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Caption transcript for Sar Shalom (2021): “God’s Spiritual Provisions (Matthew 7:7–20)” (7/8)

• 00:04 ♪♪♪ male announcer: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots," with insightful
• 00:06 Bible teaching from Israel by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:09 This week, we continue looking at Jesus' teaching as he calls
• 00:12 us to walk the narrow path and bear fruit, coming up on "Sar
• 00:15 Shalom, Prince of Peace."
• 00:18 ♪♪♪
• 00:42 [vocalizing]
• 00:44 ♪♪♪
• 01:17 David Hart: We're so glad you joined us today.
• 01:18 I'm David Hart.
• 01:20 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:21 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:23 And I've got a game to play.
• 01:24 Kirsten: Okay.
• 01:26 Jeffrey: I say, "knock-knock," and you say--
• 01:28 both: Who's there?
• 01:29 Jeffrey: Yes, it's a child's game, but it's not really
• 01:31 childish when you think about it because Yeshua wants us to go,
• 01:35 "knock-knock."
• 01:37 Jesus wants us to knock, and he says he'll open the door, that
• 01:39 there really is a future out there for us.
• 01:42 There's heavenly resource.
• 01:44 There's help.
• 01:46 If we seek, we'll find. If we knock, he'll open.
• 01:48 Many don't, yes?
• 01:50 David: Many don't.
• 01:51 Kirsten: But it's good because knocking is--right there, I can
• 01:53 do it right here.
• 01:55 It's not that hard.
• 01:56 It's a common thing, and he's not saying, "Push down
• 01:58 the doors.
• 02:00 It's gonna be so hard, you're never gonna get in," and he just
• 02:02 says, "Simply call on my name, and I'll be there."
• 02:05 It's easy.
• 02:07 Jeffrey: There's just some exertion.
• 02:08 Lift the finger.
• 02:10 He'll come to the door.
• 02:11 Not only would the Lord come to the door.
• 02:13 He says he is the door.
• 02:15 "I am the door," in John chapter 10.
• 02:16 "If anyone enters by me, he'll be saved.
• 02:18 The Greek word " saved," "sozo," means "to be healed, made whole,
• 02:21 put back together again."
• 02:23 And a lot of people need to be healed, made whole, and put back
• 02:25 together again.
• 02:26 That's what he does for a living.
• 02:28 Kirsten: He offers a lot for just a simple--just a little bit
• 02:31 that we have to give.
• 02:33 Jeffrey: Yes, and we're not asking anybody to take our word
• 02:35 for that.
• 02:37 We're gonna go to a biblical text, and we're going to see
• 02:39 that the Lord is there for the knockin'.
• 02:42 David: That's right. Take your Bible right now.
• 02:46 Open to Matthew 7, as we take you to the Galilee for
• 02:47 today's teaching.
• 02:52 Jesus: [speaking Hebrew]
• 03:07 male narrator: A woman stands at an unopened door, not lifting
• 03:10 a finger.
• 03:13 "Knock, and it will be opened," says the Lord.
• 03:17 "Seek, and you will find."
• 03:20 It seems she has the seeking part just fine.
• 03:25 She looks through the window, behind the house, and then
• 03:29 retraces her steps, still unable to find an entrance.
• 03:35 Could it be she has overlooked one admonition?
• 03:39 Simply, knock, and it will be opened.
• 03:44 ♪♪♪
• 03:48 Jeffrey: Anxious, are we?
• 03:51 A little restless, perhaps?
• 03:54 If not now, have you ever been at a place in your life where
• 03:59 you were looking for answers to question?
• 04:02 You have a need.
• 04:04 You had a problem.
• 04:06 Or to use the Jewish expression, you had, quote, "tsuris,"
• 04:09 "troubles," troubles like ya wouldn't believe.
• 04:14 If so, you'll be pleased to know that I'm coming to you from
• 04:18 Bethsaida in the Galilee.
• 04:22 Bethsaida is from an Aramaic term, meaning "the house
• 04:25 of fish."
• 04:28 It's an old fishing village, populated by the likes of
• 04:30 Philip, Andrew, Peter, and other of Jesus' disciples.
• 04:36 When Jesus told the story once about "Seek, and you'll find,
• 04:41 knock, and it will be opened," I can't help but wonder if maybe,
• 04:45 just maybe, he was alluding to experience here in Bethsaida,
• 04:50 perhaps a woman, perhaps a man, someone, going house to house,
• 04:54 looking for a need?
• 04:57 I think we all have a need, and so we're gonna look in the
• 05:00 Scriptures and see this famous story and how it might apply to
• 05:03 us today.
• 05:07 I want you to look with me--don't get comfortable with
• 05:09 me, but look with me here, please, in Matthew chapter 7,
• 05:13 verse 7, and the reason why I say, "Don't get too comfortable
• 05:17 with me" will become apparent in a moment.
• 05:20 Jesus says, "Ask, and it will be given to you."
• 05:24 You go, "Yeah, that's what I want, God, to give it to me."
• 05:27 Okay, he says, "Seek, and you will find."
• 05:31 "Yeah, there you go, God, yeah, hook me up."
• 05:35 "Knock, and it will be opened to you."
• 05:38 Sounds good, doesn't it?
• 05:41 God is there, and we just take our prayers to him, and he's
• 05:43 like the pizza delivery man who'll get it to ya quick.
• 05:48 In verse 8, "For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks
• 05:52 finds, and to him who knocks it'll be opened."
• 05:57 Someone can go, "Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about.
• 06:00 I can use some religion like that.
• 06:03 Here I am down here, all messed up, and God's willing to
• 06:05 show up."
• 06:09 Well, for you, I've got some good news and some bad news.
• 06:13 The good news is he means what he says, and he does show up.
• 06:17 He will show up.
• 06:19 That's the good news.
• 06:22 The bad news is that this story isn't about what he'll do as
• 06:26 much as it's about what he wants us to do.
• 06:32 The reason why I say that, he says, "Yeah, God's gonna hook
• 06:35 ya up.
• 06:37 God's gonna help ya," realizing that what sort of men and women
• 06:43 ought we to be?
• 06:45 This is the point in verse 12.
• 06:48 Mindful that we have a loving God who's gonna take care of us,
• 06:50 Jesus says, "Therefore, whatever you want men or women to do to
• 06:55 you, do also to them," which is the point of the story, "for
• 07:01 this is the Torah," or the law or the teaching, "and
• 07:05 the Prophets," the "Nevi'im."
• 07:10 If one looks at Jesus' point, never mind our own wanting the
• 07:15 Lord to show up and be our Santa with presents in hand.
• 07:19 That being true, he's willing to do that.
• 07:22 What he wants from us is he wants us to do unto others the
• 07:27 way that we would have God to do unto us.
• 07:31 Now let me ask you a question: In your heart of hearts, do you
• 07:35 have that message, "Whatever you want men to do to you, do also
• 07:40 to them"?
• 07:44 Inasmuch as you wanna be serviced by God and others, be
• 07:47 of service yourself to others, and you'll see the Lord coming
• 07:51 through for you in ways you can only imagine.
• 07:57 Jesus: [speaking Hebrew]
• 08:12 narrator: It's a narrow, precarious pathway.
• 08:16 Some have found their way to the top successfully, while others
• 08:19 have not.
• 08:22 There's little question that the way is difficult.
• 08:25 Little question the obstacles are real, but the goal is worth
• 08:30 the prize.
• 08:33 Waiting just ahead at the end of the path is life eternal and the
• 08:39 kingdom of heaven.
• 08:42 ♪♪♪
• 08:49 Jeffrey: And Jesus said, "Enter by the narrow way, the way that
• 08:54 leads to life."
• 08:57 He spoke of the other way as a way that leads to death.
• 09:06 I've discovered, by the way, that people can lead themselves
• 09:10 to ruin very easily.
• 09:14 Jesus says the way to life is rather hard to find.
• 09:17 It's a narrow way, and those that make their way to it
• 09:20 are few.
• 09:23 The broad way, the wide way is the easier way, is
• 09:26 rather simple.
• 09:29 It's rather natural at one level.
• 09:32 You can go the way of ruin, one forkful at a time, one soda pop
• 09:35 at a time, eating the wrong food, drinking the wrong drink
• 09:38 could just bring you down.
• 09:42 It can be your addiction, your love of alcohol.
• 09:45 You can just drink yourself into ruin.
• 09:48 You can eat yourself into ruin.
• 09:50 You can just follow the natural inclination of sexual appetites
• 09:53 gone awry and bring yourself into ruin that way.
• 09:57 And we live in a world today, don't we, where there is so much
• 09:59 pain, so much despair, so much disorientation, so much ruin,
• 10:05 we do well to look and see what Jesus says about that narrow way
• 10:08 and that broad way.
• 10:12 Jeffrey: And he said, "Enter by the narrow gate, for wide is the
• 10:18 gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there
• 10:21 are many who go in by it."
• 10:25 You know, the pathway to hell is the highway to hell.
• 10:29 Conversely, he says, "narrow is the gate and difficult is the
• 10:33 way which leads to life, and there are precious few who
• 10:37 find it."
• 10:40 "The way is narrow, it's hard, few find it."
• 10:44 This sounds very challenging, to me.
• 10:48 When the Lord talks about walking on the path to life,
• 10:51 he's harkening to a Jewish expression.
• 10:55 Rabbinic theology speaks of "halakha," which is the
• 10:58 Torah-observant way to walk for observant Jews.
• 11:02 There's what's called "midrash halakha."
• 11:05 The word "halakha," in Hebrew, comes from "halak."
• 11:08 It's a verb which means "to walk."
• 11:12 The journey with God is called a walk.
• 11:15 The Lord beckoned Avraham to walk with him.
• 11:19 Others walked with God.
• 11:22 It says, I believe, that Enoch walked with God, step by step,
• 11:25 deliberately going down a path with the Maker.
• 11:29 It's incumbent upon disciples to be thus-minded, to be
• 11:32 thus-oriented.
• 11:34 In fact, "disciple," "discipline," the words are cut
• 11:36 from the same cloth because there's a kind
• 11:39 of deliberateness.
• 11:42 There's a decision.
• 11:44 The Lord says, "Broad is the other way."
• 11:47 It's easy by nature just to be led away from God.
• 11:50 I believe it's Job who says that man is inclined towards sins
• 11:53 just like the sparks fly upward.
• 11:56 The natural inclination of things is to go awry.
• 11:59 It's easy.
• 12:01 One can eat themselves to death with all the wrong food.
• 12:04 They can drink all the wrong drink and just be miserable
• 12:07 inside because they're not looking good, they're not
• 12:09 feeling good, and they're not thinking good.
• 12:12 People's eyes can lead them astray off the path and lookin'
• 12:14 for love.
• 12:16 It's all about lust, it's all about consumerism, and people
• 12:19 spend themselves for their own pleasures and treasures and
• 12:21 destroy themselves and other people around them in
• 12:23 the process.
• 12:26 It's easy to go that way, but Jesus beckons disciples to
• 12:29 be disciplined.
• 12:31 He said, "Narrow is the way that leads to life," and he's not
• 12:34 talking about driving instructions to First Baptist
• 12:37 Church or First Methodist Church or First Assemblies of
• 12:40 God Church.
• 12:43 The way that leads to life, hopefully, is told in a church,
• 12:46 but it's the way of life that's lived outside of the church.
• 12:50 In the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord talked about the tending to
• 12:53 our business, brothers learning to dwell together peaceably, men
• 12:55 and women learning to come to terms.
• 12:58 One's holding their sexual appetites in check, their
• 13:01 angers, what to do with the money, what to do with various
• 13:04 energies, et cetera.
• 13:06 It's all there in the sermon.
• 13:09 Hear Jesus' words.
• 13:11 It's a way that leads to life, and your life will be better by
• 13:14 virtue of your so doing.
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• 13:46 David: There's so much that we do.
• 13:48 Actually, we spent about four days in the Tiberias Sea of
• 13:51 Galilee area, and from beginning of the day, early that morning,
• 13:56 we get on the bus, and we go to wonderful places.
• 13:59 One of those places is a place that we love to go is the
• 14:02 baptismal site.
• 14:04 It's the highlight, one of the--okay, every day is a
• 14:06 highlight, right?
• 14:07 It is one of the highlights for everyone to get robed and to be
• 14:12 baptized in the Jordan River.
• 14:16 It's just amazing isn't it?
• 14:17 We sing worship when everyone gets baptized, and, for me,
• 14:21 Israel is so much about the food.
• 14:23 I just want you to know, "If you go with us, there's a great
• 14:25 smoothie stand, and there's wonderful ice cream."
• 14:28 So you can get baptized in the Jordan River and get a
• 14:30 great snack.
• 14:32 We go two times a year.
• 14:34 We'd love to have you go with us.
• 14:35 Walk in the Holy Land, the place that God created for his people.
• 14:39 David: You'll find all the information on levitt.com.
• 14:41 Right now, let's go back to the Galilee for more of
• 14:44 our teaching.
• 14:47 Jesus: [speaking Hebrew]
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• 15:10 Jesus: [speaking Hebrew]
• 15:20 ♪♪♪
• 15:23 Jesus: [speaking Hebrew]
• 15:41 Jeffrey: Jesus' saying that "You'll know them by their
• 15:44 fruits," to my way of thinking, beckons to a theme that's
• 15:49 repeated over and again in this sermon, and that is that there's
• 15:53 a lot of pretense going around.
• 15:56 Later on in the next little teaching moment here, Jesus is
• 16:00 gonna say, you know, "Many of you say, 'Lord, Lord, and cast
• 16:03 out demons and all the rest, but the truth is I really don't
• 16:07 know you.
• 16:10 Here again, there's pretense of religion and faith, but it's
• 16:13 really not there.
• 16:16 Previously, Jesus' went on the record, talking about how some
• 16:18 people, they're all pietistic in their prayers for show.
• 16:21 They're charitable, yes, but for show, and they go through the
• 16:26 motions of having some kind of biblical faith.
• 16:31 But the truth be known, it's more shallow than substance.
• 16:35 And in the middle of that, Yeshua is on record saying
• 16:38 "You'll know them by their fruits," not just that "You'll
• 16:43 know them by their toots."
• 16:47 You know as well as I do that some people can talk a good
• 16:51 talk, but they really don't walk the walk.
• 16:56 It's not beyond the pale of reason to look to consider what
• 16:59 does Jesus actually mean when he says, "You'll know them by
• 17:02 their fruits"?
• 17:05 If one looks at this Sermon on the Mount, therein he talks
• 17:09 about a number of things that he's looking to see manifest
• 17:12 over time, a genteel kind of seeking after God, difficulties
• 17:16 notwithstanding, a private prayer life.
• 17:20 Personal piety is manifested in charity, the just and equitable
• 17:25 employment of financial resource for God's good purposes, not
• 17:29 just one's own.
• 17:32 In different ways individuals are beckoned to cultivate this
• 17:36 which is the kind of life that the Lord's looking for.
• 17:40 It's not just a question of showing up at First Baptist
• 17:42 Church or First Whatever Church and singing the hymns and
• 17:45 speakin' the right kind of language, havin' the right kind
• 17:49 of talk because you can recall perhaps the Lord who says, and I
• 17:52 quote, "They profess me with their lips, but their hearts are
• 17:56 far from me."
• 18:00 The way to have a heart that's with him is through deeds, not
• 18:03 just creeds.
• 18:06 Look with me here as Jesus talks about it, and we'll consider
• 18:08 more deliberately what he has to say.
• 18:11 In chapter 7, verse 15, he says, "Beware of false prophets, who
• 18:16 come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are
• 18:19 ravenous wolves."
• 18:23 They have the pretense of being among us, but truth be known,
• 18:26 they're bent on devouring us.
• 18:29 And have you ever met such people?
• 18:32 I have, and it's not pleasant.
• 18:35 It's in the wake of this morning when Yeshua, when Jesus, again,
• 18:38 weighs in forcefully, saying, "Listen, you'll know them by
• 18:41 their fruits."
• 18:44 He says as much in verse 16, "You'll know them by their
• 18:47 fruits," and he goes on to explore that a little, and then
• 18:50 he repeats it again in verse 20, "Therefore by their fruits you
• 18:53 will know them."
• 18:56 I mean, guys, listen, he said it twice in just a few sentences,
• 18:59 and that causes me to believe that he's serious about it.
• 19:02 There are other reasons that I believe that he's serious about
• 19:04 us bearing the kind of fruits in our life and temperament.
• 19:08 Keep in mind, if you will, please, that while he'll know us
• 19:12 by our fruits, know that it's not for everybody else in the
• 19:16 world to be judging our fruits, and for the rest of us know as
• 19:18 well that fruit doesn't always appear right away.
• 19:23 On more than one occasion, I've tried to lose weight, and I get
• 19:25 up in the morning and weigh myself and look for the fruits
• 19:28 of my labor.
• 19:30 It doesn't happen right away, but the right kind of decisions
• 19:33 eventually lead to the right kind of manifestation.
• 19:36 Let's make sure we make decisions for Jesus and trust
• 19:39 that we will, in fact, bear fruit as a result of our
• 19:41 so doing.
• 19:43 Kirsten: Dr. Seif was talking about false prophets in sheep's
• 19:47 clothing, and we just want you to know, yes, we're a Christian
• 19:52 television program, but I hope you can tell who we are and what
• 19:57 our essence is from the fruit that we bear, and we just want
• 20:00 you to know, when you donate to this ministry, so much
• 20:04 of that money and your donations goes back to Israel.
• 20:09 We are a ministry that desires to bless the people in Israel,
• 20:12 so many different ways, right, Jeff?
• 20:14 You've been with this ministry for years.
• 20:17 Jeffrey: To your point, I think you're kind of tapping into the
• 20:19 fact some people think, "Oh, they're all a bunch of gonifs,"
• 20:22 which is a Jewish word for thieves.
• 20:23 "You can't trust those, you know, religious people."
• 20:26 "Religious television, they're all a bunch of thieves."
• 20:28 Well, there's good and bad in everything, but goodness
• 20:30 gracious, there's so much more good than bad, and, with you, I
• 20:35 do hope people--I hope you see that, you know, we're good
• 20:39 people, by the grace of God, that to Kirsten's point, that
• 20:44 we're trying to serve the Lord.
• 20:46 None of us here on this set are getting rich.
• 20:48 I can assure you.
• 20:49 And when you make a donation to the ministry, you're not putting
• 20:51 us in Rolls-Royces.
• 20:53 If someone has a Rolls-Royce, God bless if they get it
• 20:55 honestly, but that's not us.
• 20:57 You know, we're not pulling large salaries.
• 21:00 We're just trying to promote a big God, and so I just wanna
• 21:03 thank you for those of you that believe in us.
• 21:07 You know, we don't wanna--I mean, there's bad stuff in the
• 21:09 world, that's true, but I think it's better to light candles
• 21:11 than it is to curse the darkness, and we wanna be good
• 21:15 fruit and bear good for the kingdom, and thank you for
• 21:17 helpin' us do it.
• 21:18 Kirsten: And you were talking about today--and we've talked
• 21:20 about this together too--that you were talking about the
• 21:22 Torah-way of walking is step-by-step, day by day with
• 21:26 God, and that was just a beautiful teaching segment that
• 21:30 you brought up today.
• 21:31 I just appreciate that.
• 21:33 Jeffrey: Well, you're kind to say.
• 21:35 Of course, it comes from the Lord's teaching, but to "walk
• 21:36 with the Lord," it's poetic language, and life, in so many
• 21:38 ways, it's one step at a time, and we don't always see well
• 21:41 into the future, one step at a time, and God walks with us.
• 21:47 David: What would you say that the connection to fruit is with
• 21:50 this teaching?
• 21:53 Jeffrey: Well, the Lord says, "You'll know 'em by their
• 21:54 fruits," not you know them by their toots.
• 21:57 You know, my kids get married, and I don't go, "Oh, my, there's
• 22:00 a baby."
• 22:02 One would expect that to come as a result of people that are in
• 22:04 love and marry, that having children, there's results of
• 22:10 those affections, similarly, with the Lord, that there should
• 22:15 be things coming out of our relationship with him.
• 22:19 An attestation of increased generosity should be there as an
• 22:23 evidence of our love for the world and others, as evidence of
• 22:26 our trusting him, but there's different ways on different days
• 22:31 that there's different fruits that emerge in us because
• 22:33 something is within us.
• 22:35 David: Well, Jesus taught with things going on right around
• 22:38 him, like the mustard seed.
• 22:40 He taught with the mustard seed right there, and the fruit was
• 22:42 all around.
• 22:44 Kirsten: His examples were just things that they could see and
• 22:46 touch right there.
• 22:47 Jeffrey: Yes, to be sure, absolutely, and I think an
• 22:49 agrarian culture, the expression "fruits" mean a lot more than
• 22:52 moderns because they see this stuff growing out of the earth,
• 22:55 and it's God's blessings, all the variety of fruits and
• 22:58 everything, and they're all beautiful.
• 23:00 David: That's good.
• 23:01 We'll be right back.
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• 24:09 Sarah Liberman: Shalom Haverim.
• 24:11 One of the more common words you're gonna hear in Israel and
• 24:13 use in Hebrew is the word "beseder," which means, "Okay."
• 24:18 So if somebody asks you, "How are you?" you can
• 24:20 say, "beseder."
• 24:22 Now, the funny thing is that it actually means "in order."
• 24:26 So when you say, "I'm okay," what you're actually saying is
• 24:29 "I'm in order."
• 24:31 Now, you can also use it as a question.
• 24:34 "Are you okay?"
• 24:36 So if you're gonna ask a guy, you would say,
• 24:38 "[inaudible]* beseder?"
• 24:40 And if you ask a girl, you would say, [inaudible]* beseder?"
• 24:44 So check around, look around.
• 24:46 Make sure everything is in order, and you can say,
• 24:49 "[inaudible]* beseder.
• 24:52 David: We're so glad that Sara Liberman is on our team, and we
• 24:55 love learning Hebrew every week.
• 24:58 Kirsten: We do.
• 24:59 David: We do.
• 25:00 Kirsten: It's okay, "beseder."
• 25:02 David: Yes.
• 25:03 Kirsten: It's all right.
• 25:05 How are you?
• 25:06 Jeffrey: You know, "beseder" is an interesting word in Hebrew.
• 25:08 It comes from "everything's in order," "everything's okay," you
• 25:10 know, and it's like this with the Prince of Peace.
• 25:14 He can put things in order, and all of us can say with
• 25:16 him, "beseder."
• 25:18 Kirsten: Beseder.
• 25:20 David: We've been in awe this whole series of the
• 25:22 dramatic reenactments.
• 25:24 Where you've been on location, just gorgeous.
• 25:27 Kirsten: It's quality.
• 25:29 And I hope you, our viewer, realize all the work that's been
• 25:32 put in to re-creating the time of when Jesus was here.
• 25:38 It's not cheap, it's expensive.
• 25:40 I mean, we had a set designer.
• 25:42 You knew him personally who built all these sets.
• 25:45 Jeffrey: We built a little village of the Sea of Galilee
• 25:47 and a boat and hired Israeli actors to do these dramatic
• 25:52 vignettes in conjunction with our wanting to offer a telling
• 25:56 of the essence and substance of Yeshua's principal teachings in
• 26:01 the Sermon on the Mount, and it was quite an endeavor, and it
• 26:05 didn't come on the cheap, to your point, and so thank you for
• 26:07 helping us tell it.
• 26:10 There are other stories in the Bible.
• 26:11 We wanna tell 'em too, and we need your help, and please be
• 26:14 gracious, be liberal.
• 26:16 If you find value in what we're doing, I'm not asking to give
• 26:18 us anything.
• 26:20 I'm asking you to invest in the kingdom through us, and God
• 26:22 knows those that are putting money into his portfolio and
• 26:25 knows how to return in those investments.
• 26:27 David: We have one more program on this series of the
• 26:29 beatitudes, but we end with a song from our founder
• 26:33 Zola Levitt.
• 26:35 Jeffrey: And a word from the Scripture in Hebrew,
• 26:37 shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 26:40 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 26:42 ♪♪♪
• 26:45 ♪ You're King, who came before ♪
• 26:49 ♪ You're King forevermore ♪
• 26:54 ♪ A thousand years ♪
• 26:57 ♪ A thousand years ♪
• 26:59 ♪ You're King forevermore ♪
• 27:08 ♪ Forevermore ♪
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