Revelation chapter 15. My subject is Christ, our song. The psalmist David wrote in Psalm
118, The Lord is my strength and song and is become my salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ is and
ought to be the song of all true believers because he is our strength
and he is our salvation. He is our song in this sense. He is the cause of all joy and
the subject of all praise and thanksgiving to God. Now that
which is the cause of our joy, the subject of our praise, the
subject of our thanksgiving is indeed our song. The first recorded
song in the scriptures is that one which Bob read to us just
a few minutes ago in Exodus 15. It is the song of Moses, the
servant of God. And it is a glorious, triumphant
song of redemption. I don't doubt at all that there
were many songs sung before that song was sung. I'm certain there
were. Men and women had worshipped
God for a long time before Moses came along. But this was the
first song to be recorded on the pages of Holy Scripture.
It was a song that the Lord God seems especially to have inspired. A song that God seems especially
to have recognized as being a song worthy of our attention and of
our memory throughout the ages. No song is recorded for us until
we see the children of Israel standing upon the side of the
Red Sea singing the praises of God for the glorious work of
redemption which he had accomplished. It seems that God had ordained
that the first recorded song to be written upon the pages
of Holy Scripture would be a song that spoke of his most glorious
work, the work of redemption. And so though many men sang his
praise before Moses, no man wrote down a hymn and put it in the
volume of Holy Scripture until Moses sang of redemption which
God had accomplished. And in our text this evening,
Revelation 15 verses 3 and 4, we see that in the latter day
glory of the church, When Babylon is fallen, when Antichrist has
been destroyed, when the saints of God have gotten the victory
over the beast, and the last song to be sung by God's saints
upon the earth, and the song which we shall sing forever and
ever is the song of Moses and of the Lamb. Moses the servant
of God and the song of the Lamb. This too shall be a song of redemption. standing upon the sea of Christ's
blood atonement, standing before God, accepted in the beloved,
the hearts of God's saints filled with praise to God above all
else for his work of redemption, his most glorious work, this
is the song that is sung. Read with me verses 3 and 4 of
Revelation 15. And they sing the song of Moses,
the servant of God, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works,
Lord God Almighty. Just and true are thy works,
thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord,
and glorify thy name? For thou only art holy. For all nations shall come and
worship before thee, for thy judgments are made manifest. Redemption, you see, is God's
most glorious work, and we praise Him best when we praise Him for
the accomplishment of redemption by Christ Jesus. Now, I want
you to notice carefully how that the Holy Spirit honors the distinct
majesty and supremacy of the Lord Jesus Christ in the wording
of this text. As I thought about the message
this evening and looked over this text, I tried to think in
my mind, I don't believe I have ever heard anyone accurately
quote verse 3. As a matter of fact, just a minute
ago when I referred to it, I didn't quote it right. I quoted it the
way we usually quote it. Normally, I hear folks refer
to Revelation 15.3 and they speak of it saying they sing the song
of Moses and of the Lamb. But that's not what's written
here, is it? It says they sing the song of Moses, the servant
of God, and of the Lamb, the song of the Lamb. Now why is
it that the Holy Spirit gives emphasis in this place to that
distinction? We notice the clause, the servant
of God. was inserted here by the Holy
Spirit to show us that Moses' song was a song of praise unto
the Lamb of God whose servant Moses was. The song that Moses
sang was a song of redemption And a song of redemption that
typified, in every way, the redemption of our souls by Christ. It was
a song of redemption that foreshadowed the overthrowing of our enemies
by the hand of our God through the blood of Jesus Christ. As
the Lord God overthrew Pharaoh and his armies, so the Lord God
our Savior shall overthrow all our enemies. And as God brought
Israel out of Egypt into the land upon us, by the hand of
the Lord, so the Lord God by his own hand has accomplished
redemption for us. So the song of Moses, the servant
of God. is indeed the song of the Lamb
which is here recorded for us. It is a song about the Lamb,
a song about redemption, a song about Jesus Christ our Lord and
our Savior. Now tonight I want to show you
some of God's great and marvelous works of redeeming grace and
in doing so I want to simply stir up our hearts to sing praise
unto God our Savior for his great work of redemption. Let us never,
ever, ever become hardened to the blessing message of redemption
by Christ. Every time we hear the word redemption,
our hearts ought to be lifted with praise to God. We've been
redeemed. We've been bought for the price.
Christ Jesus, the Son of God, is our redeemer. That ought to
fill our hearts with joy. That ought to fill our hearts
with praise and with gratitude to the Lord our God. Christ Jesus
is our song if indeed we are redeemed by Him and have an interest
in Him. Now let's look at this song of
redemption and notice what is written here for our learning
and for our admonition. First, the song of Moses and
the song of the Lamb is one song. And it is a song of assured redemption. I urge you to read carefully
Exodus 15 at your leisure. This is not a song just about
Israel, Egypt, Pharaoh, and the armies. That's not what it's
about. It's a song about redemption. accomplished without the aid
of man. A song about redemption performed
by God alone. There is not, in Exodus 15, there
is not a single word of doubt or fear or peradventure in the
whole chapter. These people had just come out
of Egypt. Millions of them had come out.
They had just crossed the Red Sea upon dry ground. They had
just seen God drown their enemies. They had just experienced redemption
by the mighty hand of God and they knew it and were assured
of it. Their hearts being assured of
God's deliverance sang praise unto God. Now, the song of redemption
which we sing, if it is a song that we sing from the depths
of our hearts unto God our Savior, must arise from a heart of confidence
and assurance to God. I understand, I recognize that
many of God's dear children have a real problem with this matter
of assurance because of sin and unbelief. Some enjoy full assurance
occasionally, if we can talk like that. Some occasionally
walk in the light of God's countenance with assurance in their hearts
of their union with Christ and redemption by Christ. But often,
God's saints struggle with this thing all the days of their lives. And they struggle with it much,
I think, because of very poor instruction. Much, I think, because
somehow people have been taught to think that assurance is presumption
and that doubt, those who have doubts and those who question
and those who have no assurance, give real evidence of spirituality. Now you listen carefully. Unbelief,
which is just another word for doubt, is not the standard of
spirituality. Assurance, that is faith. is the standard. Now, the assurance
does not arise from us, or from within us, or from our feelings. Why, if the children of Israel
And Moses were to look back at what they thought and what they
felt and what they experienced just before God opened up the
Red Sea. And they look back and say, are
we indeed gods? Has God indeed been with us?
Has God indeed given us faith? Do we indeed believe God? Why,
they were murmuring and complaining and Moses didn't have to believe
what was going to happen. Moses didn't know what was going
on. But when God spoke to Moses, Moses had this word from God,
and he said, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. And when they saw it, they were
assured of it. Why, they'd just come through
on dry ground. Nothing to question about that. God had just done
a marvelous work. Nothing to question about that.
Pharaoh was dumped over in a river. Nothing to question about that.
They had an assurance, and therefore they sang with confidence to
God. You see, it's hard work for doubting hearts to be full
of praise. The primitive Baptist brethren,
and we have some, have been in some of their congregations and
in some of their services, and they seem to think that nobody
ought rightfully to speak of having assurance. And most of
their songs are songs that are always introspective chants of
despair. sung usually in the minor key,
and there's very little praise involved. Only chance of question
and fear. Now, you understand me. Let us
never, never, never fail to examine ourselves earnestly to see that
we're in the faith. But the issue is not, the issue
of assurance is not what we feel or what we've done, the issue
is simply believing God. If I believe in Bobby, I have
every reason to believe him with confidence. Every reason. He
is a God worthy of faith and if I trust him with confidence,
I have a song of assured praise to him. Let us ever seek from
God what the Apostle Paul calls the full assurance of faith. That is assurance based upon
his word and his work. And then we will sing with God's
saints the praises of our God with rapturous hearts. Assured
redemption. Hold my soul. Assured redemption. That's something to sing about.
My sins are gone. My sins have been put away. I am accepted of God in Christ
the Lord, forgiven, justified, sanctified, accepted. That's
something to sing about. And we ought to sing to God with
hearts of assurance that give praise to Him who is worthy of
our praise. Now, we sing the praises of God
for redemption which we have experienced. Redemption with
us is not just a theory. It's not just a doctrine. We
delight in the doctrine of the atonement. I rejoice and delight
to preach particular effectual personal atonement. I will defend
it, God giving me grace, with my dying breath. I have no intention
ever of backing up in the slightest degree. But we have learned the
doctrine by experience. We've experienced the power of
the blood in our own souls. We have stood upon the brink
of woe, helpless and defenseless, like Israel at the Red Sea. And
we have seen the salvation of the Lord. It's one thing to debate
a doctrine, to debate a theory of redemption. Anyone can debate
a theory. But it's something else to testify
of the power and grace of God our Savior and our Redeemer. Let's take Israel as a type of
God's elect and we will see a picture of every sinner's experience
of redemption when he's been saved by God's almighty grace.
Let me give it to you just briefly. First, the Jews had been in bondage
in Egypt for 400 years. In other words, Mark, those folks
who were living when Moses came on the scene had never known
freedom. Not one of them. They were born
in bondage. They lived in bondage. Their
parents were born in bondage, lived in bondage, and died in
bondage. They had never known freedom.
But God sent a prophet to these poor bondmen down in Egypt by
the name of Moses. And God sent Moses with a word
of grace declaring that he would deliver his people according
to the covenant that he made with their father Abraham. And
then believing Moses' message, Israel offered a sacrifice upon
the doorpost and the lentil on the night when God sent judgment
into Egypt and they fled out of Egypt and began to seek the
land of promise. Why? Because God sent a prophet
with his word, and they believed his word. They just believed
God. Then God brought them down to
the very jaws of death at the Red Sea. Here they are, helpless,
facing certain death. The Red Sea in front of them,
Pharaoh and his armies behind them, and they've got no means
to cross that sea. There they are, brought to the
very jaws of death by God's providence. And when they were right at the
brink of death, helpless and without hope, God intervenes. That's where He always intervenes.
When He brings His elect down to the very gates of hell, helpless
and hopeless, God intervenes in mercy. Does that know what
happened with you? Once they crossed the Red Sea
and saw Pharaoh vanquished in the sea, then they began to sing
that song of redemption that's recorded in Exodus 15. Now this
is the first thing to be settled. Have you indeed experienced redemption? Have you been redeemed? What
do you mean, pastor? I mean Have you been made to
trust Jesus Christ yourself? Don't look back yesterday. Don't
look back to this morning. I mean, do you now trust the
Son of God? Do you? Do you trust Him? So that you believe the testimony
God has given concerning His Son and His grace in His Son? If you do, that faith is the
gift of God. And you have great reason to
sing His praise. I remember well when first God gave me faith
in Christ. And it's pretty near the same
experience day by day. I woke up this morning, had the
experience all over again. I looked to Him. confessing my
sin and looking to him, the burden of my sin and my guilt and my
bondage was gone. It's gone. It's gone. I joined
hands with my wife this morning at breakfast. Briefly, in prayer,
but honest, sincere prayer, best I know how, to acknowledge and
confess my sin and thank God for the blood of Christ Oh, the
blessed ease of forgiveness. That's what I mean by experiencing
redemption. When Martin Luther was still
in the thrall of papacy, and he had taken his pilgrimage to
Rome, and he was climbing that holy staircase in Rome, making
his work of repentance, doing his deeds of penitence before
the papal sea, As he climbed up the staircase on his knees,
he kept hearing over and over and over again those words of
Holy Scripture, the just shall live by faith. And when he got
about halfway up, he stood to his feet and he said, just shall
live by faith, not by works. And the world's never been the
same since that man heard those words in his heart. We sing the song of praise to
God. for redemption which we have
experienced. But it is also a song of praise
for his effectual accomplishment of redemption. Now let me give
you something here that I believe will help you. Israel had sacrificed that paschal
lamb back on the other side of the Red Sea. You remember that? And Moses did not explain to
them anything much concerning it. He just said do it. He just
said do it. But they did not learn the meaning
of the Passover lamb until after they had crossed the Red Sea.
Then Moses, by the word of God, gave them explanation, telling
them why they must keep the ordinance of the Passover, a perpetual
memorial, generation after generation, once every year, offering the
blood of the lamb at the appointed place in the holy of holies,
upon the mercy seat. Then Moses explained it, after
they had experienced what the lamb represented. In other words,
what I'm saying is this. Sinners learn the meaning of
Christ's atonement after they experience the atonement. We
learn the gospel by experiencing the gospel. Now, I know that
no one will ever come to Christ in faith apart from the preaching
of the gospel. If God has taught you the things
of Christ, he's done it, Wes, through the preaching of the
gospel. If he's given you knowledge, he's given it to you through
the preaching of the gospel. I understand that. But I know
this too, no one will ever understand the gospel or see the glory of
God in the gospel until he comes to Christ in faith. We do not
arrive at Christ through doctrinal instruction, but we arrive at
a proper understanding of doctrine through the knowledge of Jesus
Christ. A man only knows what he's experienced. And yet, our redemption was effectually
accomplished long before we began to experience it. Christ has
redeemed us from the curse of the law. By his own blood, he
entered in once into the holy place and obtained eternal redemption
for us. Our faith in Christ adds nothing
to Christ. Our faith in the blood adds nothing
to the blood. We do not redeem ourselves by
faith, but faith simply receives the atonement. And when faith
receives the atonement, faith begins to understand the atonement. Look in Romans chapter 5. Let
me show you this. Hold your hand here in Revelation
and turn to Romans chapter 5 and verse 11. The Apostle says, if we've been
justified by his death, much more shall we be reconciled,
shall we be saved by his life. And not only so, verse 11, but
we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we
have now received the atonement. You see that? Now, I know you
need marginal reference. Another alternate translation
for that word atonement, which means reconciliation. Well, that's
what atonement is. By the blood of Christ, we have
been reconciled to God. Brother Bill Sasser, I heard
him preaching here one time and heard him say it many times other
places. He said the word atonement means at-one-ment. That is, at
one with. And that's exactly what it is.
And we have received the work of Christ in atonement by which
we have been reconciled unto God. Now, we don't add anything
to the work. The work doesn't depend on us,
but we receive it by faith in Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus
Christ died for our sins as our substitute. He satisfied the
law and justice of God. He put away our sins, and He
alone has done it, so we praise Him and Him alone. And we sing
our praise to God, not only for redemption experienced and redemption
that has been accomplished, but also for redemption that is promised,
redemption that is anticipated, If you read Exodus 15 carefully
at home, make yourself a note. The first part of the chapter
deals with what God had already done. The next part of the chapter,
in verses 11 through 19, Moses thinks of that which God was
yet to do. He spoke of redemption past,
but he spoke with the same assurance and with the same confidence
of what God would do in the future. That which was anticipated was
just as much a matter of assurance as that which had been experienced.
How can that be? How can that be? How could Moses
speak with the same confidence about what God would do in many
years yet to come? I'm talking about in many generations
away. How could he speak with confidence
of what God would do just as much as he did about what God
had done? because his confidence, both times, was based on God's
word. His confidence was not based
on his experience of redemption, but his confidence was based
on God's word of redemption, which God had accomplished and
which God had promised. You understand that? His confidence
with regard to the future, as well as with regard to the past,
was based solely in his God. Now, Merle, what I'm saying is
this. We have problem with assurance
and with confidence when we start making our confidence and our
assurance to be based somewhere in ourselves. That's where we
have a problem. When we start somehow judging
our relationship and our acceptance with God by something in ourselves,
our confidence, our assurance of acceptance with God is Jesus
Christ alone. past, present, and future. I have been redeemed by the blood
of Christ. I have experienced redemption
by the power of Christ. I shall be redeemed by the power
and grace and blood of Jesus Christ. I'm confident he's so,
because he said so. He said it. He said, you believe,
you have everlasting life. He said if you believe, you'll
not come into condemnation. That's what he said. He did not
say if you believe strong enough. He did not say if you believe
fully enough. He did not say if you believe
with great confidence. He said if you believe, you have
life everlasting. And I do believe it. I'd like
to believe him more. I'd like to believe him with
more absolute confidence. I'd like to believe him with
more absolute unshaken faith. But believe him, I do. And believing
him, I am fully confident that one of these days, as Moses sang
and said, God will cause his people to pass easily into the
land of promise. He will cause their enemies to
be silent and to be silent before them as they pass into that land. So the Lord God will cause us
to be delivered from all our enemies. That's what he says.
Turn over to Romans 16. Romans 16. When I was real sick one day, taking treatments,
chemotherapy, I'd just been real sick. Physically, I was weak. Mentally, I was weak. And spiritually,
I was weak. I got a brief note in a card
from a friend, Brother Joe DeBusk, in Western Salem. And all I had
was just my name on there, just a brief comment in this reference,
Romans 16 and verse 20. The God of peace shall bruise
Satan under your feet shortly. Now that kind of got me going
that day. And it's kind of got me going many days since. God
promises to redeem us from all our troubles and to deliver us
from all our enemies. The Lord God will deliver you
from your enemies. It doesn't matter who or what
they are. The Lord God will deliver you from your troubles. It doesn't
matter who or what your troubles are or where they come from.
And the Lord will yet redeem us from the power of the grave
in the glorious resurrection at Christ's second coming. Like
Moses, the servant of God, we sing a song of praise to the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. And like Moses, our song
of praise arises from the knowledge we have of an assured redemption. Redemption by the blood of Christ,
redemption by the grace of God in Christ, and redemption by
the power of God in our resurrection with Christ. But briefly, let
me show you that this song of redemption is a song of praise
to Christ alone. God has arranged the whole scheme
of redemption so that all praise from all his people goes to Jesus
Christ alone. God the Father has given Christ
such preeminence. He's exalted him to such a degree
that all praise must go to Christ. The Holy Spirit of God in his
office capacity as our comforter, as the spirit of truth comes
from Christ Jesus, not to show us of himself, not to lead us
to speak to him, not to lead us to speak of him, but to lead
us to speak of Christ, showing us the things of Christ and causing
us to honor Christ in all things. So when we honor the Lord Jesus
Christ, when we ascribe all praise to him, then we truly worship
the triune God in spirit and in truth. Let's look at this
hymn that is recorded here of Moses, the servant of God and
of the Lamb, and see what praise is given. You can't help noticing
as you read through the scriptures, especially the book of Revelation,
that Christ is constantly referred to and represented as the Lamb
of God. There's a reason for that. The
book of Revelation is the revelation of Christ. And Christ cannot
be known until he is known in his sacrificial character as
the Lamb of God. Now, in this song that is recorded
here, we see that we praise our Savior first because of his glorious
person. Look how the song goes. They
sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb,
saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty. Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God,
the sacrifice for sin, is God Almighty. That means his purpose is unalterable,
his will is unchangeable, his power is uncontrollable, his
grace is irresistible, he's God Omnipotent. This is our Savior. We ascribe all praise to Christ
also for his great and marvelous works of grace. Great and marvelous
are thy works. All his works are great and marvelous,
and all his works are works of grace to his elect. Even when
he overthrows the wicked in judgment, our Savior is performing works
of grace for his elect. But particularly, we give thanks
and praise to Christ for those works of grace which we've experienced
in redemption. May God the Spirit as our surety,
and in that covenant He assumed all responsibility for our everlasting
salvation. All of it. The Lord Jesus Christ
in the fullness of time assumed human flesh. At God's appointed
time, he set his face like a flint to go up to Jerusalem and there
he bare our sins in his own body upon the cursed tree and redeemed
us by the sacrifice of himself. Our Lord Jesus rose the third
day from the grave. Forty days later, he ascended
up into glory and took his seat at the right hand of the majesty
on high. And there he ever lives to make
intercession for us according to the will of God. Our Lord
Jesus Christ rules in his heavenly exaltation as Lord over all. Next, our Savior's works of grace
and personal glory. Next to those things. Nothing
is more great or marvelous in our eyes than his ways of providence. Daily we behold his acts of providence
and lift up our hearts to heaven and say, just and true are thy
ways. Just and true are thy ways. God's providence is mysterious. The hymn writer put it well,
God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform. But of
this we know, of this we are certain. God our Savior sovereignly
accomplishes his will in all things and his will toward his
elect is good, that we know. We know this also, whatever our
Lord does in mercy and in grace for men, he does according to
strict justice and truth. If God has mercy on us, if God
forgives our sin, if God deals with us in kindness, he does
so in truth and in justice. And I know this too, whatever
God does by way of wrath and judgment in his providence, He
does in strict justice and in truth. In strict justice and
in truth. Religious people act like morons. Of course, there are morons spiritually.
They don't know God. When it comes to thinking and
talking about the travesties we've seen in just the last few
weeks in our own shores, in Florida and Hawaii, the hurricanes, volcanic
eruptions, the tidal waves a few years ago in Bangladesh, the
famine and the poverty and starvation in African countries. And folks
somehow conclude one of two things. Either God is not just or there
is no God in control of anything. One of those two. Let me tell
you something. God is in control. Those things happen according
to God's will. And they are acts of God's judgment
by which He makes manifest His judgment on the earth. And a
man's a fool who doesn't see it. He acts in justice and in
truth. Always. So whatever God does,
Bob, it's right. It's just right. Just right. I talked to a dear friend today.
whose husband has had a couple of strokes, a couple of heart
attacks, just had a heart attack. I don't mind telling you who
it is, but it was Buzz Stracker. Talked to his wife, Nadine. She'd
been asking that we pray for her and her family. He went into
surgery and the doctors punctured his lungs, had to leave him open. The fear that he lost his sight,
he is able to recognize some light now, but he hasn't been
able to talk yet. And she said to me, she said, I know this
is the hand of God and I know he's doing good and I know he's
doing right. That's right. That's what this
is all about here. Just and true are thy ways. just and true. Our God is a good
God and all that he does is good. He always acts according to goodness,
according to justice and truth, and for that we praise him. You
will never really praise anyone but a just and a true God. Next, we ascribe all praise to
the Lord Jesus Christ because of his everlasting dominion Thou
King of Saints. Now look at your marginal reference
if you have one in your Bible. Notice how the word Saints might
be translated. It might be translated King of
Nations or it might be translated King of Ages. I think it probably
would be best to understand it with reference to all three.
The Lord Jesus Christ is king everywhere, at all times, over
all things. He is king of all his saints,
he is king over all the nations of the world, and he is king
in all the ages of time. His goings forth are from old,
yea, from everlasting. He is king of all and rules over
all. Our hearts rejoice to confess
Christ is our king. and we worship and praise him
in his regal, royal, kingly character. But there's more. We declare
that Christ alone is worthy of reverence and worship from all
men because of his holy character. Look at verse 4. Who shall not
fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou only art holy. What? only aren't holy? What does that
mean? Jesus Christ is essentially holy
because he's God. He is perfectly holy as a man,
the only one, the only one. I get more than a little perturbed
when I walk down the street and see a sign that speaks of the
most holy reverend so-and-so. I would come nearer calling a
jackass holy and reverend than I would a man. I mean that any
man, any man. Jesus Christ alone is the holy
man, the holy man. He is perfectly holy, and he
alone is meritoriously holy as the God-man, our mediator, and
he is the only fountain of holiness from whom we have holiness by
the imputation of grace. Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty,
early in the morning our song shall rise to thee. One more
thing. We give praise to Christ alone.
because the Father has ordained that he have all praise in his
ultimate glory. For all nations shall come and
worship before thee, for thy judgments are made manifest. The Lord God has given his Son
a name above every name, before whose feet everybody shall fall,
whose name every tongue shall confess, for the glory of God,
declaring that Jesus Christ is Lord. So we worship and praise
him, only him, because he is the Lord God Almighty. Because
he has redeemed us. Because he has performed his
works of grace for us. Because of his marvelous providence
in all of his ways. Because he alone is holy. And
because all nations shall come and worship before him. Now this
song of redemption is a song that must be sung by faith. I
love to hear men and women sing. And I love to hear them sing
well. I love to go down to the islands and listen to those folks
sing. They sing like they're trying
to get folks 400 miles away to hear them sing. I love to hear
it. But, this is a song born in the heart,
and it's sung not with sounds, but with faith. It's a song of
the Lamb, a song of redemption. It is indeed Christ our song.
These heart strings, we're told in verse 2, are on the hearts
of God. They're on the hearts of God.
You'll take time, again, I urge you to read carefully Exodus
15. You'll find that the song of
Moses, which was the song of the Lamb, is full of instruction
in this matter. It began to be sung as soon as
redemption was realized. This song of redemption was intensely
personal. Moses sang it for himself, and
yet it was a song for all the congregation to join in singing,
for all the congregation had been redeemed. It was a song
of enthusiastic joy and confident assurance. A song of deep gratitude. A song for God alone, our Savior. A song full of anticipation.
For the Lord God will yet. accomplished our redemption perfectly. The Apostle Paul said, now is
our redemption, never than when we believed. We are sealed until
the redemption of the body, until the purchase of the, until the,
the possession of the, of the, until the raising of the purchased
possession, the redemption of our bodies. Now listen to this
word from David one more time, and I'll let you go home. And
I hope you'll go home singing praise to Christ our Savior.
The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation
is in the tabernacles of the righteous. The right hand of
the Lord doeth valiantly. The right hand of the Lord is
exalted. The right hand of the Lord doeth
valiantly. The Lord is my strength and my
song. He is become my salvation. Amen.