THE GREAT NEW SONG

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 23, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 25.

THE GREAT NEW SONG.

The great new song which the last generation redeemed from the earth will sing will be “the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb.” Rev. 15:3.

The “song of Moses the servant of God” is found in Exodus 15. It is a song of triumph, of triumph by the power of God, over earthly foes. It was sung by Israel because of deliverance, and because it was sung by Moses. But it was sung by Moses because he believed God, not only after deliverance, but before. He could say to murmuring Israel, as they stood before the rolling sea, with the hosts of Egypt behind, “Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show to you to-day.” Ex. 14:13. And to Him God could intrust the message, “Go forward.”

Moses could sing the triumph on both sides of the sea. The last generation of men must learn to sing the song of Moses—the song of triumph over all earthly foes—the hither side of the great conflict, when to all earthly appearance there is no hope. And those who sing it in the strength of God on the hither side will sing it on the thither side, the side of eternal deliverance.

“The song of the Lamb” is the song of victory over every inward sin. He could say just before the dark life-and-death struggle of Gethsemane, “The prince of this world [Satan] cometh, and hath nothing in Me.” John 14:30.

All of self—the glorious self of the Son of God—was “emptied” out, and God filled Him with “all the fulness of the Godhead.” In every fiber of His being flowed the Spirit—the life and power and presence of God—till not one of the temptations of the enemy could have any hold upon Him.

Even so when body and soul and spirit are laid upon the altar of Christ, when the members once yielded to sin are yielded to God and His service (Rom. 6:17–19), He will fill us with His fulness, and by His Spirit sanctify us wholly to His service (Col. 1:9; 2:9; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Thess. 5:23).

Satan may come to such a life and find no hook upon which to hang his temptations, no avenue in which he can enter the soul. Every sin is cast out; Christ reigns supreme.

Such may sing the perfect triumph wrought by Christ Jesus, and He will give them the same triumph over all earthly foes which He gave to Moses. Glorious, blest, eternal song of triumph! Who would not sing it?