Sing a New Song

Katie, you need to come see me afterwards. Okay. Um, but I want you to turn in your Bibles to Psalm 33. Um, I am very, we're very privileged. My wife will tell you the same thing. Very privileged to be here. We love your church. Um, you're such a loving church. Um, this morning I talked about no murmuring and disputings and I don't really think you probably have a problem with it, but you could. And tonight we're going to talk about something. Um, I think it should be up on the overhead in just a second. We're going to talk about a new song. Um, how many of you feel like God wants you to sing a new song?

God wants you to sing a new song. And I'm kind of going to bring this up to you. Let go to Psalm 33 and we're going to read the and there's about four psalms we're going to look at. Then there's a proverb we're going to look at. So, we're going to stay in the Old Testament tonight. But it says in verse number three, it says, "Sing unto the sing unto him a new song. Play skillfully with a loud noise." It's interesting verse. And so, of course, I feel like David wrote this, but um as we look at this, I just want you to put yourself in a perspective of God wants you to sing a new song. Let's go ahead and have a word of prayer and we'll get right into it.

Lord, I thank you for this day. I thank you for the love that you share with us on a on a continual basis. I thank you for your word that it never turns void to us. And and Lord, I sure am thankful for who you are. And I'm thankful for what you do. And sometimes I might not understand what you're doing, but I I sure need to trust in you. And for that I'm thankful Lord Lord I sure do love you and just let us have a good time in your word and let us apply it in our lives in Jesus name. Amen. If you if you were to look up the word song in in the in the Bible song I've got these words really small.

Songs is there 74 times in the Bible. Um but it is found mostly in the book of proverb uh verse not proverbs but psalms in psalms is found 45 times in that word in the in the word and out of those 45 times 31 is a preface to the psalm it might say a song of asaf or a song of David so there's only 14 other times or 15 14 other times is in there and Six of those has a word in front of it saying a new song. And so I want to look at these and I want you to see what's going on with these and and and I want you to get the new song aspect of it because so many people rely on their past and they don't rely on their present.

I don't I don't really God doesn't really care what I did in my past. He's forgiven my sins. But he also wants me to sing a new song. He wants me to have something new every day. And sometimes we sometimes forget that. So let's look at this verse. And I want you to read verses 1-3 in Psalm 33. It says, "Rejoice in the Lord, oh you righteous, for praise is comely for the upright. Praise ye the Lord with harp. Sing unto him with the sultry and an instrument of 10 strings. Sing unto him a new song. Play skillfully with a loud noise." Now that's an interesting statement. How many of you ever had children that took an instrument and started playing their instrument?

I saw someone playing the violin today. It's a beautiful instrument, one of the most beautiful instruments. But when a child starts with the violin, you want to give them over to adoption until they get good and then they come home. Same way my my daughter's played the piano. Piano's okay, but you put in a clarinet, a trumpet, a trombone, those are rough instruments to play and it doesn't start out good, but when it's when it's practiced is one of the greatest instruments you'll ever hear. So when I read this verse, there's something that comes out to me and pops to me. It says, "Sing to a new him a new song.

Play skillfully with a loud noise." You know what that tells me. If God gave you a new song, he wants you to be confident in it. You're playing it loudly when you're a new person. And um I I was talking to this young man, this small young man that's um the the choir director. We were talking about voices and he said, "It's amazing. Some people don't sing loud. My people don't sing loud. If I have one guy out of my choir, it makes a big difference because he'll sing confident." And you know what? It brings confidence to everybody else. The Bible says, "Listen, we're supposed to sing with confidence."

So, let's say the word and I I've taught in school, high school. So, let's say the word confident. Confident. All right. So, let's go to the next one. The next one comes up on the screen. It should be Psalm chapter um 40:3. And here it is again. It says in 40:3 it says, "I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me and heard my cry. He brought me up out also out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings." Isn't that who we are? He brought us out of something that we were we were terrible. We were sinridden, but God brought us out of it.

And then he says this after he's done that. He says, "And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God. Many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the Lord." So the first one is confident. The second one is others. Others will see it. Um I've had a privilege of meeting a lot of different people in my ministry. I've I was I've been in ministry since um 92, youth pastor for 10 years, then I've been a pastor the rest of the time. But I've met some people that have changed my life. And it's changed my life in ways that I think, man, you're just an incredible individual. And God really changed you.

I have a personal friend that's evangelist. His name is Bruce Fry. And God really changed his life. He was playing an acoustical guitar in and he was trying to get big in Nashville. And when he got saved, he got his brother had prayed for him for over 20 years. when he got saved, he would not pick up his guitar for I think he said two to three years cuz all he could relate to is that guitar brought him in in a bad note. And so God gave him a new song and now he writes his own songs. He's one of my dear friends. I just love being around him. But look at what this verse says in verse number three.

It says, "Many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the Lord." That's why you've got to sing a new song. There's another one that's found in, and we're not going to look all six of them. We're going to look at four of them. But if you go to the next one, it is in Psalm 96:1. Psalm 96:1. Flip over to that one. And it says, "Oh, singing the Lord a new song. Sing unto the Lord." What's the next word? All. What? We did this in Sunday school. What does all mean? Give me a definition of all. Everyone. When it's talking about people, it's everyone. So, it's not saying that when I look over and I and I see Mark, it's not saying that he has to sing a new song, but Brennan does not have to sing a new song.

We all need to sing a new song. You say, "What are you talking about singing a new song?" Things are going to happen in your life. And God's going to try to teach you things along the way. And when he teaches you something, whether you like it or you don't like it, he is trying to teach you a new song. He's trying to show you that he is worthy of getting you through that that problem that that issue in your life. Can you imagine what people thought of when it came to a new song in their life? Here it's talking about not only um confidence and others. There's no exceptions to this. I've met people before that have said, "Oh, my grandfather was a preacher."

I don't care what your grandfather was. I didn't know. I don't know him. I'm talking to you. Well, my grandmother helped start a church. My great-grandmother, she was You just I don't care about that. I care about you and you should care about you. You should have a new song. So, let's repeat these and see if we can get the first one is what? Second one is what? And the third one is what? There's no exceptions to it. You just sang a song. Do you real Sometimes when we sing songs, I don't know if you pick the song on purpose. Did you pick all the songs on purpose or just randomly pick them? Do you realize what song you just sang?

Here's the words to it. This is my story. This is my song. He had no earthly idea that that would go correlating with what I was saying. But I'm telling you right now, God wants you to sing a new song. And sometimes we get so wrapped up in our well, I did this in the past and I did this in the past. I used to teach Sunday school, you know, when it comes to the the past, you can't change it. But you can change the present and the future, but you've got to have a new song because people are watching you. So, let's look at the last one. The last one is found in Psalms, and we're going to turn back a little bit more.

I think it's Psalm 149. Psalm 149. And here's what it says. Praise ye the Lord. singing to the Lord a new song and his praise in the what? Congregation of saints. So you want me to say this? What he's saying there is the people that should hear you sing the most in in your new song are the people that are in here. I'm telling you, there's people in this room that are going through things you'll never know. And if you don't sing your new song, give testimony what God's given. You might be the only new song they hear. Okay. Proverbs 35 and 6. Everybody knows it. Trust in the Lord, right? Easy to do.

Not really. Because he gives you the example right behind it. What's the next one? And lean not to thy own understanding. How many people we have in here when something happens, you're trying to figure out why it happened? And sometimes you're never going to know why it happened. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart. Lean not into thine own understanding. And the next one says, "In all thy ways acknowledge him." See, the first, and I was sharing this with somebody yesterday, the first three are my my points that I need to do. I've got to trust in him with my whole heart, and that's hard to do.

I've got to lean onto my own understanding because I don't know everything, but I'm going to try to figure it out. I have How many can work on a car in here? All right. I can't if my car doesn't run. I have I have people in my church I'll call instantly. I've got them on speed dial. My car won't start. and they'll tell me things and I think they're making up words as they're telling me what the parts are that I need. Um, there is no what uh blinker fluid does not exist. And so they'll tell you all these different things. I don't understand them, but I can call someone that might might understand it.

And so when you go through something, you can share what you've went through to be an encouragement to other people. It doesn't mean it's going to be easy, but you got to trust in something. You can trust in yourself or you can trust in God. It's your choice. So, the last one is no no exception. If they put it up, it'll say this. It'll say the saints. The saints are the ones that need to hear it. So, we have let's say all four of them together. Confidence, others, no exceptions, and saints. You all should share your your blessings. And I feel like you do. when I when when the conference was over, I had the privilege of working in the kitchen and I got to sample a lot of stuff and um and I sampled things when she wasn't looking at me and so and we go through all that and and but I saw something that was very interesting.

I saw people that were getting off work and getting done with their stuff and they were coming here to help clean up. They'll never get a glory for it. They they knew where all the mops were. They knew where everything was and they were going to clean. And I thought that's incredible. My church does that. And it's a blessing to the pastor with that. So if God wants you to sing a new song, he's going to put things in your life to make you sing a new song. But what about this? What about these people? There's going to be What about these people? Put these four guys up. You tell me that they had a new song.

Look at them. The first one is Joseph. What was his new song? Everywhere I go, I rise up in rank and guess what? I get punished for it. Have you ever had that happen? You know what most people do? It's not worth it. Do you realize he was sold into slavery and I think it was 37 years that he saw his brother and when he saw his brothers, I don't know what I would have done. Well, kind of I knew know what I would have done. I would have said, you know, I told you the dream that you were going to bow down. you might as well bow down and I'll give you some food. But that's not what he did. In fact, when I when I read his story, I am amazed that he when he sees his brother, he goes into another room and he cries.

These guys these guys were going to be there and they were going to hurt him. They wanted to kill him. What about the next one? Job. You know, you can do a a little test run on this if you read the first chapter of Job. And it says, "And while he was yet speaking, another servant came in." You can time it. And he lost everything in his mind in about 2 to three minutes. Everything. The loss of his children. I can't even imagine all the wealth that he had. He have a song. He absolutely did. He had a new song. And God taught him at the very end of Job. Guess what? God blessed him. What about the next one coming up?

David was anointed king, but yet he wasn't king. The king that he was going to take the place of, guess what? Wanted to kill him. And you all know the story, but David had a bunch. He had a bunch of new songs he sang. Most of the psalms are written by him. And if you read the Psalms, when when I'm having a bad day, I read a psalm and you don't read it halfway through because what's going to happen in mo most psalms is you're going to read it's going to look good. Then all of a sudden he's going to tell you something bad in it. And if you stop there, you're in trouble. Read the very end and understand the very end's going to tell you what he learned from it.

So you know he had what about the next one? Noah. How many of you I know we're in Hawaii now. How many of you ever had the privilege of going to Kentucky and seeing the ark? Raise your hand. Has anybody seen the ark? When you see the ark, you are totally amazed that he did that without a Lowe's, Home Depot, or power tools. Now, I want to tell you, if God told me to build an end table, I'd be scared to death. I know where to buy an end table, but I can't build an end table. But when you see the ark and you look, if you if you can, you can go to the bottom and just look all the way through it, you go, "Oh my word."

Do you not think he had a song? I want to tell you, he he was probably riddled with splinters, blisters, back hurt. I can't imagine what he went through. But when God brought the rain, he got on the boat, the boat, the rain stopped, and he got off the boat. I want to tell you, he had a song to sing. Didn't mean his song was easy. It just meant his song, he had a song to sing. And and as I look at this, I think the next statement says this. Who wants you to sing your new song? Think that through. Who wants you to sing that new song? Who wants you not to sing that new song? We both know who they are.

Who wants us to sing a new song? The first one is what? God wants you to sing a new song. You're either going to trust him or you're not. Who doesn't want you to sing a new song? Satan doesn't want you to sing a new song. And there's many different reasons. There's many different reasons that he doesn't want you to sing that new song. But you've got to you got to go in your heart and go, "Okay, I'm going to do what God wants me to do. I'm going to trust in him when I can't see in front of me." I remember a story in Florida where the I don't know if you remember this, many years ago, there was a bridge that had get gotten hit by a boat.

It was in a deep fog and there was one person that got out and was waving people to stop and they all thought he was crazy. Drove around him and many plunged to their death cuz he knew what was in front of him but they couldn't see it. And that's sometimes our life. We can't see what God has for us. And God can do anything he wants. He's God. And when we try to figure out who God is, that's when we're in trouble. Would you ever think that you How many of you like to garden? Anybody like to garden? Mess with plants. Have you ever went to your garden and saw your bush and started talking to it? Please don't raise your hand and say yes.

How many of you like animals? I love animals. I I I have a bunch of dogs, some puppies and all that. And so, you know, if my puppies talk back to me, I'd be pretty concerned about it. Do you realize God made a bush talk and he made a donkey talk? That's just not what I would ever If your animals are speaking to you, you need to come see me after the service. And please don't sign that line that you want to join the church if your animals are talking to you. You don't know my animals. If you have a parrot, that's a different story. But you know, I look at these and I think, man, we've got a lot of things in our lives that God teaches us.

We Joseph, um, Job, David, Noah, they all had these different things and and God wants us to have it. And Satan doesn't want us to have it. So, I'm going to tell you my story. I think it's going to come up here. My story. I was here seven years ago, and I don't want it to be all about me, and I do not want your sympathy with this. I kind of shared it with the Sunday school class, and I've shared it with a couple people in here. It seven years ago, I was here. And, you know, life can change really quick. And God gives you a song. And I'll be honest with you, sometimes you don't want to sing that song.

Sometimes it feels like that, if you're a music person, sometimes it feels like the harmony's a little bit off or the melody's a little bit off or the timing is a little bit off or you're in the wrong key. I had one person come up and and in our church in North Carolina said they could sing. And if that's the case, you better check before they get up and sing in front of people because this lady could not sing in the right key. But she thought she could. Her singing was sometimes like my life. Five years ago, COVID hit. You've ever ever heard of that? CO. Um, and I live in a in a state that was pretty calm about it.

I had a respiratory problem and so I went into the doctors and the doctors gave me respiratory medicine. I went in the second time, the same place, they gave me respiratory. I'm going to tell you this story really fast. I told my wife, I said, "I can't breathe. I need to go get this done." It was a respiratory problem I knew. And the third time I said, "We're going to go to a different one and see what they do." They they brought me in. They took an X-ray of my chest. And I've never seen this before in my life. Um, the doctor came jogging back into the room pretty pretty quickly and he handed me an envelope and he said, "You need to take this envelope to the hospital.

You don't need to stop and pay your bill. You do not need to stop to your house. Go to the hospital." Can I honestly say this to you? when I when the there was probably a month in there that I wasn't sleeping well. I' I'd have to sit up and sleep and felt like there was a bag over my head. I never w thought when I woke up that morning that a doctor would be I've never seen a doctor run but he was running in here, gave it to me and I went and we drove right to the hospital. They looked at it, put me in the emergency room real quick and it was the height of COVID. They put me up in the CO room. Um they they said I had congestive heart failure.

I'd never had any heart problems before in my life. And um I'll be honest with you, when you're up there and no one can come up and visit you, I think they were sharing that a little bit this morning in the med message. The only one I could talk to were my nurses. Wasn't a song I wanted to sing. Um they gave me something called a life vest. I don't know if you know what that is. And I Sometimes when they give you things, you shouldn't ask what they are. It's an external defibrill. And I said, "Well, I've never seen one of these." He said, "Because we give them to older people and when they usually have them, they die pretty quick."

I was like, "That is not the right thing to say to a patient." I've had two heart surgeries. Um, one surgery was supposed to be a two-hour surgery. It ended up being a nine-hour surgery. And before I went in, they said 5% of the people cannot have this done. I was one of the 5%. They had to come back later and do my pacemaker defi. I had to run it through my um rib cage, open up my rib cage three inches, put it in there, and that affected a lot. I had a heart catheter, and I'm going to tell you the heart catheter story in two minutes, and you got to listen to me. And all this happened. Ever had one of those bad days.

The heart catheter uh surgery was the easiest one. And you say, "Why are you sharing this with me?" Because I'm telling you, you don't know what people are going through. You don't know what they're feeling. You don't know what they're heading into. Can I say this to you? As my wife uses her his her past history of what happened to her when she was a child, I get to use this and I've talked to people with pacemakers. And when you go in the pacemaker, How many in here have a pacemaker? Anybody have a pacemaker? Okay, pacemakers are very rare. And defiills are even worse. When you tell a nurse you have a defiill, they'll look at you like, "Oh, you must be really bad."

So, I went in for my heart calf and they did uh they did actually a I'm going to say this real quick. Okay. They had a artery and a and a vein. They did both of them. They don't usually do that. They go through your groin. They go all the way up. And and so I went in there and the first thing they did is, and again, I'm going to say this really fast, so listen fast. The first lady comes in and shaves my left arm. And I'm sitting there going, "Okay, what are you doing?" She said, "We're going to put our IV in." And the second lady comes in, a different lady, and puts a IV in my right arm. And I looked at her, I said, "They just shaved this arm.

Why are you putting a Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't notice that." And so she walks back and she starts working. And I said I said, "I need to go to the restroom. can you can you do I need to wheel this in there and she said no I'm going to take it off so that you can go to the restroom and you won't have to carry your little IV with you and I was like okay that's good and so she undoes it and I start walking and I look at her and her eyes get really big and I was like what's going on and she said I I I unhooked the wrong spot I looked back and I was in a horror movie and it was my horror and so that she said we'll clean it up.

I said I don't care about cleaning up just fix this thing where it's not doing this anymore. So, I get in the surgery and and it's one of those surgeries where you're kind of awake, kind of asleep. And I wake up and this machine is pushing my face and I told the doctor, I said, "Is that is that normal?" And he goes, "Oh, I'm sorry. It's malfunction." So, they put it back up. This is all in one surgery. And so, they they they push it back. It goes out. This is not the worst case yet. So, anyway, um so then I get to the recovery room and what they do is they put 10 minutes on your they pull your artery one out.

They put 10 minutes pressure on. They put another 10 minutes on your vein and artery. So, it's 20 minutes or 10 minutes. So, this lady comes in and she says, "This is a new nurse. She's been here. She's a nurse that's been a nurse before." But this is her first time doing this and I'm going to be here watching her. Well, she's back at the machine and all of a sudden she pulls it off and I can feel it and she's putting pressure on it and all of a sudden this lady goes, "I I need some help over here." And before the nurse could get up there, the lady that's pushing the pressure on my artery passes out.

I catch her before she headbutts me. And I said, "I think you need to help her." And so the nurse jumps up, pushes her to my feet, but she pushes her too far. She falls off the bed, hits her head on the bed, and hits her head on the floor, and her head slides under the curtain, and her body is laying there. The nurse jumps down, starts barking orders to this lady and goes, "Okay, okay, okay." And tells other people and they're trying to figure out what's going. She's unconscious. Then I look at the nurse. The nurse looks back at me and her eyes are as big as saucers and she's like, "Oh no." And she jumped up and started putting on my artery that was wide open.

She puts pressure on it, stops the bleeding. They start telling me a playbyplay of what's going on. This girl gets a concussion. And so I've got so much on me that they finally get stopped bleeding. They and they put me in another gurnie and they're apologizing apologizing and I get a new nurse. And I said to her, I said, "My legs really hurt right now." And she said I said, "Can I get another gurnie?" And she said, "You don't need another gurnie, sir." I said, "Well, something's wrong with this gurnie." She said, "There's nothing wrong with your gurnie." She walked off. My wife was in the room.

She walks up to the gurnie, takes a picture, and she says, "I know what's wrong with your gurnie." And she holds up the picture. On the picture, it says, "Pediatrics do not remove. I'm 6'4 in a pediatric thing, and they don't know I'm in the wrong one." I had people going, "You need to sue them." I said, "No, I'm just thankful I'm alive." Can I tell you when I woke up that morning, I just thought it was going to be an And they told me, "This is the easiest surgery you're going to have." I was like, I never knew that was going to happen. And can I tell you this? It's hard sometimes to sing a song when you're all by yourself.

And I remember I've told my church this. I remember going through the doors of the emergency room three times. And three times I wanted to hold the doors and say, "I don't want to do this." But there's a point where you you got to put your hands down and say, "I'm going to trust in you." You go into surgery and these young doctors are talking about what they watched on TV and what they're going to watch. I remember one time going, "Would you take this serious? I could die from this." If you know anything about hearts, I have an EF that's low. Ejection fraction, yours pops out 55 to 80% of your blood.

Mine is at 20 to 40%. Whatever, whatever it does. I want to tell you something. But when I woke up that morning when I went and got that X-ray, I never thought for a second that I was going to go through all that. And God can put things in your life to make you different. And he will. So, I've got to either accept it or I've got to understand that God has something for me. So, here my wife's reading the and you know, I told you she's a good preacher. She's reading a verse and she said, "You know, pastor, you know, honey, this should be your life verse. Can you put it up? There are many devices in a man's heart.

And I was like, "Yeah, I've got a threewire pacemaker defibrillator." And just to show you a little bit, they didn't even set it right for the first three years. Now it's all set right. 96% of the time, my heart beats once a once a a minute, it does its own beat. I never had a heart condition. I never knew what was going to happen. But let me show you some devices that God that God doesn't want in your life. And and it should come up on the next screen. Here's some devices that God doesn't want in your heart. Here's your heart. And here's your devices. Let me show you some stuff really quick. These are some devices that Satan will put in your heart to make you where you won't sing a new song.

He doesn't have to stop you from singing a new song. He just has to have you be mute. And some of these you'll go, "Well, that went up there. That doesn't make any sense." Let's look at these. Money. People put a device in their heart and say, "Listen, I'm I'm going to search after money." It won't bring you happiness. It won't. Travel, guilt, family, anger, hobbies. People have hobbies and then all of a sudden they don't have time for God. I love to golf. I can't golf that much now with the third wire. So, I can golf nine holes, but you know, I don't golf that much. It's not important to me anymore.

I'd rather spend time at home. I'd rather spend time with my wife, my kids. Hobbies, fame, sports, sorrow. And you say, "Well, that one up there is happiness." You know what Satan will do? He'll make you so happy that it'll be a device in your heart that you won't want to go to church. Well, it's too sunny to go to church. It's too cold to go to church. It's raining. I can't go to church. It's amazing to me when as a pastor when you they say it's raining I can't go to church and yet they'll sit in a football game for four hours and watch the game in snow. Last year there was a football game in the pros that people got frostbitten because they were at the I think it was Buffalo Bills game and they got frostbitten had some of their toes cut off and we can't go to church sometimes and I'm not talking about the ones in here.

You guys are the faithful ones. But I'm telling you right now, God will use all these devices to mess with you. Not God will. Satan will. And he'll give these little things and they'll get in there and then all of a sudden you will not be doing what you need to do. And so as we look at this is can can you go to the next one? Okay. There are many devices in a heart in a man's heart. How many of you believe that's true? And Satan wants you to have them. You got to you've got to guard against them. See, now I know all about cardiology and stuff like that. I don't know everything, but I sure do know a lot.

You would have asked me six years ago, I wouldn't have known anything. When someone gets a pacemaker, the people in our church will say, "Hey, can you talk to them?" There's some things they do not know that the doctors normally do not tell them. But I could sit there and go, "No, let them find out themselves." Or, "No, I could tell them, you know, here's my experience." I don't tell them the big experience. I just tell them, "It's going to be okay. It's going to be okay." The first time they raise my rate on my heart, they said they were going to raise it for 60 uh 70 and and it was at 60. And I said, "Okay, I'll come into the office and do it."

And she said, "No, no, no, no, no, no. Where are you at?" I said, "I'm in my living room." She said, "Sit down." And all of a sudden, I felt a lot more energy. She had raised it through the internet, through the Wi-Fi in my house. And you know, instantly what I thought is she can do it. Can somebody else do it? Can this be hacked? I want to tell you something. Some things I did not know. But when I look at this, there are many devices in a man heart. If you can go to the next one. Nevertheless, this is what it says. Look at this verse. Nevertheless, the council of the Lord that shall stand. Nevertheless, what how we might say it is in spite of.

So if you read this verse says there are many devices in a man's heart. In spite of that the council of the Lord that shall stand. So, what does that tell me? If I want to sing a new song, here's what I got to do. I've got to seek the counsel of the Lord. And how do I do that? You can keep going through the slides. It'll it'll pull something up. All these need to disappear a little bit, fade off. Look at your look at your heart. And then the next one says this. Through God's word and his direction, I don't want your sympathy. I don't want what and it's changed my life and it's not a song that I wanted to sing.

Sometimes I feel like some medicine I'm I'm not on the right beat with this and I'm not in the melody that I need to be with the Lord and I'm not singing the harmonies not coming out and you sit there and go what am I going to do? But then I got to revert back to this and I've got to figure out why God did what he did and I I might not ever figure that out. I watch people and and I see some of the things they eat and and they're so unhealthy and I think, "Why, God, did you do this to me?" Now, if you were with me yesterday, I ate a lot of unhealthy things. But anyway, you know, I I sit there and go, "Why did you do this to me?"

But there's other people out there. Watch. Go to the next one. We need to sing a new song. And you know why you need to sing a new song? Look at the next one. Because you got to do it with confidence. You got to understand when you go through something, others are affected by it. There are no exceptions. And you should be sharing with the people in this room. If you've had some experience happen to you, can I tell you this? God's teaching you along the way, and you're going to be able to help other people. I don't know much about a lot of stuff, but I know God wants me to be an encouragement. I went and I was just at the hospital just recently and I was talking to a lady and she was in the getting her pace.

She had just got her pacemaker and I was telling her some things that she did not know and and of course the doctors do tell her things but they don't understand if they've never had one. And I was just sitting there talking to her and right when I walked in the room when I saw her I just showed her my little scar and she goes, "Oh, okay." And we started talking for about 20 30 minutes. And God allowed me to talk to her about the Lord's being in charge. Her brother goes to my church. She doesn't go to church anywhere. And God used it for me to be able to talk to her and share a witness because of what I went through.

I would have never chosen this song. I would have never chosen this song, but God chose me to sing this song. Like tomorrow is a big day for me. We're going to go sightseeing and don't tell anybody, but I wear those old people's socks. And sometimes I don't want people to see my old people socks. And so tomorrow I'm going to go without my old people socks for a little bit. And I know I'll pay the price. You say, "Well, that's just pride." It might be. But when I see people with old people socks that go all the way up to here, like mine, compression socks, I go, I'm not at that age yet. I got about five more years before I can work.

I don't care what my neighbors think, but I do care what people I don't know think. So, in our lives, I I would have never worn these. I have to sit down a lot. I have to raise my feet up. My medicine, as I shared with you this morning in my Sunday school class, it does weird things to me. I never wanted this song, but God's given me this song and I have to sing it. You say, "Do you talk about it a lot?" Yes, I do because it it it's who I am. Now, I will tell you and on on a on a slider note, if I don't want to do something, I have a good excuse. If you were to ask my church what I'll say to them, I can't do that because I have a bad heart.

And then they'll say, "But your pacemaker makes you have a good heart." I don't know what you're going through in life, but I can tell you this that God wants you to sing a song. And all Satan wants me to be is become bitter. If it wasn't for my sense of humor, I don't know where I would be. I want to show you three points to ponder with this. There's three points I want you to think about. Number one, you can go ahead and put them all up. Number one, what's the reason for your new song? Psalm 149:1 and2 tells you the reason. He wants you to sing it. And then the second one is what are some devices?

What devices are good or bad for your for your new song? Psalm one, Proverbs 19 20 and 21A. And the last question is this. What keeps a new song in your life? Proverbs 19:21b through 23. These are the three thoughts I want you to get. I thank God for the path he sent me. But I can tell you this, I would have never chosen the songs that he wants me to sing. And I'm I I say this to you, too, that there's people alongside of you, maybe in your pew that just need to be encouraged by your smile, by your high, aloha, whatever you want to say. We don't say that in Tennessee. If I went to everybody and said aloha, they would they would look at me like, you're crazy.

But I want to thank you for what you've done, and you've been an encouragement to me and my wife. But I also want to say this to you. Be careful when you go through a problem that you quit singing. I watch people that don't sing in my church. And there's always people that don't sing. Well, I can't make a joyful noise. You can make a noise. Move your lips where I see you singing it. Because if they're not singing a song in congregation, they're probably not going to sing a song in their heart. watch the devices that you put in and understand the verse that I said the word of word of God will be your counsel. Lord, I thank you for this day.