This week I decided to feature one my favorite songs from Flame. Flame has a special ability, I believe, to be extremely deep and theological while at the same time having the “sound” of a mainstream Hip Hop artist. Take this song for instance. In “Rewind” Flame tells us of a time where he was watching TV and decided to settle on a TV preacher. Well as you may be able to guess, this got really interesting as he listened to what was being said from this gentleman…

Verse 1:
Well I was chillin’ in the crib afterward reading my word/ so I cut the T.V. on and I started to surf/ at first I past a channel with a preacher man/ so I said let me go back just to see what he sayin’/ reach to the left grabbed my Bible from the desk top/ he started off well I’m like yeah that’s hot/ dude was killin’ it/ I started feelin’ it/ even though I didn’t know what scripture he was dealin’ with/ so I said let me stay and see/ then he said turn to Isaiah 53/ I’m like aww yeah man that text is raw/ the very next thing he said made me drop my jaw/ I was appalled/ they offered him applause/ and 20,000 people screamin’ praise the Lord/ dawg I’m like naw/ I’m laughin’ it off but it was serious he was speakin’ on behalf of God

Hook:
It’s time/ press stop and rewind/ go back roll back right now/ with creeds and church history/ lets stop and see if we missed a beat

Verse 2:
He was reading verse 5 by His stripes we are healed/ then he said cause of that we should never get ill/ and if you do get sick its from a lack of faith/ this false teaching is really exasperating/ then he said either that or some secret sin/ so if your sickness comes back you need to seek Him again/ confess your hidden sin/ and beseech Him again/ and if you doubt your sickness will come creepin’ again/ so all that text was sayin’ is that we shouldn’t get sick man/ is that in the bible/ that same preacher man said we suppose to be rich man/ is that in the bible/ he said with my faith I can confess and posses it/ is that in the bible/ then he said God’s people shouldn’t suffer/ is that in the bible/ NO

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Verse 3:
So I cut the T.V. off tear drop fallen to the floor/ I was sad seeing these people fallen for it/ I broke down then I started callin’ to the Lord/ we can’t afford to ignore this anymore/ furthermore if he would have just read verse 4/ he would have understood the context a little more/ for that matter/ should have read the whole chapter/ to see the whole point that Isaiah was after/ the whole chapter was about Jesus Christ/ and specific details about Jesus’ life/ and healing in verse 5 was from our sin sickness/ you know when the Holy Ghost quickens/ I know what your feelin’/ I know you offended/ but when you repented the Spirit brought spiritual healing/ but at the glorification/ in the book of Revelation/ chapter 21:4 read the no mores

Verse1: The first task of the interpreter is called exegesis/(extra Jesus)/ naw I said exegesis man/ it’s a Latin word don’t be scared/ matter of fact I laughed when I first heard it too/ its spelled e-x-e-g-e-s-i-s/ guarantee you learn this process and you’ll be blessed/ exegesis is the careful systematic/ study of scripture for the Christian this should be a habit/ but to discover the original intended meaning/ of the author to his audience is exegeting/ but to do this man you need some tools/ so let me recommend a couple of things you should use/ aight cool/ first man you need this book/it’s called a commentary and it helps you to further look/ into some essential things you need to check/ in order for you to properly interpret the text

Hook: With this skill this should keep you from heresy/ and keep you from going through theological therapy/, the words of God will change your life/ if you Keep the text in its context/ with this skill/ this should keep you from heresy/ and keep you from going through theological therapy/ the words of God will change your life/ if you keep the text in its context

Verse 2: You need some more books I know its gettin’ scary/ but you need some definitions get a bible dictionary/to go without these tools you can’t afford it/ that’s why you need this book called a concordance/ and every time you start to think this is too much to do/ I recommend you reflect on 2 Timothy 2/and 15/and you’ll see what I mean/ simply because the serpent is lurking to glean/ those who don’t read/ and those who don’t study/ to keep a lock on this treasure/ from unlocking the pleasure/ cause God’s word is lovely/ that’s why we hold it as precious as pearls/ to let our exegetical work reflect to the world/ in accuracy/ hoping that you happy to see/ the very words God breathe handle accurately/ yeah so many take text out of context/ and come up with mess and more nonsense

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Verse 3: What you don’t wanna do is called eisegesis/(I see Jesus)/ naw I said eisegesis man/ you a silly dude its Latin too/ and that’s just the act of when your adding to/ or the process of reading one’s own meaning/ into the text and that’s just eisegeting/ don’t fret I know these words are new/ and phrases to/ but it’s cool to go back to school/ its spell ei-se-gesis/ guarantee you learn this process and God’ll be vexed/ a text can never mean what it never meant before/ to its original reader or author/ so if you run into a difficult passage and you know the Bible never contradicts itself/ then turn the pages to a parallel passage and just let the scriptures interpret itself

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Sorry for the late post today, but I have a good one. This song is called “The Godhead”. In 4:19, Flame takes on a journey of the Trinity controversy in the early church all the way up to modern day controversies. This is a song of information and transformation. A song to study and a song to worship! For we understand that God has revealed Himself as the Trinity and should be worshiped and praised as such. It’s very important that we are knowledgeable on these issues. So that, if anyone opposes us we can have an answer. But more importantly, so that we can know God rightly in order to worship Him rightly.

Verse 1:
God eternally exists
as being three in His personages
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and each person is
fully God and there is only one God who subsists
so chew on this/ cause this is meat and I’m certain of this
His prerogative could have been to conceal Himself
but we serve a God who has chose to reveal Himself
to be certain of who we servin’ let’s search the text
because it’s urgent that we worship Him for who He is
the topic of the Trinity should evoke some emotion
for those who are chosen
and also for those who oppose it examine close He’s distinctive in His entities
that’s why we contend for the Trinity in serenity
we have no Christianity if God is not triune
in that case we are were saved by whom
then creation was made by whom
then redemption was made by whom
the consummation will take place by whom

Hook: Pastor Joe
/T-R-I-N-I-T-Y/ It’s the trinity/ it’s the trinity/ oh blessed trinity

Verse 2:
If we could peer in the past and see a system called dynamic monarchianism
another system modalistic monarchianism
before the session we gone focus on one of the isms
modalistic monarchianism
get to the core or the center where the belly is
popularized by a guy named Sabellius
trying to fight for the position of monotheism
traditionally held by Jewish in they religion
and that’s true but he started trippin’ in his position
and said that God manifested Himself in different
modes at different times this is real twisted
that’s why a bishop named Athanasisus had resisted
in a meeting in Nicea in 325
A.D. where they debated was Jesus God
and if He was, was He the Father the first time
Jesus the second/ and Holy Spirit the third time
while affirmed that the Father is God
that the Son is God
and the Holy Spirit is God
good that ain’t gone solve it
cause the problem is this
it’s the simultaneousness
that he denied

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Verse 3:
Modalism is back and its now packaged as Oneness Pentecostalism
and its growing in numbers now like the cost of living
and when they hear this I’ll be labeled a Pharisee
but the Assemblies of God already labeled it heresy
in the 20th century when it first emerged
and ever since its birth its been hurting the church
in conclusion a myriad of questions I ask
cause its confusing and steering away at the masses
I pose to you question number 1
you mean to tell me that the Father is the Son
well who was He praying to in the garden of Gethsemane
I guess you’ll say He was prayin’ to His deity
so you sayin’ that His human side
is prayin’ to His divine side
that is Father
In that case then there are two beings
in the person of Christ is that what you are seeing
no that’s not the scriptures that’s confusion
and it takes stabs at the hypostatic union
and that’s that the one Jesus
is 100% man and 100% God
not 100% Father and 100% Son

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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick, who can understand it? -Jeremiah 17:9

Verse 1: Flame

I thought I could trust you but dawg I’m disgusted/
I thought you were innocent/
‘Til I read the 5th verse in the 6th chapter of Genesis/
Since it’s been nothin’ but inconsistency in my life/
I hate you I wish I can take you and break you tonight/
Because I’m tired of your suggestions/
I’m tired of all your reflections/
I’m tired of you sayin’ sex is the best way to ease pain/
Insinuating I should sin in a situation you similar to Satan ever since Eve came/
And Adam sinned now within I enter a battlefield/
Injured filled up with sin and I’m bound to bust like a bladder will/
Why do you torture me/
Often caught up in forgery/
Signing my name on sins that I knew I shouldn’t have committed/
Feel like I’m losin’ I’m choosin’ all of the foolishness/
Disturbing my peace like you ludicrous/
Feel like forget it/
But I’m a fight you because I really don’t really like you/
Invite you? I’ll never trust you again

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I’ll never trust you again/
And if I ever trust you again just know its just the lust that’s within/
It’s just the wrestle within/
But when He comes to rescue His men/
You’ll never ever sucker me in/
No never ever again/
My greatest enemy pretends to be friends/
But it’s the inner me that needs to be cleansed/
Since we’ve seen the second person with in the Trinity win/
Marked the day of my enemies end/
I’ll never trust you again

Verse 2: shai linne

Chill with the sob story and give God glory/
I’m feelin’ your conviction but what you spittin’ is really fiction/
Inaccurate depiction not based on holy inscription/
So listen to my diction to get my proper description/
Imagine a cave and there your mind, emotion, and desire/
After your saved is where you’ll find devotion to Messiah/
Conflicted desires collided inside its divided/
But God can unite it provided you desire to fight it/
You actin’ all surprised you got a wretchedly mind/
Like you ain’t read Jeremiah 17:9/
We both know what Adam did to us in the garden B/
Your still suppose to love the Lord your God with all of me/
I’m called a heart but see I’m not a bodily artery/
Pardon me but honestly you were improperly guarding me/
Cause whether it’s the T.V. or CD/
Or DVD easily I’d speedily greedily eat what you feedin’ me/
If you ain’t buildin’ me up you knockin’ me down/
Which makes your deeds come from a heart of darkness like apocalypse now/
The best advice I can give you is learn about mortification/
The Lord is so patient He’ll bring you to glorification/
You ought to respect the grace the architect the plan/
If water reflects the face the heart reflects the man/
So to sum it up the point I’m comin’ to Flame/
Not trustin’ me is not trustin’ you because we’re one in the same/

Verse 3: Flame

Yeah, yeah I know we one in the same/
And I know that I’m wrong for shiftin’ the blame/
But what I’m sayin’ is if you tell me to sin/ never again will I trust you again

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Artist: Flame
Album: Rewind
Record Label: http://www.crossmovementrecords.com

Flame is an artist on Cross Movement Records (CMR). Flame is one of my favorite MCs. As he finds a unique way to present deep theological truths while staying current with the sound in modern hip hop. Flame resides in St. Louis and is currently attending Boyce College (the undergrad program at Southern Seminary) Flame will now take a stab at Sola Scriptura.

Verse 1:
Lately man its been some problems
the scriptures have been under attack and that’s crazy
see God’s word is the final authority I’m sorry there’s no way you can sway can’t persuade me
the holy scriptures is the only sufficient certain and infallible rule for the Christian
nothing can be added at all
so you can keep your revelation and religious traditions
the-op-nyoo-stos (theopneustus) its God breathed
2 Timothy 3:16
because the scriptures are the only example of God breathed revelation in possession of the church
they form the only infallible rule of faith for and which we base the church/ let’s talk about inspiration
God’s the author no mistaken man

Hook:
Let me hear ya say yeah (yeah) REPEAT
(S-O-L-A SCRIPTURA) REPEAT
it’s the Bible man B-i-b-l-e

Verse 2:
People pick pick and choose
what they will and won’t use from the holy scriptures
but the Bible is not just a book that you can just look through and see what fits ya
naw dawg it’s tota scriptura/ all of scripture/ was told by John Calvin
so if you LDS Jehovah’s Witness or if you Roman Catholic
please don’t insert your own authority in place of the scriptures that’s backwards
the scriptures are perfect and they are able to guide the people of God into the truth God
1689 Baptist Confession is my point of reference in which I use for ya’ll
how I’m talkin’ about sola scriptura but I’m using the confession I’m confusin’ ya’ll nope!

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