Let me
introduce you to a 2min 50sec song by one of my favorite Christian rappers - Da’
T.R.U.T.H. aka Emanuel Lee Lambert (Get more info on Da’ T.R.U.T.H. at rapzilla.com and NewReleaseTuesday.com).
Also get information on his upcoming album Love Hope War to be officially released on January 29th, 2013 here. He is greatly associated with CMR (Cross Movement Records) as his record label.
If you know that song “The Jesus Anthem” where he collaboed with guys from Cross Movement, you know what I am talking
about...
He has several
albums to his name but I will just pick out one song from an album done in 2005
- The Portrait from the album “The
Faith”.
Here are
the lyrics to the song;
By Da’ T.R.U.T.H.
Album: The Faith [2005]
Verse 1:
Was Christ really buried
Was Christ really buried
Is there a chance that He really
married Mary and fled over to France?
Did they really find His bones with a fine tooth comb or did He walk out of His tomb to His throne?
Was He God was He not, was He alive when they dropped Him in a tomb?
Did they really find His bones with a fine tooth comb or did He walk out of His tomb to His throne?
Was He God was He not, was He alive when they dropped Him in a tomb?
Did he swoon was He moved
Was He removed by delusional dudes that refused to believe in the truth were they fools?
Were the disciples hallucinating, was the truth evaded, ‘cause they wanted to boost His ratings
Did the Catholic church from the Vatican work at keeping the bag of dirt under the rug
(Was He God from above if He was do you blink, do you shrug, do you hate do you love?) x2
Hook:
Christ on the poster
Christ of the culture
Christ on the stain glass
Christ of the future
Christ on the video
Christ on the radio
The Christ of Da Vinci
What does he really know
Christ on award shows
Chris that Lord knows
Christ that's sure to come back in His war clothes
In which Christ do you believe?
You gotta know before you leave
Verse 2:
Yes he did arrive, yes He was alive
No-He wasn't married never had any wives
Yes-He did rise, days after He died
What can I say - yes He is God!
From the womb to the tomb to His throne nobody in Rome could hold on to His bones
'Cause there were no bones to be held though His bones were beheld
Who would have known it was Jehov on the DL,
Was He removed by delusional dudes that refused to believe in the truth were they fools?
Were the disciples hallucinating, was the truth evaded, ‘cause they wanted to boost His ratings
Did the Catholic church from the Vatican work at keeping the bag of dirt under the rug
(Was He God from above if He was do you blink, do you shrug, do you hate do you love?) x2
Hook:
Christ on the poster
Christ of the culture
Christ on the stain glass
Christ of the future
Christ on the video
Christ on the radio
The Christ of Da Vinci
What does he really know
Christ on award shows
Chris that Lord knows
Christ that's sure to come back in His war clothes
In which Christ do you believe?
You gotta know before you leave
Verse 2:
Yes he did arrive, yes He was alive
No-He wasn't married never had any wives
Yes-He did rise, days after He died
What can I say - yes He is God!
From the womb to the tomb to His throne nobody in Rome could hold on to His bones
'Cause there were no bones to be held though His bones were beheld
Who would have known it was Jehov on the DL,
Providing forgiveness, our lives are
offensive, He dies to put you and I in a friendship
With himself pain is felt when the
glorious gospel is exchanged for wealth
Forget about how the spades were dealt
And think about how you measure up when weighed on the scale
One Lord One faith I plug
One Lord, One Christ, one judge
Hook:
Christ on the poster
Christ of the culture
Christ on the stain glass
Christ of the future
Christ on the video
Christ on the radio
The Christ of Da Vinci
What does he really know?
Christ on award shows
Chris that Lord knows
Christ that's sure to come back in His war clothes
In which Christ do you believe?
You gotta know before you leave
Da’ T.R.U.T.H. delivers a powerful apologetic (a defense of what he believes in) in the song above. He does it unashamedly. The question is: do you (and I) have your (my) own apologetic of Christ? Can we defend what we believe in with all readiness and fervency, or we don’t even know or are not even sure of what we believe in?
Forget about how the spades were dealt
And think about how you measure up when weighed on the scale
One Lord One faith I plug
One Lord, One Christ, one judge
Hook:
Christ on the poster
Christ of the culture
Christ on the stain glass
Christ of the future
Christ on the video
Christ on the radio
The Christ of Da Vinci
What does he really know?
Christ on award shows
Chris that Lord knows
Christ that's sure to come back in His war clothes
In which Christ do you believe?
You gotta know before you leave
Da’ T.R.U.T.H. delivers a powerful apologetic (a defense of what he believes in) in the song above. He does it unashamedly. The question is: do you (and I) have your (my) own apologetic of Christ? Can we defend what we believe in with all readiness and fervency, or we don’t even know or are not even sure of what we believe in?
Christ wants us to believe in Him
and be ready to say so for all to hear. He wants us never to be ashamed to tell
people that the portrait Da Vinci Code
(or in that matter the secular world) paints of Him is something else and not what
He really is.
Dr. Ravi Zacharias (www.rzim.org)
insists on every Christian being able to give
an explanation [or defense] of what he/she believes in… He insists that
every Christian is called to be an apologist (one who argues - read
debates - to defend a faith) [WordWeb Dictionary] as written by the Apostle Peter
in 1 Peter 3:15-16 [NIV]: “But in your hearts set
apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks
you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness
and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously
against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander…”
There is no excuse as to why you can’t
use whatever tool you have at your disposal to make Jesus known unless you are
a hypocrite hiding your real self behind the pious mask of Christianity.
Strive to become one who defends
your faith in Jesus because He expects you to be one.
Know what you believe in and why;
and above all, be ready to stand for it – show people around you that it
matters that much to believe in what you believe in…
Lyrics courtesy of http://www.lyricsmania.com
Bonface
Morris.
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