WOLVES AT THE GATE LYRICS

1. VxV

Five by five, five by five.

“I don’t know about you, I long for a place to place my hands, so that all of my guilt would be transferred away and He would drive it far from me. I, I need that! I want that! Do you? Oh, for a place! Oh, for a refuge! He’s willing to do that. All of your guilt
and all of the wrath of God against you is transferred to Him and then He goes and bears it away.”

“When Jesus, the Lamb of God dies, sins are taken away and wrath is removed. He is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world!”

2. Wake Up

John 1:23, 29; Romans 10:17

Wake up! Wake up!

The wolves are biting.
The wolves are clawing and snatching up the sheep.
For if we speak without the truth upon our lips,
We're giving in and we’re falling fast asleep.

Creating more prodigals.
More jaded and worn.
Creating more prodigals.
More jaded and worn.

We organize and strategize.
Yet we're keeping our mouths shut.
(Keeping our mouths shut)
For we are actors without action,
When the cost factors no reaction.
We hide under roof and steeple,
'Cus we're afraid of broken people.

The wolves are biting,
The wolves are clawing and snatching up the sheep.
For if we speak without the truth upon our lips,
We're giving in and we’re falling fast asleep.

Wake up! Wake up!

So if faith comes by hearing,
Why not speaking by preaching?
Though my fear is the half truths
That the many are teaching.

The world is lining you up and bids you to come,
To live on the edge till your heart it is numb.
Lining you up and bids you farewell,
To look like the righteous but still live like hell.

Are we fighting?
Are we fighting or are we asleep?
Are we dying?
Are we dying to aid the sheep?

We compromise in our own eyes,
Yet we're keeping our mouths shut.
(Keeping our mouths shut)
For we are actors without action,
When the cost factors no reaction.
We hide under roof and steeple,
'Cus we're afraid of broken people.

The wolves are biting,
The wolves are clawing and snatching up the sheep.
For if we speak without the truth upon our lips,
We're giving in and we’re falling fast asleep.

So are we crying?
So are we crying to all the lost and dead?
Behold! The lamb of God who takes away
The sins of the whole world by his blood shed.

Making straight the way,
The way of the Lord.
Making straight the way,
The way of the Lord.

“All of your guilt and all of the wrath of God against you is transferred to Him and he legally bears it away. Do you believe that Jesus Christ really is willing? That you have a sin bearer that takes away all sin, past, present and future!”

3. Dust To Dust

Mark 8:34-38

What will you gain?
What will you earn?
What is your claim?
From dust we come
And dust we return.

If I loved wealth
I'd find the root of evil.
If I lust for power
I'd lose my soul.
If I sought fame
I'd be a thief
Of all Your Honor
Honor, Glory, and Praise.

Hollow and hopeless and cold
Is value in fame and in gold.
The truest of treasures
Is to be found within His fold.

Oh how lost I would be
If my faith unwound.
(And I lost the Lord)
Oh how empty my soul
Would ever be found.
(If I gained the world)

If you're seeking after treasures
Designed by human hands
You'll come and find to realize
Your soul it demands.

If I loved wealth
I'd find the root of evil.
If I lust for power
I'd lose my soul.
If I sought fame
I'd be a thief
Of all Your Honor
Honor, Glory, and Praise.

What is your wealth?
What is your fame?
What is your goal?
If you gain the world
But lose your soul?

Oh how lost I would be
If my faith unwound.
(And I lost the Lord)
Oh how empty my soul
Would ever be found.
(If I gained the world)

The joy in knowing
I'm blood bought by the King.
My truest treasure is
I'll know my King!
Know my King!

4. Return

Isaiah 55:6-7, Psalm 103, 2 Cor. 5:20-21

If the answer is found within yourself
Then who has made the key?
Then tell me who could ever hide such truth
If not for you and me?

Now if you ever found this key inside,
Inside your very soul.
What would there ever to be found at all
Besides a gaping hole?

Return!
Return! Repent!
Return! Restore!
Return all you thirsty.
Come all who hunger.
See that our God is good.

Scream until you faint
At all of the stars and planets and sky.
They haven’t a mouth
Haven’t a mouth to speak.
Even if the earth could shout out,
Make a reply, it would tell you all to return.
Return, restore and seek.

Open up your eyes.
The light may blind,
But brings relief.
With patience and grace.
Patience and grace.
Bids all to come and

Return!
Return all you thirsty.
Come all who hunger.
Mend what we’ve broken.
Return! Repent! Return! Restore!
Come forth! Repent!
Come forth! Behold!

Just like the blind stumbling in the darkness.
Can’t find light for they walk in blackness.
Can’t find hope living without justice.
Can’t find peace while their hearts are restless.

Just like the blind
Can’t find light
Can’t find hope
Can’t find peace while their hearts are restless.

As you’re slipping down to the floor
While you’re reaching and crying out,
Crying out for someone to just hear a sound.
As you’re slipping down to the floor,
While you’re falling you’ll hear me shout
“Seek Him while He, Seek Him while He may be found.”

Open up your eyes.
The light may blind,
But brings relief.
With patience and grace.
Patience and grace.
Bids all to come and

Return!
Return all you thirsty.
Come all who hunger.
Come and see that He is
He is full of grace.
Abounding in love.
Slow to anger.
Surely good to all.

5. Relief

Hebrews 4:15-16, Matt 11:28-30

“For we do not have a God who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses,
but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.
Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find help…”

All who are burdened and seeking respite.
All of the hopeless, wretched and desperate.
All who are worn out and feeling oppressed.
Come in and find your rest.

We’ve seen your scars.
As it has captured like
Like prison bars.
Bitter and sharp it runs down.
Runs down your skin.
It doesn’t ease it hides,
Hides wounds within.

We aren’t deaf, we’ve heard.
We’ve heard your plight.
As dark as night.
In pain you’ve cried.
That “hope has died.”

I know that you’re guarded,
I’ve been there before.
Sin is crouched at your door.
Come find your rest.

I’ve traded all of my sin
I once counted worth.
For healed wounds and rebirth.
Come find your rest.

All who are burdened and seeking respite.
All of the hopeless, wretched and desperate.
All who are worn out and feeling oppressed.
Come in and find your rest.

Come in and trade your tears.
(Your tears)
All worry and ease your fears.
(Your fears)
Your burden is not unknown.
(Unknown)
Don’t run friend
You’re not alone.

“For we do not have a God who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses,
but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.
Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find help…”

For all confined come be set free.
For all the blind that long to see.
Come and receive the perfect relief.
Come and believe He bore your grief.

Rise up as the war has ceased.
No bondage you have been released.
Released, released.

All who are burdened and seeking respite.
All of the hopeless, wretched and desperate.
All who are worn out and feeling oppressed.
Come in and find your rest.

Come in and trade your tears.
(Your tears)
All worry and ease your fears.
(Your fears)
Your burden is not unknown.
(Unknown)
Don’t run friend
You’re not alone.

Come all you weak and contrite.
He’ll strengthen and clothe you in white.
Come all you weak and contrite.
He’ll strengthen and clothe you in white.

6. The Bird And The Snake

James 4:7-8

The morning is coming with a hunger to feed.
I’ll do what I’ve got to get the taste that I need.
Minute by minute and hour by hour.
I’ll feed this pit with what I find and all I can scour.

Give me a feather and I’ll trade you my friend.
It’s just a single feather dear, it won’t be the end.
Watch and you’ll learn young one, I’m not what you think.
I’ll give you all you’d ever want, to eat and to drink.

It’s too far to run. It’s too hard to fly.
There’s got to be a better way
It’s too far to run. It’s too hard to fly.
A feather’s small to give away.

One was the deal before but now I want three.
So if you want to get your fix you’ll have to agree.
Don’t you fret now, don’t you fear, you’ve still got much to give.
I’ll keep my word if you keep yours; you still need me to live.

I’m too slow to run.
I’m too weak to fly.
(I’m too slow to run)
I’m tired living day by day.
I’m too slow to run.
I’m too weak to fly.
(I’m too slow to run)
How much will I have to pay?

Fool don’t you see, you haven’t a choice.
No one will listen, hear out your voice.
You’re lost and accursed,
(Lost and accursed)
You’re dying of thirst.
(Dying of thirst)
Stop with your fighting, I’m all you’ve got.
None hear your crying, You’re hooked and caught.
Was three, now it’s six.
(Was three, now it’s six.)
Come get your fix.
(Come get your fix.)

I’m too scared to run.
I’m too nerved to fly.
(I’m too scared to run)
I once was friend but now the prey.
I’m too scared to run.
I’m too nerved to fly.
(I’m too scared to run)
Will he save or will he slay?

“Submit yourself to God. Resist the devil and He will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts.”

It’s the last time that you’ll get me.
It’s the last time that you’ll get me.
It’s your last one so now I’m free.
It’s your last one so now I’m free.

“He was a murderer from the beginning. He does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar, the father of lies.”

No! All you’ve brought me is pain and grief.
All you’ve brought me is pain and grief.
No! You deceptive and lying thief.
You deceptive and lying thief.
No! No! No! No!

Thank You my friend, now I’ll say my goodbye.
And as these fangs sink in, you’ll see, I’ll watch as you die.

7. Rest

Hebrews 9:27, 11:23; Eccl 3:11

May my lying down acquaint me with my grave.
From this life it will save.
I know I’m prone to sin, one day I’ll be whole.
These aching bones don’t hold my soul.
Hold my soul. Hold my soul.
These aching bones don’t hold my soul.

Someday I will die.
I’ll rest and leave this body.
Not up in the sky,
Will you ever find me.
Someday I’ll be gone.
I’ll rest and leave this vessel.
But not here, I’m moving on.
In peace will I settle.

Oh, they’ll dig through all of the rock and stone.
With hopes of giving rest to my,
Rest to my skin, my skin and bone.
They may take this absent vessel.
They may take and put it out to sea.
Not the Atlantic or Pacific I’ll be.
I will be. I will be.

May I never lose the heart of the restless.
When my eyes they close in death
And when my body is breathless.
May I never lose the heart of a vagrant.
When I’m buried in the depths
And when my body is vacant.

Someday I will die.
I’ll rest and leave this body.
Not up in the sky
Will you ever find me.

May my lying down acquaint me with my grave.
From this life it will save.
It is appointed once that all will expire.
To their rest or fire.
As your frailty confronts where you will attend.
Heaven or hell’s the final end.
Final end.
(Heaven or hell’s the final end.)

Someday I will die.
I’ll rest and leave this body.
Not up in the sky
Will you ever find me.
Someday I’ll be gone.
I’ll rest and leave this vessel.
But not here, I’m moving on.
I’m pressing toward the gate
And now I’m not afraid.

May I never lose the heart of the restless.
When my eyes they close in death
And when my body is breathless.
May I never lose the heart of a vagrant.
When I’m buried in the depths
And when my body is vacant.

May I never lose the heart of the restless.
We were made for eternity.
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8. East To West

Philippians 3:10, 20-21

“What is true joy or hope? Where can it be found? Is it a promise of golden streets? Is it in escaping the fires of hell? No. All things are worthless in view of the surpassing value of simply knowing God and being known by Him. Oh, that I may know Him! To one day
see the Savior who purchased my life by His very own blood, to see the King who suffered to die for a sinner like me…”

On that day when I see my king
And death has lost its sting.
(Death has lost its sting.)
Until then I’m chasing after mysteries.
I’m chasing after mysteries.
(I’m chasing after You.)

Living, You loved me though I fought.
Dying, You saved me, My soul bought.
Buried, You carried my sins away.
You carried my sins far away.

Carried my sins.
Carried my sins far away.
As far as the east is stretched from the west.
Carried my sins far away.
From east to west.
Far away.
From east to west.
Far away.

Suffering, imagine I cannot.
Forgiving, all my sins You forgot.
Rising, you eased our dismay.
You eased me of all my dismay.
All my, all my, all my dismay.

On that day when I see my king
And death has lost its sting.
(Death has lost its sting.)
Until then I’m chasing after mysteries.
I’m chasing after mysteries.
(I’m chasing after You.)

Carried my sins.
Carried my sins far away.
As far as the east is stretched from the west.
Carried my sins far away.
From east to west.
Far away.
From east to west.
Far away.

I’m looking off into the distance
And though it may just be a shadow
I’m chasing after mysteries to find
The joy in knowing Christ.

“All things are worthless in view of the surpassing value of simply knowing God and being known by Him. Oh, that I may know Him! To one day see the Savior who purchased my life by His very own blood, to see the King who suffered to die for a sinner like me…”

On that day when I see my King clothed in all of His power.
And His love.
I will join the choirs to sing of His mercies and grace
With all of His beloved.
All of His beloved.
All of His beloved.
All of His beloved.

9. Wild Heart

Titus 3:3-7; Ephesians 2

Knee deep in the swelling seas without a thought
Or realization of my dying need,
I cannot keep out this grim disease
For it has plagued and overtaken all,
All our dying breed.

Waist deep in the ocean’s sleep
Without a thought or realization of my dying need,
(I cannot) can’t keep what I didn’t reap
For I see justice coming swiftly for,
For every thought and deed.

None had taught.
Such wickedness from the start.
In deed, in thought, my heart was tearing apart.
In vain I fought.
Hoping this pain would depart.
Still no one could tame this wild heart.

Lawless and reckless, my will and my art.
“Flawless” I profess, yet wicked in heart.
Lawless and reckless, my will and my art.
“Flawless” I profess, yet wicked in heart.

A liar, a thief is what had marked my soul.
Thought lying and stealing would make me feel whole.

Neck deep in the water’s grave
Without a thought or realization of my dying need,
(I cannot) can’t keep back the coming wave
For I see it coming swiftly for,
For which I carry and plead.

None had taught.
Such wickedness from the start.
In deed, in thought,
My heart was tearing apart.
In vain I fought.
Hoping this pain would depart.
Still no one could tame this wild heart.

The ocean’s deep and thick
My lungs are filling quick.
I scream and flail and kick.
For my heart is truly sick.
I feel the end is near.
Choked up by waves of fear.
Distant, You seem unclear.
Until the Savior nears.

Cut through the night.
My curse and my plight.
Blinded by light.
Holy in white.
My heart didn’t fight.
My heart didn’t fight.
Crushed by the sight.

Shame had taught.
Of all my sin in disgrace.
In love You sought.
To bring me to Your embrace.
My life was bought.
By God in taking my place.
For none could show
Such mercy, love and grace.
Grace!

My heart didn’t fight.
My words at a loss.
Crushed by the sight.
The sight of the cross.
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10. The Convicted

Galatians 3:10-14; Romans 5

Fallen, fallen!
Here we stand wrapped up in our crimes.
It’s all of us who are afflicted.
It’s all of us convicted.

All’ve fallen!
All’ve fallen!
The verdict call is “Guilty!”
Here we stand all wrapped up in our crimes.

It is all of us who must surrender.
We’re the culprit and the lone offender
With the gavel striking down upon our crimes.
Upon our crimes.
Upon our crimes.

The guilty running free,
Without a single thought of Your grace.
Erring without a plea,
In our sin, spitting in Your face.

It’s all of us who are afflicted.
It’s all of us convicted.

It is all of us who must surrender.
We’re the culprit and the lone offender,
With the gavel striking down upon our crimes.
Upon our crimes.
Upon our crimes.

Here rise the swelling waves.
Exposed and helpless.
It surely is our graves.
Our hearts in distress
And as the waters caved,
Falling from their slope.
Our lives were truly saved.
And given true hope.

You held back the coming flood
And then You let it fall on Your Son.
This debt was bought with blood
And in Your death our victory won.
Held back the coming flood
And then You let it fall on Your Son.
This debt was bought with blood
And in Your death our victory was won.

You held back the coming flood
(The coming flood)
This debt was bought with blood
(Bought with blood)

It is all of us who must surrender.
We’re the culprit and the lone offender.
It is all of us who must surrender.
We’re the culprit and the lone offender.
With the gavel striking down upon our crimes.
Upon our crimes.
Upon our crimes.

Under that tidal wave of wrath
Our guilty souls stand.
It should have fallen on us all,
But by Your command.
Held back the crashing flood of wrath by Your hand.

We are the ones who are afflicted.
We are the ones who stand convicted.
For all of us You were afflicted.
For all of us You stood convicted.

11. Majesty In Misery

Isaiah 53:6, 10-12

Though all of us have gone our own way.
Though all of us have left and gone astray.
Left and gone astray.

The Savior restrained.
The King He was chained.
For a people of unclean lips
With our hands blood stained.
For the sake of His glory and love His power abstained

No rebellious cries with only love in His eyes.
He knew our sin meant His demise.
And as he walked in such grace,
In grief He fell on His face.
In light of all that He would embrace.

Distressed.
Until it was complete.
Distressed.
Till death had met defeat.

While never calling retreat
Or even signaled defeat
This work was not yet complete.
Despite the pain that’d ensue,
And of the torment He knew.
His face was set to see it through.
(Set to see it through)

The Savior restrained.
The King He was chained.
For a people of unclean lips
With our hands blood stained.
The Savior restrained.
The King He was chained.
For the sake of His glory and love.

Though all of us have gone our own way.
Though all of us have left and gone astray.

Cast down by wicked plans.
Tortured by our own hands.
Despised, deformed, disgraced.
Forgiving all He faced.

He was distressed until it finished.
The pain endured was not diminished.
Until the vict’ry’s sound and was won.
“Not My will but Yours be done.”

He drank it all, the cup of God’s wrath.
He drank it down to the end.
He drank it all, the cup of God’s wrath.
He drank it down to the bitter end.

You laid our wickedness on His head.
For all we’ve done and all that we’ve said.
He was crushed for our transgressions.
He was pierced for all our sins.
How could Your death mean that I live?
When it’s my life that brought You death?
Oh God I truly give
My beating heart and living breath.

12. The Father's Bargain

1 Cor. 6:20, 7:23; 2 Cor. 5:21

“What kind of love is this, friends? What kind of love is that is so big, so without bounds, that He would come, He would want, He would want to do so much to rescue people who wanted nothing to do with Him? Who fought Him even when He came to cleave us from hell?
What kind of love is it that sees us in our filth, comes to rescue us, sees us resist that rescue, but continues to rescue us anyway? What foolishness is this? That He would come offer us rescue and we would say, “No!” Why? What are we gaining by our resistance? Oh,
how glorious He is, that He saw you like that and didn’t give up!”

Oh, now my Son,
Here is a company of miserable souls
Cold and undone,
Searing their conscience with hearts black as coals.
Here now they lie
Objects of justice, deserving of wrath.
Speak Your reply.
What shall be done for them? Draw out your path.

No one can contain the power and depths
Of My abundant love.

Father, I say, such is My love and my pity for all.
There is a way for no condemnation on men to befall.

Whoa, such is my love and pity for all.
Whoa, no man can pay, I’ll make a way.
Whoa, such is my love and pity for all.
Whoa, no man can pay, I’ll make a way.

No man can pay;
Utterly broke and poor to settle their debt.
Though all’ve gone their way,
I’ll yield a way for their sins to forget.
Sins to forget.

Bring in all their sins.
Lay it all on Me.
Bring in all their sins.
Lay it all on Me.

Bring in all their sins.
Every last bill that they owe.
Lay it all on Me.
For what they reap I will sow.
Bring in all their sins.
Every last bill that they owe.
Lay it all on Me.

The place these souls have found themselves
Is one of great distress.
For even all their righteousness is just a filthy mess.
O My Son, You must understand.
That if I show mercy,
You must reckon to pay
The last bit of My rage.
For justice reigns upon this throne;
Perfection without flaw.
How can the wicked find their peace
And still have broken every law?

Let it be so,
Charge it on me.
For I can bear the weight of sin
So all would be free.

Bring in all their sins.
Every last bill that they owe.
Lay it all on Me.
For what they reap I will sow.
Bring in all their sins.
Lay it all on Me.

Blush O man, let shame hide your face.
For one of infinite worth
Has left His throne for His death
Which proves for our salvation.

Oh people hear my cries,
With all our lusts and all our lies.
When the truth’s come face to face,
Did we earn such love and grace?
No we haven’t earned a thing,
And there is nothing we can bring.
To settle this age old rift
And receive this perfect gift.

If only you knew of the grace
And love that Our God has for all,
You’d turn and look into the face
Of Jesus the Savior Who calls.

Oh people hear my cries,
With all our lusts and all our lies.
When the truth’s come face to face,
Did we earn such love and grace?
Oh we couldn’t earn a thing,
And there is nothing we can bring.
So receive this love and grace,
Believe His love and grace!







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