Scoundrels and Sinners
ARTIST
Written by FACELESS
DESCRIPTION
Scoundrels and Sinners is a controversial song that I knew I had to include on this first album. We decided to end the album with it, just after the Seven Churches song as if to say “We ourselves are included in this rebuke from Jesus!” To sing “I have looked at pornography” as the first line of a song doesn’t really fit with a pop-culture christianity, and makes a lot of people uncomfortable. That’s ok. For me, this song is an anthem of the truth of my filth and the glory of Christ Jesus receiving a harlot like me… and if I stand firm to the end this adulterous cheating drunkard will be clothed in the glory of His resurrection on the day He appears. What a mind-blowing truth.
Scoundrels and Sinners is part of The Witness EP.
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Lyrics
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Scoundrels and Sinners
LYRICS
I have looked at pornography
I have committed adultery
I have been the drunkard, the liar and the thief
And while I was that sinner Christ died for me
I have judged the brother next to me
I have lived my life as a Pharisee
I’ve fasted and prayed in a spiritual parade for all of the world to see
And while I was that sinner Christ died for me
Oh, what manner of love that we should be called
Children of the Most High God
Oh, what measure of love You’ve lavished on us
You take harlots and calls us Your own
Here is the question: How does a sinner like me
Enter into the kingdom of God on that day and obtain Your mercy
You take scoundrels and sinners and low lives and failures
And make us the joy of Your crown
You take the arrogant and prideful, self-righteous, false-humble
You tell the tax collector come down (and you stay at his house)
And none of us deserved it but Your life you gave it
You gladly laid it down
And all our filthy garments are now red as scarlet
Washed in the blood of the Lamb
Jesus please help us understand
Jesus please help us understand
That all our filthy garments are now red as scarlet
Washed in the blood of the Lamb.
Performed by FACELESS
Mastered by Chris Graham
Faceless is a musician associated with the Daniel Training Network, who seeks to encourage, strengthen and sober those in the Church, by singing forth gospel-truths anchored in the cross and the Day of the Lord.
