Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of
Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA.
I hope the following message challenges and courages and
ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us.
We're going to get back into our series when I get back from
Indonesia and do be praying for us.
We're going to connect with one of the pastors from Columbia in
Houston. We fly out six O clock Wednesday
morning. We arrive in Jakarta midnight
Friday night. Then we spend the night there
and then take a fly overnight again to some island.
I mean Indonesia is like 17,000 islands and so, but we're going
into minister into some. There's a a leader in in
Indonesia, we're going to minister in his church and then
minister in a Bible school do a pastor's conference.
And I just have a sense about this, this trip, that God wants
to break some things open and so be praying for us.
It's the most populated Muslim nation in the world.
It's got the largest Muslim population in the world.
And so they need a move of God. And Indonesia has seen a move of
God in the past. And so we're believing God for
some real breakthrough. And so as as you think of it,
pray for us. I've got to spend 2 weeks with
my brother, so I'll need it. Amen.
OK All right. We're going to receive communion
at the end this morning. And here I am opening my
elements. I better put that down.
I'm fiddling with it. Oh, all right.
There we go. OK.
But what I want to do this morning is I want to look at the
idea of covenant. Last time we took communion.
And so over these next few times when we receive communion, I
want to lay some groundwork so that we really understand what
we're doing. The, you know, communion, the
the Lord's Supper is a covenantal meal and it is rich
with revelation of what God has done for us and how he wants us
to utilize that covenant and how he wants us to utilize this
meal. Jesus said when he He took the
Passover with his disciples and he renamed it, he reframed it
for them. And he said, this is now the new
covenant in my blood. And by that he instituted a new
meal. And he said, do this in
remembrance of me. So whenever we do it, we're to
remember what he did. It's supposed to we're to
recollect or recollect some of these ideas and put them in the
forefront of our mind so we can remind ourselves, so that we can
look through the lens of what he has accomplished for us.
The fact is, we can accumulate truths that we can easily lose.
How many of you ever lost something that God has spoken to
you about? I had a vision one time that I
forgot about until Roger reminded me this morning.
And so we can lose touch with those things.
And so God has given us this wonderful helpful tool, this
covenant meal that we can go back to and that we can remind
ourself what he did for us. But we need to understand what a
covenant is because if we don't understand covenant, we leave a
lot of value on the table, so to speak.
There's things that we we're partaking of it, but we don't
really, we can't leverage it in our life.
We don't really understand what's going on.
So now the the the foundation of what I'm going to say this
morning was what we talked about last time.
So I I want to say it was like 3-4 weeks ago, 5 weeks ago.
Just look back on the podcast and it should say something
about the blood and a laid a groundwork for an understanding
of the blood. Why does God value the blood and
how do we utilize it in our own life?
Because the blood of Jesus is something that we offer the
Father. It's something that's God word.
It's also something that we apply to our own heart and it's
also a weapon we use against the enemy.
The Foundation is using it in in approaching the Father.
If we don't understand why God values the blood, then we can't
really apply it to our own heart.
Scriptures clear there's a there's the shed blood that we
offer to the Father, but there's the sprinkled blood that we
apply to our own heart. It's a different application of
the same blood of Jesus. And so we can't understand how
to apply it to our heart unless we first understand how God
values it. And we can't really use it as a
weapon against the enemy until we understand how to use it in
our own heart. We're to cleanse our heart of a
guilty conscience through the sprinkled blood, and that gives
us our on ramp into what we're going to talk about this
morning. Now again, communion is a
covenantal meal. Covenant is common to the
ancient world. In fact it's it's very common to
many Eastern nations to this day, We as the West and our
advanced technology our our advancement, we have lost the
meaning of covenant and therefore we're at a
disadvantage when we look at this wonderful truth and
scripture. Covenant is not some side issue
in scripture. It's not even 1 doctrine among
many. It's an actuality.
It's the the framework, it's the it's the context of all the
other content. The Bible is a covenantal book.
God deals with us through covenants and if we don't
understand what covenants are, we don't really understand much
of the word. Really the last residue of
covenant that we have in Western culture is of course the
marriage covenant. The marriage covenant is to be
entered into. It's not a marriage contract,
even though some people try to reduce it to that.
And there's a reason for that. The the purpose of covenant is
to make two people, parties, nations, tribes, to take two and
bring them together and make them one.
That is the purpose of covenant. The marriage covenant is to make
the two into one the covenant with God.
We were alienated from God, but God is going to remove the
barriers and were to come into oneness with him through
covenant. So much so that just like in
ancient times when someone when 2 tribes would enter into
covenant with one another, if you attacked the person that you
were in covenant with, you were obligated to go to war with them
because when they attacked your covenant brother, they attacked
you. When they stole from your
covenant brother, they stole from you.
And so you, what was yours, belong to them and vice versa.
And it's a beautiful picture of our relationship with God.
What I brought to the table was sin.
What God brought to the table was redemption and the Kingdom
of heaven. What was mine he took on and I
get to take on what is his. It's a covenant act.
And so we need to understand covenant.
Now Covenant is the purpose of covenant is to make two parties
into one party. OK, but the the the method of
doing that was to remove all doubt in the hearts of the
covenant partners. Think about it in the in regards
to marriage, when you get married, you're in love.
Hopefully you're you're you're in love with that person and
over time you hopefully grow in love and you surrender yourself
more to them. But the only way for you to do
that is there has to be trust between those two partners.
And if you don't trust, you can't surrender yourself to that
person. That's why marriage is a
covenant. And so the purpose of covenant
is to remove all the barriers, to remove the doubt, to remove
any kind of fears in those individuals so they can fully
give of themselves to one another.
That's the idea of Covenant. And so God instituted this idea
of covenant. Now all down through history and
and actuality in the ancient world Covenant put the civil and
civilization it would Covenant was the way that people would
enter into agreements and then enter into relationships.
It was the way that they would know hey, we're safe.
We can live amongst these people.
These two tribes can live with one another in peace.
These two families can live with one another in peace.
So Covenant was a way to to really create trust among people
so they could live together. So that's why I say it put the
civil and civilization today, what we've replaced Covenant
with is of course, contracts. When you're in Covenant with
someone, the objective is that you trust them so much that you
fully surrender yourself to them.
What what is mine is yours and vice versa.
I trust you. If you don't have that trust,
the only way to really work with people, the only way to really
enter into to business with people is you have to have a
contract at you know, that operates really by fear of
retribution. If you don't live up to your
end, then there's going to be consequences that I'm going to
have the courts enforce. In ancient society, they would
enter into covenants before God understanding that God was the
one who would honor the covenants.
God would be the one who would enforce the covenants.
In the book of Jeremiah it has this interesting phrase.
It talks about when they walked among the pieces and it's a
reference to a covenantal ceremony that we see Abraham and
enter into in Genesis chapter 15.
In that passage God makes a promise to Abraham and he says
I'm going to make you a father of many nations.
And Abraham asks this question that God could have easily took
offense to. He said how do how can I know
this is going to happen. How are you going to bring this
about? And rather than rebuke him, God
says go get some animals and bring them before me.
And God was asking him to make a sacrifice.
So what Abraham did is he cut the hind parts in the four
quarters and he laid them out in in four pieces.
And this was a common covenantal ceremony.
It was common among the the people, the Mesopotamian people
of that area. But rather than walk through the
pieces like most people would, Abraham did not do that.
He just he just laid out the sacrifice and then waited and it
says a deep darkness came over Abraham.
He went into his sleep. Prior to that it said the birds.
These birds began to attack his sacrifice and all of this is has
rich symbolism about around it. The enemy was trying to attack
his sacrifice before God and Abraham wanted to enter into
covenant with God. But Abraham knew better than to
initiate it himself because this specific type of ceremony was a
very serious ceremony. It's what's alluded to in
Jeremiah. When it's called, They walked
among the pieces. And what they would do is they
would walk in a circular 8 fashion between those.
Or it was also called the Valley of Blood.
It was called the Walk of Death or the Valley of Blood.
And they would walk in this, this the circle, the circle
eight way in the bloody portions.
And then they would stand in the midst of this animal torn to
Thunder. And they would make the vows of
the covenant and they would make their promises.
They would state what they're going to give in this covenantal
relationship. Then the partner would do the
same. And then they would say this.
This is how they would bind themselves to their promises,
They would say, and so be it unto me as was done unto this
animal. If I do not fulfill the vows of
my covenant, it's a very, very serious thing in ancient
culture. Now when Abraham lays those
pieces out, he recognized what God was asking of him.
But Abraham didn't enter in because Abraham knew the
weakness of his own heart. How many of you would want to
enter into a covenant with God in that fashion and say, God, I
give you my all, and if I ever renege, so be unto me, as was
done under this animal. I'm not standing in line.
So it says that a deep darkness came upon Abraham and he went
into a deep sleep. And in this dreamlike state a
smoking fire pot and a torch began to move through the
pieces. And then the Lord made promises
to him, and it was a picture of God initiating covenant with
himself. The promises were made to
Abraham, but the covenant was cut by God himself.
In the Book of Revelation, we see Jesus showing up in the
before John the Beloved, the one who'd laid his head on Jesus
chest. But now he shows up in this way
that's terrifying. And his eyes are like flames of
fire. They're like a torch and his his
legs like burnish bronze. And it's a picture of that, that
flaming furnace that walked through the pieces.
What Abraham saw was the preincarnate Christ coming and
walking among the pieces and cutting covenant with the
Father. Jesus entered into covenant with
the Father and we enter in with him into covenant we are we are
folded into that covenant. And so God bound himself by
himself. Hebrew says he's couldn't find
anything greater to swear by but his own name.
He swore by himself and bound himself to covenant.
The whole idea is covenant is the the the purpose is to remove
all doubt on the in the on the part of the covenant partner.
So in the New Testament what did God do?
He foreshadowed it in Genesis 15 with Abram.
But what he did is he sent his son to enter into covenant with
the Father. Jesus came and offered himself
as the sacrifice, Romans 5 says. While we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. How much more, Now that we're
redeemed, will he not give it? That's a paraphrase.
But now that we're in relationship with him, now that
we've been made righteous, how much more will he not give us
all things? It's an amazing statement.
There were two things that God only two things in heaven that
God could give, that he couldn't just snap his fingers and
recreate. God could have given gold and
treasures and angels and all those things and just recreated.
But the two things He gave to you and I were the two uncreated
elements of heaven, His Son and his Spirit.
And he did it precisely to communicate a message to us.
I remember when I first got saved.
I I was raised in church and knew the Lord as a kid and
drifted away. And I I've picked up a lot of
bad theology and just I had a lot of I I held God at arm's
length. I didn't trust God, and that's
why I ran from him. I picked up some lies along the
way and I remember telling God, I said, God, I don't love you
and I don't want to serve you, but I know you got what I need.
I I've made such a mess of my life.
If you will give me the want to I'll go through the motions
until you do. But just but change my heart.
Give me a desire. Because right now I don't want
to serve you. And God was gracious.
He began to work in my heart and and soften it.
But God began to deal with me and show me his love.
And during that season when I was in Teen Challenge, there was
a song we used to sing. And I don't remember all of it,
but I remember this one phrase it.
It was essentially it was talking about, you know, look at
Jesus hanging on the cross. He outstretched his arms and and
then it said, how can you ever say no to this man?
Anybody ever remember that song? How can you ever say, I won't
say it for you, I'll clear the room, How can you ever say no to
this man? And it was really bringing us
into that, that drama of all that he done for us.
And it then he's saying, what more can I do?
I gave you the only thing I can't replace my son.
Then I gave you my spirit. What more can I do to prove to
you my commitment to you, my love for you?
That was the message of the song.
And I remember that just began to minister to my heart and I
began to realize that I had some misconceptions.
We've talked about this many times, but the foundation of the
human problem is the lies we believe about God and the
corresponding lies we believe about ourselves.
That was the entrance of sin, Entrance of sin.
Theologians talk about original sin.
It was the sin of Adam and Eve, and it opened the door.
Romans 5 is clear that through the disobedience of one man, sin
came into the world and death through sin the door was swung
wide open and everything changed after that.
But we need to realize that behind original sin was an
original lie and that original lie was this.
God can't be trusted. That was the lie in Eden, and
covenant is designed to address that lie.
And there's not a person in this room that overcame that lie
permanently as an event. Some of us more than others
still struggle with the lie, and some of us more than others have
come into the truth. Some of that is because of how
you were raised and and the the the theology you were raised
with, the way you related with your earthly father and all
kinds of other complex things. But the fact is we all struggle
with that lie. Can I really trust Him?
And that's why we need to continually partake of the
Lord's Supper, because we're to remember what He did and we're
attacking those lies that God can be trusted.
In order for us to fully surrender to Him, we've got to
be fully convinced in his heart towards us and the cross was
this resounding message. What more can I do to prove to
you my commitment to you? And when we partake of
communion, we're reminding ourself while we were yet
sinners, while we were still enemies, Christ died for us.
How much more, How much more will He not give us all things
now that we're redeemed? When we were talking about the
blood a couple of weeks ago, I talked about how the enemy has a
primary weapon and that weapon is accusation.
It's really a double edged sword.
It's accusation and condemnation.
He first accuses you, and there's always at least a kernel
of truth in his accusation. He accuses you and then he
condemns you for what you did. And if we don't understand how
to use the blood against that, then we stand condemned and
we'll always stay outside of God's presence.
If God can't lie to you, or I mean if the enemy can't lie to
you about God, God being good and therefore keep you out of
His presence, then what He'll do is lie to you about you and tell
you you're not good enough. Fact is, none of us are good
enough in and of ourselves, but we are good enough under the
blood, and we need to learn how to apply that to our heart.
And so the blood of Jesus is the way that God paves the way for
us to get in. The cross is the resounding
message that God can be trusted, that hard taskmaster mentality
that God is going to require of things of you that he hasn't
already provided for you. That thing has to be eradicated
and has to be attacked. And much of our Christian life
is us growing in faith as he reveals his faithfulness.
And the the result of that is a greater and a deeper surrender
to him. And it's a lifelong thing that
we need a greater revelation when we're when we sing here in
in worship and we cry out, we say, God, I want to know you
more. I want to see you more.
It's not just some curiosity that we have, It's a necessity.
We've got to see him for who he is.
Because seeing him for who he is, it's what's going to
eradicate the things that are destroying our lives, the things
that keep us from him. Because when I have bad
theology, when I have wrong thoughts about him, I won't
approach him for who he is. My beliefs will determine my
behavior, and it'll especially determine my behavior in regards
to my relationship with him. Many of us struggle with
condemnation and at the accusation of the enemy, and
we've never learned to enter into what covenant provides for
us. And we kind of stand on the
outside of the Holy of Holies feeling guilty, almost as if
we're we're going to pay a little bit of penalty.
We'll stay on the outside because we lost it with the cat
or whatever or your children or your wife or your spouse.
Don't bump them it. You know whatever you you failed
and then you feel like you have to stand on the outside of the
holy of holies and that is not Christianity.
We need to learn to apply the blood of Jesus to the door
doorpost of our heart to cleanse our hearts of a guilty
conscience so that we can stand in His righteousness.
Years ago we when I was working for Teen Challenge we used to
have devotion staff devotions is the the students would do what
they call DeVos. They would read a chapter
scripture and they'd write on it.
Meanwhile, we were down in the the dining room and we'd have
devotions with each other and somebody would share something
from the word among the staff. And that morning John Hostetler,
he was one of our staff members was a pastor here in Iowa as
well and John was telling us he said I was reading about Jonah,
he said. So I started looking up about
the Ninovites. He said they were some bad
dudes, the Ninovites. That's why Jonah didn't want to
see them get saved. When they got saved, he got
bummed. When people answered his altar
call, he was like, bummed out. That's kind of dysfunctional,
you know? But when you hear about how the
Ninovites treated people, you kind of understand they used to
skin people alive. I mean, there were some gross
people. One of the things they used to
do is they would stand their prisoners, their captives on A
at the end of a field and they tell them, listen, if you can
run to that end of that field before we catch you, you're a
free man. You know the the prisoners
thinking skinned alive, possible freedom.
I'll take door #2. What they didn't know is that
the Ninovites had this game. They would play with their
prisoners, and the guy would start running down the field,
and they had already made bets on how far he would run without
his head. And they would ride up behind
him on a horse and with the big hold sword, they'd snap his head
off and his body would keep running.
And then it would flop and they would laugh and they would, and
whoever got closest would make the money.
And John is telling us this. And I looked at him just like,
you're looking at me like pastor, Why did you put that in
my head? He didn't have an application
for it was just a gross story. So we went upstairs.
So then we had Chapel, and we're in worship that morning.
And I'm worshipping the Lord trying to get this picture out
of my head. And the Lord spoke to me because
it was very relevant to my life at that time, he said.
Dave, that's exactly what the enemy does to you.
He cuts you off from the head and makes bets on how long
you'll last. Jesus is the head, and we've got
to be connected to him relationally or we won't last.
So what the enemy does is he's got a big old sword called
condemnation. On one side it's a double edged
sword, condemnation and accusation, and he tries to cut
you off from the head if he can cause you to begin to feel
guilty and identify yourself with your failure.
If he can't push you into doing something wrong, he'll beat the
stuffing out of you over not doing enough right and you'll
you'll you'll never get there. There.
That's where the enemy Not that I wasn't falling into doing
things wrong at times, but the enemy would just ride me about.
You didn't read the word enough. You didn't fast enough this
week. You didn't pray enough.
Man, I got, I got. So legalist, I I remember making
vows to God. I'm going to pray 2 hours a day.
I'm going to be in the word. I'm going to fast this many days
a week and I remember just hitting the wall and crying out
to God and say God, I can't do it anymore.
He didn't say this. But now, looking back, I think
what he was saying. I never asked you to.
I put it on myself. I was trying to earn His
righteousness. And it was during that season
the Lord began to teach me about the blood.
And on the tail end of that is when John Hostetler told that
story. The Lord has given us a weapon
of defense. They overcame him by the blood
of the lamb, the word of their testimony and they love not
their life unto the death. The first weapon out of the
sheath is the blood of the lamb. And make no mistake about it
that verse in that verse you use the blood Satan word.
It's used against the enemy. There's verses where we present
the blood. Jesus presented it to God and we
enter into that and we present the blood on our own behalf.
When the enemy accuses you and begins to beat you up and
condemn you. We talked about it a couple
weeks ago, but look at Matthew 5.
It says agree with your adversary when you're on your
way to the judge. Like, what's the deal with that?
Jesus assumes we're always guilty.
No. When you're going to the judge
of all the earth, as Abraham called Jehovah, when you're on
your way to the secret place, the enemy will always condemn
you. He's the accuser of the brother
and he accuses us before the throne day and night.
How does he gain access to the throne?
He doesn't. It's when you go to the throne
he accuses you to keep you out of the secret place.
Because if you believe God is continually disappointed with
you, If in your mind when you approach God, there's this
simmering, this low burn disappointment in you like, oh,
here he comes again, Dave. The failure.
My son bought him, and now I'm stuck with him.
Come on in. What?
What do you want? I I used to feel that I felt
like God was clicking his throne.
He and his little finger on the stone.
Oh man, here he comes again. And I'd come in timidly, God,
rather than come boldly before the throne of grace in our hour
of need. But in order to come, I'm
telling you, if you come boldly before the throne of grace,
based on your own righteousness, you're in deception.
And God loves you enough. He will not allow you to find
rest and security there. He will allow failure into your
life till you throw up your hands and say, God, I can't do
it on my own. And that's what he gives us,
That revelation of the blood, the blood of Jesus is our plea,
The blood that is satisfied every righteous requirement of
God. Once made perfect, Jesus became
the source of eternal salvation. Scripture says what does that
mean? It means he fulfilled all of
righteousness like he told his brother John the baptizer.
He said I must fulfill it all because he wanted to give a
perfected life to the Father. And the life that was in the
blood of Jesus was a life that fulfilled every requirement.
And that's the life that we provide the Father that is the
entry fee into the throne room. I used to imagine a big old
whopping Angel standing outside the throne room and I was
wanting to get in and I'd imagine, I'm saying, all right
buddy, I'm going to have to card you.
Do you got what it takes? Do you have a righteous life?
And I would go through these mental gymnastics in and of
myself. I do not.
My life without him has been an utter failure.
But I've got this life in this bowl of blood, and the Angel
would step back in reverence. Oh my, come on in, enter in, and
I would go in and worship the Lord.
And I had to retrain my heart and mind.
The blood of Jesus answers on our behalf.
The blood of Jesus is what the weapon we use against that
accusation and that condemnation.
We don't argue our own righteousness.
We agree with the enemy. Yep, you're right.
You know what? Thank you.
Thank you Devil, for reminding me what the Bible says is true.
But I don't approach based on my own righteousness.
I pay. I approach God based on the
righteousness of Jesus that was completed 2000 years ago and
that you can't touch this. You can't.
You can't close the door on this.
I have free access when I approach based on the blood.
And so we begin to apply that. So covenant is God's answer for
all of this our doubts about God and our doubts about ourself,
our doubts about God. Because God is saying listen,
I'm willing to bankrupt heaven and give give the worship of all
of heaven in your stead. Jesus took on human flesh and
walked among us and experienced everything we did, all, every
temptation we ever experienced and then gave his life.
Make no mistake about it. Jesus faced every temptation and
came out righteous. You say?
Well, I don't ever see in the scriptures Jesus struggling with
crack cocaine. What Jesus struggled with was
what's behind crack cocaine, That flight from pain, that
momentary escape that I'm not going to follow.
I'm going to take a break from following God.
I'm going to get off this path of suffering so I can get a
little bit of relief. And he resisted that.
CS Lewis has this wonderful phrase.
He said not only does Jesus no temptation, he's the only one
who really does. He's the only one who rode that
thing all the way to the end. You and I have experienced
temptation, and we got bucked off at some point, but Jesus
rode that thing into the ground and tamed it.
He experienced all of temptation and conquered it.
And so when we see what He did for us, it's to minister to our
heart. And every time we take
communion, we're to remind ourself of that we're to
recollect. We're to recollect all these
truths and put them in the forefront of our mind and feast
on them. And the Lord's Supper.
And remind ourself the price He paid and that he has proven
himself trustworthy, worthy of our trust that we can surrender
ourself. And once that is conquered, once
you've really begun and to enter into I know he is trustworthy,
then you've got to begin to work on your you've conquered your
theology, so to speak. We're always going to grow on
that. But you've nailed that down.
I know he's trustworthy. Then you work on your identity
and you fight the enemy's accusations and you find your
identity in Christ and not in your own behavior, your own
performance. And both of those are in
communion. You can put it this way.
Let's go ahead. And if you don't, if, if you
don't have your communion elements, I'm going to ask the
the band to come on up. We're going to close by
receiving the Lord's Supper today.
You can put it this way. Man had a problem.
There was the God side of it and there was the human side of it.
That problem was guilt. There was legal guilt.
That's the God side. We had broken moral law and God
required that that be satisfied because God is just that had to
be satisfied. And the blood of Jesus.
The sacrifice of Calvary satisfied legal guilt and paid
for that with Jesus blood. But there are a lot of people
who understand that God satisfied the legal guilt, but
they still struggle with psychological guilt.
They still identify with it. And I'm telling you that the
answer is the same. The blood of Jesus will deal
with your psychological guilt. I remember a guy that was
discipling me. He was the the guy that ran the
Bible little first Bible squad went to tremendous man of God.
I I'm so appreciative that I had him in my life.
But I wasn't appreciative of this one time he he'd heard my
testimony. He knew my dad was a pastor and
that my dad had left fulltime ministry because of my brother
and I drug use. And he asked me, said, don't.
Aren't you racked with guilt over your father leaving his
calling over your behavior? And I thought for a moment, I
thought not until now. No, really, I I I When he said
it, I just. I was puzzled.
And I told him I said no, because I'm not that person
anymore. That person died with Christ.
I'm a new creation. I, I, I, I am incapable of
feeling guilty about who I used to be because that man is dead
and buried and we celebrate that in here.
Some of you, you deal with psychological guilt.
The enemy use uses accusation about your past and even your
present. And you're thinking, man, I'll
get over this when I get my behavior in order.
And I'm telling you, you'll never get your behavior in order
until you get over that, because guilt will lock your mind on
your behavior. Guilt will block your mind on
the things of the flesh. Paul put it this way in Romans
chapter 8. He who minds the things of the
flesh walks after the flesh. He doesn't say if you've got a
real positive attitude and you really want it, the flesh you'll
walk out to flesh, he said. If you got your mind on it,
you're going to walk after it. An accusation and condemnation
locks our mind on our fleshly failings and it it sentences us
to repeating them again and again and we've got to find a
way out of the cycle. And I'm telling you, the way out
of the cycle is to step out and approach the Father based on
Jesus righteousness and not our own.
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