4: Worthy Is the Lamb – Singing With Inspiration
Our first hymn for the week comes from our title:
Hymn 246, “Worthy, Worthy Is the Lamb”. This hymn also shines through in a number of verses in Sunday’s study.
Sunday also gives us:
Hymn 408, “Lord, Enthroned in Heaven” and 
Hymn 82, “Before Jehovah’s Awful Throne”. On reading Rev 4:8-11 and Rev 5:9-14 we have
Hymn 73, “Holy, Holy, Holy”,
Hymn 30, “Holy God We Praise Your Name”, and
Hymn 425, “Holy, Holy, Is What the Angels Sing”. The final part of Sunday gives us
Hymn 337 (or 338), “Redeemed”. These hymns return multiple times throughout the week of study.
Heaven, with its Redeemed wearing their robes and crowns (Monday) is depicted in
Hymn 450, “Beautiful Zion”,
Hymn 453, “We Have Heard”and
Hymn 432, “Shall We Gather at the River”.
We are reminded once again on Wednesday of
Hymn 341, “To God Be the Glory”.
We long for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as at the time of Pentecost and sing
Hymn 269, “Come, Holy Spirit”, and
Hymn 268, “Holy Spirit, Light Divine”.
May we all remain faithful for Jesus very soon return.
“Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.” 1 Timothy 4:13 KJV
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The line in the Hymn which says "Angels never felt the joy that our salvation brings" is not supported by this week's study of the direct involvement of angels in the salvation of men. Certainly if there is joy in heaven the ministering spirits assigned to us from birth to death/2nd Coming will not feel excluded from the joy over one repentent sinner.
When I was a child I fell under the wheel of a tractor and was miraculously rescued. There was considerable joy for those who witnessed the accident and saw the rescue, particularly my parents. But the joy I experienced as the rescued one was something very different to that. I faced the prospect of being squashed to a pulp and was saved. That sort of joy is different from the joy experienced by someone looking on or even helping. I think that is what the hymn is trying to say.