It’s the full story of life crushed into four minutes The entirety of humanity in the palm of your hand crushed into one sentence Listen, it’s intense, right? GOD. OUR. SINS. PAYING. EVERYONE. LIFE. The greatest story ever told that’s hardly ever told GOD. Yes, GOD. The maker and giver of life, and by life I mean any and all manner of substance Seen and unseen; what can and can’t be touched Thoughts, image, emotions; Love, atoms and oceans GOD All of which His handiwork, one of which His masterpiece Made so uniquely that angels looked curiously The one thing in creation that was made in His imagery A concept so cold it’s the reason I stay bold That GOD breathed into man and he became a living soul Formed with the intent of being infinitely, intimately fond Creator and creation held in eternal bond And it was placed in perfect paradise until something went wrong The species got deceived and started lusting for His job An odd list of complaints, as if the system ain’t working And used that same breath He graciously gave us to curse Him And that sin seed spread through our souls’ genome And by nature of your nature, your species, you participated in the mutiny OUR Yes, our sins. It’s nature-inherited. Blackened the human heart. It was over before it started. Deceived from day one and led away by our own lust There’s not a religion in the world that doesn’t agree that something’s wrong with us The question is what is it? And how do we fix it? Are we eternally separated from a God that may or may not have existed? But that’s another subject. Let’s keep grinding. Besides, trying to prove God is like defending a lion. Homie, it don’t need your help. Just unlock the cage. Let’s move on on how our debt can be paid. Short and sweet: the problem is SIN Yes, sin. It’s a cancer, an asthma, choking out our life force Forcing separation from a perfect and holy GOD And the only way to get back is to get back to perfection But silly us…trying to pass the course of life without referring to a syllabus This is us: heap up your good deeds, chant, pray, meditate But all of that, of course, is spraying cologne on a corpse Or you could choose to ignore it, as if something don’t stink It’s like stepping in dog poop and refusing to wipe your shoe But all of that ends with, “How good is good enough?” Take your silly list of good deeds and line them up against perfection Good luck That’s life past your pay grade The cost of your soul? You ain’t got a big enough piggy bank But you could give it a shot? But I suggest you throw away the list Because even your good acts are an extension of your selfishness But here’s where it gets interesting I hope you’re closely listening Please don’t get it twisted. It’s what makes our faith unique. Here’s what God says is Part A of the Gospel: You can’t fix yourself. Quit trying. It’s impossible. Sin brings death. Give GOD His breath back. You owe Him! Eternally separated and the only way to fix it is someone die in your place And that someone’s got to be PERFECT or the payment ain’t permanent So if and when you find a perfect person, get that person To literally trade their perfection for your sin and death in Clearly, since the only one who can meet God’s criteria is GOD GOD sent Himself as JESUS to pay the cost for us His righteousness, His death, functions as PAYMENT Yes, payment. Wrote a check with His life But at the Resurrection we all cheered, cause that means the CHECK CLEARED! Pierced feet, pierced hands, blood-stained Son of Man Fullness, forgiveness, free passage into the Promised Land That same breath GOD breathed into us GOD gave up to redeem us And anyone and everyone, and by everyone I mean EVERYONE Who puts their faith and trust in Him, and Him alone Can stand in full confidence of GOD’s forgiveness And here’s what the promise is: That you are guaranteed full access to return to perfect unity By simply believing in CHRIST and CHRIST alone You are receiving LIFE Yes, life. This is the GOSPEL GOD. OUR. SINS. PAYING. EVERYONE. LIFE.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 02:19:05 +0000
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