Active Obedience (feat. J.G. of I Six5)

Jesus: there's nothing greater God could give for us
 But before He gave His life, He lived for us
 It's one of salvation's massive ingredients
 The Lord Jesus Christ and His active obedience
 Jesus: there's nothing greater God could give for us
 But before He gave His life, He lived for us
 It's one of salvation's massive ingredients
 The Lord Jesus Christ and His active obedience
 (Yeah, Matthew, chapter 3, verses 1 to 15)
 Scene 1 of our story takes place at the Jordan River
 John the Baptist proclaiming that the LORD delivers
 As He shares truth in each and every sentence
 He's telling them to bear fruit in keeping with repentance
 This God you can't handle, man, turn from your scandals
 There's One coming: I'm not worthy to hold His sandals
 When John saw Him, his mind was straight in a whirlwind
 Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin!
 Jesus- John's heart was to magnify Him
 The Lamb surprised Him when He told John to baptize Him
 Did John lack eyes to see?
 He replied, "Not to chastise, but you should be baptizing me"
 What's enticing is how Christ replied to this:
 "We must do it to fulfill all righteousness"
 So now we focus on the works of Christ
 And how the law was fulfilled in His perfect life
 Jesus: there's nothing greater God could give for us
 But before He gave His life, He lived for us
 It's one of salvation's massive ingredients
 The Lord Jesus Christ and His active obedience
 Jesus: there's nothing greater God could give for us
 But before He gave His life, He lived for us
 It's one of salvation's massive ingredients
 The Lord Jesus Christ and His active obedience
 We know today's generation can't stand lectures
 We're trying to get your attention like hand gestures
 The truth is close, like London is to Manchester
 To understand better, consider our ancestor
 Adam- it took place in the garden of Eden
 Y'all know the story- how Satan was talking to Eve then
 The snake had her all deceived then she ate & he ate
 God had decreed that that would make all of us heathens
 Romans 5: 12 really got my dome spinning
 Adam's descendants didn't die for their own sinning
 But here's the thing that you must pay attention to
 Although you weren't there, Adam represented you
 Now God is free, He doesn't need an apology
 For those who struggle though, I'll make a quick analogy
 Think logically before you criticize
 One player commits a foul, the whole team gets penalized
 We were in need of another representative
 To live the perfect life that none of us could ever live
 Cause if we're gonna be freed from our distress
 Both sides of the situation need to be addressed
 We need a substitute in our place to to be killed
 Plus we need the broken law to be obeyed and fulfilled
 And Jeremiah prophesied of this
 That the LORD Himself would be our righteousness
 Jesus: there's nothing greater God could give for us
 But before He gave His life, He lived for us
 It's one of salvation's massive ingredients
 The Lord Jesus Christ and His active obedience
 Jesus: there's nothing greater God could give for us
 But before He gave His life, He lived for us
 It's one of salvation's massive ingredients
 The Lord Jesus Christ and His active obedience
 Although we're born into a unholy environment
 A Holy God can never lower His requirement
 You think God's accepting something less than perfection?
 You must be living in a dream world like Inception
 Take refuge in Jesus, indeed, be safe
 The righteousness of Christ is to be received by faith
 Alone- that's apart from the works of the law
 Christ was murdered to reverse the curse of the fall
 So now astoundingly, Christ's righteous salary
 And Calvary counts for me
 So praise the Living God for His amazing wisdom
 We get credit for somebody else's work like plagiarism
 But He does it righteously for the worst of all heathens
 Based on 33 years of perfect law-keeping
 Believing in Jesus has crazy perks
 And I guess you can say we've been saved by works- His!
 Jesus: there's nothing greater God could give for us
 But before He gave His life, He lived for us
 It's one of salvation's massive ingredients
 The Lord Jesus Christ and His active obedience
 Jesus: there's nothing greater God could give for us
 But before He gave His life, He lived for us
 It's one of salvation's massive ingredients
 The Lord Jesus Christ and His active obedience
 (Yeah, so let us rejoice
 Not only in the death of Christ
 But in the life of Christ on our behalf
 Yeah, Romans 5: 19
 "for as by the one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners
 so, by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.")