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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Human nature is, tell me what to do.

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Draw the line, bring out the whip, make me do it, and then when I do it, give me a

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badge. You need to find a religion because God wants relationship.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying

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amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to

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what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs.

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Didn't Jesus say if you want to find your life, lose it, give up your earthly practice

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of even religion and find a relationship with Jesus Christ by faith in Him and love.

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That's God's will for your life. What's God's will for my, that's it. Be come and

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dead at Him. Ephesians chapter 5 verses 1 and 2. Therefore, be imitators of God.

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Be imitators of God. The word we get the word mimic or to mime as dear children and walk

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in love as Christ also has loved us. There it is. And given Himself for us in offering

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and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smell in aroma, did you know that Jesus' sacrifice

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of obedience to the Father is a sweet smell to the Father. That's when Jesus was on earth

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and I'm sure it's still true to the second. And we're supposed to mimic Him so that when

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you and I live our lives, we are to be not smelly, but we are to have an aroma. We're not

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to have a stink. We are to have a fragrance. The Bible says that when brothers and sisters

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are communing with one another, we are a fragrance one toward another. But listen, the Bible

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also tells us that we as believers to those who don't know Christ, we are the stench

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of death to them. Why? Because we remind them that number one, we were once like they

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are now, but we announced to them by a new life that they don't have to stay the way

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that they are. That's why I think real true Christianity is under attack today in this

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world is because just your changed life and your testimony suggests that people can be

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changed. And the world doesn't want to hear that. That's in a way too much truth for them.

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Don't tell me I can change because if I can change, that means you're telling me I can

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change, which means you're telling me I'm going in the wrong direction. And all those things

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is what God told me when He woke me up on that night when I was heading in the wrong direction.

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Now listen, we need to become more and more indebted to Him. Romans 13 verse 8, a beautiful verse,

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Romans 13 8 says, Oh, no man anything except to love one another. How's that?

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Oh, no man anything except this to love one another. And so the death that we have,

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we mirror that death. So church, I hope I can say this. Look, if my words fail me, watch my hands.

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It's part of being Portuguese. We've got two ways of talking. It's this. Jesus Christ,

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when He lived in the flesh on earth, was our prototype. Remember that. We are too, you read a moment

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ago, mimic Him. We complicate it. Don't make it simple. What do you mean? Well, if you know

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somebody who's caught up in a sin, what are you supposed to do? mimic Jesus. Now watch how this

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works. If you know somebody that's caught up in a sin, do what Jesus would do.

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See, don't do what you want to do. Do what Jesus says to do. Because normally when we know

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somebody who's caught up in a sin, we want to call them up and say, I told you, I knew that would

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happen to you. Didn't I warn you? Jesus doesn't do that. Jesus reaches out and offers a better way.

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Jesus offers a more perfect way. You say to them, listen, you don't have to live like this anymore.

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In church family, look around our world, the world, and take a look at what's going on in the

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world around us. People need His love, like never before. And how many people do we see

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that might even be, you know, marketing people right now. We know that in our own communities,

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we, you know, most look, if you live in Southern California, if you live in the most poorest

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community, you're still affluent compared to most of the world. But there are people being

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trafficked and you've actually seen them and you haven't realized it. There are people now that

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are actually being marketed trafficked by owners where they put the mom in the kid or two or three

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at Walmart's parking lot or near the freeway. Have you noticed this though? There's signs that they

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have written down will always invoke God. And the font is almost always the exact same. And the

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sign is almost always the exact same way. They just make hundreds of those signs. They they

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commandeer these poor moms and they pimp them, saying, I'm hungry, my babies are hungry. And

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they say, have you seen this happen? You are literally watching a form of you in trafficking.

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When man is not free on the inside, he enslaves people on the outside. It's tyrannical.

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But you don't have to go to that extreme. It can happen in a marriage. When somebody's not

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free in a marriage, they respond out of insecurity and so they'll control.

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And that's not God. True biblical Christianity liberates people. We are not to be the ones

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to judge and to determine. Oh, that magnitude. Wait a minute. So wait, you're a liar in a thief.

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Oh, you can be forgiven. Wait, you're a murderer in a prostitute. Oh, not so far. Oh my goodness,

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how dare we? When in our minds, we have the capability, if we never thought it, of all of those

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sins. It's powerful. Listen to what Chuck Swindall said. I've read this in a book by Chuck Swindall.

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It's powerful. Where then is our obligation to this salvation? The answer is not complicated,

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but it is difficult because we, in our religious flesh, I like that, will not surrender

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control easily. The answer is straightforward enough. We are obligated to do nothing.

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You don't have to pray. You don't have to get up at 4 a.m. for a quiet time. You don't have to

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do family devotions. You don't have to give your money. You don't have to take a shower every day.

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I disagree with that one. Anyway, you don't have to obey the Ten Commandments. You don't have to

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wear dark clothing. You don't have to eat low fat foods. You don't have to pile up good deeds

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to become spiritual. If you have the spirit of Christ in you, you are as spiritual as you're ever

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going to be. That is powerful. That's a cold, hard look at what Paul is saying. If you're saying,

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I need to do those things and then I'm right with God, you're lost. Are you hearing me?

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You have fallen from the grace of God. You like the Galatians have started. You started in the

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spirit, but now you have entered into the realm of the flesh. You've got the legalism going.

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If you have to, it's wrong. Again, getting back to that relationship, husband and wife,

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if you have to, if you have to be intimate, do we have to be intimate?

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Well, I mean, we're kind of married, you know, but really, I'm at the point of the deal.

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You break somebody's heart. Every single one of us desires to be desired.

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Don't sit there and go, no, he's not me. Oh, you more than most.

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It's true. Here's the deal. What you want is love freely given.

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And when I talk about being in debt and standing in his debt, it's a joy.

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Oh, yes, Lord, I give all of myself to you. Augustine said,

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love God and live as you please. Does that sound wrong to you? If it does, you need spiritual

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eyes and ears. Love God. That's the qualifier. Live as you please. What does that mean?

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If you love God, you are going to live in a way that blesses God. That's what pleases you.

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Did you get it? Did you get it? It's simple. Very simple. Billy Graham said,

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I can choose now as a Christian to live any kind of life I want and the whole stadium went silent.

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And he says, I choose to follow Christ. And then the crowds clapped. He's like, we thought.

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But listen, very few people can hear what I'm saying. This is deep stuff.

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Human nature is, tell me what to do. Draw the line, bring out the whip, make me do it.

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And then when I do it, give me a badge. You need to find a religion.

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Because God wants relationship. Galatians 419, my little children, listen how he speaks,

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for whom I labor and birth again until Christ is formed in you. This is Paul speaking to the

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church at Galatia. Paul is basically saying, do I have to go through this again with you?

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Boys, isn't that the life of a parent? How many times have I told you? We're tempted to say,

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how many times do I have to tell you? Right? And I understand the feeling we've all said it.

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We're saying it right now, but it doesn't equate until they see the light bill for themselves.

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I'm a big fan of this. Are you kidding? My kid's eight years old. What does he care about the light

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bill? Is he the one leaving the lights on? Yeah. And here's what you're going to do. Sit him down

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and show him, I don't know how you bank, show him online. See the light bill? See that? See,

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now, here's a little, it's both civic, lesson, and stewardship. We have to manage what we have

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wisely. So you see this amount, when you see this amount go up, that means you get to do less.

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When you see this change, that stewardship, if the kid says, well, I'll have to mitigate that.

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I got to weigh that out. There'll be some times during the time of the summer. I don't know,

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well, no, the kid says, daddy, I'm sorry. I didn't know that. Now I see that. I love you,

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and I see that above as you. Oh, I'll make sure the lights are turned off. That would be

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an answer to prayer, where your little boys walking around turn off the lights, everyone. We love

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dad so much. But don't, isn't that what you want? It's exactly what we want from them.

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But that word, back to Galatians 419, we'll have to end with this. Galatians 419, when he says,

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my little children for whom I labor in birth pains, until Christ is formed.

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That takes this list, and that's taken to Spectre, Romans 8, formed. The word formed here,

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look at the meaning, and we'll end with this. The word formed, you recognize the Greek word,

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morphu. Have you ever heard of the word metamorphos? Meta in Greek is after morphus, and after

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change. It means that there was a life, and then metamorpho happened. Meta after morph change.

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There was a change after the first life. That's what that word means. Change, that there was a life

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unchanged, and now you have a life changed. Meta morphu, in this word morphu, is to shape sculpt.

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That's what Michelangelo did when you see his work. He looked at the uncut stone marble,

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and you can read about him on this. Did you know that he would walk around? I guess it was

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something to behold. He would walk around at this huge block. Supposedly David was his

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greatest achievement. I don't know if you've ever seen David, but he's huge. But the amazing

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thing is when you're on tour, and you're listening to the tour guy tell you, is that he walked

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around this rock. I'm going to forget. But it was like a week or a month. He just walked around

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it, and he's looking at it. And people, what is it going nuts? In one of his sculptures,

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when he became famous, there's some angel that he did that's spectacular. And somebody asked him,

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now they knew, they asked him. Michelangelo, that's his name, you know, you know that? I said his name

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to my grandson, and he said, who? I said Michelangelo. And he said, who's that? And I said Michelangelo,

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the amazing. He says, his name is Mike Angelo. Like Danny Davito. It was so funny. No, it's

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Michelangelo. It's one word. And boy, talk about a six-year-old and a 65-year-old get into it.

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So there's this big block of stone. And somebody walks up to Michelangelo and then finally says,

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Michelangelo, what do you see? And he said, I see an angel trying to get out.

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Is that awesome? When he looked at that stone to create the greatest work that has ever been done,

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David, he's looking and looking. And then he grabs a chisel in a mallet, makes the first chip.

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Back to that word, this is what God is doing in your life. That's why watch, stay with me,

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to shape, sculpt, form, mold, chisel, or sand until a desired shape or form is achieved.

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Paul is saying, Jack is saying, your friends are saying, you are saying to me, I want to see Christ

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formed in you. That's a church. I don't care how poor you are or how rich you are. I don't

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care what color you are. I don't care where you live. And that's irrelevant. Has the blood of Christ

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brought us together? Yes. Then for both of us, because we love one another, because he told us to

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love one another and he gives us the supernatural power to love one another even when we don't like

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each other. It's true. We can love one another and we start growing. We grow together. We grow

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closer to him. Christ, listen, is being formed in us. So church does quietly stand. Could you imagine

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Michelangelo with chisel and mallet in hand? And he goes to hit the rock and the rock starts moving.

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Can you imagine? What's he going to do? He's trying to make David. But David keeps moving.

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You ever seen statues where they're missing a nose and an arm? I think they moved.

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Don't move. Don't just do something. Stand there. Stand still.

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