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Welcome to the Daily Blade. The word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.
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Great to have you all back. This week on the Daily Blade, I'm bringing you music that you might not normally label as worship. And I know a lot of men aren't really into contemporary worship music, but singing to God is not optional. So my goal is to broaden what counts as worship music. So yesterday we looked at the song Graves by the rapper kb and today we're looking at the song what It Comes to by the SCA punk band, the O.C. supertones. So I know that SCA and punk aren't everyone's favorites when it comes to music, but people that like those genres seem to really like them. And believe it or not, there are bands out there like the OC Supertones that cram a bunch of biblical truth into their songs. So let's start digging into what it comes to. So when the song strikes, I'd venture to bet that you're not kind of like expecting to hear anything that could be considered high theology, but, man, it is in there. And look, it's the Daily Blade. We only have five minutes. So I'm actually going to talk about verse three, because you'll see here in a second. Verse three, even just by itself, is full of biblical truths. And if you dig into each line, you'll be set with Bible study material for a while. So let me actually read verse three of the song to you here. It's me against my desires and inclinations. Pass through the fire into salvation. Bring water to the thirsty like irrigation. When you go toe to toe, you don't go one on one. But Christ in my place in substitution, showed me his grace's propitiation. Heard the devil laugh, and he thought he had won. But then came the comeback, the resurrection. All right, let's go line by line. Here's the line. It's me against my desires and inclinations. So the biblical theme here is man's struggle, man's war against the flesh. So this is the battle between our old sinful tendencies and our new spirit as a believer in Jesus. So we see this in Romans 7:15. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Right? Next line here. Pass through the fire into salvation. So the Biblical theme here is the refining process of purification, or the really overall purification process. And throughout our Christian walk, we will be tested. We will face trials by fire that will purify us as we work out and work our way down the path of sanctification. Right, so we see this in 1st Peter 1:7. So that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. All right, next line here. Bring water to the thirsty, like irrigation. So this is the biblical theme of ministry and spiritual provision. So this is the call for Christians to bring spiritual water to those who are spiritually thirsty. So this is Jesus in John 7. This is 37, 39. On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive. For as yet the Spirit had not been given because Jesus was not yet glorified. Next line here. When you go toe to toe, you don't go one on one. So this is the biblical theme of the presence of God and relying on Christ. And as men, we don't really like this that much because we want to rely on our own strength, but that's just not really enough in a lot of circumstances. And we see this in Exodus 14:14. The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent. Next line here. But Christ in my place in substitution. So I bet you didn't think you'd get a line about substitutionary atonement from a Scott Punk song, but, boom, there you go. I mean, this is a central core Christian doctrine. We see this in 2nd Corinthians 5:21. For our sake, he made him to be sin, who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Next line here. Showed me his graces, propitiation. So we've already talked about that this week. What is propitiation? It's a payment that satisfies. Joby talks about that all the time. Christ's sacrifice paid our sin debt, which is a debt that we could not pay, and he did so in full. Right? So Romans 3:25, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. And then we hear this line here, heard the devil laugh and he thought he had won. So this is Satan thinking that he's won, right? The but good triumphs over evil. And I immediately thought about how Satan the serpent in the garden felt likely after he got Adam and Eve to sin. Right? But God addresses Satan directly. We see this in Genesis 3:15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. He's talking about Jesus crushing the head of the serpent there. And then we have the last line of verse three here. But then came the comeback and resurrection. So this is the sweetest biblical truth of them all, which is that Christ died and was resurrected. First Corinthians 15, verses 3 and 4 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures. I mean, guys, look at all the scriptural truth and that's just from one verse of a single song. So the next time someone says that you can't get anything from worship music unless it's ccm, remind them that what it comes to by a ska punk band, the O.C. supertones, still exists. All right, come back here tomorrow where we are going to highlight a worship song from the world of indie folk rock.
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