SHAME IS DEAD, PRAISE THE LORD [Intro] Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? [Silence] PRAISE THE LORD. [Verse 1] I knew the hiding. I knew the ground. I knew what shame could make me call myself. I knew the courtroom. I knew the blame. I knew how one old wound could try to become my name. But the Scripture spoke louder. The blood spoke better. And where shame wrote GUILTY over everything— GRACE ANSWERED. [Chorus] SHAME IS DEAD! PRAISE THE LORD! They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed! SHAME IS DEAD! PRAISE THE LORD! Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed! WASHED! SANCTIFIED! JUSTIFIED! In the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God! SHAME IS DEAD! PRAISE THE LORD! [Verse 2] I will not call darkness light. I will not call wrong right. If I have sinned— I can confess. If I have wounded— I can repent. But sin doesn't get the final word. Shame doesn't get the final name. There is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. [Pre-Chorus] For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. So let conviction lead me home. But shame— GET OFF THE THRONE. [Chorus] SHAME IS DEAD! PRAISE THE LORD! There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus! SHAME IS DEAD! PRAISE THE LORD! If the Son therefore shall make you free, YE SHALL BE FREE INDEED! WASHED! SANCTIFIED! JUSTIFIED! Not by my goodness. Not by my strength. JESUS CHRIST PAID THE PRICE! SHAME IS DEAD! PRAISE THE LORD! [Long Instrumental] [Bridge] Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, DESPISING THE SHAME, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. [Silence] He endured the cross. He despised the shame. So why would I build a house for shame and live there again? [Build] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? NAY! In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us! [Breakdown] Old accusation? IT IS GOD THAT JUSTIFIETH! Old condemnation? WHO IS HE THAT CONDEMNETH! Old chains? FREE INDEED! Old stain? BUT YE ARE WASHED! Old name? A NEW CREATURE! Old darkness? LIGHT IN THE LORD! Old shame? [Silence] DEAD. PRAISE THE LORD! [Final Chorus] SHAME IS DEAD! PRAISE THE LORD! Lift up your face! Look unto Jesus! Whosoever believeth on him SHALL NOT BE ASHAMED! SHAME IS DEAD! PRAISE THE LORD! No flesh gets the glory! He that glorieth, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD! WASHED! SANCTIFIED! JUSTIFIED! MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM THAT LOVED US! FREE INDEED! NO CONDEMNATION! JESUS CHRIST GETS ALL THE GLORY! [Outro] The wound is not my name. The sin is not my saviour. The shame is not my lord. [Silence] Jesus Christ is Lord. [Long Silence] JESUS IS THE LORD.
