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• 00:00 ♪♪♪
• 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots," with insightful
• 00:07 Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:10 This week, we see the kingdom of Israel torn in two as we
• 00:14 continue our series, "Kings and Kingdoms."
• 00:18 ♪♪♪
• 01:08 David Hart: We're glad you've joined us today,
• 01:09 I'm David Hart.
• 01:11 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:12 Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:14 And I'm reminded of an old Mel Brooks movie, where he said,
• 01:16 "It's great to be the king."
• 01:18 You know, he was kind of celebrating, you know, power.
• 01:21 It's great to be the boss, but not really.
• 01:24 There's awesome responsibilities, and when
• 01:27 you mess up, you mess up big sometimes.
• 01:29 Kirsten: When you mess up, people talk about it for
• 01:31 thousands of years.
• 01:32 Jeffrey: That's the God's honest truth when it's recorded in
• 01:34 biblical literature.
• 01:36 And we see the good, the bad, and the ugly, way too much bad
• 01:37 and ugly, I think.
• 01:39 David: That's right.
• 01:40 We begin Dr. Seif's teaching in Jerusalem.
• 01:42 Let's go there right now.
• 01:44 ♪♪♪
• 01:52 Jeffrey: These walls are from the Ottoman Empire.
• 01:55 Actually, it goes back hundreds of years.
• 01:58 And they remind me of the walls around Jerusalem that go back
• 02:01 thousands of years.
• 02:04 The purpose being, of course, to protect those inside from
• 02:08 invasions from outside.
• 02:11 Now, one can protect from bows and arrows, but the question on
• 02:15 the table today is, what can protect you from your
• 02:19 own stupidity?
• 02:24 I might get some mail for this on the negative side.
• 02:28 I say that because Solomon, and rightly so, in biblical
• 02:32 literature is construed as the wisest of them all.
• 02:37 But if you look at the narration in the literature, it's also
• 02:40 evidence that he was the dumbest of them all.
• 02:45 I mentioned that, you know, Solomon comes to power as a
• 02:48 made man.
• 02:50 His father David had accrued wealth, expanded empire.
• 02:55 Solomon is tasked then with building a temple and more.
• 02:58 And he does all that, but he doesn't just do that.
• 03:03 His father David was a man after God's own heart.
• 03:06 Solomon's heart drifted.
• 03:09 The book of Ecclesiastes in biblical literature attests to
• 03:12 the fact that this man who had everything invested his energies
• 03:15 in the pursuit of more.
• 03:18 He was acquisitive with goods.
• 03:21 He was acquisitive with human beings.
• 03:23 He himself gathered 1,000 women to himself.
• 03:26 I mean, this is a sex addict.
• 03:29 This guy had a lot of problems, spent a lot of money.
• 03:32 All these queens, you know, bear princes and princesses.
• 03:36 Everybody wants an apartment in the capital city and a
• 03:38 Rolex watch.
• 03:40 Who's paying for all this?
• 03:42 Well, Solomon had a great idea, let's just raise taxes.
• 03:46 Now, think of this for a second.
• 03:48 This is indeed a recipe for disaster for a politician,
• 03:52 particularly if you're raising taxes just because of your
• 03:57 own mistakes.
• 03:59 I mention that because when Solomon's life runs its course
• 04:03 and his son Rehoboam comes to power, Rehoboam has to pay
• 04:08 the piper.
• 04:10 We're going to look in 1 Kings chapter 12 and see the story,
• 04:14 and it really is something of an inglorious story.
• 04:17 I mention that because when Rehoboam comes to power there
• 04:22 with his coronation, the people present him and say, "Listen, we
• 04:26 know who your father is, we know the dynasty, and we'll serve
• 04:30 you well.
• 04:32 We'll serve you, but we want you to lighten the load on us, the
• 04:37 tax base on us."
• 04:39 He wrestles with it.
• 04:42 We're told in 1 Kings chapter 12, verse 13 in Hebrew
• 04:47 [speaking in foreign language],
• 04:51 that he answered the people roughly.
• 04:54 This politician wasn't sensitive to his base.
• 04:59 We're told in verse 15 [speaking in foreign language].
• 05:02 That is, he didn't hear.
• 05:04 [speaking in foreign language].
• 05:07 He wasn't minded to hear from the people.
• 05:11 We're told as well when you get to verse 16,
• 05:14 [speaking in foreign language].
• 05:17 When the people of Israel saw, [speaking in foreign language],
• 05:22 when the people saw that the king wasn't going to listen to
• 05:27 them, they in effect are going to rebel.
• 05:31 In verse 19, [speaking in foreign language].
• 05:37 So, Israel rebelled against the house of David.
• 05:44 In the aftermath of this, he goes on to give voice to all
• 05:47 kinds of evils that enter into Israel as a result of
• 05:51 the rebellion.
• 05:53 Now, on the one hand, the rebellion is understandable
• 05:56 because Rehoboam--and by the way, the word for the king, the
• 06:00 name of the king, Rehoboam or Rehoboam means "he enlarges
• 06:06 the people."
• 06:07 Actually, the people didn't get larger under his administration,
• 06:10 they got smaller because there was a civil war.
• 06:14 Well, his indifference contributed to that.
• 06:18 But subsequent to that, things just cascaded out of control.
• 06:23 I mention this because the northern kingdom breaks away.
• 06:26 They don't just break away from the king.
• 06:29 As you go on and read the literature, the Bible says
• 06:32 there's no point in breaking away from the king if all the
• 06:36 breakaway tribes are going to make their way to the capital
• 06:38 city of the king in Jerusalem to go to the temple complex to
• 06:42 worship Jehovah there.
• 06:44 No, there's going to be a variant form of Jehovah worship.
• 06:49 And it is actually despicable in the sense that, well, they build
• 06:54 a temple complex and they bring sacrifices there in the
• 06:58 northern kingdom.
• 07:00 They do that, but they don't just do that.
• 07:03 Interestingly and tragically, they also build golden calves to
• 07:07 worship them.
• 07:08 And as you might recall, Bible readers, when the people of
• 07:11 Israel left Egypt many years beforehand, they said, "Let's
• 07:14 build a golden calf and, you know, do obeisance to it, and
• 07:19 this is our god."
• 07:21 They're in effect doing that.
• 07:22 Again, things spiral out of control religiously,
• 07:26 morally, ethically.
• 07:28 We see there's a civil war that enacts here because the southern
• 07:33 kingdom, Rehoboam's kingdom of Judah and Benjamin, stays there
• 07:38 in and around Jerusalem proper and the southern portion of
• 07:42 the nation.
• 07:44 But then all the ten tribes break away and they form their
• 07:45 own kingdom, as we note here under Jeroboam.
• 07:49 We'll hear about him later, and all kinds of evils enter into
• 07:53 the world and political intrigue.
• 07:57 What can we learn from this?
• 07:59 If anything, I alight upon the fact that this is indeed quite
• 08:03 the tragedy.
• 08:05 Solomon, for as wise as he was, was rather stupid at one level.
• 08:09 And his excessive taxation, his son's indifference toward the
• 08:14 people contributed to this breakaway.
• 08:18 I think there's lots to learn in all this about how to be a
• 08:21 leader today.
• 08:23 Would that leaders today actually read about leaders of
• 08:26 yesterday, the good, the bad, the ugly.
• 08:28 I think they'd learn something.
• 08:30 Well, I hope you learned something too.
• 08:32 You want to get behind the right kind of leaders for the right
• 08:35 kind of results.
• 08:37 We learn this as we consider the story of kings and kingdoms.
• 08:43 And so it is in a bygone day, they went their own way.
• 08:47 That they did so lent itself to a ruinous condition for the
• 08:52 people that went after the wrong kinds of kings.
• 08:55 Let's make sure we get the right kind of people in office, not
• 08:58 just in our government home, but in our personal homes as well.
• 09:03 We want to have the right kind of people leading in our homes,
• 09:06 and we want to have the right kind of ideas leading in our
• 09:08 domes, that is to say our head.
• 09:11 We have to make the right kind of decisions in order to get the
• 09:14 right kind of results.
• 09:17 Here there's a story of the wrong kind of decisions, the
• 09:19 wrong kind of people, the wrong kind of results, and that lends
• 09:22 itself toward the destruction of kings and kingdoms.
• 09:28 Jeffrey: Baruch Kvasnica is the director of the Jerusalem
• 09:32 Seminary, and he's a PhD candidate at Hebrew
• 09:36 University Jerusalem.
• 09:38 I caught up with Baruch in order to get his perspective on
• 09:42 King Solomon.
• 09:44 Jeffrey: Baruch, I've fussed at Solomon for too many women, but
• 09:47 some of that is necessary, yes?
• 09:50 Baruch Kvasnica: It's true.
• 09:52 He had a great downfall because of his heart moving away.
• 09:55 He married wives that then he allowed foreign deities to come
• 09:59 into his heart and the people's lives.
• 10:02 Jeffrey: Did he need to marry some of those women?
• 10:04 Baruch: He did.
• 10:06 He needed the political alliances.
• 10:08 He needed the support that's coming from Lebanon, from Egypt,
• 10:10 from Aram.
• 10:12 All of these were very much needed.
• 10:13 Jeffrey: So, today you make a treaty, back then you ratified
• 10:16 it by picking up a new wife.
• 10:18 Baruch: That's true, and he had many, many, many of them.
• 10:20 Jeffrey: Yeah, but it wasn't just for political purposes.
• 10:22 It got out of control, didn't it?
• 10:24 Baruch: It's very true.
• 10:26 He allowed altars to be built right next to the temple.
• 10:28 Right next to the Mount of Olives was the Hill of
• 10:31 Destruction mentioned in 1 Kings chapter 11.
• 10:34 Jeffrey: I guess these foreign wives want to have some of their
• 10:36 foreign elements in their world in their new context, and he
• 10:39 gave it to him.
• 10:41 Baruch: He brought those foreign elements into the
• 10:42 temple practices.
• 10:44 He brought those, and they affected the spiritual
• 10:46 well-being of the whole country.
• 10:48 Jeffrey: Well, there you go.
• 10:50 When I think politically, we want to have our leaders, but
• 10:52 the right kind of mind.
• 10:53 The wrong kind of influence in that mind, the consequences can
• 10:56 be disastrous.
• 10:58 We don't have a lot of time, but what do you think of that?
• 11:00 Baruch: I think that's very true.
• 11:02 We have to be so careful of what influences are brought into
• 11:04 our life.
• 11:06 Solomon brought these foreign deities into his life, and it
• 11:10 transformed the whole of Israel for bad, for evil.
• 11:15 Jeffrey: I fear too much of that is coming into America.
• 11:18 Brian, thank you so much for your time.
• 11:20 ♪♪♪
• 11:26 You've heard about fake news.
• 11:28 Well, I want to talk to you about fake Jews.
• 11:36 Sounds like I'm being cute, but the story is not so funny.
• 11:39 But they say start off with a little zinger to get some
• 11:42 attention to draw people in.
• 11:45 Fake Jews, fake news, I'm coming to you from a place that's not
• 11:49 fake, but it's been forsaken.
• 11:53 That is to say thousands of years ago, there was a civil war
• 11:55 between the north and the south.
• 11:58 A coalition of ten tribes broke away from the Davidic dynasty,
• 12:03 and here they built a fortress, a fortification at one of their
• 12:07 main centers, in a place called Beth-El or Bethel.
• 12:13 You know that from reading Bereshit or Genesis.
• 12:17 Something great happened here in Genesis.
• 12:20 Something bad happened here in 1 Kings.
• 12:24 Listen, but the bad didn't start here, it started from a
• 12:29 noteworthy named Shlomo.
• 12:32 It's the word from shalom, peace, you know him as Solomon.
• 12:36 Oh, he was interested in peace all right, he wanted to get a
• 12:39 piece of this and a piece of that.
• 12:41 He wanted to get a piece out of everybody's purse.
• 12:44 He taxed people excessively.
• 12:48 You know, the family needed the money.
• 12:49 He has 1,000 women, you know thousands of
• 12:51 princes, princesses.
• 12:54 You know, everybody needs their own apartment, their own Rolex,
• 12:56 some fancy clothing.
• 12:57 Who pays for all of that?
• 12:59 Oh, he didn't have an American Express card.
• 13:01 He had an Israeli Express card.
• 13:03 That's right, he was taxing everybody, and they were paying
• 13:06 his bills, and people said, "Enough already."
• 13:09 And the leader of the enough already coalition was a guy
• 13:14 named Jeroboam from a Hebrew word meaning
• 13:17 "the people contend."
• 13:19 He contended all right.
• 13:21 Solomon went after him with a vengeance.
• 13:23 He ran off to Egypt and married.
• 13:25 When Solomon died, when his son Rehoboam came to power, Jeroboam
• 13:31 came back and represented the people and said, "Look, you
• 13:34 know, we served you well.
• 13:37 Now, you need to lessen the tax load."
• 13:40 You know, politicians get in trouble with what they do with
• 13:42 taxes, how they lean on people excessively to pay for
• 13:46 their mistakes.
• 13:49 And it happened in Bible days, it happens in modern days.
• 13:51 You'll see nothing good came of it, but you're not going to see
• 13:56 it right here.
• 13:58 I'm going to take you to a place just off to my left.
• 14:02 This is a fortification guarding something.
• 14:05 Let's now go see what that something is.
• 14:09 ♪♪♪
• 14:13 Now, Jeroboam had a problem with the fake Jews in the
• 14:18 northern kingdom.
• 14:21 What was the problem?
• 14:23 Well, they were still predisposed to go to Jerusalem,
• 14:27 which was the center of the religion.
• 14:30 And not only would they be inclined to cross the border to
• 14:34 go worship the God in Jerusalem, but as if that's not bad enough,
• 14:39 they're taking the tithe dollars with them, that is to say money
• 14:42 is getting out of the house.
• 14:45 Well, we can't have that.
• 14:47 If we're going to have a political breakaway, we have to
• 14:49 have a religious breakaway as well.
• 14:52 But we don't want to make it seem like a breakaway.
• 14:57 See, Jeroboam had some sacco*, he had some smarts, so he built
• 15:00 this place.
• 15:02 And what is this spot?
• 15:04 Well, it's a temple at Bethel.
• 15:07 Interestingly, it has the same dimensions as the Mishkan, the
• 15:11 portable worship facility built by Moshe Rabbenu, Moses.
• 15:18 We're talking about the Israelite, the Hebrew
• 15:20 great himself.
• 15:23 So, they built some sacred space here to mirror that which was at
• 15:27 the heart of Judean religion.
• 15:30 But in conjunction with that, here and far north in Tel Dan,
• 15:36 right up at the Lebanon border today, they built a sanctuary
• 15:41 with a golden calf.
• 15:43 You see, Jeroboam had married an Egyptian woman, so let's bring
• 15:47 some of the Egyptian religious tradition in the house as well.
• 15:51 Let's make it kind of look authentically Jewish and Hebrew,
• 15:55 but look, fake Jews.
• 15:58 It's not legitimate at the end of the day, and it has
• 16:00 ingredients in it that are antithetical to it.
• 16:04 It reminds me so much of religion today, to tell you
• 16:06 the truth.
• 16:07 Now, what happens, however, when this guy Jeroboam has a problem,
• 16:12 he doesn't seek the fake religion.
• 16:15 He goes after one of the prophets who wasn't part of this
• 16:19 whole system.
• 16:20 He has a sick child, sends his wife, and says, "Listen, go
• 16:23 petition him."
• 16:25 So, she goes stealthily, not with all of her regalia.
• 16:28 But he knows who she is because the Lord discloses to him.
• 16:32 Interestingly then in chapter 14, verse 7, he responds and
• 16:38 says, "Go tell Jeroboam, thus saith the real God," if
• 16:42 you will.
• 16:44 Now, I'm adding real, it's an interpolation.
• 16:46 You know, thus saith the real deal.
• 16:49 Goes on to say then in verse 8 in the middle,
• 16:53 "You have not been like my servant David," no, that's the
• 16:56 truth, "who kept my commandments, who followed me
• 17:00 with all of his heart."
• 17:03 No, this guy wasn't straight, he was crooked in his heart.
• 17:08 "You didn't follow me with your whole heart to do that which was
• 17:10 right or straight in my eyes."
• 17:13 And then in verse 10, finally he says, "And I will bring evil
• 17:18 upon the house of Jeroboam."
• 17:23 No flattery here, we're talking straight.
• 17:26 There's a Jewish word "takhles," just get right to the point.
• 17:30 You know, and by the way, in the world in politics, no one likes
• 17:32 straight talking.
• 17:34 There's a lot of being disingenuous or being flowery.
• 17:37 In Latin rhetoric, there's a term "pan egeria*."
• 17:40 It's how you speak to people with power to be poetic and
• 17:44 flattering principally.
• 17:46 None of that here, just right to the point, straight talking.
• 17:50 There was a problem, something was sour in River City, and the
• 17:55 Lord the God of Israel knows it.
• 17:57 This Jeroboam over 20 times in the Hebrew Bible because of all
• 18:02 of this, he's referred to as the man who made Israel to sin.
• 18:09 It starts off as a political issue, and then it translates
• 18:13 into a spiritual one as well.
• 18:16 It reminds me, by the way, in so many ways of the world that we
• 18:20 live in.
• 18:21 Let's learn a lesson and follow the God of Israel.
• 18:24 Never mind fake Jews, fake politics, fake religion.
• 18:27 Let's go after the real deal.
• 18:29 ♪♪♪
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• 20:34 David: Dr. Seif has been teaching on worshiping the true
• 20:35 God of Israel.
• 20:37 Sarah Liberman is going to teach us more about praise and
• 20:39 worship, let's go there now.
• 20:42 ♪♪♪
• 20:46 Sarah Liberman: Shalom haverim.
• 20:48 Welcome back to our series on exploring worship words
• 20:51 in Hebrew.
• 20:53 As a worship leader, I'm so excited for this series because
• 20:57 I know that as you delve in and take on for yourself some of the
• 21:02 ways that we are exhorted to worship in the Bible, it will
• 21:05 change your life.
• 21:07 It will truly change how you interact with God in worship.
• 21:11 You see, in English, we have two words, "praise and worship."
• 21:14 But in Hebrew, we have so many more.
• 21:17 And today's word is l'hodot.
• 21:20 And it comes from the root word "todah," which means to say
• 21:24 thank you or thanksgiving.
• 21:27 Now, so many times in our Bible in English, where it says praise
• 21:31 the Lord, for example, the heavens praise your wonders, in
• 21:35 Hebrew, it actually uses this word "todah" or "yoduha," which
• 21:41 means thanksgiving, to come unto the Lord with an attitude
• 21:45 of thanksgiving.
• 21:47 Now, there is a principle in the Bible, and we see it throughout
• 21:49 King David's life, that when he is in a hard and difficult
• 21:53 place, when he's facing a challenge, he exhorts himself to
• 21:58 thank the Lord, to bring an offering of todah to the Lord.
• 22:03 And that releases God's victory in his life.
• 22:07 Another interesting part of this word "todah" is that it comes
• 22:11 also from the same root that we get the word "hand" "yad."
• 22:16 And so, in the Bible when it says, "Lift up your hands and
• 22:19 praise him in the sanctuary," that's an actual exhortation
• 22:23 that we would come unto the Lord with an attitude of
• 22:26 thanksgiving, raising our hands to him.
• 22:30 Do you know when we open our hands to him, he can put
• 22:32 something in them?
• 22:34 Isn't that a beautiful image, a beautiful picture of how we
• 22:38 worship God, with an attitude of thanksgiving in our hearts, and
• 22:42 raising and lifting up our hands?
• 22:44 So, next time you're in a worship service, I hope that you
• 22:48 take that step to just bring that attitude of todah,
• 22:53 thanksgiving to your heart, and raise up your hands unto the
• 22:56 Lord to thank him before you see victory.
• 23:01 ♪♪♪
• 23:20 ♪ May all the people praise you ♪
• 23:21 ♪ Sing and dance before you ♪
• 23:24 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord ♪
• 23:28 ♪ King of all the kingdoms ♪
• 23:30 ♪ Creator of creation ♪
• 23:33 ♪ Author of salvation ♪
• 23:35 ♪ On his throne in heaven ♪
• 23:37 ♪ We have come to be your people ♪
• 23:39 ♪ For eternity, your nation ♪
• 23:42 ♪ Make a joyful noise ♪
• 23:44 ♪ Make a joyful noise ♪
• 23:46 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord ♪♪
• 23:58 Kirsten: That was a song by our founder Zola Levitt, and you
• 24:02 brought it.
• 24:04 David: Thank you.
• 24:06 Kirsten: Good job, babe.
• 24:07 David: I love singing his songs, yes.
• 24:09 If you are just joining us for the first time in this series,
• 24:11 we are grading the kings with our professor today.
• 24:15 Kirsten: Professor Seif.
• 24:17 David: Yes.
• 24:18 Jeffrey: Well, I'll tell you what, they're not going to be
• 24:20 happy campers because these guys didn't perform very well.
• 24:22 Kirsten: Grading always scares me.
• 24:24 Jeffrey: Yeah, well, I'll tell you, Solomon, I give him an A at
• 24:26 the start, to tell you the truth.
• 24:28 You know, he started off good, but then the apple didn't fall
• 24:31 far from the tree like his father, David.
• 24:35 He had too many women.
• 24:38 I mean, David had too many women, just shy of 20.
• 24:40 But Solomon just, oh my goodness gracious.
• 24:43 And you know, administratively good, sage insight, but he
• 24:46 ruined it all.
• 24:47 And that's evident in the next generation as well.
• 24:49 His son Rehoboam, I mean, here we go from A to D, he just goes
• 24:53 from F to F-.
• 24:56 I mean, he's a worthless piece of human wreckage.
• 24:58 Kirsten: I mean, and he was born of the wisest man ever.
• 25:02 Isn't that crazy?
• 25:03 I don't get it.
• 25:05 Jeffrey: Yeah, but I'll tell you that he didn't inherit it.
• 25:06 You know, he was indifferent towards legitimate complaints of
• 25:09 his people.
• 25:11 He lived in the palace.
• 25:12 He was indifferent to those in the streets, and that was
• 25:15 his undoing.
• 25:16 There was a civil war.
• 25:18 And this guy Jeroboam, I'm going to give him an F as well.
• 25:21 You can tell I'm a tough teacher, but the Bible's
• 25:23 tougher yet.
• 25:24 This guy was a labor leader, kind of like a blue
• 25:26 collar organizer.
• 25:29 During Solomon's administration, there was a lot of discontent.
• 25:33 Rehoboam made it worse.
• 25:35 Street level, Jeroboam capitalized on that and
• 25:38 facilitated a revolt and a breakaway.
• 25:41 We have two parties with God's people, two perspectives, two
• 25:45 camps breakaway.
• 25:47 They live in different worlds, kind of like today in so
• 25:50 many ways.
• 25:52 David: These guys are kings.
• 25:53 You would think they'd have a perfect life, people
• 25:54 underneath them.
• 25:56 Kirsten: They're royalty, right?
• 25:57 David: Look at the very beginning to where we're at
• 25:59 right now.
• 26:01 They all had problems.
• 26:02 Jeffrey: And the problem is sometimes people just get into
• 26:04 being the king.
• 26:05 I mean, it's--you know, Jesus spoke about there's words for
• 26:07 king, there's majesty and there's ministry.
• 26:10 He says, "They lord it over them in the secular culture, but not
• 26:14 so among you."
• 26:16 It's imperative for the people at the top to serve those down
• 26:19 into the pyramid.
• 26:21 But sometimes, people just enjoy it too much at the top, and we
• 26:24 see too much of that here.
• 26:25 Kirsten: They lose the humility.
• 26:27 And I think Solomon started out good, right?
• 26:29 You gave him an A, he started out and he inquired of--I mean,
• 26:33 the Lord said to him, "What do you want?"
• 26:34 And he said, "I want wisdom."
• 26:37 And then just--it's just sad how it--how his life ended.
• 26:40 Jeffrey: Yeah, he wanted women too.
• 26:42 This guy was a sex addict.
• 26:43 Kirsten: Yeah.
• 26:45 Jeffrey: And it was his undoing.
• 26:46 David: Wow.
• 26:48 Kirsten: There's got to be some good news, though.
• 26:49 You going to have good news coming?
• 26:51 Jeffrey: We'll get to Jesus, but I'll tell you the truth.
• 26:53 If you look at what the Bible says about those who were
• 26:54 leading, it's very unimpressive.
• 26:56 That's why I look to the King of kings very much so, it's
• 26:59 sometimes very unimpressive when you look at the kings.
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