| You know, sometimes you’ve gotta move back
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| In order to move forward, 1921, same stuff going back then
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| November 23rd, it’s crazy, same stuff going on then
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| Yeah boy, it’s the truth right here boy
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| Yeah boy, all the stuff we’ve been through boy
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| Yeah boy, we always pull through boy
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| Yeah boy, yeah boy, man talk that talk, turn up
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| They drew a line in the sand
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| And they told us stand on that side
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| Now they’ve started a new trend
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| And the fans gotta decide
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| Youngin’s were looking for a model
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| Now I don’t think they’re looking no more
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| Now it’s like to each his own
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| The moment’s gone about to undergo
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| The kind a change we don’t wanna see
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| See the sane people change to the wannabes
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| Cause they are living for what people think
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| And they don’t see the link
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| Between their influence and who these youngin’s want to be
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| But still we got the faithful, refusing to be shaken
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| Cause they don’t value the public opinion as a priority
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| Enough to compromise and make the message as watery
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| As necessary even though we’re the minority
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| In order to move forward without deviating
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| In a situation we’re looking a J. Gresham Machen
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| Probably never heard of him, I know his name’s strange
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| But what he contributed was a game changer
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| Christians were comprimising with liberalism, and the modernism
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| Man it was embarrasing
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| But Machen was bold, and he brought clarity
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| And he put his neck on the line and his popularity
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| I’m hoping you see
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| That we’ve been here before
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| And they think that we keep going too far
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| But we remember your word
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| As we move forward
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| We might suffer now, but we’ll get our crown
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| Sometimes, I take them to class boy, yeah boy
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| We can learn from the past boy
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| Yeah boy, church we just gotta hold fast boy
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| Yeah boy, man talk that talk, turn up
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| See ain’t it crazy how history repeated
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| Now we find ourselves in the same place
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| Dealing with the liberalism
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| That tempted the Christians to compromise in the same ways
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| See the culture says it was enlightened through modern science
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| Now our knowledge was heightened with new information
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| Reshaping our conscious
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| Now we live autonomously to our liking (wow)
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| And this shook the church up
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| Now some Christians panicking and tryin' to keep up
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| In order to be down they’re hanging some things up
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| Some essential Christian doctrines have gotta get cut
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| Sound familiar? |
| Liberalism expanded
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| It’s not only religious, the secularism advances (facts)
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| They stand firm in their convictions (facts)
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| They even function like a secular religion
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| Putting pressure to redefine what marriage is
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| Certain things should only happen in the marriage bed
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| Between a woman and a man it’s so discouraging
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| But we gonna stand on the word, cause it’s inerrant man
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| We know the end, so we ain’t gonna fear though
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| Just keep showing love even though they think that we the weirdos
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| We know the end, so we ain’t gonna fear though
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| Just keep speaking truth even though they think that we the weirdos
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| I’m hoping you see
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| That we’ve been here before
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| And they think that we keep going too far
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| But we remember your Word
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| As we move forward
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| We might suffer now, but we’ll get our crown
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| And what that does, it freezes from fear. |
| Your ministries are moving into a
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| time of cultural tumult and you’re going to be afraid. |
| Some of you are going to
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| be so afraid, that you are going to want to negotiate away parts of the gospel.
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| But the gospel defines us in such a way, that we are able to see ourselves as
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| the people of God within that cross, so that we know that the worst thing that
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| can possibly happen to us is not being beheaded by jihadists. |
| The worst thing
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| that can happen to you is being abandoned to your sin, being cursed by God,
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| being crucified outside the camp — and that has already happened to you |