Jason Upton Lyrics
Freedom Lyrics
Freedom!!
Back in the bible there was that old Pharaoh
Who ruled over Egypt and Israel
God spoke to Moses through fired up bushes
Said kick off your shoes and stay awhile
All of humanity was made to worship me
Pharaoh get outta my way
(God is sayin’)
Chorus
Freedom to dance
Freedom to sing
Freedom to grow
I’m telling you Pharaoh let Gods people go!
Worship now
Worship now
Worship your God (x4)
(let ‘em go)
Well, we live in a country supposedly Pharaohless
But all over town and in churches abide
Powerful weeklings who practice they’re politics
Stealing from Jesus his beutiful bride
Whether you’re Pharisees, Sadducees, heresies
You best get outta God’s way!
(God is sayin’)
Chorus
Worship now
Worship now
Worship your God (x4)
(let ‘em go)
Well, we live in a country supposedly Pharaohless
But all over town and in churches abide
Powerful weeklings who practice they’re politics
Stealing from Jesus his beutiful bride
Whether you’re Pharisees, Sadducees, heresies
You best get outta God’s way!
(God is sayin’)
Chorus
Worship now
Worship now
Worship your God (x4)
(let ‘em go)
I just ran into these lyrics this weekend and I’ve played it over a number of times. All I can add is that we need a lot more artists calling our church leadership just as clearly.
It’s time we faced the reality that the Gospel really is Jesus plus nothing. Worship is not praise — it is coming with open hands longing to be filled just as the people of old came to idols to try and get their longing for fertility etc. filled.
We worship when we come with nothing (No performance, no goods deeds, no wild eyed strategies to be good in the future, no plans to impress God and none of our irrational beliefs in our own ethical progress) and ask for everything (Someone to love us, transform us, heal us, to free us from even the demand to be good and the cognitive dissonance all of us experience when confronted with our obvious inability to measure up.)
Any one that preaches anything other then this is a human reflection of all three: Pharisee, Sadducee, Heresy. Personally, I can’t wait for the day when the growing wave of believers (who have finally had enough of all of the above) reaches critical mass and most of our pulpits stand almost empty — because the congregation has emptied them.
“Almost,” because there will still be people in those churches capable of filling those pulpits — I think a little girl out of the sunday school class singing, “Jesus loves me, this I know,” will fill it nicely.
