Sing the Honors of Jehovah TUNE TO “Brethren, We Have Met to Worship” 8.7. WORDS BY Jim Byrd
1. Brethren, join your hearts for worship, Let us now our Lord adore; Sing the honors of Jehovah, Praise His Name forevermore. He is God, there is no other, And He governs everywhere; Lift aloud your voice and praise Him, None with Him can e’er compare.
2. Sing the praises of the Savior, Jesus Christ, our God and King; He is worthy of our worship, Come, your homage to Him bring. He redeemed His chosen people, When upon the cross He died; All the law He fully honored, Justice - Jesus satisfied.
3. By the Spirit of the Savior, Faith in Christ we have obtained; We are saved by mighty power, As the Lord Himself ordained. Soon He’ll call us home to heaven, Where His chosen, ransomed race; Will forever sing His praises, For His free and sovereign grace.
“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.” (Proverbs 15:1-2)
***** Complete Redemption “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood.” (Acts 20:28) The blood by which the people of God were redeemed was that of One who was both the Son of God and the Son of Man. The blood of a mere creature would not be sufficient to answer the demands of a broken law. It must be the blood of One who was God and Man, in the same person. It was this that gave His blood sufficient virtue to make such a remarkable purchase. He had to be equal to the One against whom we have sinned, and He must be our “kinsman Redeemer,” related to those He represented. He must be God of very God, and yet bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. He must be, at the same time, our Lord and our Brother. The price of redemption was His own blood, which price was paid into the hands of God whose justice we offended and whose law we have broken. He is the One against whom we have sinned, and such is His holy character that He will not clear the guilty apart from restitution being made to His inflexible justice that requires death for sin. Abraham reminds us that God must always do that which is in accordance with His righteousness, saying in Genesis 18:25, “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” It is impossible for Him to do otherwise. If God is to remain just and yet justify the ungodly, satisfaction must be made to His righteous demands. – continued on back Be it clearly understood, therefore, that the price of redemption was paid to the Father, by which redemption from vindictive justice was actually obtained. “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us” (Hebrews 9:12). Christ did not make an effort to redeem His people; it was not a redemption that He attempted, but one which He actually “obtained.” “Obtained,” means acquired and secured. The Amplified Bible correctly reads, “...not by virtue of the blood of goats and calves [by which to make reconciliation between God and man], but His own blood, having found and secured a complete redemption – an everlasting release [for us].” This was indeed a complete redemption! –Pastor Jim Byrd, Ashland, KY *****
Certainty of the Resurrection “For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.” (Job 19:25-27) The Athenians mocked when they heard of the resurrection of the dead; and the Sadducees greatly erred on this subject, “not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God,” and many of the Corinthians imbibed the same poison of unbelief. But Job thought it not “a thing incredible that God should raise the dead.” He firmly believed the doctrine, and gave it a prominent place in his confession. He knew that God is able to watch and preserve the dust of His saints; has His eye upon every particle, throughout all the periods of time; and through the Divine Mediator, “will raise it up at the last day.” This doctrine was to him a great consolation in his unparalleled afflictions. “Though my skin,” says he, “is a tissue of disease and corruption, yea, though my body sink into the earth, and be eaten up of the worms, and my very reins be consumed within me, yet in my flesh, in this same body - reorganized, reanimated, and made immortal from the tomb - I shall see God, shall see Him for myself, with these self-same eyes.” –Christmas Evans
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