n His Name sing praises unto our God.
May we follow the great leader of Praise, Him who is anointed with
the oil of gladness above His fellows. May the path He followed down
here become more and more ours. May we serve, be obedient, give up,
wait patiently for the Lord, after His own pattern, suffer with Him,
be rejected with Him, bear His reproach and through it all rejoice
in Him and sing "the new song." How happy we ought to be as linked
with Him, the blessed Christ of God. And as we walk in His
fellowship the heart longs to see Him as He is. Even so; come Lord
Jesus.
The Glory Song.
Rev. i:5-6.
"UNTO Him who loveth us and washed us from our sins in His own blood
and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father: To Him
be glory and dominion forever and ever, Amen" (Rev. i:5-6). This
great outburst of praise may well be called "the Glory Song." It
glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ; it reveals also the Glory of those
He has redeemed and will be heard throughout eternity. There will
never be a moment in the countless ages of eternity when this Glory
song will be hushed or forgotten. We begin to sing it here on earth.
The more we know the Christ of God and His great love for us, the
more we delight to praise and to worship Him. Such worship of the
heart in the power of the Spirit is the atmosphere of heaven upon
earth. And some day we shall see Him whom we worship and adore in
faith. In that glorious moment, when we shall see Him as He is we
shall realize for the first time the length and breadth, the heighth
and depth of His love and know the Glory to which He has brought us.
Then we and all the redeemed will sing this song in a better and
more perfect way than we have ever done here. "Thou art worthy * * *
for Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of
every kindred, and tongue, and people and nation; and hast made us
unto our God kings and priests and we shall reign over the earth"
(Rev. v:9, 10).
This blessed Word of Praise is placed by the Holy Spirit in the
foreground of the book which bears the name, the Revelation, or,
Unveiling of Jesus Christ. In it is found the great unveiling of the
future, the great coming tribulation and judgment period through
which the earth must pass, events which precede the glorious
manifestation of the Lord. But in this last great Bible book there
is also a complete unveiling of the Person, the Glory and the
dignity of Him to whom all
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