Romans 1:16

Romans 1:16 Now you might have heard of the phrase “On my one sixteen” But you might be thinking to yourself, “What does this even mean?” It means that you are unashamed of Jesus, our Savior And that you just don’t say it, you let it model your behavior Now with your friends you talk about sports, school, girls, and lovers But when it’s time to talk about Jesus, you run and hide under the covers Now this isn’t the way we were made to react If the gospel was the Mona Lisa we messed it up and made it abstract We are to talk about our Lord without feelings of shame So why do we so often fear to speak of his name? Now Jesus didn’t come so that we could be shy So when we are afraid to talk about him, he must ask himself, “Why?” Now I can see him looking down on us with a tear in his eye Saying, “These people refuse to accept me, even though for them I came to die” Jesus died for our sin, he came and washed it all away He completely destroyed it, it wasn’t made to stay Now to our sin, we no longer have to be slave So why is it that we still let our sin control how we behave? Jesus destroyed our sin to give us a new start He doesn’t just want you on Sunday mornings, he wants your heart It’s not a one time thing, Jesus causes a new lifestyle We must stay faithful to him, no matter what the trial People are going to hate us for what we believe They won’t embrace the joy that we receive Now living a life of one sixteen isn’t going to be easy You’re going to have to man up when you start to feel queasy There will be rough times, but it’s worth the reward We get to have a relationship with Jesus, our Savior and Lord But this wasn’t free, it was bought with a price And it happened to be our Lord offered up as a sacrifice But he took the pain of all our sin, he put it on himself He didn’t die so that the Bible could be a pretty decoration on our bookshelf He gave it to us as an instruction manual, because we are in the middle of a war It’s supposed to guide us and give us hope, not be just another monotonous chore He gave up everything he had for us, out of his blood love pours But we keep on running to the arms of another, like a group of unfaithful whores So how about we turn back to our faithful lover You may think you’re too sinful to love, that you’ve slipped up and can’t recover But if you run to God you will discover That he still loves you, he hasn’t moved on to another So if you look back at all he has done Why are we still ashamed to speak of the Son? Let’s speak of him with confidence and joy in our voices Because we know he is the best out of any of the other choices Out of all the ways to live, he’s the only one who will satisfy So let’s take his word and to our lives let’s let it apply Let’s shout the name of Jesus all over the land Let’s cry out this good news that it may grow and expand Jesus is here to save, this word must be proclaimed So let’s be on our one sixteen and live life unashamed