Raising our broken things to "glory" is pretty muddled but we can look past it as there are far more egregious lyrical issues. This one stanza about God being undefeated is lyrically fine but it appears designed to soften the blow for other lyrics that are out of line. That is what a lot of these fake worship outlets do. They provide enough sound theology to allow the heresy to walk on by. This is essentially what they believe because it is what they have been taught. When Bethel sings about bringing heaven to earth, that comes from Bill Johnson's false theology of the same thinking. When Elevation sings about how you are certain biblical characters, that is what Steven Furtick teaches. Continuing:
I am
who You say I am
You crown me with confidence
I am seated
In the Heavenly place
Undefeated
With the One who has conquered it all
It is true that God says we are His beloved children, co-heirs with Christ, and seated with Him in heavenly places. The bible also says we are a new creation, indicating where God took us from that should result in all humility. It also says that we are His ambassador, which means we are supposed to carry ourselves with the dire importance of the gospel and truth. Nowhere does it say that we are crowned with confidence. It does speak of crowns, usually as rewards in eternal life. The point these lyrics make about being crowned with confidence is indicative of the overall message of this song, which again is about us. We see this now in the next stanza which switches the discussion about His victory to "my victory."
Now I
can finally see it
You're teaching me how to receive it
So let all the striving cease, oh
This is my victory
So, while the song starts with declaring the one who is undefeated in victory as being God, it now switches to "my victory." The message is conveying the need to just receive the confidence that God apparently wants to crown you with, for your victory. The bible says to work out our salvation with fear and trembling but according to Bethel all striving should cease. This narcissistic theology does not reinforce God but rather ourselves. This is not my victory. This is HIS victory. The focus is on the wrong person, as is most of Bethel theology. He is not "teaching you how to receive it." Bethel is teaching you how to usurp it. Realize the theology being taught. God is undefeated so that we can have the confidence that we too are undefeated. He is victorious so that we must receive that we now are victorious. Everything is about switching the glory from God onto ourselves. In addition to that, we are not even to strive anymore.
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