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I hear them coming to drag me away
I hear them coming but I won't run away
I'll stand trial for my King
For He has already bought my victory
Do what you will
The best is yet to come for me
I stand for my God
And His son at the right of His throne
The son you killed, He rose again
The son you killed is the light for men
The son you killed is my salvation
The son you killed offers you salvation
Yet you are stiff-necked and set in your ways
Just as your fathers did you deny God's way
How many prophets turned away in dismay
As you chase kingdoms that will burn today
Don't you see God's plan in all things
His story painted through our history
From our covenant father to Calvary
His work has always bought our victory
We've been stranded in the desert
We've been beaten as slaves
And everyone that has been sent
You either killed or sent away
But all the pain and scars were designed by the maker
The path He planned for the ultimate Savior
Now I will join the masses of martyrs
I see Heaven opening up
The clouds part to clear my view
I see Christ standing at the right hand of God
Wearing a crown as king
I see Heaven opening up
The clouds part to clear my view
I see Christ standing at the right hand of God
His arms outstretched, He's calling me home
Father forgive them
Take this body, End this life
Crush this body, Begin afterlife
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Self Righteous
04:36
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You, you break my heart
Your self-righteous spirit tears my church apart
My tears run freely as rivers of pain
Mourning those killed for my name
You spit in my face
Yet my blood runs freely with grace
Yet you reject my gift
And choose to persecute those who refuse to bow down to you
I can hear the souls of the martyrs crying out
The voices of those who have been slain in my name
"How long how long until your judgment comes and our blood is avenged"
You, you break my heart
Your self-righteous spirit tears my church apart
My tears run freely as rivers of pain
Mourning those killed for my name
You think you know my heart
But you don’t truly see
Will you ever accept my love
Don’t you see I can set you free
You’ve rejected the truth, and pursued your own way
And now you’ve shut off the kingdom with your prideful display
You travel the seas, and you scour the lands
Just to make a convert to damnation from an innocent man
You’ve made him twice as much a son of hell
I ache for those I love
I am filled with pain
Their souls will rise above
They will rise above
My heart lies on the ground
Shattered by your ignorant words
These faithful few are far more righteous than you
You are the unholy ones
You are savages
Contorting my will for all mankind
You are murders
Will you ever understand my heart
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Fury
05:17
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Lay your cloaks at my feet if you're here for the killing
If this one's a shepherd then we'll scatter his sheep
They'll flee from the sounds of our feet as we cleanse this land of heresy
Our homeland will be made whole again
I will crucify every one of these men
None of these followers will rise again
The women and the children led away in chains
We'll see what becomes of this Christ's name
I will snuff out their candle, pull the wick from within
This way cannot be a light for them
Our ways have been set through the generations
As traditions for God's chosen nation
Who do they think they are
What do they think this is
There is no room for this heresy and I am licensed to kill
I was trained from an early age
Our laws are my passion
I was brought up in the only way
To protect it is my mission
I will do my part
To train this generation
I will do my part
To protect this my nation
I am the very hand of God
His talons outstretched as I deal out death
I will strike, like a hammer on an anvil
Strike, strike, strike until there's nothing left
I am Saul, Saul of Tarsus
Learn to fear my name
I am Saul, Saul of Tarsus
I will end this “way”
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Redirection
04:04
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So, you say your name is Saul
You say you'll end My Way
Saul, I'm the one who made you Saul
What can you do to stand against Me
Is it hard to kick against the goads
Don't you feel the pain as You stray from My way
Oh don't you feel My pain, don't you feel the pain
The pain of seeing a son so turned against My name
I am the truth you could not find
So let Me show you who I am
I am the one they crucified
I am the Christ that you deny
The men you killed, they stood for Me
Your hate binds you I will set you free
I will bring you back
This is the voice of me calling you
I will bring you back
You'll be a light to call others home
I'll send you out into the darkness
You'll be a light for me
Through you ears will be opened
Blind eyes will see
You closed your mind, I'll close your eyes
You'll never shut me out again
The one who will open your eyes
Is one you would have despised
I'll show you the multitude of suffering that will be yours
You will be despised as you follow My name
You will be put in prison, You will be stoned
You'll be shut out, cast out, shipwrecked and left alone
Abandoned by your kin
And Prisoner in a strange land
The path you're on brings suffering
I will bear you up
The road you're on is paved with hardship
I will be your strength
I made you for this
The vessel for this message
(You will) Go forth to the Gentiles
Bring to them My light and life
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Saul:Paul
02:19
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Blind Sight
03:57
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I'm blind, what have you done to me
You said that I was chained, and you would set me free
But I thought I waged war for You
Was my faith so misconstrued
Where is the angry God
The God who hates heresy
Where is the God I thought I knew
I thought that I was following after You
It's been three days I still can't see
But You are getting through to me
I still don't fully understand
But Christ please set me free
Set me free
God please open my eyes I wanna see your glory shine My spirit is awakening
Your love and mercy are covering me
I finally see the person I'm supposed to be and am called to be
My child don’t you ever forget
That I loved you
Before you ever loved Me
And I had a plan for you
When I set you free
If you carry your cross and run the race
I promise one day you’ll see My face
You will claim the final victory
As long as you follow after Me
I will carry my cross and run the race
I know that one day I’ll see Your face
I will claim the final victory
As long as I go where You're leading Me
I will build where I once laid waste
I will love with a heart that only carried hate
I spent my life tearing down the only true foundation
And now I'll build it up
I will go to the ends of the earth
To proclaim Your name and Your worth
Over the land or on the stormy sea
I'm on Your mission to set souls free
Set souls free
He touched my eyes the scales came off
He cleansed my mind the scales are gone
For the first time in my life I've opened up my eyes
The deceiver is defeated I'm no longer blind
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Inner War (Ft. Dan Gray)
03:53
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I am at war with myself, things never seem to change
Every time I win this fight, I wake to find myself in chains
Over and over and over again
Over and over still I cannot win
This war has dragged on for so many years
That I will not overcome is my biggest fear
I do what I don't want, and don't do what I want to do
This dichotomy is killing me. Thank God for a Savior
I am a liar and a hypocrite
The chief of sinners
Please save me from myself
I am my own worst enemy
What I hate most wells up from within
Everything from my former self
Is holding me back, is promoting my sin
All the good I want to do
Is left to die as I give in
All the evil desensitizes
My most effective anodyne
I need to fight this evil
I need to accept the truth
That Christ came into the world to save its sinners
Of whom I am the worst
I am the worst of sinners
I am shown mercy so that in me
His patience is on full display
So why is my spirit at war, why can’t I follow his way
I am at war with myself
It's the same old thing, over and over
The same old thing, again and again
Every time I pull this thorn from my skin
I feel it tearing my flesh again
And every time I think I've won
It digs and it digs until I'm overcome
It's the same old thing, over and over
The same old thing, again and again
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Jews and Djentiles
05:03
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We were all dead
Rotting, empty, broken, hopelessly gone
Blindly following the dictator of the unseen world
Yes I was a dead man
Committing crime and killing Christ Condoning corruption just to see God’s demise
I was dead inside
We all lived in darkness
We had no sense of consequence
Trapped in a lie we were blinded
The perfect contrast against righteousness
We all lived in darkness
We had no sense of consequence
Despite the filth
And through our guilt
Our father gave us new life
He breathed his life into us
Giving us true purpose now we are finally free
He made us new creations shattered our past and showed us what we were made to be
Made to be
Our lives taken by the potter’s hands and made new again
We’re born again we have vitality
Proclaim his name for the world to see
He gave us life and made us new
Through his mercy not our merit not through anything we do
This life is a gift for all who believe. Possession of this salvation does not make us better than others, rather humble servants and ambassadors for Christ’s sake.
Pick it up
This is a gift this is a call
Use it for the kingdom or you’ll waste it all
This is a gift this is a call
Use it for the kingdom or you’ll waste it all
Resurrect
Resurrect, resurrect me now.
Salvation isn’t meant to be confined
Preach the good news to the rest of human kind
Proclaim it to the beat down, lost, and gone
The ones left behind
Be the one to show them what true love
Looks like
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Hands and Feet
01:29
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Longsuffering
05:12
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My life is a story of transformation and submission
I was saved as a young man from the evil of my own plans
God's faithfulness on full display
He's been with me day after day
I've been to the far corners of the earth
Grateful for His grace that gave me second birth
I've followed his leading, I've preached his name
Going where he sends me and following His ways
I followed God and I was thrown and prison
My companions with me were locked away
Yet we prayed and praised and our chains fell off
We prayed and praised and the doors unlocked
Though while in prison we despaired for life
In our weakness and our worship, God saw our plight
He broke the chains from our wrists, the walls around us split
Having the opportunity to escape we didn't take it
That witness led the jailer to take on new life
Instead of throwing it away and widowing his wife
If you're willing to be used, you'll see lives transformed
He'll be faithful through the trials and the violence of the storm
The storms of life
The winds of the enemy
The waves of the sea
Even when it seems as though we're going underneath
Caught in a raging storm
Tossed by the angry waves
Tormented by the wind
Driven towards land
We made it out alive
So the lesson is trust in God
He's there in the midst of hardship
Giving strength where we would fail
Giving hope when death seems real
Building us up when we are weak
He is the fullness we constantly seek
My life has been anything but easy
Following God is never easy
But all the suffering was worth it
Knowing my pain bore witness to my savior
My God made a way for me
If pain's my price I'll gladly pay
Everything in this world will come to pass
Suffering lasting but a moment
My life is but a vapor
In the face of eternity
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(a)thanatos (Ft. JTB)
04:26
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Waking up in the cold and dark
I hear their footsteps coming, it's so ironic
'Cause we started here so long ago
I chose hatred over grace
Look where it got me
Loving violence over mercy
Killing innocent men
The same old thing happens yet again
Just like Jesus, Stephen, and the prophets
Humanity killing off God's chosen ones
Though I long to go
I feel there's more work for me to do
If I stay they're edified
If I go, I go to Christ
I'm so torn
I know I've run the race
Running for the prize
I know I've fought the fight
Victories seen by heaven's eyes
Both my triumphs and my sufferings giving glory to my King
That's why I'm here at the end of my life, sitting in this prison cell, waiting for my demise
But this present suffering pales against the glories to come
This present anguish a jewel in the crown of life
I long to see heaven open up
I long to worship my King
Face to face
Before His throne of grace
My Father’s calling me
Still there’s people wandering and squandering their lives for something unworthy of following
It’s time to pass to torch to all the ministers who’ve followed me
And pass into the greatness of His glory ‘cause these bones are weak
I’m ready to ascend into the presence of the Most High
Man it’s been a long ride
Seen a lot of miracles
I’m ready for a body not confined by the boundaries of gravity
I have established that everything I’ve been establishing here has amounted to the final ascension
I’m about to fall on my knees at the feet of my King
Forever and ever in heaven
It’s time to let go of tears that I’ve cried
There is no reason to run or to hide
I’ve been in the kingdom of the world for a long time and my reward is up in the sky
I didn’t deserve it
I used to murder these people but grace has made me alive
How is it that I have been blessed just to serve at the feet of the God who has given us time
I’m ready to go
I’m leaving my shoes at the door and preparing for death and to be made alive
This world I am leaving it better than when I arrived
It’s time to escape from corruption and evil and sin and temptation and all of the lies
I’m standing at the gates of heaven and I’m ready as ever to open them up and walk inside
I hear them at my door
They're here to drag me away
I stood the trial
I passed the test
Now do what you will
The best is yet to come for me
Take this body, and its life
I'll enter heaven's afterlife
Now
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The Commission
02:32
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As Lions and Lambs Lancaster, Pennsylvania
As Lions And Lambs is a metalcore band from Lancaster, PA, featuring the talents of Matt McNamara, Dan Schweikert, Mitch Blank and Zach Blank. The band has a passion for chugging out heavy breakdowns and spreading the word of God through their music. Members of Sancrosanct Records Family ... more
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