lirik lagu stephen the levite
church discipline – stephen the levite
this idea started back in the garden/
when adam and eve sinned and god sought to pardon them/
he discharged them, placin’ a flamin’ sword at the gate along with the cherubim charged to guard it//
one could argue it started back even farther with satan/
i see what you’re sayin’ but please peep the point i’m makin’/
there’s a basic distinction that separates them/
the goal of man’s displacement was restoration//
we see the contrast in gen. 3: 15/
the serpent’s eternally cursed, but the seed redeems/
in conjunction with judgment we read of a dream/
of a world free of the enemies schemes//
but there’s a process proceeding the promise/
it’s hard, yes, but by his mercy it’s not death/
’cause if they would’ve ate from the tree of life in their dyin’ state/
their resurrection could never take place//
and that’s the lord’s grace and sanctification/
that shapes men and claims a nation so pagans praise him/
the big picture i’m givin’ is/
mentioned throughout scripture when sinners are driven out for dissin’ him//
so keep listenin’/
the topic is not a popular one but you know how we get it in/
it’s church discipline, the grace is doubted/
but the body of christ has a.i.d.s. without it//
yeah
dj scratches: the authority of church discipline…if excommunicated what body will they be missing in?
if a brother or sister offends you talk to ’em/
if the issue is in scripture then walk through ’em/
if they still ain’t listenin’ bring witnesses/
prayin’ the evidence of the 2 or 3 is convincing, if//
it still doesn’t work, take it to the church/
the lord’s official spiritual judicial system on earth/
and they’ll determine whether to bind or loose them/
scrutinizing the proof for a final resolution//
to loose ’em is to render a dudes sin forgivin’/
due to viewin’ the true fruit of repentance/
binding ’em means finding ’em guilty/
drawin’ a line between the fly and the filthy//
’cause when a few of ’em gather in his authority/
he’s in the midst of them, judging and ruling accordingly/
so the lord is takin’ responsibility/
making himself the true object of hostility//
’cause when you’re handing a man over to satan/
for the destruction of his flesh in order to save him/
and the whole church cuts communication/
cats with punkish views of love start hatin’//
but true love is to hate sin/
trustin’ that god provides through his prescribed means to break men/
but they’ll see when the prodigal comes back/
and they slaughter a beast and the party is dumb phat//
dj scratches: the authority of church discipline…they turn to the steeple, and return to the sheepfold, isn’t that just like god’s people?
a few more things for us to consider/
unforgiveness over time becomes bitter/
and bitterness can spread just like a virus/
infecting the whole body with plank in the iris//
it blinds us of our own sin, then close friends/
have to tell us we’re lunchin’ and if we don’t listen/
then the whole process is starting up again/
the sin that we tossed out leavens the whole lump again//
another counter-productive part of the process/
is the broadcast of slanderous gossip/
even if all the information is true/
the resulting view, of the person or issue is skewed/
then you feel strange and ought’a confront them/
but pride reminds you where your info comes from/
and who wants to be caught in hypocrisy?/
n-body. so you lock your thoughts away and you toss the key//
but that won’t stop the beef/
cause sooner or later, what you believe becomes your behavior unless you plot for peace/
it’s hard not to see, somebody’s got to speak/
if not the sin cycle repeats, it’s got to cease//
the process done properly shows love to everybody/
and the gospel is preached inaudibly/
the god of peace squashed the beef at the cross of jesus/
modeling peace making for the whole flock to see//
dj scratches: the authority of church discipline…your brother went away but came back, isn’t that cause for the celebrating?
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