We serve Christ and we worship Christ and we adore Christ.

Yes, out of gratitude and out of love, but ultimately for one basic reason.

You ought to pay attention to songs in the Bible. The Bible is not a song book.

But you see that it's not very often outside of the Psalms and that sort of thing,

where songs are mentioned and recorded in Scripture. You go back into the Old Testament, outside of the Psalms and that sort of thing, where songs are mentioned and recorded in

scripture. You go back into the Old Testament, there was the sword song of Lamek, which was an evil

type of song. But then through the Old Testament, you have songs like the song of Moses, or the

song of Miriam, the horse and the rider, thrown in the sea, or the song of Deborah,

when she was the woman judge that led the people of Israel in victory against the enemies of Cicero,

and where he says, the stars in their courses fought against Cicero.

And throughout the Old Testament, you will have particular occasions where songs are sun.

But the most frequent compression of songs that you find anywhere in the history of Israel are found at the outset of the New Testament.

The song of Elizabeth, the song of Zechariah, the song of Elizabeth, the song of Zechariah, the song of Simeon, the Nunq Diminus,

the song of Mary, the Magnificate.

You ever wonder why that was?

Well, in Israel, the function of these songs was to celebrate a new and decisive moment in history

where God's victory had been brought to pass for his people.

And so the primary function of these particular songs was to celebrate God's latest victory.

And what John is saying here is we sing our songs, we remember the hymns, we sing the songs

that were written and composed centuries ago, but someday the Lord is going to give to his people a new song.

At the moment of final victory, there's going to be a new song.

And guess what?

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