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Help us continue to 36 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 6: share the message of hope with those all over the world. 37 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 6: Visit Joelostein dot com slash give Hope to give a 38 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 6: gift today. 39 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 4: I just want to encourage you today that you have 40 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 4: the power of the Living God on the inside of you. 41 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 4: Do you ever get tired of hearing that? I don't either, 42 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 4: and I think we constantly need to be reminded that 43 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 4: God's power lives in us. You see you're equipped this morning, 44 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 4: and I want to announce that you're equipped for your 45 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 4: unique assignment. God has left nothing out that you're going 46 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 4: to need for anything that He's called you to do. 47 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 4: And not only has he thought about you. I liked 48 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 4: what Cindy said that his thoughts for you, his plans 49 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 4: for you, are good. See, he thought about us. He 50 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 4: knew our assignment, and he put everything in us that 51 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 4: we would need, every gift, every talent, our personalities, our dispositions, 52 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 4: everything is just right. And then he did something one 53 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 4: step greater. He put his power in us. He put 54 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 4: his power in us. So you have the Living God 55 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 4: on the inside of you if you're a believer today. 56 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 4: So I don't want you to feel ordinary, because we 57 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 4: all do. Sometimes it's just an ordinary life. We go 58 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 4: to work, we come home, we eat dinner, we do 59 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 4: it again, we get up in the morning, we go 60 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 4: mow the lawn, We do this, we do it can 61 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 4: feel ordinary. But I want to tell you something. God 62 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 4: didn't save you. He didn't call you, He didn't choose 63 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 4: you to be ordinary. He called you to be extraordinary. 64 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 4: And you got to understand, because you have the Living God, 65 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 4: you are extraordinary. You are set apart. You're called by 66 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 4: God and He has assignments for you to do. You see, 67 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 4: it's so interesting because sometimes people don't recognize the call 68 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 4: of God on our life. They don't understand the call 69 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 4: of God. Or, like I said, we may feel ordinary. 70 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 4: We wonder if we're accomplishing what God even wants us 71 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 4: to accomplish. See, so often we determine the power of 72 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 4: God with us by what's going on around us. You see, 73 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 4: if I was maybe doing a little better, if God 74 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 4: liked me a little more, this wouldn't be happening. Or 75 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 4: maybe if I could just get a little closer to God, 76 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:16,039 Speaker 4: I wouldn't be going through this trial. But can I 77 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 4: tell you something that's the way man looks at things. 78 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 4: In fact, God told the prophet Samuel, he said, you're 79 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 4: gonna anoint the next king of Israel. And I want 80 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 4: you to know this one thing about this anointing. You're 81 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 4: gonna anoint the man that I call. But I don't 82 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 4: want you to begin to look for what you think 83 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 4: would be the king. I don't want you to look 84 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 4: for the man that's the right height, the man that's 85 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 4: in a certain position, the man that has the talents 86 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 4: that you think would make a good key, he said, 87 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 4: because I don't look at things that way. That's the 88 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 4: way you look at things, he said. You look from 89 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 4: the outside. You respond to life from the outside. But see, 90 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 4: I am a God of the inside. Man looks on 91 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 4: the outside, but God looks on the heart. See you're 92 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 4: qualified today because God chose you to be qualified. He 93 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 4: looked at your heart and he said, that's my child. 94 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 4: You know what I love about that is that God 95 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 4: is the God of second chances. God is always inside 96 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 4: of us, working from the inside out. He's working on 97 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 4: our thoughts, he's working on our actions. He's working all 98 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 4: the time. God never sleeps, he never slumbers. He's always 99 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 4: at work in the heart of a believer. David said 100 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 4: it like this, He said, you teach me wisdom in 101 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 4: my inner most parts. That's where you're speaking to me God, 102 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 4: in my inner most parts. You see, God communicates with 103 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 4: us in our inner those parts. And I want to 104 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 4: remind you today that you house the greatest power in 105 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 4: the universe. I don't want you to neglect or not 106 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 4: protect what's on the inside of you. You're not ordinary, 107 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 4: you're extraordinary. You walk with humility because you know the 108 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 4: God that you serve, but he hasn't made you like 109 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 4: anybody else. He's separated you. So I just want you 110 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 4: to get this in your heart today because I think 111 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 4: when we realize what we carry will protect what we carry, 112 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 4: we'll acknowledge what we carry will allow what we carry 113 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 4: to teach us wisdom and our innermost parts. We'll understand 114 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 4: that we don't have to react to the boss when 115 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 4: he's putting us down, when he's trying to make us 116 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 4: feel less than. We can understand that the critics don't 117 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 4: have to define us because God is teaching us all 118 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 4: the while our inmost parts. I want to just use 119 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 4: one of the greatest mothers. Since it's Mother's Day, right, 120 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 4: I want to talk about one of the greatest mothers 121 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 4: in the Bible. In fact, this mother was the first 122 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 4: mother that God lived in, the first mother that God 123 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 4: lived in. Her name is Mary. You know Mary, You 124 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 4: know the story of Mary. She was the mother of Jesus. 125 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 4: She was a young girl. She was about to get 126 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 4: married to the man of her dreams. Now, somebody might 127 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 4: not think she was anything special if they looked on 128 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 4: her from the outside, they couldn't say she's just a girl. 129 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 4: She has a lot to learn. But you see, God 130 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 4: wasn't looking at Mary's outside. He wasn't even looking at 131 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 4: Mary's plans. He was looking at Mary's heart, and he 132 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 4: had a unique assignment for Mary. See that's so interesting 133 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 4: because God wasn't concerned about Mary's plans. God wasn't concerned 134 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 4: that she was about to get married. The invitations were 135 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 4: already out, the caterers were coming, the venue was already 136 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 4: paid for. You see, he wasn't looking at all that. 137 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 4: He was looking at her heart, and he had a 138 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 4: special assignment for her. Have you ever been interrupted by God? Well, 139 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 4: Mary was interrupted. The angel came to her and announced 140 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 4: that she was a highly favored woman and that she 141 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 4: would give birth to a son. She said, how can 142 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 4: this be. I'm a virgin, I've never known a man. 143 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 4: And he said, the Holy Spirit will come upon you 144 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 4: and God will empower you to bring forth this son. 145 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 4: You see, that's what happens when you know who you are. 146 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 4: You know you got God on the inside of you. 147 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 4: He empowers you so you can bring forth the things 148 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 4: on this earth that He wants you to do, the 149 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 4: plans that he's already established. 150 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: See. 151 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 4: I don't know how it all works. But I can 152 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 4: tell you that God is always working. He's always working. 153 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 4: And you know, Mary, instead of giving a lot of excuses, 154 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 4: say can we do this a little bit later. It's 155 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 4: kind of inconvenient. God. I've been waiting for this man 156 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 4: a long time. You don't know. All my girlfriends got 157 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 4: the man. I've been waiting for this man a long time. 158 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:30,319 Speaker 4: Mary said, being unto me as you said, she literally 159 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 4: made a decision that she was going to embrace the 160 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 4: seed that God had just planted the seed to promise, 161 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 4: and that she was going to accept it, no matter 162 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 4: if it interrupted her plans or not, no matter how 163 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 4: difficult it was. She said, I'm going all the way 164 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,559 Speaker 4: with God. And I love that about Mary. And as 165 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 4: I was reading the story about Mary, I just want 166 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 4: to get to some practical things that Mary did. And 167 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 4: I think these things can help us. We've heard them before. 168 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 4: But you know, I think that Mary just had it easy. 169 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 4: Oh Mary, you know she was chosen by God to 170 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 4: have the Son of God, so I'm sure you know 171 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 4: she had everything she needed. But can I tell you 172 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 4: it was rough. It was rough to birth the promise 173 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 4: of God. It was rough to do what God had 174 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 4: called her to do. But God said she was favored 175 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 4: and highly blessed. So I guarantee you she was favored 176 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 4: and highly blessed, no matter how difficult it was, no 177 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 4: matter how many battles she had to fight, no matter 178 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 4: how many times she had to talk herself into it, 179 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 4: because God said she was blessed and highly favored. And 180 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 4: God says, you are blessed and highly favored. You are 181 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 4: blessed and highly favored. You may be going through some 182 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 4: difficult times right now, your plans may be interrupted. I 183 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 4: want you to hear that loud and clear. God chose 184 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 4: to live in Mary, and God chose to live in you. 185 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:58,959 Speaker 4: God chose to live in you. That's powerful. That's powerful 186 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 4: because Mary fulfilled her assignment and brought fulfillment to the scriptures. 187 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 4: God chose to live in his people. I believe that 188 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 4: was a foreshadowing of what God wants to do in 189 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 4: the earth. He wants to live in his people. But 190 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 4: as soon as Mary accepted that seed of promise, the 191 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 4: scripture says that she immediately went to her cousin Elizabeth's house. Now, 192 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 4: her cousin Elizabeth was married to a man named Zachariah, 193 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 4: and they were promised, even in her very old age, 194 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 4: that she would have a baby. She was pregnant with 195 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 4: her baby when Elizabeth got there. And when Elizabeth saw Mary, 196 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:46,439 Speaker 4: the scripture shoid that she immediately began to encourage Mary. 197 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 4: She immediately began to speak faith into Mary. Now where 198 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 4: am I going with this, because that was a long 199 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 4: time ago. But let me tell you what I believe 200 00:11:57,480 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 4: God is showing us. One thing He is showing us 201 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 4: when he puts a seed of promise in you, you 202 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 4: need to protect that seed to promise. You need to 203 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 4: get it into an environment that it can grow. You 204 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 4: need to get into a good church where the people 205 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 4: know what God does and they can speak encouragement to 206 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 4: your heart. Because that's exactly where God had Mary go. 207 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 4: He had her in an environment where that environment knew 208 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 4: the power of God. You know, it's interesting, And this 209 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 4: is just a side note, but I don't know if 210 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 4: y'all find this as interesting as I did. But the 211 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 4: Bible says that Mary was at Elizabeth's house for three months. 212 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting because when a woman gets pregnant, 213 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 4: that twelve week period is very crucial. Many times you 214 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 4: can miscarrie before that twelve weeks. In fact, you know, 215 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 4: some people don't even like to announce that they're pregnant 216 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 4: until after the twelve weeks because that kind of is 217 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 4: a safe zone. And you know, okay, it's it's probably 218 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 4: gonna be okay. And I get to thinking, isn't that 219 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 4: interesting that God had her there for twelve weeks? 220 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 3: See? 221 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 4: He didn't want her to miscarry the seed. See, he 222 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 4: wanted to keep that seed in an environment that it 223 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 4: could grow in a strong foundation. To think about what 224 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,679 Speaker 4: God said to you, Think about the dreams he's put 225 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 4: in your heart. Think about him being on the inside 226 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 4: of you. What environment do you put yourself in? Do 227 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 4: you let people talk down to you? Do you put 228 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 4: yourself in an environment that God wouldn't want to be in? 229 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:43,079 Speaker 4: Are you careful? Do you protect it? You see, there 230 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 4: were many naysayers when Mary showed up pregnant. See she 231 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,719 Speaker 4: was a virgin and God did an immaculate birth in her, 232 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 4: but the people didn't recognize it. I'm sure they were saying, 233 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 4: did you hear about Mary and Joseph go weddings? All off? 234 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 4: What's Mary been doing? But you see, God took her 235 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 4: out of that environment and he put her into a 236 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 4: protective environment. And I just wanted suggest to you and 237 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 4: I today that we begin to put what's in us 238 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 4: in a protected environment. It's not easy to birth the 239 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 4: promises of God. Listen, Mary had to go out of 240 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 4: her way, Mary had to change her plans. Mary had 241 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 4: to do some things that maybe a lot of people 242 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 4: wouldn't want to do. But Mary was willing to see 243 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 4: this thing to the end. It also says that Mary 244 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 4: treasured up all of these things and pondered them in 245 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 4: her heart. See that tells me that Mary fought discouragement, 246 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 4: that Mary fought the critics, that Mary fought the hardships 247 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 4: by pondering all of this in our heart, by just 248 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 4: imagining and talking to God about all that was about 249 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 4: to happen and all that would happen in the future. 250 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 4: And see, that's what we need to do. We need 251 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 4: to not just run around telling everybody our problems now 252 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 4: just try to get man to fix us. Oh can 253 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 4: you help me? 254 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 3: Now? 255 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 4: We need to ponder what God has spoken to us, 256 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 4: get his word, build a foundation of truth so that 257 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 4: when we go out to birth what God is putting 258 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 4: in us, we'll withstand the challenges that are out there. 259 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 4: You know what. This is Mother's Day and I just 260 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 4: want to honor Mary. I want to just say, Mary, 261 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 4: God saw your heart, you saw it through you, fulfill 262 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 4: the scriptures. And I just honor the fact that God 263 00:15:55,120 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 4: chose Mary among all the women. She was qualified. 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