Here’s a song that I’ve been listening to today.  Basically the artist was getting really upset because he read in Galatians 3:10 that if he couldn’t do everything that is holy and pleasing unto God that he could never gain salvation.  Now, he has been a Christian for a long time but the devil was whispering lies to him and trying to get him down. After spending some time praying over that verse, he was told to look at the very next line and see God’s truth.  From there he wrote a song about it.  I hope you enjoy reading this!

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Shane & Shane – Embracing Accusation

The father of lies
Coming to steal
Kill and destroy
All my hopes of being good enough
I hear him saying cursed are the ones
Who can’t abide
He’s right
Alleluia he’s right!

The devil is preaching
The song of the redeemed
That I am cursed and gone astray
I cannot gain salvation
Embracing accusation

Could the father of lies
Be telling the truth
Of God to me tonight?
If the penalty of sin is death
Then death is mine
I hear him saying cursed are the ones
Who can’t abide
He’s right
Alleluia he’s right!

The devil is preaching
The song of the redeemed
That I am cursed and gone astray
I cannot gain salvation
Embracing accusation

Oh the devil’s singing over me
An age old song
That I am cursed and gone astray
Singing the first verse so conveniently
He’s forgotten the refrain:

Jesus saves!

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What the devil speaks to you:

Galatians 3:10 (ESV) –  ¹⁰For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, ”Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”

What the truth of God is:

Galatians 3:11 (ESV) - ¹¹Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for ”The righteous shall live by faith.”

* I use the ESV because it is the most literal word-for-word translation from the original Hebrew and Greek; NIV is the most literal thought-for-though translation.

Moral of the story: Justification – Justice was served by God through Jesus and while we will never be able to do anything good enough to deserve it, we are given grace through propitiation.