One Man


 

Today I’m going to share with you words from another author, Shai Linne. These are his lyrics from the song, “Active Obedience” release on the album Lyrical Theology Part 1: Theology.

Active Obedience

(hook)

Jesus, there's nothing greater God could give for us

But before He gave His life, He lived for us 

It’s one of salvation's massive ingredients

The Lord Jesus Christ and His active obedience (repeat)

 

Verse 1

Yeah, Matthew 3:1-15

Scene 1 of our story takes place at the Jordan River

John the Baptist proclaiming that the LORD delivers

As He shares truth in each and every sentence 

He's telling them to bear fruit in keeping with repentance

This God you can't handle, man, turn from your scandals

There's one coming: I'm not worthy to hold His sandals

When John saw Him, his mind was straight in a whirlwind

Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin!

Jesus- John's heart was to magnify Him

The Lamb surprised Him when He told John to baptize Him

Did John lack eyes to see?

He replied, "Not to chastise, but you should be baptizing me"

What's enticing is how Christ replied to this

"We must do it to fulfill all righteousness" (yeah)

So now we focus on the works of Christ 

And how the law was fulfilled in His perfect life

 

Verse 2

We know today's generation can't stand lectures

We're trying to get your attention like hand gestures

The truth is close  like London is to Manchester

To understand better, consider our ancestor

Adam- it took place in the garden of Eden

Y'all know the story- how Satan was talking to Eve then

The snake had her all deceived then she ate & he ate

God had decreed that that would make all of us heathens

Romans 5:12 really got my dome spinning 

Adam's descendants didn't die for their own sinning

But here's the thing that you must pay attention to

Although you weren't there, Adam represented you

Now God is free, He doesn't need an apology

For those who struggle though, I'll make a quick analogy

Think logically before you criticize 

One player commits a foul,  the whole team gets penalized 

We were in need of another representative 

To live the perfect life that none of us could ever live

Cause if we're gonna be freed from our distress

Both sides of the situation need to be addressed

We need a substitute in our place to to be killed

Plus we need the broken law to be obeyed and fulfilled 

And Jeremiah prophesied of this

That the LORD Himself would be our righteousness!

 

Chorus

 

Verse 3

Although we're born into an unholy environment 

A Holy God can never lower His requirement

You think God's accepting something less than perfection?

You must be living in a dream world like Inception 

Take refuge in Jesus, indeed , be safe

The righteousness of Christ is to be received by faith 

Alone- that's apart from the works of the law

Christ was murdered to reverse the curse of the fall

And so now astoundingly, Christ's righteous salary and Calvary counts for me

Praise the Living God for His amazing wisdom

We get credit for somebody else's work like plagiarism 

But He does it righteously for the worst of all heathens

Based on 33 years of perfect law-keeping 

Believing in Jesus has crazy perks

And I guess you can say we been saved by works- His!

 

Chorus

 

Here’s the Thing: This is often tough to rap (get it- wrap/rap- I crack me up!) your mind around, but it makes it no less true. One man ushered sin into the world and One Man paid the price for all of it. No one else could have done it for us. We certainly cannot do it for ourselves!

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