You Traded Heaven to Have Me Again Meaning

Today is "Discernment in Music" (DiM) day here at True-blue Stewardship (ii Corinthians 10:4-vi (ESV)).

July 07, 2015. Today we'll exist taking a look at "Touch the Heaven" by Hillsong United which currently sits at #16 at 20theCountdownMagazine.

I'd similar to begin by openly albeit that I have a negative bias against all things Hillsong, due to their false teaching, bible twisting, and repeated failure to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ faithfully. I will do my best to give this song a fair evaluation, but I wanted to conspicuously admit my bias upward front. Having said that, this song has some powerful production ability, wonderfully mastered and hypnotic vocal dynamics. Lyrically… the song is cocky-indulgent, mystically emotional, nonsense. I wait forward to the day when Hillsong United puts out a theologically sound piece of music that makes it onto the top20 charts. Non so much for their sake, only for the sake of the millions who blindly follow them.

Lyric Video

Lyrics (via KLove)

Impact The Sky

What fortune lies beyond the stars
Those dazzling heights likewise vast to climb
I got so loftier to fall and so far
But I found heaven every bit love swept low

My heart chirapsia
My soul breathing
I establish my life
When I laid information technology down
Upward falling
Spirit soaring
I touch the sky
When my knees hit the ground

What treasure waits within Your scars
The gift of freedom gold can't purchase
I bought the world and sold my centre
You traded heaven to have me again

My center beating
My soul animate
I found my life
When I laid it down
Upwards falling
Spirit soaring
I impact the heaven
When my knees hit the basis

Find me here at your feet again
Everything I am
Reaching out
I give up come sweep me up in
Your dearest over again and my soul will dance on the
Wings of Forever

Observe me here at your feet again
Everything I am
Reaching out
I surrender come sweep me up in
Your love over again and my soul will dance on the
Wings of Forever

My centre beating
My soul breathing
I institute my life
When I laid information technology downward
Upwardly falling
Spirit soaring
I affect the sky
When my knees hitting the ground

My middle beating
My soul breathing
I found my life
When I laid it down
Upward falling
Spirit soaring
I touch the sky
When my knees striking the ground

Find me here at your anxiety once more
Everything I am
Reaching out
I give up come sweep me up in
Your dearest again and my soul volition dance on the
Wings of Forever

Upwardly falling
Spirit soaring
I affect the sky
When my knees hit the ground

Publishing: © 2014 Hillsong Music Publishing (APRA)
Writer(s): Joel Houston, Dylan Thomas & Michael Guy Chislett

Discussion

As I said in the introduction, these lyrics are self-indulgent. The focus of these lyrics are not on God they are on the singer. Not focused on the Gospel of Jesus Christ but on the piety/discoveries of the singer. As with most Hillsong cloth, there are allusions to or themes from scripture. No doubt the creative writing process might have even begun with some of these passages (most likely taken from the Message parody). Let'south await at a couple that I could recognize while reading through the lyrics.

"I found my life when I laid it down"

Mark 8:34-36  (ESV)

³⁴And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone would come later on me, let him deny himself and take up his cantankerous and follow me. ³⁵For whoever would save his life volition lose it, just whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel'south volition relieve it. ³⁶For what does it profit a man to gain the whole earth and forfeit his soul?

So, once we expect at the reference we see a glaring divergence between what is existence sung and what we find in Scripture. This statement is recorded in each of the Gospels, and in each Jesus is talking virtually losing your life for His sake. Hillsong United has turned this idea into a mystical discipline not unlike "emptying oneself" as we run across in the eastern religions.

"Notice me here at your feet again"

Luke 10:38-42  (ESV) | Martha and Mary

³⁸Now as they went on their style, Jesus entered a hamlet. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. ³⁹And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord'due south feet and listened to his teaching. ^xlBut Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went upward to him and said, "Lord, do you not intendance that my sister has left me to serve lone? Tell her and so to assist me." ⁴¹But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled almost many things, ⁴²but one thing is necessary. Mary has called the proficient portion, which will not be taken abroad from her."

Mary chose to sit and heed to Jesus' teaching, and information technology was the good portion that will not be taken away from her. This passage is sometimes misrepresented as an appeal for Christians that vocation, hard piece of work, and discipline are distractions from and then-called spiritual living. In contemporary services, often times allegory invoked places "praise and worship" as the practiced portion and the faithful, exegetical teaching of the scriptures as the "anxious and troubled most many things". You'll run across this whenever a church leader describes his service as "relevant", "relatable", "immature", or "young" (The Homo Behind Hillsong: Brian Houston).

John 12:ane-iii  (ESV) | Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany

12Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. ²And so they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. ³Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

For this song, I remember this is more the imagery they are going for, which moves us into the mystically emotional quality of the lyrics. This is a very intimate moment, one of deep thanksgiving (Lazarus was there afterwards having been risen from the dead by Jesus) and it leads direct into expiry and burial of Jesus Christ. That is the focus of this outcome, because Jesus would have to be buried before His trunk can exist properly anointed and washed… the very reason the women go out to the tomb on the third day, finding information technology empty… Christ had risen. But the song lyric doesn't go in that direction… instead, it gets a bit indulgent, well-nigh emotionally romantic…Everything I am, Reaching out, I surrender come sweep me up in, Your beloved over again and my soul will trip the light fantastic toe on the, Wings of Forever. We don't have the vocalist sitting at the foot of Jesus in repentance, for instruction, or fifty-fifty out of thanksgiving; rather, the vocalist is invoking surrender language for being swept upward in a loving embrace and so her soul can trip the light fantastic toe on the wings of forever. Emotional drivel.

The rest of the song is a hypnotic poetry of nonsense verse. My soul breathing… upwardly falling… I impact the heaven when my knees hit the ground… information technology's artistic, but it doesn't convey any real meaning, not in any Biblical sense. The hearer is gratis to interpret these lines in whatever way that seems to fit at whatsoever given moment. That might be fine for secular music, just shouldn't be a mainstay of Christian music.

Conclusion

This song shouldn't be sung in any church because the object of the song is the self, not God. I would argue that it shouldn't be on the Christian airwaves, considering at that place is nix in information technology directly identifying the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This vocal could have been written by a Native American spiritualist, a Hindu Yogi, or Far-eastern Buddhist. The music quality is phenomenal, just that but serves to obfuscate its lyrical pablum.

To God be the celebrity, Amen.
In Christ Jesus,
Jorge

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Source: https://faithfulstewardshipblog.com/2015/07/07/dim-touch-the-sky-by-hillsong-united/

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