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Everything You've Heard (Matt​.​)

from The Scripture to Music Project DEMOS [A Sides] by Caroline Cobb

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From Matthew 5:17-48, part of Jesus' well-known Sermon on the Mount. Here, Jesus is taking the common understanding of the law - don't murder, don't commit adultery, an eye for an eye - and cutting deeper. He's cutting to the heart of the matter: the heart itself.

Most people don't just commit murder or even adultery, but anger and lust? Jesus is equating these sins of the heart with the more outward sins of murder and adultery. With this perspective in mind, we will always fall so short of fulfilling the law perfectly.

But the good news is that what we fail to do in regard to the law, Jesus does perfectly and completely.

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You've heard it said
Don’t you murder anyone
But you carry your anger like a knife
And your insults like a gun

You've heard it said
Don’t you cheat on your wife
But your mind is a motel room
And you undress the other woman with your eyes

Everything you’ve heard
I’m turning on its head
I’m cutting to the quick
Of the law and the prophets
I’m going to finish what they said

They all say love your friends
Hate your enemies
But I say to you love them
And when they strike, you turn the other cheek

‘Cause you’re the son of the One
Who sends the sun and rain
On both the good and the evil
So don’t you think you should do the same

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from The Scripture to Music Project DEMOS [A Sides], released November 11, 2011

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Caroline Cobb Dallas, Texas

Before her thirtieth birthday, singer-songwriter Caroline Cobb set a goal to write a song for every book of the Bible in one year. That year set in motion a passion: to tell the stories of scripture through music, helping you rehearse and remember the good news of God's Story as you listen. ... more

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