Sola Scriptura. This basically means that we here at Regenerated.us believe that the Bible is God’s only inspired holy word and that it is our highest authority. Timothy Brindle does an amazing job explaining the rightful place the Bible has in a Christians life. Check it out!

Verse 1:
This Christian is radical/
Whats written is factual/
Let me first establish that all (Holy) scriptures infallible/
Its God breathed His Word He exhaled/
To the blind in the spirit, makes the text Braille/
Embrace His mysteries, look and take a glance/
At the greatest history book, no fate or chance/
Because His word never fails unlike men who are sinning/
By His word Hes declared the end from the beginning/
And His plan of salvation is solely through scripture/
God reveals Himself yet its only a whisper/
To speak to man Hes greatly condescended/
But only His Spirit can make you comprehend it/
But we cant grasp the whole of it its impossible/
Because the fact this Holy writ is inexhaustible/
Yet you claim His word has contradictions/
Cause you don’t have the Spirit and you’re not a Christian/
Imposter’s cannot see it with binoculars/
And only the canons inspired not the Apocrypha/
Ignoring the facts of it is horribly hazardous/
And I can assure you its historically accurate/
See the text we hold/
Is the Dead Sea scrolls/
And we testify that it sets free souls/
And renews the mind/
Of these dudes who rhyme/
And fiends who used to fry/
And inject needles.

Hook:
Grass withers flowers fade/
But the word of God endures forever/
A perfect treasure repeated 3x
Grass withers flowers fade/
But the Holy word of God endures forever and ever//

Verse 2:
Why there certain guys ignoring the fact/
That the Bible is the churches final authority black/
My brothers it is for sure/
We call the Bible Holy because its set apart from all other literature/
And forget philosophy His word has got to be the real/
Because its the only Holy book where prophecy fulfilled/
I was a foul pagan/
But mind you I’m now stating/
How the word of God made me wise the salvation/
Meet the Savior on a piece of paper/
See the glory of Christ Hes the Creator/
And each page has a really meaty flavor/
So we should savor it not say Ill read it later./
But make it our life
And our great delight/
Hide it in our hearts
Meditating on it day and night/
And be firmly rooted right next to Jesus/
Using hermeneutics and tight exegesis/
We should give God the glory/
Preach expository/
While teaching kids like “montessori” /
Be diligent to endure it and fear it/
Be killing sin by the sword of the Spirit/
Satan despises me/
It angers society/
That we speak in a biblical language variety/
Because it reveals that mankind is sinful/
But it revives the soul/
And makes wise the simple.

Bridge:
The Word of God observe His law/
See our need for Christ shows were surely flawed/
The Word of God observe His law/
See your need for Christ shows you’re surely flawed//

Verse 3:
Yo, instead of reading it we sit and we watch/
The idiot box, picking our crotch/
Fixing our thoughts on wickedest plots/
Our cultures acted pitifully/
And Satan uses the wide spread lack of literacy/
See the world is deceptive/
And its horrid and wretched/
Because of its man made morals and ethics/
Its subjective poop/
Misdirects the youth/
But Gods law is the only objective truth/
See lots of men’s conventions are smart/
But only the word can judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart/
And the words suffice/
To give eternal life/
Because faith comes through hearing/
Hearing through the word of Christ/
A call to all/
And I’m not insulting yall/
But the Spirit by the word saves without an alter call/
And through it His sheep hear the voice of the Shepard/
Once poisonous lepers now rejoicing forever/
Saved by His healing tongue/
The Spirit of God uses the Word of God to reveal the Son/
Umm, come consider this/
We once were wisdom less/
Because without the Spirit the words are a bunch of gibberish/
And without Him your still doomed with Satan/
Because only He gives the words: illumination/
Its a sharp blade, it imparts Grace/
And sparks faith, a lamp shining in a dark place/
Christians always asks, whats God will for me? /
Well its found in His word search with humility/
The man of Gods equipped there’s no complications/
The scriptures efficient apart from confirmation/
According to scriptures Christ died in our (stead)/
And its according to the scriptures that He rised from the dead/
Our only thing that the only thing that’s tangible to focus on Emmanuel/
Its our rock and its our hope/
And its our Holy manual.

Hook:

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,  and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”  This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.  For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.”  And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,  though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—  she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”  As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means!  For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”  So then it depends not on human will or exertion,  but on God, who has mercy.  For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”  So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. –Rom. 9:6-18

I recently heard a pastor preach from the above text of scripture.  This pastor is a non-Calvinist and so knowing this I wanted to see how he would handle this very straightforward, very non-negotiable section of scripture as I see it.

I know what he believes theologically but I’ve never heard him preach through this text before so I thought it would be just another rendition of a typical semi-Pelagian or Arminian who would totally mangle the text, miss the context, import the corporate-election view, etc…

Surprisingly, for about 85-90 percent of the sermon he preached it almost just like a Calvinist would preach it… emphasizing God’s sovereignty and God’s right to choose unconditionally whom He would save.  He even said that God actually hated Esau!

But towards the end, with about 10 mins left he totally flipped the track.  He began to emphasize the responsibility of man to choose Christ.  (I do believe in mans responsibility to repent and trust Christ)  He said though God is sovereign and elects whom He will save He still gives us free will to “choose” Christ.  It’s up to you!  You have to make a decision for Christ!

The rest is history.  After this he went in to the giving of the altar call, and the persistent begging of people to come up and dedicate their lives to Him… to accept Jesus into their heart.  (I was completely nauseous at this point.)

I’ll tell you why I was nauseous: Throughout the sermon I actually started to think that the pastor was going to let go of his tradition and faithfully exegete the scriptures as they were laid out.  Like I said before, most of the way through he preached as though God elects some to be saved unconditionally.  So when he made the statement above in bold, my heart grew faint because he chose to go back to his tradition rather than sticking to what the scripture actually tells us.  What he said doesn’t even make logical sense!  If God does it all, then it cannot be up to you!  Either God is sovereign or man is sovereign!

My question is this: Why would he do this?  Why would he interpret scripture according to the authors original intent for 90% of the sermon and then import his own interpretation in order to try and balance it out at the end?  I’ll tell you what, he didn’t balance it out at all.  All he did was put the focus of eternity right back onto man and his sinful, depraved, fallen decision making which cannot please God at all (Rom. 8:8)

Note to pastors everywhere: If you want to be faithful to the text and the authors intended meaning, (exegesis)  you cannot allow potential repercussions, (such as losing members of your congregation)  emotions, palatability, tradition to stand in the way!  The flock that God Almighty has entrusted YOU with will definitely appreciate you and respect you more for it.  Not to mention you will be honoring God by being faithful to your call as a faithful shepherd to His people.  Online Source

Ok… I’m done with my rant for now.  What do you think?

– Roger Servin