Sing to The LORD

Sing to the LORD A New Song

Part 1 of Charles Spurgeon's comments on Psalm 98.

O sing to the LORD a new song,
For He has done wonderful things,
His right hand and His holy arm have gained the victory for Him.
The LORD has made known His salvation;
He has revealed His righteousness in the sight of the nations.
He has remembered His lovingkindness and His faithfulness to the house of Israel;
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

O, sing to the LORD a new song! For He has done wonderful things. We had a new song before because the LORD was coming (Psalm 96). Now we have another new song because He has come, seen and conquered.

Jesus, our King, lived a marvelous life, died a marvelous death, rose by a marvelous resurrection, and ascended marvelously into heaven. By His divine power He has sent the Holy Spirit to do marvels, and by that sacred energy, His disciples have worked marvelous things and astonished all the earth. Idols have fallen, superstitions have withered, systems of error have fled, and empires of cruelty have perished.

He deserves the highest praise. His acts prove His deity. Jesus is Jehovah, and so we sing to Him as the LORD.

His right hand and His holy arm have gained the victory for Him. Not with the aid of others but by His weaponless hand, His marvelous conquests have been achieved. Sin, death and hell fell under His solitary prowess. Man's idols and errors have been overthrown by His hand alone.

Jesus' victories among people are all the more wonderful because they are accomplished by means that, to all appearances, seem most inadequate.