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It's been almost exactly 4 weeks since I gave
my last message during our last service at the church my wife and I served for
the past 5 and a half years. Since then I've had several people ask for
the lyrics to the spoken word piece I shared at the end of it. I'm
providing it here for anyone who's interested.
There is also a link at the bottom of this
post that includes the spoken word piece with the music I made that inspired
it. Enjoy!
So many of us here are not present
Presently appearing, but incapable of hearing
because we spend so much time trapped in our own heads … in our own thoughts … in
our own little worlds and realities that it’s difficult to retain the truth and
receive the Holy Spirit who breathes life into our spiritually dead bodies and
is the power that sustains … Let me explain.
Sin’s stain had us marked for death, but our
eyes are so blind that we don’t realize it.
We search for happiness in, people, places, and things, but never seem
to find it.
We live our lives following our own path,
passionately pursuing death
trying to make a name for ourselves all the
while denying the God who knew our name before we even took our first breath.
See, there’s life for us to be livin’
But won’t know it ‘til we know the Love that
has been given
And when we give up our life and receive Christ
inside of us
We can stand before our Heavenly Father
forgiven.
We’re so busy fighting the failures and
fighting to forget the failures that keep finding us.
And they continually creep in reminding us of
where we’ve gone wrong.
And while the past shows its face to remind
us
We can punch that face with the truth that
the past no longer defines us.
‘Cause we’ve been purchased and the price was
the spilled blood of the sinless and spotless lamb
So at the end of the only life we’ve known we
can stand eternally justified in the presence of the Great I AM
See, we fight not FOR victory, but FROM the victory
that Christ conquered death to obtain
And those who remain in Christ are victorious
'Cause He gave His life for those who know their
past is notorious
Jesus did not come to condemn the world, but
to set us free …
Free from the past that would like to tie us
to a tree and beat us til we bleed.
But that blood - was already shed - That body
- already tied to a tree
That body - belonged to Jesus and He
willingly laid it down so we could see
How great is His Love … Grace … and Mercy
So those who love God and are called
according to His purpose
should never feel worthless.
Instead be confident that in all things He is
working for our good. Do you believe it?
If you answered, yes, then stop trying to so
hard to achieve it and live like you believe it because Jesus Christ suffered
so His children could receive it.
Jesus said on the cross that it’s finished
Live in the victory provided to us by the
blood of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is sinless.
He died and took up His life again and then
ascended to the right hand of the father
His rightful place of praise, glory, and
honor
Where every accusation of the enemy is defeated
once and forever
So that no past failure will ever define our
future ‘cause we know the author of creation
And He knows our name
And any of us who are called His children
will never be put to shame
We once stood guilty, but Jesus Christ took
the blame
So we can stand forgiven and our lives never the same
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