Cross Eyed Life December 30, 2009
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The Glory of God December 25, 2009
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The Sinfulness of Sin December 22, 2009
Posted by brian in : Holy Hip Hop, lampmode , 3commentsVerse 1:
Sin is lawlessness, an awful mess of haughtiness/
Sin is not being in awe of His —Glory/
But degrading it and trading it for naughtiness/
Its treating God as piss/
Its disregarding that He exists as Sovereign/
Its more sickening than kissing harlots lips/
Whose breath stinks worse than garbage mixed/
With the rawest fish after she gargles spit/
Sins an awful virus that wants your iris/
Clogs your sinus, gives you thoughts of violence/
Woe to those who think its not inside us/
Your heart despises the awesome Highness/
Gross scum, sin is so loathsome/
And its shown most by the propitiation of His own Son/
Who so hung and choke both lungs/
Its odor to Jehovah its worse than smoked dung/
I pray this makes you vomit your whole inners/
To display how abominable sin is/
To the honorable God whos my witness/
If we take sin lightly, lets go to the cross to convince us/
Where He slaughtered the sinless/
Infinitely valuable Son who paid an infinite cost for forgiveness/
Cause thats the only way the infinitely holy Yahweh can take us off of His hit list.
Hook:
Sin is any thought thats not morally pure/
Sin is loving anything else more than the Lord/
Sin is breaking His laws, forsaking His commandments/
Sin is hatred for God, its blatantly Satanic
Verse 2:
Sins idolatry and serving yourself/
Its hating Gods riches and worshipping wealth/
Sin is substituting other ugly doings/
For God the Son whos the lovely true King/
Sin is taking His glory and stomping, trampling on it/
Often were mocking dancing upon it/
Sin is not enjoying whats most glorious/
Namely the Lord so of course Hes abhorring this/
Its not valuing whats most valuable/
Namely the Hallowed King whos so powerful/
Sin is not thanking God, its ingratitude/
For this grim attitude, His wrath is due/
And every time we err or a lie is blurred/
The Bible says that weve despised His Word/
Its not just sexual sin detested by Him/
But any expression of enmity manifested within/
From silent pride to violent eyes/
to the finest thighs we idolize/
Or the wisest guys who privatize bribes they hide/
Its all despised in the Messiahs eyes/
Youre too pure to look at evil of crooked people/
Who took cathedrals and made them crooks casinos/
Its Gods most despicable enemy/
Sin would be the grossest sight if it were a physical entity.
Hook:
Verse 3:
See unbelievers are really dung retrievers/
Chasing after feces son come to Jesus/
The Only One who cleans us/
From our ugly fungus and hundreds of tons of diseases/
All humans are professional sinners/
Were all born with this detestable sickness/
Our best deeds are the grimiest funk/
Theyre menstral pads at that time of the month/
This deep corruption should seem disgusting/
If not youre guaranteed to see destruction/
Admit your bent on being mischievous/
So kid repent of evil wickedness/
But in a sense when a Christian sins/
Its more sickening than sins of wicked men/(Why?)
Cause weve tasted His goodness as recipients of grace/
So every time we inn its like were spitting His face/
If Christians are no longer trapped in its bondage/
Then why as dogs do we go back to our vomit?/
How dare us believers not cherish this Jesus/
And instead indulge in sin its scary to see this/
Until we make Christ our treasured King/
And see His worth above everything/
We wont recognize sins evil nature/
Or appreciate our bleeding grieving Savior/
My point is this-Sin is so wicked/
But we dismissed this cause were so distant/
From the Lords glorious light/
Its not til were in it that well see sins horrible sight (right)/
But perhaps the greatest mystery/
Is that the Holy One Himself became iniquity/
And suffered infinite pain and misery/
To give us saving grace and make us sinners free.
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You Have the Words of Eternal Life December 21, 2009
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The Abiding of the Spirit the Glory of the Church December 21, 2009
Posted by brian in : Spurgeon , add a comment“Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work: for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts: according to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.”—Haggai 2:4-5.
SATAN is always doing his utmost to stay the work of God. He hindered these Jews from building the temple; and to-day he endeavours to hinder the people of God from spreading the gospel. A spiritual temple is to be builded for the Most High, and if by any means the evil one can delay its uprising he will stick at nothing: if he can take us off from working with faith and courage for the glory of God he will be sure to do it. He is very cunning, and knows how to change his argument and yet keep to his design: little cares he how he works, so long as he can hurt the cause of God. In the case of the Jewish people on their return from captivity he sought to prevent the building of the temple by making them selfish and worldly, so that every many was eager to build his own house, and cared nothing for the house of the Lord. Each family pleaded its own urgent needs. In returning to a long-deserted and neglected land, much had to be done to make up for lost time; and to provide suitably for itself every family needed all its exertions. They carried this thrift and self-providing to a great extreme, and secured for themselves luxuries, while the foundations of the temple which had been laid years before remained as they were, or became still more thickly covered up with rubbish. The people could not be made to bestir themelves to build a house of God, for they answered to every exhortation, “The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built.” A more convenient season was always looming in the future, but it never came. Just now it was too hot, further it was too cold; at one time the wet season was just setting in, and it was of no use to begin, and soon the fair weather required that they should be in their own fields. Like some in our day, they saw to themselves first, and God’s turn was very long in coming; hence the prophet cried, “Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?”
By the mouth of His servant Haggai stern rebukes were uttered, and the whole people were aroused. We read in verse twelve of the first chapter, “Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the Lord.” All hands were put to the work; course after course of stone began to rise; and then another stumbling-block was thrown in the way of the workers. The older folks remarked that this was a very small affair compared with the temple of Solomon, of which their fathers had told them; in fact, their rising building was nothing at all, and not worthy to be called a temple. The prophet describes the feeling in the verse which precedes our text. “Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?” Feeling that their work would be very poor and insignificant, the people had little heart to go on. Being discouraged by the humiliating contrast, they began to be slack; and as they were quite willing to accept any excuse, and here was an excuse ready made for them, they would soon have been at a standstill had not the prophet met the wiles of the arch-enemy with another word from the Lord. Nothing so confounds the evil one as the voice of the Eternal. Our Lord Himself defeated Satan by the word of the Lord; and the prophet Haggai did the same. The subtle craft of the enemy is defeated by the wisdom of the Most High, which reveals itself in plain words of honest statement. The Lord cuts the knots which bind His people, and sets them at liberty to do His will. He did this by assuring them that He was with them. Twice the voice was heard—”I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts.” They were also assured that what they builded was accepted, and that the Lord meant to fill the new house with glory; yea, He meant to light it up with a glory greater than that which honoured the temple of Solomon. They were not spending their strength for nought, but were labouring with divine help and favour. Thus they were encouraged to put their shoulders to the work: the walls rose in due order, and God was glorified in the building up of His Zion.
The present times are, in many respects, similar to those of Haggai. History certainly repeats itself within the church of God as well as outside of it; and therefore the messages of God need to be repeated also. The words of some almost-forgotten prophet may be re-delivered by the watchman of the Lord in these present days, and be a timely word for the present emergency. We are not free from the worldliness which puts self first and God nowhere, else our various enterprises would be more abundantly supplied with the silver and the gold which are the Lord’s, but which even professing Christians reserve for themselves. When this selfish greed is conquered, then comes in a timorous depression. Among those who have escaped from worldliness there is apt to be too much despondency, and men labour feebly as for a cause which is doomed to failure. This last evil must be cured. I pray that our text may this morning flame from the Lord’s own mouth with all the fire which once blazed about it. May faint hearts be encouraged and drowsy spirits be aroused, as we hear the Lord say, “My spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.”
I shall enter fully upon the subject, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit, by calling your attention to discouragement forbidden. Then I shall speak of encouragement imparted; and, having done so, I shall linger with this blessed text, which overflows with comfort, and shall speak, in the third place, of encouragement further applied. Oh that our Lord, who knows how to speak a word in season to him that is weary, may cheer the hearts of seekers by what shall be spoken under this last head of discourse!
