SAME FEAST II
ARTIST: THE NAZARENE
PART 2: PENTECOST, GRACE, AND THE HEART
STYLE: Wisdom Gospel rap, joyful Jewish hip hop, shofars, drums, Hebrew flavour, temple-to-heart symmetry

[INTRO]

The Law was holy.
The wound was real.
The mirror was true.
But the mirror could not heal.

Then came Jerusalem.

Same feast.
Same fire.
But now the Word had flesh,
and the Lamb had bled.

[VERSE 1]

Years kept turning, kingdoms rose,
temple still standing, priestly robes.
Pilgrims still climbed for the feast of weeks,
Shavuot songs in the city streets.

Same seven weeks, same forty-nine,
same fiftieth day in the calendar line.
Same feast remembering Sinai flame,
same holy God, same covenant Name.

But now the Word had walked in dust,
kept every command we broke in lust.
Loved the Father with all His soul,
loved His neighbour and made them whole.

Where Adam failed, Jesus stood,
where we chose pride, He chose wood.
Where we broke covenant, He obeyed,
where sin brought death, His blood was paid.

Cur Deus Homo, why God became man?
Because man owed more than man could stand.
Only God could save, yet man must pay,
so the God-Man walked the Cross-shaped way.

The Law showed the wound, the Lamb bore blame,
mercy and justice met in His Name.
Not law erased, not truth undone,
but law fulfilled in the Holy One.

[HOOK]

Same feast, deeper fire,
same God, brighter flame.
Sinai gave the holy Law,
Pentecost preached Jesus’ Name.

Stone to heart,
veil to flame,
law showed the wound,
grace came and changed.

Same feast, deeper fire,
read the sign and see:
the Word came down at Sinai,
then the Spirit set us free.

[VERSE 2]

Then came the room where the prayers were thin,
doors half-closed with remembered sin.
Ordinary men with fear in their chest,
holding Christ’s promise, learning to rest.

Not on a random ordinary date,
not just a gathering running late.
They were in Jerusalem keeping the feast,
same holy rhythm from west to east.

Then suddenly wind like creation breath,
rushing through walls, waking hearts from death.
Tongues like fire on ordinary heads,
living Word rising where silence had bled.

Not on the mountain this time alone,
not on tablets, not carved in stone.
Fire on people, Word in the chest,
human hearts becoming holy address.

Temple to body, lamp to soul,
not less holy, but deeper whole.
The curtain tore because the Lamb made way,
so the Spirit could dwell in living clay.

[CHOIR COUNTER]

Same feast.
Same fire.
Stone to heart.
Jesus is higher.

[HOOK]

Same feast, deeper fire,
same God, brighter flame.
Sinai gave the holy Law,
Pentecost preached Jesus’ Name.

Stone to heart,
veil to flame,
law showed the wound,
grace came and changed.

Same feast, deeper fire,
read the sign and see:
the Word came down at Sinai,
then the Spirit set us free.

[VERSE 3]

Law without grace leaves sinners afraid,
grace without law forgets what was paid.
Law is the mirror, faithful and clear,
grace is the mercy that draws us near.

Old Testament shadow, New Testament light,
promise unfolding before our sight.
Not contradiction, not God changing gears,
one holy story across the years.

Sinai said holy, Pentecost said go,
take what was written and let it now glow.
Not just outside in command and sign,
but inside the heart by design divine.

The prophets whispered of heart made new,
Spirit within and a will made true.
What stone could say, fire could form,
what law exposed, grace could transform.

So boast no more in your private throne,
the temple is not your ego home.
The Spirit does not descend for pride,
but for the meek who let Christ inside.

[BRIDGE]

The temple taught us blood and flame.
The Cross revealed the saving Name.
The feast was kept.
The time was true.
The sign was old.
The fire was new.

Same calendar.
Deeper grace.
Same holy God.
A brighter face.

Torah light.
Gospel flame.
Word on stone.
Word in our frame.

[VERSE 4]

So let the child hear what this means plain:
God kept the feast and spoke again.
A thousand years and more had passed,
but Heaven still held the promise fast.

Shavuot means weeks, the count complete,
Pentecost means fiftieth, fulfilled in the street.
Sinai burned with thunder and awe,
Jerusalem burned with Spirit and law.

The Law was not evil, the Law was good,
but we could not stand where holiness stood.
So Jesus came, the worthy One,
Lamb and Priest, eternal Son.

Now write Your Word where pride has been,
burn away boasting, burn away sin.
Make of my heart a lamp made bright,
menorah mercy in Gospel light.

Same feast, deeper fire,
same God, same holy story.
Law prepared the way for grace,
and Christ receives the glory.

[FINAL HOOK]

Same feast, deeper fire,
same God, brighter flame.
Sinai gave the holy Law,
Pentecost preached Jesus’ Name.

Stone to heart,
veil to flame,
law showed the wound,
grace came and changed.

Same feast, deeper fire,
read the sign and see:
the Word came down at Sinai,
then the Spirit set us free.

Temple to heart,
old to new,
one great story
coming true.

[OUTRO]

Shavuot: Weeks.
Pentecost: Fiftieth.

Same feast.
Same fire.
Same God.

At Sinai, the Word came down.
At Pentecost, the Spirit came down.

The Law was holy.
The Lamb was worthy.
The veil was torn.
The heart became dwelling place.

Same feast.
Deeper fire.
Jesus Christ is the sign.