Willie Will & The 5 Solas

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So here is something from outside my wheelhouse. That said, I do love a well-turned phrase, and this man does have them — “living from the grave,” “the poetry of Jehovah’s deed,” and more. The album (with a huge list of songs) is dropping today.

CHORUS:
We’re saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, we make him known through this microphone!

I told you get your hands high soldier and praise god for the 5 Solas!
Scripture alone is the highest authority known, the Lord’s on the throne, to God be the glory alone!
I told you, get your hands high soldier and praise god for the 5 Solas!

Verse 1 – Willie Will:
The question at hand for man stands up in amazement what is the basis for man’s justification? How are we justified before a holy God, knowing Jehovah died for the bride that God would be glorified? How are we bonafide in Jehovah’s eyes? Put the 5 solas in drive and answer the question. The Latin expressions point back to the blessings, we have in His presence. I’m going to let Phanatik blast in a second, class is in session.

Verse 1 – Phanatik of Cross Movement:
Whose our connection to the Father’s affection, whose blood covers us and covers the cost of election? Christ alone! Via the cross, he crossed into death and crossed out the law, then crawled back into flesh. Skin! No one should stand between a man and God except the man who died, rise, and told his man to put his hand in his side to prove that he was alive and that He is God. These priests who couldn’t bleed for us need to stand aside.

Verse 1 – Willie Will:
Faith alone. You probably won’t believe this is totally the poetry of Jehovah’s deed. Go and read Romans 3. We see a justification apart from the law, to trust him in faith, is all we are called to do. To receive grace and be declared righteous and bear His likeness. And best of all, I get to be where Christ is. We endure in this earthly life. It is worth the price. We’re only saved by putting faith in the finished work of Christ.

Chorus

Verse 2 – Phanatik of Cross Movement:
Now I am not the type to be boxed in or locked in. I’m a watchman. I’ve watched men lose lots of friends, boxing over doctrine. So, I only throw the gloves on with love on. But, something like Sola scripture, we can’t budge on. No matter how eloquent the embellishment of the message. The reality is that the relevance of it is judgement. What was published, when heaven sent 66 books that hold more weight than 88 elephants.

Verse 2 – Willie Will:
Sola gratia. I see a lot of people trying to be a good person. Thinking it makes them righteous as if they could earn it. But, good works and morality doesn’t save. Everyone is depraved. Unashamed of sinning, living from the grave. Runaways, like sheep. We’ve all gone astray. What could exonerate sin, if not my works? Only the Father’s grace. Matter of fact by grace alone, His face is shown. It opened the way to the throne and so to take us home.

Verse 2 – Phanatik of Cross Movement:
You know every unit in the universe is uniquely maintained for the sake of the fame of God’s great name. From every molecule in solitude in outer space to cyberspace. To the ones in your bodily frame. From the eve of the first atoms with Adam and Eve, imagine every atom you could fathom. Add them and read. They will all spell out for us, when the story is done, everything only existed for the glory of one.

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Jeremy Ivens
Jeremy Ivens
8 years ago

Why did you stop posting Angel Food songs?

Chris Duncan
8 years ago
Reply to  Jeremy Ivens

It probably has something to do with craft competence.

Chris Duncan
8 years ago
Reply to  Douglas Wilson

WordPress woes. Stumbling, bumbling, fumbling, bungling, quite humbling. That’s alright — I am no WordPress expert myself. So the next time WordPress gets you down, just remember…you’ve got thumbs! Don’t go feeling bad about yourself (e.g., technoramus, abecedarian). You’ve got thumbs! Anyway, craft competence in writing books, lyrics, etc., for Douglas Wilson is high. High craft competence examples: Brother Down (e.g., song Psalm 130 from album Old Paths New Feet), Sons of Korah (e.g., song Psalm 94 from album Refuge), Jason Coghill, Phanatik, Ambassador, Cross Movement, Theocracy, Keith Green, Kemper Crabb, Phil Keaggy, Jason Truby, Jars of Clay (e.g., self-titled… Read more »

katecho
katecho
8 years ago

This is not a style that I reach to for my own listening pleasure, from a musical cadence point of view. But in terms of the art of poetry performance, I’m not sure how you can tackle the solas more fearlessly and more accessibly than they have done here. Impressive. Who else is even brave enough to try this? This is not subtle, which makes it well suited for the genre. It’s like an evangelical theological poetry bomb. Well done, much needed, and keep dropping them.

jigawatt
jigawatt
8 years ago

These priests who couldn’t bleed for us need to stand aside.

Word.

Capndweeb
Capndweeb
8 years ago
Reply to  jigawatt

Same verse jumped out at me.

jigawatt
jigawatt
8 years ago
Reply to  Capndweeb

I consider it a commentary on Matt 27:51 (I like the KJV here: “And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom”)

PerfectHold
PerfectHold
8 years ago

I like Scripture and the Scriptures 66.
They are from God indeed.
That’s enough to testify to their authority.

But Sola they’re not.
They were nonexistent in most of our history.
Ask Abel and Noah and Melchizidek.

I’m thankful for their rich help and usefulness.
But useful doesn’t equal indispensable.

I’ll grant they’ve helped us so long they feel indispensable.

But there’s also stars and wind telling us deep things.
If we had ears to hear.

Mitzi
Mitzi
8 years ago
Reply to  PerfectHold

The only way you can learn what nature is telling you is to perceive with the right instrument to separate signal from noise. You must shape your mind to interpret the data accurately by what God has made accessible. Sola scriptura.The patriarchs heard his voice directly until all was completed in the scriptures, and written down for us. They saw in part, and lived by the part they could access. We have the whole, but want to turn to our own mumblings and say they come from Nature, which is another word for our own desires. Who is wiser?

PerfectHold
PerfectHold
8 years ago
Reply to  Mitzi

Hi Mitzi. Your first sentence: You said I have to perceive with the correct instrument, the one that can separate signal from noise, in order to learn what nature is telling me? — did I correctly restate? And what instruments has God given us, that are so constructed to separate signal from noise? May we agree that those include physical biochemical tools such as eyes, ears, skin & brain? And connected to these, has He not also given us logic, sympathy and the capacity to understand? May we also agree that these are the same instruments needed to learn what… Read more »

Mitzi
Mitzi
8 years ago
Reply to  PerfectHold

I’m a scientist. Every instrument, no matter how well-designed, has to be calibrated, maintained, and operated properly to pick up signals. The data is just that-data- unless properly interpreted using the right algorithm. The birds do not speak with the voice of God. That is pantheism. They proclaim the glory of God, but not in His words or in a way to instruct us specifically. The wind is just air movement resulting from changes in temperature and pressure without reference to scripture. The fusion reactors in the sky proclaim his Glory by their design and function, but they are just… Read more »

PerfectHold
PerfectHold
8 years ago
Reply to  Mitzi

I am sorry when especially a scientist cannot (will not) see the heavens declaring the glory of God, except as static, passive, data reflectors. Do you see Scripture the same way? As data? As a collection of propositions? And if sola scriptura, then without scriptura = hell, correct? Where did you get the assumption that Melchizidek got extra-natural verbal content from God? Or Noah before he was called to build the ark? Or Abel? Or the wise men of the east? Are these not assumptions begging the question, required by your sola scriptura bibliolatry? But we do agree, do we… Read more »

PerfectHold
PerfectHold
8 years ago
Reply to  Mitzi

Stars without reference to scripture.

But never scripture without reference to stars.

PerfectHold
PerfectHold
8 years ago
Reply to  Mitzi

Exactly what content does nature lack?

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Is that enough scriptura to suffice?
Was that insufficient for salvation in old times?

If it is sufficient scriptura, how is it so much more than what the moon declares?

Or does scriptura work a magic spell?

PerfectHold
PerfectHold
8 years ago
Reply to  Mitzi

Someone once remarked how fallen sparrows reveal God’s love.

Then the Scientist informed Him of His mistake.

Dead data, is all.
Like a daughter’s kiss, just so much matter.
Nothing to see here — move along.

40 ACRES & A KARDASHIAN
40 ACRES & A KARDASHIAN
8 years ago

LMAO.

This “music” is garbage.

PC turns people into fools.

40 ACRES & A KARDASHIAN
40 ACRES & A KARDASHIAN
8 years ago

LMAO

Brian Cotner
Brian Cotner
8 years ago

Love it! I tracked down this album on Amazon, and it’s actually an amazing deal, if this is your kind of thing: FIFTY tracks for $8.99. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CIXBB4U

Brian Cotner
Brian Cotner
8 years ago

Rap seems to be an ideal genre for communicating certain types of messages, with its emphasis on the spoken (preached) word, making it exceptionally well-suited for aggressive announcement of unpopular messages, boasting, and putting down rivals — reborn in this context as preaching, proclamation and pulling down strongholds. It is also ideally suited for story-telling, which has obvious implications for biblical teaching.

Brian Cotner
Brian Cotner
8 years ago
Reply to  Brian Cotner

Here’s a great track for Good Friday, by Shai Linne. It gives a different perspective on the Crucifixion: https://youtu.be/p-qWSPRWsjs

40 ACRES & A KARDASHIAN
40 ACRES & A KARDASHIAN
8 years ago
Reply to  Brian Cotner

That this “music” is tolerated at all, let alone celebrated, is profound evidence that Christianity is an advanced state of decay and degeneracy.