00:02in the educational process if you've
00:04rightly remembered and understood and
00:08applied and analyzed and evaluated is
00:11that now you're ready to create Psalm 98
00:14first one says Sing a new song to the
00:16Lord for he has done wonderful Deeds his
00:19right hand is one a mighty Victory his
00:22holy arm has shown his saving power
00:25sing a new song produce a new or
00:28original work that's creativity do
00:30something that's never been done before
00:32a new song is one of many things that
00:35could be done and the writing a new song
00:38because they have fresh insight into who
00:41God is he's done new work in their midst
00:43they're reflecting on that they remember
00:46the facts they've understood why he's
00:47doing it they've evalued they've done
00:49all of these things and now we get it
00:51and we're able to write a new song and
00:53everyone can participate it and that's
00:55the culmination of this learning process
01:00it's a release of creativity
01:03true education doesn't confine people
01:13it doesn't turn out students like you
01:16turn out cars on an assembly line it it
01:20doesn't equip you to be ticky tacky
01:23matching little people that's it allows
01:27people to develop their full potential
01:29and become the creative beings made in
01:32the image of God that they were intended
01:35we see this in the story of Revelation
01:37they sing new songs even in heaven that
01:40means there's going to be education
01:43if we're singing new songs in heaven
01:45we'll go people gonna be writing those
01:47songs and we're going to be learning
01:48those songs and we're practicing those
01:54young eight or nine year old as I was
01:56growing up in the as a son of
01:58missionaries in the high Andes mountains
02:02in South America I had a Sunday school
02:05teacher who would often speak about the
02:07Book of Revelation and she would get
02:08really excited about it and I wasn't so
02:12so one of her favorite passages she
02:15talked about Revelation 4 verses 6
02:18through 11 and how they were worshiping
02:20God in heaven and and talks about these
02:2324 elders and these four living
02:25creatures and who it was kind of like
02:27spooky to me because these living
02:28creatures had all these wings and their
02:30eyes all over the wings on the inside
02:32and outside and she explained that
02:33meaning they they saw a lot they
02:35understood of all the beings they were
02:37the most intelligent beings in all the
02:42and then said they're in verse 8 that
02:44they sing a song Holy Holy Holy as the
02:48Lord Our God who was and is and is to
02:51and they did that day and night
02:55now I was eight and I thought
02:58these are the most intelligent beings in
03:00the universe and they have this one song
03:03with just a few words that they sing
03:07day and night forever that sounds really
03:11and I I was quite determined that I did
03:14not want to participate in such activity
03:19God changed my heart years on and I I
03:22found that there was great reason but I
03:24still didn't understand
03:26why this what's going on
03:29and uh as a young adult I had the
03:32privilege of going to London
03:34and while there I visited the
03:37the tower where the crown jewels are
03:39held and there's a scepter there
03:42are all these crowns and just is is the
03:46wealth the the Royal wealth of the
03:50greatest Empire in the history of the
03:52world are in this Museum and there's the
03:55receptor that has the star of Africa
03:57it's a diamond and it's just thousands
04:01of facets on it it's on the standard the
04:03pivots on the bright lights it just
04:05Sparkles and gleams and it's every color
04:08imaginable and it's Dynamic and fluid
04:10and it's breathtaking it gets gasped
04:13when you see it it just you've never
04:15seen anything like it and I was a young
04:20thinking about getting married and had
04:22enough money to buy a tiny little
04:24diamond for my wife's uh engagement ring
04:26I was looking at this I have never seen
04:28anything so beautiful this is not things
04:30that guys usually think about
04:32and so when we as in happens in all good
04:35museums in the west uh you've finished
04:39the tour and there's the gift shop so I
04:42said I'm going to buy a postcard and
04:45um show my friends what a beautiful
04:47thing this diamond was and I I find the
04:50postcard and I get this thing and I I
04:55and I was looking with great excitement
04:58my face drops with this appointment when
05:00I look at it because this is not what I
05:03saw what I saw was something moving and
05:06Ever Changing and the light was
05:08sparkling and it was
05:10turquoises and Golds and Silvers and and
05:14just uh greens and and violets and just
05:18all these different colors coming out of
05:20it it was always moving and dynamic and
05:23the postcard was fixed and flat and
05:29I said my friends already think I'm
05:31crazy if I send this picture and say the
05:33most beautiful thing I've ever seen
05:35they'll say we know he's crazy now
05:39so I didn't buy the postcard
05:43God said do you remember your questions
05:47I thought you had as an eight-year-old
05:53you spend most of your life looking at
05:56and all you've seen is a postcard of me
06:00a very poor and limited representation
06:08they spend the whole time in my presence
06:10and every time they throw their crowns
06:12before me and worship they recover and
06:14they sit back in their 24th Thrones they
06:17lift up their eyes they've seen the
06:19something new about me a new dimension
06:21of my love a new aspect of my
06:24faithfulness a new reality about my
06:28Justice or my kindness and that
06:31Revelation leads them to a new song it's
06:34an ever-changing song and the word holy
06:36holy holy really could mean unique
06:40awesome One of a Kind spectacular wow
06:44they're just like they're it's it's
06:46always fresh Revelation there's never
06:49been a song sung twice in exactly the
06:53same way in his presence because this
06:55learning is of continuous discovery of
06:58more and more of the Wonders of Our God
07:00and it's an anticipation of that
07:04learning in his presence and that
07:07worship that creative Dynamic
07:11life-giving worship that will be in his
07:14presence that we develop our Educational
07:16Systems today to lead us toward that
07:18same process that will never be boring
07:21never old and always life-giving
