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my country 'tis of thee...

5/29/2017

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​My Country, ‘Tis of Thee…
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.  (Psa 33:12) And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.  (Exo 12:14)

Today is Memorial Day in America. We pause to remember those who gave their lives in defending our nation since we wrote the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776. Since that day, we have found it necessary to maintain a strong military power to defend our nation. It began costing us blood right away. We have also aided many other nations in their quest for freedom, partly for their sake and partly for our own self-interest. It has been to our advantage to leave troops in other nations after a war. That is expensive.

A story has circulated that sometime after World War II, President Charles DeGaule notified the U.S. that he wanted all the U.S. military to leave France as soon as possible. Our Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, asked him: “Does that include all the U. S. soldiers who are buried in your cemeteries?” That was the end of the story.

Not long after NAZI Germany had surrendered and our soldiers began coming home by the thousands, someone posted in the newspaper: “If you can read, thank a teacher. If you can read in English, thank a soldier.” The reason for this statement is that for some time we did not know who was going to win World War II. There was a possibility that NAZI German flags could be flying over our nation’s Capital and our post offices. As a youngster, I remember the talk of the older heads who weren’t sure how the war was going to end. There was also great fear that Japan would land thousands of Japanese soldiers on the beaches of California. Yamamato convinced Japanese war lords that American citizens were too well-armed for Japan to think about invading California.

America is the greatest nation in economic, technological, and military power in the history of the world. We were founded as a Christian nation, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, (Holy Trinity vs U.S.,1892). The Court took several years to examine many official documents. Our founding fathers understood that they were founding the “Great Experiment” in liberty to see if a nation could govern itself without an all-powerful monarch. John Adams, one of the leading founding fathers, said: Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. So far, our form of government has out-lasted all others that tried to govern themselves.

But, it began costing blood right-away. George Washington, our first President was a praying man and a Bible-reading man. I’ve twice visited his home and his study where he laid an open Bible in a chair and covered it with his big hands morning and evening. Of all the American presidents, more books have been written and continue to be written about George Washington than any other president.

William Tecumseh Sherman is credited with the “War is hell” statement. He is the general who marched through the south and burned Atlanta. The statement has been quoted by many other military writers who know of nothing worse to say about war.
 

America seems to have lost its knowledge of our text today: Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.  (Psa 33:12)

From my earliest days in school, we were taught “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.” It was easier to sing than our national anthem, but we sang that too. Then, there was America the Beautiful. During WW2 Kate Smith was a national radio voice who began singing God Bless America and it went (as they say today) viral! We didn’t know the verses but the chorus was easy to sing. It’s still a favorite.

Read Through the Bible in a Year
MAY 29, 2017 – MONDAY         
A.M.  1Chron 26-27   P.M. John 11:18-46
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Memory Verse This Month:
And he said unto them, These
are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.  (Luke 24:44)
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Two Songs for Today:
My Country ‘Tis of Thee (2:44) (Gaither Group)

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This Land is Your Land (4:28) (Gaither Group)
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running the race - part 3

5/25/2017

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Running the Race – Part 3
 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.  And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.  I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:   But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.  (1Co 9:25-27)
 
It is hard for us in America to understand “Running the Race” because we live in a prosperous and soft time. The Christians in Corinth were living under the Roman Empire. Jesus came to earth “in the fulness of time” to redeem them that were under the law and that we might receive the adoption of sons. (Gal.4:4).
 
He was crucified on a Roman cross by Roman soldiers. His followers were persecuted by the leaders of the Jewish Temple and soon the power of the Roman Empire came down on Christians. They were imprisoned, stoned, beheaded, fed to the lions in the arena in Rome, impaled on crosses and used as human torches to light the garden of one of the Emperors. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs tries to capture some of the price that has been paid by some Christians who “ran the race.”
 
When Saul (Paul) began arresting Christians and Stephen was stoned by the Jewish leadership in Jerusalem, Christians began leaving Jerusalem and scattered to safer territory.  As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.  Therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.  (Act 8:3-4)

There was a dedicated mindset in the early Christians that is almost impossible to duplicate in modern America. However, we see it today as Christians in the Islamic countries kneel in orange suits to have their heads cut off. In N. Korea, China and several Islamic nations, many Christians are being persecuted and put to death. They endure and die the death of martyrs, even as they did in the earliest days of Christianity. Hundreds of Christians are suffering in stinking prisons. Many of them could be released if they would renounce their faith in Christ. Only rarely does this happen in America.

Jesus knew what was going to happen and told those who listened to Him preach: And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.  (Luk 9:23-24)

The Bible standard of faithfulness to Christ in running the race, is: Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.  (Rev 2:10)

I am reluctant to brag about what I would do if faced with some of the things Christians are facing today. Peter thought he was on solid ground and all the disciples joined him in declaring how brave and determined they were. We’re still talking about running the race. We may not be facing certain death for our faith in Christ, but what about the pressure to talk like the crowd at work or school?

When I was nine years old, I practiced profanity, and cursing so I would be accepted by the boys I wanted to be a part of. Of course, I was very much a lost sinner and had a wicked heart to do it. But, the night I called on the Lord to save me, all of that changed. My loyalty was to Christ. Pleasing Him meant more than pleasing wicked companions.

We are indeed running a race, a serious race and the rewards are high. We may not be called upon to lose our lives. But, we may be called upon to cut corners, to do things under the table, to please the ungodly. What then?  If you are a genuine Christian, your first loyalty is to Christ and all the areas of your life that involves. Can you trust Him and follow Him when you know you or some member of your family may not get well? Pray to be healed. But if God has something better for you than being healed, can you run the race with what you have and praise the Lord for it?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Read Through the Bible in a Year
MAY 26, 2017 – FRIDAY         
A.M.  1Chron 17-19   P.M. John 10:1-21
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Memory Verse This Month:
And he said unto them, These
are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.  (Luke 24:44)

Song for Today:   T
There Is A Fountain (4:39) (Gaither Group)
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running the race - part 2

5/24/2017

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Running the Race – Part 2
 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.  And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.  I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:   But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.  (1Co 9:24-27)
 

Running the Race of the Christian life is the main thing we Christians do until we get to Heaven. In Paul’s day, the Olympics were going full-blast in that part of the world. He uses running to picture the Christian life. We must contend with the world, the flesh, and the devil; all three…not just one. He also talks about “The Warfare of the Believer” in Ephesians.

The World. We have trouble with the people of the world that defy God their maker, and His claim to be their rightful ruler. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  (1Jn 2:15-16)

The Flesh.  Paul appears to have more trouble with his own body than the world and the devil.  His body must be kept under control. He does not have control of the world or the devil but he is in charge of controlling his own body that houses the old nature.

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:  
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?  (Rom 7:21-24)


The Devil. We have trouble with a real devil and his horde of demons. They are spirit beings, fallen angels. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.  (Jas 4:7)

We are running against these three things but the lust of flesh is the closest and most troubling. The lust of the flesh is most often related to illicit sex. But other things issuing out of the flesh are: killing, stealing, lying, and coveting another person’s things. Beyond the battle we fight with adultery, killing, and lying, is the warfare that takes place in the mind. With Eve, the forbidden fruit promised to “make one wise, was good for food and pleasant to the eyes” All these are avenues of temptation to the flesh, our old nature.
 

Yesterday we looked at the issue of sickness and whether healing is in the Atonement. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.  (Isa 53:5) Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.  (1Pe 2:24)

I pointed out that these verses are clearly about God’s remedy for the healing of sin. There are other verses about physical healing, the main verse being: And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:  And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.  (1Jn 5:14-15)

If it is God’s will to heal us and if we ask Him, He will heal us. If it is not God’s will that we be healed, then we will not be healed. THE LAST SICKNESS IS NEVER HEALED. It is not always God’s will to heal everyone any more than it is God’s will to answer every prayer that is prayed.
 
Why bring this up while focusing on Running the Race as a Christian? Because sickness and death are big obstacles on the racetrack where we are Running the Race. It is hard to feel spiritual, hard to feel victorious while we are sick or when someone close has died. We are going to be overwhelmed!

Sickness and death are the authors of depression and negative mood. I have watched at the bedside in hospitals and watched at funerals. I have studied myself when sick and when suffering the loss of family members and close friends. We have to run the race through those experiences. In Paul’s day, they wrestled with sickness, prison, persecution, and death. When they ran their race, it ran through those experiences. Bad times were part of the race.


In summary, how do we run the race when God does not answer our prayers for healing? How do we run the race when a child in the family has leukemia and is not healed? With small children, be careful when you pray for the sick puppy to be healed and you have to bury the puppy. A broken-hearted child needs wise counsel from someone who understands that God does not answer every prayer.

Running the race as pictured by Paul, must include these times of severe testing. It matters a lot about whether healing is in the Atonement. I have seen much damage done to people who were taught that God will always answer prayer, will always heal sickness. If this expectancy is there and it doesn’t happen, some people are going to be hurt really bad. Some will experience shipwreck of their faith. I have met many angry people who are mad at God for taking their child.


Let’s not try to put God in a corner. God is good all the time. All the time, God is good. The God of the mountain is still God in the valley. Farther along, we'll know all about it. Farther along we'll understand why. Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine. We'll understand it all, by and by.  He is the sovereign God who said: (and He meant what He said)

For my thoughts
are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.  (Isa 55:8-9) Ω


Read Through the Bible in a Year
MAY 25, 2017 – THURSDAY         
A.M.  1Chron 14-16   P.M. John 9:24-41
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Memory Verse This Month:
And he said unto them, These
are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.  (Luke 24:44)

Song for Today:   
The Old Rugged Cross (:48) (CMC – Sou.Pines,NC)

 https://www.facebook.com/laura.b.ingram.1/videos/10154713278024825/
 
Please pray for: This little singer, June Ingram, who is in the hospital with cellulitis in the leg – with IV


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running the race - part 1

5/23/2017

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Running the Race – Part 1
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.  And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.  I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:   But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.  (1Co 9:24-27)
 
The Bible tells us two important things: how to get to Heaven and how to live the Christian life on this earth until we get there. Many people confuse these two things. Salvation is of the Lord and not of what we can do: Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:  (Php 1:6)

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.  And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:  (Col 2:9-10) In Christ dwells all the fulness of the Godhead (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)  in bodily form. Then Paul says we are complete in Christ. We can add nothing to Christ to help Him get us saved. It is by His stripes we are healed of our lost condition before God:

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.  (1Pe 2:24)

This verse is about healing our lost spiritual condition and has nothing to do with healing physical disease. I believe strongly in Divine healing of physical diseases. God healed my eyes, damaged from Guillain Berre’ (French Polio) at 11:00 a.m. January 1, 1987. The right eye was turned inward, so that I saw two of everything. I was scooting my damaged feet along, six inches at a time, facing the cold north wind….and praying with great intensity. I saw two trees.

All at once, two trees became one tree when my damaged eye returned to a normal position. The eye doctor had examined me and said it would take at least six weeks for the eye to heal, IF…it ever healed. It healed in less than ten seconds. I have witnessed enough healings that it would take more than the rest of this page to include them. My hands have felt the heat coming from a shattered leg bone being completely healed.

My mother was healed of a failed bladder surgery as she walked the length of the hall in her house. The eyes of a little girl in Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, TN were healed while 300 people were on their knees praying for her at Temple Baptist Church in Rossville, GA. I was one of those 300 people praying for the little girl. So, I believe strongly in Divine healing.


But physical healing is not in 1Peter 2:24. Christ bore our sins in His own body on the tree so that we would live toward righteousness. The enabling of our living a righteous and holy life is that the moral condition has been healed by the stripes laid on Jesus’ back by the Roman soldiers who put Him to death. I have a hard time understanding why good people are content to twist 1Peter 2:24 which is a quote from Isaiah 53:5, to make it mean something it does not mean.

Everybody dies of something that is wrong with the body. Oral Roberts is dead. Many such people whom God used to heal hundreds of people are dead. If healing is in the Atonement, then the only thing that keeps saved people from being healed is their flawed faith or sin in their life. Do all old Christians die because they won’t repent of their sins? Do you see what a royal mess you get into if you say that physical healing is in the Atonement? We're still discussing running the race of the Christian life and I've seen some stuff in my 63 years of Christian ministry.

It’s not nice for a healthy Christian to look at a sick Christian and say: “Oh, you could be healed if you would get right with God!” Well, my friend. I try to patient with people like that. I assure you that you will die of something wrong with your body and then you can repeat what you have been telling other sick Christians. I know you mean well, bless your heart, but you simply don’t have it altogether. Physical healing is not in the Atonement.

The Bible Knowledge Commentary, written by the faculty of Dallas Seminary makes this comment about it: “Peter made a general reference to salvation: by His wounds you have been healed (Isa_53:5). This does not refer to physical healing for the verb’s past tense indicates completed action, the “healing” is an accomplished fact. The reference is to salvation. Christ’s suffering (lit., “wound”; mōlōpi, “stripe left by a lash,” referred to Jesus’ scourging) and death accomplished “healing,” the salvation of every individual who trusts Him as his Savior.”  (Bible Knowledge Commentary)

We will do a Part 2, and maybe more, to continue “Running the Race.”

Read Through the Bible in a Year
MAY 24, 2017 – WEDNESDAY         
A.M.  1Chron 11-13   P.M. John 9:1-23
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Memory Verse This Month:
And he said unto them, These
are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.  (Luke 24:44)

Song for Today:   
He Giveth More Grace (3:07) (Gaither Group)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN9-Ri6qjZY
 If music is better than this in Heaven, I’m sure to have a spell…
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following after...

5/22/2017

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Following After…
​Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God…  (Heb 12:14-15a);
 
(NOTE: This is an edited piece I posted 3-4 years ago under Good Mornng! and later in Morning Minute.  It touches the tangible proof by which we may judge ourselves, if we be in the faith. Some are struggling in their journey of faith and this may help them estimate where they are. What they are looking for is “Assurance of Salvation.”
 
Some saved people struggle for years for assurance of salvation. John Bunyan, who wrote Pilgrim’s Progress struggled for years with this problem. I have done ongoing counseling with people over a period of years who labored in the assurance of their salvation. Once the light is turned on, they seem to have it for a life time.
 
I never doubted my salvation from the moment I was saved October 1943 at the age of nine. But everyone who is saved is not granted that kind of assurance. At the root of it is whether we depend on feeling instead of faith in the Word of God. One day they feel saved and the next day they feel lost. It is beyond them to lay hold of the Word of God and rest completely upon it. Some of Jesus’ disciples were much this way. They seemed to understand very little until after Christ’s resurrection from the dead.
 
Evangelist Paul Ferguson was saved at age 12 but never had the assurance of salvation for another 112-15 years. For eleven years, he was the welter-weight boxing champion of the southeast (1939-1950). When he got the assurance of his salvation from John 5:24, he lost interest in boxing while he was at the top of his game. In the picture for today, the plowman is following after the horse.
 
Chacteristics of Salvation – The above verses are short with extremely long roots. It is not possible to deal with it in two or three paragraphs. But, since death stares us in the face every day, a little time spent on this theme may not be the most wasted time in your day.

These verses have been quoted to me many times in sixty years by men who had been taught they had to live holy enough to be saved. They turned away from any hope of ever being saved because they knew they could not live holy enough to be saved by it.
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After several years of this I began to study these verses and other related verses with an open mind and considerable research in the Bible. Without going into a lot of detail here, I will simply say that I believe the Bible teaches when one repents of sin and the old direction of living and turns by faith toward the blood of Christ’s death on the cross as complete payment for all their sin, something vital happens to that person inside. There is a new birth and a new nature!

A characteristic settles in upon that person that finds them following after peace with all men and following after holiness. The key words are: “follow after.” Not having achieved perfection, but following after, in the direction of peace and holiness.

The new birth from God involves a radical change in the life of a repenting soul. They do not become perfect, but they do become endowed with a new nature from God and the new nature struggles with the old nature we have until the day we die. The new nature cannot be copied any more than the sap of a peach tree can be produced by tying peaches onto a tree.

Following after peace and holiness is a general characteristics of the new birth. A backsliding Christian will be judged in this life by the Lord, sometimes as “a sin unto death” (1 Jn 5:16). I have chosen the comments by Barnes as the best on these verses.
The Bible gives several characteristics that are true of everyone who is saved. This is one of them. Others include accepting Christ with the humble faith of a child and embracing Christ so that you are not ashamed of Him. (DC).

"Follow peace with all men - Do not give indulgence to …passions of strifes, see  Rom_14:19. The apostle is referring to the trials which those whom he addressed were experiencing. Those trials seem to have arisen mainly from persecution, and he exhorts them to manifest a spirit of kindness toward all. This is the temper of the gospel. We are to make war with sin, but not with people; with bad passions and corrupt desires, but not with our fellow-men.

"And holiness - Instead of yielding to contending passions and to a spirit of war; instead of seeking revenge on your persecutors and foes, make it rather your aim to be holy. Let that be the object of your pursuit, the great purpose of your life. Men might in such cases counsel them to seek revenge; the spirit of religion would counsel them to strive to be holy.

"Without which no man shall see the Lord - see Mat_5:8. The principle here stated is one which is never departed from; Rev_21:27; Isa_35:8; Isa_52:1; Isa_60:21; Joe_3:17; Mat_13:41; 1Co_6:9-10. No one has ever been admitted to heaven in his sins; nor is it desirable that anyone ever should be. Desirable as it is that lost people should be happy, yet it is benevolence which excludes the profane, the impious, and the unbelieving from heaven - just as it is benevolence to a family to exclude profligates and seducers, and as it is benevolence to a community to confine thieves and robbers in prison.

This great principle in the divine administration will always be adhered to; and hence, they who are expecting to be saved without holiness or religion, are destined to certain disappointment.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but God will not admit one unrepenting and unpardoned sinner to heaven. It was the importance and the certainty of this principle which made the apostle insist on it here with so much earnestness. Amidst all their trials; when exposed to persecution; and when everything might tempt them to the indulgence of feelings which were the opposite of holiness, they were to make it their great object to be like God.

Lest any man fail - As every man is in danger, it is his personal duty to see to it that his salvation be secure.

Fail of the grace of God - Margin, “fail from.” The Greek is, “lest anyone be wanting or lacking” -  ὑστερῶν  husterōn. There is no intimation in the words used here that they already had grace and might fall away - … but that there was danger that they might be found at last to be deficient in that religion which was necessary to save them. It is a proper…to inquire diligently whether.…when he comes to appear before God he will be found to be wholly destitute of religion (Barnes-Abbreviated). Ω

Read Through the Bible in a Year
MAY 23, 2017 – TUESDAY         
A.M.  1Chron 8-10   P.M. John 8:37-59
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Memory Verse This Month:
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.  (Luke 24:44)

Song for Today:   
He Giveth More Grace (3:07) (Gaither Group)

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is my name written there?

5/21/2017

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Is My Name Written There?
And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.  (Php 4:3)

Other references to “book” or  “book of life:” Exo_32:32; Psa_69:28; Isa_4:3; Eze_13:9; Dan_12:1; Luk_10:20; Rev_3:5; Rev_13:8, Rev_17:8, Rev_20:12, Rev_20:15, Rev_21:27  ​There are books other than the Book of Life. Read carefully.

Paul is urging the believers in Philippi to practice getting along and helping one another because they are going to spend eternity together. He tells them that their names “are” in the book of life.” “Are: is in italics and was placed there by the translators. It was their opinion that “are” is the proper word for understanding it. In today’s text their names are now, already, in the Book of Life.

This morning I listened to Max McLean read 1Chronicles 1-5. (Read Through the Bible in a Year reading schedule on Morning Minute.) Five chapters of non-stop names. They lived and died. The Lord puts a lot of stock in writing down names and preserving them. I don’t have a clue who these people are. They are complete strangers to me. But they are not strangers to God. (I hope you can find the time to look up the references above to get a feel for what God is doing with names.)

When I was about six years old and was into learning how to read, I was fascinated by the names on tombstones. Still am. The engraved memorial stones are the most tangible proof that those people ever lived. God has a better idea. He remembers us from having made us in the womb and we will never be un-remembered from the mind of God. Your surest route to permanent significance is not the gravestone; it’s your place in the mind of God.
(Would you like to read that sentence again?)

As I listened non-stop to this parade of names, three things crossed my mind. 1. This is not the only place in the Bible that lists lots of names. 2. God did not name these people. Their parents named them and their parents were highly intelligent. Repetition of names is low. It’s hard to come up with a brand-new name, so young parents “borrow” a name for their baby from family, friend, or a purchased book of names to select from. 3. The Bible is God’s book, so why does He take up so much space in His book with names?

God records many names in the Bible because He highly values every baby that is conceived and born. He gives every baby the gift of life and individual identity. In short, God Himself is the author of every new baby and He honors the name given the new child by its mother or guardian. God is still at work, creating new people. Notice below: “I formed thee.” That’s the continued work of creation.

Jeremiah said: Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.  (Jer 1:5)

The Psalmist said: My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.  Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was
none of them.  (Psa 139:15-16)

Moses got a little forward with the Lord in pleading his case for his wayward brethren:
And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.  Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.  And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.  (Exo 32:31-33)

BKC offers this research and opinion which seems reasonable to me. “Some say this was the book of life (Rev_20:15; Rev_21:27) that lists believers’ names but, more likely, it was the census of the people. Moses’ statement probably indicated he was willing to die a premature death (but not suffer eternal torment in hell). He did not want to be associated with a sinful, unforgiven people. Rejecting Moses’ offer, God promised to punish the sinners (by premature death). Some died of a plague (Exo_32:35) and all fighting men (except Joshua and Caleb) died later in the desert (Deu_1:35-36; Deu_2:14). Yet God said Moses would lead the nation (the younger generation) to the land promised them (Exo_32:34
).” (Bible Knowledge Commentary)

Today in a restaurant, I asked the waiter his name. “Isaiah.” “Oh, that’s a good name! Isaiah is one of my favorite Bible characters!” “Who gave you your name?” “My mother.”  We had to stop there, but if possible, I go further. Some, like their names. Others do not.

If there is time, I ask them: “Did your mother take you to Sunday School? Did you learn about John 3:16…”You know, the verse that says: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son…” It takes less than a minute to go from their name, to their mother, and into the “Name that is above every name." I have never had anyone to get angry with me for doing this. Not one! You are welcome to try it. You may be pleasantly surprised at what will come out of the conversation. Ω 

Read Through the Bible in a Year
MAY 22, 2017 – MONDAY         
A.M.  1Chron 6-7   P.M. John 8:21-36
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Memory Verse This Month:
And he said unto them, These
are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.  (Luke 24:44)

 Song for Today:  
 Life’s Railway to Heaven (4:08) (Gaither Group)

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master verse on prayer

5/18/2017

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 Master Verse on Prayer
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:  And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.  (1Jn 5:14-15)

With hundreds of prayer and prayer-related verses in the Bible, how can we say that one verse is the master verse on prayer? The above verses wrap up all the Bible teachings on prayer and reduce them to a few words: “…ask anything according to His will.”
 
The verse assumes that everything necessary for successful prayer is in place. The verse in no way conflicts with any other verse on prayer but rather, brings all other verses to a point of action. The request is tested in the presence of the will of God. If we want to know other things about prayer, then we go beyond the master verse on prayer.
 
In the same way that Jesus reduced all the Jewish law and the preaching of the prophets into two verses, even so, the Apostle John reduces all the teachings on prayer to two verses.  Jesus and the Law.             
 
When asked about the “great commandment,” Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  This is the first and great commandment.   And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.  (Mat 22:37-40)

If you’re looking for a summary of the Jewish law given by Moses and everything the prophets preached, there it is. If you’re looking for the details of the Mosaic law and the prophets, then read the books by Moses and the several prophets.

We are helped if we remember this: The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament. For example, the book of Revelation is a commentary on the book of Daniel. “The New is in the Old contained; the Old is in the new Explained.”
 

The core of 1John 5:14-15 is: “ask anything according to his will.”  It is a summary verse, a master verse that governs all the other verses on prayer and prayer-related verses.
 

Prayer and Believing.                                                                                                                 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.  For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.  (Mar 11:22-23)

It looks like the whole thing about prayer is faith. We don’t see in these verses how to get enough faith. The disciples prayed: “increase our faith.” One man did this: And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.  (Mar 9:24)

Prayer and Persistence.                                                                                                                 In another place, the important thing turns out to be persistence in prayer, not giving up. And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.  I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.  And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.  (Luk 11:7-10) ​Ask, and keep on asking. Seek, and keep on seeking. Knock, and keep on knocking.

Prayer and Sin.  
 If I
regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:  (Psa 66:18)                                    (If I treasure, protect iniquity.)

How to Pray.
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Jesus’ disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray, even as John taught his disciples how to pray. His response was “the model prayer” most commonly called “the Lord’s Prayer.” It is not the prayer Jesus prayed in John 17. But it IS the prayer our Lord taught us to pray, and in that sense, is “The Lord’s Prayer.” I prefer the version in Matthew rather than in Luke. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.  (Mat 6:9-10) (Read: Matthew 6:9-15)

Read Through the Bible in a Year
MAY 19, 2017 – FRIDAY         
A.M.  2Kings 23-25   P.M. John 7:1-31
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Memory Verse This Month:
And he said unto them, These
are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.  (Luke 24:44)


Song for Today:  
Life’s Railway to Heaven (4:08) (Gaither Group)

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falling on the stone

5/18/2017

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​​Falling on the Stone
And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?  Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.  (Luk 20:17-18

These are the concluding verses from a parable Jesus told about the wicked tenants of a vineyard. It’s about God’s experience with Israel and the land He gave them. They wanted to live as they pleased and killed the prophets God sent to them. Finally, He sent His Son and they killed Him. What can they now expect God to do to them?

To explain it further, He changes the scene from a vineyard to the cornerstone of a building that was rejected. Jesus refers His listeners to Psalm 118:22: The stone
which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.  (Psa 118:22) Israel rejected their promised Messiah. But, one day He will come back and claim His throne and reign for a thousand years.

I heard a story about this in my early teens that supposedly happened during the building of Solomon’s Temple, the first temple. There, supposedly was the losing of the corner stone for that Temple. But, two hours of searching over 20 commentaries and a Google search did not produce a reference to a historic event. Apparently Psalm 118:22 is an established figure of reference in Hebrew literature. It’s a reference to something that may have happened many times and was Jewish tradition. Its use is to identify qualified people who may have been by-passed. This happens a lot. But, Psalm 118:22 is firmly established in Jewish literature.
 
It would be impossible to fall on a cornerstone that is part of a building. But if the stone had been cast aside, someone could stumble over it and break a hip.
 
McGee makes good comment: “Today you and I can fall on that Stone, who is Christ Jesus, and be saved—that is, we have to come to Him as a sinner, broken in spirit, broken in heart. When we do this, we are on the foundation that no man can lay, which is Jesus Christ the Stone. "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ" (1Cor 3:11).

Daniel tells of that Stone which will fall in judgment someday and "grind to powder" the nations that reject Him (see Dan. 2). What the Lord is saying in this parable is as clear as the noonday sun. It could not have been misunderstood.

Jesus said if one falls upon that stone, they will be broken. There is a great need today for new Christians to have been broken on The Stone. Millions of unsaved people are joining church programs that by-pass being broken upon the Rock. They are lost church members.

Jesus also said, that if the stone falls upon a person, it would grind him into powder. This is a way of saying that one must repent or perish.

Read Through the Bible in a Year
MAY 18, 2017 – THURSDAY         
A.M.  2Kings 20-22   P.M.  John 6:45-71
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Memory Verse This Month:
And he said unto them, These
are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.  (Luke 24:44)
                
Song for Today:   
He Giveth More Grace (3:07) (Gaither Group)

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The high cost of being deceived

5/17/2017

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The High Cost of Being Deceived
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.  Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.   Be not ye therefore partakers with them.  (Eph 5:5-7)
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Does it surprise you that in the very beginning the greatest danger to our well-being with God was deception? And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.  (1Tim 2:14). Is there anything as damaging or deadly as being deceived?

Somewhere in a public place I once picked up a worn magazine and my eyes fell upon the story of an American B-24 heavy bomber, Lady Be Good, that made a bombing run in North Africa against the German armies in WW2. It was a brand-new plane and was on its first mission.  The plane had to drop behind the squadron in returning to base. The crew was uneasy about the skills of the navigator. He was keeping the pilot abreast of his calculations as they flew toward a radio beam that was supposed to lead them home.


But something was not right. The flight crew was looking at their watches and making their own calculations. They had been flying too long. They were still on course but found no markers for navigation. As they ran out of gas, the pilot set the plane down on the smooth desert in the dark and rolled to a stop. The plane was reported missing and dubbed “the ghost plane.”

In 1958, a low-flying plane piloted by a fighter pilot of WW2 by chance flew over the bomber and reported it. He could see that it was Lady Be Good and right away it got his attention. A few yards away an “SOS” message was clearly laid out with strips of parachutes on the undisturbed desert floor. A ground crew was dispatched to check out the plane.

It has been many years since I read the article, but I believe the pilot and perhaps the navigator were found alive and living with a tribe of nomad people who lived in a sunken oasis not far away. They had married into the tribe. They had no idea how to get home and no search planes showed up. They knew they were too far into the desert to make it out alive on foot. The other crew members, distrustful, set out on foot and apparently perished in the desert.
 

The plane had flown over the radio tower and the navigator assumed they had not yet reached the tower. The plane was to navigate from that radio tower to find their landing strip. They had deceived themselves and it cost the lives of most of the 9-11 crew members on board. Self-deception can be deadly. I would define self-deception as: “imposing an untruth upon oneself.”  In the Bible, being deceived and pride most often go together. A proud man cannot see what he needs to see and he is subject to being deceived.

People in the Bible were often deceived and followed someone into sinning against God. Kings led their people into great sin and brought upon themselves foreign armies to sack their land and destroy their labors. Kings who allowed themselves to be deceived left thousands of the strongest men to be buried and their families reduced to poverty.

The Bible warns repeatedly against being deceived. Before going to the mountain to die, Moses wrote the book of Deuteronomy as his last instructions to the nation of Israel. In warning the people, one of the first things out of his mouth was about being deceived.

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;  And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.  (Deu 11:16-17)

Nothing had changed since the Garden of Eden when Eve was deceived and bought into the lies of the devil. Moses got to the point: the pride of their heart would embolden them to act independent of God. Beware: it is the deceived heart that gives a proud heart the go-ahead with all manner of sin.

 Paul warned: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.  (Gal 6:7) Whatever the sin, there is the blinding deception that distorts reality. The deception lies in the belief that I can sin without any consequences…my sin won’t cost me anything.

Perhaps there is no greater area for this than the several forms of sexual sins that prevail in our society. Not only AIDS but several severe sexually transmitted diseases pounce on hundreds if not thousands of people every day in America. We have been in a sex-disease crisis for years now. AIDS is no joke and hard to bear. The other, age-old sex-related diseases that rot the flesh are a force to be reckoned with.


It's bad enough to be deceived by a merchant or employer or family member. But, deceiving ourselves may be worse. The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?  (Oba 1:3) I must include the comments by McGee about these people who lived in the city of Petra, the Edomites.

"The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee." What was it for which God hated Edom? It was pride. I am confident that, the minute I say this, the wind is taken out of the sails of many of my readers. They are going to say, "Is that all? Pride is bad, but it's not that bad, is it?"

“Would I surprise you if I told you that in the sight of God, pride is a much worse sin than getting drunk? Now the Bible does have a great deal to say about the sin of drunkenness. God condemns drunkenness. It contributed to the downfall of Israel, Babylon, the kingdom of Alexander the Great, and Rome.

“Pride is the sin of sins. It is one of the worst sins of all. It is something that Scripture condemns above everything. This is not all that God has to say about pride. God says that He resists the proud, but He is always on the side of the humble. "The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate" (Pro_8:13). John tells us, "… the pride of life, is not of the Father …" (1Jn_2:16). Where does the pride of life come from? If there is anything that comes from the Devil, that is it.

“Pride, after all, was the sin of Satan. He said, "I will exalt my throne above the stars of God…. I will be like the most High" (see Isa_14:13-14). What is pride? Pride of heart is the attitude of a life that declares its ability to live without God.” (J. Vernon McGee)

The cost of being deceived by our pride is always great. It destroyed Babylon and its sister cities because it had resulted in the great sin of homosexuality until there was no remedy but to destroy them. If one truly wants to know the mind of God about this, simply read Genesis 19 and Romans chapter 1 and you will have the mind of God concerning it.

But, many people do not want to know the mind of God because they are lifted up in pride against Him and have decided to take the place of God.  A proud person cannot be saved. The pride has to go! We are saved by the grace of God but the grace of God comes only to an humbled heart.  …God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.  (Jas 4:6) The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.  (Psa 34:18) Ω

Read Through the Bible in a Year
MAY 17, 2017 – WEDNESDAY         
A.M.  2Kings 18-19   P.M.  John 6:22-44
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Memory Verse This Month:
And he said unto them, These
are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.  (Luke 24:44)

Song for Today:   
At Calvary(3:31) (Gaither Group)

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Take heed how you hear

5/15/2017

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Take Heed How You Hear
Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have. (Luke 8:18) A companion verse: And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.  (Mark 4:24)

We do well to look again at this command of our Savior. I never want to forget it and I have it underlined in several Bibles. I must be careful when I read, hear, or study the Word of God that I not do it half-cocked. When the Word of God is being read, we should always focus our attention on it so that we “take heed” to what we hear.

Barbara and I read the Bible together every morning, Monday through Saturday and have done so for 31 years. Rarely do we miss. I also like to listen to the daily Bible readings we include in the Morning Minute. I click on the reference and when it opens, I look for the little speaker icon and click on it. It opens another window and Max McClean will begin  reading. I adjust my earphones, close my eyes, and begin listening.

There is strong teaching in the Bible about “the law of use.” Not the Law of Moses, but about how we should hear the Word of God. Because God loves us, He gives us light and we are responsible to respond to that light.  If we trample it underfoot, God respects our decision. If we don’t want His light, he will send no more and perhaps remove the light He has already given us. He is plenteous in mercy and slow to judgment and He will not force us to receive His gift of light and love.

Jesus was a powerful speaker to the masses who loved to hear Him speak. The leaders of the Temple sent their police officers to bring Him in and they came back without Him.  Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?   The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.  (John 7:45-46)

He preached mostly outside on hillsides or even from a boat where the water would amplify His voice. He spoke in synagogues and to individuals. He engaged people in conversation in the streets. He broke up funerals and talked to people there. When He healed somebody, He talked to the people gathered around. The people also heard comments about Him as they mingled with each other in crowded places. The comments were divided in what they thought of Jesus.

One of the strongest points in His preaching was that He came from His Father and He was doing everything in accordance with His Father. If they could not believe Him because He had told them, then they should believe Him for the works sake that He was doing among them. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.  (Joh 14:11)  He told them: …I do always those things that please him.  (Joh 8:29)

The issue that He was from the Father translated into the issue of moral authority. Their proper response was to submit to His authority. But some were determined not to do that. They could not withstand the drawing power of his public speaking and watching the miracles He did in public. They liked to watch Him. But watching Him for entertainment was one thing and submitting themselves to His message was a different story.


Jesus warned them, therefore, to be careful with what they had heard and seen. If they took care of what they had heard, more would be given to them. If they counted it as trivia and mere entertainment, the fruit of the message would be taken away from them and they would be able to understand nothing else. What warm feelings they may have had toward Jesus’ message would leave them. The result would be a cold, unmoved, stony heart that would not be able to believe and be saved.

He told them:
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.  (Joh 6:44)

One day His disciples were baffled at His speaking to the people in parables that were above their heads and they understood nothing He was telling them. I think it well to insert the full account of this incident.
 
And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?  He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.   For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.   Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
 
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:   For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
 

But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.  (Mat 13:10-17)

The first time I read these verses, it was sobering. Jesus only went through Samaria one time and encountered the woman by the well in John 4. She had just one shot at it. She grabbed her opportunity and made use of it. If God is showing you something today, better lay hold on it and not let it get away. Treasure it for the rest of your life and live your life by it. Walking with God involves three things: The Word of God, Prayer, and Obedience to everything God shows you. It will never change. Take heed how ye hear. Ω
 
Read Through the Bible in a Year
MAY 16, 2017 – TUESDAY         
A.M.  2Kings 15-17   P.M.  John 6:1-21
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Memory Verse This Month:
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.  (Luke 24:44)

Song for Today:  Original Chuck Wagon Gang: Come unto Me (3:16) (Quartet & Guitar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIHP77a73gk
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