Radio Broadcast Tuesday 11/05/2024

Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P17 (11-05-24)

Faith Says Thank You To Jesus God!

~ When you say thank you to God for the FACT that He took away ALL your sins at the cross, you are AGREEING with God. In fact, the word confess means to agree with God, and in the Greek it also means to give thanks. Have you noticed, that you cannot give thanks at the same time you are asking for something that you don’t have or vice-versa. In essence, if a person is asking for forgiveness, then they obviously don’t believe that they were forgiven completely at the cross. You can’t have it both ways. There are people that say, “Okay, I know God forgave me at the cross, but it makes me feel good when I confess my sins and ask for him to forgive me.” That’s nothing more than lying directly to God and saying to God, “I don’t believe you took away all my sins at the cross.” Yet people will fight you tooth and nail, so they “feel good” when they do something wrong. It’s ALL about them, and how they feel. They see nothing wrong with it, because that is how they were taught growing up Catholic and Protestant too. It doesn’t matter which religion you talk about, they are all the same. It’s about what “I am doing to get in right standing with God.” Can you imagine walking up to Jesus in the flesh, and telling Him, “I don’t believe you took away all my sins at the cross?” Because that is what a person is actually doing when they keep on confessing in order to get more forgiveness from God.

Confess: Strong's #3670 - ὁμολογέω ~ Transliteration: homologéō
Just to clarify from the source: "The New Testament Greek Lexicon" for the word 'Confess" used in multiple places:

Definition:
to say the same thing as another, i.e. to agree with, assent
to concede
not to refuse, to promise
not to deny
to confess
declare
to confess, i.e. to admit or declare one's self guilty of what one is accused of
to profess
to declare openly, speak out freely
to profess one's self the worshipper of one
to praise, celebrate

Translated Words
KJV (24) - acknowledgeth, 1; confess, 17; confession is made, 1; give thanks, 1; profess, 3; promise, 1;

NAS (26) - acknowledge, 2; admit, 1; assured, 1; confess, 6; confessed, 4; confesses, 6; confessing, 1; declare, 1; give thanks, 1; made, 1; profess, 1; promised, 1;

So here we see that to give thanks, means a person agrees with God. When a person understands what Jesus, God in the flesh did for them, they want to jump for Joy! They thank Him with Thanksgiving in their hearts. They want to shout it from the rooftop. They want to tell the people of the world they have been set free from the law of sin and death! They cannot be quiet about what the Lord has done for them. Because they know in their heart that God took away their sins never to see them again, and He is not holding any sins against anyone today.

The issue is Life, not getting ones sins forgiven anymore. A person comes to Jesus by Faith, that He did it all for them personally, and places Faith in Jesus alone for having done what He said He would do. He fulfilled the law for us, so that we might receive the righteousness of God in Him. He gives us eternal life immediately through the Life of the Holy Spirit coming to live inside us and making us a new creature in Christ Jesus. And He will never leave nor forsake us no matter what. That is HIS promise to us, and He is Faithful and True to His promises.

There are no more confession booths, their are no more keeping short accounts with God, there are no more 1 John 1:9s to get your sins forgiven, there is nothing but thanksgiving in your heart for the person who is a true child of God. So praise Jesus today, and thank Him for what He did on the cross and for the Life He gave you that is eternal.

“Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;
His loving devotion endures forever.
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so,
whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy
and gathered from the lands,
from east and west, from north and south.” Psalms 107:1-3

~ What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered? If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation. However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness. And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

“Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven,

whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the man

whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”

Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness. In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless, because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb. Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised. This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Now the words “it was credited to him” were written not only for Abraham, but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.Romans 4:1-24

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.”

~ “Now, what does faith do? What does faith do? You’ve just heard the gospel. What does faith do? Say, Thank you, or be begging for what you already have? Which is, which is, it? Says, Thank you. What else can you say when someone’s done something for you? What would you say? Do you go, if a million dollars is in your bank, do you go up to the teller and say, Oh, please, Mr. Teller, please give me my money. Would you do that? Why? Well it’s your money. The teller and say you’re an idiot, write a check. You don’t sit there and beg for what you have. It’s yours. You just go claim it by faith. And that’s what faith is, folks. There’s a difference between belief and faith. A person says, I believe in Jesus, good, so does Satan. But have you put faith in Him? I believe that chair would hold me. I’ve looked at it, I’ve analyzed it, sit there and say, Yeah, I think it hold me, but I’m not going to sit in it. Why? Well, I’m not sure it’ll hold me. You see what I’m getting at, folks? You’re faith puts it action. My belief system says, I believe that’s true. Faith says, I’m going to test it to prove it’s true. And so he’s saying to us that our faith in Christ Jesus is credited to us as righteousness.” ~ Bob George

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Now, what does faith do? What does faith do? You’ve just heard the gospel. What does faith do? Say, Thank you, or be begging for what you already have? Which is, which is, it? Says, Thank you. What else can you say when someone’s done something for you? What would you say? Do you go, if a million dollars is in your bank, do you go up to the teller and say, Oh, please, Mr. Teller, please give me my money. Would you do that? Why? Well it’s your money. The teller and say you’re an idiot, write a check. You don’t sit there and beg for what you have. It’s yours. You just go claim it by faith. And that’s what faith is, folks. There’s a difference between belief and faith. A person says, I believe in Jesus, good, so does Satan. But have you put faith in Him? I believe that chair would hold me. I’ve looked at it, I’ve analyzed it, sit there and say, Yeah, I think it hold me, but I’m not going to sit in it. Why? Well, I’m not sure it’ll hold me. You see what I’m getting at, folks? You’re faith puts it action. My belief system says, I believe that’s true. Faith says, I’m going to test it to prove it’s true. And so he’s saying to us that our faith in Christ Jesus is credited to us as righteousness.

Now he says, David says the same thing when he speaks about the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works. Now, guys again, this is a totally foreign teaching to the Hebrew, who all of his experience has been, I am working. I’m trying to obey the law. I’m obeying the dietary laws in order that I might be righteous in the sight of God, and here they’re coming along saying, everything you’ve been taught is wrong. Think about that. Don’t you love when someone points out that you’re wrong? I mean, doesn’t that just thrill your heart? Oh, good. Thank you for pointing that out to me. No, we don’t like to be wrong, but he’s coming. Jesus entered into this scene and said, guys, everything you’ve been taught is wrong. You have put the emphasis in the wrong place. You have misused the law, just like a person would take a hammer that was developed to build a house and put it into the hands of a murder and hit somebody in the head with it. You have misused it. You’re wrong. That righteousness is by faith and faith alone. And Paul had to stand up in through the face of people who hated his guts for what he was saying. And he was saying, Take David as an example. Same thing. He speaks about blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works. And he quotes the Scripture, blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered, Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him. That was David’s belief that God would, in due time, provide a way whereby our sins would be taken away. Taken away.

Is this blessedness only for the circumcised? Now, who is the circumcised? The Hebrews. Or also for the uncircumcised? In other words, is this blessedness Paul saying that I’m talking about, is it only for the Hebrews, or is it also for the Gentiles? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness. Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised or before he was circumcised? Which was it? It was before. It was not after, we’re told it was before. So Abraham believed God and it was credited him in righteousness before the act of circumcision ever took place. It says after he received the sign of circumcision. Now, what was the purpose and the sign of circumcision? It was a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised.

Folks, we don’t have a big deal going on with circumcision. That’s not a big teaching in Christendom, is it? And if it was, it only applies to half of the population. So we, we don’t. It’s not one of those things that is really emphasized. So we have a little difficulty grabbing a hold of where’s the importance here. But to the Hebrew that was a sign, that was a seal of righteousness. Let’s apply something else that some people say today, because any time you add to Jesus, you subtracted from Jesus. We wouldn’t say circumcision. But would there be a group that would say baptism? Well, could you not then put the substitute the same principle. After he had received the sign of baptism, which was an indicator of the righteousness that you had by faith or you were still unbaptized? Would that not also be true? You see, what we have here is, again, was your faith credited to you as righteousness before you were baptized or after you were baptized? Well before. And so what you’re dealing here with is the same choice and the same principle that people use today, who claim that you’re saved by baptism, and you have huge denominations who say You’re saved by baptism, which would be the same thing as saying You’re saved by circumcision. No difference. It’s just a sign. And so he’s saying, under what circumstances was it credited? What was before he was baptized or after he was baptized? He received the sign of baptism, a seal of the righteousness which he had by faith while he was still unbaptized. So then is he the Father of all who believe but have not been baptized or circumcised in order that the righteousness by be credited them? You see the same argument that’s taking place here, guys? The same thing that you’re dealing with today, with people who say that you’re not saved unless you speak in tongues, you’re not saved unless you’re baptized, you’re not saved unless this is no different. The same principle. Is saying you’re not saved unless there’s circumcision. So the same principles apply here. And what he is trying to get across to us is that you come to Christ by faith and faith alone. What you do after that, it could be multi fold. If you were living back, then you’d probably go and got circumcised. Today you can go get baptized. Does baptism have anything to do with your salvation? Not a thing. If it did. Paul could not have said, I didn’t come to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel because of the God. If baptism was in the gospel. He couldn’t make that kind of a statement. Could he, of course, some people say, Well, he was just saying it that he didn’t come to baptize. He just came to preach. No, he didn’t come to preach. He came to preach the gospel, and there’s no baptism in the Gospel.

And so it’s merely a fact of saying that you come to Him by faith and faith alone. And this argument today, as it relates to circumcision, is as strong today as it was back then, because of all of the other things that we have added to what salvation is, and the Christian, so called Christian world, is added to, church membership. You can’t be saved unless you’re a Catholic, or you can’t be saved unless you’re a Protestant, or you can’t be saved unless you belong to our assembly, or you can’t be saved unless you’re dunked in our waters, or you can’t be saved unless you babble in tongues, and we go on and on and on. And every year the Christian world comes up with a new hula hoop to tell you how you got to do to get saved. And Paul is stringently saying to us, you are only one way for salvation, and that is through a simple faith in Christ, Jesus, period, period, period. And he’s strong as horseradish in what he’s saying.

He is also Abraham, is also the father of the circumcised, the Hebrew, who not only are the circumcised, but also who walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father, Abraham, had before he was circumcised. It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. The law came through Moses. How was Abraham saved? Through faith, faith in who? Faith in God, faith in the same God that David said, Blessed are they whose sins have been covered taken away. They had faith in this, and God credited that to their account, and that’s how old Testament people were saved. The object of our faith. We know the object of our faith on this side of the cross. I’m glad I live on this side of the cross, aren’t you?

And I want to tell you when I was in Israel, and we were at the Sea of Galilee one time, and I was down there looking at those guys in the boats, the same kind of boats that Jesus and them were in. They were dressed like the same way, and everything else. And I thought to myself, and somebody standing down there on that sea saying, I’m God, I’m glad on this side of the cross, that would have been a hard one to believe. And you know, we kind of almost make fun of the doubting Thomas and stuff. I want to tell you something. Had you been there, you would have been doubting too. You would have been wondering, how could this be? This is a fisherman. This is a carpenter that’s going fishing with us and eating with us. How could he be God? But he is, and he proved his deity through not only the miracles that He did, but the ultimate through the resurrection of Christ Jesus.

There’s also a brilliant proof of the deity of Christ and of salvation by faith. Do you realize, guys, that for 2000 years, people just like you and me have been testifying just like Ralph was talking all over the world, people listening to our voice today on the internet all over the world were saved identically the same way that you and I were, that at a point in time in history, we recognize something about ourselves, not that we haven’t been to church lately, or not that we haven’t done this, or have that haven’t done that, but we recognize what the Bible said about us, that Bob, you’re dead. You’re dead. When you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave all our sins. You’re dead. I’m crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live. Yet not I but Christ lives in me and the life that I live in this flesh of mine, I live by faith in the Son of God, the One who loved me and gave himself for me. Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life. And whosoever believes in me though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever lives and believes in me will never die. And he said, Do you believe that he?

You see, you can go to people and say, do you know you’re a sinner? And I know many, many people. I’ll tell you, I cannot tell you the number of people I’ve witnessed to that took objection to that. Hold on, I’m not that bad. Basically, I’m a nice person. And I just killed my mom and dad. But basically, I’m a nice person. You hear that all the time, basically, nice person on on death row. Basically, I’m a good person. And what he’s saying is, yeah, I made a mistake, but basically I’m okay. God says that’s not true. It doesn’t make it how nice you are. It doesn’t even make any difference how bad you are. The issue is how dead you are. How Dead is dead. And if you’ve ever looked at a dead dog or a dead person, they’re dead. And you can tickle your feet. You can tell them a funny story. They’re not going to laugh. They’re dead. And when you and I are called dead spiritually, it means you’re dead spiritually. You are dead to the life that vacated us when Adam sinned. Your human spirit is not dead. Dead. It’s dead to what vacated it, and what vacated it was the life of God living in us. My human spirit is alive to the world dead to God. That’s why we bounce prayers off the ceiling until we’re saved. And so he’s saying to us that this comes by faith and faith alone. Now he goes ahead in verse 14, for if those who live by the law are heirs, then faith has no value, and the promise that He gave is worthless. So he’s saying, if you’re going to live by the law, your faith is worthless. The promises that God made to Abraham are worthless if you want to live by the law. Now, you see people who want to live by the law. They hate this stuff, and then they come up and say, Well, maybe he was only talking about the dietary laws. Said, no, no, he’s talking about all of them. You don’t go to Mount Sinai period. You go to the empty tomb, and there you’re going to find who is going to guide you into all truth, and his name is Jesus.

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So those who live by the law, if they’re heirs, well, then faith has no value, and his promise is worthless because the law brings wrath. What is the wages of sin under the law? Folks? Death. What do we hear? That sin, when you sin, you’re out of fellowship. Is that true? According to the Bible, according to the Bible, do you ever find a place in the Bible where, when you sin, you’re out of fellowship? It’s not there, we teach it’s there, but it’s not there. The wages of sin isn’t being out of fellowship. The wages of sin isn’t going to the woodshed. The wages of sin isn’t if God’s going to get you, the wages of sin is death. And until you have been freed from the law of sin and death by the law of life, you remain dead, and that’s exactly what salvation is being transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of the Son in whom He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Salvation is being changed from death to life, and there’s only one source of life available to us, and that’s Christ Jesus. The law brings wrath. The wages of sin is death. You want to be under the law, then you’re under the consequence of sin, which is death.

Now, where there is no law, there is no transgression, do we understand that? So was their law prior to Moses? Did Moses bring in the law? He did. And again, Abraham, how were they saved? By faith in in the promises of God period. Therefore, now what’s the therefore, therefore? If the promise comes by faith, the promise of God came by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be granted to all of Abraham’s offspring, not only to those who are of the law, who is that, the Hebrews and also the Christian world, who are under it today, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. Abraham wasn’t under the law. He was lived by faith in the promises of God. He’s the father of us all, as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations. He is our father in the sight of God in whom he believed. God. Abraham believed God. It was credited to him as righteous. What God did he believe in? The God who gives life to the dead. This is the God that we believe in, the God who gives life to the dead. Do we understand, folks, the dynamic of this? When you’re talking to a person who is not in Christ, you’re talking to a dead, spiritually dead person. If you’re sitting into this room today and you do not know Christ personally, you are dead as a hammer, spiritually. And if you’re dead, the only thing you need is what? Life he has already provided cleared the deck through the cross that cleared the deck for the divine action of now bringing life to the dead. And that’s why it says in Romans, there’s now no condemnation awaiting you who belong to Christ, Jesus. Why? Because the law of the Spirit of Life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

And so he says, we now believe in the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were. Against all hope, Abraham in hope, believed, and so became the father of many nations. Just as it had been said to him, so shall your offspring be. Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead, for he was about 100 years old, and yet he said, You’re going to have a son, you’re going to be the father of many nations. Now, that’d be a tough one to believe, wouldn’t it? 100 years old, you’re going to be bearing a bunch of kids. That’d be a little tough one. But he said, so shall your offspring be. Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead since he was about 100 years old, and that Sarah’s womb was also dead, so she was going to have a little trouble with this baby thing too. Yet he didn’t waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God. He believed him, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God. In other words, when God said, Abraham, you’re 100 years old, Sarah’s womb is dead too, but you’re going to have kids, it said that strengthened his faith. I don’t know where that was wishful thinking. I don’t know what that was, but it strengthened his faith. And he said. He gave glory to God being fully persuaded. Now, guys, there’s that word again. Remember how Paul used I am convinced or persuaded of something that nothing can separate you from the love of God. There again, folks, is where faith brings us down to a point where we are rock solid. I am persuaded about something, I am absolutely convinced about something. Nothing can separate me from the love of God and and Abraham was fully convinced and persuaded that God had the power to do what He had promised. Do you believe that? If God promised, does he have the power to pull it off? You better believe it. And that’s what he that’s what Abraham believed in I don’t have the power. Abraham said unto himself, I’m 100 years old, but if God’s promised it, he’s going to pull it off. I don’t know how, but he’s going to pull it off. I don’t need to know how. That’s where we make mistakes in life folks always trying to figure out how God’s going to do something. You don’t need to figure out how he’s going to do it. If he’s promised to do it, just know he’s going to pull it off. And so he said, that’s why it was credited to him as righteousness, because he was persuaded that God had the power to do what He had promised to do.

The words it was credited to him were written not for him alone. So it’s saying this is for you as well, but also for us to whom God will credit righteousness. God will credit righteousness for us who do what? Believe in Him who raised our Jesus, our Lord from the dead, who raised him from the dead? God, you’re going to believe in Him who raised Jesus from the dead. He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification. At the cross is where reconciliation takes place. Reconciliation is like an accounting term. Any of you in here, bookkeepers, your bookkeeper, okay? If I owed you $100,000 and bought $100,000 where the merchandise from your firm and I went belly up bankrupt. What would you do with that debt? You’d write it off. And in essence, you’d be paying a debt that you didn’t owe. For me, who owed a debt that I couldn’t pay, wouldn’t you? And you would write it off your books. Now that’s exactly what reconciliation is, an accounting term. He wrote it off of his books, and as it said, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, the world not just a select few, the world unto Himself, not counting our sins against them.

Jesus died to take away the sins of the whole world. But that’s not salvation, guys. It’s a part. It’s what was prepared us for salvation. There’s where people get messed up. If you believe that salvation is getting your sins forgiven, you’re you can’t buy that God died for the sins of the whole world, because that would be universal salvation. Some people are teaching that. You understand what I’m saying? If that was salvation, it’s not salvation. It’s preparatory for salvation. He died to take away the sins of the whole world. There’s not a sin ever committed that Jesus didn’t take away. Now that’s what prepared us for salvation. What is salvation? I took away the cause of death sin. I took it away so that I can give you life eternal. You know why you and I have eternal life today is because of the eternal consequence of the cross. The cross took away the cause of death. That’s the divine action. Took it away when we were yet enemies, we were reconciled, already done. How come? So that I could be saved by His life? Saved? How with temporal life, no eternal life. And when did eternal life begin? The very moment you have the son who has the Son has life. Who does not have the Son does not have life. These things I have written unto You who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may what? Hope? KNOW that you have, what? Eternal life. It’s all life and death. So he was delivered over for death, for our sins, and raised to life for our justification. In Him, we are justified. That means the whole package has now been pulled together, reconciliation at the cross, life from the dead, complete package in Christ, Jesus.

well, we will pick up in Romans five. There’s another therefore, we’ll pick up in Romans five next week, where we’re going to be talking about the fact that since we’ve been justified with God, we have peace with God. And you know, folks, many times, people are trying to find peace in their hearts. And we talk about the fact that Be anxious for nothing, but in all things, with prayer and supplication and thanksgiving, let your request be known unto God, and then the peace of God will quiet your hearts in Christ, Jesus, a lot of times people say, Well, I do that, but I don’t have the peace of God. You know why? Because you don’t have peace with God. You can’t have peace of God until you experience peace with God. And you can’t have peace with God until you’ve settled the issue that Jesus took away the cause of death at the cross, took it away so that he could give you and me life eternal. The issue is, do we want life? The issue is, do we want to be functioning like a light bulb without electricity, like a car without gasoline, finally made automobile, but it won’t run, an oil lamp without oil? Or do we want to be made complete whereby we have oil in the lamp, gas in the car, electricity in the bulb, and are able to function according to the intelligent purpose which God created us? There’s the issue, do we want life, or do we want to remain dead to God? And if, in your heart, you want to put aside this time of life where you were searching, looking for something in all the wrong places, and maybe today, heard for the first time that you could have life. Then I would ask you to receive life today, to come to the Lord Jesus Christ in the mere simplicity of faith alone. Don’t have to walk an aisle, don’t have to lift your hand in the quietness of wherever you are to be able to say, Lord Jesus, I need you. I thank you for taking away my sins at the cross, and I thank you for giving me eternal life. I ask you to come into my heart and to give me life. If that’s your heart’s desire, and you’ve never done that, I’d like to challenge you today to take the biggest step you’ll ever take in your life, the step where you come to life for the first time in Christ, Jesus.

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