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The P​.​O​.​T​.​'R. (The People of the Robe) Part I

by T. Barlow

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1.
I’m so glad That you made me Through the good and the bad I can praise thee And I’m so glad That you saved me From the path that I ran That would take me To eternal death But through faith I have eternal breath That’s through grace I ain’t earn none of that His reign I operate under that Everyday til the day He’s coming back Til then I’m a follow His feet We praise His name Cause hallowed it be If you been regenerated Then you got it like me If you want to break bread Then holla at me We the people of the robe Here to be the salt And the light to the globe The means as we walk In the light we show The way the Potter work In our hearts and we grow Doesn’t matter if you’re White, yellow, brown, negro Christ went down To the ground And He rose All the way up And He put us in His robe Bless the Lord Oh my soul The devil can’t touch What my God hand holds That goes for us Let the truth be told We were broken No hope But He’s making whole All the people that He chose Praise the Potter we the people of the robe
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Salutations How you doing I’m T And I’ll be speaking About the world But in light of the Word And what I’m seeing As the devil roam and travel the earth Consuming people Who’re wicked from the time of their birth Pursuing evil And your feelings are bound to get hurt If you’re illegal Breaking laws that come from the Lord Let me proceed to Do the work that you’ll find in the verse Up in Ephesians That’s expose And bring light to the work Of the deceiver A soldier in His army His sword I’m a keep swinging Because the enemy is busy I’m sure he will keep scheming As if he has a chance at winning He sweet dreaming There’s no victory for him His demons and these heathens But blessed be ones redeemed And receive Him By His grace they were given the faith To believe Him Cause He died for our sakes Eternally we’re breathing So make no mistake In turn I’m a be preaching For the people Of the robe Known for shining our lights Where we go So we can glorify Christ Like so Cause He’s the Lord of our life The Maestro One time for the Father Two times for the Son Three times for the Spirit One God to get it done And He did it for the people Let’s take a walk through the valley of death Follow the Shepherd Repent and believe This is not a suggestion There is no pleasing the Lord All in the flesh The living Word is both bread and sword Swallow the weapon Let it penetrate the heart in your chest And give you breath And may the flesh That got you all in your mess Be put to death And fall in line With the God of all time And get to steppin We the bride and And in God we abide We steady rep Him And He never Step away from our side Not for a second If we tried There’s no where We could hide He’s ever present With His word that be giving us life It’s effervescent And His promises are never a lie No second guessing On that cross God suffered a lot For our blessing And took away our raggedy cloth And now we’re dressed in His robe Now we’re no longer broke We’re put together And we’re set up To dwell with the Lord That’s for forever For the people Of the robe Known for shining our lights Where we go So we can glorify Christ Like so Cause He’s the Lord of our life The Maestro One time for the Father Two times for the Son Three times for the Spirit One God to get it done And He did it for the people He did it for the people of the robe So we can preach Christ Speak life, bring hope For the people of the robe
3.
My People 03:09
I thank God For the people that He gave me Starting with my parents As the people who had raised me But still took village For the building of their baby And they produced a man Who can stand When it’s crazy Shout out to my brother and my sister Even though the truth be told That you’re from another mister You’re my siblings as whole Please don’t ever get it twisted We let nothing get betwixt us If you think we’re bout that drama On my mama you can miss us True life And shout out to my wife I promise God got us And always do us right We’re blessed to have our children Three are black and two are white When I say that I do it for you Then that means I’m do or die As I try to be like Christ, man So much love in my fam Don’t see too much fighting I promise that I’m here for you And that is true for my friends And I don’t have that many cause My friends become just like fam They’re part of who I am God blessed me Immensely With people standing with me And since my God is for me Doesn’t matter who against me For every hater I discover There’s at least ten or twenty People I know love me Through the thick And through the skinny And not just with me When I’m winning And usually I’m losing This is for my people Growing with me through the movement That’s DC Jaycee GT Jay Reed CC J Kriese Read B KCK3 Hopeton And Izzy Alfonso on the mix Getting busy Shout out to Dawain and V. Dub Christi and Christina Jesus Lil Brother And Ryan Martinez Jus B, Roger That Andre Right and I can’t forget my DJ DJ Flyness Word to Genesis Word to HOPE Music Word to MYK I’m loving what Y’all doing Queen Teel Hummingbird Jocelyn And Jazmyn Regenerit Swinn And Stract be going in Christcentric chose to put me on a track Once again As we put the gospel back in Christian rap For the win This is for my people in Reformed Bars And my ninjas in the inbox Stay away from porn stars Laughing at them tick-tocks For the gospel going hard Solid never flip flop Crusading Christian Curators of Hip Hop Creators of dope art We make it and don’t chart Still speaking to your heart Crafted in His image We’re a people unified And I’m blessed to have These moments with you here throughout my life There’s so many I could name If I didn’t name yours Please don’t charge it to the game And understand the truth that I love you just the same And I’m just going off the brain And saying There’s no reason you should ever feel alone Cause my God is throne And we’re His people of the Robe
4.
I praise the Lord cause I was prodigal He found me Even though I was comfortable In my surroundings Lounging With a stony heart He took it out me Thinking on His goodness night and day Like I’m Al B Surely Christ rules everything around me Scream From the top of my lungs about the pounding He Took them nails in His body Thinking bout me He set aside His crown And laid it down It wasn’t robbery Barely was a murder Gave His life As an offering Died and then He rose to be the first Of many offspring Washed in the blood God had took the crud off me Amazingly they’re painting My Lord as a softy The scripture got Him right Get in the word And keep it salty Holy Spirit helping me remember What He taught me Man I get joy contemplating How He brought me Out of my bondage I didn’t seek Him Y’all He sought me Woke me from slumber Like fresh cup of coffee If I’d have overslept at His coming It’d have cost me More than I can ever dream of paying It is costly What kind of love Would make my God come off the throne Paying off my debt Like it was something that He owed And He was so efficient With the mission and it shows When the Spirt gives the sinner Ears to listen and we go From the children of perdition To the people of the robe Oh yeah We the people of the robe Oh yeah To the people of the robe Oh yeah And all around the globe Be the people that He mold And the people that chose Be the people of the robe I don’t have to wonder How I kept from going under My God has kept me from the Penalty of my blunder Forever with Me Father never leaves to November The devil thought he had me And I did too Until the Father came and grabbed me And brought me to The throne of grace Where He erased My sin and made me new And now I’m one for never looking like what I’ve been through Regenerated no mistaking Why I sing these tunes I’ve been renewed By the scripture When I peep these truths That was given by the Spirit That’s the way He moves Like the wind You never know where He’s gone go next But everyone He selects You’ll see those effects, kid Walk around looking like resurrected No longer dead in sin and living like wretched But rather now living like His precious blessed Bride for whom He died Whom the Father elected Without the Holy Spirit People stay rejecting God’s salvation and the Gospel message Doctrine, straight from the text Respect it By repenting of your sins And stepping in His blessing What kind of love Would make my God come off the throne Paying off my debt Like it was something that He owed And He was so efficient With the mission and it shows When the Spirt gives the sinner Ears to listen and we go From the children of perdition To the people of the robe
5.
Oh They called me bad to the bone But really they don’t know It went to the depths of my soul I was rotten to the core I was born that way But I’m that way no more Hey No more with the romance With my sin I don’t even want to hold hands Cause she wicked Trying to pull me to a slow dance To my death Cause my breath To her means squat Gotta quit her But I’m feeling Like I can’t stop On the real It’s like I wanna keep the game hot In the minute love the feeling But I think not I’m benefiting Yeah Sin has got my head spinning If you feel it Put your hands in the air with me You a witness And that means that you fell with me Just the same by His name We can go high With the wings of an eagle Yeah we gone rise Above everything illegal There’s no life If we continue with the fast living Demise Will be the end Not a friend Can be found in sin But on the flip There’s a wonderful friend in Him Who be the gift That I’m living and trusting in He never quits being Who and what He is I must be His Paid in blood When they hanged Him up Done running with sin So we’re breaking up Oh They called me bad to the bone But really they don’t know It went to the depths of my soul I was rotten to the core I was born that way But I’m that way no more Hey No more with the courtship With my sin Cause I’d rather sit and worship The Creator Cause He’s greater and He’s worth it No cap On His word He never goes back A solid rock for my footing And I will stand By His power Every second of the hour I need Him Cause sin is crouching at my door Prowling and creeping Trying to keep me from the Lord Trying to keep me weakened Trying to keep me from His word And keep me from speaking Anything holy Sin’ll rather see me tweaking Bout peeking at some twerking Trying to keep a man flirting With the death As I wreck myself Looking to the scripture As I check myself I’m saved because He’s risen Couldn’t help myself I’ve been talking bout my sin Like it ain’t myself Making wrong decisions Like I aimed for hell You can tell by consequences That it ain’t go well Man I hate myself And I mean this flesh By His grace and mercy I’m redeemed and just Sin will only hurt me And bring me stress I’m putting everything she owns In a box to the left
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The MakeUp 02:33
I got a stalker Trying to kill me named sin We got a lot of history So where do I begin I was attracted to the mystery And sin became my friend Yet the cause of my misery That friendship had to end But I had the proclivity To let her back in Due to all of my stupidity From way back when Back then I was poor lost case Looking for love In a very off place So when I felt lonely It was sin I’d chase Pride like gravity Pulling me down Along side my depravity Spinning around Head swimming in the clouds As I sink in the ground Living in a dead state Couldn’t get my head straight A fallen lump of clay Formed in iniquity Born with a wicked gene Foreign to the Spirit Reborn so that means I’m Reformed No longer be blowing Green Nor seek porn By His strength I keep going Sometimes I look back But the Shepherd pushes Me forward Cause He’s leading Me toward Everlasting glory End of story I can’t wait for it Rooted like a tree Beside the waters I’m here to stay for it I’ve been changed When you see me Watch me act brand new Awfully strange If you feel me What my God can prove I’m relaying That He’s really Bout that life and truth Bring exposure to the dark Like only light can do I was fallen I was broken Humpty Dumpty looking boy The King’s men couldn’t fix it So the King in all His glory Stepped down from His throne And took my broken Heart of stone And restored it into flesh Just to pierce it with His Word So that He could call me blessed If you knew me Please observe There’s something different bout me Yes I’m regenerated By the One I’m venerating Yes I’m far from perfect But the Holy Spirit’s penetrating The depths of my core Convicting me of all the sinful ways That saturate My day to day Sometimes I run away to pray I pray He takes the weight away And then I read the text And see He took it on that fateful day Carrying the cross Cause I was lost So He became the way I was void of all hope and Blind and I was broke I was void of all hope and Blind and I was broke I was void of all hope and Blind and I was broke Until the Potter stepped in And made me whole The Make-Up
7.
If on me salvation depended I never could have made it And I never would have did it His holiness was hated I’d have never been acquitted Of all of my sin Cause my good couldn’t fix it Cause my good really isn’t What it should be in theory A Sunday school pupil But I couldn’t see clearly Claiming I was Christian But my living wasn’t really Lining up with scripture Yet He loved me so dearly That He gave His Son And the Son He hung For the sin I’ve done He took my sin on Him Now His robe I don I abide in Him And He leads me on He’s precious We’re a product of His call and election Cause He knew that we would fall in the flesh and Be rebellious and ignore and reject Him We were dead but He brought resurrection He’s our intercessor True story I give Him all the glory I’ve been declared just Because He live and died for me I should have been cursed For not heeding His warning I’m totally deserving Of some weeping and mourning But God Came in clutch Like a stick drive Looking down on us as He sits high The righteous judge who declares us right I owe so much to my King He paid it all So glad He justified me Gave me His robe We be J-U- S-T I-F I-E-D I used to rumble in the mud Til He cleaned me Did the scrubbing with His blood And He freed me From doing all the work What a relief Cause the product of my work Is a deep sleep I was a pervert of a jerk Before my pre-teens Before they hung Him there to hurt He could see me That’s why He came down to earth To redeem me Now I wait for His return Not a repeat Because the first time He came As a meek sheep His return he’ll be coming As a King Beast I got a mean peace in Him And a big feast with him He prepared a big dinner For a measly sinner See the King He sitting Where the interceding hitting For the sin He be forgiving Gave me a new robe As he sees me in it And I can dwell with Him forever With the brethren together Yeah that means infinite Word up my faith is a gift from Him Cause He paid my debt When He hung His head And died now He’s risen To His throne on high On the Father’s right side In life we reign with Him As He pull us from our evil We’re peculiar as a people A new heart and it starts with Him Justified set apart from sin
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I was a depraved wretch An enslaved mess And the sin I was in Came straight from the chest I pleased my flesh As I willed I wasn't really good at much But sin was my skill I was perverted Oh so dirty Very early in my life And without worry I would hurry Like a birdy I would fly To sin again And if get Caught up I would lie And I grew up in the church So I knew it wasn't right See my heart was so deceitful Full of evil Should have died Except for Jesus Called the Christ He gave His life Instead of mine He came down from the sky And He dwelled To free me from my love of sin and my unrighteous self I went from dead in sin To having life Himself That's why I'll never feel the wrath Like He felt Since I'm purchased by the blood He is my everything My debt is paid in full I've been redeemed The Father came and made me whole I was broken and I’d sank so low Swimming in iniquity How is it he would stick with me And save me expeditiously Whoa-oh-Oh! He dressed me in His favored robe When He hung and when He saved my soul I was lost without a hope I had no heaven in my scope So much leaven in throat Like Whoa-oh-Oh! Praise the Potter that He made me whole Holy and Omnipotent Immutable, benevolent Worthy of all reverence You’re the God of it all Omniscient and You’re sovereign High but yet You call me friend Freed me, I was bound in sin I was saved by Your call Graciously You’re merciful Worker of all miracles In the spiritual and physical In charge of it all You’re everywhere, not never there Your Holy Spirit makes it clear By giving us the ears to hear He came for the lost So glad He found me He’s in me and surrounds me When I start to drift He use His grip To grab and ground me He holds me and He molds me He lifted me from sinking sand Now where I stand is stony Transforms me to His image While killing off the old me I’m a product of the Potter He slaughtered my flesh The Father He bothered to bless This sloppy and slovenly mess He got me so covered I rest In God and His promises Yes He’s just And the best of the best The message of hesed Is nothing less Than the death of the death I live by His blessing and breath And live as His blessed elect Could’ve left me a wretched reject Instead in His presence I dwell By His hand and His will And He will Complete what He started No doubt about it I’m the work of the Artist It’s me, oh Lord Standing in the need of prayer

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released November 25, 2021

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