HALLELUJAH!

HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH! SIN HAS BEEN DEFEATED, THE ENEMY HAS FAILED! HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH! REDEMPTION IS COMPLETED THE LAMB HAS PREVAILED!!

What a mighty song of so few words! This song is by far the best victory song ever sung by mankind. Many war songs have been created, and many revolts have had chants of freedom. However, none have come close to the level or depth of meaning this victory song has acquired. When this song is sung, even thousands of years after the victory was won, it still sounds like a fresh victory. And that is precisely what it is, continuously in the lives of people everyday: it is a fresh victory! Sin is defeated; we, as true Christians, reign above sin!

From the beginning until our Saviour came, sin has reigned on earth. In Genesis, 3:6 we read where sin entered the earth. From this time on, until our Saviour came, sin has had its way. It has been a powerful foe. Many of “God’s people” who walked this earth prior to Christ being born could not win against Satan. In Luke 10:24, Jesus tells His disciples that many prophets and kings desired to see and hear those things the disciples were seeing and hearing. The prophets and the kings were subjected to literal offerings. They had to show their obeisance to God with offerings. When they were disobedient, they had to show repentance with offerings. This was an ongoing system because they could not reign over sin. Even with offerings, prayers, fasting, and total dedication, they still could not live a life above sin.

The enemy has had years of success in destroying God’s people. The list includes the first man (Adam), the strongest man (Samson), and the wisest man (Solomon). With these victories, the enemy no doubt felt as though he could get to any of God’s people. But God had a plan all along, since the beginning of time; the wonderful plan of salvation. HALLELUJAH!

John 1:29, “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” Imagine this moment, when John sees Jesus. From the prophet Moses to Malachi, there had been many prophesies of a king and messiah coming to deliver God’s people. But deliver them from what, or who? This is where many people miss the true essence of the song we are currently discussing. From the beginning, once sin entered the earth, God had a plan to take it out of the earth. II Corinthians 4:7, “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels…” We are an earth, and God has a plan to take sin out of your earth and to keep it out! Glory!

Romans 5:19, “For by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” The disobedience is that of Adam. The obedience is that of Christ. Luke 22:42, “Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” This obedience of Christ going to the cross and being crucified is what took sin out of the earth! Without the blood of this spotless Lamb, we could not reign over sin. We would not be able to sing this victory song. God had allowed Satan to think he was victorious, but he knew the day was coming when he would send his champion son to defeat Satan and all his powers, including death. In John 19:30 Jesus says “It is finished…” meaning the battle is over, sin has been defeated, the enemy has failed!

The definition of redemption is ‘the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil’. Redemption is completed, we can now be delivered FROM sin and evil. All this because of our Saviour; Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Wonderful, Counselor, The Prince of Peace, Fighter, Friend, Champion, The King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

The next time we sing this victor’s song, please sing it with all your soul and all your might, sing it with everything in you!

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