THE HEART OF A REBEL
I’m doing my best to seize this moment when I don’t have much to do. Well that’s not the truth I have plenty to do but I don’t feel so overwhelmed that I can’t write.
I am hurting for the world.
Not some generic “world” that people cant see or touch. But for the world around me. For my family, my community, for nations.
I’m am realizing more and more that it is insanity to believe that a CD will be the big relevant tool to open the eyes of the world to Truth or more specifically Jesus.
BUT…
I do think the music can help many and I pray the music will push you toward your word and God will use it to turn hearts toward Himself, His church, and His ways.
If you get “Rebel” please take time to think through the songs.
Don’t just take them at face value. Marinate on them pray about the content and line it up with the word of God. You’ll find that many of the songs are really just an exegesis, description, or translation of the bible.
My point is this.
I want the Lord to change your hearts, I want to challenge you, and I want to encourage you. But more than anything I want you to use the Bible as the lens that you see the world through.
If that’s the case then you’ll see many of the ways we operate and things we think are more American than Christian. We think and act more out of culture and tradition than out of a biblical perspective.
What does God say about relationships, money, depression, guilt, identity, sexuality?
He says a lot. If we spend time learning His ways we will find ourselves slowly turning our back and in rebellion against the worlds way of doing things. br>
One example is male/female relationships. The culture tells us to pursue them at any age and time. It’s apparently “cute” for 10 year olds to have boyfriends or girlfriends. The culture says sex is a part of “dating” (which is also cultural).
God on the other hand doesn’t tell us “get as close as you can without sinning.” He tells us to FLEE sexual immorality. (1st Cor. 6:18) RUN from the opportunity to get into some sexual action.
As rebels we are deeply in love with Jesus.
He is so valuable to us that we look crazy because we actually follow His word. We seem extreme and fanatical, but I wonder if God is preparing our hearts and minds for action due to coming persecution, or the training of a generation that will face oppression and persecution. If we don’t stand firm who will? God is establishing His kingdom will you be a part of this or watch from the sidelines. REBEL.
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Just a random thought. Stay strong bro, u and your fam got prayer at your back. One.
Also, my church is finally starting a major youth ministry in February. At eighteen, I get to be a leader to kids grades 6-8 and I am so excited to hand out your music and see God move through them the way He's moved through me.
Again, thank you, thank you. Be blessed, man of God.
-Grace&Peace
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As Sho (B. Scientific) says, let's look like the Book of Acts. Let's be on fire for the Lord, y'all- spread the truth and love of God, fight the spiritual battle through the Spirit, and choose the Truth (Jesus) over lies (sin)
love you all, my family!!!! :)
As Sho (B. Scientific) says, let's look like the Book of Acts. Let's be on fire for the Lord, y'all- spread the truth and love of God, fight the spiritual battle through the Spirit, and choose the Truth (Jesus) over lies (sin)
love you all, my family!!!! :)
grace n peace
Na but forreal though I love the concept, but it's more than a concept but a biblical truth we must be rebels from our culture. Man I wish my poltical science profeessor could understand my rebellion! LOL, na im just playin I use wisdom when speaking to him I don't just try to push the gospel down his throat, but anyways excited about the album, gotta bang it around campus cause we livin at a ten up here!!!
and ive made a 360 in my life style im seeking God and latly its been hard.
its like im all alone in this rase and the world is against me and everyone in it so it get's hard at time and it feel's like there are no other soulja's around me even at my CHURCH!!!
i sing so every body wants me to do ungodly music but thats again God it sas it in his word so im like nah and its like i really wanna no God more but this music helps alot it motavates me to keep going and i just wont stop ya no.....
cuz i just gotta stey stroung
My p31 sent me a ball and 4 people came to christ It a good toll God bless Grace and peace to ther116
-God Bless
be happy because jesus loves you
-Isaiah 55:11
I can't tell ya how encouraging it is to listen to fellow radical believers boldly testify their faith and preach the gospel. And I've been takin' some cds to the jails to let the inmates listen to em. I'm tellin ya they absolutely love it. They get excited when they see that there is a better way, that just because they became Christians doesn't mean they have to give up hiphop. I bought 13 letters for my friend who was saved but still listening to worldly music and wasn't growing in his faith. 'N' Now he won't stop listenin to it. That music has helped him shift his thoughts from the world and onto God. Now when he freestyles he talks about Jesus instead of himself. I just wanted t say that I'm grateful for yall's ministry. I can't wait for the 13 letters curriculum to come out. I wanna buy it and show it to the boys at the jail too. And when I get out of school maybe Ill get to join you in this awesome ministry.
Thank you for the song Identity... I am finding myself falling back into the lies that my identity is found in my face, shape, or in a man.. and each time I fall back into the same sins that these lies promote. However in the song your wrote the simple line that said "Her godliness is her beauty".. I've read the scripture where Peter writes that our beauty is not found in our clothes, hairstyles or outer appearnace but thats easier said than walked out.. at least for me. Anyways, it really hit me hard when you spoke those words.
So as I work out my salvation in this area in my life I thank you for the intense prayer and bible study that went into this project and pray that God will continue to open the eyes of His children through His words spoken through you.
Much love..pray for your girl..I surely have not arrived...
We would also have to show the weight gain or the lack there of. Because a true self portrait would have to embody all the things we wish we would have done are accomplished. Some of us would paint ourselves in our youthful glory trying to cover up all the tears we have shed, we would try to make sure that no one would see the harsh living we done, when we moved out of the house with our parents. Some of us would paint ourselves with all the achievements we have made, and doing all the things we are good at. Rather than really showing the world how broken we are or how conceded we are. Many of our portraits would be all about us rather than anything else.
However, God has no desire to see you painted on a canvas, he does not care about your degrees or your gold medals. He would not care about the cars or things you have obtained. Because, has commissioned you to paint a portrait of you, you would think that he wants to hang your picture on his walls in heaven. You would think he wants to see your imperfect flesh hanging on his walls forever.
However, what he wants to see, is not you, but when your picture is done, all he wants to see is a portrait of his son, because your life should not represent you, but your life should represent his son. Because, when he walks through his house, and reads the name at the bottom of the painting, the name would be yours, but when he sees the picture, he knows its you, not by seeing your face, but by knowing that you were saved by his son.
This my friends is the glory of God, this my friends is love of God, and why he gave the best heaven had to offer for your life. So, as we paint our lives on the canvas of life, we should not be caught up in how we would look, but we should be caught up in how we can bring out the love of Christ, when he was beaten, when he had to carry the cross to calvary, when he was nailed to the cross, when he was pierced in the side, when he died. But the best part of the picture would be when the stone was rolled away only to reveal his power over death. See this is the portrait that matters, even when Da Vinci painted himself he could not capture the love that God has for you, so much so, that he could turn his back on his son, so that Jesus could redeem lost man.
They say that a picture says a thousand words, well then how many words do you want to speak. How many words will be about you, and not about him, when God looks at your portrait who will he see, better yet what would he see. Has your life been so consumed by what you are trying to get rather than who God is in your life. Because when it is all about him, then it does not matter if you eat or not, because if the birds have nest, how much more do you think God cares for you.
In this life we are walking portraits, and when people see us what do they see, do they see us, are do they see God, do they see calvary, because if they don't see calvary then you are not representing God you are representing you, and you did not and will not ever have the ability to save you. So the time is now to take off you and put on the mantel of God, and represent the portrait of the living savior. His name is above all names, his desire is to see you become like him, so that lost man can paint a portrait like none other. Jesus the Christ, Holla
I thank the Lord that through CrossMovement Recors, Reach Life, and Lampmode, ministries (to name a few) many young men and women have been redeemed and are currently being used for the Lord's glorification in this perverse generation.
The scriptures state that, "by their fruit you will know them". As an artisits one of your central fruits is your lyrical content. Through it, either life or death, is breathed into the ears of whoever hears it. Claiming we know Christ and are in an intimate relationship with Him while going against the instruction of the Word of God places us in a dangerous position with God. Many preachers and even pastors refuse to touch on the topics Lecrae and many others ambassadors for Christ tackle (if you know Christ, you know what I'm talking about).
To wrap up the Bible says that we are made "new" when we come to Christ. If we can not see any significant change in your life since you have come to Christ, EXAMINE YOUR LIFE. Stay UNASHAMED OF CHRIST and continue to MAKE DISCIPLES. Stay in a state of PRAYER EVERYWHERE you go and continue to be IMITATORS OF CHRIST.
- E T E R N A L
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However I don't think anyone seriously believes that. As "Eternal" said, Matt 7:16 says that you will know them by their fruit, and the fruit of Lecrae's labors speaks for itself.
I would encourage those who are having problems with Lecrae's choice of terms to examine this in the light of Scripture. Phillipians 2 comes to mind for me, especially verses 1-4... Let's not major on the minors =)
Is it possible that we're too preoccupied with being "good" to have courage to CHALLENGE the North American mindset and FIGHT against selfishness, materialism & mediocrity?
I don't believe it's enough to make sure we're a bit hotter than the rest of the lukewarm, so Jesus won't spew us out of His mouth, I think He means He wants us to be scalding hot!
For me to continue without the mindset of Christ because Im concerned about being a rebel in the cultural defintion, would be rebellion against God. We rebel every day against the sinfulness of our own hearts, the influence of friends and family, the lure of the media, and our culture. We are rebelling against sin, putting off sin, figuratively plucking out eyes. that is rebellion. we are not rebelling against God or resisting the higher power; we are rebelling and challenging beliefs and traditions - our culture- which is the direct result of our failure to draw close to God. That is a true rebel, that is rebellion. We have to rebel against the devil who searches for whomever he may devour. Do we passively live out a nice Christian life, while friends and family are torn apart by drugs? or do we show ourselves as rebels by being the light of the world, salt of the earth- adding that flava!!!!! :)
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