CBFC Worship Service 2/08/2026

Good to be with you all again.

I know uh wanna reiterate Andrew's sentiment.

I feel like I haven't been here in forever, so it really is lovely to be back with my church and my family again.

We are continuing in 1 Samuel.

So you can begin to find your way to 1 Samuel chapter 8.

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This is a a major turning point in Israel's history, of uh one of the most significant passages, if not the most significant passage in the book.

Um and yes, I am gonna say that every week I preach.

Um but it it is it is special, it's a major turning point.

So you can begin to find your way to 1 Samuel chapter 8.

1 Samuel 8 · chapter mention

In 1933, Germany was at a turning point.

Um, in many ways, a similar one.

Um they're desperate for leadership, they're afraid of uh instability, they're yearning for a regained sense of control of some sort, and so in this season of desperation, they elected a new chancellor who promised strength and security and a future for the people.

On January 30th in 1933, he was appointed and hailed by many as Germany's savior.

And then on February 1st, just days later, a young man named Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped into a radio studio in Berlin.

And instead of celebrating Germany's new leader, like basically everyone else was doing, Bonhoeffer began to issue a warning to the public.

And he warned about leaders who slowly turn into saviors.

He warned about how power corrupts, as it's said, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

And as Bonhoeffer was explaining how a nation can surrender their responsibility and their conscience and their discernment to a single figure and then become enslaved and oppressed by them unknowingly, the broadcast suddenly cut to music, mid-sentence, with no explanation, and it wasn't a a technical difficulty.

He was being actively silenced.

Long before the full horrors of the Nazi regime became known, Bonhoeffer was calling his nation to a new understanding of leadership and of rule, epitomized in King Jesus alone, insisting that Christ alone is king.

And it was this unrelenting allegiance to King Jesus that grounded his unrelenting opposition to the Nazi regime, and that led ultimately to his execution in 1945, just weeks before the end of the war.

See, Bonhoeffer understood something deeply biblical that we see here in 1 Samuel 8: that when people are afraid and uncertain and desperate for control, they are especially vulnerable to placing their hope in false kings that promise hope and end up oppressing.

And we might not live in a monarchy today, but we all long for a king and we all serve somebody, we all serve something.

We all have things that we trust to give us security and things that we look to for protection and direction.

And when things feel chaotic, we don't stop wanting a king, we just start looking in in new places more desperately, and oftentimes we choose rulers to serve us and masters to serve that end up enslaving us, and rather than giving us the freedom and stability we long for, they only take and take and take.

And that's that's not anything new.

It didn't start with us, it didn't start in 1933.

It's something we see all the way back in 1 Samuel 8 and before.

Israel is afraid and they're desperate.

Their leadership feels fragile, their future feels uncertain, and instead of trusting the God who has ruled them faithfully always, they demand a different king, a king like the nations around them.

Not because they want to get rid of God outright, but because trusting in an unseen king feels too risky for them, and so they grasp for control and they conform to the nations, and then the consequences are devastating.

And yet, even here, sovereign, patiently working through their sinful demands and through their mess to lead his people toward the true king and toward a true blessing.

So let's hear from God's word together.

If you're able, would you stand with me as we read together from 1 Samuel 8?

We'll read the whole chapter.

1 Samuel chapter 8, beginning in verse 1.

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The word of God reads as follows.

When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah, they were judges in Beersheba.

Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after Gain.

They took bribes and perverted justice.

Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah and said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways.

Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.

But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us.

And Samuel prayed to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them, according to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.

Now then, obey their voice.

Only you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.

So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king from him.

He said, These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you.

He will take your sons, and appoint them to his chariots, and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots, and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands, and commanders of fifties, and some to plough his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war, and the equipment of his chariots.

He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.

He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.

He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys and put them to his work, he will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.

And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.

But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel, and they said, No, but there shall be a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.

And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord.

And the Lord said to Samuel, Obey their voice and make them a king.

Samuel then said to the men of Israel, Go every man to his city.

This is God's word.

Meet with us now.

We pray.

Use my words to be a channel of your grace, a vessel of your presence, that by your word your spirit would meet with us in this place right now.

That sin would be expelled, that brokenness would be healed, that unbelief would be demolished, and that you would be glorified as our mighty King and loving Lord.

Amen.

As I mentioned, we see in this story that when people refuse to try trust God as their king, they grasp for control, they conform to the world, and then they suffer the consequences.

So we're gonna look at this story in those three sections control, conformity, and consequences, before then seeing how God works within the mess that his people create to bring something extraordinarily beautiful from it.

So first control, then conformity, and we'll close with the consequences.

First thing that we see in this story is that the Israelite people are grasping for control.

And they're in a tricky situation.

They've been led well by Samuel for many years, who, as chapter 7 tells us in closing, led Israel all the days of his life.

But chapter 8 opens now by pointing out a rather grim reality.

Samuel's old.

Time has passed, his days are numbered, he's been an irreplaceable asset as a leader of God's people, but he is old, he's gonna die, and so the question is raised: who will lead God's people?

Who is going to be the one to reign over them and protect them from their enemies?

And as we learn in the next couple verses, his sons won't do.

They've been appointed as judges after Samuel, but they've gone astray, just like Levi's sons did earlier in the book, becoming greedy and taking bribes.

And so the the people of Israel are understandably anxious, right?

They've got enemies all around them, they've got ungodly, disqualified judges, and now they've got a leadership vacuum on their hands that will leave them, as they see it, unstable, unprotected, and unled.

And so they do what we all do.

They they grasp for control.

They come to Samuel and say, Give us a king like all the nations.

Now, there's nothing necessarily wrong with Israel having a king.

That's actually God's design since Genesis.

He'd been regularly promising a kingdom to his people.

That's his plan, is to give them a king.

But he's also been regularly revealing himself as that king, as the true king of God's people.

Yahweh is the one that they depend on for all of their needs.

Yahweh is the one who, even in the past few chapters, has been going to war for them and defending them and fighting for them and protecting them.

Yahweh is the king of Israel.

And here Israel comes along saying, Well, sure, you know, it's great to have God behind the scenes as a sort of safety net.

But right now we got real issues to deal with, Samuel.

We got real enemies, real bills to pay and kids to raise, right?

And honestly, we need something a little bit more than a mostly silent, invisible God that we're not really sure is there most of the time.

We need someone that we can see and follow and hold accountable.

And they're not atheists, they're not rejecting God's existence, but they're still rejecting him, as God himself says in verse 7.

They're rejecting his kingship over their lives by demanding that God give them some other source of security than himself.

Unbelievers will reject God by wanting him out of their lives, but believers also reject God when we let him be a part of our lives without really trusting him or depending on him.

I spent a lot of time working over at Camp Manilan.

Um, if you haven't signed up your kids for this summer, go do that this afternoon.

Um they have a big rock climbing wall there, um, and campers will climb to the top, and then usually the scarier part, they have to repel backwards down the side, leaning their full weight back on the rope.

And some campers have no problem with this.

They've listened to the instructions, they've seen it work, they trust the rope, they trust uh the person belaying them, they lean back, walk down, they're on the ground in no time.

Um other campers, though, really struggle, and they end up leaning forward more, clutching the wall, and very precariously basically reclimbing the wall in reverse, kind of blindly feeling around for footholds.

Uh it's sometimes painful to watch.

Some of them kind of commit halfway and grab the rope and then end up just kind of bouncing and sliding down over every rock, um, which is not only painful to watch, but also hilarious.

Um so both types of campers start in the same spot.

They're both going the same direction, they both have the same equipment, and and both types of campers, ultimately, either because they followed the instructions or because of the wonderful gift of gravity, end up in the same place.

I'll just check, there's no one up there.

They all make it to the bottom eventually, but they have a totally different experience, a total different difficulty because one camper trusts the rope and the other doesn't fully.

He wants to maintain some sense of control.

He's glad the rope is there as a backup, but he never really relies on it.

And that's essentially what we see happening with God's people here in 1 Samuel 8.

They don't cut the rope, they're glad it's there, they're happy to stay connected to God as a backup, but they don't want to lean their full weight on him.

They want his presence in their life without his rule over their life.

They want his help without his kingship.

And this is constantly Israel's pattern, as God says in verse 8.

They've always been doing this, they've always been failing to trust God, never fully relying on him.

They are constantly demanding things of him in addition to himself, freedom and military success, and a guarantee of food and water and comfort and safety and all of these things in order to feel secure in him.

And this is understandable.

I mean, we we we act this way all the time.

Wouldn't it be easier to trust in God if you had some sort of guarantee of what he would do for you?

I'd be happy to trust God with my finances if he put a divine overdraft protection on my bank account that every time it ran out just sort of dipped into his infinite supply of wealth.

That'd be great.

I'd be happy to trust God with my physical health if he gave me a little divine insurance card in the mail that said, we'll get sick temporarily and minorly, but we'll always be miraculously healed in the end.

I could totally trust God if I could control him.

But that's not trust, right?

It's actually the opposite.

Control is what we seek when we don't trust someone.

This is why we form legal contracts with people that we do business with, so we can control them and mandate that they keep their word, because we don't trust that they'll keep their word, and so we control them with contracts.

When we lack trust, we seek control.

We do this with one another, we we do it especially with God, which is what Israel is doing here.

They don't trust that God will provide for them as their king.

They don't trust that he'll go to war for them and protect them and fight for them and defend them.

So they seek a king that they can see and touch and control for themselves.

Church, are you doing this with God?

Are you are you leaning back fully into his kingship and putting your weight on him, or are you still grasping for something to hold on to, something to control?

Are you trying to control your future with obsessive planning?

Are you constantly rehearsing worst-case scenarios in your head and adding backup plans to your backup plans?

Are you trying to control your security through money?

Does your inner peace rise and fall with your bank account?

Are you trying to control your life through your relationships?

Do you cling to certain people because they make you feel safe and affirmed?

Do you panic when certain people pull away or disappoint you or disagree with you?

What areas of your life are you seeking to grasp for control still rather than leaning back and trusting fully in God?

A lot of these things can look responsible, wise, even respectable, which is why they're so dangerous.

Israel didn't ask for a king because they wanted to rebel.

They asked for a king because they were afraid, and their life felt uncertain.

So they looked around at what the rest of the world was doing and began to do that, grasping for control.

That brings us to our second point, conformity.

Conformity.

The people of Israel don't simply want a king for the sake of stability.

They want a king to be like the nations, which is something they specify repeatedly throughout the chapter.

It's not just about control for them, but conformity.

The world around them had powerful men on the throne to rule and fight their battles.

The world around them had rulers that they could see and follow and trust, and Israel wants to be like the world around them.

Which essentially means that Israel doesn't want to be Israel anymore.

God's people, by design, were called out of the nations to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation, as Exodus 19 says, meaning that not only did they already all hold a royal status far exalted above any other king of the nations, but they also were called as a nation to be holy, which means not just pure, but set apart, distinct, separate, unlike the world around them.

And here they are saying, make us like the nations.

Instead of pursuing holiness and unlikeness to the culture, they pursue likeness, similarity.

They're exchanging their holiness for conformity.

They're giving up the true glory that they have as God's people for a lowly earthly status.

God called his people to be different from the nations in practically every way, to be different in their way of thinking, in their lifestyle, in their relationships, work, rest, leadership, and yet here they are throwing all of that away in an effort to be just like the world that God has called them out of, that he has saved them out of.

And church, it is not a coincidence that in rejecting God by reaching for control, Israel ends up becoming like the nations by reaching for conformity.

The two go hand in hand.

It's not a coincidence that in wanting to be the the vertical and horizontal dimensions of our faith go hand in hand.

Our devotion to God and our separation from worldliness always go together.

It's only by devoting ourselves to God and his glory that we can resist becoming like the world.

And it's only by separating our hearts from the pleasures and treasures of our sinful culture that we can remain faithfully focused on our Lord.

You can't pursue one without the other.

You can't pursue God without pursuing holiness.

You can't pursue a relationship with Jesus Christ without renouncing the ways and worship of the world.

And each of us individually and this church as a whole will lose sight of our King and the glory of our God if we allow ourselves to pursue conformity with the world.

And so we really need to ask ourselves, everyone here today, are we striving?

Am I striving to be holy, or am I attempting to become like the nations?

Are you seeking to blend in with the nations morally?

Do you downplay your Christian convictions at work or at school so that you don't stand out?

Are you seeking to cope with stress like the nations?

Do you use entertainment to numb and busyness to distract, and social media to validate, and money to stab stabilize like the nations do?

Do you idolize celebrities and entertainment and professional sports like the nations do?

Are you tempted to raise your kids like the nations do?

Do you structure their lives around achievement and sports and grades and opportunities and then try to squeeze faith into the leftover margins?

Because, church, the danger isn't that we'll just wake up one day and be atheists and reject God completely.

The danger is that little by little, inch by inch, we will reshape our faith until it fits comfortably within the patterns of the world, until we'd look just like the nations around us with little more than Christian lingo sprinkled on top.

And sometimes sometimes we when we grasp for control and seek to rely on ourselves, or when we seek to conform to the culture around us, sometimes God lets us.

One of the scariest things in the Bible is that God sometimes says yes.

That's what we see happening with Israel here.

Which brings us to our final point: consequences.

The people seek to control God when they've been called to submit to him.

They seek to conform to the culture when they've been called to be separated from it, and in response, they receive God's judgment, a terrifying judgment, not lightning striking them dead, not plagues or exile, but a yes to their request.

Oftentimes, the greatest judgment God can give us is to let us have our own way.

Some of us have seen this in our own lives with things that we think are good.

You may have seen this happen when you want something so badly that you pray for it and work for it and obsess over it and do everything you can to get it, and then you get it and it ruins you.

This is what happens basically every time someone wins the lottery, right?

It becomes rich and famous out of nowhere.

It sounds great, who couldn't use a few extra million bucks.

But within a few years, the money is gone, your happiness is gone, your security, all of your most important relationships are ruined, and what seems to have been a blessing actually turns out to be a curse.

An enormous curse.

This happens with the jobs and promotions that we work endlessly for, and we finally get, and then we look back and see how it destroyed our family along the way.

This happens with With relationships that we pursue.

We think about marriage this way a lot of times.

Like, God, I have to have this.

I need a spouse.

I can't be okay unless I'm married.

And sometimes God in his discipline lets us have what we're demanding, and we discover, wow, a spouse makes a wonderful gift, but a terrible God.

And our idolatry will ruin us and our marriage.

God teaches us in in Romans 1 that this is the essence of his judgment.

That he gives sinners over to their desires.

Contrary to how cartoons depict hell, God isn't an angry dictator torturing people mercilessly.

He is a holy, loving king who puts up patiently with unbelievable amounts of human rejection and hatred, who sometimes comes to a point with his creatures when he says, you know what, fine.

Have it your way.

Thy will be done.

Chase your sin all you want.

It's yours.

And watch how miserable it makes you.

That's what sin does, and that's what's going on here in our story this morning.

God's people reject him by asking for a king, and so God says to Samuel, listen to them, give them what they want, and watch how miserable it makes them.

But first he says, warn them.

Show them what their king will be like.

Because if they're asking for a king like the nations, then I'll give them a king like the nations.

And so what we see in verses 10 to 18 is really a sobering description of ordinary human kingship.

Samuel's not describing anything new.

He's not just giving a worst case scenario.

He is outlining precisely the standard kingly norms that were known and expected around among all the surrounding nations.

These were the rites of the kings of all the nations around Israel that they're looking to, and these would be the practices of the coming kings of Israel.

And the whole passage is driven by one word that gets repeated over and over again.

Take.

Your kings will take and take and take.

He will take your sons, he'll take your daughters, he'll take the best of your fields, he'll take the best of your grain, he'll take your servants, he'll take your flocks, he'll take.

And in the end, Samuel says, You shall be his slaves.

Slaves.

Think about that.

That language matters.

Um slavery is what God had saved them out of from Egypt, that he mentions in verse 8.

God saved them out of slavery.

You hear the irony?

They want a king to protect them, they want a king to give them freedom, they want a king to save them from danger.

And God says, if you replace my rule with human rule, you don't move forward, you move backward.

You move back into freedom or back into slavery, you're not freedom, you go back to bondage, back to Egypt.

And so what was outside of them, oppressing them before, now comes up from within.

What was external oppression in Egypt and in the days of the judges will now tear them down from the inside.

The danger isn't the Philistines anymore.

The danger will be the one that they begged God for.

Their king will take and take and take, and they will serve him as his slaves.

This is exactly what begins to unfold in the coming chapters with Saul, who takes Israel's sons for military service, he takes authority that doesn't belong to him, he takes spiritual liberties and worship, he takes God's glory, he takes and takes and takes.

And not just Saul, but David too.

Listen to how David taking advantage of Bathsheba is described in 2 Samuel 11.

And let me know if you hear any key words.

David saw from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful, and he sent messengers and took her.

And then when Nathan confronts him, he uses that word take no less than five times to describe David's sin.

David takes his loyal neighbor's wife, he takes her husband's life to cover it up, he takes his people's freedom and sends them to die in war without him.

He takes their w wealth by instituting undue taxation, which not even Saul did.

He takes and takes and takes.

Solomon isn't any better.

He builds his entire kingdom on taking, takes his free people and subjects them to forced labor.

He takes wealth for himself relentlessly.

He takes hundreds of wives and concubines, he takes and takes and takes.

This is what human lordship always does when sinful people are placed where only God belongs.

He takes, you serve.

He gains, you become enslaved.

And church, this is not just some political warning, this is a spiritual one, because the same pattern plays out in our daily lives every time that we replace God with anything else.

It takes from us and we end up a slave to it.

Whatever you rely on for happiness or security or your personal worth will become your master.

If you have to have something to give you happiness, then you are no longer in control of it.

It is in control of you.

If you have to be married to be content, your life will be ruled by the idea of marriage and you'll be miserable in your singleness and end up making foolish it foolish relationship choices.

Same is true with success.

If you seek achievement, if success and achievement are where you find your value, then success will never be enough for you.

You'll overwork, you'll compare constantly, you'll envy others' opportunities and then resent their praise.

And when you're overlooked or even just not celebrated appropriately or enough, it'll crush you.

Some of you think you're just driven.

You're just driven by success.

You're driven by its whip.

You're a slave to the very thing that you're using to get control.

If you need some sort of escape to relieve your anxiety, you'll become enslaved to that as well.

Food, alcohol, porn, social media, whatever it is that you go to to take your mind off things.

It starts small and then it takes more and more and more control of your life until the pleasure that you once ruled is now ruling you and ruining your relationships.

You think you're finding freedom, you think you're gaining control, but all you've done is enslave yourself to an oppressive ruler.

You think you can get controln?

Congrats on you, new chancellor.

It will take and take and take, and you will be its slave.

Now all of this is is very heavy and difficult to swallow in a lot of ways.

But if we know anything from the story of God's people so far, it is that He is not content to leave them in their slavery.

And what we go on to read as the story of Scripture unfolds is that despite God's people rejecting him and grasping for control and conforming to the world and ending up enslaved and oppressed by wicked rulers, despite the absolute mess that God's people end up in, a mess that they created with their sin, it is this sinful rejection of God that becomes the means by which God saves not just Israel but the nations, the whole world.

God loves to take our worst suffering and our most wicked sin and use it for our greatest good.

That's what he's doing here.

It's Israel asking for a king that gives them King Saul, who gives them King David, who leads to King Jesus, Yahweh Himself, who always has been king and always will be, coming to his people in the form of a slave, as Paul says in Philippians 2, to save them.

Church, Jesus is not a king like the nations.

False kings will always take and enslave.

Jesus came to give and to serve.

As Jesus says in Mark 10, 45, he didn't come to be served, but to serve and to give, to give his life as a ransom for many.

Most of us struggle to trust God because we think of him as stingy and oppressive.

We've come to imagine God with his arms crossed and his fists clenched, like he's sort of selfish, uptight, uncharitable, ungiving, ungenerous.

We think he's slow to give us good things.

We think that we he withholds what we really want, like he keeps what's good to himself.

And that God is exhausting to live with and really hard to trust, hard to lean your weight fully on.

But if that is our view of King Jesus, then we have confused Jesus with the false kings that he warns us about.

Because King Jesus is not a reluctant giver.

He's not an oppressive tyrant.

He is lavished, he's overflowing with kindness, he is open-handed and generous like no one you've ever heard of.

He gives and gives and gives to his people.

He is the only king who gives without taking.

He's the only one who is first to kneel in service to others.

He's the only one who refuses to enrich himself at our expense, and instead insists on becoming impoverished that we might become wealthy.

Jesus doesn't withhold a single good thing from his people.

Everything good is given to you.

He wants to give to you, church.

Everything good.

Luke 12, 32, Jesus himself says, Fear not, for it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

The very kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, God's rule and reign over the whole universe from the beginning of time, being established on earth here in 2 Samuel 8, is now given to you, his people, out of his boundless generosity and his love for you.

He doesn't just want to give you a get out of hell free card or a divine health insurance card.

He wants to give you his kingdom.

He wants to make you kings and queens to reign with him in a kingdom.

That's the kind of king that we have.

A few more.

What other king is like that?

Who else in the universe is generous and giving like King Jesus?

Romans 8 32.

Last one.

He says, He who did not spare his own son, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Do you know what Jesus wants to give you, church?

All things.

Everything.

He's not holding back from you.

He wants to give you eternal life and the world to live in forever.

Jesus came to give and give and give where everyone else takes and takes and takes.

Jesus came to serve where everyone else seeks to make you their slave.

Not because you've earned it.

Not because you have proven yourself, not because you have done anything to get on his good side, but because he is the kind of king who loves to give and to serve.

And the proof of this is not that your weak goes well.

The proof is not that your life feels stable.

The proof is the cross where he gave his very life.

When Jesus looked at people choosing false kings and rejecting him, when he looked at hearts like ours that grasp for control and conform to the world and end up enslaved, he didn't come to take revenge, he came to take your place.

So the question before you is not whether you will have a king, it is who you will trust, which king you will follow.

Trust any created king, and they will take and take and take and leave you empty alone and enslaved, I promise.

But trust King Jesus and he will give you himself and everything else with him.

Let's pray.

King Jesus, we we come before you as people who are so often afraid.

Afraid of instability and of the future and of losing control.

And Lord, in our fear, we confess how easy it is for our hearts to reach toward other kings.

We look for security in what we can see and measure and manage.

We grasp for control.

We find ourselves enslaved by the very things that we trusted to save us.

Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for wanting your help without your rule, and your presence without your kingship.

And thank you that you are not a king who takes, but a king who gives.

I thank you for the cross.

You took our place and gave your life and broke the power of every false ruler of our lives.

Lord, teach us to trust you fully.

Where we cling to control, help us to surrender where we are enslaved, set us free, rule and reign in our hearts and in this church, Lord Jesus, and may you be glorified.

We pray this in your name.

Amen.

At this time, we're gonna invite Noah and worshiping back up to leave us in the end of close.

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever.

Amen.

Thank you so much for worshiping with us this morning.

Go in peace.

We see of the light.

We see of the light.

For my sleep night.

I depend on you.

Yes, I depend on you.

You're the way the truth and the lie.

You're the world and never runs dry.

I'm the branch and you are the vine.

Draw me close and teach me to abide where this beats as I'm falling.

I depend on you.

Yes, I depend.