THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY

2 PETER 2:18,19

THIS DREADFUL SCENARIO I CAN SEE
IN CHURCHES THAT PREACH FALSE SECURITY:

MEN STANDING, PREACHING, "PROCLAIMING THE WORD";
WHILE STRONG "AMENS" FROM THE CROWD ARE HEARD.

SPEAKING AND TEACHING OF LIFE ABUNDANT
VICTORY IN JESUS - THE PROMISE REDUNDANT.

YET THEY THEMSELVES THE SERVANTS OF SIN,
AND FLESH AND PRIDE HAS FENCED THEM IN

THEIR THOUGHTS ELEVATE TO THE HOLY LIFE;
BUT THEY CAN'T OVERCOME IN THIS HOLY STRIFE.

THEY WON'T OBEY ALL JESUS TAUGHT;
SO INTENTION AND EFFORT IS ALL FOR NAUGHT.

SO FLESH STILL REIGNS, AND IGNORANCE RULES;
AND AS BLIND LEAD BLIND, THEY BECOME SATAN'S FOOLS.

THEY EASE THEIR HEART TO MEET AND SING
OF VICTORY AND POWER BUT TO SINS THEY CLING.

THEIR DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE LEAVE THEM A PREY
BLIND TO THE VICES AND SNARES IN THEIR WAY.

HAS WEIGHTED AND CHAINED THEIR MINDS AND HEARTS
SO THEY CAN'T RESIST SINS FIERY DARTS.

THEIR FAMILIES ARE FULL OF DISASTER AND SHAME
YET ALL THE WHILE THEY CLAIM JESUS' NAME

THEIR CHILDREN STRAY, THEIR MARRIAGES FAIL;
AND ETERNAL SECURITY SENDS MANY TO HELL.

YET STILL THEY MEET, THE PREACHER STANDS
TO PROMISE LIBERTY FROM GOD'S COMMANDS.

NO NEED TO DO ALL JESUS SAID
JUST FOLLOW THE PREACHER'S EXAMPLE INSTEAD.

STILL CASUALTIES MOUNT IN FAMILIES ABROAD
AND YOUTH GROUPS ARE VOID THE FEAR OF GOD.

THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IS A MOCK AND SHAME
BUT ALL STILL CLAIM TO LOVE HIS NAME.

THE ONE WITH HIS WORDS, WHO OBEYETH ALL,
IS THE ONE WHO LOVES; AS I RECALL.

TO PICK AND CHOOSE AND PLEASE THE WORLD
LEAVES AROUND US SIN'S CHAIN CURLED.

THEY COME TO CHURCH WITH CHAIN AND FETTER.
THE PREACHER STANDS WITH HIS COLLEGE LETTER.

HE PROMISES HEAVEN AND LIFE AND PEACE,
THE CROWD TO PLEASE THE FLOCK TO FLEECE.

THEN ALL GO HOME FETTERED WITH SIN
STILL CHAINED TO THE WORLD, BUT CALMED WITHIN.

THE KEY TO TRIUMPH O'ER WORLD AND FLESH
IS DEATH TO SELF, AND START AFRESH...

IN OBEDIENCE TO EACH AND EVERY COMMAND,
TO BUILD ON THE ROCK, AND NOT ON THE SAND.

AT THIS THEY SNEER AND STIFFEN THEIR NECK;
BUT ALL THE WHILE THEIR SOUL'S A WRECK

THEIR YOUTH STAY WORLDLY WITH LOVE WAXED COLD;
FOR SOME WORLDLY POTTAGE THEIR BIRTHRIGHT SOLD.

AS LONG AS FROM LUSTS THEIR NOT ESTRANGED
PRIORITIES WILL NEVER BE REARRANGED.

SO CHURCH AFTER CHURCH MEET WEEK AFTER WEEK
TO ENCOURAGE AND COMFORT THEIR FAILURES SO BLEAK.

TO PREACH THE HOPE OF POWER OVER SIN
YET NEVER LEARN THE SECRET TO WIN:

TO RENOUNCE THE WORLD AND ALL THAT IT OFFERS
TO HATE ALL THAT COMES FROM THE SERPENT'S COFFERS.

THEY LOOK AT THOSE PEOPLE WITH VICTORY AND POWER
CALL THEM OLD FASHIONED, NOT UP TO THE HOUR.

SURELY THEY'RE LEGALIST, HERETICS ABSURD
ALTHOUGH THEIR FRUIT LINES UP WITH GOD'S WORD.

THEY DON'T JUST SPEAK LIKE THE PREACHERS WE HEAR;
THEY LIVE IT IN LIFE, THEIR CONSCIENCE IS CLEAR.

THEIR CHILDREN ARE TRAINED THEIR HOMES ARE IN ORDER,
CEMENTED BY JESUS NOT UNTEMPERED MORTAR.

THEIR CHURCHES ARE HOLY, NEW TESTAMENT STYLE;
WHERE SOUND DOCTRINE SPEAKS, NOT SATAN'S GUILE.

LIBERTY WAS NEVER FROM JESUS' COMMANDS;
BUT FROM JEWISH LAW AND SATAN'S DEMANDS.

WE ARE TO OBEY THE NEW TESTAMENT ALL;
THIS BRINGS FREEDOM SO TO SIN WE DON'T FALL.

TO TRY LIVING CHRISTIAN YET THE WORLD STILL EMBRACE,
IS TO HAVE BALL AND CHAIN WHILE RUNNING A RACE.

THE RACE YOU'LL NOT WIN THE WORLD WILL BE TAKEN
AT JUDGMENT YOUR FALSE HOPE WILL LEAVE YOU FORSAKEN.

FORSAKE YOUR DEAD CHURCHES FALSE DOCTRINE AND TEACHER;
DON'T SETTLE TO HEAR A FLESHLY BOUND PREACHER.

DON'T LOOK AT THE SERMON BUT THE LIFE THEY LIVE;
IF THEY DON'T HAVE FREEDOM, THEN FREEDOM CAN'T GIVE.

IF THEIR WIFE AND CHILDREN THE WORLD STILL FOLLOW;
THEN THE SERMON THEY PREACH IS REALLY QUITE HOLLOW.

DON'T EVER BE FOOLED MY SISTER AND BROTHER,
IF GOD MEANT NOT HIS WORD THEN HE'D SAID ANOTHER.

HE SAID THEIR LIFE WAS ALL WE COULD READ
TO SEE IF IN TRUTH FROM SIN THEY ARE FREED.

IF THEY ARE BOUND; THEN YOU'RE BOUND TOO
AS LONG AS YOU FOLLOW AND DO AS THEY DO.

THEY CAN'T BRING YOU UP SO THEY TELL YOU YOU'RE FINE;
THAT THIS IS THE NORM THERE'S NO MORE TO CLIMB.

THEY SAY THEY ARE BALANCED BETWEEN WRONG AND RIGHT;
BUT IF RIGHT BE PARTIAL WE WALK IN THE NIGHT.

GOD WILL NOT BARGAIN WITH SATAN OR SIN;
ALL OR NOTHING WE MUST BE FOR HIM.

THE LIE OF BALANCE JUST COVERS THE CHAIN
THAT HOLDS THEM IN CHECK, LEST WITH JESUS THEY REIGN.

SO ALL O'ER THIS LAND ON BENCH AND IN PEW
SET BONDMEN DECEIVED AND ONLY A FEW...

WILL GROW WEARY OF BONDAGE AND CRY TO THE LORD;
WHO SHOWS THEM THAT VICTORY IS FOUND IN HIS SWORD.

THEY START TO SEEK AND OBEY ALL THEY FIND.
THEY WIN THE BATTLES, NO LONGER ARE BLIND.

THEY TRY TO EXPLAIN TO FAM'LY AND FRIEND
THE WAY TO FREEDOM, THE WAY TO WIN.

BUT ONLY TO FIND THEIR CHAINS THEY ADORE;
DON'T WANT TO GET RID, BUT ONLY GET MORE.

THEY LIKE THE BOUND PREACHER WHO EASES THEIR MIND
TELLING HOW GOD IS ALL GOOD AND SO KIND.

AS LONG AS THEY WENT TO CHURCH HE DOTH FIND
OF COURSE, HE WOULD NEVER LEAVE THEM BEHIND.

AS LONG AS THEY PRAYED SALVATION'S PRAYER
A HOME IS RESERVED IN HEAVEN SOMEWHERE.

THEY NEED NOT GIVE UP ALL WORLDLY FUN
AND OBEY "ALL THINGS" TO SEE GOD'S SON.

THIS IS THE MESSAGE; THE BALL AND CHAIN
THAT DRAGS THEM TO HELL WHILE CLAIMING HIS NAME.

WHAT SHAMEFUL DECEPTION WHAT HIDEOUS TRUCE
IF ONLY THEY'D HEARKEN THE CHAIN HE COULD LOOSE.

ARE THERE FEW THAT BE SAVED ON THAT NARROW WAY?
WILL NOT YOU BE ONE WITHOUT DELAY?

FOREVER IS LONG AND HELL IS FOREVER
THE HOME OF THE ONE WHOSE SIN WILL NOT SEVER.

by

Living Faith Christian Fellowship