[0:00] I say we're going to have another look at the chapter in the episode of Jacob's life.
[0:13] Before that, just have a short word of prayer and ask the Lord's blessing and help. O eternal God, we come to thee as needy sinners.
[0:25] The more we see ourselves, the more needy we are. And we need thy help as we meditate upon thy word here this evening. We need the Holy Spirit to come in with us and we ask thee, O God, that he would come and enlighten us.
[0:43] Give us light upon thy truth. That we would see that the way Jacob took, that it would be our way as well. For he followed the Lord.
[0:54] Although there were times in his experience that he strayed this way and that way. Yet we find at the end of his days, he blessed his sons and blessed the Lord for all that he did for them.
[1:10] We ask thee, O Lord, to be with us and help us and keep us. We ask it for Jesus' sake. Amen. Amen. Well, as I said the last time we looked at Jacob, we looked at three roads.
[1:24] And I'm going to take four roads tonight. So I hope that I will be able to, I struggle to finish three roads. So hopefully I'll manage to finish another four roads.
[1:35] We looked at a revealed road that the Lord had told Jacob that he had to go back to Paddan Aram. And he was quite clear to him it was the Lord.
[1:46] And that the promise to Jacob would be that he would be with him. And we looked then at a returning road because he went away. And there were times in his experience that he went away from God to Jacob.
[1:58] But yet he told him, Genesis 31 verse 3, return into the land and to thy kindred. And then we looked at the third instance.
[2:09] We looked at the royal road. It was a royal road. And his way the angels met him. And we have that at the beginning of chapter 32. And he called the name of the place Mahanaim.
[2:21] That is two hosts. There was a host behind him and a host in front of him. And so it was a royal road. The angels were before him and the angels were behind him.
[2:34] And tonight we're going to look at another three, four hours. We're going to look at, first of all, it was a requesting road. And secondly, it was a restraining road.
[2:48] And thirdly, it was a repenting road. And finally, it was a rewarding road. So these four. Requesting, restraining, repenting, and rewarding.
[3:04] First of all, a requesting road. Well, if you look at, Jacob had sent out messengers to tell Esau. There he is in verse 3 of chapter 32.
[3:17] And he sent out messengers to Esau to tell him that he was returning. In one sense, he didn't really have to tell Esau.
[3:30] Because if you look at the map of Israel, down at the bottom of the Dead Sea. Jacob at this time was living, Esau was living to the east.
[3:42] Whereas his father, Isaac, was living to the west. Esau had gone away to the land of his wives, to Moab.
[3:54] And in a real sense, he didn't really need to go to Esau. But he knew Esau. And he knew what Esau's threat was. Remember the threat he had.
[4:05] That the next time he says, when my father returns, I'm going to kill you. So, in one sense, you see, this is Jacob again. And I don't know if we like to call his cunningness or his wisdom.
[4:18] He actually says to Esau, go and tell Esau that I'm coming. And look at the way he explains to Esau there.
[4:31] Look at what he says to him there. Thy servant, he calls him. Verse 4. Thy servant, Jacob says unto thee, I have sojourned with Laban.
[4:42] And there he goes on. And then he goes on. I have sent to tell, verse 5, at the end of verse 5. I have sent to tell my Lord that I may find grace in thy sight.
[4:54] He's almost as if he's trying to appease Esau. He's calling his servant. And he says he's wanting to find grace in his sight. And then we have the return.
[5:06] We have the messengers returning. And we find that they're coming back. And Esau is coming back. And the messengers are coming back.
[5:16] And it's not a very comforting message, is it, to Jacob? He was hoping that Esau would come back. The messengers would come back and say to him, good, you're coming back, and so on.
[5:28] No, it's not. Look at what they say. Verse 6. Esau is coming to meet thee, and 400 men with thee. This isn't a welcoming party, is it?
[5:39] This is a war party. And look at the reaction of Jacob in verse 7. We have it there. Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed.
[5:54] He was greatly afraid and distressed. Why? Why was he greatly? Well, he was greatly, well, we know it. He was greatly afraid and distressed.
[6:06] And these words, apparently in the original, have push. It doesn't mean that he was. It means that he was quivering, almost, with fear.
[6:18] Because he was not only afraid, it's the emphasis on that he was in distress. This means that he was really troubled. Why? Well, can we not say that his past was catching up with him?
[6:34] Isn't it? His past was now catching up with him. His past has come back to haunt him. All his deceit.
[6:46] All his double crossing. All his lies, really, if we like to call it that way. And now come back to haunt him. And we find him there a mess.
[6:59] He is in great trouble. And he is in great distress. Friends, is that not the same with you and with me? Do you ever find yourself going back in your own history?
[7:16] Do you ever find yourself going back? Not only when you've been a Christian. But sometimes when you, before you became a Christian. And sometimes you think of some of the sins.
[7:29] If you're like me, friends. I sometimes shake and sicken myself at the sins that I have committed. Not only since I've become a Christian.
[7:42] But the devil comes in and reminds me so often. Of my own deceit. Of my own sins. My own falsehoods.
[7:53] They make me feel so often. That I'm sometimes I cannot sleep at night. Do you ever feel like that? I think that's the experience of most of us, if we're honest.
[8:03] And the devil is at, when we get this, the devil mixes it up and he says to you then. Why bother coming to the prayer meeting?
[8:17] How, what, what, who am I to show the others? If only people knew me as I am. The hymn writer said it.
[8:27] I hate, he says, the sins that made thee mourn and drove thee from my breast. That was Cowbar, wasn't it?
[8:39] Oh, for a closer walk with God. A calm and heavenly frame. There he goes on. He feels it so deeply. I hate the sins.
[8:51] Jacob felt it then. Because this was coming back to haunt him. But friends, what did he do? Look at verse 9.
[9:04] He went to pray. Now, I know we can be harsh on Jacob. But we've got to pick out the good parts as well. He went to pray.
[9:17] Friends, and there we have his prayer. I was thinking that there. He's got the four elements of prayer. He's got adoration. He adores his father, his God.
[9:30] Oh, God of my father, Abraham. He then goes on to confess. I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies and of all thy truth.
[9:40] He thanks the Lord for what he has done for him. He says to him there that I would say, I will surely do thee good and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multiple.
[9:52] He's thanksgiving. And he is then. And there is when I say he is requesting. There he is, his supplication. Where is the supplication?
[10:04] It's in there, friends. There it is and there it is. Deliver me. Deliver me. Deliver me. He says. Deliver me.
[10:17] I pray thee. Now, I was thinking there at that when I saw deliver me. And I didn't really take in the next part. I pray thee. The ESV has it.
[10:30] Please deliver me. You know this, there is a burden on him here. And he is desperate. And he's not only said, deliver me, O Lord.
[10:43] I pray thee. Please, O Lord. He's pleading. This is his request. He's going to a throne of grace. And he's saying, with sincerity.
[10:54] There's sincerity in this. There is reality in this. This was a request for deliverance. I pray thee. Please deliver me.
[11:07] Jonah. Remember what Jonah had in the belly of the whale. In my distress, I called on the Lord. Psalmist himself said it.
[11:19] In my distress, to God I cried. Verse Psalm 120. Jacob was in fear of his life. But you know, there's a thought in it here.
[11:33] And this is a thought that you can have yourselves as well. I believe there's more in it that Jacob had here. He's not only had it for himself. I know he was, you know, he was a, people are saying that he was a selfish man.
[11:46] Maybe you'll find tonight that I'm a wee bit Jacob. More on the side of Jacob than I am. Some people can be really hard on Jacob. But I'm not, I'm not going to be hard on Jacob tonight. Because I find myself sometimes so often like him.
[11:59] But he says, look what he says there. He not only asks for, the end of verse 11. For he says to him, deliver me I pray thee from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau.
[12:10] For I fear him, lest he will come and smite me. And the mother with the children. He put that in.
[12:21] He didn't forget the mother and the children. He could have said, deliver me. But he wanted the Lord to deliver not only himself, but his wife and his children.
[12:34] He feared for his family. Friends, that's what we should be doing. That's an example to you and to me. Never stop praying for your children, friends. Or your children's children.
[12:45] Or your brothers, your sisters, whoever. Or your friends, your community. Don't stop. Take the example of Jacob. Pray for them. And then we read, after he had done that, we read that.
[13:01] He goes on. He splits his group. Again, some people say in this that he's here and he's a bit of a coward.
[13:12] He's putting them into bands. But then if you read in verse, in chapter 33. Chapter 33.
[13:23] Chapter 33. I believe that his... I'm jumping ahead of myself. I'm here. I believe that his confrontation, if I say, with the angel of the covenant had a big impression on him.
[13:39] Because it looks very much in chapter 32 that he's coming behind. Would you agree? He's putting them into companies. He's putting his wives into companies.
[13:50] And he's putting them into two or three companies. So that his favourite, Rachel, is last along with Joseph. And he would be behind them. Do you get that impression? Look at verse...
[14:02] Chapter 33. Verse 3. Look at verse 2. Well, look at verse 2. He put the handmaids on their children foremost. And Leah and her children after. And Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
[14:12] Verse 3. And he passed over before them. Do you get what I'm getting? He's going before them. Now, I thought he was behind them before, did you?
[14:26] But he's going before them. And he's bowing himself to the ground. He's bowing. He's going up to the ground. And he's going down. Down on his four knees before Esau. He sees Esau coming with his 400 men.
[14:36] And he's bowing before him. It's not Leah that's going there. Am I right? Am I fine? Maybe you'll discuss this with me afterwards. But chapter 33. Verse 3.
[14:46] Seem to me to say that Jacob was actually going before them. Was there a change? Jacob. I think there was. From the time he wrestled with the angel of the covenant.
[14:57] To the hill. But that's an aside. We now move on to the fact that. Number 2. Restraining road. A restraining road. Jacob. Then. Here we have. He's put them all.
[15:08] To be ahead. He took them. Verse 23. He took them. Sent them over the brook. And sent over all that he had. And there we have it. Verse 24. Jacob.
[15:19] Jacob. Was left on his own. Jacob. Was left alone. Do you wonder why that is in the Bible? I wonder why these things are in the Bible. You know.
[15:30] The Bible is written for you and for me. Isn't it? It was not. It was not. I read a book of information. There was something in here. I was thinking when I was reading this. He went back.
[15:44] Alone. I get the feeling that he put them over the book. The chapbook. Do you get that? And then he's going back. To where he was. Do you get that?
[15:55] She left alone. And there ain't men. He met a man. I believe that Jacob went back. To be a time with the Lord. Now.
[16:08] Why did the angel of the covenant meet him. If he wasn't there. Praying to the Lord. I think he went back there. I believe he went back there. And he went back there.
[16:19] For a specific purpose. And that specific purpose. Was to be on his own. To plead with the Lord. Not for himself only. But for his wives.
[16:30] And his children. And all the company. You can. You can. Tell me afterwards. If I'm wrong. And we'll discuss that afterwards. But that's. There it is. He went back.
[16:41] Friends. Is that not an example. To you and to me. When were we last. In the secret place. Now.
[16:53] I'm not. I'm not. Criticizing you. I'm criticizing myself. When was I. Truly. Last. In the secret place. Pleading with the Lord. There are times.
[17:05] In my experience. That I go back. Into my little room. And I pray. I sit down sometimes. And I go on my knees. And I can hardly. Say a sentence. Do you ever find yourself at that?
[17:18] That you're sitting. And you're trying to pray. Pray as. You know. Spurgeon. Says. It is one of the temptations. Of the devil. To tell you.
[17:30] Not to pray. When you do not. Feel. Like praying. Spurgeon says. Pray. Twice. As much. Then.
[17:41] When he says to you. Then. Pray. Twice. As much. Then. And then I say to you this. Well. What do you pray? Repeat. God be merciful. To me a sinner. Why not?
[17:52] Say that one. Why not? Repeat it again. This time. With more fervency. This is the times. In your experience. That. That's on your.
[18:02] Your lips. And then you're saying to yourself. I'm going to. With that. And you're saying to yourself. Do I pray? There it is. I believe that Jacob went. He was in the place.
[18:14] That he met God. You see. This was. He met God. Because this was Peniel. He called this. He called this Peniel. Because he had met. God's face. You know. Some people say that. He was.
[18:24] He was. He was converted. At Bethel. But why did he call. What did he call Bethel? He called Bethel. The house. Of God. But in Peniel.
[18:35] He called it. The face of God. The difference is. I leave you to. To think of. Why he called it. The house of God. But now he's calling it. The place of God. He saw. God face to face.
[18:46] As it were. He wrestled with him. And he was spared. And look at what happened. Anyway. Here we have. And. Verse. Verse.
[18:57] Jacob was left alone. And. This place. Again. Am I taking this. Out of context. Again. And there. Wrestled.
[19:08] A man with him. A man. A man. Wrestled. With him. There. Am I right? There. A man. Wrestled.
[19:19] With me. The emphasis is also on there. There. A man. Made the presence with him there. Where was the there? It was in secret. It was in the secret place.
[19:30] It was on his own. That a man. That a man. Wrestled with him. The place of. Aloneness. That's where he met him. That's where he was. He went to that place.
[19:44] Alone. He went to that place. Back over the book. Chabok. Because he was fearing. There. That the Lord wasn't listening to him. In his first.
[19:54] First. First prayer. Do you get that impression? Do you find yourself going to pray so often? Oh Lord. You haven't heard me. You're praying for your child.
[20:04] And for your friends. Or for somebody that's heavy on your heart. Oh the Lord hasn't heard me. And you go again. And you're feeling. That the Lord isn't listening to you.
[20:17] You're alone. The Lord isn't talking to you. We were talking tonight about. The mind of the Lord. We don't have the mind of the Lord.
[20:28] Because we're not. Mindful of the Lord. In the place of the Lord. If we're honest. And I have to. I'm not getting at any of you. That's my situation. I am not getting the mind of the Lord.
[20:40] Because I'm not in the place. Where I should be with the Lord. And that's in the secret place. There he was. And then we have this man. Came and wrestled with him.
[20:51] And this was a wrestle. That did not last for five minutes. I believe that this. The wrestling went on. For a long while. It says because there it was.
[21:02] I almost think that. It went on for the most part of the night. Because it was when day was breaking. The man asked him to say. Let me go. It was when the day was breaking. Because the man didn't want to.
[21:13] For him to see his face. That's. I. I'm thinking that that's the case. This is the angel of the covenant. This was done with the Lord himself. And he was there.
[21:23] And he was. He was wanting to go. Before the daybreak. And that's why he was wanting. So this lasted. A long time. What was Jacob doing. That long time.
[21:34] And I believe he was doing one thing. Do you get the impression. He was clinging.
[21:46] He was just holding on to him. Clinging to him. That's what he was doing. Angel of the covenant. Put him away in a minute.
[21:57] But he was holding him tight as he could. He was clinging to him. Friends. Is that how you're often feeling. That you're just clinging. Do you feel that you're just clinging.
[22:08] In your Christian life. You're just holding on. You're feeling that you're not making any progress. You're seeing others making progress. You're hearing others pray.
[22:20] And you're saying to yourself. Oh I wish I could pray like that person. Do you find that so often. I wish I had that utterance with the Lord. If I could pray like that. So often I can only say.
[22:31] As I said before. God be merciful to me the sinner. Keep that one. Because that one. That one got. I was going to say it at the end. That one got that man to heaven.
[22:42] Didn't it? That man was justified. Never neglect. Never say. That one's no use. That one brought that man to heaven. And if we've got that one from the heart. That's all we have.
[22:53] That's all we need. Between us here and eternity. Not just some. Long wounded epistle. Maybe last one. Hello. Hello. No friends.
[23:04] We give you. The urgency. And the fervency of prayer. Jacob. He clung. And that's why we come thirdly.
[23:16] To repent. It was also a repenting road. Well it was a requesting road. It was a restraining road. And we're going to look now at a repenting road. Look.
[23:27] Look what. Look what the. The man asked him. And I'm saying it's a man. And I'm going. Because some people have. Do say that it's the. Christ himself. I believe it was.
[23:37] And I think. The angel of the covenant. Who else could this be? A pre-incarnate Christ. The man asked him. I don't know what the man asked him. There in verse 27.
[23:49] He says to him. What is thy name? What is thy name? Now. Do you ever ask. Why. Why did he ask. Why did he ask. His name.
[24:01] He knew fine. This was Jacob. He knew perfectly well. This was Jacob. He had met him. He had blessed him there.
[24:11] His angels. Because he had sent his angels. To there. To be with him at Mahanir. He had met him at Bethel. And he says to him. What is thy name? My old friends.
[24:22] He was wanting a response. He was wanting a response. Jacob doesn't say. My name is Jacob. Read it.
[24:35] One word. What is thy name? And he said. Jacob. Jacob. I think he whispered.
[24:46] I think he whispered. I think he whispered. Why. What does Jacob mean? Deceiver.
[24:58] What's your name? Deceiver. What's your name? Jacob. What's another word for deceiver? Cheat. I'm a cheat.
[25:10] I'm a deceiver. That's what he admitted. He didn't say I am. Cheat. Deceiver. There's no word there saying I am Jacob.
[25:22] He had to confess friends there and then. When he was wrestling with the Lord. When he was wrestling with the Lord. And when the Lord came almost face to face to him. And he said. Who are you really?
[25:34] And hence. That's where we have got to come to. Whether we come to. Have come to it in the past. We still have to come to it on our way to the. To the eternal world. We have. We can never.
[25:46] Ever. Can you ever say to. Do you ever say to. Sometimes. Somebody says. To me. Are you? I said. Who are you? I'm a Christian. Sometimes. I'm. I'm so embarrassed with my own.
[25:59] My own feelings inside me. Do you feel that? Do you ever say you were a righteous person. To somebody. No. Come to the same thing.
[26:10] Dear friends. Come to a throne of grace. Saying. You are nothing. But a sinner. And I'll tell you. When we come to that.
[26:20] Confession. That. Place. Where. He repented. Many. Many years ago. From what. You may. Remember this.
[26:31] When you were going to. To Europe. Eastern Europe. Many years ago. We used to see a lot of the Baptists there. They used to say to them. To us. They used to say that. They were. Repenters. They were.
[26:42] Repenters. And that's the case. With every. Single. Sinner. Saved by grace. Repentance. Is not only. When you come.
[26:54] To. To saving knowledge of Christ. But it's an exercise. I'm. Tell right. That we have to do. Every. Day. Nearly. Every day.
[27:05] Behind you. I think. It's only every. Five minutes. If it's not every minute. If we're honest. With ourselves. There he was. He confessed.
[27:16] In his clinging. He confessed. Who he was. Can you get the picture? He's clinging. To him. And he said. What's your name? And he's told it. Jacob.
[27:27] Jacob. Ah friends. You may think. You're a lump of sin. But you keep clinging. Cling. Cling.
[27:39] Cling. Cling. To Christ. Hold on to him. Hold on to him. Now. And for the rest of your life. Because I tell you what. He doesn't throw.
[27:49] Jacob's away. He doesn't throw. Cheats away. He doesn't throw. Deceivers away. He keeps. With them. Praise be to God. That is the case. And we're coming finally now.
[28:01] It's a rewarding road. Look at what happened. Look at what happened. To Jacob there. As he clung to him. He blessed him.
[28:12] He got. There's verse 29. Lovely. Love. The last. The last. Sentence. Verse. Verse. 29.
[28:25] He blessed him there. Do you ever wonder what's in the blessing? Do you ever?
[28:38] I do. There's a little bit. There's almost. How can I put it? A silence here. About what the blessing was.
[28:50] What was in the blessing? What was in the blessing? I think he. Just said.
[29:03] You're not Jacob. You're Israel. You're a prince. You're a prince with God. You're a prince. You're a prince. You're a prince. You've wrestled.
[29:14] With God and with man. And you're now. No longer. Jacob. No longer the cheat. You think of the deceiver that you were. You're blessed.
[29:26] You are. Israel. Called his name there. In verse. Verse. 28. Thy name. Shall be called no more Jacob. But Israel. And he blessed him.
[29:39] And from that very moment. Jacob was blessed. To this. At his trust. His absolute trust. Was in no other.
[29:50] But in his saviour. And there was a closeness. With him. Because look at. Look at what happened. Look at what happened. Verse 31. As he passed over.
[30:00] Penuel. Penuel. The sun. Rose. Upon him. And he halted. Upon his thigh. The sun.
[30:11] Rose. Upon him. You know this friends. Isn't that a wonderful. Picture. You can almost see him. As he's crossing back. Over the book of Chambas. And he's ascending. The little hill.
[30:23] As he's going towards his family. And everything. Is bright. Sunshine. Sunshine. Outside. But friends. There's this in it. There was sunshine.
[30:33] In his heart. There was sunshine. In his soul. He was going. On. But you know. He wasn't leaping.
[30:45] He was halting. Again. I'm going to put this again. Why was he halting? Why did the Lord. Put this. Into Jacob's thigh.
[30:56] Well. Again. I think it's this. What was Jacob before? I think Jacob. Was thinking.
[31:07] Much. Of himself. I think. There was almost. I'm not going to say. This high mindedness. But I. But. I sort of. An impression.
[31:18] That he was better. Than. Than. Than. He really was. And the Lord. Put this. You know what he did. To Paul. He put. What did he put in him?
[31:29] A thorn in the flesh. Didn't he? To keep him down. Thigh. He was limping. You know. Could go on. He would. He would be.
[31:40] He was limping. Wasn't. And that's the Lord. Saying to him. You are to be humble. Humble. You are. For the rest of your days.
[31:51] He was still. This was a reminder. To him. That he was still. A sinful man. In need of a saviour. And friends. That's the same. With you. And with me.
[32:02] We need. To be reminded. Time and time again. That we're nothing. But really lumps of sin. And we need Christ. As our saviour.
[32:13] You know. I was thinking afterwards. What a change. Came over. If you. You go. You'll see it. At the end of. Chapter 47. In. In. In. In Genesis.
[32:24] Chapter 47. At. I think it's there. Verse. Verse 9. Yeah. Yeah. There we have. Verse 7.
[32:35] Pharaoh. Pharaoh is taken to. To. To. To. Meet. Joseph takes Pharaoh. To. Jacob. His brother. To Jacob. His father. Now.
[32:46] Think of this. This is the king of Egypt. Pharaoh king of Egypt. And. And. Joseph is taking. Pharaoh. This Pharaoh. Into. Jacob's.
[32:57] House. And. He said. And. Not only that. Jacob. Blessed. Pharaoh. Now. I'm. Not. Not.
[33:07] Going into that. There. There. In. In. Verse 7. But. Look at. For the question. That Pharaoh. Puts to him. To. To. To. To. To. To. Jacob. Pharaoh.
[33:17] Said to Jacob. How old are you? Jacob. Said unto. Pharaoh. The days. Of the years. Of my pilgrimage. Are a hundred. And thirty. Years. Now. This is it.
[33:29] Few. And. Evil. Have the days. Of the years. Of my life. Been. And have not. Attained. Unto the days. Of the years. Of the life.
[33:40] Of my fathers. In the days. Of their pilgrimage. What is this. But absolute. Humility. Would you agree? He's taken. To this position.
[33:51] This position. That he's meeting. At Peniel. This is what has actually. In a sense. Altered. Jacob. Jacob. To that extent. And friends.
[34:03] This. Is the road. Now. That he is. He's been on. It's a. Rewarding road. And it's going to. Bring him. To that. Time in Egypt. Where he has to.
[34:14] Depart. Like we were saying. Like David. Had. In his day. When he called in. Solomon. And he. He told Solomon. What to do. And so it is. With our queen. Today.
[34:26] She has to lay down. Her life. We're all going to go. That way. Here. She is. It's a rewarding. Road. For Jacob. Jacob. And so friends. Is this.
[34:36] With you. And with me. If our trust. If our hope. Is in Jesus. This. Is a rewarding room. Someday. We don't know. When it will be. Each and every one of us.
[34:47] In this room. We are going to come to that. Like Jacob. If we're united. To Christ. By effectual. By his effectual calling.
[34:58] By him calling us. Out of sin. We too. Will inherit. What Jacob. Was going to inherit. What he has inherited. And what. David has inherited.
[35:10] And that wonderful. Verse. That he says. There. In Isaiah. Forgotten. I think it's in Isaiah.
[35:20] Is it 46 or 26. He says. Thou shalt no more. Be termed. Forsaken. Neither. Shall thy land. Any more. Be termed. Desolate.
[35:32] But. Thou shalt be called. Hephzibah. My. Delight. Is in her. And thy land. Beulah.
[35:42] Beulah means married. The Lord. Delighteth. In thee. And thy land. Shall be married. Friends.
[35:53] Today. The sinful. As we may feel. The Lord. Delights. In you. Dear believer. That's the encouragement. He delights.
[36:05] In your company. He delighted. That Jacob. Went alone. He delights. To hear. Your voice. That's what he says.
[36:17] In the song. Of Solomon. The companions. Listen. To your voice. Cause me. To hear it. He delights. To see.
[36:27] To see. Your face. You are. All. His delight. You are. All. His delight. And not only. Will that go on. That is the case. Now.
[36:38] It will go on. And on. Throughout. All. Eternity. The Lord. Will delight. In you. He delighted. In Jacob. That's why.
[36:50] He wrestled. With him. At Peniel. And that's why. He comes. To you. Tonight. And he says. The same. And he says. To you. To come. And follow. Follow him.
[37:00] For the rest. Of your days. May the Lord. Bless. Our. Meditation. We go to the end. Lord. Be praised. Ben.
[37:11] Could you engage. In prayer. Please. Thank you.