Is It Gospel? - Hazakim's "Brace Yourself"

I love this song....let me just get that out first. The important thing to understand that the duo, two brothers, making up the group Hazakim refer to their music as "Hip Hop Hopologetics". They use hip hop music to praise God and teach apologetics. I enjoy the way they put their music together and the messages they convey.

This particular post is about their song "Brace Yourself". The song is most definitely gospel It praises God for who HE is - His power and His authority and His sovereignty. They even fit in God's love and our responsibility to Him. Some of the lyrics are straight from scripture and all of the song has scriptural underpinnings. For example when the lines of the songs say:

"Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said:

"Who is this that darkens my counsel
with words without knowledge?

Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me. "

This is straight from Job 38:1-3. The song continues with much of the same imagery and language used in Job when God answered Job and us when we ask the question "Why is this happening to me." I believe that this is as close as an apologetic we get from God in the Bible. On top of that the song exalts God and talks about His omniscience, His omnipresence, and His omnipotence. The song points out that omnipresence is not just being present everywhere at once but at all times also. As the song says

I am with Gideon as he fights Midianites [sword clashes] and at the same timeI am in this Millinium right now!

It's awesome thought. Gideon is in the book of Judges before 1000 BCE! He's with Him and us right now at the same time! Of course this means thinking of Time as a constant where past, present, and future exist at the same time although we don't experience them at the same time. Who says God doesn't see it that way since He created time and space themselves and transcends both of them.

Here is the song

Hazakim - Brace Yo...

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