O Sing to the Lord a New Song

Sing to the Lord, All the Earth

Chapter 1

The title comes from Psalm 96:1

Here are Psalms 96 and 97 from the Holy Bible, Hoehn Version--

___Psalm 96

1 O sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord, all the earth.

2 Sing to the Lord, bless his name, show forth his salvation from day to day.

3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.

4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised, he is to be feared above all gods.

5 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.

6 Honor and majesty are before him, strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

7 Give to the Lord, O you kindreds of the people, give to the Lord glory and strength.

8 Give to the Lord the glory due to his name, bring an offering, and come into his courts.

9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, fear before him, all the earth.

10 Say among the heathen that the Lord rules, the world also shall be established so it won't be moved, he shall judge the people righteously.

11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea roar, and the fullness of it.

12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it, then shall all the trees of the woods rejoice

13 Before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth, he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

___Psalm 97

1 The Lord rules, let the earth rejoice, let the multitude of islands be glad about it.

2 Clouds and darkness are around him, righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

3 A fire goes before him, and burns up his enemies all around.

4 His lightnings illuminated the world, the earth saw, and trembled.

5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

7 All of those who serve engraved images are confused, that boast themselves of idols, worship him, all you gods.

8 Zion heard, and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, O Lord.

9 For you, Lord, are high above all the earth, you are exalted far above all gods.

10 You that love the Lord, hate evil, he preserves the souls of his saints, he gives them deliverance out of the hand of the wicked.

11 Light is planted for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

12 Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Chapter 2

Singing is an important part of worship. Many of the Psalms were sung to music.

The main Psalmist was David, who sang and played the harp. When an evil spirit troubled King Saul, David's music soothed the troubled king.

Paul the Apostle said, “What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also, I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.” (1 Cor 14:15)

Praying and singing with the understanding is doing so in a language you understand.

Praying and singing with the spirit is doing so in an unknown tongue (language).

You can do that after the Lord Jesus has baptized you with the Holy Ghost.

To qualify, you must be a Christian.

To become a born again Christian, you hear or read the gospel message that Jesus lived a sinless life, taught the people, healed the sick, raised the dead, cast out demons, and then died on the cross of crucifixion for the sins of the world.

On the third day, God raised Jesus from the dead.

After his resurrection, Jesus was seen by his disciples, and by more than five hundred Christians.

Then you believe the gospel and say “Yes” to Jesus' free offer of salvation. Jesus said, “See, I stand at the door, and knock, if any man hears my voice, and opens the door, I'll come in to him, and will eat with him, and he with me.” (Rev 3:20)

Pray this easy prayer: “Jesus, save me!”

The Bible says “All that call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Joel chapt 2)

Here is another passage about salvation--

“That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, you're saved. For with the heart man believes for righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made for salvation.” (Rom 10:9,10)

Even though Jesus died for the sins of the world, it doesn't count for you until you say yes to Jesus.

Jesus said, “You MUST be born again.” This word MUST just doesn't leave much wiggle room. It's a requirement that we be born again.

Jesus said, “He that believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he that doesn't believe shall be damned.” (Mark 16:16) This word damned means the going to hell, from which you don't get back out.

Jesus said that in hell, “there's crying and gnashing of teeth, where their worms don't die, and where the fire is never quenched.” A very nasty place is hell.

But the Christians will go to heaven. Jews who become Christians are called “Messianic Jews,” because they've accepted Jesus, the Messiah (Yeshua, ha Meshia.)

The Lord wants us, after becoming Christians, to get baptized in water. You can get that done at a Protestant church that baptizes people. I was water baptized at an Assembly of God Church.

But another baptism that the Lord wants us Christians to have is the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.

You get that from Jesus.

So ask the Lord for the Baptism with the Holy Ghost with the speaking in unknown tongues (languages).

“When you pray, believe that you receive the things you ask for, and you shall have them,” Jesus said. (Mark 11:24)

How will you know that you've received the Baptism with the Holy Ghost?

You'll pray in a language that you never learned.

Maybe you already speak three or four languages.

The unknown tongue won't be any of those.

How is it possible to speak in a language you never learned?

After the Lord has baptized you with the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost will give you the strange sounding words in the unknown tongue. Then you add your voice, and speak out those words.

I use the example of the word kamsahamnida, from a foreign language.

Do you know the word kamsahamnida?

I expect that most Americans don't know that word.

But even if you don't know that word, you could still answer the question, “No, I don't think I know the word kamsahamnida.”

My point is, you can speak that word without knowing what it means.

Kamsahamnida means Thank You in Korean. I was in the Republic of Korea with the U.S. Army.

The Holy Ghost will give you words, and then you add your voice and speak out those words.

Please see my book, “How to Receive the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.”

1 O sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord, all the earth.

2 Sing to the Lord, bless his name, show forth his salvation from day to day.

There are some who say that men wrote the Bible. But that's wrong.

In middle school, I took typing class. If I sit down at a typewriter and type a letter to my friend Tom, would you then say, “Oh, Fred's typewriter wrote a letter”?

No, the typewriter didn't write a letter. All the typewriter did was to put an A on the paper when I hit the A key, and a B when I hit the B key.

It was Fred that wrote the letter.

Similarly, men were just the typewriters that God used to write the Bible.

Holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God.

So then, in Psa 96:1,2, God is saying that we should sing to the Lord. What should we sing?

Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs.

Some Christians, under the influence of the Holy Ghost will write and sing new songs.

7 Give to the Lord, O you kindreds of the people, give to the Lord glory and strength.

8 Give to the Lord the glory due to his name, bring an offering, and come into his courts.

9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, fear before him, all the earth.

We can lift up holy hands to worship the Lord because we've been made righteous by the blood of Jesus.

5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Heat will melt wax. There's a scripture that says Our God is a consuming fire.

10 You that love the Lord, hate evil, he preserves the souls of his saints, he gives them deliverance out of the hand of the wicked.

11 Light is planted for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

12 Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

If we love the Lord, we hate evil. Evildoers shall be cut off. But the Lord rewards those who are careful to maintain good works.

The book of James shows us that the hardest thing to control is the tongue.

And Jesus said, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.”

To control the tongue, we need to control our hearts.

Proverbs 4:23 says, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.”

The Lord's not going to tell us to keep our hearts with all diligence if that can't be done.

It can be done, and the Lord will help us to do so.

Another scripture says we should, “Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” (2 Cor 10:5)

___James chapter 1

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.

2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,

3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.

4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,

10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.

11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.

16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.

17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.

18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.

21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,

24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

___James chapter 2

1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,

3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"

4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?

5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

6 But you have despised the poor. Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?

7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?

8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,

9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.

10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill." Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.

12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.

13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.

14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works? Can faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,

16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?

17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.

18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."

19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.

20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?

22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?

23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."

24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

___James chapter 3

1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.

2 For in many things we offend all. If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.

4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.

5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how great a matter a little fire kindles!

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.

7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,

8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be.

11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries? Or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.

14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.

15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.

___James chapter 4

1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?

2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.

3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.

5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"

6 But he gives more grace. So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.

11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers. He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?

13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"

14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."

16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

___James chapter 5

1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.

3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You've heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.

5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.

6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.

8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.

9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.

10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

11 See, we count them happy that endure. You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.

13 Is anyone among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is anyone merry? Let him sing psalms.

14 Is anyone sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.

16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.

17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,

20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.