True Dominion for a Fake Dime

True Dominion, Traded for a Fake Dime
True Dominion, Trader for a Fake Dime

Dime Dime Dime Dime Dime

We've been working at this sellout
For such a long time
Its a problem that's old
A tragedy of mankind
To see its seeds in time we rewind
To first century AD
In a word to Timothy
From Paul the apostle
This words gonna jostle
The feelings of feminists
But the word is what it is
So listen and don't get hostile

I do not permit a woman to teach
Or preach or breach
The ancient design of authority
Built at the start of time
That's not Pauls opinion
And certainly not mine
We're both only tracing
The plan of the divine
This argument isn't cultural
Its creational so lets go back further into time

Paul says, Adam was made first
And Eve was deceived that's her part in the curse
Adam's sin... is in some sense made worse
You see he didn't buy the serpent's line
He traded true dominion for a fake dime

The early church fathers thought a lot about this text
The reason Adam sinned left them perplexed
But then some of them began to crack the code
Adam ate the fruit because he feared the lonesome load
Of losing his beloved — and so the story goes
To live in the garden if his bride couldn't stay
So he sold out for a dime on the very same day
Now hear me out, brothers, that's a love that sounds true
But it's idolatry dressed up — getting ultimates confused
Putting wife above Maker is ordered love foul
Adam made his wife an idol and sin to her he bowed

Now fast-forward the tape to a second-Adam scene
Another garden, another bride, another in-between
But this Man on His knees in Gethsemane sweat
Wasn't trading His Father for a distant second best
He loved her, oh He loved her, more than Adam ever could
But He loved the Father first — that's what makes the love
good
See the serpent came back with the same old dime
Offered kingdoms in the wilderness, said “skip the climb,
Skip the cross, skip the nails, skip the cup You gotta drink,
Just bow one time, just blink, just think —
Let your mother lead you
Let Mary or Martha set the tone
Let one of the pretty damsels
Occupy your loneliness
You can have the bride without the blood on the tree”
But the second Adam said, “Get behind Me”
He wouldn't sell the Father to purchase the wife
So He kept true dominion by laying down His life
And here's the mystery the first Adam missed —
The Man who won't idolize her is the Man who gets blessed
By, covered by, cherished by, kept —
Christ didn't trade, so Christ didn't have to repent
He walked out the tomb with the keys and the bride
True Dominion restored — no fake dime on His side

So a word to the brothers in the back of the room
You inherited a garden and a guard-it-or-lose

Don't trade your dominion for a dime, for a wife,
For a job, for a screen, for a quieter life
Don't abdicate the watch then complain when she's tired
Of carrying weight that her shoulders weren't wired
To hold — that's the order that Adam overthrew
When he handed her the headship that was given to you
Love her? Yes — but love the Father more
That's the only love that knows what love is for
A man who'd sell his God to keep his bride in the room
Is a man who'll lose them both at the lip of the tomb
But a man who keeps dominion at the foot of the throne
Is a man who brings his bride to a forever home
So check the pocket, brother, see what's jingling inside
Is it true dominion? Or a counterfeit dime?
The serpent's still selling the same old deal
But a son of the second Adam knows the kingdom is real
Stand at the gate. Stand in the gap. Stand at the door.
That's the dominion you were made and remade for.

True Dominion,
Bought back at a high price
The second Adam paid it —
Now the bride's alive