, Ben? She was ready to die. She didn't
have anything to eat. And we bought her. Yeah, we paid
about $700 for that one. Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't
give you $50. But I bought her. We bought her.
Brought her home. We began to feed her the fat
of wheat. We began to feed her the fat
pastures. The Lord's pastures dropped fatness. Began to feed her. We bought
her. I purchased her. I redeemed her. She's mine. I
saved her life. I brought her into the fat good
of the land. I fed her. I watered her. I vetted her. I petted her. I set her free. She wasn't bondaged. I set her
free out in the pasture to roam where she would and just get
as fat as she would as she did. She fattened up. Became sleek and black and quinty. Can you picture this? And one day, and I didn't lay
hard labor on her. She's just a pet, really. But one day, I went out there
to get her. Put that halter on her. To lead
her. Probably lead her into even greener pastures. And she kicked
me. She kicked me. What about us? Get fat. He warned me, you're
going to go into the land, you're going to get fat, you're going
to have all these things that I've done, and you're going to
murmur. You're going to complain. You're
going to sit in your tent and murmur in your tent. You're going
to kick against my providence. I require a little service of
you. You're going to say, why me? We're a sorry bunch, aren't we?
Sorry, but how long is he going to put up with it? Do you know
how long I put up with that old horse? A long time. A long time. They lightly esteemed
the rock of their salvation, it says. Savior. He said, I'll
hide my face. Go on down. Verse 20, I'll hide
my face. Verily, he is a God that hideth
himself. A father, if he's a father, he's going to hide his face.
He's going to frown. And you're going to feel it. And he says,
your children in whom is no faith. You have no faith. After all
those years, they acted like they didn't have any faith whatsoever.
Our Lord said, how long have I been with you? And yet you
don't know me. You don't trust me. Why do you
have no faith? You're not faithless, believe
me. They've moved me to jealousy. And he talks about other gods. and idols and so forth. And every
one of God's people, if they weren't just out and out and
in the gutter, if they weren't in just the gutter of sin, they
were in a gutter of the pew. They were in religion, which
is even more an abomination to God than the outwardly immoral
and wicked works of the world. The people who, he said, talk
about a God who is no God, talk about God as if He's no God.
This wood lawn over here got on their sign, Let Jesus In. Some of you came from there.
That's what they believe, that Jesus is a pathetic, poor, pitiful
fellow who wants in your heart and can't get in unless you let
him in. That's another Jesus. That is
not the God of the universe who sits on the throne doing as he
will. That's not the Lord Jesus Christ. That's another Jesus.
And some of you were in that. Every one of God's people, if
they were in religion, were in false religion. False religion. A God who was no God. An idol. They rock. You know,
they talk about Him as a rock. They talk about Him as God. They
talk about Him as Jesus, as Savior, as Lord, and so forth. They say
it, but He's only a figurehead. He's not Lord at all. He's not
Lord overall. He's not God at all. Their rock
is not our rock. He said it. You trusted in a
rock, your God, that cannot save. And he said, and thank God he
brought you to a point, to trouble. He sent all these things upon
you and brought you to see that God can save you. He said, now
let's see what their God will do for them. Now I'm paraphrasing
so we can get to the new song. And you learn something about
the law. Whereas before, you actually thought you kept it.
You actually thought, like Saul of Tarsus, I'm blameless. Like
the rich young ruler, what do I lack yet? Maybe a few things
I lack. You tell me what to do, I'll
do it. And our Lord, oh, the sober words that He said to that
young man, you're not far from the King of Heaven. Meaning, you're not in. You don't know me. You don't
know the law. You think you do. You don't know
what you believe and where you got it, or if you affirm. You
don't know me. You don't know why I came. You're
not looking to me. You're looking to yourself. What do you find out from the
law? When that law strikes you like a sword. He talked about
a sword. I'm going to bring out a sword. It's going to cut you. He said,
I'm going to wound you. I'm going to kill you. Paul said,
when the commandment came before, he said, I'll do that. When the
commandment came, he said, finally, in salvation, he said, I died. I, who thought I was something,
died. Thank God. He said, I was crucified
with Christ. That's what the law says. Kill Him. Curse! Curse it is
everyone that continue to thought in all things which are written
in the book of the law to do. To offend in one point in thought,
in word, in deed. Who shall ascend unto the holy
hill of the Lord? Psalm 24 says. He that hath clean
hands. When the scripture says let us
lift up holy hands, you going to lift up yours? You going to lift up yours? Let
me tell you the hands I lift up. Jesus Christ's hands. He said when He came to His disciples,
Behold my hands! Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies through
Christ. Christ died. Christ came. I'm
getting way ahead of myself here. Who shall have sinned? He's had
clean hands, a pure heart. And has never lifted up his soul
unto vanity. This is who is going to get into
heaven. Who has never gone after anything but serve God all his
day. Any vanity. And has never sworn
deceitfully. Nothing but truth come out of
your mouth. Who can say that? Christ. And who does He say that
for? Everyone that trusts Him. Everyone
that says, in my hands, no price I'm asking. I'm a man of unclean
lips, and dwell in the midst of people of unclean lips. My
hands are not clean. My heart is not pure. I've gone
after vanity, and these lips are lying lips." And he says, good. Come unto me. I've got good news
for you. You know, this song ends. In Deuteronomy 32, verse 43,
this song ends by saying, God will be merciful unto His people. The song is against them. The
song of Moses is against us. It says, curse them. The song
of Moses says, you're guilty. The song of Moses says, you've
sinned against God. But it ends in hope. It ends by saying, God will be
merciful. Like Ephesians. The whole song
of Moses sounds like Ephesians 2. And you, that were dead in
trespassing sin. Who walked according to the course
of this world. Children of wrath, even as others. But God. Now go with me to Revelation
5. Now let's learn a new song, shall
we? You know, they're singing the old song in glory. Right
now, they are. Because you can't learn the new.
You can't sing the new from the heart unless your heart is broken
by your own sin. Unless your heart is broken,
you cannot rejoice in the Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel is only
good news for sinners. The gospel is only pardon for
sinners. The gospel is only mercy for
the guilty. I mean every time. The times
when the gospel is not sweet to us is times when we don't
feel the sense of our sin. That's a fact. The Holy Spirit
takes the things of Christ and shows them unto His people. This
is the work of the Holy Spirit. And lead us and guide us into
all truth, the truth as it is in Him. The truth of what we are and
the truth of who He is and what He did and why He did it and
who He did it for. We've got to learn the old song
before we learn the new. And you know, Brother Mike Bartram
is such a great singer. And what constitutes a great
singer, he told me, in whatever singing, especially the classics,
opera and so forth, is singing from within. He sang from within,
diaphragm. You know what? You can't sing
this song unless it's from the heart. You'll not rejoice in
the Lord Jesus unless it's from the heart. You're not glory and rejoicing
in the Lord Jesus Christ, His mercy in Him, the love of God
in Him, the righteousness of God in Him, a pardon of sin in
Him, unless your heart is broken over sin. It won't do it. I look out and I
preach to people and I lift up Christ and I set forth Christ
as a sinner's substitute, as a sinner's covenant head, and
I look in the eyes of some and they're yawning. They're yawning,
and they're falling asleep, and it's like, that's not touching
me. Give me something else. And I
say to myself, they must not be a sinner. Either that, or they're just
asleep. You know, God's people do fall asleep. Yes, they do.
When Christ was going to the cross itself, His very disciples
fell asleep. But oh, they wept later, didn't
they? When they thought they'd lost Him, when they thought He
was gone forever, they wept, didn't they? He said, you're
going to be sorrowful like you've never sorrowed before. You're going
to think all this lost, all this hopeless that I'm gone and what
I came to do, I didn't do it. But then I'll rise again, and
I'll show you my hands. And you're going to rejoice,
and your message from that day forward is going to be me! Like
Peter. You're going to go for Peter
and you're not going to preach man's will and man's works and
what man can be, but rather Christ! That's who loves this message.
Look at it. Revelation 5. Here's the new
song. It talks about a book that no man could open. No one was
worthy. What book? The Bible. The Word of God. So many delve into it. So many
have their filthy hands on this covenant of our God. He said
one time to the false prophets, who are you to take My covenant
in your mouth? Look what you're doing to My
Word, corrupting My Word. They think they have the answers. They think they know. The false
prophets, all this poison out of their lips and mouths of God,
lying on God. No man is worthy. None is worthy. No preacher is worthy. Any man
that thinks he is, is not God's preacher. Any person that thinks
they know something about this book knows nothing yet as the
ultimate. No one is worthy. No one is able. No one is capable
to open this book, to understand it. Not one word of it. Only one. And John, who heard his voice
and saw the Lord Jesus Christ and fell at his feet as a dead
man. John, there had never been a
man born of woman greater than John. Had the Holy Spirit from
his mother's womb, but he fell at the feet of the Lord Jesus
Christ as a dead man. But he heard Him when he saw
Him. And John said, he wept. He wept. Nobody. Who? Who's worthy? This book in which are the mysteries
of God, this book in which are the counsels of God, this book
which is the mind of God, the will of God, the purpose of God,
the ways of God, the character of God, this book in which are
the names of the people of God. Who knows the name? I don't know
the name. You don't know the name. rightly divide this word
of truth to whom it belongs to. I don't know. No man knows. And he wept. Am I in the book? Am I in the book? Is my name
written in the last book of life? I may think it is, but I don't
know it is. Well, I know who knows. There's
only one that knows. And John wept and he said, Who
is worthy? And lo and behold, The lion of the tribe of Judah. You see, he's first seen as a
lion before he's seen as a lamb. He's first spoken of as the lion
in the Revelation, and thereafter he's called the lamb. The lion
of the tribe of Judah. He came, and it says in verse
7, he took the book out of the right hand of him that sat on
the throne. He took the book to open it. And everybody in
heaven, look at it, verse 8, everybody in heaven, the elders,
24 and 20 elders, all of them with harps and golden vials,
the prayer of the saints, they fell down before the Lamb. They
fell on their faces before the Lamb. And verse 9 says, they
sung a new song. Here's the new song. Every one
of them, they had learned the old song. Every one of them. sinners, sons of Jacob, Israel,
every one of them are Israelites, to whom pertaineth the law. And
all Israel shall be saved. All of them, sons of Jacob, know
their guilt that they sold their brother. They know their guilt
that they hated their brother, their elder brother, whom the
father loved. They killed him. They killed
him. And the father ought to be angry. But God. came, manifest in the flesh,
came down here, and the volume of the book, it is written of
Him. What's this book about? Who? Who? Who? Who? After the people at Pentecost
were convicted of their sin, how? By what they'd done to Christ. and His sovereign reign on the
throne. That's what convicted them. We're in the Lord's hand.
He can kill us or let us live. We've rejected Him. I accepted
Him. Rejected Him. And all to a man,
to a person said, what shall we do? Men and brethren, what
shall we do? What did Peter say? Believe. Repent. and believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Because this is why
He came. My, my. To be made guilty. To fulfill
the law. To take our sin in His body on
the tree. To be killed for His people. The Lord hath laid on Him the
iniquity of all His people. And so this is what they sing.
They had all learned it. They all know this. They sung
a new song. Verse 9, Thou art worthy to take
the book, to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain. Thou hast redeemed us to God.
Notice who did all the work. Notice who they are singing to.
Not of what, but who. Thou art worthy. Thou wast slain. Thou hast redeemed us to God
by thy blood. Nothing else but blood, thy blood,
out of every, not every person, but out of every kindred and
tongue and people and nation, and thou hast made us unto our
God kings. That is a royal generation, a
holy priesthood, priests, servants of the Most High God. who serve
about the tabernacle in the temple. And we shall reign on earth,
not that we reign really over anything, but being princes in
the house of our Lord. He's the King of kings and Lord
of lords. But like Adam, we are over the things of this and I
beheld and heard a voice, read on, of many angels round about
the throne, and the beasts, and the elders, and the number of
them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,
saying, singing with a loud voice, here's the new song, the song
of the ages, worthy is the Lamb. That was slain. Second verse,
same as the first. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain. Do you tire of hearing about
the Lamb? Do you tire of singing these
songs about the Lamb? You won't be there then. Those who have been washed from
their sins in the blood of Christ, redeemed by the blood of Christ,
they're going to sing through all eternity, Worthy is the Lamb. You read the article by Brother
Spurgeon in our bulletin. Read it. Wonderful. Wonderful. Not one person in glory who is
speaking of anything or anyone but Jesus Christ. And you learn
that song here. You learn that song here. The
song of the Lamb. And they say, it belongs unto Him, worthy is
the Lamb to receive power. That is, for us to ascribe unto
Him, to worship Him, to declare that He has all power. Not let
Him be Lord. Oh no, anybody that says that
doesn't know Jesus Christ. But ascribe unto Him that He
has all power and all riches and wisdom and strength. We have none. And honor. We're
unworthy. And glory. We have no glory. God forbid that I should glory.
Saving the cross. And blessing. I'm going to be
blessed. He's got to bless me. And every
creature in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and
such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I say
in blessing, and honor, and glory, and power be unto him that sitteth
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever." And the
four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders
fell down and worshiped Him that liveth forever and ever. And so they sing the song of
Moses. The old song. They're still singing
it up there. Because that song redounds to
the glory and the honor and the praise and the person and the
work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The song of the Lamb. Do you
know it? Them? These two are one. They're one song. They go together
in perfect harmony, the old and the new. The law, if they speak
not according to the law and to the testimony. The law is
good if you use it lawfully, but it's not to show you what
to do. It's to show you who did it. The schoolmaster, as you
describe it. The law and to the testimony,
if they speak not according to my word and bring them in perfect
harmony in one, the Lord Jesus Christ. There's no light in them.
They don't understand. They don't understand. But thanks
be unto God who has come and given us an understanding that
we might know Him that is true and that we are in Him that is
true. This is the eternal God. And this is eternal life. The
Lord Jesus Christ. He that hath the Son hath life.
Alright, we're going to stand and sing in closing number... Add it somewhere. What number, John, did I give
you? 475. That's it. 475. We're going
to sing the first and last verses. 475. Redeemed how I loved to
proclaim it. There's a young man who used
to love that song. A young man drew it. I question it every time. Oh
my. We're going to sing it forever.
All right, 475. Redeem how I love to proclaim
it, Redeem by the blood of the Lamb. Redeem through Him who
has birthed me, His child and forever I am, Redeem.

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