Church Music – Bonita Bible Mission

LOST CAPTIVE UNDONE.
Oh, the shackles cramping both my legs in this heat;
My heavy hands hang down, utter total defeat.
My head is bent eyeing their bonds with a stiff neck;
Where are the wise who’ve done no wrong; without defect?

Let them learn from my cries, dead in sins I had vent;
Life was half gone before it dawned I was hell-bent.
God’s finger of Law lit my soul and showed my fate,
When I learned my state, reading commands far too late.

In rebel’s room with no way out, locked and no relief
Beyond belief, when I found that I’m sinners’ chief.
My, oh my! What a plight, condemned and out of sight!
To whom shall I appeal? Is there proof I’m not right?

Surely I’m not that bad; some goodness must avail.
He’ll balance me up, weigh the scales if justice fails.
Then when I appear before the judge, I’ll not fudge.
I’m the man, O Lord, I admit I did misjudge.

But at last, I’ve come to my senses; I can’t succeed!
Pardon is my only hope! To whom shall I plead?
Against the laws that indict my offence
To a just judge, this would not be right. Oh, I’m dense!

Who is this that hearkens my call, coat stained with red?
His voice in the wind calls: “I’ve borne your sin instead
I’ve been bleeding, but how can I help you the best?”
Lord, save my soul from this body’s death; this my quest.

“Come follow me to my tree! Find a sight to see,
Where my burst heart’s water paid penalty for thee
My blood was shed to wash your sins, to blot them out!
I ransomed you to break your iron chains apart.”

John David

John 19:34
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
1 John 5:6.
This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood..
1 John 5:8
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood..
*1Titus 3:5-
according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost..
*1 Corinthians 12:13
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body…and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
*Ephesians 4:5
One Lord, one faith, one baptism…
*Ephesians 5:26
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word..

*The sole baptism required for regeneration. To hope in others for it brings damnable false hope.
Poem: John David
Scriptures quoted from King James Version of the Bible (Public Domain)

LOST CAPTIVE UNDONE.

THE FALLING AWAY PREDICTED BY JESUS IN “THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS”.

Is the prevailing music in assemblies and their broadcasts the music of Baal?
Have the tried and trusted sources of the Gospel unwittingly become Ichabod like Shiloh of old?
Has the remnant, the elect, grown weary, hungry, and de-motivated and finally lost contact with the Great Shepherd of the sheep?

Once there was one lost sheep absent with 99 safely in the fold. But now more typically there are 99 astray and one left in the fold.

Do the ninety and nine realize the danger of the devil’s thicket in which they are caught? Could they possibly be unaware that the thorns of the thicket grow prolifically by the worldly spell of Baal’s cacophonous and stentorian melodies?

What of the isolated ones who refuse to go the way of wandering sheep and reject the abhorrent sounds they hear? Do they long to hear again the still, small, voice of their Saviour in the quietude of yesteryear?

In their dilemma would they rather read the Word at home than hear their pulpiteer’s feigned sermons? These pontificating prophets were well described by Isaiah and Ezekiel?
(Ezekiel 13: 3-22 excerpts)

1) 3 Thus says the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! …

2) 6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The Lord says: and the Lord hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word…

3) 7Have you not spoken a lying divination, whereas you say, The Lord said it; albeit I have not spoken?

4) 10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace;

5) 17 Likewise,…the daughters of your people, which prophesy out of their own heart,

6) 22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad…and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

Article: John David
Quotations: King James Version of Holy Bible (Public Domain).

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