Above & Below (Christian metal/hard rock) official music video

"Above & Below"
The first single from Imari Tones' upcoming new album "Coming Back Alive".
This song is a hard rock song based on The New Testament Romans chapter 8.

Music Video credit:
Filmed and edited by Tak Nakamine in DIY style
Videoshoot at Asao Christ Church (Kawasaki, Japan)
Live show footage filmed by Patrick Tufts (Note Of Grace) (At Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas Texas)
Also by/at Hardrain, Osaka
Additional footage filmed by Midori

Our upcoming new album "Coming Back Alive" is a happy album.
It consists of easygoing happy songs written in 1980's hard rock style.
However this song is an exception. This song "Above & Below" is probably the most serious song on the album. But it has a strong message of faith. That is the reason we chose this song as the first single.

Song Lyrics

"Above & Below"
(based on Romans 8&9)

Suffering today is nothing when compared to the glory in the future
We are waiting eagerly for the children of God to come
All things are bound to fail but we have hope in Him to save us
This is all God's Will and we walk in obedience

The creation on this earth is bound by death
Groaning in pain, in the pains of childbirth
But He will set us free, in the freedom of the glory like the Children of God
And we will shine, breaking free from our sins

What can we say about these things?
For it is God who justifies
He even gave us his own Son
Death, nor life, angels, nor demons
Nothing above and nothing below, anything else in the whole wide world
Can't take us away from Jesus' Love
Jesus' Love

God knows what's in our minds because the Spirit speaks to Him
The spiritual network for the saints helps us to follow Him
All things work together for good to those who love God
According to His purpose, to the image of His Son

We have been waiting in pain with our heavy heart
For the time of adoption, for the redemption of our bodies
Hope is not what we see, why still hope for what he sees
With the real hope we will persevere

As a follower of Christ, here I tell you the truth
My conscience, is ruled by the Holy Spirit
That I have sorrow and grief in my heart
I will go to the end of the world in order to save you!

How can you say we are the ones to blame
If Jesus Christ has died for us
He's risen and sits right side of God
Past, present, nor future, no power
Nothing above and nothing below, anything else in the whole wide world
Can't take us away from Jesus' Love
Jesus' Love

(Psalms 44)
"For thy sake are we killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
"Awake, why sleepest thou O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever."
"Arise for our help, And redeem us for thy mercies' sake."

Tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword? No!

Nothing above and nothing below, anything else in the whole wide world
is greater than the Love of God
Love of God is the greatest!

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