Let's open our Bibles, if you
will, this evening to the 98th Psalm. Psalm 98. Psalm 98. O sing unto the Lord a new song,
for he hath done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm
hath gotten him the victory. The Lord hath made known his
salvation. His righteousness hath He openly
showed in the sight of the heathen. He hath remembered His mercy
and His truth toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the
earth have seen the salvation of our God. Make a joyful noise
unto the Lord, all the earth. Make a loud noise and rejoice
and sing praise. Sing unto the Lord with a harp
and with the voice of a song. with trumpets and the sound of
cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord the King. Let the sea
roar in the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell
therein. Let the floods clap their hands,
let the hills be joyful together before the Lord. The earth with
righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with
equity." Here in the 98th Psalm, if you look back here, I just
sold my heart a couple of days, came up with some stuff today.
I hope it'll be a blessing to you. He said there in verse one,
Oh, saying unto the Lord, a new song, a new song. And that's
what I want to talk about. Seven notes, seven notes in the
new song. I was asking Gary. He knows music
in her seven notes. if I'm not mistaken, and he told
me how you can remember them. I remember how they, do, re,
mi, fa, si, lo, ta, do, ti, ta, do. So I can't get past the ti
dos. But anyway, it's something like
that. But there's many psalms, lots of psalms that tell us to
sing unto the Lord. Look back here in Psalm 96 in
verse one. Many Psalms that tell us to sing
unto the Lord. Here he says a new song, and
here it says it again. Oh, sing unto the Lord a new
song, sing unto the Lord all the earth. So that tells us to
sing unto the Lord, Psalm 96.1. 96.95 in verse one says, come,
let us sing unto the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to
the rock of our salvation. And even in the 100th Psalm,
that's what he says in verse 1, make a joyful noise unto the
Lord, all ye lands. And you know, Psalm 40 says this,
that he hath picked me up out of an horrible pit, took my feet
out of the miry clay, set my feet upon a rock and established
my goings, and hath put a new song into my heart. but a new
song. And so you see, you can't sing
a song if you don't know it. And God said he puts a song into
our hearts. In Revelations 5 verse 9, it
says that they sung a new song. And you know what the first words
of that new song was? Thou art worthy who has redeemed
us by thy blood out of every kindred, every tribe, every tongue,
every nation under the earth. That's the song they sang. That's
the song we're going to sing in glory. We sang that here.
We sang right now, thou art worthy. Oh Lord, thou art worthy. You
redeemed us. You saved us by your blood. And
oh beloved, that's a new song. And there are many Psalms where
there's groaning, weeping, suffering, but here he's talking about rejoicing. Here he's talking about singing
unto the Lord. And so that's what I want to
talk about. Seven notes. seven notes in this new song
and I want to give you the first one. Seven notes and you know
over in 2 Corinthians I want to say might be 1 Corinthians
15 but I think it's 2 Corinthians 13 or 14 where it says you know
that you got to sound a clear note. If the trumpet gives a
sound it's got to sound a clear note. The notes got to be good. You got to understand And I heard
Henry preach years and years ago, sounding a clear note. In other words, make your message
clear, hit the right note, hit the right thing because the Lord
s people know the song, they know the notes, they know when
the Lord s speaking and how He speaks. And here s the first
note, it s a note of wonder, look what it says here in verse
1, Oh, sing unto the Lord a new song. Why? For He hath done marvelous
things. That's a reasonable saying, isn't
it? Huh? A note of wonder. Why? He, the
Lord Himself, has done wonderful, wonderful, marvelous things. Now I want you to look with me
in Exodus 15. Here's you in Exodus. Here's
where This is what they said about him when they come through
the Red Sea. Done marvelous things. Oh my soul, how many marvelous
things. The Lord Jesus Christ coming,
born of a virgin. What a marvelous thing. The Lord
Jesus Christ living a sinless, holy, perfect life of obedience
to His Father, never ever doing anything to anybody except what
was right, just, and true. God's true and faithful witness,
the Alpha and Omega, lived that sinless life. And then our Lord
Jesus Christ, what a marvelous thing that God Even after he
lived this sinless life, this perfect life, this holy life,
this harmless life, that God himself delivered him up to the
cross. Let men do with him what they
would, but just be sure of this, that he was delivered by the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. And then men did what
they wanted to, and wicked men did with their hands what they
wanted to. and our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh,
what a marvelous thing it is that God sent Him, that He lived,
and that He died. But how much a more marvelous
thing is it that our Lord Jesus Christ raised again from the
dead? and that he ascended to the right
hand of God. That's marvelous and I when you
say something's marvel you just stand there and just marvel at
that. Not only is it marveled at but
it's marvelous in every respect and here's what he says about
the Lord here in Exodus 15 11. Oh, He said, Who is like unto
thee, O LORD, among the gods? See how that's in small letters?
There ain't but one God that's got a capital G. There ain't
but one Lord that's got a capital L. All others are little G's. Who is like thee, glorious in
holiness, fearful in praises, and what does He say? Doing wonders. I'm going to read you another
verse. You don't have to look at it, but I'm going to read
it to you. over in Revelations 15.3, where it says this, they
were singing a song. And this is what they said. And
they sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, what he sung
in Exodus 15, 11. And the song of the Lamb, not
only Moses' song, the song of the Lamb, saying, great and marvelous
are thy works, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are thy ways, thou
King of saints. Oh my. So there's the first note,
a note of wonder. And I remember, I believe the
first time I ever preached in a grace church, it was at Scott
Richardson back in 80, 81, somewhere in that neck of the woods. And
I remember that this is one of the, my message was seven things
that makes me know I'm one of God's sheep. And the first one
was, you know what the first one was? That God could be just
and save a sinner like me. That absolutely filled me with
wonder and still fills me with wonder. That's still the most
marvelous thing that I've ever heard. How can God be holy, righteous,
and just, and at the same time save a sinner like me? Not only
save me, but save me every single day that goes over my head. That's
marvelous now, I'm telling you. And so beloved, this fills us
with wonder. It fills us with awe and fills
us with thanksgiving. He has done marvelous things. And then here's a note of victory.
Here's the second note in this. Let's say A, B. These are all major notes. There
ain't no minor notes in this one. These are all major notes.
I heard a musician talking the other day that he had a whole
song written all in the 12th major. And the guy said, I have
a clue what that means. He said, just a technical term.
But these are all major notes. There's no minor notes in this.
They're all minor notes. But the next one is this, a note
of victory. Look what he says again in the
first one. His right hand and His holy arm hath gotten Him
the victory." Gotten Him the victory? What does God need a
victory for? God don't need a victory. Do you know what it means is
that He conquered us and then in conquering us and doing for
us, He gets the victory. We give Him all the glory, all
the praise, and all the honor in this. And it says His right
hand His right hand. Oh my! What does the right hand
mean? It means power. The right hand
is position. The right hand is strength. The
right hand has all the power. The right hand is the one that
God used. And you know who God's right
hand is? The same one that sits at God's right hand. Our Lord
Jesus Christ. I tell you, Beloved, Christ is
God's right hand, Christ is God's right hand. Isaiah 53 says this,
Who hath believed the report of the Lord? Who hath believed
our report? And to whom has the arm of the
Lord been revealed? I tell you what, I, it's been
revealed to me. Said who hasn't believed our
report? I have. I believe the report, didn't
you? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? It's
been revealed to me. Has it been revealed to you?
You believe the report? Oh, of course you do. Oh my,
Christ is God's right hand. Christ and the Holy Spirit is
His right hand. You see, it's the Holy Spirit
who comes and brings us the things of Christ and shows us the things
of Christ and teaches us the things of Christ. And that's
why, beloved, that's why He says, God won the victory. To God be
the glory. And the only victory that we
know is what He gives us in this world. You know how we overcome? By the blood of the Lamb and
our testimony of that blood. Our testimony of who the Lord
Jesus Christ is. That's how we overcome. By His
blood and by our testimony concerning Him. And every time we testify
of Him, who else we gonna testify of Him? Who else we gonna say
brought us salvation? Who else we gonna say He's got
the right hand of power? Who else we gonna say He's got
the arm of strength? We can't. Oh, my. You see, it's Christ who redeemed
us, and it's the Holy Ghost who quickens us. And I tell you,
He gets the victory. And I tell you, You hear people
say all the time, well, the devil made me do this, the devil made
me do that, and the devil done something else. God whipped the
devil. He got victory over sin. He got
victory over death. He got victory over me. He got
victory over you. He has victory over the world.
There's nothing that God cannot defeat and has not defeated.
Ain't that right? He got the victory over sin.
I didn't. He did. He got the victory over the devil.
He did. I didn't. I ain't no match for
him. I ain't no match for my own flesh, much less the devil. I can't even, I can't even deal
with my own flesh. I don't know what I'd do if I
had anything more powerful than that to have to deal with. But
oh my, Christ redeemed us. The Holy Spirit comes and he
quickens us. And he gave us the victory. And oh, here's another note.
Here's another high note. In verse two. Oh, I love this. The Lord hath made known his
salvation. The Lord hath made known his
salvation. You know, if the Lord did not
make His salvation known, nobody would know it. Nobody would know
it. I wouldn't have known it if He hadn't made it known. But
He made it known. John 6, verse 44 says that no
man can come unto Me except the Father which hath sent Me drawing.
And everyone that hath heard and learned of the Father, He
comes unto Me. He'll come unto Me. And I tell
you, beloved, God made His salvation known in His blessed Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ. He set it forth in Him. And you
know where else He made it known? He made it known right there.
If He hadn't given us this blessed book and helped us to understand
it, we wouldn't have known anything about the salvation of the Lord.
We'd have known about our free wills. We'd have known about
our choice. We'd have known that when He
gave us a chance, we'd have to cooperate with Him when He gave
us our chance. We'd have to, we'd have to wait,
He'd have to wait on us till we let Him do something for us. But that's not making salvation
known. If He makes it known and don't apply it, what good does
it do anybody? But if He makes it known, then
what He means when He makes it known is that He makes it known
to His people. They actually know the salvation
of the Lord. They know that salvation is of
the Lord, but He made it known in His word I tell you that didn't
like in here this this is talking about Christ he made his salvation
no he made it known in his word made it known in his preaching
that's why preachers that's why there wouldn't be no use for
a preacher if he didn't make salvation no if he didn't talk
about Christ and how God saves the sinner and how that the Lord
salvations of the Lord Jonah learned that Jonah learned that
when he was down in that fish's belly that big old whale's belly
down there and he said here I am I'm in hell and I can't get out
of here but this I know even down here where I'm at, in the
deep, dark place with bars around me? He said, I do know this,
that salvation's of the Lord. And about that time, that big
old fish rolled right up to the shore and spit him out on dry
land. He didn't spit him out and say,
now, did he spit him out in ankle deep water? He said, walk the
rest of the way. He spit him out on dry land. That's salvation
known. That's salvation known. That's
what it means to make salvation. And this is a way, you know how
he makes, what else he makes known about it? That's entirely,
completely of the free grace of God. If you got it and made
known to you, the Lord made it known to you. And it was his
grace that made it known to us. It's the grace of God. And he
makes us know that salvation is entirely of grace. And I tell
you what, and this is something else too. It's a joyful sound. Oh, what a joyful sound to those
who've heard this note of mercy and it is a mercy. It is a mercy. All of us would agree to that.
It's a note of mercy to know that the Lord made us to know
salvation. That's a mercy. What a mercy.
You know how many people that he doesn't make known that to?
How many people he passes by? How many people that he'll send
a strong delusion to, to believe a lie and be damned because they
love not the truth? Oh, it's a joyful sound. Oh,
what a joyful sound to those who hear this note of mercy.
Look unto me. Look unto me. Look unto me and
be ye saved. All ye ends of the earth. Here's
another note. Here's another note. Fourth note.
Fourth note. What would be the fourth note
in the scale, Gary? D. This is a high D. Not a low
D. Not a minor D. Major D. Look
what he says here in verse 3. He hath remembered his mercy
and his truth toward the house of Israel. Oh my, he remembered
his mercy and that word truth is the same word as faithful.
He remembered His mercy and His faithfulness. Who did He remember
it to? The House of Israel. Now, what is He talking about
when He talks about the House of Israel? Paul said over in
Galatians chapter 6, he says, The true Israel of God. They
that walk according to this rule are the true Israel of God. We
are the circumcision which worship God in spirit and the true circumcision
which worship God in spirit and in truth and rejoice in Christ
Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. And beloved, he
was faithful to Israel and they was rebels. Thousands of them
died in the wilderness because of unbelief. He gave them manna
from heaven, gave them water out of a rock, gave them a cloud
of pillar by day, and a cloud of fire by night and he kept
them they their shoes didn't wax old and their clothes did
not grow old on them in 40 years and they was a bunch of rebels
so who's he talking about the house of israel that he's faithful
and merciful to the true israelite god's elect god's blessed people
Look with me in 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, no, excuse me,
1 Thessalonians 5, 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 24. Oh, this is what
I'm talking about. He is faithful to Israel, the
true Israel of God. You know, what he promised what
he promised he said i'm going to take you into the promised
land i'm going to take you into canaan i'm going to take you
to the land of milk and honey he's promised to take us into
a land flowing with milk and honey he's promised to take us
into that heavenly claim canaan and what he promised he's able
also to perform There was two blind men came to him one day,
and our Lord, they said, our Lord said, what will you? And
they said that we might receive our sight. And you know what
our Lord said to him? Believe I'm able to do this.
You believe I'm able to do this? You believe I'm able to give
you sight? And you know what they said? We believe you are.
And I tell you, he's able. Whatever he promised, he's able
to perform. But look what he said here, talking about faithful
in 1 Thessalonians 5, 24. Faithful, faithful is he that
calleth you, who will also do it. What's he gonna do? He said in verse 23, and the
very God of peace sanctify you wholly, completely and entirely. And your spirit and soul and
body be preserved blameless under the coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Faithful is he that calls you.
He's gonna do it, he's gonna do it. There's nothing. And oh,
wow. Great is, I won't sing that and
we get done. Great is thy faithfulness. That's what I won't sing. Oh,
great is thy faithfulness. Here's another note. Here's another
note in verse three. Note of faithfulness, note of
mercy, note of righteousness, note of, and then look what he
says here in verse three. He had not only remembered his
mercy and truth toward the house of Israel, listen to this, all
the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of God. this is
the note of grace all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation
of our god you know that's why missionaries have been all over
the world to preach the gospel and here's what people don't
understand well they god ain't never sent the gospel here god
ain't never you know where the gospel started it started in
jerusalem started in judea started in jerusalem that's where the
gospel started went into africa went into asia went into india
went over into china There ain't been a place on this and right
now, Lance Heller is down there preaching and he has to walk
for miles and miles up mountains, down mountains, across rivers
and creeks, has to walk everywhere he goes to preach to people who
still wear bones in their nose. So there ain't no place that
people say, well, the gospel ain't been here when everybody
in the world hears the gospel. Here's the thing, the gospel's
been all over the world. And especially now since you
have all this internet and all this sermon audio, it really
goes all over the world now. Brother Henry has messages translated
into Chinese, and so the Chinese are listening to him preach.
There's people I've had messages downloaded in Saudi Arabia and
it's a Muslim country so the gospel's in the world and you
know what happens wherever the gospel's gone wherever it's went
God always saves a few but the majority reject it and destroy
them who preach it. That's what they've always done.
It's rejected by men, and not only rejected by men, but it's
rejected by nations, by nations. Here, we're supposed to be a
country that they, you know, a lot of Christians in this country,
a lot of so-called Christians in this country. But you know
who they make fun of more than anybody else? A fella can get on his knees
and pray, and they'll make fun of him, but they'll laud a fella
that get on his knees when the flag's being raised. Now, if
you ain't backwards, I don't know what is. That's nuts. Look
at that guy. Look at him. He's an old, pious
joe down there. Look at that old fella. Wants
everybody to know about his Christianity. Well, I tell you what. Christianity
is as persecuted in America as it is anywhere else. People who
want nothing to do with it, especially people of power. But I'll tell
you what, let me tell you this, I'll tell you, it bothers me,
it really does, it bothers me. But here's the thing, he said,
the salvation of the Lord is unto all the ends of the earth.
And then he says this, that all flesh shall see the salvation
of God. All the end of the earth has
seen salvation. You know, when Peter preached on the day of
Pentecost, you know what he says? God said, I pour my spirit out
upon who? All flesh. When Christ was born,
all flesh has seen the salvation of the Lord. All flesh. And when
he talks about all flesh, he's not talking about every member
of the human race. That's not what he's talking
about. He's talking about Jew and Gentile, bond and free, male
and female. He said before His Spirit just
come upon prophets, come upon preachers, come upon men at a
special time, in a special place, in a special way. But He said
after the day of Pentecost, God would send the Holy Spirit down,
and now we have the same Spirit that the apostles had. with the
Holy Spirit, now all flesh. Here we set 2,000 years after
the apostles preached, after Peter preached on the day of
Pentecost, and he quoted from Joel, all flesh. I'm going to
pour my spirit out on them. And right then and that day,
there was 3,000 people there and everybody heard them speak
in their own language. And 3,000 souls that day had
their spirit poured out on them from all over the world and were
saved and were baptized. How would you like to baptize
3,000 people in a day? I'd be thrilled to death to baptize
one. And that's why he says, you know, whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. He don't make no difference
who you are. All right. Here's another note.
Here's the sixth note. Here's the sixth note. It's a
note of praise. Look in verse four. Make a joyful
noise unto the Lord all the earth. A loud noise and rejoice and
sing praise. Make a joyful noise unto the
Lord, rejoice and sing praise. Well, If I make a noise singing,
it's going to have to, it's going to have just to be a joyful noise
because it, it's, I've started out, I've started out so many
things in the wrong way. But he don't say that you got
to sing perfectly. He don't have to say that you
got to sing by note. He don't say that you got to
sing pretty. He don't say that you have to
do, just make a joyful noise. And you know, and we was talking
the other day about laughing. Sarah laughed he says so the
Lord hath made me to laugh made me to laugh And that's what it
meant here. You know she made a joyful noise under the Lord
laughing Joyful that was full of joy, and she made this she
just made this joyful noise on the Lord laughing Just laughing
and I tell you and saying praise Who else would be saying praise
to it's not under the Lord who else would be saying praise?
And we praise him Praise the Lord, bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me. Let everything that hath breath,
let everything that hath breath praise you, the Lord. Mr. Spurgeon
made the comment one time, said when the leaves began to shake,
he said what that is, is they're clapping to their Creator. And
that's what he says, let the oceans, let them clap. When them
waves come together and slap together, they're clapping to
the praise of God. I tell you, let the floods clap
their hands. That's what he's talking about.
When that water gets to running, they're clapping their hands.
Oh, they're praising God. And I tell you what, make a joyful
noise unto the Lord. I remember somebody years and
years ago, they'd always want to sing a song. And they're like
me, if they had a bucket, they couldn't carry it to me. And
if they, it's like I heard a fellow say one time, if he was a sewing
machine, he wouldn't be a singer. But they made a joyful noise. They made a joyful noise. And
I know sometimes you all, when you're here preaching, sometimes
you feel like you just won't get up and just say, Amen! Oh, that's so true. I know you
feel like doing that. But in your heart, in your soul,
in your mind, you're making that joyful noise unto the Lord. And
He alone is worthy. His salvation is great. His salvation
is marvelous. And one day, one day, every single
soul that's ever been on the face of this earth who knows
Christ will sing a perfect song, a beautiful song. It'll be so
perfect and so beautiful and so glorious that our Lord Jesus
Christ Himself. And you know who we're going
to be singing to? We're going to be singing to Him. Gonna be
singing to him. Perfect song. Perfect, perfect
tune. Oh, can you imagine what their
voices would be, you know, down here? Down here they blend sometimes,
the music gets so good and the singing gets so good and you
can just listen to them voices be lifted up. And you just get
caught up, just stop and listen to them sing. Over at Tim James,
you know, they had that little building. Oh, the music was so
good, the singing was so good in that little building because
that wood just absorbed the sound. And oh my, one of these days,
we're all gonna get together and it's gonna be perfect. I'll
be able to say. And then my last one, my last
note is this. Look in verse nine. A note of
hope. Look what it says. For he cometh
to judge the earth. With righteousness shall he judge
the world and people with equity. He's going to come and judge
the earth. One of these days, everything on this earth is going
to be judged. And look what it says. And with righteousness
shall he judge the world. God can only judge in righteousness. He's a righteous God. He's righteous
in His nature. He's righteous in His character. He's righteous. God is righteous. And the only way He can judge
a man is judge him righteously. Now, if I want to be judged righteously,
then I'm going to have to have the righteousness of God by which
He judges a man by. So when He comes to make a judgment
upon me, if He's righteous, then He's going to have to say, well,
He's as righteous as I am. So He enter into the joy of the
Lord. But anybody who don't have the
righteousness of Christ, God going to lay the plum plumb it
to the line. He's going to lay the plumb to
the line. And I'm telling you what, the world's going to be
judged and right. Everybody who thought Thought, boy, I have,
you know, I've lived this wonderful life. I have attended services
all my life. I've been careful how I live. I've never let a drop of alcohol
go past my lips. I've never smoked a cigarette.
I've went to church all my life. And I've lived a good life as
best I, I mean, I have really lived a good life. God gonna
judge that man in righteousness. But what about my son? Oh, what
about him? You didn't believe him. You've
been talking about what you've done. You ain't said one word
to me about what he did. And that's the difference. Either
we do it or he did it. There ain't no middle ground.
Huh? Ain't no middle ground. And look what he says here. And
he'll judge the people with equity. Equity. People are going to be
treated equal. It says he's no respective person.
People are going to have equity. God's going to deal with people
equitably. It's not going to be like our
government, you know, says it's going to take from some and give
some to the others, take from those who's got it and give to
those who don't. He's not like that. God's not like that. No,
no, He looks at everybody the same, and in the gospel, everybody's
exactly the same. As far as God's concerned, every
man's on the same level. President to the lowest man on
the totem pole. God looks at all men and says,
You're all the same to me, and I'm the only one that can make
the difference. And He's going to judge people equitably, and
I'm up to the task. into scales, not me. Oh, we should know the Scripture
says, you know, we look for a new heaven and a new earth. It said
the first earth shall melt with a fervent heat. The elements
shall melt with a fervent heat. We look for a new heaven and
a new earth. What lives in that? and Romans 8 21 says this that
the whole creation groaned the whole creation under the curse
all the animals and all the everything the whole creation groans and
the whole creation will be delivered from the bondage of corruption
and from the curse when when the children of God are brought
into their glorious liberty when the sons of god are set free
and this earth when god takes his people and sets them all
free this earth gets to be set free with them huh be no more
grown and then oh my no wonder he said sang a new song unto
the lord oh seven notes what's the last note gary g i stop on
the g Stop on the G. Oh, our Father,
thank you for meeting with us tonight. Thank you for your precious
word. I pray this is a blessing to
your people, encouragement to them. Lord, I thank you for speaking
to me and having mercy on me and all this congregation of
believers. Oh, thank you. Thank you for your presence.
Thank you for your power. Thank you for making your salvation
known. And Lord, we're gonna make a joyful noise and we're
gonna sing praises unto you. especially when we're alone,
especially when it's just me and you, and it's just us. Oh,
Lord, how we make these joyful noises, how we sing our praises
unto you in our hearts and in our minds, upon our beds, we
make these joyful noises, make these wonderful songs. Lord,
we thank you for meeting with us. God bless you, dear saints.
Strengthen and encourage those who are not with us. Bless them
for Christ's sake. Keep your people so we can worship
again in his holy name. Amen.