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I mean, for thousands and thousands of years, there have been songs sung to God.

So why do we need new songs? Why would there be a command even here to sing a new song?

Well, think about it. You might sing a new song when you discover or experience something new

about God, about the one you're singing about or singing too. When you think about God,

his infinite in his glory, which means 10 trillion years from now, we'll still be discovering

more glory in God, which means we'll still be singing new songs about things we've seen and

things we've experienced in God. So there's that sense in which we are continually seeing

experiencing more in God that leads to new songs. And then you think about as the gospel

spreads from generation to generation and music changes in different ways, then God's people

in successive generations sing new songs. We're seeing songs today that are different from what God's

people were singing a thousand years ago or a hundred years ago. And we also sing some of those

songs. We sing old songs and new songs. And then think about this as we pray for the spread of

the gospel among all the nations. There are thousands of people groups right now,

languages where songs are not being sung and praised to God because they've not been reached

by the gospel. But when they're reached by the gospel and people come to Christ and they gather

together as the church, then they compose what new songs. And I give out one of my favorite songs

that I have recorded on my phone. It's from a very remote tribe in Asia that had been totally

unreach by the gospel until some missionaries at great cost to their lives took the gospel there

and people believed it specifically a young girl who then shared the gospel with her mom and dad

and her mom and dad believed the gospel and soon thereafter were stoned by the religious tribal

leaders in that village because they had put their faith in Jesus and what they called a foreign

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