Radio Broadcast Tuesday 02/25/2025

Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P56 (02-25-25)

The Things Written in the Word of God are For Our Benefit

~ “For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.” Romans 15:4

We live in a period of time, where we really do not understand the Love of God. We gloss over so many key issues in the Word of God and just automatically assume that people are children of God because they say they are a child of God. After all, if we were to talk to a Catholic, they think they are saved based on the fact that they grew up Catholic and went to the Catholic church for most of their lives and do all the Catholic teachings. Yet those of us who grew up Catholic, and came to a saving relationship with Christ Jesus, know in our heart these people are not saved. A similar thing happens with people, having been involved with false religion their whole life, and teaching of the lie of ongoing forgiveness by God for example and then coming to the knowledge of Truth, they also know in their heart that people that are involved in that religion are not saved. How do we know that? When you quiz a person, MORE THAN 9 times out of 10 they do not even know what salvation is. They think salvation is getting their sins forgiven, and don’t have a clue that Jesus took away the sins of the world at the cross. Now let’s ask the question of ourselves. Is it love to be quiet and not find out if a person is saved or not? Is it love to not share Truth with a person? Is it Love to be quiet about Truth? We all who are in Christ Jesus know the answer to those questions. For God is not wishing anyone to perish but come to repentance (a change of mind) about Jesus God in the flesh, who took away the sins of the world and become saved.

So we are told in the scriptures that the word of God has been given for our benefit to be used for our instruction and through the scriptures we may have encouragement and hope in the proper foundation. To encourage one another towards Love. To share the LOVE of God with others. We are to serve one another in His Love.

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And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, having done what, will I inherit eternal life?”
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone.

~ “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:12

~ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in Me, even if he should die, he will live. And everyone living and believing in Me shall never die, to the age. Do you believe this?” John 11:25,26
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We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.” For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Christ the Servant of Hebrews and Gentiles

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God. For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs, so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written:

“Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles;

I will sing hymns to Your name.”

Again, it says:

“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

And again:

“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles,

and extol Him, all you peoples.”

And once more, Isaiah says:

“The Root of Jesse will appear,

One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles;

in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another. However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God. I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God.f So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. Rather, as it is written:

“Those who were not told about Him will see,

and those who have not heard will understand.”

That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

But now that there are no further opportunities for me in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to visit you, I hope to see you on my way to Spain. And after I have enjoyed your company for a while, you can equip me for my journey.

Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there. For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.

So after I have completed this service and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set off to Spain by way of you. I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me. Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there, so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and together with you be refreshed.

The God of peace be with all of you. Amen. Romans 15:1-33

Pray to God:

Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”

~ “Is it love to do what I’m wanting to do or what my flesh is desiring to do? Is that love? Am I loving my wife when I’m going out and getting drunk? Is that an act of love? And the answer to that is obvious. It’s not an act of love. Am I acting in love when I steal from somebody? The answer to that is obvious, no, it’s not love when you’re stealing from somebody. But you see, your motivation should be to love and not and not what not to do, and that’s what Christ freed us from. He said, the law is there to show you your sinfulness so that you can change your entire attitude and begin to learn how to walk with love as your motivation. Because if love is your motivation, these other things, these commands as to what not to do, will automatically be fulfilled. But you can also sit and try not to violate the law, and you cannot do it. So he’s just saying the power of sin is in the law, and when you’re trying to keep it, you’re going to keep yourself under the power of sin. But if you die to this law, and that’s why it says a man who dies is no longer under the law, you die to the law now you’re ready to be married to another, joining yourself to Christ, Jesus, being led now internally by the Spirit of God, rather than externally, by trying to obey laws that are written on stone, and so he’s it’s a totally different concept that Jesus is presenting to the Hebrew world and to us today. It’s a totally different concept religion is always here’s what we do.” ~ Bob George

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Well, let’s turn to the 15th chapter of the book of Romans. In regard to review, we were talking about the fact that of letting no debt remain except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law. And once again, guys, we see that what Jesus came to teach and this all reflects in regard to the contrast between the Hebrew and the Gentile world, and how that the Hebrew world were the ones who had the law, and they were the ones who were attempting to keep the law, but in so doing, missing the spirit of the law, and the contrast and the conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees and the Hebrew leaders was the fact that they were teaching The letter of the law, but it had no concept at all of what the spirit of the law was underneath. And so it was just all outward performance, exclusive of the inward reality of love itself. And what Jesus was saying is Love is the fulfillment of the law. And in essence, said that the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. And so in the final analysis of our life, that the the if we’re going to start gauging ourselves or gauging one another, which we should not do, in how well we’re doing in our Christian growth and maturity it should line up with. How well are we doing in the love department? How well are we allowing Jesus to live his life in and through us and produce in us what is called the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, long suffering. And he said, and against these things. There is no law. And so our maturity is really based upon that truth is, how well are we progressing in the fact of letting Jesus produce these qualities in and through us?

So he goes ahead in this 13th Chapter, and then we’ll get to 15th in a minute to say that don’t murder, don’t steal, don’t covet. And whatever, whatever other commandments there may be, are all summed up in one rule, love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore, love and love alone is the fulfillment of the law. Jesus was here on this earth. He did not fulfill the law by not committing adultery or not stealing or not doing what the law says don’t do. He fulfilled the law by walking in love. And of course, when you’re walking in love, you’re not doing those things. But his goal was not to quit doing something, but to walk in love. And what we have done by taking the law and making it to mean something different than what God meant it to be, is we put the law as a deal this. This is what you can’t do, and this is what you shouldn’t do, and this is what I can’t do, and so all you’re dealing with is what you can’t do. And we never get around to what Christ said to do, and that is to walk in love. Because if we’re looking as love as our way, and means of gauging whether or not we should be engaged in something or not, it should be is this love? Is it love to do what I’m wanting to do or what my flesh is desiring to do? Is that love? Am I loving my wife when I’m going out and getting drunk? Is that an act of love? And the answer to that is obvious. It’s not an act of love. Am I acting in love when I steal from somebody? The answer to that is obvious, no, it’s not love when you’re stealing from somebody. But you see, your motivation should be to love and not and not what not to do, and that’s what Christ freed us from. He said, the law is there to show you your sinfulness so that you can change your entire attitude and begin to learn how to walk with love as your motivation. Because if love is your motivation, these other things, these commands as to what not to do, will automatically be fulfilled. But you can also sit and try not to violate the law, and you cannot do it. So he’s just saying the power of sin is in the law, and when you’re trying to keep it, you’re going to keep yourself under the power of sin. But if you die to this law, and that’s why it says a man who dies is no longer under the law, you die to the law now you’re ready to be married to another, joining yourself to Christ, Jesus, being led now internally by the Spirit of God, rather than externally, by trying to obey laws that are written on stone, and so he’s it’s a totally different concept that Jesus is presenting to the Hebrew world and to us today. It’s a totally different concept religion is always here’s what we do.

And I know Amy and I were talking to young lady the other day in the in the restaurant we were in, it came out of a Russian background, and this type of thing, and they go to a certain church, and her deal was, well, this is what we do. This is what we do. And we wear this thing on our head, and we do and that’s what we do, and it’s so that’s what I do. You know now, it only goes once a year, but when she goes, that’s what she does, because that’s what the church does, that she belongs to. And so we’ve got all of our traditions on these exterior things, and that’s what he is trying to get across, is this exterior means nothing. And so in the 14th chapter, he’s saying that we should not be passing judgment on disputable matters, that one man’s faith allows him to eat anything, and another faith doesn’t. But in essence, he says, All things are kosher. God didn’t make anything. It’s not kosher. But if someone does not want to participate in a certain kind of food, that’s fine. They do that to the Lord. The person who participates does so the Lord. So quit judging each other. And that’s what he’s saying. It’s not love to be judging one another. And again, it gets back to the law of love.

So in the 19th verse of chapter 14, it says, Let us make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. And again, guys, remember, you’re talking about this conflict between the Hebrew and the Gentile. And so because the Hebrew was there saying you gotta eat this kind of this, these rules, you have to be circumcised, you have to you have to literally come and obey these Hebrew customs in order to be a true Christian. And Paul is saying that is not so. And he’s saying to the Gentiles, but quit looking down on these people who say it. So I’ll deal with that. And to the Gentile, quit looking down on the Hebrew, and the Jew quit looking down on the Gentile. So he’s saying, make every effort to live in peace and mutual edification. Don’t destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean now he’s stay he stated that all food is okay, but it’s wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. So once again, if you’re with somebody that believes that eating pork is just terrible and you’re wanting to share Christ with them, don’t sit there and woof down a pork chop in front of them while you’re trying to share Jesus, it isn’t going to work. And so he says, Love says, Don’t do that. It’s better not to eat or drink wine or anything else that will cause a brother to stumble. And there’s the law of love. Is this going to cause what I’m doing a brother to stumble? So whatever you believe about these things, it says, Keep between yourself and God. In other words, don’t make go out and start picketing the Christian world over these things. Blessed is a man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. That’s a great statement. Blessed is a man who doesn’t condemn himself by what he approves, because he’s saying, This is what I approve, and then he goes ahead and does it anyway. But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because he is eating not from faith. And everything that do not come from faith is sin there again, in that last verse, you have the definition of what sin is in the Bible. And again, if you want to go back to a true definition of something, go back to its origin, and you’ll find out what it really means. The origin of sin took place in the Garden of Eden. And what was it? Unbelief, that which was not a faith? They stopped placing their faith in Jesus and what he said, and placed their faith in Satan and what he was tempting them to do, and they fell. On the day they ate thereof, they surely would do what? Die, and they died spiritually.

Now let’s pick up in chapter 15. We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Now here again, Paul is saying that there are people who are strong in their faith and there are people who are weak in their faith. Now I don’t think he’s talking there about muscle strength. I think he’s talking about strength in what you believe in. Strength that comes from believing in truth, because there is power in truth and there’s strength in truth. So if a person is strong in his faith, it doesn’t mean his faith is strong. It means he. Is strong in truth. He has come to understand truth, and that truth is setting him free, and he becomes strong in what he believes in. You can also be strong in believing in error. But again, when you are strong in truth, you’re on the ground that you need to be on and you’re in the foundation that you need to be in. So those who are strong in truth in Christ, Jesus, it says, bear with the failings of the weak and not to please yourself. What are the failings of the weak? People who are still placing their faith in the exterior things that we are doing and not putting their faith in Jesus and what He has done, we again concentrate on the body and we ignore the head. The head is should be the initiation of everything that we do. Jesus said, I don’t do anything unless the Father tells me to do it. Say anything, unless the Father tells me to say it. He showed us how to live. And so the head is our leader. It’s not me, it’s Him. We are all just in this body assembly with certain things that God has called us to do. But the rule of what you do is to Him, not to us. And so he says the body is made up of many parts. And though its parts are many, they form one body, and we are individually to be plugged into the head. And then he collectively controls our lives. Now it says each of us should please his neighbor for his good, in other words, looking out what’s good for the neighbor. One of the definitions of love is thinking more not to think more highly of yourself than you ought, and to look after your neighbor’s interests over and above your own.

So he says, Each of us should please his neighbor for his good and to build him up. In other words, we should be trying to build people up. Now, guys, what is the greatest weapon we have to tear people down? The what, the tongue? That’s it. That is the greatest weapon. We think swords are strong and we think bombs are strong. That tongue, James says, is stronger than anything going and he compares that to how a little rudder could move an entire ship or how a spark can cause an entire forest fire. And he says our tongues can be used to tear people down more quickly than any single thing that there is. You see teenagers as an example in school, how do they get these terrible self images? By the tongues many times of their peers who are saying things that tear them down. And when you’re young, you’re not kind, are you? And when you’re young, you will say things to people, and it doesn’t make any difference. If you got big ears, you become Dumbo fly over here and talk to me. And so we have to realize that’s how people are, and that all affects, ultimately, how we perceive ourselves. And so our tongues and our words can do a lot of damage to each other. Now what the Bible says is this, are you an encourager or are you a discourager? Do you say things to discourage people? Do you say things to criticize people and to tear people down in order to make yourself look better? Because tearing people down to make yourself look better. The root of that is pride. I’m going to make myself look good one way or the other, and we tear others down in order to accomplish that. And what he is saying to us is this is not the way of God, that we should be interested in building people up. We should always be interested in building people up. If a person has a problem, you’re not there to tear them down further. You’re there to help them, help them to get back on their feet, help them to get into a thinking pattern that will be an encouragement to them.

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For it said for even Christ did not please himself, for it is written the insults of those who insult you have fallen upon me. And what Jesus is saying, it’s a quote out of Psalms, but he’s saying that when you’re insulting they’re coming upon me when you’re insulting my brother, I should be concerned about that. If someone insults Bob Christopher, it should hurt me, because he’s my brother in Christ, and we’re brothers in Christ. And if someone is says something good about somebody, it should be a joy to me because you’re my brothers and sisters in Christ. And if someone is there blasting you, there’s something inside of you that you don’t want to see someone blasted. And so it’s saying these are all attitudes that that we need to ask God to purify our attitudes, because lot of times our attitudes come from our background, or wherever they might have come from, but we have some pretty stinking attitudes sometimes in regard to dealing with people. And what he’s saying is we should be encouragers, not discouragers, to our fellow man.

It says, For everything was written in the past was written to teach us. Why do we have instruction in the Bible? To teach us. The Bible, folks, is the discipler. That’s how God disciples you and me. Discipleship is discipline, and how does God discipline our minds? By teaching us truth. If you’re a person that is critical, that everything you see, you know, if you got a white tablecloth and there’s a dot on it, you don’t see the white tablecloth. All you see is the dot. And you’re a person like that, he’s disciplining you. He’s discipling you. He’s saying, quit thinking that way. Quit always looking at the negative on something. Begin to find something good about something and build people up with that, because otherwise you’re just tearing down your own body. And this is what Paul wants us to get across, folks, is this is your body. You’ve got your body. This is your body, and when you start tearing down one another in this body, as an example, in this body of believers, it’s like tearing down a part of your own body. It’s like sitting there and destroying your leg or your arm, which would be ridiculous for you to do, but that’s what we’re doing when we’re tearing down the body of Christ, and so he’s saying, quit doing that and be people of encouragement. Everything was written in the past was written to teach us so that through endurance and encouragement of the scriptures, we might have hope. The Scriptures are given to us so that we will endure with one another and be an encouragement to one another. That’s why the scripture says that as Christ Jesus has forgiven us, so forgive one another. Why? Because we’re a part of the same body. We all have to think through those things that if God if Christ, Jesus forgave you, then who am I not to forgive you? Are my standards higher than Jesus, and if they’re not higher than Jesus, then there should be forgiveness.

And so it says, May the God who gives endurance and encouragement, those words used again, one after another, may the God who gives endurance to you and encouragement to you, give you a spirit of unity among yourselves, as you follow Jesus Christ. Now again, the emphasis here is to the Hebrew and the Gentile, but it is just as applicable to us today. He’s saying that may the God who gives you endurance, the ability to hang in there with each other. What do you mean hang in there with each other? Hang in there because God isn’t through with you yet. And hang in there if you’re hanging on to a bunch of traditions and this kind of stuff that have no bearing at all on your Christian life, but you’re hanging on, it says, hang in there with with them, before long, it’s going to peel away. Remember? It says, it becomes obsolete, and suddenly it’ll disappear. So it says, Be patient with people. That’s hard for us, isn’t it? It’s hard for me. I get impatient with people when they don’t see the value of just Christ, Jesus, and when they add to this kind of stuff, my patience is very thin sometimes with that. But God again, disciples me and disciplines me with this, and he points it out to me. He’s not punishing me, he’s just disciplining me. So may the God who gives endurance and encouragement, give you a spirit of unity among yourselves, as you follow Christ, Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth. In other words, we’re all speaking the same thing. We’re all believing the same thing. Our hearts are molded together in oneness with Christ, Jesus, you might glorify the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus, Christ, and that’s what brings glory to God, it says is for you and me to have unity with one another.

It’s like in your family, there isn’t anything that disturbs you any more than watching kids feuding and fighting and fussing with each other. Does it? It grieves your heart. And what he’s saying is, when you come together in a spirit of unity and acceptance with one another and. Never compromising truth. Folks, we’re not talking about that never compromise truth. Truth is truth whether you like it or whether you don’t. Truth is truth whether your kids are engaged in it or they’re not. And you don’t gauge your theology upon what your kid is doing or what you’re doing or your wife or your husband is doing. Truth is truth. So you don’t compromise that. But what you’re doing is saying, we’re going to be tolerant with you until we all come to this spirit of unity in truth, so that with one heart and with one mind, and with one mouth will glorify God, the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ. So it says, accept one another. How? How should we accept one another? Just as Christ accepted you? And we’ve talked about that many times, guys, the difference between love and acceptance. That in my own life, that I knew that God loved me, but it was kind of Well, He’s God. He kind of has to, but Did he accept me? I never thought about that before, whether he I was accepted in the Beloved. But I do know that when that finally hit with me, that God not only loves me, but he accepts me. He’s not through with me, yet he’s got, still got a lot of work to do. Do you agree with that? I know you agree with me. What about you? A lot of work to do, but he’s not through with us. And ultimately, when the ultimate work of him is going to take place is when we’re absent from the body and present with the Lord and go see him as he is and become like him. It’s going to occur the day that we’re able to shed this body that contains indwelling sin. It’s going to happen the day that we’re no longer in this conflict between spirit and flesh that is always at conflict with each other. They’re at war with each other, are they not? And that war will be taking place for the rest of your life. You say, How old do you have to be before this war stops? Older than me, because it’s still there, and it’ll be there until the day you die. So on the day you die, you get to shed this thing, and you get to go into His presence in purity, and you get to go into His presence with just him, and all this stuff’s gone that we’ve had to struggle with. But the issue is that he says that I accept you the way you are. I accept you for who you are. You’re my child, and you’re loved perfectly, and you’re accepted in the Beloved. I’m not through with you yet, but don’t think that I ever do not accept you. And that is good news, isn’t it, folks, to know that God not only loves you perfectly, but he accepts you the way you are, and you’re able to sit back and say, I’m not all that I can be. I’m not maybe even all that I will be. But that’s good enough, right now.

I remember, some of you have heard the story, but I remember, in my early days of being a Christian, went into full time Christian work very shortly after becoming a Christian, and still had the old ego and the pride that you that you carry with you, all that baggage and barnacles that you carry with you. And I was real impressed with with people like Billy Graham, and I thought that he probably ought to start thinking about retiring before long, because I just become a Christian, and, and, and so, you know, humbly, I was thinking those things. And I remember that one day that I was going over to Phoenix, Arizona, and was meeting with another crusade member, and we were going to meet with a Billy Graham representative that was they were getting ready to do a film over there, and we were going to meet to work with them on that film. I was quite impressed that I was going to go meet a Billy Graham representative and all of this type of thing. And so we met there, and the guy that I was with was a sweet brother in Christ, but I was sitting there and he was talking, and he kind of talked a little funny, and didn’t talk like he really had a lot of education, and so forth and so on and and I was sitting there thinking to myself, I wish he had shut up so I could talk and impress this guy. And I really humbly thinking all these things and, and, you know, he ain’t very smart. I wish he’d just let me talk and handle this whole deal, and it’d go a lot better. And I was thinking all these real, humble thoughts, and all of a sudden, this Kerm said, now he didn’t know what I was thinking. Some place down the line, God got involved in that, and I think he told him what I was thinking, because all of a sudden, Kerm sat there, and he kind of said, like he said, you know, he said, I’m not real smart. But he said, I’m as smart as God wants me to be. And one of these days he said, I’m going to get smarter, because I think God wants me to get smarter. And he said, you know, he said, I don’t have a lot of abilities, but he said I got all the abilities that God wants me to have. And one of these days, he says, I’m going to have more abilities because I’m trusting God to give them to me.

And God took this old, proud heart of mine, and you know what I did? I bawled in front of that Billy Graham representative. I sat there and bawled like a baby as God pricked my heart and said, Bob Kerm has more in his little thinker of what I’m looking for than you got in your big old fat body. And I realized something that day that God didn’t need my abilities. He needed my availability. And that’s what Kerm was, was available to God to be used, and he was humble, and God used him in miraculous ways. And I was sitting there in my pride and couldn’t have been used if I wanted to be. That was all deception on my part as to how nifty I was in comparison to how un nifty he was. But God pricked my heart. He taught me a valuable lesson that day that I will never forget.

And so he tells us that to accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you in order to bring praise to God, For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Hebrews on behalf of God’s truth. So he’s saying to these basically Gentile Romans that the Hebrews that God has or that Christ has become a servant of the Hebrews on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs, so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy, so that we as Gentiles will be glorifying God for the mercy that he’s extended to us as it is written, therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and I will sing hymns to your name.

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