DIE 2 LIVE!
"I aint no writa, am jus a messenger!"Renee emcee of LVC
We’re trying to show them that for Christ we live Help ‘em understand for Christ we die Man the cost is high You gon’ say ya good byes
Cause part of you gon’ have to die Yeah, the cost is high.
Adopted from da Open Book Album
by a brotha in da faith-Da T.R.U.T.H.
The God man is come, I’m trying to help ‘em understand this thing
The God man is come, I’m trying to help ‘em understand this thing
How we lift Him up and stand for His standards man
He’s running this thing and if you wanna run with the King
Then it’s gon’ be some giving up of some things
For some who ain’t wit the Son it might sound like something insane
But for us who living it, we loving this thing
The Spirit tucked in our frames
His love flowing through the blood in our veins
Finishing the race pays off like we was running for change
Since we’ve been saved that’s our steelo
But it ain’t nothing in me bro
When they see me they call me crazy like I was Cee-Lo
He humbled us; put us under the One like we was zero
But we don’t flee, we gon’ seek to please Him
we gon leave, No No we live and die for the Father
Making disciples, recycling Christ—His light is inside us
Holla, we see the price that He was willing to pay
The true cost followed the Father even into the grave Yeeaaaa
Black tie, black suit welcome to my funeral 26 years in this life and I gotta few to go
Black tie, black suit welcome to my funeral 26 years in this life and I gotta few to go
Long as I live I’m a die, it’s unusual
Couple ways in which I die and I want you to know
I love Sean’s line, seen hot baby phat Won’t wear Sean John, won’t see that on my lady’s back
No I ain’t gon’ blind, won’t stare at a ladies back Side when she’s going by, rib like baby back
Yes sir I’m gon die like 1980’s rap
Older in the faith now, outgrown Baby Gap
But some of what I struggled wit is internal the kind of stuff that you only write in journals
The kind of stuff that’ll injure you
That’s why I got certain channels on my television blocked
Plus I let some friends go, got up out that fish bowl
Even though I hurt knee deep inside, man I know I gotta die
I know some, dudes that are Christians that produce for the wicked
And I know some musicians that use their gift in the church
But the same musicians that use their gift in the church
Produce and play for the wicked, but they call it work
And they try to justify and say that its just a job
But that’s the customized line, that they use to compromise
Just adjust the knob on your radio
Here we go, another song a saint produced Is producing lust and lies
It’s another side to the coin, I know you know where I’m going
This is bigger than trying to stay employed
And I’m so convinced that’s it’s more
Cause if these same producers were writers, they wouldn’t write for Playboy Oh boy,
I know I sound kinda stern
But if they majored in communications they wouldn’t work for Howard Stern
I know they’re more concerned about the dollars earned
Than they are God’s glory
I ain’t talking outta turn
When you help the same people that’s working against the Kingdom
You ain’t taking it back by force, you making matters worse
And they all try to get off by saying I ain’t the star
It’s like saying I ain’t robbed the bank man I just drove the car
You ain’t gotta shoot the ball to put points on the board
All you gotta do is pass to help the other team score
So even if you on the board you still guilty as charged
On that tour, by the way God didn’t open that door.
Epilogue
Following Jesus means dat we gotta make alota sacrifices. At some point, sacrifice hath got to be dropped from our voca.
Yea, da road will always be narrow and less appealing for our hormones to follow. You cant marry whomsoever you wish,
drive watsoever u like, work werever u can gets a job, wear watsoever you likes. Nam sayin?
Hang out wit whomsoever u dig-watever class, watch warrever is on TV. Yeah! Woman of ma life, Big Bro...hhhm...and all dat crap! Yea!
It is a call to die daily. Woe unto them preachaz or christians that try to make christianity acceptable.
This call is a call to death, even socially. Yo friends will be pretty few, a sign you bouncing on cross lane. Yea, ctill u gotta be enthusiastic cos this aint no road you sacrifice to tread on, this a walk you embrace cos u love God.
We aint abstaining from sex caz we afraid we mite get burned-catch a disease. Nah! We abstain cas we love God. Yea!
If you come out offish and highish to some christians who love the world 2 death, get ready to be excommunicated by them too.
U stand alone but u is a majority against the hoards against you. Being otherworldly. Word!
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8 comments:
Go ye and multiply and fill the earth.
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I'm glad Adam hadn't yet heard your call to abstinence - we'd have nobody to tell about abstinence.
But then ... even though I am for different reasons altogether, I do take that extreme stance every now and then. Most of the time. Almost always.
@ Commie:
Commie ma hommie. Always makin da mistake dat this whole thing is about me.
Nah dawg, this is God's call, to me, to you, to ya gal and to all of us. Misplaced extremism, misplaced revolution? Da only revolution that hath stood and will stand the test of time is the Holy Ghost revolution. Lovin God and all men caz His love is shed abroad our hearts by da Holy Ghost so He calls us to lay down our lives for His cause. Would you die for the Christ? Dats da price of da call.We die daily.Word!
i still have my questions of christians working in a secular work place...should we then not work coz its a secular workplace...arent we the light in a workplace? what about the part in the bible that says its up to your concience, about stuff we do? i donno, i still have my questions for heaven.
what was that i promised? okay i cant subscribe to a christian who produces porn or stuff...thats abit tooo much...what about the tax collector/ and restaurant owner...?
Lulu, look at it from context...play boy magazine, Howard Stern, Secular Radio, Producing for secular bands. It is like, u cant go out and marry a prostitute unnless its God's perfect will 4 u. Tax collectin, Revenue, Rstaurants cool, as long as u aint servin beer. At the end of the day, Hath God opened that door? Thats da ultimate.
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You guys, Jesus walked, ate and lived with non-Christians. So you can't tell me that we can't do the same. That's like trying to be more catholic than the pope.
Bottom line: love thy neighbour as much as you love thineself. The rest is just background noise.
The answer, my dear Lulu, is to struggle to love. And even when you're not feelin' it, at least act like you're feelin' it. It makes us brothers.
You feel me?
The thing about Jesus, Fujitsu honey, is that He was able to walk into a situation and change it. If we can walk into porn clubs or whatever and get people immediately falling on their knees to worship God, then I'm all for it! Go ye! etc. But the reality is, seeing as we are human and have human appeals and desires, we are more likely to be changed than to effect change.
On the other hand, oba where are we supposed to go, to avoid this sin? We can't live in holes with those Kenyans who are trying to escape nuclear warfare. Sin is all around us - Paul said, "I wrote unto you in an epistle not to keep company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or with extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat." (1 Cor 5:9-11)
So... I'd rather be in a secular workplace, than in a church full of pretenders. But I agree with Lu about the conscience thing, although Lu, Paul said we should be careful not to be stumbling blocks. So-and-so can work there and be unharmed, but what about the people he/she mentors? They will follow that example and cause a mess.
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