Temptation Lyrics

[Intro: Andy Mineo]
This body's not mine, it's yours, it's yours, it's yours
So every day, I'm fighting a war
To flee from it all 'til I'm free from it all
Flee from it all 'til I'm free from it all


[Verse 1: KB]
Ok saved at an early age
In thirty days, it felt like I had managed to murder most of my worldly ways
Worldly ways? But a couple stayed and coupled with a couple years
I'm wondering am I missing out on the thrills I had thrown away?
Was all this in vain? Strain to remain and refrain
And sustain through this flame in my veins
Lust is his name, this virgin a burden
I ain't never hit the club, maybe I just need a taste
A lil' taste, a lil' taste is like a little rape
A lil' drank, a poison but can it kill a mayne?
A heard 'em say without sex, life is a waste
But Christ is over all, I kept my pants on my waist

Turned beautiful chicks away, dudes swearin' that I'm lame
Though I got a sex drive, the Spirit's holding the brakes
There's no breaks, this is His infinite work
Content with my rib, nothing is sweet enough to desert her

[Interlude]
See some of y'all done bought the lie
That sex is what makes you a man
But that's not what makes you a man
Anybody can go lay with a woman
What makes you a man is being defined
By who you say you are in Christ
If you have Christ you have all that you need
Everything you need is bound up in the resurrected Savior
[Verse 3: Tedashii]
Flesh on the rise like the tide when I go surfing
You can see just what I prize in my life when I go searching
Roaming with my eyes; no surprise sin is lurking
Get's me every time and inside, man, I'm hurting
Pretending that I'm fine but it's a lie man I'm burdened
'Cause what's inside is never satisfied so I serve it
Afraid of getting caught so I hide, I'm so nervous
Scared that I may die begging Christ to reverse it

Lord, you are the gospel, such a bad scene
Even if I clear my history my past ain't clean
And I can try clean it up but it never seems enough
I trust myself then hurt myself, fail this is tough
I need the gospel clear see my sin for what it is
One brings life, the other death man to me plus my kids
Selfish in my ways and it's gon' put me in the grave
But Christ can save and set you free, no longer be enslaved

[Bridge: Andy Mineo]
My spirit willing but my flesh weak
And this moment is but a test see
Yeah, Lord, you're greater than all these pleasures
I just wanna see you as my treasure
God I wanna
Flee from it all 'til I'm free from it all
Flee from it all 'til I'm free from it all
Flee from it all 'til I'm free from it all
Flee from it all 'til I'm free from it all
[Interlude]
Manning up is not just managing your sexual temptations
It's not just managing your sin that's not what it means to be a man
Because you can try harder and you can do better
And you can hang on longer, that's not manning up
Manning up is our ability to lay down all of our effort
And all of our trying and all of our strength and say I trust in Jesus
I trust in his perfection, I trust in his power, I trust in his resurrection
Because He's the only one that can get me through this
And He's the only one that can make me free

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This song from the Man Up project details the battle of temptation, but more specifically sexual temptation. The 116 Clique breaks down the war between body and mind and the struggle of guys trying to Man Up, but facing a world where sex is “cool” or what “everyone does”

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