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Welcome back, guys. This week on The Daily Blade. I'm introducing you all to

some music that you may not have considered to be worship music before. Again, a lot of guys just

don't like contemporary worship music, but worshiping God through song is not optional. So I just

want to expand the category of worship music for you. Yesterday we looked at the song On My Knees

by the country gospel band Red Clay Strays, and today we're looking at the song Graves by the

hip-hop artist KB featuring Brandon Lake. So just a quick side note, of all the genres of music

that took the longest time to come around into the Christian world, rap probably took the longest. So I actually grew up in an area where almost everyone listened to rap and hip hop. And when I became a Christian in the early 2000s, I tried to find some solid, God-fearing, gospel-centered rap artists. And I mean, yikes. It was pretty slim pickings at the time. And luckily now, there are a lot of rappers that would fall into the solid category.

So I'm thankful for that. And KB is certainly one of those guys. So the song actually starts off

with Brandon Lake singing part of his song, Graves Into Gardens. And Brandon Lake is probably the

dominant hegemon in the contemporary Christian space. But the dude is just crazy talented

as a performer and a songwriter. So it's a

very subtle and subdued beginning of the song by Brandon Lake. The lyrics are, you turn graves

into gardens, you turn pain into promise, you bring beauty from ashes, where we go, I'll stand

by you, only you take me. And that's the first 20 seconds of the song. And then

the beat drops. And then KB comes in. And what follows is just high energy. It's a high

energy rap anthem, essentially. And KB's first line finishes Brandon Lake's last one. So we have here

Brandon Lake saying, only you take me. And then KB says, out of the grave. Again, the name of the song is Graves. And just here in the intro, the entire image is a God that regenerates, you know, a God that transforms. I mean, this is right out of Ezekiel 37, the Valley of Dry Bones passage. And it's such a powerful passage. I wanted to cut it down, but I'm actually going to read a good chunk of it here. So I'm going to read Ezekiel 37, verses 1 through 14. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley. It was full of bones, and he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. And he said to me, son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, you know. Then he said to me, prophesy over these bones and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones,

behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you,

and will cause flesh to come upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you,

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