
“Love and Marriage”
Isaac and Rebekah’s meeting led to a loving relationship. Believers should remember that singleness and marriage are both gifts from God, and His ways are always best.
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- 00:01 ♪♪♪
- 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots."
- 00:06 ♪♪♪
- 00:12 David: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for,
- 00:15 the conviction of things not seen.
- 00:18 For by it the men of old received divine approval."
- 00:22 For whatever was written in former days was written for our
- 00:25 instruction that through endurance and through the
- 00:29 encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
- 00:32 ♪♪♪
- 00:36 David: "Faith for the Future:
- 00:38 Our Journey with the Patriarchs."
- 00:40 ♪♪♪
- 00:43 David: We're so glad you've joined us today.
- 00:45 I am David Hart.
- 00:46 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
- 00:48 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And I am Jeffrey Seif, and we are on a
- 00:50 journey with the patriarchs.
- 00:53 Last week, we examined how Eliezer was dispatched to go
- 00:58 find a wife for this promised son, and today, marriage.
- 01:02 A happy program, yes?
- 01:04 Kirsten: It is.
- 01:06 It's kind of interesting, to me--and I'm gonna sound like
- 01:08 such a modern woman--that neither Isaac nor Rebekah
- 01:12 got to see each other before, like, "Here she is.
- 01:16 Here's your wife. Here's your husband."
- 01:18 I'm kind of glad I got to see you.
- 01:19 David: I don't know if I could've done that.
- 01:22 Kirsten: Surprised what they looked like.
- 01:24 Jeffrey: Yes.
- 01:26 Kirsten: But much, much more on that today in our program
- 01:27 about this love story, right?
- 01:29 David: Right.
- 01:30 We could go to the drama right now about that love story, then
- 01:32 Dr. Seif will be teaching.
- 01:34 Let's go there now.
- 01:35 ♪♪♪
- 01:37 male narrator: The mission to Haran had been successful.
- 01:40 Abraham's servant had found a beautiful wife for Isaac,
- 01:43 named Rebekah.
- 01:45 More importantly, they were leaving with the blessing of
- 01:48 Rebekah's family.
- 01:50 "Our sister," they said, "may you become the mother of
- 01:54 thousands of ten thousands, and may your descendants possess
- 01:59 the gates of their enemies."
- 02:01 ♪♪♪
- 02:05 Jeffrey: We have devoted a number of segments to this love
- 02:10 story based on a belief that coming to terms with love
- 02:14 correctly is so very, very important.
- 02:19 Love in this world is in such high demand and such short
- 02:22 supply, we wanted to land on some biblical text and take a
- 02:26 look at the divine hand in the formulation of union.
- 02:33 So very, very important.
- 02:35 In the story here, as we're really winding down on the
- 02:39 Rebekah-Isaac story--and as we do, by the way, you are going to
- 02:43 hear from my better half in short order.
- 02:45 Barri was particularly excited about this program.
- 02:48 This is the boy-meets-girl story here, where they come together.
- 02:54 Eliezer has gone off to Paddan-aram, Syria, and then he
- 02:57 comes back to the Holy Land and brings Rivkah with him.
- 03:03 Actually, the verse here in chapter 24, verse 61, we're told
- 03:08 that she followed "acharai haish," that is,
- 03:11 "after the man."
- 03:14 And I wanna share a little anecdotal story associated
- 03:18 with a woman who is following after a man.
- 03:24 Now, here she's following Eliezer to go meet her
- 03:27 "bashert," her flesh, her other half, Yitzhak.
- 03:33 My wife loved this story, as I had said.
- 03:36 I'm reminded of it, by the way, as Eliezer went to her family
- 03:41 and sought permission to bring her on the journey.
- 03:45 It reminded me when I went to Barri's family
- 03:50 and asked for permission.
- 03:52 Now, Barri was 62 years old.
- 03:55 Her mother was 84, 85 at the time, and I didn't want to move
- 04:02 without getting family permission.
- 04:05 So I go up to Kansas City, and Mom is there and some brothers
- 04:09 are there, and Mom is sick, actually.
- 04:11 She's in the hospital.
- 04:13 And I go and present myself.
- 04:15 She's never met me.
- 04:16 I'm looking for permission to marry her daughter.
- 04:19 And typical Jewish mother, she says, "So why should I let my
- 04:21 daughter marry you?"
- 04:24 And I said, "Mom--" that's what I call her, "Mom."
- 04:27 I says, "Mom, look, let me ask you a question."
- 04:29 She said, "What's that?"
- 04:30 I said, "How old is your daughter?"
- 04:33 She said, "Sixty-two."
- 04:35 I said, "How many men has she brought home in 62 years
- 04:40 to you?"
- 04:41 She said, "None."
- 04:42 I said, "Sweetheart, take what you can get."
- 04:45 Simple as that.
- 04:48 I said, "You want a reason why?"
- 04:49 She says, "Give me a reason why I should let my
- 04:51 daughter marry you."
- 04:52 I says, "I'll give you two reasons."
- 04:54 She says, "What's that?"
- 04:55 I says, "Number one, I have a job.
- 04:56 Number two, I'm healthy." She said, "Take her."
- 04:59 A little bit of Jewish humor there.
- 05:00 But the point is I wanted to get permission from the home front,
- 05:04 subsequent to which Barri followed me on the journey.
- 05:09 I took her hundreds and hundreds of miles away.
- 05:11 And, gentlemen, as we look at the story of the journey, you
- 05:16 saw it depicted graphically in the drama, and I lighted upon
- 05:19 the verse where, you know, Rebekah is following him.
- 05:23 Gentlemen, gentlemen, if you're watching,
- 05:26 please realize what we do.
- 05:30 I liken it to a locomotive engine, this male, this
- 05:34 powerful, driving locomotive engine, and then there's the
- 05:40 woman, who's kind of like a caboose or a car that attaches
- 05:43 onto it.
- 05:45 All that energy, "woosh," it's gonna take her downstream
- 05:47 somewhere.
- 05:48 It's gonna take her someplace.
- 05:50 And when women attach to the males of the species in this
- 05:53 game called marriage.
- 05:55 They really are taking a risk.
- 05:57 They're gonna go down the track somewhere, and there's a certain
- 06:01 amount of uncertainty with that where women, you know, deal with
- 06:04 faith and uncertainty as they move forward.
- 06:08 And, gentlemen, what we put these women through, you know,
- 06:11 they marry us.
- 06:12 They bear children.
- 06:14 They lose their Coke-bottle figures.
- 06:15 What we do to these women, I'm telling you, gentlemen,
- 06:18 we need to be kind.
- 06:23 There's a beautiful story here.
- 06:26 When love gets it right, it's beautiful.
- 06:29 When it goes sour, it's difficult.
- 06:32 Look with me here at the story again.
- 06:34 I don't wanna just talk about the text.
- 06:36 I want you to hear from it.
- 06:38 We're told in verse 59, "So they sent Rebekah off--" and there's
- 06:45 a blessing here-- "and they blessed Rebekah," I'm gonna be
- 06:49 doing a wedding in short order, and I was asked to give a
- 06:53 blessing, and the blessing is "Our sister, may you become
- 06:59 thousands of ten thousands, and may your seed possess the gate."
- 07:06 You know, may those who come forth from you be strong, in
- 07:11 Hebrew, "hazaq."
- 07:13 Now, there already is a divine destiny associated with Abraham
- 07:17 and Isaac.
- 07:18 She's invited as a participant in that, as a recipient of that,
- 07:23 subsequent to which then finally, in verse 61, "She got
- 07:26 up," and as I'd said, "she followed 'acharai haish,' she
- 07:32 went after the man."
- 07:35 Oh, it's a beautiful story, and here's one of a woman walking by
- 07:39 faith, and because she did, she left her imprint on biblical
- 07:44 history.
- 07:48 announcer: Our resource this week, "A Christian Love Story"
- 07:51 booklet and CD.
- 07:53 Read and listen along to the beautiful story of the wedding
- 07:56 customs of Israel in Messiah's time and how he fulfilled these
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- 08:16 ♪♪♪
- 08:22 ♪ Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim. ♪
- 08:25 ♪ Sha'alu, Sha'alu, Shalom. ♪
- 08:29 ♪ For the holy city of Jerusalem, ♪
- 08:36 ♪ we will pray for peace, ♪
- 08:40 ♪ Sha'alu, Shalom. ♪
- 08:48 ♪ Shalom. ♪♪
- 08:54 David: We've heard from so many people on our tour bus
- 08:56 that--testimonials of their miracle of being able to come to
- 09:00 Israel, people who didn't think in their lifetime that they
- 09:03 would be able to go, but God prepared the way for them.
- 09:06 Because they prayed about it, someone helped them go.
- 09:09 Pray about you coming to Israel with us.
- 09:12 We would love for you to join us.
- 09:13 Kirsten: It opens your Bible to new things that you never
- 09:16 thought possible, right?
- 09:18 David: That's right.
- 09:20 Kirsten: And also, God speaks to people.
- 09:22 There's something about being in that Holy Land that God will
- 09:25 speak to you in a brand-new way.
- 09:27 I love our story today.
- 09:29 It's kind of a love story.
- 09:30 We've been married--we're on our 31st year of marriage, and we've
- 09:34 had a great love story.
- 09:35 David: We have. Kirsten: We have.
- 09:36 You didn't have to pay much of a dowry for me though, did you?
- 09:39 David: No.
- 09:41 Kirsten: But it's interesting that Abraham paid a price for
- 09:45 Rebekah marrying his son.
- 09:47 And she didn't come cheap.
- 09:49 She was costly.
- 09:51 I think there's some camels and some gold in there.
- 09:52 And we just want all of you to know that people that save up
- 09:57 and give to our ministry, if you have a camel,
- 10:00 we'll take your camel.
- 10:01 We'd love a pet camel.
- 10:03 But, anyway, those that give to our ministry, we're just so
- 10:05 thankful for you saving up and putting your dollars in some--in
- 10:10 a ministry that makes a difference across the world.
- 10:13 True, right?
- 10:15 Jeffrey: People adorn what they love.
- 10:16 I notice you have some bling on your fingers.
- 10:18 Kirsten: Thirtieth, thirtieth.
- 10:20 Jeffrey: You know, those probably aren't cubic zirconia.
- 10:22 People adorn what they love, and thank you for those of you that
- 10:26 love us, not just in word and speech but in deed and in truth,
- 10:32 and for those who in deed love us with an offering, we're not
- 10:36 puttin' gold and diamonds on our fingers with the money you send.
- 10:39 Really, we're not.
- 10:40 We're just paying for the air time, and we wanna get the story
- 10:42 to you.
- 10:44 It doesn't come cheap.
- 10:45 Thanks for your grace in advance.
- 10:47 Kirsten: We're in our story right now where Isaac's heart
- 10:50 has been saddened by the death of his mother, then also revived
- 10:54 through Rebekah's love, followed by Dr. Barri Seif, kind of,
- 10:58 speaking on romance.
- 10:59 David: Can't wait to hear that.
- 11:01 Let's go there now.
- 11:02 ♪♪♪
- 11:06 narrator: The death of Isaac's mother, Sarah, had left
- 11:09 its mark on her grieving son.
- 11:11 ♪♪♪
- 11:13 narrator: He had moved to the Negev.
- 11:16 Perhaps this would be a place where the God of his father
- 11:20 Abraham could fill the void in his aching heart.
- 11:23 ♪♪♪
- 11:33 ♪♪♪
- 11:42 ♪♪♪
- 11:44 Rebekah: [speaking foreign language]
- 11:46 Eliezer: [speaking foreign language]
- 11:49 ♪♪♪
- 11:56 Barri Seif: I love romance.
- 11:58 Isn't this a great story?
- 12:01 I loved how God brought Rebekah and Isaac together.
- 12:06 She dismounted, and she immediately veiled herself as
- 12:11 she knew her life was going to change immediately.
- 12:18 I got to be a bride finally at the ripe young age of 62,
- 12:24 when I got to say, "I do," and wear a veil.
- 12:27 I love romance, and because I was single for so long,
- 12:32 I enjoyed learning about how other people found romance,
- 12:37 even little tiny towns.
- 12:39 Some years ago, I lived in Shreveport, Louisiana, and the
- 12:43 newspaper--yes, we had newspapers back then--ran some
- 12:47 stories and little clips on couples that had
- 12:50 been married 50 years.
- 12:53 So I took it upon myself to get the phone book, which we also
- 12:56 had way back then, find their names, call up the couples and
- 13:01 just ask them a little bit about how they met each other and what
- 13:06 would they consider was the success to their marriage, and
- 13:12 most of the answers were the same about, you know, "I love
- 13:15 them," and "We communicate well 'cause, after 50 years,
- 13:20 that's a long time to be married."
- 13:22 But I love this love story here because it speaks to all of our
- 13:27 hearts to be content where we're at.
- 13:30 I didn't go looking for love in the right places
- 13:34 or the wrong places.
- 13:36 I didn't go on the Internet sites.
- 13:39 Dates were like figs.
- 13:41 They were a Middle Eastern fruit, nature's candy.
- 13:45 I was content to go to sleep in God, and when, just like with
- 13:50 Eve, she was asleep when God brought him to her side.
- 13:54 God has a purpose.
- 13:56 Singleness is a gift.
- 13:58 Marriage is a gift.
- 13:59 Both of them have benefits.
- 14:01 So right where you're at, enjoy on the way to where you're going
- 14:05 because, you know what?
- 14:07 Father knows best.
- 14:11 Kirsten: I think I can speak for all of us at this table that
- 14:14 Barri Seif, your gorgeous wife, did not look 62 when the both
- 14:18 of you got married.
- 14:19 She looks good.
- 14:21 Jeffrey: Well, she's beautiful inside and out.
- 14:23 You know, I didn't wanna marry when my wife died.
- 14:26 I didn't wanna marry a younger woman.
- 14:29 Barri is two years older than me, but she does hold it
- 14:31 together very well, doesn't she?
- 14:33 Kirsten: Oh, she looked wonderful, and I just think
- 14:34 about the age is interesting.
- 14:36 It was just the right time, right?
- 14:38 You were--weren't you 32 when we got married?
- 14:41 David: Almost earlier, but I'm glad that
- 14:43 I waited for the right one.
- 14:45 Kirsten: Thank you.
- 14:46 David: That's right.
- 14:48 Kirsten: As with Barri, and Isaac was 40.
- 14:49 It was just the right time in his life, right?
- 14:51 Jeffrey: Indeed, it was.
- 14:52 And I'm so glad the Lord brought Barri to me at the right time.
- 14:56 David: Yes.
- 14:57 In our drama today, Isaac finally gets to meet Rebekah.
- 15:00 Let's go there now.
- 15:01 ♪♪♪
- 15:06 narrator: And the servant told Isaac everything that had
- 15:09 happened, how this girl had offered him drink, then given
- 15:13 water to his camels, and how it all was a clear answer
- 15:17 from the Lord.
- 15:19 ♪♪♪
- 15:22 narrator: And Rebekah became Isaac's wife.
- 15:25 ♪♪♪
- 15:30 Isaac: [speaking foreign language]
- 15:32 ♪♪♪
- 15:42 ♪♪♪
- 15:47 Isaac: [speaking foreign language]
- 15:49 ♪♪♪
- 15:56 Isaac: [speaking foreign language]
- 15:59 ♪♪♪
- 16:03 Rebekah: [speaking foreign language]
- 16:18 ♪♪♪
- 16:21 Isaac: [speaking foreign language]
- 16:27 ♪♪♪
- 16:31 Jeffrey: In a previous segment, I spoke about Isaac and
- 16:35 his relationship with his mother, and I'm gonna begin here
- 16:38 by speaking to that because the story of him and his wife ends
- 16:43 with reference to it.
- 16:45 What I wanna underscore is that indeed there's something
- 16:48 beautiful, to my way of thinking, to see a man who was
- 16:53 so deeply in love with his mother, who misses her, who
- 17:01 grieves her absence, who has trouble getting over that.
- 17:05 That closeness in family that we look at and see here in biblical
- 17:11 literature is something that we don't find as much in the modern
- 17:14 world today where family life, in so many ways, can be
- 17:19 characterized by fracture, by moving on, and here we see a
- 17:24 story of a fellow that has a bit of trouble moving on.
- 17:30 Well, that might be worth exploring in its own right.
- 17:34 Again, just to see a loving family like that, to me, is
- 17:39 special, and it says something about his mother.
- 17:43 It says something about the boy, and it's something
- 17:46 that we miss today.
- 17:48 At the risk of offering too much self-disclosure, and I do wanna
- 17:52 get to the literature, the story of losing a mother and looking
- 18:00 at the aftermath and seeing how boys deal with it is something
- 18:04 that I experienced with the passing of my first wife--may
- 18:08 she rest in peace--Patty, after 30 years.
- 18:12 And the boys in our family, Patty was like the sun,
- 18:17 and the males, all of us were like planets that revolved
- 18:20 around that sun.
- 18:22 She was so central, and her absence for the boys, as is the
- 18:28 case here with Isaac, was catastrophic.
- 18:32 In fact, at the risk of offering too much self-disclosure, when I
- 18:35 married beautiful Barri--and you've experienced her
- 18:39 some--she's so beautiful, you don't just meet her--you
- 18:42 experience her.
- 18:43 She's authentically beautiful.
- 18:47 When we married, frankly, the boys were a tad bit, just,
- 18:50 consternated because they were concerned that I disrespected
- 18:56 their mother by virtue of the fact that I remarried.
- 18:59 Well, those emotional bonds, you know, they grew up.
- 19:02 It is what it is.
- 19:03 I said, "Listen, guys, you know, I didn't cheat on Mom.
- 19:06 You know, I didn't walk away from her.
- 19:08 Death took her, and I'm older in life, and I wanna move on, and I
- 19:13 believe God has sanctioned it."
- 19:15 So I can kind of relate to it a certain extent.
- 19:18 Now, here, to go to the text 'cause I know you watch this
- 19:21 program not to hear the life and teachings of Jeffrey Seif.
- 19:23 You wanna look at the Bible, and to be sure, I'm interested in
- 19:27 chapter 24, when Rebekah comes back, and you saw it
- 19:32 in the drama.
- 19:34 I wanna just reference it here.
- 19:35 We're told that "Eliezer, the servant," in verse 66,
- 19:39 "recounted to Isaac all the things he had done."
- 19:44 And it's not just what he had done.
- 19:46 He wanted Isaac to see providence hand in
- 19:50 what was about to present.
- 19:53 This isn't just a pretty girl, but there's an attestation here
- 19:57 of God at work in the family.
- 20:01 And if you can find that connection where God is at work
- 20:06 in it, where there's confirmations, when you have
- 20:09 that, it gives us certain--a confidence in moving forward
- 20:14 that wouldn't otherwise be there.
- 20:16 This series is all about, you know, faith for the future.
- 20:21 Faith for the future.
- 20:22 And another way of saying that is seeing God's hand in the
- 20:25 present, leading to the future.
- 20:27 That's what we're looking at here.
- 20:29 And then we're told, subsequent to that, in verse 66, that
- 20:33 Isaac, that "Yitzhak brought her in," and it says--
- 20:37 [speaking Hebrew]
- 20:39 --that "she became his wife," subsequent to which it says
- 20:44 right afterward, "and he loved her."
- 20:48 Now, when we speak of love here, we're not just talking about a
- 20:51 sentient being, someone's feeling towards someone else.
- 20:56 We're talking about romance here.
- 20:59 We're talking about what married people do.
- 21:04 Now, what's interesting--and it's worth saying.
- 21:06 It's so obvious, perhaps it shouldn't be said, but it's so
- 21:11 glaringly obvious in the literature, it's worth nothing
- 21:15 that they waited--you ready for this?
- 21:17 They waited to have sex till after they were married.
- 21:21 Here--I got it out.
- 21:23 They waited till afterward.
- 21:27 Now, there's something really good about that.
- 21:29 First of all, people are not entitled to the pleasure unless
- 21:37 there's something contractual in place to take care
- 21:40 of the treasure.
- 21:43 There is not to be sexual contact without a contract,
- 21:49 something binding to hold the parties together.
- 21:54 That's amply attested in the literature, and it's indeed
- 21:59 absent in the modern world.
- 22:01 Barri and I, when we were engaged, we kissed after we were
- 22:05 engaged.
- 22:06 Hands never went where they shouldn't, never mind eyes, that
- 22:10 we really endeavored to do it right.
- 22:12 We're kind of old school.
- 22:13 But that's what we see in the literature.
- 22:18 I understand those energies at play in the business of love,
- 22:24 but I like discipline too.
- 22:27 I believe there are certain things that God honors.
- 22:30 I remember Barri surprised me under the chuppah at the altar.
- 22:36 When we exchanged rings, she interrupted it all to give me a
- 22:42 purity ring, something that she had committed to years prior.
- 22:49 There's a woman that went through 60-somethin' years
- 22:51 of living before she experienced a man in marriage like that,
- 22:56 and there's something beautiful in that.
- 23:00 Let me just say, if you're watching this program and you
- 23:03 want God to guide you into the future in the business of love,
- 23:08 let me encourage you to recover some of these old ways.
- 23:12 They pay dividends.
- 23:15 If you've never been married, take some
- 23:18 of this stuff to heart.
- 23:20 If you've been married and it fell apart, and you're looking
- 23:23 for God's guidance in a reset button into the future,
- 23:27 take this stuff to heart.
- 23:31 ♪♪♪
- 23:32 Jeffrey: We're told in verse 67, "So Isaac was comforted
- 23:36 after the loss of his mother."
- 23:40 I believe there's a comfort factor in marriage, and for
- 23:45 those of you that are discomforted by circumstances in
- 23:48 that regard, please take some of the principles in today's
- 23:53 program to heart, and I believe that you can see good success
- 23:58 in life as you walk with God by faith into the future and
- 24:03 discover his will for you there.
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- 25:05 David: Okay, everybody, I have a question for Dr. Seif
- 25:08 at this table right now.
- 25:09 I just gotta know.
- 25:10 We need to know 'cause we've been talkin' about this.
- 25:12 Were you convicted about not kissing your wife until you
- 25:15 were engaged?
- 25:17 Did you hear from the Lord about that?
- 25:18 What was your experience with that?
- 25:20 Jeffrey: Well, as a rule of thumb, I don't think there
- 25:21 should be contact without a contract, but after we were
- 25:26 engaged, we'd kiss, you know, not excessively and not all the
- 25:29 time, but definitely I was in the mood for it.
- 25:34 Kirsten: You had a broken heart.
- 25:36 Isaac had a broken heart.
- 25:37 He had lost his mom. You lost your wife.
- 25:39 Jeffrey: Yeah.
- 25:41 Kirsten: And it's interesting how love and romance
- 25:43 can heal a broken heart.
- 25:47 Jeffrey: Barri's like a drug, you know.
- 25:49 I was really not happy.
- 25:51 I was really not happy being single, and I was just
- 25:54 so thankful when I looked at her.
- 25:56 The oxygen is sucked out of the room, you know?
- 25:59 And she's such a delight.
- 26:02 And, you know, five and a half years down the road, I love her
- 26:04 now more than when I started.
- 26:08 I just feel so blessed to have her.
- 26:10 I say, "She's the way, the truth, and the wife,"
- 26:12 and I say it all the time.
- 26:14 Kirsten: Yeah, but Isaac also, he had such a grieving,
- 26:19 I believe, over the loss of his mother, and then
- 26:21 here comes Rebekah.
- 26:22 She brings joy into his life.
- 26:24 Even at 40, at a later age.
- 26:25 Jeffrey: I think men suffer with being single more than
- 26:27 women do for a variety of reasons, but the Bible says it's
- 26:31 not good for a man to be alone, and I can say, "Amen," to that.
- 26:34 David: Amen, amen.
- 26:36 Kirsten: That's a good answer. David: Oh, yeah.
- 26:38 Kirsten: Well, thank you for your insight
- 26:39 and your teaching today, we appreciate that.
- 26:41 David: So much more to come.
- 26:43 It's the end of our program today.
- 26:44 I can't believe it. It's been good.
- 26:46 End us.
- 26:47 Jeffrey: As you go now, Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim.
- 26:51 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
- 26:55 ♪ Lord, don't forget or forsake me, ♪
- 27:06 ♪ your servant, oh, my God, ♪
- 27:16 [vocalizing]
- 27:23 ♪ Acquainted with sorrow, a man who knows grief, ♪
- 27:31 ♪ familiar with suffering, a man like me. ♪
- 27:38 ♪ Surely, he will come and meet my very deepest need. ♪
- 27:47 ♪ God has answered me. ♪
- 27:55 ♪ God has answered me. ♪♪
- 28:05 ♪♪♪
- 28:15 ♪♪♪
- 28:25 ♪♪♪