Real Vision

This is a Christian rap song by Trip Lee. I really like the imagery he uses to show all of the messages that we hear from the world, contrasted with the truth of God’s Word. I included the lyrics below because this isn’t exactly my original culture so I sometimes need clarification on what he’s saying – and I’m probably not the only one.

I love how deep the lyrics are – they talk about atheism, evolution, deism, the deity of Christ and the historical controversy over it, and the prosperity gospel.

It’s time we direct our attention towards the Creator / Cats got misconceptions, though / Look, forget about what you heard or what you thought or what they told you / And let’s bring out the right way to get to know Him

Look, I don’t know what they told you but if it don’t match up / With His holy Word, then homie they need to back up / Some they pretend like they get Him they twisting facts up / That’s why we dig in the Scriptures to know the Master / Homie, we have to if we want to get past the only thing we know being what we learned from the pastor / I really hope you’re listening, my listeners, ’cause after / We want to see Him clear like a big screen plasma / Handful of the cats I seen, they don’t really know the Lord / They think my views are extreme, think I’m going overboard / But they ain’t read a page of the place where He’s spoken for Himself in the matters, man that’s what I be quoting for / Some say He don’t exist, nah that don’t even make sense / This earth’s a masterpiece, somebody had to paint this / Forget the Big Bang or evolution and face this / He’s the King of kings and author of all creation / Some say He made it then lets it run like a clock / Nah, He controls every soul and every action on the block / If it happened then He watched and it happens on His watch / No surprise in His eyes, no my God’s never shocked

Wonderful, Counselor, Masterful / This is Jesus Christ, LORD, all capitals / This is why Trip and I trip after the mass appeal / Of people who pigeonhole Jesus as a pacifist, whoa! / A prophet with no power in His plasma / Still we preach against the views that Arius professed to have of Him (look it up!) / Meaning the deifying of Jesus was nothing more than an accident / But the Bible’s the proof that refutes and gives us facts on Him / That He was what His Daddy was, Homousia, the God-Man / Sent to save us all that He loves / And set us free from sin and shut it down like it was Attica / Anyone disbelieving this truth may want to back it up or back it up / Because the Son of Man is coming, that’s what’s up and at His judgment seat is where you will see / His holy wrath is just /But God is love, that don’t mean He’s weak! Hey check His resume / Just ’cause He lets you breath don’t mean He won’t take His breath away

These days in the church, most cats got it twisted / Don’t let them fool you on how we supposed to live this / For instance, some say to come to Christ for riches / Or maybe your blessing, but my question is what is this? / ‘Cause that ain’t the gospel, that if you put your faith in Him / To come to the Savior, and then you’ll rake that paper in? / Face it friends, they made Jesus they holy ATM / Paul would be appalled, this gospel would be disgrace to him / This false gospel strips Him of His flyness / He’s more like your servant and less like His Highness / So please don’t buy it, that idea is absurd / Jesus said the Christian life can be strife and it’s filled with hurt / Look homie I would hate for cats to get that fake stuff /And never know it’s wrong cause they won’t open a page up /I pray we erase the wrong views and embrace the Holy Word that testifies to us about the Savior