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“We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.”
(Source: set-apartgirl, via jaymaries)
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“He tries to think of God as mute everywhere else and vocal only in a book.”
“I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking.”
”“The purpose of all legitimate prayer is not to fulfill the felt needs or material desires of the one praying, but to acknowledge the sovereignty of God and to magnify His glory. Prayer is not about getting what I want, but about the fulfillment of God’s will. The proper objective of prayer is not to enlarge my borders, build my empire, or expand my wallet but to further the kingdom of God. The point is not to elevate my name but to hallow God’s name. Everything in prayer revolves around who God is, what God wants, and how God is to be glorified. That is the sum and substance of proper praying.”
“Remember that all your hope hangs upon Him who hung upon the cross… Remember that when He died you died in Him… Remember Him… Till your love burns within you… Remember Him till all the church militant and all the church triumphant, too, seem gathered around your heart, and you commune with the whole church of Christ in heaven and earth… Remember Jesus till you feel He is with you, till His joy gets into your soul… Remember Him till you begin to be like Him… ”
“When poetry thus keeps its place, as the handmaid of piety(spirituality), it shall attain, not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away”
“Lord, how excellent are Thy ways, and how devious and dark are the ways of man. Show us how to die, that we may rise again to newness of life. Rend the veil of our self-life from the top down as Thou didst rend the veil of the temple. We would draw near in full assurance of faith. We would dwell with Thee in daily experience here on this earth so that we may be accustomed to the glory when we enter Thy heaven to dwell with Thee there. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
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Sin: Aye look what's good fam it's me again. The one you used to call your friend. I know you ain't forgot me?
Lecrae: Oh yeah you always get me caught in sin...
Sin: Here you go with that again. You act like we ain't cool or sumthin. Let's go smoke a Kool or sumthin. Talk and sip a brew or sumthin.....
Lecrae: Naw man I ain't trusting you. Ain't nothing but lust in you. Thanks be to God I obeyed the teaching I was entrusted to. Cause when you pass by you just want ya boy to backslide. Have me feeling sick like I'm coming down off a crack high.
Sin: Come on, man, that's a flat lie. You act like I'm the bad guy. You know when me and you get together we have a grand time. Let's take it back. All the way to like the 6th grade. Last thing on your mind back in the day was trying to live saved. Remember house parties, kissing in the dark? Man that was innocent fun. Come on...
Lecrae: NOW don't start. See dawg I live by the Spirit so I don't gratify. All them old sinful desires that never satsify...
Sin: Aye come on KILL THAT! Look me in my face and tell me I'm a lie! You ain't feeling chasing women, getting drunk, and getting high, stacking money, staying fly, living up the playas life? We was having fun, now you gone try to be religious dawg?
Lecrae: Aye Yo man first of all LOWER YOUR VOICE! Who you talkin' to? Handcuffed in August '02, yeah I got caught with you! Truck flipped over on 35, that was all from you! I'll mess around and lose my life, man tryna walk in you! I'm standing on these stages and got these people believing me. What I look like tryna gratify this disease in me?
Sin: So Now I'm a disease? Man please. I got yo back dawg! I ain't saying drop the Jesus and be a rap star! All I'm saying is when it's you and me let's be real folk! We ain't gotta be selling drugs and tryna kill folk. Maybe just a lil...
Lecrae: What? A lil this, a lil that, a lil BET late at night, that's like a lil crack, see you ain't gone lie to me. I see how you be tryna be. BET tonight becomes addiction to pornography. And that's in no way honoring the God who's ruling sovereignly...
Sin: Man you know you miss them old days...
Lecrae: Yeah you right, possibly. But after that I sober up, think of Jesus holding up His skin up on the cross for all them drunken nights I'm throwing up. Every thought of blowin up is captured in His flowing blood. I start thinking Philippians 4:8 when you showing up!
Sin: You know I ain't gone quit right?
Lecrae: Yeah I know but I'm dead to you and one day I'll be present with Jesus who died and bled from you. Colossians 1:15 that's the God that I trust in. The Father crushed Him. In doing so He has crushed sin.
Christ is Risen over death.
Jesus + Nothing = EVERYTHING
