Gate 4: T.U.L.I.P.

By Christcentric

On City of God

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[Verse 1: Believin' Stephen on Total Depravity]

Let me expose this tragedy called total depravity

We're all rotten and we're showin' our cavities

Our nature's corrupt 'cause of Adam in Genesis

Sin is the nemesis, it has no benefits

We've got poisoned tongues, none is good, not even one

You beg to differ, son, take a look at Romans 1

18 through 32, check the dirt we do

Your flesh is familiar like, "Yeah, I've heard of you"

From our mothers' wombs, we've all gone astray

Our thoughts are consumed by our own rotten way

Man's heart is deceitful, it's wicked and evil

We're radically corrupt, the feeblest people

Examples: sex channels, sex scandals, wretched vandals

[?] the bible's mishandled

If not for the Holy Spirit intervenin'

We'd still be slaves to Satan and his demons


[Verse 2: Apologist on Unconditional Election]

He will gather His elect from the corners of the earth

It's the Father who selects who receives the new birth

By the power of the Spirit, it is all in conjunction

Life, death, and resurrection of the One who was unctioned

I was dead in trespasses, now I'm free and adopted

As a son, I was given a guaranteed deposit

The Spirit was hovering on the waters of creation

My Shield and Covering, He drew me to salvation

Predestined by the Lord before things were made

I still cannot fathom I was chosen to be saved

The Father gave the Son a group from every race

The Spirit made them come to be hooked by His grace

This skeptic was elected, redeemed, and resurrected

So the glory of my God in my life can be reflected

Imputed righteousness, the beginning of perfection

The doctrine I espouse is Unconditional Election


[Verse 3: Spoken Word on Limited Atonement]

The third part of the T.U.L.I.P., Limited Atonement

Is often disputed, many don't condone it

But since atonement really atones men

Then how are all atoned when, in Hell, some are thrown in?

Let's for a moment check behind the verses

John 17:9, you'll see divine purchase

Blood to affect a foul nation

Love directed to the elect for salvation

All of whom the Father placed in His plan

Predestined, Christ died for the saints in His hand

Take the words of Christ spoken, behold, He

Prays not for the world, but dies for the chosen only

So, when He rose from the grave, He fulfilled His mission

Sealin' the Christians forechose to be saved

So, redemption precedes faith

And when grace is imparted to the elect, they respond and accept


[Verse 4: Q-D.O.G. on Irresistible Grace]

No one can come to Christ unless the Father draws Him, like an artist

See, God is the cause of the hardest

Heart that's godless, that regards Him not

That's darkened like car jackers in a parkin' lot

He's sparkin' this life within, 'cause lifeless men

Are Christless, can't find Him without His light within

But this grace ain't prevenient, what I mean is

We weren't born with something in our soul to make conversion convenient

We was dead in sin, born a spiritual Lazarus

To say he helped raise himself, we would laugh at this

Like the notion God is "open" and He's hopin' that he's chosen

"No one seeks God", read the quote in

Romans 3:11 - see, our inception in Christ

Is 'cause God stepped in and raised us to life

There's no question that His grace made us ripe for this selection

By election to life, we receive Christ and accept Him

So, without resurrection, we're bound to a will to reject Him

Unless God grants an irresistible exception


[Verse 5: Evangel on Perseverance of the Saints]

We in God's tightest...grip

And we won't slip like His hands cramped with arthritis

We'll be grasped above to inherit through His everlasting love

And cherished, His sheep shall never perish

To know when it's over

We'll persevere because of the Master's P[lan] like No Limit Soldiers

Through Christ, the debt is paid, solely

The propitiation for our ventilation, that's made holy

Called us by grace into Your Word's adherence

Authored our faith to see it's perseverance

No mistakable claim

Predestined, called, just, and glorified, the unbreakable chain

Born again, not of the seed that will decay

But indeed, guaranteed to believe until the day

He redeems His purchased possession

And the Holy Spirit sealed the deal, the Church's protection


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