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*undefeated*

“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” St. Augustine

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 1 Timothy 6:12

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Clive Staples Lewis

“If I have never mourned over my waywardness, then I have no solid room for rejoicing.” F.W. Grant

This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say. “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.” Romans 1:17

“Find it, somewhere in your soul, the last bit of strength that will take ya on home, just find it, somewhere in your heart, to put the past in the past and go back to the start…” Propaganda

“No one can please God without Faith. Whoever goes to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those that seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 God’s Word Translation

“What is oxygen to the lungs; such is hope to the meaning of life.” Emil Brunner

“I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Nelson Mandela

“Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” John F. Kennedy

“We serve God whether people honor us or despise us, whether they slander us or praise us. We are honest, but they call us imposters. We are ignored, even though we are well known. We live close to death, but we are still alive. We have been beaten, but we have not been killed. Our hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything.” 2 Corinthians 6:8-10

Introduction...

            Being the fourth installment of my freedom in 5 project, it’s truly to God’s honor and reverence to His love that I have the grace to present to you these bodies of work. The whole story isn’t possible without the Lord Jesus reconciling my soul and covering me with His blood. He’s brought me though 5 major heart issues in my life; and every one of them is extremely different but all of them play off of each other in a cumulative style, telling the story of God’s redemptive power in my personal and social life. The funny thing is that I had no clue that the s.incer.e (88) work would take this kind of turn. At all. Honestly, I thought that I would be making music and producing composition for numerous artists at will from 2010 onward. Writing was going to be something that I did in silence; but God has a way of turning things into a wonderful heavenly picture that my eyes couldn’t all the way see when I first got the unction and vision to do music. See Ecclesiastes 3:11 and you’ll understand what I mean. It’s been four years since I really got serious about what I would do with the things that God put on my heart in the area of music and I’m so glad that God has put me in this time, with this message and this current work to do. I really never would have made it without the grace of God. I would have never made it unless I had Jesus interceding to the throne of God for my soul to be captured by His love again. Because without that biblical fact, my life was left in shambles with no hope, no salvation, no change, and no love. But the fact is there is a greater power that runs deeper than any chain of defeat that you have experienced in your life. There is a greater working force in the earth today, that can change your current circumstance and lead to you a place to where you experience the most fulfilling joy that you’ve ever tasted in your life. There is a God who loves you and has a life story of triumph that will last throughout the sands of time and historical facts, if you allow your heart to listen to His call. He calls for the broken hearted; He calls for the one’s in need of a miracle in their life; He calls for the molested; He calls for the spiritually morbid; he calls for the Pharisee’s and the Prodigals; He calls for the one who thinks that they have everything that they could ever possibly want in life; He calls for you…

The most prolific undefeated story in known history is the story of the triune God (who is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit) and what He has done for mankind, in response to God’s creation severing the relationship that God had with man. It’s literally the Gospel as told by the men and woman of the Hebrew Old Testament Bible and the Greek New Testament Bible and how that revealed truth of God that was lived out in their lives, how that relates to the rest of  mankind, today. And maybe somewhere in there, I’ll blow God up in my personal life as well. But mostly I want to highlight God’s story, to the world…

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the motivation behind the testimony of my salvation and millions of others throughout secular and sacred history. I give to you God’s Story, the Salvation Plan, and the blue print of worldwide reconciliation:

The Gospel Story, that we will call today…

u.ndefeate.d

The Undisputed Champion

2 Timothy 2:13 – “If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful because he cannot be untrue to himself.”

The most amazing story ever to be told or listened to is always a story of triumph. You can ask any girl or guy alike, stories that have a struggle towards attaining a great victory, that is bigger than the protagonist, is a story worth telling again and again and again! No matter who’s acting in it or who’s not acting in it, the quality of the body of work is what brings the listener in to the subject matter and holds us firm to its truth, at the heart level. This is especially true with movies that are based on a true story or based on true events. Because there’s something about knowing that this actually happened that hit home with us. Like for example, when I watched the HBO series ‘Band of Brothers’ I was astonished on how real Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg depicted the events of World War II. They did such a good job in accurately portraying that time of world history, that I felt as if I was there with the soldiers. I read about the atrocities but seeing it was a whole different story. But the fact that I felt like I was living in a time of history that had pasted amazed me, I gave me a deeper sense of worth for my country and the men that have been fighting for the freedom of this nation that I didn’t have before. But ultimately we know the story; the U.S. flooded the beaches of Normandy and ultimately joined with the allied forces to win the battle against Nazi Germany.

My goal with this project that I’d pinned the name ‘undefeated’ is to do something very different than the past three chapters in this book. Undefeated, is a close look into the greatest story ever told. That story is the story of God’s redemption of mankind. God’s story goes back so far in time you need the bible, historical accounts and Jewish Culture and Heritage to really grasp the essence of the story in its entirety. But honestly, I wanted to paint the biblical picture of the power of God’s Love as seen throughout secular and sacred history.

The bible tells us that God is Love and everything that He does, mandates, and allows comes from the source of His love for His people and His creation. No matter if you are reading from the Old Testament portion of the bible or the New Testament, everything that He does comes from the source of His love for His people. The sad thing is, because of sin, God has been given a terrible identity marker. The sinner doesn’t know God for His love, the mistaken every move and action of God as retribution, vindication, hate, malice and even evil in some religious circles. But until you understand the Heart of God, you’ll continue to misappropriate God’s actions and deem Him as unfair or unloving; because God is love so He must by his nature, love. The amazing part about God’s love is that His love is the very factor that has given Him the undisputed champion award for all time to be in a league of His own to be called ‘Undefeated’….

“But to you who are willing to listen, I say, love your enemies! Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who hurt you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also. If someone demands your coat, offer your shirt also. Give to anyone who asks; and when things are taken away from you, don’t try to get them back. Do to others as you would like them to do to you. “If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them! And if you do good only to those who do good to you, why should you get credit? Even sinners do that much! And if you lend money only to those who can repay you, why should you get credit? Even sinners will lend to other sinners for a full return. “Love your enemies! Do good to them. Lend to them without expecting to be repaid. Then your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will truly be acting as children of the Most High, for he is kind to those who are unthankful and wicked. You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate.”

Luke 6:27-36

In the Beginning

            As far as the Bible tells us about God’s beginning, God has always existed. The bible tells us nothing of a big bang, no primordial soup, no God coming from another galaxy to make His habitation on earth, or God being some witch doctor that decided to manifest Himself as an unseen being. The bible shows us that as far as we are concerned, He existed, and then He developed a reality, life, time and space for us in His own time, under His own rules and with His very own hands. The beautiful part about this was that He created us for one primary purpose, for relationship and to make His name great! We weren’t made for sin, evil deeds, to waste time, to make up life for ourselves and by ourselves; NO! We were made to fulfill God’s destiny and purpose for the earth which He created in 6 days. God breathed life into man’s lungs after He formed him form the soil of the ground. He even put man into a garden with the perfect climate to have his life sustained in. he supplied man with all of the food that he would possibly need. He gave man dominion and power over the newly created world. He gave man responsibility to define the rest of God’s creation of life (animals). He even gave man a helper to assist him in day to day affairs and to keep him from being alone. Man was created perfect, not missing anything to live the life that God created. And God being love, was well pleased not only with the world, but what was in the world too.

            As the story goes, a wild card was thrown to create a stumbling block for man. The wild card was a fallen angel that had lost his rights and privileges in heaven because of his conspiracy to over taken God’s kingdom with wicked intentions and the like. The fallen angel once called Lucifer and now Satan, would continue his never ceasing plot to pervert, manipulate, and ultimately destroy God’s work and to resurrect his own form of creation; death. I truly believe that death was never an option for anything in God’s court until it stood in the way of God being God. And Satan is the High Priest of antagonists’ in our story. Satan would take on the form of an animal, but an unusual animal to deceive Mankind into falling into the same deception that Lucifer was under before he was casted out away from God’s sight. Satan would go on to attack Man’s help meet and trick them both into taking part of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil; this would be the very tree that God told them never to touch. For its fruit would cause them to die. Only knowing good, man and woman didn’t know that the death God meant was to be eternally separated from Him. The nature that he gave them was a pure clean slate that knew no sin or disobedience, because God was their source of everything. Nevertheless, Satan attacked the thoughts life and the consciousnesses of mankind and deceiving them into thinking that God was holding something out from them that they really wanted. The trap was a devastating blow on so many accounts; because now sin had entered into the world, Satan took his place as forerunner for the fight against God and the attack against God’s creation, and now mankind was separated from God and forced to live life apart from the life under God’s umbrella. The biblical definition for this terrible day is called the curse and later the Apostle Paul puts it ‘the law of sin and death’. This day was such a sad day for God because He didn’t intend on man living his life apart from his Creator. Not only that, the only other place that His creation could be was separated from Him because God made him to forever dwell with Him. But once His rules were questioned and violated God had to still be God, and as much as God is love He is also Just and as much as God is Loving and Just, He is also Holy. God finds the two hiding and He questioned them for their fear of Him. They tell Him that they were naked and afraid, and immediately God locates the source of their fear of Him. He finds out that they have taken part of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, and because he gave dominion to man over the things of this world, including Satan, He must by default judge man according to the standard from which he fell from. The thing that hard to understand is that God truly put man in such a sacred place and position with Him that he couldn’t deal with it lightly. Man was completely different that anything that God has ever created. Even the angels marvel at the actions of man because mankind doesn’t react the same way. Man has a will, man has emotions, feelings, and a special plan and assignment from God that nothing else in His creation had, and the angels were astonished by God’s work. So when God had to turn away from mankind and banish them from the parameters of God, God didn’t do it casually and with no remorse for feelings, He did it unhappy and heart broken, because man was made for relationship with God; and now that couldn’t happen anymore because of committed sin against God. God then takes animals, kills them, and puts the skin of the animals on man to cover them from their nakedness and to warm them since their journey would take them away from God’s perfect climate. Thus the first sacrifice for sin was done in the Garden of Eden after man sinned.

            You have to picture God’s heart being broken and how he never intended for man to be on the other end of the stick for God’s judgment against sin; man was always supposed to be in heavens court and jury for any affair. But now, with sin in the world, God held man responsible for God’s dis-involvement with His creation. Surely, surely…there must be a way to restore order in God’s court, and to bring restoration to the relationship between God and man…

                                   

The Road to Redemption

            “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.” Romans 5:12-14

            See there had to be a mediator who was flawless in every way, to restore balance back to the relationship between God and man. One who would not only satisfy God’s righteous requirement for sin, but could also replicate the human condition to help mankind understand the Love of God. The only one who could stand in this place was Jesus Christ. The bible tells us that He is fully God, and truly man at the same time. He feels like we feel, he cries like we cry, He hurts like we hurt; He can touch, taste, smell, hear and reason like we can. In fact the bible tells us that He was alive and present at the beginning of this day and age that we live in. So Jesus saw us in glory and saw us in our sinful state before God, and decided to let himself be the sacrificial lamb as propitiation for sin. The amazing thing is once Jesus decided to give up his life on the earth for us, the devil plans of ruling and reigning on the earth were brought to a halt. You see, originally, Satan had planned to deceive mankind again, and tricking us into killing our savior and thus defeating God in a game of cloak and dagger. But Satan never could really get it right when it came to defeating God; he kept forgetting that God was the creator of everything and He couldn’t be swindled or dooped. So man ultimately would kill Jesus with the motivation of basically hating God and His righteousness. Secular history as well as Biblical account would go on to tell us that Jesus after suffering a criminals death as instituted by the religious establishment of the day (Judaism – The Hebrews) would raise from the dead and dwell among living people and being seen by over 500 hundred eye witnesses, some of which knew him and others could simply recognize His face. This testimony was so powerful because Jesus is the first and the last living person to awake from His own grave in His own strength. No one else has done that before or since. Once Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection took place, the requirement for sin committed was eternally satisfied and thus the way back to the Father God was reestablished through the saving grace that’s found in Christ Jesus’ shed blood and the message of the Gospel. Jesus would go down in history as a man that consumed Himself so that other people could live and not die. And He did this before the company of heaven and earth proving His love for His people and His obedience to His Father. And that’s how God defeated the cancer that cripples us from seeing Him clearly and being with Him without anything hindering us from doing so. Jesus died to bring us back to the exact same relationship that Adam and Eve fell from in the Garden of Eden, and He did so by defeating the odds of misinterpretation, and the human nature of mankind. Man couldn’t save Himself, but in man’s weakness that God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would blow His definitive strike against sin, saving man, and proving to be the undisputed champion of recorded history by giving His entire being to rescue the lost and to exalt the humble. This is the Gospel Story and this is the declaration of the living eternal God and His story of triumph over pressing tragedy only to win and to prove Himself to be in a league of His own, but only wanting to share the spoils with His children. God is - .u.defeate.d.

The Savior Who Reigns

(.verse 1.)
See I'm lacking the vernacular
To adequately capture
His immaculate stature
And His love for Mary Magdalene
But still i grab this torch
And use His word as a lit match and then
Attempt to make an accurate depiction of His majesty

I'm glad it's He
That created the sun, moon, and stars
Who made a choice
That's actually
Broken these chains and melted these bars
Of religion and trepidation
Self-Righteousness
The bed of Satan
Instead of waiting
He struck both sides of my mattress
With a mere statement
Remodeled the whole house
And made the cornerstone Christ Jesus
Evaluated my situation
And gave me the word that Paul spoke to the Galatians And the Ephesians....

Concerning the fruits of the spirit
Christian conduct and a life of worship
Why He died on my behalf
And my life to be in His surplus
He disrupted my circus
With a verse of true controversy
and said 'Nobody fears God..'
In listening it started to hurt me
Urking and Lurking in my hearts file cabinets and archives
Was the never ending truth
Of the Symphony of Heaven
HALLELUJAH!
OUR GOD'S ALIVE!
He's alive and iridescent
Undisputable and irrefutable
Fully suitable to fit work
In a hard heart that seems un-do-able
I got a passion in the Son of Man
And a passion in His words
Passion that burns for His hands to grasp
My hearts every turn
And twist
And He remains anonymous
But I know him by His gift
For he greeted me with a kiss
And with obedience I'll honor Him.

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All praise to the name
Of the Savior who reigns
He's taken our blame
And embraced all our shame
He's raised from the grave
So His fame we proclaim
Salvation by grace
Through faith in His name!

(.verse 2.)
The most prolific martyr
The who (who's) dwelling in unapproachable light
The God man Jesus Christ
His mandate repent and follow:
The steps of the elect
And wear His words on your chest and neck
Denounce the sin
And to lawlessness
Forever be vexed
His words holy and perfect
And His breathe like summer winds
He's the blessing without the cursing
And the one who's coming again!

He's kinda like
Dy-na-mite
The messiah TYPE A
And ain't chemical concoction
reciprocating His Holy name!
He's the lime-light of Heaven
And the laminin of the Galaxy
He's suspending the earth
By the sound of His voice
But He close enough to say that He's proud of me
SO I'LL SAY IT LOUD
JESUS!
THAT'S RIGHT I SAID IT
JESUS!
J-E-S.U.S
The best
Alpha and Omega
His touches leads to cardiac arrest
Captivating the inner mane
while putting a hold on bodily functions
Freezing time to purge iniquity
From every submitting and willing persons
with an iron rod
He's sworn to bash the face of wicked mischievousness spirits
But at the same time
He blesses your soul...
Speaking to you via the Fathers Sacred and Holy lyrics...

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(.repeat.)
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