1. O sing unto the Lord anew song; for he hath done marvelous things. We had a
new song before (Psalm 96) because the Lord
was coming, but now we have another new song because he has come, and seen and
conquered. Jesus, our King, has lived a marvelous life, died a marvelous death,
risen by a marvelous resurrection, and ascended marvelously into heaven. By his
divine power he has sent forth the Holy Spirit doing marvels, and by that
sacred energy his disciples have also wrought marvelous things and astonished
all the earth. Idols have fallen, superstitions have withered, systems of error
have fled, and empires of cruelty have perished. For all this he deserves the
highest praise. His acts have proved his Deity: Jesus is Jehovah, and therefore
we sing unto him as the Lord. His right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory; not by the aid
of others, but by his own unweaponed hand his marvelous conquests have been
achieved. Sin, death, and hell fell beneath his solitary prowess, and the idols
and the errors of mankind have been overthrown and smitten by his hand alone.
The victories of Jesus among us are all the more wonderful because they are
accomplished by means to all appearance most inadequate; they are due not to
physical but to moral power—the energy of goodness, justice, truth; in a word,
to the power of his holy arm. His holy influence has been the sole cause
of success. Jesus never stoops to use policy, or brute force; his unsullied
perfections secure to him a real and lasting victory over all the powers of
evil.
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