"And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation." --- Revelation 5:9.
In heaven the saints have a full sense of their great deliverance, together with a perfect knowledge of sin, far beyond anything we may conceive of it: the glory of redeeming grace with all the eternal ground of their love and adoration. On earth, it is the great excercise and difficult work of faith to see sin and Christ at the same time, or be penetrated with a lively sense of our desert and absolute freedom from condemnation.
But the more we know of both, the nearer the approach we shall make to heaven; and we are our own greatest enemies, if, together with the fullest comphrehension of sin, and the deepest humility for it, we do not look stedfastly unto Jesus, and see it taken away by the Lamb of God. This, though continually repeated, by the heavenly choir, is called their new song; because it is always a matter of as great joy to them as if they had never sung it before; and because the love of God and Christ, in their redemption, is always opening upon them with new and increasing wonders. O my soul, let nothing, let not thy sin, hinder thee from beginning it new!
Saints cannot do less
Than Jesus to bless;
His name they rely on,
His Godhead confess.
My soul, bear a part,
If ransom'd thou art,
By Jesus' blood-shedding,
His burial and smart.
To him that was slain,
The scorn'd Nazarene,
By glory and honour!
Let all say, Amen.