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Speaker 8: start with something funny and I heard about these three
Speaker 8: pastors that were in a boat fishing together one day,
Speaker 8: and one of them said, we never get to let
Speaker 8: our hair down. Let's each tell the area that we
Speaker 8: struggle in the most.
Speaker 7: So we can pray for each other.
Speaker 8: First one said, I hate to admit this, but I
Speaker 8: have a problem with gambling. I sneak out a lot
Speaker 8: of nights and go gamble. Second one said I have
Speaker 8: a problem with cheating. I hardly ever pay my taxes.
Speaker 8: The third one just sat there silently.
Speaker 7: They waited, waited, wait, he wouldn't budge.
Speaker 8: They said, we're not leaving till you tell us yours.
Speaker 8: He said, all right, my greatest sin is with gossiping, and.
Speaker 7: I can't wait to get off this boat. Say it
Speaker 7: like you mean it.
Speaker 8: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 8: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 8: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 8: taught the word of God. I boldly confessed. My mind
Speaker 8: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 8: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 8: to talk to you today about under construction. One time
Speaker 8: Victoria and I were building a house. The foundation was
Speaker 8: poured and most of the framing was up.
Speaker 7: The roof was in place, but no shingles. There was
Speaker 7: a big storm.
Speaker 8: It rained on and off for a couple of days.
Speaker 8: When it cleared up, we went.
Speaker 7: Over to check on the house. It was so messy.
Speaker 7: The living room was lower than the other rooms.
Speaker 8: It had about a foot of water in it, like
Speaker 8: a dirty swimming pool. Plywood was floating. Workers had tracked
Speaker 8: mud all through the house. Outside, there was trash piled
Speaker 8: high that couldn't be picked up because of all the rain.
Speaker 7: It looked like a disaster.
Speaker 8: Disorganized, things out of place. What's interesting is we didn't say,
Speaker 8: let's stop building.
Speaker 7: This place is so messy. It's never going to be
Speaker 7: what we wanted.
Speaker 8: We knew it was all a part of the process.
Speaker 8: You can't have a beautiful house without rain, mud, sheet rock, dust,
Speaker 8: paint that doesn't smell good. In the same way, you
Speaker 8: have to see the things that are messy in your life,
Speaker 8: the things you struggle with, the things that seem out
Speaker 8: of place. As simply under construction doesn't mean it's not
Speaker 8: going to work out. That water in your living room,
Speaker 8: the disappointment, the betrayal, the delay. You may not like it,
Speaker 8: but it's all a part of the process.
Speaker 7: You're under construction.
Speaker 8: You can't become all you were created to be without
Speaker 8: some messy places. To the untrained eye, a construction site
Speaker 8: can look disorganized, random, but to the architect, it's no
Speaker 8: big deal.
Speaker 7: They're not worried. They drew the plans.
Speaker 8: They know exactly where it's go Your architect is the
Speaker 8: most high God. He's designed a specific plan for your life.
Speaker 8: The good news is the messy places can't stop your destiny.
Speaker 8: The delays, the things you don't understand, even the mistakes
Speaker 8: you've made, He's already taken them into account. You may
Speaker 8: not see how your dream could ever work out. You
Speaker 8: feel like you're stuck. God is saying you're right on schedule.
Speaker 8: You're not a finished product. I'm still working on you.
Speaker 8: What I started I'm going to bring to completion. The
Speaker 8: accuser will whisper not you. You have too many flaws, too
Speaker 8: many weaknesses. You've made, too many mistakes. Just remind him
Speaker 8: I'm under construction. I may have some messy places, but
Speaker 8: God's not finished with me. Paul said in Ephesians, you
Speaker 8: are a masterpiece.
Speaker 7: You may not be there quite yet.
Speaker 8: But instead of beating yourself up living with that next
Speaker 8: negative recording, how you don't measure up. Our attitude should
Speaker 8: be I'm a masterpiece in the making.
Speaker 7: Will you still.
Speaker 8: Struggle with that addiction? Yes, but I know a secret.
Speaker 8: I'm under construction. God's still working on me. You still
Speaker 8: have the temper, you still say things that you shouldn't. Yes,
Speaker 8: but I'm better than I was last year. I'm growing,
Speaker 8: I'm coming up higher, and I know this what God
Speaker 8: started He's going to finish. You have to look beyond
Speaker 8: the mess and see the masterpiece. God told Abraham that
Speaker 8: he was going to have a son and become the father.
Speaker 7: Of many nations. But he and his.
Speaker 8: Wife Sarah were too old, way past the child bearing years.
Speaker 8: They prayed, stood in faith for years, still no baby.
Speaker 8: Sarah said Abraham, I have an idea. Why don't you
Speaker 8: sleep with the maid and maybe God will give us
Speaker 8: this son that he promised. Abraham didn't even have to
Speaker 8: pray about this one, No problem, honey, whatever you say.
Speaker 8: He slept with the maid. They had a son that
Speaker 8: they named Ishmael. They were so excited they finally had
Speaker 8: their baby. God said Abraham Sarah, that is not the
Speaker 8: promised child that's your own. Doing this caused all kinds
Speaker 8: of strife and division.
Speaker 7: Sarah got mad at Abraham. What were you.
Speaker 8: Thinking sleeping with the maid? He said, what do you mean?
Speaker 8: You're the one that told me to do it? She said,
Speaker 8: I know, but you shouldn't have listened to me.
Speaker 7: Lord help all of us men.
Speaker 8: Abraham and Sarah were at odds, arguing with each other.
Speaker 8: If that wasn't bad enough, Sarah was so upset with
Speaker 8: the maid she gave Abraham an ultimatum.
Speaker 7: Either the maid is leaving or I'm leaving.
Speaker 8: But we're not staying here together. Abraham felt badly about it.
Speaker 8: The maid hadn't done anything wrong, yet he had to
Speaker 8: send her and his son out into the desert. Now,
Speaker 8: Abraham is the father of our faith. You would be
Speaker 8: hard pressed to find a more dysfunctional family than them.
Speaker 8: He was in a messy place, had a baby out
Speaker 8: of wedlock, strife, troubled division in his house. Most people
Speaker 8: would have written them off. Thought it's too late for you, guys.
Speaker 8: You need to be on reality TV, real Housewives of
Speaker 8: the Bible. You've got so much drama in your house.
Speaker 8: God looked at them and said, under construction. The messy
Speaker 8: places are all a part of the process. It may
Speaker 8: be uncomfortable, you don't understand it. You may have brought
Speaker 8: the trouble on yourself, but it's not a surprise to God.
Speaker 8: When he designed your plan, he took that into account.
Speaker 8: Despite their wrong choices, despite their dysfunction. At ninety years
Speaker 8: of age, God caused Sarah to conceive and give birth
Speaker 8: to Isaac, the Promised child. If Abraham and Sarah saw
Speaker 8: their promise come to pass after all that mess, what
Speaker 8: makes you think God is not going to bring to.
Speaker 7: Pass what he's promised you? Well, Joe, in my situation
Speaker 7: is too messy. It couldn't be any messier than theirs.
Speaker 8: While I have water in my living room, mud on
Speaker 8: my floors, you're under construction.
Speaker 7: That's a part of the process.
Speaker 8: It doesn't mean that God is not going to finish
Speaker 8: what he started. Here's how amazing God is. It says
Speaker 8: in Romans that Abraham did not waver in his faith
Speaker 8: having a baby out of wedlock. To me, that's wavering,
Speaker 8: being impatient, trying to make things happen in your own strength,
Speaker 8: having to kick somebody out of your house.
Speaker 7: That seems life wavering.
Speaker 8: But God does not see the construction process as wavering.
Speaker 8: The mistakes Abraham made, the strife, the dysfunction, God didn't
Speaker 8: hold that against him. In fact, God called Abraham a
Speaker 8: hero of faith. Why don't you quit beating yourself up
Speaker 8: because you're under construction. When God brings you to completion,
Speaker 8: when he delivers you from the addiction, when he turns
Speaker 8: your family around, He's not going to remember your weaknesses.
Speaker 8: He's not going to bring up past mistakes and failures.
Speaker 7: God knows when we're under construction.
Speaker 8: We all have messy places, we all make mistakes, we
Speaker 8: all have things to overcome. But that is not going
Speaker 8: to keep you from becoming a masterpiece.
Speaker 7: It's only temporary.
Speaker 8: But one of the worst mistakes we could make is
Speaker 8: to go through life against ourselves, focused on our failures,
Speaker 8: on the times we blew it, the times we failed.
Speaker 8: You have enough people and circumstances already against you.
Speaker 7: Don't be against yourself.
Speaker 8: You have to be at peace with being under construction.
Speaker 8: You're going to have some messy places, some things you
Speaker 8: don't understand, some weaknesses that you haven't overcome. The accuser
Speaker 8: will work overtime reminding you of everything you've done wrong,
Speaker 8: how you're not going to reach your destiny. Instead of
Speaker 8: believing those lies, going around guilty, no passion, Why don't
Speaker 8: you turn it around? Father, Thank you that you're still
Speaker 8: working on me. I know this mess is a sign
Speaker 8: that I'm under construction. Just like with Abraham, despite my shortcomings,
Speaker 8: despite my failures.
Speaker 7: You're still going to get me to where I'm supposed
Speaker 7: to be.
Speaker 8: When you live like that, God will say about you
Speaker 8: what he said about Abraham. You did not waver in
Speaker 8: your faith. We see this with Peter, one of Jesus' disciples.
Speaker 8: He was hot tempered, He used bad language. One time,
Speaker 8: he got angry and cut off a soldier's ear. One moment,
Speaker 8: he was defending Jesus, a man of great courage. Another moment,
Speaker 8: he was denying Jesus, swearing to the authorities that he
Speaker 8: didn't know him. People could have looked at him, Peter,
Speaker 8: You're a mess.
Speaker 7: You have issues. God looked at him and said, under construction.
Speaker 8: The difference between how people saw him and how God
Speaker 8: saw him is God had the plans.
Speaker 7: God could see what he was going to become.
Speaker 8: People just saw his falls, his hot temper, his instability.
Speaker 8: This is why It's so important that we don't judge people,
Speaker 8: don't write anybody off.
Speaker 7: We can't see their plans.
Speaker 8: We don't know what God is designed for them. We
Speaker 8: see people that make mistakes have weaknesses. We think, boy,
Speaker 8: they're never going to get it together. We don't realize
Speaker 8: they're under construction. God's still working on them. I have
Speaker 8: enough weaknesses of my own to deal with. I don't
Speaker 8: have time to judge.
Speaker 7: Somebody else for their weaknesses.
Speaker 8: But I love the fact that Jesus chose Peter even
Speaker 8: though he knew he was hot temper, he knew he
Speaker 8: was impatient, he knew he used bad language.
Speaker 7: He didn't choose him because he was perfect. He chose
Speaker 7: him because he had the blueprint. He knew he wasn't
Speaker 7: a finished product.
Speaker 8: Peter ended up becoming one of the most influential, respected leaders.
Speaker 7: What am I saying?
Speaker 8: Where you are now is not necessarily important. It's where
Speaker 8: you're going. That mess did not disqualify you. The mess
Speaker 8: means you're under construction. When you see other people that
Speaker 8: look like they have it all together, don't feel bad
Speaker 8: about yourself. Everyone is under construction in some area.
Speaker 7: We all have some messy places. Here's the point.
Speaker 8: Let God make you and muld you stay pliable. We
Speaker 8: should be better this year than we were last year.
Speaker 8: Don't let the mess become permanent, the addiction, the hot temper,
Speaker 8: the negative attitude.
Speaker 7: That is not who you are.
Speaker 8: Keep growing, keep resisting the temptation, keep saying no to
Speaker 8: carnal desires. Every time you do the right thing, the
Speaker 8: next time it gets a little bit easier. And there's
Speaker 8: nothing wrong with being under construction, But there is something
Speaker 8: wrong with not.
Speaker 7: Making any progress. Do your part, be willing to change.
Speaker 7: God will do his part. He'll help you to come
Speaker 7: up higher.
Speaker 8: Sometimes when you see a construction site, you can't tell
Speaker 8: if they're tearing something down or building something up.
Speaker 7: I was downtown one time.
Speaker 8: There was this big pile of dirt several stories high.
Speaker 8: Over on the other side there was this pile of debris,
Speaker 8: metal bricks.
Speaker 7: They had torn down this small structure.
Speaker 8: They were digging the foundation for a huge skyscraper. There
Speaker 8: was a hole probably one hundred feet in the ground.
Speaker 8: They were pouring these deep years. The taller the building,
Speaker 8: the deeper the foundation has to go. What's interesting is
Speaker 8: you can't see the foundation.
Speaker 7: It's underground.
Speaker 8: It's hidden, but you could argue that it's the most
Speaker 8: important part. They could build a huge tower, but if
Speaker 8: they didn't take time to put the proper foundation, it
Speaker 8: wouldn't last. And there are times that we know we're
Speaker 8: supposed to be going up.
Speaker 7: We have big dreams.
Speaker 8: God's put promises in our hearts, but it feels the opposite,
Speaker 8: like we're going down. We're not growing, not seeing good breaks.
Speaker 8: What we may not realize is God is working on
Speaker 8: our foundation, on our character, on how we treat people,
Speaker 8: on how.
Speaker 7: We respond to adversity.
Speaker 8: We don't like these times, but they are extremely important.
Speaker 8: Like the building, the higher you're going to go, the
Speaker 8: deeper your foundation has to be.
Speaker 7: Don't get discouraged when things are not happening on your timetable.
Speaker 8: God knows what he's doing. Keep passing the test those
Speaker 8: things that are not changing. But you're keeping a good attitude.
Speaker 8: That's making you stronger. When you're good to people that
Speaker 8: are not good to you, your foundation is going down deeper.
Speaker 8: That's a sign you're getting prepared to go higher. But
Speaker 8: God will not release what he has for you until
Speaker 8: he knows.
Speaker 7: You can handle it. It wouldn't be a.
Speaker 8: Blessing if he gave it to you and you weren't ready.
Speaker 8: If God has an eighty story building plan for you,
Speaker 8: but he only designed a forty story foundation, it may
Speaker 8: be easier, but that would be doing you a disservice.
Speaker 8: Don't fight the foundation work. Don't get sour because things
Speaker 8: aren't moving as fast as you would like. Something is
Speaker 8: happening that you can't see. Your foundation is going down
Speaker 8: deep deeper. You're being prepared to go to new levels.
Speaker 7: When our house was being built, most of the walls
Speaker 7: were up, but the carpenters they put in a couple
Speaker 7: of extra walls.
Speaker 8: I was over there with the plans. I thought, these
Speaker 8: walls are out of place. These walls are a mistake.
Speaker 8: They're right in the middle of the room. I asked
Speaker 8: the builder about it. He said, they're predicting high winds
Speaker 8: the next couple of weeks, so I had them build
Speaker 8: these temporary walls to help brace the main ones until
Speaker 8: we could.
Speaker 7: Get the roof on.
Speaker 8: As the builder, because he had more knowledge, more experience,
Speaker 8: he was doing things that didn't make sense to me.
Speaker 8: All I could see is this wall is out of place.
Speaker 8: It is not supposed to be here. But he did
Speaker 8: it on purpose. He knew it was out of place.
Speaker 8: He also knew it was only temporary in the same way, God,
Speaker 8: as our builder, will allow things that we don't understand,
Speaker 8: like a mistake. But God has a reason. He allowed
Speaker 8: it for a purpose that we can't see.
Speaker 7: Then he's going to remove it.
Speaker 8: Well, Joel, I'm working at this job where I'm not
Speaker 8: using my gifts.
Speaker 7: I have so much more in me. This seems like
Speaker 7: a mistake.
Speaker 8: God knows that's not your final destination, but he wouldn't
Speaker 8: have allowed it if he didn't have a purpose for it.
Speaker 7: Do you think the God, who.
Speaker 8: Is so precise, so detailed that he causes the earth
Speaker 8: to rotate down to the exact millisecond, is going to
Speaker 8: somehow falter on your plan. Let something happen that wasn't
Speaker 8: designed a bad break to keep you from your destiny.
Speaker 7: If God made a mistake with you, you would be the
Speaker 7: first one. What am I saying?
Speaker 8: Trust him while you're under construction, Trust him in the
Speaker 8: messy places, Trust him when you're sure it's a mistake.
Speaker 8: Sometimes God has to take us backwards before he can
Speaker 8: take us forward.
Speaker 7: He has to dig down deep before we can go apire.
Speaker 7: He has to prune you before you can bloom. If
Speaker 7: you'll stay in faith, you're going to see.
Speaker 8: How it's all going to work for your good. God
Speaker 8: called Moses to deliver the Israelites. That was the plan
Speaker 8: laid out for his life. But there were a dozen
Speaker 8: things that looked like a mistake. When Moses was born,
Speaker 8: the king put out a decree that all the Hebrew
Speaker 8: male babies two years of agent under would be killed.
Speaker 8: It looked like God chose the wrong time for him
Speaker 8: to be born. Why didn't God wait till the decree
Speaker 8: was over. God likes to do things that defied the odds,
Speaker 8: things that seem impossible. That way he gets all the credit. Moses'
Speaker 8: mother hit him in a basket and sent him down
Speaker 8: the Nile River. There were snakes, alligators he could have
Speaker 8: tipped over. But what God has ordained for your life,
Speaker 8: what He has planned before the foundation of time, what's
Speaker 8: on your blueprint, can't be stopped by decrees, by snakes,
Speaker 8: by people, by any kind of opposition.
Speaker 7: Just so happened.
Speaker 8: Thero's daughter was at the river taken a bath. She
Speaker 8: heard the cries coming from the basket. When she saw
Speaker 8: baby Moses, it was love at first sight.
Speaker 7: She took him in and raised him in the palace.
Speaker 8: As he grew up, Moses knew he was supposed to
Speaker 8: deliver the Israelites.
Speaker 7: One day he saw an.
Speaker 8: Egyptian supervisor mistreating a Hebrew slave. He didn't think anyone
Speaker 8: was watching, so he killed the man. Someone saw him.
Speaker 8: He had to flee for his life. Moses spent forty
Speaker 8: years in hiding on the backside of the desert. Looked
Speaker 8: like he missed his destiny. I'm sure he felt like
Speaker 8: a failure. But when he was eighty years old, God
Speaker 8: appeared to him through the burning bush, said all right, Moses,
Speaker 8: now it's time to deliver the Israelites.
Speaker 7: You can't find anyone in.
Speaker 8: The scripture that did something significant that didn't.
Speaker 7: Have messy places.
Speaker 8: Times they didn't understand, times it wasn't fair. Times they
Speaker 8: felt disqualified. But like with Moses, when it all came together,
Speaker 8: it made sense.
Speaker 7: They went from construction to completion. Here's the key.
Speaker 8: You cannot properly judge the construction process without the plans.
Speaker 8: You may think I'm done, Joel, I'm finished. I made
Speaker 8: too many mistakes. I missed my destiny. If you had
Speaker 8: the plans, and that's what they said, I would agree
Speaker 8: with you. But the problem is we don't have the
Speaker 8: plans God said in Jeremiah. The plans I have for
Speaker 8: you are for good and not harm, to give.
Speaker 7: You a future.
Speaker 8: And what God has planned for you does not end
Speaker 8: in defeat, in failure, in mediocrity, in addictions, in dysfunction.
Speaker 8: Your story ends in victory, Paul said in Corinthians, Thanks
Speaker 8: be to God, who always causes us to triumph. I've
Speaker 8: heard it said God always ends in all is well.
Speaker 7: If all is not well, then it's not the end.
Speaker 7: If there are things holding you back, things out of place,
Speaker 7: things messy, that.
Speaker 8: Means you're under construction. Don't get discouraged. God is still working.
Speaker 8: My father was a great pastor, a man loved and
Speaker 8: respected by so many.
Speaker 7: If you saw him toward the end of his.
Speaker 8: Life with the large church, successful, happily married children that
Speaker 8: loved him, you might.
Speaker 7: Think that it was easy in things just fell into place.
Speaker 8: But every person has to go through the construction process.
Speaker 8: When you see someone blessed fulfilling their purpose, they didn't
Speaker 8: get there without messy places, things they didn't understand, people
Speaker 8: that tried to stop them.
Speaker 7: My father was born in a messy situation.
Speaker 8: His family was very poor when he gave his life
Speaker 8: to Christ at the age of seventeen. He left the
Speaker 8: farm with no money, no education. He hitchhiked and went
Speaker 8: out and started ministring. He was married at an early age,
Speaker 8: but it didn't work out. He had to resign from
Speaker 8: his church. Leaders told him that he would never pasture again.
Speaker 7: A messy situation.
Speaker 8: He was so discouraged he left the ministry and started
Speaker 8: selling insurance. He didn't think he'd ever have a family
Speaker 8: until he met my mother. They fell in love, got married,
Speaker 8: had five children. He started pastoring again. His church was growing,
Speaker 8: had over a thousand members back then, that was unheard of.
Speaker 8: Some of the people turned against my father. They didn't
Speaker 8: like his message of faith and victory. He had to
Speaker 8: resign from that church, another messy situation. He didn't understand it.
Speaker 8: He was being his best, yet the door closed. He
Speaker 8: and my mother went out and started Lakewood in an
Speaker 8: abandoned feed store. He was told it would never last,
Speaker 8: nobody's going to come. You're wasting your time. But here
Speaker 8: we are today, fifty nine years later, steal.
Speaker 7: Go and saw, here's my point.
Speaker 8: All those messy situations my father went through.
Speaker 7: They were on God's plan.
Speaker 8: He didn't understand why people turned against him. If they
Speaker 8: had not opposed him, he would have never started Lakewood.
Speaker 7: Like my father, you may be in a messy situation.
Speaker 7: People have come against you, You've made mistakes, you've had
Speaker 7: bad breaks.
Speaker 8: God is saying it's not over. It's all a part
Speaker 8: of my plan. You're under construction. We're going to and
Speaker 8: to understand everything that happens. God's ways are not our ways.
Speaker 8: Here's the promise God gives us. If you'll stay in
Speaker 8: faith and keep honoring him, then what he's started in
Speaker 8: your life, He's going to bring to completion. What He
Speaker 8: has planned for you will come to pass. You didn't
Speaker 8: miss it because you had a rough childhood. Somebody walked out,
Speaker 8: broke your heart. People tried to stop you from your dream.
Speaker 8: God has the final save. Tune out all those voices
Speaker 8: telling you that you blew it. You had your chance.
Speaker 8: God wouldn't have allowed it if it was going to
Speaker 8: keep you from your destiny. It's all a part of
Speaker 8: the process. Will you trust him when you're under construction?
Speaker 8: Will you trust him in the messy places? Will you
Speaker 8: trust him when it doesn't make sense? Job, in the scripture,
Speaker 8: went through all kinds of bad breaks. He lost his health,
Speaker 8: his business, his family, everything fell apart. For a while,
Speaker 8: he was a negg complain but then he came back
Speaker 8: to a place of peace. Nothing had turned around. It
Speaker 8: was still messy. But he said in Job chapter forty two, God,
Speaker 8: I know you.
Speaker 7: Can do anything and no one can stop your plan.
Speaker 8: This was after forty two chapters of defeat negativity when
Speaker 8: he said this. Eight verses later, it says God restored
Speaker 8: Job and brought him out with twice what he had
Speaker 8: before when he changed his attitude. Maybe that was the
Speaker 8: catalyst for God to turn it around. I wonder if
Speaker 8: we would do like Job instead of complaining about the mess,
Speaker 8: being discouraged by what didn't work out. What if we'd
Speaker 8: start saying, Father, I want to thank you that nothing
Speaker 8: can stop your plan for my life.
Speaker 7: Thank you that what you have ordained for me is
Speaker 7: on the way. When we were building our house, at one.
Speaker 8: Point all the switches were in, the floor were down,
Speaker 8: the cabinets were done. The only problem was the power
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Speaker 8: like job, God's going to bring you out better despite
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Speaker 8: if you receive it, can you say him in today,
Speaker 8: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus
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Speaker 7: Would you pray with me? Just say Lord Jesus, I'll
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Speaker 6: Asaid, thank you for your support of our ministry this month,
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