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Speaker 4: you again for coming out. And I like to start
Speaker 4: with something funny. And I heard about this mom. She
Speaker 4: was cooking breakfast for her two young sons, Ryan was
Speaker 4: five and Kevin was three. They begin to argue over
Speaker 4: who should get the first pancake. She saw it as
Speaker 4: an opportunity to teach them a lesson. She said, boys, boys,
Speaker 4: if Jesus were here, he would say, let my brother
Speaker 4: have the first pancake. Ryan turned to his little brother
Speaker 4: and said, Okay, Kevin, you be Jesus. Hold up your Bible.
Speaker 4: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
Speaker 4: I am what it says I am. I have what
Speaker 4: it says I have. I can do what it says
Speaker 4: I can do. Today I will be talked the word
Speaker 4: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my
Speaker 4: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,
Speaker 4: God bless you. I want to talk to you today
Speaker 4: about being real. It's easy to go through life. We're
Speaker 4: in different masks. Instead of dealing with the issues that
Speaker 4: we know are holding us back. Too often, we keep
Speaker 4: them covered up, pretending that everything is okay. We're more
Speaker 4: concerned about the outside, what people are going to think,
Speaker 4: our image, than we are the inside. It takes a
Speaker 4: lot of work to deal with the inner issues, our character,
Speaker 4: our motives, our attitude, our behaviors, things that we know
Speaker 4: are not right. It's much easier to put on a
Speaker 4: mask and pretend. And some people have a mask for
Speaker 4: every situation. They're professional pretenders. They have a mass for work,
Speaker 4: a mass for home, a mass for this friend, even
Speaker 4: a mass for church. They come in on Sundays, they're
Speaker 4: not speaking to their spouse, mad at their neighbor, can't
Speaker 4: pay their bills, greet or ask how you're doing. Blessed
Speaker 4: in highly favored. Couldn't get any better, And I'm all
Speaker 4: for having an attitude of victory, not being controlled by circumstances.
Speaker 4: But in order to get well, you have to get real.
Speaker 4: You have to take that mask off, get honest with
Speaker 4: yourself and say, okay, I have some things to deal with.
Speaker 4: This is not normal. When you get down to the
Speaker 4: real you, not to pretend you. That's when God can
Speaker 4: turn things around. But it's tempting to go around. We're
Speaker 4: in different masks. We don't want people to think less
Speaker 4: of us, so we hide behind that mask of pride.
Speaker 4: I don't have any issues. I don't need any help.
Speaker 4: God will not bless who you pretend to be. God
Speaker 4: blesses people who are real, not people who are perfect,
Speaker 4: not people that don't have any issues, but people who
Speaker 4: are honest enough to say, God, I have this bad habit.
Speaker 4: I need your help. I'm taking off the mask that
Speaker 4: everything is okay or God, I'm struggling with my temper.
Speaker 4: I made a mistake. I blew it.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 4: I need your forgiveness. When you're honest, you opened the
Speaker 4: door for God to come in and begin to change things.
Speaker 4: But as long as we're pretending, not dealing with the
Speaker 4: real issues, it's not going to improve. This is what
Speaker 4: happened with the Pharisees in the scripture. They were the
Speaker 4: religious leaders. They did the right thing, but they didn't
Speaker 4: get a reward because they did it for the wrong reason.
Speaker 4: They went to the temple each week like they were
Speaker 4: supposed to, but they didn't go to worship. They went
Speaker 4: to be seen to be well thought of, to impress people.
Speaker 4: They would pray these long, fancy prayers out loud, not
Speaker 4: because they were sincere. They wanted everybody to hear them.
Speaker 4: They gave their money, they supported the poor, but it
Speaker 4: was only to make them look good. They were doing
Speaker 4: the right thing, but they had wrong motives. They were
Speaker 4: wearing masks. Here's the key. Your inner life is more
Speaker 4: important than your outer life. It's easy to put on
Speaker 4: masks and disguise what's going on on the inside, but
Speaker 4: Jesus said, blessed are the pure in heart. On a
Speaker 4: regular basis, we should ask ourselves why am I doing this?
Speaker 4: Why am I being nice to this person because I
Speaker 4: like them and I want to help them? Or do
Speaker 4: I want something from them? Am I trying to impress them?
Speaker 4: Why am I working eighty hours a week because I
Speaker 4: need the funds? Or am I trying to prove to
Speaker 4: people that I'm successful trying to gain my self worth
Speaker 4: by what I do? Well, Joel, I've been volunteering in
Speaker 4: the nursery for six years. Nobody's told me thank you,
Speaker 4: nobody's given me any credit. Well, somebody should thank you,
Speaker 4: But the bigger issue is are you doing it for
Speaker 4: the applause, for the credit, or you're doing it to
Speaker 4: be pleasing under God. You got to pull that mask
Speaker 4: back and examine your inner life. Don't go like the
Speaker 4: Pharisees year after year doing the right thing, giving serving,
Speaker 4: helping others, but not receiving a reward because you're doing
Speaker 4: it for the wrong reason. Facing truth about ourselves can
Speaker 4: be uncomfortable. It's hard to admit. Maybe I didn't have
Speaker 4: the right motives. Maybe I am playing up to this
Speaker 4: coworker so they'll put in a good word for me.
Speaker 4: Maybe I am smiling on the outside telling my friends
Speaker 4: congratulation on your big promotion. On the inside, I'm thinking
Speaker 4: you didn't deserve it. That depresses me. You're just lucky.
Speaker 4: You got to pull that mask back. If you look
Speaker 4: inside and get honest, you can overcome the things that
Speaker 4: will hold you back. I know people that are very talented.
Speaker 4: They work hard, they're doing the right thing, but they
Speaker 4: can't seem to get ahead. It's because there's a problem
Speaker 4: on the inside. They're not addressing the hidden issues motives, character, pride, jealousy,
Speaker 4: things like that. Paul said in Second Corinthians four, we
Speaker 4: refuse to wear masks and play games. We keep everything
Speaker 4: out in the open, the whole truth on display. That's
Speaker 4: the kind of people we should be. Our life is
Speaker 4: an open book. We're not wearing any mask, thinking one
Speaker 4: thing and saying something else. Our motives are pure. We're
Speaker 4: not perfect, but we're dealing with the issues, not pretending,
Speaker 4: not disguising it. We're real. When you live like that,
Speaker 4: open and honest, God will make you and muld you
Speaker 4: into a vessel of honor used for his highest purposes.
Speaker 4: He'll take you further than you ever imagine. In the
Speaker 4: parable of the Prodigal Son, the young man asked his
Speaker 4: father for his inheritance. He went out and spent all
Speaker 4: of his money partying, living wild, hanging out with the
Speaker 4: wrong people. He blew his inheritance. What should have lasted
Speaker 4: years only lasted a matter of months. There came a
Speaker 4: great famine in the land. He had no money, no
Speaker 4: place to live, and nobody to blame. It was only
Speaker 4: his fault. The only job he could find was working
Speaker 4: at a hog pen, feeding the hogs. It was hot, dirty, smelly.
Speaker 4: To make matters worse, he ended up having to live
Speaker 4: in the hogpen, eating hog food to survive. That could
Speaker 4: have been the end of the story. Too bad, he
Speaker 4: brought the trouble on himself. He missed his destiny. But
Speaker 4: the scripture says when he came to himself, that means
Speaker 4: when he took off the mask, when he quit pretending,
Speaker 4: when he quit making excuses. In other words, when he
Speaker 4: got real. He said, my father has servants that live
Speaker 4: better than me at home. I would arise and go
Speaker 4: back to my father's house. When the father saw him
Speaker 4: a long way down the road, the father took off,
Speaker 4: running toward him, gave him a hug. He told his staff,
Speaker 4: let's have a party. My son has returned home. The
Speaker 4: father represents God. He saw him coming a long way off.
Speaker 4: That means he was looking for him. When you take
Speaker 4: your mask off, God will come running towards you when
Speaker 4: you get honest to say God, I need help with
Speaker 4: this addiction. I need help with this anger, this temper
Speaker 4: or God, I've made a mess of things. I need
Speaker 4: help in my marriage. God won't say I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: help you. You made the mess. Just the opposite. He'll
Speaker 4: come running when you're humbled enough to say, God, I've
Speaker 4: come to the end of myself. I can't break this
Speaker 4: addiction in my own strength. I can't straighten up my
Speaker 4: life just in my ability. When you acknowledge you need
Speaker 4: God's help. He'll make things happen that you could never
Speaker 4: make happen. Are you wearing any mass today, hiding behind
Speaker 4: a mask of pride, not wanting to ask for help,
Speaker 4: too embarrassed to admit that something is wrong. God is
Speaker 4: not going to fault you for where you are. He
Speaker 4: knew every mistake we would make before we ever made it.
Speaker 4: He knows our flaws. Our weakness is our failures. You
Speaker 4: don't have to pretend you can be honest like the prodigal.
Speaker 4: When you go to God, you take off that mask.
Speaker 4: That's when you'll see things begin to turn around. This
Speaker 4: is what David did. You remember he made a pretty
Speaker 4: major mistake. He committed adultery with Bathsheba. He tried to
Speaker 4: cover it up, It only made matters worse. He sent
Speaker 4: her husband out to the front lines of the battlefield
Speaker 4: and he was killed. Now that her husband was gone,
Speaker 4: he took Bathsheba as his wife. David acted like nothing
Speaker 4: was wrong. Life is good, no big deal. He was
Speaker 4: wearing the mask. Only he and Bathsheba knew anything about it.
Speaker 5: It.
Speaker 4: David tried to ignore it, go about his business. But
Speaker 4: the problem is when you're wearing masks. You step out
Speaker 4: of God's favor, you step out of his protection, his blessing.
Speaker 4: For one year, David was miserable. He was sick, He
Speaker 4: became weak. All kinds of things came against him. Normally
Speaker 4: he could overcome them. He had defeated Goliath, he had
Speaker 4: survived Saul chasing him through the desert. He'd overtaken great armies.
Speaker 4: But now the tables have turned deep down. David knew
Speaker 4: what the problem was. He was smart enough to get
Speaker 4: honest with himself. He took off the mask Psalm fifty one.
Speaker 4: He said, God, I acknowledge my transgressions. I'm not covering
Speaker 4: it anymore. I admit that I've done wrong. The first
Speaker 4: step to recovery is you have to accept responsibility. You
Speaker 4: have to own it. You can't over what you want
Speaker 4: it meant. And it's easy to go around hiding things,
Speaker 4: hiding an addiction, hiding a failure, hiding an area that
Speaker 4: you're struggle in, Like David, what you hide, all that's
Speaker 4: going to do is eat away at you on the inside.
Speaker 4: It's like poison. It's much better to be real and
Speaker 4: go to God and say I acknowledge that I've made
Speaker 4: this mistake or God, I acknowledge that I'm still struggling
Speaker 4: in this area. David went on to say, God, you
Speaker 4: require truth in the inward parts. He was saying, God,
Speaker 4: you require us to be real. You require us to
Speaker 4: take off the mask. You can't pretend and have God's
Speaker 4: blessing at the same time. If you're covering the issues,
Speaker 4: not dealing with them. It's not going to magically go away.
Speaker 4: But there is a way out. God is not holding
Speaker 4: your faults, your mistakes against you. He has mercy, forgiveness,
Speaker 4: new beginnings. But you have to do your part. Take
Speaker 4: off the mask, quit pretending, and go to God and
Speaker 4: be real. He already knows what you're dealing with. It's
Speaker 4: not a surprise to God. When you ask for his help,
Speaker 4: his forgiveness, his mercy, that's when he'll begin to restore
Speaker 4: you and put you back on the right path. This
Speaker 4: is what David did. He said, God, create in me
Speaker 4: a clean heart, restore under me the joy of my salvation.
Speaker 4: He got it out in the open, asked for forgiveness.
Speaker 4: God forgave him, restored him. He went on to do
Speaker 4: great things. God will do the same thing for you.
Speaker 4: Not only did David. Take off the mask of pretending
Speaker 4: everything was perfect when it wasn't. Under that mask was
Speaker 4: a mask of shame. I can't believe I did this?
Speaker 4: What was I thinking about? I'll never become who I
Speaker 4: was created to be. The mask of shame can keep
Speaker 4: you from your destiny. Voices will constantly wish. You can't
Speaker 4: take this mask off. You're paying God back for your mistakes.
Speaker 4: You're showing him that you're sorry. You should live guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, unworthy.
Speaker 4: Look what you've done, friends, The price has already been paid.
Speaker 4: You don't have to pay God back. You don't have
Speaker 4: to live guilty and condemned. God has mercy for every
Speaker 4: mistake you've ever made. He didn't disqualify you. He can
Speaker 4: still get you to where you're supposed to be. Take
Speaker 4: off the mask of shame. A friend of mine was
Speaker 4: raised in a very dysfunctional home. His father was an alcoholic,
Speaker 4: and when he would drink too much, he would become
Speaker 4: angry and violent and mistreat his mother, bring all kinds
Speaker 4: of turmoil in the home. My friend, this young man
Speaker 4: grew up just like his father, addicted to drugs, angry, violent,
Speaker 4: couldn't hold down a job, But in his mid twenties,
Speaker 4: he gave his life to Christ and he had this
Speaker 4: major turnaround. He ended up becoming the pastor of a church.
Speaker 4: It's well respected in the community. He'd go around telling
Speaker 4: people what God had done his story, but what people
Speaker 4: didn't know is he still had this anger problem. He
Speaker 4: was free from the drugs, from the addiction, but the
Speaker 4: smallest things would set him off. Just like his father.
Speaker 4: He would go into fits of rage and mistreat his wife,
Speaker 4: his family. He knew it was wrong, but he was
Speaker 4: too embarrassed to ask for help. His wife told him
Speaker 4: again and again, honey, you can't keep living like this,
Speaker 4: pretending everything is okay. He would answer, I know, but
Speaker 4: I'm supposed to be the example. What are people going
Speaker 4: to think of me if they find out I have
Speaker 4: this anger problem. Sometimes we're more concerned about what people
Speaker 4: are going to think than we are about what God thinks.
Speaker 4: One day, like the prodigal son, he came to the
Speaker 4: end of himself. He got tired of pretending. He found
Speaker 4: trusted friend and went and told him everything that was
Speaker 4: going on. The scripture says to do this, confess your
Speaker 4: faults one to another, and you will be healed. But
Speaker 4: if you keep hiding things, ignoring it, covering it up,
Speaker 4: it's not gonna go away. You have to take off
Speaker 4: the mask. Well, Joel, what are people gonna think if
Speaker 4: they find out I'm dealing with this issue? What if
Speaker 4: my coworkers learn that I'm struggling in this area? Can
Speaker 4: I tell you everybody is struggling with something? There are
Speaker 4: no perfect people. Don't be embarrassed by it. The enemy
Speaker 4: would love for you to go your whole life wearing masks, pretending,
Speaker 4: not dealing with the real issues. There is a freedom
Speaker 4: when you take that mask off and you get real.
Speaker 4: That's what my friend did. He got involved in a
Speaker 4: good support group, something like Celebrate Recovery that we have
Speaker 4: here today. He's totally free, one of the kindest, most
Speaker 4: gentle people you'll ever meet. But he would still be pretending,
Speaker 4: still be dealing with that anger issue if he hadn't
Speaker 4: made the decision to take off the mask. Paul said
Speaker 4: in Second Corinthians three, we see God's glory with unveiled faces.
Speaker 4: As long as your face is veiled, as long as
Speaker 4: you're wearing that mask, you won't see God's glory. If
Speaker 4: you're wearing the mask of perfection, pretending everything is okay
Speaker 4: when it's not. Or like my friend, wearing a mask
Speaker 4: of pride, not wanting to ask for help. That's going
Speaker 4: to keep you from God's best. I'm asking you to
Speaker 4: take off the mask. You don't have to pretend. When
Speaker 4: you're real, you'll see God's favor. When there's truth on
Speaker 4: the inside, you'll see things begin to turn around. That
Speaker 4: same verse goes on to say God changes us from
Speaker 4: glory to glory. Notice God doesn't change us from shame
Speaker 4: to glory. If you're wearing the mask of shame, you're
Speaker 4: gonna get stuck. You gotta take that mask off. He
Speaker 4: doesn't change us from pride to glory, but from glory
Speaker 4: to glory. When you're not wearing any mask, you have
Speaker 4: God's glory on your life. When you're open and honest,
Speaker 4: that's when God can change you and take you to
Speaker 4: the next level of your destiny. But maybe, like my friend,
Speaker 4: you've been wearing a mask for a long time. You
Speaker 4: have some issues you're not proud of. You don't want
Speaker 4: anybody to know. The easy thing is to keep covering it,
Speaker 4: pretending everything's okay. But the problem with wearing a mask
Speaker 4: your whole life is you will miss your destiny. God
Speaker 4: will not bless who you pretend to be, but he
Speaker 4: will bless who you are false in all when you're real.
Speaker 4: An unveiled face doesn't mean that we're perfect. We're not
Speaker 4: struggling in any area. Simply means we're an open book.
Speaker 4: We're not pretending we're real. There was a man in
Speaker 4: the scripture named Zachiss He was a tax collector. They
Speaker 4: were known for being dishonest and for cheating people. They
Speaker 4: were looked down on, despised, nobody liked them. Zach Kius
Speaker 4: was the chief tax collector. That means he was in
Speaker 4: charge of all the dishonest people. You can imagine how
Speaker 4: disliked he was. But Zachias was very good at what
Speaker 4: he did. He was a wealthy man. One day he
Speaker 4: heard that Jesus was coming through his city, and he
Speaker 4: was so excited and couldn't wait to see him. But
Speaker 4: the problem was Zachius was very short. He couldn't see
Speaker 4: over all the people in the crowd. But being at
Speaker 4: a disadvantage had never stopped him before. He knew how
Speaker 4: to manipulate things and get his way. He went over
Speaker 4: to a tree and started climbing up wasn't easy. He
Speaker 4: had to work hard to strain, put forth a law
Speaker 4: of effort. Eventually he had the best seat of anyone.
Speaker 4: Zakius was not only short physically, but symbolically. You could
Speaker 4: say he came up short. He wasn't making good decisions
Speaker 4: in life. He was a fraud. He had made his
Speaker 4: living by deceiving people. Now he was up in this
Speaker 4: tree to make up for his weaknesses. He looked good
Speaker 4: up there, impressive. Once again, he had positioned himself for
Speaker 4: an advantage. People may not have liked him, but they
Speaker 4: couldn't argue he had the best seat around. His whole life,
Speaker 4: he had pushed others down to get what he wanted.
Speaker 4: He didn't care about people. He cared about position, about
Speaker 4: what's in it for me. He was an expert at
Speaker 4: getting the upper hand. Finally, the big moment arrived. Jesus
Speaker 4: came passing through the city. There were hundreds, maybe thousands
Speaker 4: of people there, everybody screaming, waving, trying to get his attention.
Speaker 4: About that time. Out of all the people there, Jesus stopped,
Speaker 4: looked up in the tree and said, Hazac Kiss. They
Speaker 4: had never met before, but Jesus called him by name.
Speaker 4: Isn't it interesting that Jesus knew the main sinner in
Speaker 4: the crowd. This shows us the heart of God. You
Speaker 4: may think that God would never have anything to do
Speaker 4: with you. You made too many mistakes, you have too
Speaker 4: much negative baggage, too many hang ups, or just like
Speaker 4: Zachia is, God is calling your name. He has a
Speaker 4: destiny for you to fulfill, an assignment for you to accomplish.
Speaker 4: God will pass over all the people that have it together,
Speaker 4: all the people that everybody else would write off, to
Speaker 4: find that one person that's struggling. That's why you're here today.
Speaker 4: That's why you're listening. It's not by accident. God is
Speaker 4: calling your name. God looks beyond the failures are mistakes.
Speaker 4: He looks beyond our mask what we pretend to be.
Speaker 4: God knows who you really are. He's the one who
Speaker 4: breathed life into you. He puts seeds of greatness on
Speaker 4: the inside. He sees your potential, what you're capable of.
Speaker 4: No matter what you've done in the past, God has
Speaker 4: not written you off. He can still get you to
Speaker 4: your destiny. Zach Kus was shocked. He looked down and
Speaker 4: asked somebody. Did he just call my name? They said, yeah,
Speaker 4: he said, zach Kis. He scratched his head, thinking, how
Speaker 4: does this man know my name. I'm not a religious person.
Speaker 4: I haven't lived an upstanding life. I'm a fraud. I've
Speaker 4: made a living cheating people. Yeah I look impressive, I
Speaker 4: look important up here, but I know this is not
Speaker 4: who I am. He had worn that mask for so long,
Speaker 4: for so many years, he had convinced himself that's who
Speaker 4: he was. When Jesus called his name, he felt a conviction.
Speaker 4: Something down in here said, this is not who you are.
Speaker 4: You're better than this. What was happening, The mask was
Speaker 4: being exposed. See, God knows who you really are, not
Speaker 4: who you pretend to be. There will be times, like
Speaker 4: zach Kis, You'll feel conviction down in here. You'll know
Speaker 4: this is not who I am. This anger, this addiction,
Speaker 4: this compromise, this mediocrity. I've been covering it up for years.
Speaker 4: But it's a mask. It's not the true me. Zai
Speaker 4: Kis had to make a decision. Was he going to
Speaker 4: get honest with himself and be willing to make changes,
Speaker 4: or was he going to keep pretending. Jesus looked up
Speaker 4: zach Kis, come down from that tree. I want to
Speaker 4: go to your house and visit today Jesus was saying,
Speaker 4: I want to turn your life around. I want to
Speaker 4: set you on a new path. But as long as
Speaker 4: you're up there in the tree, as long as you're
Speaker 4: trying to look impressive, covering the real issues, pretending everything
Speaker 4: is okay, I can't do anything. But if you'll come
Speaker 4: down to the ground, if you'll get lial, if you'll
Speaker 4: quit hiding the areas where you come up short, quit
Speaker 4: making excuses. If you'll come down, then I'll come in.
Speaker 4: If you'll take off the mask, all change areas that
Speaker 4: you could never change. I'll help you break the addiction.
Speaker 4: I'll help you make better choices. I'll help you live
Speaker 4: confident and secure, maybe like zach Kis. Because of your shortcomings,
Speaker 4: your failures, your weaknesses, you've climbed up in that tree,
Speaker 4: so to speak. You've worked hard to gain an advantage
Speaker 4: and look impressive. Not let anybody see your weaknesses. The
Speaker 4: easy thing to do is stay up in the tree.
Speaker 4: It's safe, you don't have to deal with anything. You
Speaker 4: can keep pretending, but you have to come to that
Speaker 4: point where you say I'm tired of pretending. I'm tired
Speaker 4: of wearing these masks. I've covered it up for years.
Speaker 4: I thought I have to, but now I realize, like
Speaker 4: zach Kills, I have to come down. I have to
Speaker 4: get real friends. God already knows what you're struggling with.
Speaker 4: You don't have to cover up your inadequacies, your failures.
Speaker 4: Come down out of that tree. The people who get
Speaker 4: the help are the people who are real, the people
Speaker 4: who are honest enough to say I don't have it altogether.
Speaker 4: I keep coming up, Sure, God, I keep giving into
Speaker 4: this temptation, struggling in my marriage, I'm dealing with this discouragement.
Speaker 4: But God, I'm not going to go around wearing any
Speaker 4: more mask. I know when my face is unveiled, I'll
Speaker 4: see your glory. I know that's when you'll change me,
Speaker 4: make me, invold me. When there's truth on the inside.
Speaker 4: God will change areas that you could not change before.
Speaker 4: He'll make things happen that you've not been able to
Speaker 4: make happen. Zachias came down from the tree. Finally, he
Speaker 4: took the mask off, quit making excuses. He admitted that
Speaker 4: he had been wrong. He didn't say Jesus, I don't
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Speaker 4: really I'm a good person. No, he accepted responsibility, He
Speaker 4: owned it. He said, in effect, I've cheated, I've been dishonest,
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Speaker 4: Salvation has come to your house. If you will be
Speaker 4: bold enough to come down out of that tree, be
Speaker 4: open and honest, you will see God's favor in a
Speaker 4: new way. The pure in heart will be blessed. Are
Speaker 4: you wearing any masks today? A mask of pride, a
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Speaker 4: like Zachias, Salvation is coming to your house today. It
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