Track 8 on The Higher Law
The OverflowRed Dirt Celebration
Built on Ephesians 5:18–19, Colossians 2:14, and Galatians 5:16
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The study behind the song
Built on Ephesians 5:18–19, Colossians 2:14, Galatians 5:16, Galatians 5:22–23, John 8:36, and Colossians 3:16.
The Overflow is the bonus track that closes The Higher Law, and Doulos of Jesus calls it the "Why" and the "How" of the seven songs before it. It is built on Ephesians 5:18-19, where Paul tells the church in Ephesus not to be drunk with wine but to be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. The verses set the bottle beside the Spirit and call the first a cheap imitation of the fire believers really seek.
The chorus drives home one idea: believers sing from the overflow, full of the Gospel. They do not sing for leverage or to buy their way in, but because the Cross took the penalty of sin and the legal debt of Colossians 2:14 is cancelled. Square-dance calls carry the teaching, as legalist chains are thrown in the dirt and Moses leaves the floor while the Savior takes the lead. Walking by the Spirit, free indeed, holiness becomes the natural fruit of a soul set free, and the joy of the Lord cannot keep still.
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Lyrics
Yeah! Lean on back!
Let's take it down to North Arkansas!
Grab your partner, clear the floor,
let the floorboards rattle!
Paul told the church, don't get drunk on the moonshine or the wine.
Get completely intoxicated on the Holy Ghost!
The legal debt is dead,
the prison door is off the hinges!
Fiddle player, let it roll!
Step onto the porch, let the red dirt fly,
We got a brand-new reason to shout to the sky!
Seven tracks of truth laid the legalism low,
Now the river’s acting wild with the Holy Ghost flow!
Paul wrote to Ephesus, laid it on the wood,
Don't fill your cup with what the brewery stood.
That’s a cheap imitation of the fire that we seek,
Get filled with the Spirit till the flesh gets
When the Third Person takes the rhythm of the frame,
You start singing to the saints in the Savior’s name.
With the banjo rolling and the MPC tight,
We got psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs tonight!
We are singing from the overflow,
kicking up the dust!
Shouting on the porch
because the Savior is our trust!
We are full of the Gospel,
full of the good news,
The Red Dirt sway,
we done buried the blues!
Yeah, we buried the blues!
Drums hold a steady driving pocket,
banjo takes a lightning-fast driving pattern
This is why we pick,
this is why we write,
This is why the square dance is rocking through the night!
We don't sing for a leverage,
we don't buy our way in,
We sing because the Cross took the penalty of sin!
It’s a deep country well bubbling up in the chest,
Giving every broken soul a supernatural rest.
You can’t keep it quiet,
you can’t keep it still,
When the grace of the King starts tracking down the hill!
Pass the microphone,
let the circle open wide,
A fellowship of freedom with the Spirit as our guide!
Allemande left with your legalist chains,
Throw 'em in the dirt where the righteousness reigns!
Do-si-do with the grace of the Son,
Swing your partner round,
see what Jesus has done!
Moses left the floor,
now the Savior takes the lead,
Walk by the Spirit,
you are free indeed!
It’s a radical fruit from a radical tree,
The natural byproduct of a soul set free.
We are singing from the overflow,
kicking up the dust!
Shouting on the porch
because the Savior is our trust!
We are full of the Gospel,
full of the good news,
The Red Dirt sway,
we done buried the blues!
Yeah, we buried the blues!
We ain't working for survival or a checkbox grade,
We are dancing in the sunlight that the Savior made!
Yeah! That’s the joy of the Lord right there.
Full of the Spirit.
Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs.
Doulos of Jesus.
North Arkansas Red Dirt celebration.
Session closed.
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