Sola Gratia (Grace Alone)

What's underneath all the doctrines of grace?

Fundamentally, one word: sovereignty

God is sovereign

Not kind of sovereign, not mostly sovereign

Fully sovereign

Yeah, no additive, no mixture

Ain't nothing adequate, we be passing it on quicker

Than laxatives or swishers, we adamant on the scriptures

Ain't having it when they twist and attacking our only system

Cause everything that glitters ain't gold

And we ain't buying what they selling

Cause they get it from Rome, nope

Any additions and you're missing the boat

Cause no decision from a sinner gives unequivocal hope, yeah

They trying to say that God is obligated

If he save one he gotta try to save them all

They be mixing categories when they're not related

Then get mad when they find that he ain't playing ball

There's not a single religion in all the world

That's listed and when observed they'll turn and deny the grace of God

It's all about where you place it

The minute you try to contain it, force his hand

The finished product ain't grace at all

And that there is a discrepancy

I gotta tell 'em that I respectfully disagree

Cause a hundred and forty characters ain't enough

To share the sovereignty of God every time that they get at me

It's not necessity, we agree on that

But previnian grace, man, I don't see all that

Sorry, heart was darker than neon black

They preaching Jesus, good luck trying to get me on that, nope

Brushed it off when they stepped to me, dawg

What changed? You could say I was effectually called

And I ain't know I had a problem, couldn't get it resolved

Until he changed my heart and free will was never involved, nah

And that's grace homie

His ability to save ain't dependent on my faith homie

Plus scripture says that faith is a gift

So now I sit back and praise God that I'm placed in his grip

And ain't nothing ever snatching me out

So ask the Roman Catholic Church what they yapping about, huh?

Either his grace is sufficient or it isn't

I'm done with going back and forth wondering if I'm in yet

Tell 'em that they can replay the tapes

Cause your works fall short when performed in a state of grace

And there's all sorts of responses they try to make

Cause they're all sure that it's bound to be where they'll stay

But dear God if they only knew

That it ain't by my works, Lord, it's only you

I pray you peep what's coming out through your speakers

Cause scripture says there's no God

Seeker affections must be wholly new

And the way that he carried us got my mind blown

Prior to him I was in a valley of dry bones

Ezekiel 37, your boy was John Doe'd

Until he told your homie come forth so I could rise, oh

Now watch, you're gonna put that out there

And some people are gonna hear it and they're gonna believe

And some people are gonna hear the command to repent and believe

And they're gonna resist and say no

What's the difference between the two? One word, ready?

Grace, grace

Guys, if you can consider something and absorb it

It'll change you forever, this truth

Yeah, our God was never obligated

He ain't have to come down to save a single one

Still he sent his son Jesus so he could come and retrieve us

And that's the truth whether or not you believe it, son

Best believe that it ain't subject to change

While unbelievers all complain, I got nothing to say

Arminians turn and try to make a mockery of grace

And improperly replace all the doctrines of his grace

But every one of us is poverty stricken

And robbery driven while trying to tote some scholarly wisdom

All turn to our own way with velocity spitting

And mocking the scriptures thinking they were improperly written

Brushing off certain passages, priority driven

While ignoring the tough ones like we're not gonna listen

Trying to stick in proverbs while you knocking his wisdom is foolish

Keep it moving, that's a mock of religion, homie

Better yet, that's a mock of relationship

Cause you twist his words and knock him for saying it

Try to rob him of his glory, be the sovereign in the story

While you ignoring the potter that's shaping it

So the moral of the story

Cats can say it's sort of boring, ignoring my oratory

But these truths have put more issues to bed than dormitories

So we preach more alpha and omega than sororities

Eternal life is where our sights are set

And make the most of opportunities, you might repent

In the midst of sin we've only got this life to rep

Cause grace is God's riches at Christ's expense, yeah

So I pray you feel your way to him

But how we free when everyone is just a slave to sin?

Peep the situation, I know on the face it's grim

That one day when we die, every one of us is facing him

Listen, and when we set on the bar

Without absolute perfection he ain't letting us off, nope

Cause if he did he could never be God

He can't look on evil and we can't get it absolved, nah

Christians always gotta come with truth

The only way we could be saved is by a substitute

After he came to us, was beaten, took so much abuse

He rose up to the seat of his father so we can trust him too

So who's he save? I'd say he has the right to choose

And he shouldn't have to answer to the likes of you

But you say that ain't fair, ain't nothing like the truth

Fair equals hell and I'd rather take the mercy, dude

Here's the fact you gotta stare in the face

The only difference between us is unmerited grace, for real

No Christian could ever carry the weight

The only difference between us is unmerited grace, alone

Name the religion, name the god, name the religious text

What do they always distort?

Of course they distort who Jesus is, that always takes place

And counterfeit Christian cults, religions that ape Christianity

They distort the person of Jesus Christ

But what does every religion distort?

The grace of God and sin

They all do it

They always say sin is not so sinful

We're not so really bad off

But what they usually say about the grace of God

Is that it's not enough

Now it's rare to find any religion that will say grace isn't necessary

Almost every religion says grace is necessary

Mormonism says grace is necessary

Roman Catholicism says grace is necessary

Jehovah's Witnesses say grace is necessary

It's actually rare to find people who are truly Pelagian in their view

Believing that you don't really need the grace of God

That you've got the power in yourself to do it

It's rare to find that

Islam says grace is necessary

Allah must give you grace

You can't do it apart from him

So again, religions will generally say grace is necessary

However, it is only biblical Christianity

It is only the reformed faith that

Says that grace is not only necessary

But God's grace is sufficient

It's actually sufficient to accomplish what God commands of it

God's grace is sufficient

That means that God is able in his power

And with his love and mercy and grace

To raise people from the dead to life

Nobody can thwart his purposes

Nobody can stop God when he determines to save a rebel sinner

Nothing in the universe can stop him

The only reason you're sitting in this room today

Believing in Jesus Christ and trusting in him

Is because God loved you before the foundation of the world

Here's the thing, look

You might say something to that

You might say, "That's not fair"

And my answer to that is, "Yep"

Because what's fair is that God sends you and I to hell

What's fair is that we get what we deserve for our sins

That's fair

And if you say, "It's not fair that God chose me over them"

I'd say, "Exactly, it's not fair, it's mercy"

Fair would be giving you what you deserve

It was mercy

And if you say this, "But God, I don't deserve it"

My answer, "You're seeing it"

If you say this, "God, that makes you so gracious and so big

And me so unworthy"

I would say, "You're getting it"

That is the glory of God's grace in the gospel