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Be spiritually strengthened that we do need, and we ask it for Jesus from thy hand, Amen.
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I had thoughts coming to leave him in chapter 10 of John.
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Associated with that too in mind, heart.
That the temple's gone. So so.
I'm done.
Barely, barely on 10, do you need to enter a clock by the door into the sheet pool, but climb with up some other way, the same as the thief and a robber. But he that entered in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the mortar open it, and the sheep hear his voice. And he called us his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he put us forward for those sheep goeth before them, the sheep follow him before they know his voice.
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A stranger will then not follow, but will flee from him, so they know not to voice him straight.
Variables make this on them, but I understood not what things they were, which is taken to them and to Jesus unto them again. Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are needed wrong. But the sheep did not hear them. I am the door by me. If any man is for it, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pastors. The thief cometh lost when we steal and kill them to destroy.
Iron pumps they might have life means they might have it more abundantly. I am the Good Shepherd. Good Shepherd lived his life for the sheep, but he's in his entire life and not the shepherd who owned the sheep Bar Not fearful more coming and leave us the sheep and flee us. And we'll catch them and scatter at the sheep.
Hiring clear because he isn't hiring Arizona for the sheep. I am the Good Shepherd and know my sheep and have known of mine as the Father knoweth me Even so.
I know the Father, I know why the Father, and I lay down my life with the sheep. Another sheep I have which are not under the pole, and I'm also I must bring. They shall hear my voice, and there shall be one full and one shepherd. Therefore does my Father love me because I lay down my life that I may take it again. No man taking it from me, but I lay it down with myself. I have power to lay it down. I have power to take it again.
This command have I received with my father.
So with the business. Therefore again among the Jews were these Saints, and many of them said, He hath a double and is mad. I hear you him. Other says, that these are not the words of him which half the devil and a devil open the eyes of the blind.
And it wasn't Jerusalem, the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked from the temple in Solomon's porch. Then came the Jews roundabout and and said unto him, How long does thou make us to doubt? Thou be the crisis. Let's claim Jesus sample as I told you. And you believe not works that I do in my Father's name. They bear witness of me, but you believe not, because you're not of my sheep. As I said unto you, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give up them eternal life. They shall never perish.
Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father which gave the tea is greater than all, and no man is able to flex about on my Father's hand. I and my Father are one, and the Jews cook up stone again to sodium. Jesus answered us Any good works have I showed you of my Father? For which of those orders?
Thanks and the good work with Stony not but for blasphemy, because that thou being a man make us thyself of God. Jesus answered. That does not written your law.
I said to your God, if he called that God once a week the word of God came, and Scripture cannot be broken. Let's say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sentenced to the world of blasphemous, because I said, I am the Son of God. If I do not work with my Father, believe me not. If I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works, and he may know to leave that the Father of Lindy and I in him. Therefore they sought again to take it that he escaped out of their hands, and one away I can hit the on board to the place where John was first satisfied.
And their devote and many resorted unto him, and said, God did no miracles, but all things that don't think of this man were true, and many believed on him there.
Two, our advise connected with the Good Shepherd.
As in authority, they know his voice.
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Because most of us, I've heard his voice calling us for himself coming to me.
Come.
Found them to be a wonderful checker and a wonderful savior of friends.
When you keep on, restore strengthens and feeds.
Let's see if you compare that with a thought from First Peter chapter 5.
With Peter, chapter 5.
There's one.
We alluded to our monkey wise Lord.
And also a number of witnesses suffering twice and also particularly lowering each other's yields and fees.
Life of God is among you.
Taking the oversight of the strength of what we need.
Lord over God's heritage, but being examples of the floss when the chief shepherds that appeared, we shall receive a prompt for you that faded from.
It's all in my heart. That's, uh.
We heard the voice of the Lord and calling him himself. Surely He is one who draws us.
But if we're given.
The privilege of speaking for him and then Speaking of yours with God.
Give us any measure of.
Ministry of improved to that quarter others.
This is my question to my own part.
When they hear my voice.
On tone of voice, what I'm saying, are they hearing again?
Shepherds.
Call.
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You know, this chapter speaks about the chapters, the sheep and the good chapters and perhaps.
Uh, sometimes it's easier to look at the divisions in there that we reminded that the 1St 5 verses speaks of the, uh, speaks of the good stuff. Think about the shepherd and the sheep and then.
The first thing to 20 or half 21 on.
It helps us to obtain the risk. It's of a good chapter. So they're a shepherd. They're sheep and a Good Shepherd. You know, Bernie already mentioned that she cleared the boys of the chef, don't they? We recognize it. And you can imitate that, you know, because sometimes we'll go through, you know, the shepherd's voice. We do. We see that with children. Some of you have children and many here have grandchildren and, you know, children.
When they see you, if they know you and see you, they come right.
Money to you. When a stranger comes, they won't even smile.
Do they say the same thing? Perhaps, but they know the voice of the one they can trust.
I said in verse five, Strange may not follow.
I was free from him.
They do not listen triggers.
Not following and fleeing different things, aren't they?
Go ahead. The chapter actually begins very differently. This chapter begins by speaking about adore, not the shepherd itself. That was the first thought that it begins with Italy. Verily ICM to you. He that enter not by the door into the sheep hole. The climate of some other way the same is a thief and a rubber.
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So there is only one proper way the Lord recognized this Good Shepherd coming in Good Shepherd come in by the door and have some would even be able to expand what is doing.
Lord Jesus had all the credentials to present himself as a promised Messiah, a legitimate king, and the one who can establish the rule of righteousness and peace and really take care of his flock in Israel. He had all the credentials. He he had all that was necessary to come in and be recognized as the one that legitimately could take up the Kingdom and take care of the clock.
And I, I still corrected and saying that I, I believe the door is just that, isn't it? It's the, it's the Old Testament prophecy concerning about the Messiah is going to come. So that's the dual work for anyone who can show that they can fulfill what the word of God has promised to deliver his people. And that's, that's the door because throughout the Old Testament, we find that they were looking for Messiah. They were looking for.
At deliverance, I can take an hour of the circumstances. We know that they have had different deliveries. We see in the book of Judges they have various deliverers. We see Moses was a deliverer, but there was a greater deliverer that can deliver them from the city and take them away and to be disabled powers. So this one and this is the only one coming through by the board meeting to the Word of God and recognized by the Word of God.
With Sheffield, in fact, if we look at the following verse in verse two, it actually go on and and explain to us that and those two is here, but he that entourage in by the door is the shuttle of the sheep.
And then in verse three, we find another phrase that's not connected to the shepherd immediately. Then we find if the phrase of 1/4. So we have to do it. And now there's a picture of 1/4 and to him the quarter openness and the.
Chief here at his voice.
Borders needs to be a very humble, humble job. We, we perhaps don't see a lot of quarter in today's terms. And some of you if you take the train or the buses or sometimes at the airport or even in some hotel, we have quarters. They are the ones that help you carry the baggage to get you inside.
According to the Old Testament, time two was a very important job for Tempo. They were the one to keep people, they guide people in and to keep certain people out as well. So the quarter, the quarter, I believe there's been some of the Spirit of God.
That's a quarter. The Spirit of God is the one that helps sheep to hear His voice, and that's how we know about His voice.
And so the thought also of seeing John the Baptist as as one had been sent for the way of the Lord, and some of the Lord Jesus comes. There is already a formation of a flock of sheep there of Israel, who have repented and recognized.
They're, they're, they're not, uh, nation is on the condition that is convenient for their Messiah. And so they're repenting. And so they kind of set aside, Lord Jesus comes and he associates with them and John the Baptist submits in my state of instruction of the Lord and associates the Lord with those ones too.
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Oh, the same verse one, there's TS and robbers.
We might think they're equivalent, but I believe you know there is a different meaning in the words in the Greek I.
We'd like to receive more on that, but I believe one has to do with violence, connected with taking it with violence. And so the chief comes in tonight and rob something and he takes it away. Nobody gets hurt but the robber. It will stop at nothing to get a hold of what he wants and so.
There were those who wanted to have that place in Israel and they were reserving either with, uh, taking something that wasn't there or violently taking that. And one of this character would be, uh, an associate with the Lord. He was the rightful heir and there was no violence with him.
There's 5 verses of the chapters, even a lot of different images or they have different examples here. We mentioned some already, but as you reach university, it's a lot more. So we began by talking about the door. We talked briefly about the sheepfold, uh, brother just mentioned about Tea and Robert in verse 2.
Uh, how the shepherd is a shepherd of the sheep coming in through the door. In verse three, we talked about this order. And in verse 3, two, there is is Oshi. And then there's still more examples as we go on as it tells us how the inverse 4 there is that he goes, he goes, he called us.
That's a decision.
Character of the shepherd or Hishibaji goes before them, and the sheep follow his voice.
It's not a commanding person who goes before them. I remember hearing, uh, someone talked about the United States on forces versus the Israeli, is that they're a big differences, he said. And perhaps I hope I'm not speaking, I will turn or do I disrespect some here, but I understand it. That's in the United States when you have your armed forces to attack.
Usually the commanding officer or the leader will tell the followers what to do. They tell to go ahead. This way the officer who's in charge will always be protected. So let the other guy go first because if someone is shooting, let them shoot the little guy first. The leader gets to be protected and Israel may say no. The leader always say follow. And it's a picture of the chapter, isn't it? The shepherd we he does not heard that much into the direction that we wanted to go.
He leads the band that his own sheep will follow. And that's what we're adding in verse 5. There's another phrase or another word, strange user stranger. And those are stranger. The cheap here do not follow strangers and.
It recognized the shocker's voice. It won't recognize the strangers or boys.
One of the wonderful characteristics of this shepherd is is persistent and caring for those that are his own. The Lord Jesus said came unto the zone, and the zone received it not after the first chapter of this book, but he still knows about in the chapters that come before them, that he presented himself to Israel. He does the things that we've been talking about. He comes and he takes 512 and two fishes and he spreads them and he feeds the giant multitude, and he presents himself as that threat that had come down from heaven.
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And he does miracle like Canaan of Galilee. And as we were just talking about, he presented himself with all those characteristics that the Old Testament Scriptures had said in the Bible have It presents itself wonderfully. And not only does he present himself wonderfully with his work, He presents himself wonderfully with his words, what he said to them. And he's rejected. He's rejected over and over and over again in the chapters that come before this. And how many of us will we go to do something for somebody and they don't seem to appreciate it? Maybe we've tried a second time or a third time or a fourth time.
But what we've been rejected off and, uh, we kind of give up and we walk away because it hurts to be rejected. It hurts to be, uh, turned away from. But the Lord Jesus didn't do that. Throughout the preceding chapters, he finds individuals and he presents himself to them and they're attracted to himself. And now he's getting closer to where he's going to go to the cross. And so he comes to this sheepfold Israel and he goes in, he presented himself.
That the Messiah, he's been rejected over and over again, but there are some, as was said, the order of the Spirit of God takes those scriptures. There's some.
That are attracted to the person and they're sprinkled to the chapters that come before this. They were attracted to them. They heard his voice, the spirit took the words they couldn't plant it in their heart and now the chapter takes them out of that people and he's preparing them. They didn't understand it here, but he's preparing them for what would come ahead. Verse six says despair will make Jesus unto them, but they understood not what they were not what things they were, which is fake unto them.
And the chapters that are ahead succeed. The disciples don't really understand what Lord's saying to them, but he tells them anyway.
Because they were going to understand, they were going to receive the Spirit of God in their hearts and it wouldn't make sense to them in the future. And so here He is planting in our hearts truth that would help them to understand the future. We have a wonderful Shepherd and making in our own lives with the resisting His work in our hearts. We've done it over and over and over again. He's still at work and He's still at work in each one of us, and He still wants to draw us up to Himself.
And he's still planting things making this conference and we'll have things planted in our hearts that we don't understand yet. They're strange that don't make sense. But it it's in there, it gets into the head at least and make it right around a little bit apart. It might be something the Lord you said that we a month, a year, but even that persistent shepherd and here at this point, he's going into that sheep hole that is drawing his people out after himself, after the person away from that protective wall that kept them heads in.
And now it is going to be the person to keep them safely that they follow him.
Satisfaction is very good with the net tax for the previous chapter. Umm chapter.
After any really an extension from Chapter 9, it talks about the sheepfold here. I believe this is very Jewish in character. So no Christians at the, uh, in this world as of this point. So if you remember in the previous chapter, there was that blind man that testified from the Lord Jesus for saving him. And because of that, it has him out of that of that he wished she followed as if it were it rejected him.
So the lower now is 384 the Jewish fold as if it were together under the sound of his word through the guiding of the Holy Spirit performance. So that's why later on you'll find in the chapter there in verse verse 16, I believe he talked about that they shall be one whole it it actually before they said, uh, uh, other sheep have high and then they shall be one. Uh, they shall be one.
Old really I believe the proper translation that it will be 1 flock that he is with a brave all Jews and Gentiles.
Later on together at 1:00, isn't it?
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There's going to be a remark that this was a fold and a lot. We could put the fold with the inside of fence and the fold was in the fence. The shepherd might not be there, but the flaw I find the flock, you're going to find it where the shepherd is. So the flock has a center in the shepherd. Well, the fold had a fence, you might say things that he could not do or could do because they were under the law.
As you mentioned verse 16 in the French we have one block, the end of 16.
Go from one fold to a clock.
Could you note too that the phrase using pickling bursts me? He knows his own sheep. The Lord recognized each one of us as individual as well as in that, yes, collectively we we are being recognized too. But He knows us as in individual, each one of our own. He knows who you are.
He knows your heart, He wants you, and He guides and directs you to the Spirit of God that may be into this altogether with Him, that we all may be one as He is, as they are.
The Lord speaks of those that have come before.
That's such a character that we find in Ezekiel 34.
With chapter 3 to listen to.
The Lord's.
We prove, you might say, of the shepherds of Israel.
And it would be a word to our hearts, too, to be careful not to develop.
Any of those characteristics that we find found in them we read in the first Peter 5, not hoarding over the flock of union samples. So Ezekiel 34 we read from verse one and the word of the Lord came unto me saying.
Son of Man, prophecy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophecy and Santa then thus set the Lord God unto the shepherds. Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do peace themselves, which is not the shepherds to the flocks. Eat the fat, and hold you with the wool. You kill them that are fed, but ye feed not the flock the disease, and do not strengthen. Neither have you healed that with mistake, Neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought again that which was driven away.
Not have you thought that which was lost, but with force and with cruelty.
Have you ruled them? And they were scattered because there is no shepherd, and they became meat to all the beasts of the field. When they were scattered, my sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every eye hill they might flock with scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek.
Oxygen, therefore, you shepherds, you're the word of the Lord as I live, saith, O Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey, my flock became meat to every piece of the field because there was no shepherd. Neither did my thought did my shepherd search for my flock. But the shepherds fed themselves and fed not my flock. Therefore all ye shepherds hear the words of the Lord. I said, the Lord God, behold, I'm against the shepherds, and I would require my flaw at their hand because.
I'd cause them to cease from feeding the pot. Neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore.
I will deliver my flock on their mouth that they may not be meat for them.
You could read the rest of it, but there's enough in there to challenge every one of us to that desire of the Lord for the well-being of the sheep, to feed them, to watch over them, to heal the sick, to encourage the weak, and so on.
So as we mentioned the 1St 5 verses, we saw all these.
Things and connections with the chief, with the dangers, with the problems and difficulties with the protection from the spirit and so on. Now verse six on and perhaps verse 16. Now we'll see how the Good Shepherd actually works to help the sheep and to restore the gold in this way. So it, it begins by saying, uh, about saying that in verse seven, I am the door of the sheep.
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To enter into this old, there is only one way, one door.
As the Lord said in another place is that I am adored by me. If any man enters in thee shall be saved. There are no backwards, there are no side doors, although some as we already learned that we try to come in through other ways, but now the Lord Jesus showing us the door in a different picture that he is a duel and anyone else that is included here coming in otherwise and.
Call.
So this shows a wonderful, uh, pattern in the book of John. Throughout the book of John, there's a connection between the word and the person from the very first verses we hear in the beginning was the word and the word with cause the word was God. And we find Speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ in verse two, it says, uh, but he doesn't pretend. But the door is a shepherd of the sheep. We were Speaking of that earlier in the Old Testament Scriptures. There is no more being used as a figure of the Scriptures.
But in verse 7, the Lord Jesus said I am the door of sheep. Now he's talking about the way of entrance, as was just mentioned, is a flock of God, but he's the first. He's a person. Is that norm? And so throughout the book, they're blended in. This person, his word and his person are so intimately connected. They're so consistent with one another. That's as though they were one single thing.
And here we get this little figure of it. The door been used twice, once for the scriptures, once for the person.
Which says by me if any man enter.
We shall be safe.
Whosoever should call upon the name of the Lord.
See Trusting the person, Lord Jesus, putting your trust in Him.
As the example of the door you come in, well, all that's in that room and all that's been provided through the entrance there yours, whether you realize it or not. So those that trust in the Lord Jesus might not know the fullness of what He has done, accomplished for them to accept the Good Shepherd given his life for the sheep through his death and resurrection. He has assured that.
Seabless leader of an eternity of bliss with inventory. He has seated him in himself in high places on the basis of a small faith in a great person. I enjoyed that very much because you know, as we read the scriptures we found out more and more about the Lord and your younger brother. He he was out of suffer and he heard different brothers speaking. He said we tonight I really, really got saved.
But I really.
About what he really the hold of was what he had all the time that he didn't know now he wasn't doing it. And so because he had trusted in the Lord, but he didn't know he was he wasn't comforted in the scriptures. I don't know the scriptures do they assure us of what the Lord is, who he is and what he's done and all the results of this aura. Wonderful to just sit and hear what the Spirit of God will teach us considering the person and work of Christ and the result for us once we come in the door.
I was thinking of.
Well known package the the two on the road to Mais.
We know that they were discouraged. It's interesting to know about this, too. They know everything that should be known to us. They they knew they ought not Christ to have suffered. And they didn't believe that they have witnessed it. They knew that some of them saw the resurrection, but Steve Walker was mad they didn't believe it. And I thought I would not like that. And we like to achieve that sort of. Yeah. Well.
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Easy for you to say.
It's easy for you. No, it's not, is it? Let's let's turn it on Luke. Chapter 24 is for Arizona. Umm, uh, what's how the Lord encouraged them. Now do you know the stories and we're not gonna read them story. I'm thinking more of how the Lord said to them. Now remember when the Lord walked up to them, they didn't recognize it. In fact, they thought it was a stranger coming uh, into town there. So a first umm.
Verse 25.
So what's up there now? He said. Then he said unto them all fools, and flew apart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. We just mentioned that the door of the Old Testament prophets concerning Christ. So here he's speaking to them the same way, calling them fools.
Is that all the things that you you willingly would have known you didn't? Verse 26.
Are not priced to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory. That's a very fundamental principle, isn't it The suffering comes before the glory. He reminded them that they should know and the whole spoke to them many times that they could have suffered and then morally and when we walk with him we have the same treatment in this world too. How did he encourage them Verse 27 and beginning.
At Moses and all the profits we expanded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. Now it's a very short verse there, but I think it's a very limited verse beginning at Moses. So if we perhaps look at it and say the book of Moses perhaps appended to the five books of Moses.
Can you picture the Lord Himself sharing it and showing them how the five books of motion is concerning himself? And then all the profits we go to the profits of the prophets. Didn't it all testament?
And all the scriptures concerning our things concerning himself. So he showed them from his word and then and they do die unto the village and so on. Let's just go down for time sake. Umm and verse the end of 29 and he carried with them and I think that's the best the chef that you know that he's there with them. He said what the.
And he said, and at least with them, the fellowship with them, and here's the result when someone is having the word of God befall them, having the Lord with them going over his word is the result in verse 31. And their eyes were open and they knew him, and then he vanished.
When we go through things about the Lord Jesus, especially concerning Himself and having fellowship with Him.
There their eyes were opened and and they knew him, and they knew too, as you read on the chapter, instead of running away from Jerusalem where they ought to have stayed to the phrase where they ought to.
In verse 45, it's the same chapter and they then open their understanding. They want to understand the scriptures. So we have.
Seeing the Lord ourselves, but He sure has opened our understanding.
In the scriptures, we might see the things concerning themselves. Let's going back to our chapter 4 MO moment and, uh, comparing verse 11 and 12. I am the Good Shepherd.
Good Shepherd giveth his life with a sheep.
But tears were strong. But he that is entirely not the shepherd whose own the sheep are not, see the wolf coming, and leave it to sheep and see it.
And then we'll catch attendance and scattered a sheet.
The Ireland is in there.
Because there's something for him, there's a reward salary.
But when there's a price to pay beyond what he's willing to invest, he just, he just runs away.
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What about the Lord they came to get him in the garden and if you seek me fell back there and he said seek me let these go all the all the others will let he would he went forward there and what was there in that for him or the suffering lacrosse and the glory that will follow and that hasn't been manifested in fullness yet, but every month going to confess every knee is going to evolve this world is going to be subject to that wonderful chapter.
Who gave his life and we as believers now, those are his sheep.
We have the privilege and we have the privilege and to give the Lord joy in owning Him and worshiping Him and recognizing what He's done and mentioning to Him and the Father the enjoyment of refining and what He is and what He's done and what has made us to be what's coming for us. That's even tonight, we could say Even so come, Lord Jesus, we're going to see Him face to face. I'll give you with Him and like Him for His joy. He's going to rejoice over Israel with singing, and truly He's not going to rejoice any less over us.
At the higher limit of the scattering fits the wolf, and so Satan if he has an entrance, because we have wrong motives.
Being active among the Lord's people, they continues That and, uh.
Leave the Saints away on the wrong path, be abandoned there to get the mercy of the enemy.
And you know, we, we, we can have hindsight look back at what happened to so many.
Groups of Saints and even among ourselves. And it's not to be to, uh, bring back asphalt, but just to be concerned right now that those things that happen in the past not gonna hold it happen again because of our carelessness.
It's interesting too when you mentioned verse 13 there about the wolves.
We know when a wolf comes in today's turn into a flock, it's not there to scatter. Wove is to come to kill in the East, but they've been killed. So we find here that it says verse.
Verse 12 There says umm the bull coming and deep I'm sorry.
The World Cup and it it scatters the sheep, it doesn't kill. Why?
I don't think it can because here is speaking about the Lord's purse.
Use another way for us to know that we have when we are kids, we have internal lives, so.
As much as the power there is that could come to kill, which is the characteristic of a wolf because all it can do is to stack.
So if there's anyone here perhaps still indulge about eternal life, this chapter is very interesting. It tells us in more more than in different ways that once we receive, we're hit. No man can pluck it out of his hands. No man can pluck it out of his father's hand. So here's an example that when the wolves came, it didn't do any.
Utility deposits scattered.
Time is up, brother.
That's just the first verse I have #40.
#40 verse one only.
Boy, I love, I believe in your life. When I'm glad to hear that, my God, I'm going to.
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