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Thanks for listening to 38 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 39 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 40 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: blessing and share it with a friend. 41 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 2: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 42 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 2: your life. Well, God bless you. 43 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 5: It's a joy to come into your homes and if 44 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 5: you're ever in our area, please stop buying be a 45 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 5: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll 46 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 5: make you feel right at home. I like to start 47 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 5: with something funny. And I heard about these three people, 48 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 5: a Russian, an American, and a blonde. They were talking together, 49 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 5: and the Russian said, proudly, we were the first ones 50 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 5: in space. The American said, well, we were the first 51 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 5: ones on the moon. The blonde said, that's nothing. We're 52 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 5: going to be the first ones on the sun. The 53 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 5: American the Russian. They laughed, you can't go to the sun. 54 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 2: It's too hot. You'd be burned up. Blonde said, we 55 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 2: know that. We're not that dumb. We're going to go 56 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 2: at night. Say it like you mean it. This is 57 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 2: my Bible. I am what it says. 58 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: I am. 59 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,519 Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do 60 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:47,679 Speaker 2: what it says I can do. 61 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 5: Today I will be taught the word of God. I 62 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 5: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 63 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 64 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 65 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 5: remove the grave clothes. There are people God has put 66 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 5: in our lives on purpose, so we can help restore them. 67 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 2: They're off course, they're addicted, they're broken. 68 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 5: It's easy to judge and think they should make better decisions. 69 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,239 Speaker 5: It's their own fault. But if it was not for 70 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 5: the grace of God, that could be us. We didn't 71 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 5: get to where we are because we're so talented, so disciplined, 72 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 5: so obedient. That may be true on the surface, but 73 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 5: where did you get the talent? Where did you get 74 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 5: the discipline? It came from your heavenly Father. Wasn't anything 75 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 5: we chose. It's simply the goodness of God. But too 76 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 5: often we look at others and think, why are they 77 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 5: still making poor choices? 78 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 2: Why are they still addicted? Why do they get in 79 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 2: bad relationships? Again and again? I wouldn't do that. 80 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 5: It's because God has given you grace in that area. 81 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 5: Without his grace, you would be where they are. And 82 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 5: instead of looking down on them pointing the finger, you 83 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 5: should know better. They don't need more condemnation. God didn't 84 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 5: put them there so you could judge them. He put 85 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 5: them there so you. 86 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 2: Could love them. 87 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 5: Love heels, love restores, love lifts up all around. You 88 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 5: are hurting people, broken people, people that may not have 89 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 5: had the advantages that you had. They weren't raised by 90 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 5: parents that invested in them. They've never felt the law 91 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 5: of the approval that you felt It's easy to criticize, 92 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 5: but you don't know where you would be if you 93 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 5: had walked in their shoes. 94 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 2: The longer I live, the less judgmental I am. I 95 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 2: realize everyone didn't get what I got. 96 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 5: It's easy for me to feel secure, valuable, confident, believe big. 97 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 5: I had parents that guided me, family that supported me. 98 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 5: I was born in a great country with opportunity and resources. 99 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 5: Life is not a level playing field. When you're tempted 100 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 5: to be judgmental, you need to remind yourself most likely 101 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 5: they didn't get everything you got. If it was not 102 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 5: for the mercy of God, you would be making the 103 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 5: same decisions that they're making. God has freely given you mercy. 104 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 5: Here's my challenge, Freely give it to others. Don't be 105 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 5: stingy with your mercy. God is counting on. 106 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 2: Us to lift the fallen, to restore the. 107 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 5: Broken, to heal the hurding. There's enough judgment in our world. 108 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 5: There's enough fault finding criticism. 109 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 2: Where are the healers? Where are the restorers? 110 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 5: Where are the people that, instead of running away from 111 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 5: the hurting, they run to the hurding. Instead of condemning 112 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 5: the broken, they help heal the broken. John chapter eleven. 113 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 5: Lazarus was very sick. His two sisters sent word to Jesus. 114 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,919 Speaker 2: To come pray for him, but Jesus didn't arrive in time. 115 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 2: Lazarus died. Jesus showed up four days later. 116 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 5: He spoke to Lazarus, said, Lazarus, come forth. 117 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 2: Instantly he woke up. 118 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 5: He was raised from the dead, a great miracle. The 119 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 5: problem was Lazarus was wrapped with grave clothes. In those days, 120 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 5: when someone died, very often they would wrap them up 121 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 5: like a mummy. Verse forty four says Lazarus came out 122 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 5: bound in grave clothes. Jesus said to them, unwrap him 123 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 5: and let him go. Even though Lazarus was alive, even 124 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 5: though God had done something amazing on the inside, he 125 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 5: was still bound on the outside. Somebody had to remove 126 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 5: his grave clothes, or he would have never experienced the 127 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 5: fullness of what. 128 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 2: God had done. 129 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 5: You can imagine when they went to take off the 130 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 5: grave clothes after being dead for four days, the smell 131 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 5: was almost unbearable. Every layer they unwrapped, the stench got worse. 132 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 2: It was dirty, messy, smelly. 133 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 5: They had to be incredibly dedicated. They must have loved 134 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 5: Lazarus a whole lot to have been willing to endure 135 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 5: all it took to remove his grave clothes. This is 136 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,559 Speaker 5: what God has called us to do. There are people 137 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 5: around us wearing grave clothes. God has done something on 138 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 5: the inside, He's breathed life into them, given them purpose. 139 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 2: But they're still bound on the outside. 140 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 5: They have addictions, they struggle with their tempers, they're loosing 141 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 5: their morals. 142 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 2: The problem is it's messy. 143 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 5: It's tempting to think when they clean themselves up, then 144 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 5: I'll help them when they get back on course, Joel, 145 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 5: when it's not so messy, when they come back to church, 146 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 5: then I'll encourage them. How can they get free if 147 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 5: someone doesn't step up to remove their grave clothes. Where 148 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 5: are the people that are willing to get dirty to 149 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 5: help someone else, to go out on a limb, to 150 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 5: befriend someone that others think are too far down, to 151 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 5: reach out to that relative that's struggling with an addiction 152 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 5: that others have written off. It would be easy to 153 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 5: remove grave clothes if they were nice and tidy, if 154 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 5: people were making good decisions on the high road. 155 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 2: That's not reality. Grave clothes are dirty. 156 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 5: Grave clothes are messy, Grave close stink when we think 157 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 5: when someone still has issues, they still have an addiction, 158 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 5: They compromise, they're bitter, they're jealous, they have a long 159 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:42,839 Speaker 5: way to go. 160 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,839 Speaker 2: But just because they're wearing grave clothes. 161 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 5: Just because they're still dirty, doesn't mean they're not clean 162 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:55,599 Speaker 5: on the inside. Jesus spoke life to Lazarus he was 163 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 5: free on the inside but still bound on the outside, 164 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 5: by saying, don't judge by appearance. The grave clothes may stink, 165 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 5: they may be dirty, but on the inside there's a 166 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 5: free person. There's a clean person. There's a forgiven person, 167 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 5: there's a victorious person. They're just waiting for someone that 168 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 5: won't be put off by the outside, someone that will 169 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 5: step up to help remove the grave clothes. 170 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 2: How do you do this? By speaking faith into them. 171 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 5: Not telling them what they are, but telling them what 172 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 5: they can become, by loving them, by taking time to care, 173 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 5: by going out of your way to be their friend. 174 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 5: They have enough people pushing them down, pointing out their faults, 175 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 5: complaining about. 176 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 2: Their grave clothes. 177 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 5: You can be the one to push them up to 178 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:50,199 Speaker 5: see the best in them, to help them get free. 179 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 5: You can be a grave clothes remover for years. My 180 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,559 Speaker 5: mom prayed for a man by the name of Bill Nash. 181 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 5: She would see his name on mark He's around town. 182 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:06,079 Speaker 5: Bill was a popular entertainer country Western singer. He grew 183 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 5: up singing in church as a little boy. 184 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 2: His parents were missionaries. 185 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 5: He was raised in a strong family of faith, but 186 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,599 Speaker 5: as a teenager, Bill got off course, started running with 187 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 5: the wrong crowd and not making good decisions. Instead of 188 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 5: singing in churches, now he was singing in bars and clubs. 189 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 5: But the scripture says God's calling on. 190 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 2: Your life is irrevocable. 191 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 5: That means you may run away from God, but God 192 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 5: won't run away from you. 193 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 2: His grace will come looking for you. 194 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 5: Paul wrote about the grace in Romans that God freely 195 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 5: gives us. One translation of the word freely is promiscuous. 196 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 5: When someone is promiscuous, they're loose, they're unrestrained. They'll be 197 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 5: with anyone. That's the way God's grace is. You can 198 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 5: be in a bar and Grace will come looking for you. 199 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 5: You can be high on drugs and Grace will come 200 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 5: knocking at your door. You can be in the wrong places, 201 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 5: doing the wrong thing with the wrong people, and when 202 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 5: you least expect it, out of nowhere, you'll hear that 203 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 5: still small voice saying, come back home. 204 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 2: I love you. I have something better. God doesn't say. 205 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 5: If you clean yourself up, I'll show you mercy. If 206 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 5: you get back on course, I'll. 207 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 2: Think about being good to you. God's grace is promiscuous. 208 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 2: It goes to unlikely places. 209 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 5: And every time my mom saw Bill's name under her breath, Lord, 210 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 5: thank you for bringing. 211 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 2: Bill back home. Thank you that he'll fulfill his destiny. 212 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 5: She had never met him, had no connections, but year 213 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 5: after year she kept praying for him. 214 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 2: It didn't look like anything was happening. 215 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 5: But you don't know what God is doing behind the scenes. 216 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 5: One day, that grace convinced Bill to turn his life around. 217 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 5: He wanted to go to church, but he thought nobody'd 218 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 5: want somebody like me. I've made a lot of mistakes, 219 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 5: lived a rough life. I'm known as a partier. He 220 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 5: turned on the television and saw my father talking about 221 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 5: the goodness of God. That Sunday, he walked in Lakewood, 222 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:20,319 Speaker 5: first time since he was a teenager. 223 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 2: Sat way in the back. 224 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 5: Someone recognized him and brought him down to see my mom, 225 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,319 Speaker 5: and she told how she had been praying for him 226 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 5: and how that was a dream come true. That day 227 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 5: was a turning point in Bill's life. A few months later, 228 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,719 Speaker 5: he gave his first Christian concert at Lakewood and he's 229 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 5: been using his talents. 230 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 2: For the Lord ever since. Like Lazarus, Bill needed someone 231 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 2: to help remove the grave clothes. That's what my mother did. 232 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 5: She recognized underneath the mess, the partying, the compromising, there 233 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 5: was a free man, a man destined to do great things. 234 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 5: There are a lot of bills out there, people that 235 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 5: are bound on the outside, but they have greatness on 236 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 5: the inside. They just need someone that won't be afraid 237 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 5: to get dirty, someone that won't be judgmental and say, 238 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 5: he used to be in church, he's in. 239 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:18,719 Speaker 2: The bars, what's wrong with him? 240 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 5: Instead of judging them, why don't you take that same 241 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 5: time to pray for them, to reach out to them, 242 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 5: to let them know that you believe in them. What 243 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,439 Speaker 5: if when Jesus raised Lazarus, no one was willing to 244 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 5: remove the grave clothes. Nobody wanted to deal with the stink, 245 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 5: nobody wanted to get dirty. Lazarus wouldn't have lived that long. 246 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 5: He was bound, not able to move. Jesus did his part, 247 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 5: but he was counting on Lazarus's friends and family to 248 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 5: do their part. Are there people in your life waiting 249 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 5: for you to help remove their grave clothes? 250 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:00,319 Speaker 2: Their off course, struggling in some area. 251 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 5: It's easy to make excuses. They brought the trouble on themselves. 252 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 5: It's their fault. I'm too busy. I've got enough problems 253 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 5: of my own. No, take time to make a difference. 254 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 5: Don't look at them through eyes of judgment. Look at 255 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 5: them through eyes of love. Maybe deep down they want 256 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 5: to change. Maybe grace has been knocking at their door, 257 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 5: getting stronger and stronger, but they don't know the next step. 258 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 5: A phone call from you, a kind word, taking them 259 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 5: out to dinner, not to try to straighten them out, 260 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 5: but just to let them know that you care. That's 261 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 5: what speaks volumes that you're not there to condemn them, 262 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 5: to point out their faults. 263 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 2: You are there to simply love them. John chapter eight. 264 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 5: These religious leaders brought a woman to Jesus threw her 265 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 5: down at his feet. She was caught in the act 266 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 5: of adultery. They said, Jesus, the law says stone her. 267 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 2: What do you say we should do? Seemed obvious? The 268 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 2: law was clear. The lady was guilty. 269 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 5: One thing I love about Jesus is he broke religious 270 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 5: rules in order to be good to people. In the 271 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 5: Old Testament, God gave them ten commandments, but the people 272 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 5: turned them into over two thousand laws. When Jesus came, 273 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 5: he said, in a fact, I'm getting rid of all 274 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 5: these religious rules, all these heavy demands you put on 275 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 5: people that only make them guilty and condemned. Instead, I'm 276 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 5: going to condense them down into two commandments. 277 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 2: Love the Lord your God with all your heart. And 278 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 2: love your neighbor as you love yourself. 279 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 5: He was saying, people are more important than religious rules. 280 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 5: Everything is not going to fit perfectly into ar theology. 281 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 2: They have to do this, they have to do that. 282 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 2: They can't do that, they can't go there. 283 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 5: If you convince people to follow all your religious rules, 284 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 5: but you don't have have love, the scripture says, we're like. 285 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 2: A loud, clinging symbol. I don't want to be known 286 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 2: for what I'm against. I want to be known for 287 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 2: what I'm for. I'm for people. I'm four second chances. 288 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 2: I'm for mercy. 289 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 5: I'm not in the condemning business. I'm in the loving business. 290 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 5: I'm in the healing business. I'm in the lifting business. 291 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 5: I want to be known as a grave clothes remover, 292 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 5: as someone that saw the best in people, that helped 293 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 5: push them into their destiny, as someone that was willing 294 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 5: to get dirty, to go after messy people, broken people, 295 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 5: people that society has written all. But let me warn you, 296 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 5: when you love people who are messy, you may be criticized, 297 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 5: you may be talked about. One time, Jesus was walking 298 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 5: through a crowded town, thousands of people around. He looked 299 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 5: up and saw zach kias the chief tax collector. He 300 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 5: was known as one of the most dishonest pe He lied, 301 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 5: he cheated, he didn't keep his word. 302 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 2: Yet Jesus said, I want to go to dinner with 303 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 2: you today. Of all the people there. 304 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 5: That day, there were priests, rabbis, elders in the synagogue. 305 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 5: But Grace goes to unlikely places. Jesus didn't see just 306 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 5: what Zacheus was. 307 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 2: He saw what he could become. 308 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 5: He was bound on the outside by grave clothes, but 309 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 5: he knew on the inside was a man of integrity, 310 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 5: a man of honor. Jesus went to dinner with Zachias, 311 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 5: someone that people considered dirty, messy, broken, In fact, the 312 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 5: scripture says the religious leaders complained that he went to 313 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 5: dinner with a notorious sinner. When you go after the broken, 314 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 5: the hurting, the addicted, people may criticize, they may talk 315 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 5: about you, but you're in good company. You are never 316 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,439 Speaker 5: more like God than when you go after messy people. 317 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 5: This lady was on the ground in front of Jesus, 318 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 5: surrounded by all these men. She was afraid, embarrassed, expecting 319 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 5: the worst. Jesus knelt down and wrote in the ground. 320 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 5: He said to them, whoever is without sin, throw the 321 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 5: first stone. They all put their heads down. 322 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 2: They were convicted. 323 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 5: When you're tempted to be judgmental, ask yourself, have I 324 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 5: ever done wrong? Am I qualified to throw the first stone? 325 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 2: None of us are. The men walked out, from the 326 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 2: oldest to the youngest. He said to her, where are 327 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 2: your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you? She said no. Man, Lord, 328 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 2: he said, neither do I Now go and sin no more. 329 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 5: Our religious minds go tilt, tilt, tilt. Grace for somebody 330 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 5: that committed adultery, Grace for a man that's known for 331 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,880 Speaker 5: being dishonest, Grace for a guy that's singing in clubs. 332 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 2: God's grace is promiscuous. 333 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 5: Why don't you go after someone that doesn't deserve it, 334 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 5: someone that's made mistakes, someone that's hurting. 335 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 2: You can be the one that helps put them back 336 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 2: on their feet. 337 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 5: Nobody's too far gone, nobody's made too many mistakes. All 338 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 5: some people need is one person to believe in them, 339 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 5: one person to say, hey, I'm praying for you, one 340 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 5: person to breathe new life. 341 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 2: Back into their spirit. 342 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 5: Years ago, there was a minister that was touching the world, 343 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 5: doing great things, but someone accused him of having a 344 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 5: lack of integrity. Rumors started to spread. They took on 345 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 5: a life of their own, and he had made mistakes, 346 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 5: but it was blown way out of proportion. He was 347 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 5: so devastated he got out of the ministry for months. 348 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 5: You didn't hear anything from him. I didn't know him. Well, 349 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 5: it's much older than I am, but I felt like 350 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 5: I was supposed to reach out to him, but my 351 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 5: mind came up with all these excuses. Joe, he's not 352 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 5: gonna listen to you. If people find out you're talking, 353 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 5: you're going to be drug into this mess. 354 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 2: You better leave him alone. 355 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 5: He doesn't have a good reputation he's taining, he's messy, 356 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 5: But I found. 357 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 2: God loves messy people. God loves broken people. 358 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 5: He loves people that are at a disadvantage, not just 359 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 5: people that have had bad breaks, but he even loves 360 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 5: people that have brought the trouble on themselves. And this 361 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 5: is where human nature says, they're getting what they deserve. 362 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 5: Let them deal with it. They're guilty, but only the 363 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 5: guilty need mercy. Where are the healers, Where are the restoreres, 364 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 5: the people that are not too self righteous to get down? 365 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 5: Where someone is hurting with the broken to help heal 366 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 5: the wounds. I didn't know if he'd take my call, 367 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 5: but I felt strongly about it. He answered the I 368 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 5: could barely hear him speak. He said, Joel, I don't 369 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 5: have any more fight left in me. 370 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 2: I'm done. 371 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,439 Speaker 5: I didn't talk long, but for the next three minutes 372 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 5: I spoke faith into him. 373 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 2: I spoke restoration. I told him that we needed him, 374 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 2: that the nations were waiting on him. 375 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 5: That God's mercy is bigger than our mistakes, that his 376 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 5: best days were not behind, they were still out in front. 377 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 2: He said, in a real soft voice, thank you, and 378 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 2: hung up. Didn't seem like it did any good. 379 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 5: But six months later he called back and sounded like 380 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 5: a different person. He had his fireback, his passion back. 381 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 5: He was about to go overseas. He said something I'll 382 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 5: never forget. He said, Joel, it all turned around that day. 383 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 5: You called something reignited in my spirit. Something came alive 384 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:59,120 Speaker 5: on the inside. When you go after the hurting, the broken, 385 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 5: the discover where the anointing on your life will break 386 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 5: yokes that are holding them back. You may not feel it, 387 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 5: they may not respond right away. 388 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 2: But when you speak faith change or breaking. 389 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 5: When you show Love's strongholds for coming down, when you're merciful, compassionate, 390 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,959 Speaker 5: forgiving you pouring oil on the wounds, you're being a healer, 391 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 5: a restorer, a lifter. There was a young prophet in 392 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 5: the Old Testament named Hosea. He lived at a time 393 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 5: when the Israelites were worshiping idols and not honoring God. 394 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,879 Speaker 5: Hosea was well respected. People came from all over to 395 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,400 Speaker 5: get his advice. He was a single man and looked 396 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 5: forward to the day he would get married. He knew 397 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,119 Speaker 5: God would bring him a wife, but it wasn't what 398 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:54,640 Speaker 5: he thought. God told him to marry a lady named Gomer. 399 00:22:55,320 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 5: Gomer was a former prostitute. She didn't have a good repute. 400 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 5: Can imagine Joseah thought, God, do you know who this 401 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,440 Speaker 5: lady is. I'm a prophet, I'm a man of God. 402 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 5: What are people going to think? He could have talked 403 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 5: himself out of it, but he knew to obey and 404 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,479 Speaker 5: things started off good. They were in love, they had 405 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 5: a son, but then things went downhill. Hoseiah would go 406 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,159 Speaker 5: out to minister, but Gomer didn't understand the calling on 407 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 5: his life. 408 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 2: She had two more sons, but not by Joseah. She 409 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 2: slipped back into. 410 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 5: Her old ways. Hoseiah was heartbroken. He knew she was 411 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 5: being unfaithful, but he loved his wife. He pleaded with 412 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 5: her again and again to change, and it would last 413 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 5: for a little while. Then she'd go right back to 414 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 5: make matters worse. Everyone knew about Gomer's affairs. 415 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 2: She was the talk of the town. 416 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:56,159 Speaker 5: One morning, Joseah woke up and Gomer was gone. She 417 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 5: had abandon him and the three children. Maybe she left 418 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 5: a note saying I'm sorry, but I'm done. I found 419 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:04,880 Speaker 5: another man to love. 420 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 2: Going with your life. 421 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 5: I can hear Hoseiah's friends saying it's about time that 422 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 5: lady has brought you nothing but heartache and pain. 423 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 2: You deserve much better. 424 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 5: That sounded good on the outside, but Joseiah still loved Gomer. 425 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 2: He grieved greatly over this loss. 426 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 5: Years later he overheard from the town gossip that Gomer 427 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 5: was still alive. She had been deserted by all the 428 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,199 Speaker 5: men that said they loved her. Now she had hit 429 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 5: rock bottom. She was about to be sold as a slave. 430 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 5: The scripture says, the Lord said to Joseiah. 431 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,120 Speaker 2: Go get your wife again and bring her back home. 432 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 5: After all the pain she had caused, after all the 433 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:52,479 Speaker 5: rejection abandonment, you would think Joseiah would say, I am 434 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 5: done with this lady. 435 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:58,400 Speaker 2: I am over with her. But Joseiah had this undying love. 436 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 5: He went back to the city and found her in 437 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 5: the red light district on the auction block, about to 438 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 5: be sold. She was beaten down, dirty hair, disheveled, clothed, 439 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 5: torn her head down in shame. He got up close 440 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,879 Speaker 5: and whispered Gomer. She looked up and couldn't believe it. 441 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 5: He smiled and said, don't worry, I'm going to get 442 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 5: you out of here. What was that promiscuous grace? It 443 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 5: goes to unusual places. He went to the man in 444 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 5: charge and said, that's my wife. 445 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 2: I'm taking her with me. He said, you're not taking 446 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 2: her anywhere. She belongs to me. She's for sale. You'll 447 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 2: have to buy her. 448 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 5: He took out his wallet and paid fifteen shekels and 449 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 5: five barley loaves. He bought back what should have been already. 450 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 5: His Hooseiah is a picture of God. Gomer represents you 451 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 5: and me. We've all been unfaithful. We went our own way, 452 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 5: did our own thing. But God, who is rich in mercy, 453 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 5: when we turned our back on him, he had every 454 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 5: right to walk away, but he didn't turn his back 455 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 5: on us. He came down to the messy places, to 456 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 5: where we found, to where we should have been finished, 457 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 5: and he brought us back, not with fifteen shekels, but 458 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 5: with the blood of his own son. Since God has 459 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 5: rescued us, Since he has brought us back, will you 460 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 5: be a Hoseiah and buy somebody else back? 461 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 2: Will you rescue them? 462 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,119 Speaker 5: They are hurting people all around you, broken people that 463 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 5: don't think anyone cares. 464 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 2: They're in messy places. They don't deserve your kindness. 465 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 5: You could walk away, nobody would fault you, but God 466 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 5: rescued you. He's counting on you to rescue them. They're 467 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 5: not in your path by accident. God put them there 468 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 5: because he can trust you. You can help love them 469 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 5: back into wholeness. Other people may not see it, But 470 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:09,400 Speaker 5: underneath the mess, the addictions, the bad habits, there's a son, 471 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 5: there's a daughter of the Most High God. They may 472 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 5: be bound on the outside, but like Lazarus their royalty 473 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 5: on the inside, they have seeds of greatness. Will you 474 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 5: be a Hoseiah and go after the hurting, Go after 475 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 5: the broken, those that are de addicted, those that have 476 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,400 Speaker 5: been written off by society. Not with your finger pointed 477 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 5: in judgment telling them what they're doing wrong. 478 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,879 Speaker 2: Go after them with something more powerful, with love, with mercy, 479 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 2: with the goodness of God. 480 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 5: They don't deserve it. Neither did we while we were 481 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:48,959 Speaker 5: yet sinners. Christ died for us. You've been shown incredible mercy. 482 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,159 Speaker 5: I'm asking you show that mercy to others. 483 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 2: Be a Hoseiah. If you'll do this, I believe and declare. 484 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 5: As you lift others up, God is going to lift 485 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,360 Speaker 5: you up as you rescue somebody else. God will always 486 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 5: have somebody to rescue you and your children. 487 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:08,919 Speaker 2: The seeds you so will. 488 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 5: Come back to you in Jesus's name, And if you 489 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 5: receive it, can you say amen? Today I'd like to 490 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 5: give you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of 491 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 5: your life. 492 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? 493 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 5: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 494 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 5: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 495 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 5: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 496 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 5: born again. 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