We're going to talk about the idea of worship and then we're
going to talk about two different practices that are
often used or often done in the religious world and one is the
elevation of hands or lifting up holy hands and the other is
clapping in the assembly. What we want to notice is are
these things appropriate or are they not?
And if they're right, why are they right?
If they're wrong, why are they wrong?
So we want to notice these things for a little while today.
Day. But first of all, our text is
taken from the words of Jesus in John chapter 4 and verses 23 and
24 where Jesus said, but the hour is coming.
And now is when the true worshipers will worship the
father in spirit, and in truth, for the father is seeking such
to worship him. God is a spirit and those who
worship Him must worship Him in spirit.
And in truth, may I just say, At the very beginning of this
lesson worshipping God in spirit and in truth is of utmost
importance and it is greatly significant.
In fact, the word of God is very clear on the subject.
Many things are taught about the aspect of worship.
Jesus himself, preached about Worship in our passage in John
Chapter 4, verses, 23 and 24, the Apostle Paul on Mars Hill.
Preached on worship Acts chapter 17, So the question is, what is
worship? What is it?
Well you know when God says something one time in the Bible
it's really necessary for us to understand that it's greatly
significant. Even if God says it one time,
after all everything, in the word of God is inspired by God.
Therefore they are words that are god-breathed and even though
inspired writers inspired by the Holy Spirit, pinned these things
for us, these were Birds literal words that came directly from
God. All that being said, if God says
something one time, it's enough. But the word worship or the
concept of worship is mentioned in the God's word 119 times.
If something is mentioned by God 119 times I would imagine it is
something that is greatly significant for us today.
I think there needs to be more preaching and teaching on the
subject of worship. And may I say this too?
I think it's extremely important that we talk about the items of
worship or as they afraid as they used under the law of Moses
ordinances of divine service. Every aspect of our worship
needs to be in truth as we'll get to in just a moment.
But the items of worship and the emblems of worship are very
significant so it's important that we deal with those things.
Absolutely. But sometimes in dealing with
the items of worship, we neglect other things, too.
Like Like the reason for worship and how we worship the spirit or
the motivation behind our worship.
Sometimes we just sometimes perhaps go robotically and
methodically through the service, never really thinking
about the aspects of them, or their significance or the heart
and spirit behind them. Now I'm going to ask you
questions, the general question, answer this question to
yourself. How important is worship to you?
I mean, sometimes people talk about going to church and by the
way, I want to make a point about going to church saying the
phrase going to church. It's not wrong to say going to
church because in the word of God, even though the church is
not the building and the church is the ekklesia the called out
the people even though that's true when the Bible talks about
in the phrase, like for example, women are to be silent in the
church. It means their to be silent in
the assembly. So if you say I'm going to
church, it's not unscriptural. You're saying, I'm going to the
assembly, but let me ask you this.
How important is worship in your life?
Is it of utmost importance? Is it significant to you?
Do you look forward to the day? Do you prepare your mind for the
Lord's day? Let me just ask the following
questions. These are General and I'll just
present them like this in answering the question.
Do you enjoy it? Do you actually enjoy worship?
Are you late coming in? Are you early to leave?
Are you bored? Are these questions that
sometimes can prick our own conscience?
Here's another one. And we're going to get back to
this. So, I've highlighted this in
another color, Do you participate?
Now, the reason that we're going to get back to that is it's very
significant because worshippers are not observers, we are not
the audience and every one of you that is under my the sound
of my voice. You are not a spectator, you are
a participant In Worship. God is the audience we are the
participant. So let me ask you, how important
is it to you? Do you participate or do you
just go through the motions questions for all of us?
Perhaps to consider somebody said one time that too many
times people show up the church at 10:30 dull.
Begin a dull service. And then by noon, the church
gives up her dead. I think that's really true.
Sometimes that's not be that though.
Let's take a passage that is found in John chapter 4 again.
And in this, classic texts on worship.
We have in the analysis of it, we have the following, we have,
with regards to worship. We have an absolute.
We have an action. We have a name, we have an
attitude, and We have a standard all found in this worship.
In this passage, God is a spirit and those who worship Him must
worship Him in spirit and in truth, the first thing I want to
talk about is the absolute. And that's the word must.
Must is a modifier and may I say this.
Also, sometimes people in looking for things religiously
are looking for a church instead of looking for the truth.
And I think there's more people in the world that are looking
for a church. Then looking for the truth.
Let me give you a little example, Tina.
And I were driving down the road the other day.
And there was a great big billboard and it was from a
local church and it was an advertisement.
I'd get that. But it said why not try Church?
I think that's the mindset of people in the religious World.
Why not try Church? In other words, you have your
life. You like your life, maybe you
have challenges in your life. I got an idea.
What you try to church, you know, there's nothing in the
word of God that says trying Church.
In fact, it talks about worshippers and the modifier is
an absolute and that's the word must.
Can I say this to you? Now I'm going to be as direct as
I can. All of you sit?
Being here in this building. Today, must be here to worship
God. You must be in the assembly
somewhere of God's people on the Lord's day.
It's the appointment that we have with our Lord must as a
modifier. And by the way, when I say
modifier, what I'm talking about is I'm talking about something
that is clarifying or qualifying, something else to
subject. So the Bible talks about a must
in other things to write like faith And Hebrews 11 and verse
6. It says without faith, it's
impossible to please God, for he, that comes to God, must
believe that he is, and that he is, a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him. So, we understand that we must
have faith. Number two, we must be baptized
in order to be saved. Jesus said that in Mark 16:16.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.
He that believeth not shall be damned.
We understand that. So faith is a must baptism is a
must but worship is also a must. It's a must There's no greater
appointment that we have in our life.
In fact, you're the word must is the strongest word in the
English language. One scholar called it like this.
He said, must is Heavens imperative.
It is the Masters mandate, we must worship.
The word. Must also modifies, three
elements that constitute worship.
Here's our passage, again must modifies the object or the aim
and that is God. Must modifies the attitude.
It must be in spirit must also modifies the standard and that
is truth. So notice, here we go.
Must is the Divine mandate. You got no choice if you want to
be a servant of God, you must what worship who God, you must
have the proper attitude and it must be by the proper standard,
which is truth, or that, which is in accordance with revealed
truth. So the object.
Attitude and standard of our worship is vital, but I want to
talk about worship itself sometimes, I don't think we
realized that worship. I don't mean to insult anyone's
intelligence, by saying this, but let me just say, worship is
an action word. It's an action.
It requires doing something. Worship by according to mr.
Webster defines worship like this.
It is courtesy or reverence to worth hence.
It is honor and respect. It's an act.
That's an action word of paying Divine honors to deity.
That's God, religious reverence or homage?
That's what mr. Webster says, about the word
worship. Now the English word Worship in
the scriptures is translated in the New Testament.
Estimate from several different Greek words, three of which are
used more than once. The first ones found in our
passage in John chapter 4 and verse 24.
This is the Greek word and it appears 60 times in the New
Testament, and this is what it means.
Means to kiss the hand to or towards one, in token of
reverence to fall upon the knees and touch the ground, with the
forehead, as an expression of profound, reverence, what else?
Here's another word. It's found 10 times in the New
Testament and it means this it means to stand in awe to
venerate to, reverence, to worship, to adore and one more,
one more It's this word here the true.
Oh, it's found 21 times in the New Testament and that word, by
the way, translated 17 times in English as service and four
times its translated as worship. And this is what that means.
It means to render religious service of homage to worship God
in the observance of Rights instituted for worship.
So, From these words studies it's very clear that true
worship entails participation, we must be the participants not
the spectators. As I've said, worship is an
action word and we are the participants of that and God is
the audience. Let me ask you a question.
Do you realize when you came to worship today?
That you were doing something that was to bow in the reverence
of God, and you are doing something in honor and all of
God, and God was watching. God is watching this worship
service is not for me and it's not for you.
It's for us to be participants for the audience, the object,
the aim, and that's God. He's watching.
And we must worship Him in spirit and in truth, you've
heard people say this, I'm not going to, I'm not going to beat
this dead horse. You've heard people say this
many times. I'm sure.
Have you ever heard somebody say, I'm just not getting
anything out of it. I'm not going to go down that
road very long, but I must say this.
We all know what the answer to that is if you're not getting
anything out of it, You're not putting anything in it.
And, you know, even if a Speaker gets up, maybe he's not the best
speaker. So what?
Maybe he's not the best speaker. The emphasis is not to say.
Oh, what a speaker, the emphasis afterwards is to say, Oh, What A
Savior. So the message is what's
important? Not the messenger, or the
speaker. So there are things that we can
all get from a lesson from any lesson.
Now, I will tell you this, it is of utmost importance for the one
that stands up here and teaching from the word of God to study
and be prepared and do the best that he can.
It's an awesome responsibility. Absolutely.
But it's also the responsibility of those that are in the
audience and participating in worship to listen, and be
encouraged and edified by the message.
So, if somebody says, well, I'm just not getting anything out of
it these days. Well, maybe it's because we're
not putting enough in it. Mere attendance must never be
equated with worship punching a Time Clock.
Check in, in warming, a seat that must never be equated with
worship. Worship is a drawing nigh to
God. Not drawing nigh to a church
building. All right.
Notice in Matthew, 15:8. These people draw near to me
with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their heart
is far from me. Do you know what's absolutely
sobering about this passage if you apply it practically today?
If you apply this practice this, this passage practically today,
then you would say this. It's entirely possible for
somebody sitting right here in this assembly today and going
through the motions and check it off the list and all that
punching in your clock, put your time in.
And God doesn't have your heart at all.
And your heart is somewhere else.
It's entirely possible. What the Lord say, these people
draw near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me. You know what God wants your
heart And by the way, may I also extend that not just in worship.
He wants your heart and worship absolutely.
But he wants your heart in your life, he wants you every day.
He wants everything that you have to serve him, that's what
God wants from you. That's the purpose of your life,
to give him everything that we have.
All right, so the action part is worship.
We get that. So, the object though, the
object of worship is him or it's God.
You know the Bible brilliant brilliantly teaches us that God
is to be the sole object of worship.
In fact, in Matthew chapter 4, when the devil tempted, Jesus,
the Bible says when Jesus, neither ate nor drank, and for
those 40 days and he was tempted of the devil, the Bible says,
the devil took him up on an exceeding high mountain and
showed him all the kingdoms of the world.
And the devil said to the Lord Sid, you can have every bit of
it. All you got to do is Fall Down
and Worship me. And the King James says Jesus is
response. He says it like this, get down
behind me, Satan for it. Is written, Thou shalt Worship
the Lord God, the Lord your God and him only shalt thou serve.
We came here today to worship God.
He's the exclusive object of our worship.
Every other objects are off the table.
Wednesday night. We were studying about
Colossians chapter 2 and really there's some deep meat that are
found in those passages. And one of the phraseology is
that were given and one of the things condemned that Paul was
condemning among the false teachers in colossi was a phrase
called the worship of angels. Now what they were actually
doing is there were people that were false teachers that entered
in and what they were doing is they were trying to get people
to understand, God cannot be touched.
T', wouldn't that be awful? If God could not be approached?
If he really wasn't Abba, Father, he really wasn't our
heavenly father and we have a relationship with him, wouldn't
be a terrible thing. Well, false teachers came into
the flock and what they try to do is they try to teach people,
you can't approach God. So, what you do is you approach
something that is subordinate to God or lesser than God like
angels and you pray to the angels, who are messengers They
convey your message to God, absolutely false and wrong and
unscriptural. Now, prayer is a form of
worship. So, Paul condemned the worship
of angels, it is always been condemned the worship of
anything else. Other than God, Jesus himself.
Even said and him only shalt thou serve.
When we assemble here is the body of Christ.
We are worshipping one. Being we are worshipping God.
Oh, what about Jesus? What about Jesus?
Don't we have the communion? Absolutely absolutely.
But we are worshiping God and in the worship of God, who is the
only being that we worship? We honor his son.
We remember his son, we commemorate, the death burial,
and resurrection of his son in the communion.
But the worship is only to God. Something else.
And by the way I'll just say quickly, you know, people today
that want to reverence people And they want to give people
positions of Honor that they don't.
Well, they don't deserve and they should not have.
In fact, other religions have beings that are supposed to be
like God and so forth, but let me just make one reference to
one Passage. If that's the case then why in
Acts chapter 10 when Peter goes to the household of Cornelius,
do you remember what Cornelius does when Peter comes in?
The Bible says, they fell down or Cornelius boughs down before
him to worship Him. Do you know what Peter does?
Does he accept the worship? No, he says, get up.
I'm a man. Just like you.
I myself the King James says, and also a man.
We don't worship men. We don't worship angels, we
don't worship anything, but god Jehovah himself, and we must do
that in spirit and in truth. And that's the next Point,
that's the attitude and that is the standard.
I put these things together. And and instead of breaking them
down. Early.
Because this absolutely has to go together.
You cannot do one without the other be acceptable to God.
You have to have the spirit part connected to the truth part, you
have to have both, so I just put them together.
The attitude is has to be right, one scholar, wrote it this
night. I thought it was interesting.
He said worship to God as being a spiritual being must be from a
spiritual nature. In fact, he said a spiritual
being like God can only be pleased with worship that comes
from the heart and that which is Guided by the truth.
Okay, that's Worship in a nutshell.
That's what we're trying to do today.
We're trying to Worship in spirit and in truth, meaning the
emblems are the items of worship.
The ordinances of divine service.
We cannot change that. We have to do that according to
the Divine pattern, but we're going to put all of our spirit
in it. We're going to do.
So from a A heart from the right motive and all of that.
All right. What about this?
What about the lifting up of? Holy hands?
What's that mean? One of the latest practices in
the religious world. Is the practice of holding one's
arms up. And perhaps, I don't know, maybe
swaying to the music with elevated hands in the assembly
as some worshipful posture. That's very common in the
religious world today, and one of the things, one of the
reasons about the actual literal elevation of hamp's is because
of in large part, the mission turp rotation of one passage of
scripture that's found in first, Timothy Chapter 2, and verse
Verse 8 where Paul said I desire therefore that men pray
everywhere lifting up, holy hands without wrath and doubting
just a little side note. Before we go any further, this
is not exclusive, it's not saying in worship only, it says
men everywhere. So, whatever is being meant
there in that passage, it means for men to do it everywhere.
Stay with me, I will be back on that.
All right. So giving credit, where it's due
this command. In this passage does seem to
allude to the Old Testament. Practice of uplifted hands in
respectful petition to God. It was actually done in the Old
Testament Nehemiah chapter 8 and verse 6 and Ezra blessed the
Lord, the great God, then all the people answered.
Amen. Amen.
While lifting up their hands and they bowed their heads and
worshiped. Worship the Lord with their
faces to the ground. Second Passage.
Psalm 141 and to let my prayer be set before you as incense the
lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
One final passage the book of Lamentations chapter 3 and verse
41. Let us lift up our hearts and
hands to God in heaven. All right?
Was lifting up their arms. Lifting up their hands toward
the heavens. A prayer posture.
Yes. But so were six others.
It wasn't exclusive six others you don't, they were six.
Other postures are mentioned kneeling with head bowed arms
raised knees on the ground under the body.
With the forehead touching the ground standing, with head
bowed, low with eyes uplifted with arms, raised toward the
heavens and also lying face down on the ground.
So today, the The lifting up of hands comes more from a
following, the fads of today, rather than a serious Bible
study. In fact, while various prayer,
postures are mentioned in passing.
In the Bible. The overwhelming emphasis is
clearly on the attitude and thought of the one that's doing
the prayer. In other words, it is the
posture of the heart that really matters.
You may be a man that kneels down when you pray in the
assembly, you may walk up here and speak into the microphone to
be heard standing. That's all right kneeling.
That's alright standing. That's all right.
The whole idea, is the posture doesn't matter.
What matters is the posture of the heart.
That's what matters. Not a literal posture.
All right, so In 1st Timothy Chapter 2 and verse 8.
In In this passage, it is not a demand for any particular
posture in prayer or even the physical lifting of hand and may
I just say this, is it okay for somebody to lift their hands?
Yeah, that's fine. That's nothing unscriptural
about that. But in this passage, it's not
giving a directive to do that, literally with your hands.
What it is, is this it's actually a figure of speech
known as metonymy in which the writer substitutes an
association word for what is actually meant.
What I'm saying is this, holy hands means holy life.
That's the simplest way to put that what he was saying is I
would that all men everywhere. Then, I think the King James
says, all men everywhere and that would include both Jewish
and Gentile Christians that when they pray here, talking about
men that have a holy life or living a holy life, that's the
picture. They're not the literal
elevation of your hands. Paul teaches that men who lead
in prayer should possess a character of purity.
And holiness. 1st Peter, chapter 1.
In verse 15 and 16. But as he who called you is,
Holy you also be holy in all your conduct because it is
written be holy for. I am Holy again, holy hands
means holy life. That's what that means.
It's a metonymy. It's a figure of speech.
All right, but let me just say this while lifting up one's
hands is not wrong in itself. It's not wrong to have your
hands up. When you pray to God, let me
Consider with you, the following.
Nowhere in the scripture. Are we allowed to have anything
that is potentially self-serving?
And designed to impress, the participants rather than focus
on God. Nothing is about us.
It's not to impress someone outwardly by our own posture.
It's for the focus of God. As a matter of fact, Jesus
criticized religious leaders in his day, for their persistent
attention to external displays, appearances, shows and hype.
Jesus said this in Matthew 16 verse 5.
When you pray, you shall not be like the Hypocrites for.
They love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the
corners of the streets. That they may be seen of men,
assuredly, I say to you. They have their reward.
I guess what I'm saying is this what's the motive behind it?
If the motive is to look a certain way while you pray that
motive is wrong, has nothing to do with how you look has
everything to do with what your heart looks like.
That's what God's looking at God's looking at the heart.
That's all that matters. That's the posture that God
wants. So, ask yourself the following
if I elevate my hands in prayer, what's the motive behind it to
be seen? Can't do that, that's bad.
But it is something that you do on your own, whatever, it
doesn't matter. It doesn't matter, the motive
behind it is everything. All right?
I'll just say this to you remember when you've heard me
preach many times and others too, but when Jesus spoke of the
Pharisee and the Publican, I just want to make this one
point. I have said this, I have said,
in my mind's eye, I picture a man that perhaps a standing
there with elevated hands and eyes up toward the heavens.
Yeah, that was probably literal, he probably was doing something
like that. It fit what they did, it fit the
prayer posture of the Old Testament.
It fits some of those things. Some of those customs of the day
and maybe he was doing solo because he wanted to be seen by
others. Like the Pharisees that went to
the street corner. They want to be known for their
long prayers and much speaking. The heart was wrong, not the
hands, but also The last point. Is what about hand clapping?
So, let me just summarize. What I've just said is it wrong
to elevate your hands in prayer? No, it's not ask yourself the
question though. What's the motive behind it?
All right. What about hand clap?
What about clapping? That's a different subject
altogether. There's two reasons.
Why people clap two reasons? Number one is to keep the beat
of the song. In other words to keep up with
the song you've seen it, a guy goes to hold a concert or he's
performing somewhere and then all of a sudden during the song
gets to the course and starts clapping his hands for everybody
to clap along with him you're keeping the beat of the song by
the Clapping of hands. That's the one reason.
The only other reason that you would clap and I'm going to get
back to this but the only other reason you would clap is for the
purpose of applause. Okay, let's talk about the first
one though. Let's talk about musical
accompaniment. This is clearly unscriptural on
the grounds that it is parallel to a mechanical device, that
might be used to supplement vocal music.
Clapping our hands along with the music is no different than
beating a drum playing a piano or playing a guitar.
For example, clapping of hands is a non-vocal natural
instrument. While a piano is a non-vocal
mechanical instrument, it's the same thing and both of those are
unauthorized because God demands vocal verbal articulation in
music, only Ephesians 5 and Teen speaking to one another in
Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.
Singing. And making melody in your heart.
To the Lord. The only two instruments
authorized are the vocal cords and the Heart.
That's what God wants, not the accompaniment of anything else,
so you can have a piano and it's going along the beat of the song
in the tune of the song. You're adding something to what
God has not authorized. And by this passage here by the
laws of exclusion. It excludes, all other manners
are all other methods. One final thing about this
though. Don't ever let somebody say,
well, what about a song book? It's just an expedient like a
songbook. No it's not.
Instrumental music is not an expedient and inexpedient
expedites the process of that which is commanded, what's
commanded is to sing. So if we add musical instruments
to the assembly to the worship, we add something to what God is
not authorized. When we have a songbook, the
songbook expedites the process of singing, the notes, the words
and so forth and so on. And that Is scriptural.
All right. What about clapping for
Applause? I got to tell you I've been in
the Philippines and there's and there's a lot of folks that show
up and they're not members of the church and they hear that
the Americans are coming people. Invite them, there are times
when the when the assemblies are really large even in small
confined areas packed and sometimes because they don't
know any different if we get up and give a lesson.
They just feel compelled to do what you do after somebody
performs and start clapping start, banging your hands
together. Start clapping and they just
don't know any better. That brings me to my point about
what hand-clapping really is. It's for Applause.
The proponents though of hand clapping today in the religious
World, say it's just a modern form of the word.
Amen. Well, no, it's not and consider
the following. I looked this up, I looked up
clapping as used in American culture, okay?
So this is a response to somebody saying that clapping
your hands after a sermon is the same thing as saying.
Amen. All right, Clapping Your Hands
in an American culture. Number one, the primary function
of Applause is to indicate personal approval of a
performance like at a football game, an actor or even a mute
musician. To another function of Applause
is the showing of recognition of the performer.
We express our appreciation for their Skill 3.
Another function of hand clapping is an expression of
excitement for a fourth function.
Action of Applause is to manifest courtesy.
That's not saying, amen. That has all the emphasis on the
performer and the performance. I don't read that in the Bible
at all you You know, what's amazing is the Apostle Paul
divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit to write over two-thirds
of the New Testament. He said this, neither he that
plants is anything. Neither, he that Waters is
anything, but God gives the increase.
There is never a time that I was stand before you that I am
worthy of your applause. It's not about that.
Difference though, between Applause and amen.
Let's talk about, amen, that's a great work.
Amen. As used in the Old Testament.
First, our English word, amen. Is a transliteration of a Hebrew
word. That means firm.
It is a term, meaning, certain and true.
Now, a transliteration, a transliteration is something
that changes the letters from the words, original alphabet to
similar-sounding. Letters in a different alphabet.
Here's the difference between a Action.
And a transliteration. A translation means the same in
other words, m word, that means the same and a transliteration
sounds, the same, the English word.
Amen. Is a transliteration of a Hebrew
word that means firm, or certain and true.
In the Old Testament. There were two uses for the
word. Amen.
Number one, it signified, the individuals acceptance of a
statement. Numbers 5 and 22.
Also indicated truthfulness. By the way you say, Amen, meant
this statement is true. First Kings, chapter 1 and verse
36. That's the Old Testament.
What about the New Testament? We're concerned about the New
Testament. The word is found 126 times in
the New Testament and it affirms that a statement is certain
true. And reliable to say, Amen, was
to confirm The Binding nature of those truths.
That was the purpose of the word, amen.
In fact, Jesus often said that, Add this.
Jesus often said, verily, verily or truly, truly, as I said, just
a moment ago, Applause in our society.
Is a response to the entertaining Performance Based
and it's emphasized on the performer saying, amen.
Focuses on the message rather than the giving of the mess from
the messenger. It focuses on the message.
Somebody says, amen. What they're saying is?
I agree with that. That is a true statement.
That is a statement, of fact, not the preacher said it real
nice and he needs to be applauded.
There's a difference folks there.
Huge difference between clapping hands and saying, Amen, in
conclusion, and I'm just about finished now.
This passage right here. What have we learned?
God is a spiritual being. So he's only going to be pleased
with us when our worship our service to him is done properly.
We've learned this to that must is a modifier.
Must is an absolute. We must worship.
God, God is the subject. He's the only object of our
worship. And when we assemble, we must
understand it is for God. We are the participants.
God is the one as The Spectator, he is the one observing us.
Worship means basically this to kiss the hand of or from a
spiritual perspective, we are Thoroughly saying how great God
Is by our actions in worship, we are bowing before him and always
in that way. But we also understand this, it
must be in spirit. And in truth, it must denote the
proper attitude, the proper mindset and it has to be that
which is in accordance with revealed truth lifting up.
Holy hands. What's that mean means?
Lifting up. Holy lives that the let the men
have holy lives. Those that are Ryan as simple
and other passages, bear that out finally clapping.
That's clapping is not something that's appropriate in the
assembly. That's a way to carry on a tune
and that's not authorized. And it's also a way to applaud
the speaker, and that is not authorized either.
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