The Song Of The Redeemed Series

Introduction:

There’s something sacred about the first song ever sung by a freed people.

When Israel crossed the Red Sea, they didn’t build an altar first; they sang.

They didn’t need lyrics printed or chords projected. The music came straight from relief, from gratitude, from shock.

Water still dripped from their clothes as they lifted their hands.

Behind them the sea was closing over the most powerful army on earth.

In front of them stretched a wilderness, but for that moment, they were free.

And Moses began:

> “I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously;

the horse and his rider He has thrown into the sea.”

Then Miriam — prophetess, sister, survivor — grabbed a timbrel, and the women followed her, dancing, singing, answering the men’s chorus:

> “Sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously!”

That is the Song of Miriam.

It’s short, spontaneous, but it echoes through eternity.

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1 – A Song Born in Deliverance

The song doesn’t come before the trial — it comes after the sea.*

That’s when true worship begins.

Anyone can sing in safety; only the redeemed sing on the far shore.

Every believer has a Red Sea somewhere — the moment when God opened an impossible path.

Maybe it was a doctor’s verdict reversed, a marriage rescued, an addiction broken.

And when you crossed over, didn’t you feel something inside wanting to sing?

That’s Miriam’s heart.

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2 – Worship as Witness

Miriam led the women.

She didn’t hide behind decorum or wait for a temple choir to form.

She testified with rhythm and motion — her body preaching what her mouth proclaimed.

When you’ve been rescued, your dignity becomes secondary to your gratitude.

Sometimes our modern worship is so controlled that it forgets the joy of deliverance.

We sing like we’re auditioning, not testifying.

Miriam reminds us that worship is a public declaration:

> “The Lord has done for me what no one else could.”

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3 – The Harmony of Memory

Israel would forget this song many times.

They’d grumble about water, about bread, about leadership.

But each time Moses or the prophets called them back, the refrain returned:

> “He has triumphed gloriously.”

Worship is memory set to melody.

When you sing, you remind your soul what God has already done.

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4 – From Miriam to the Multitude

Centuries later, Deborah sang another victory song.

David wrote psalms.

Isaiah prophesied that the redeemed would return with singing.

By Revelation 15, John hears the song of Moses and of the Lamb.

That means Miriam’s melody never died.

The same God who split the Red Sea will split the sky.

The same tambourine that shook on the shore will one day resound on streets of gold.

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5 – The Personal Echo

Every redeemed heart carries its own verse.

We’ve all been pulled through impossible waters.

And every Sabbath, every prayer, every quiet moment of gratitude is another stanza in that ancient song.

So maybe you can’t carry a tune — that’s all right.

The Spirit can.

And He’s still teaching the melody that began with Miriam:

> “Sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously.”

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Part 2 — The Middle Movement: The Choir of the Redeemed

Text: Revelation 15 : 1–4

> “And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast… They held harps given them by God and sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb.”

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1 – From the Red Sea to the Sea of Glass

John’s vision opens where Exodus closed — another sea, another multitude, another song.

But this sea is no longer liquid chaos; it is *glass mingled with fire * — transparent, purified, unshakable.

The redeemed have crossed their final Red Sea.

Sin’s empire has drowned behind them.

Notice what they hold: “harps given them by God.”

Even their instruments are gifts of grace.

They didn’t bring their own; heaven placed them in their hands.

Every note they play comes from the generosity of the One who saved them.

When Miriam sang, she was celebrating deliverance from Egypt.

When the redeemed sing, they’re celebrating deliverance from everything Egypt symbolized — bondage, sin, death, and fear.

It’s the same melody, finally perfected.

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2 – The Dual Song

Revelation calls it “the song of Moses and of the Lamb.”

Moses represents law and liberation.

The Lamb represents grace and redemption.

Put them together, and you have the full gospel in stereo.

Moses led people out of slavery by the blood of the Passover lamb.

Jesus led humanity out of sin by becoming the Lamb Himself.

The two songs converge — one in type, the other in triumph.