To the Church in America (Rap)

Scripture References:

Isaiah 29:13 – "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me."

Jeremiah 2:11-13 – "Has a nation ever changed its gods? Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols."

Isaiah 1:15 – "When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!"

1 John 2:15 – "Do not love the world or the things in the world."

Hosea 8:7 – "They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind."

Isaiah 5:20-21 – "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil... Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes."

Isaiah 59:2-3 – "Your iniquities have separated you from your God... your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt."

Proverbs 6:16-17 – "There are six things the Lord hates... hands that shed innocent blood."

Jeremiah 6:13 – "From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit."

Amos 2:12 – "But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy."

Micah 3:11 – "Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money."

Revelation 3:17 – "You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked."

Isaiah 1:11-15 – "The multitude of your sacrifices—what are they to me? says the Lord. I have more than enough of burnt offerings."

Nahum 1:2-3 – "The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished."

Genesis 19:24-25 – "Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens."

Jeremiah 5:3 – "Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain."

Genesis 18:20-21 – "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous."

Amos 5:24 – "But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!"

Joel 2:12-13 – "Return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning."

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3 – "For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night."