The New Song-part 4

The New Song-part 4

      Today is Easter Sunday, the day that we celebrate Christ's resurrection.  Because He paid the price for the sins of the whole world, you and I are able to be a new creature in Christ Jesus and ipso facto can truly have a new song to sing. When we study new song in the Bible we learn that the words "new song" do not refer to a new composition but rather to a song of a higher or renovated character.  Psalm 40:1-3 identifies what the term new song means.  It states, "I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.  He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.  And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it and fear, and shall trust in the LORD." There are several observations of this Scripture passage to be made that will influence our philosophical beliefs about the "new song" of the Bible...

        First, note that the word even is in italics in the A.V. which means that it is not found in the Hebrew text.  So, we learn that the chadash (2319) shiyr (7892) is without doubt tehilah (8416) Elohiym (430) i.e. "a new song of praise to God".  The song of the "new man" is different than the song of the "old man" who was dead in trespasses and sins.  The Christian musician who is a new creature in Christ Jesus has a new song which is of a renovated character.  The psalmist's new life brought about a song of praise to God.  He performed music in a "new key", so to speak.  When he passed from death to life spiritually had a new song, a new theme, a new "tune" and a new purpose in his musicing.  Why?  Because his music philosophy had changed since he became different on the inside.  (In our dispensation the new man is truly "born again".)

        Second, it appears that the psalmist David was writing of the time when God brought him out of the pit of sin (or noise) and established him musically and spiritually.  The Cambridge scholars put the words "a pit of noise" in the margin. Note that Elohiym the supreme God had to lift the musician out of a pit of noise before he could establish (kuwn 3559) the musician's goings (ashur 838). Also  note that the God  had to remove the uproar or noise that surrounded the musician ( yaven -3121 tiyt -2916) with dregs that swept him away i.e. hindered or held him down spiritually.  I believe that the sense and import of this statement is that he had to change the psalmists' music before he could establish him spiritually.