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God. Hello and welcome back to the Salmon Arm
Potter's House podcast. I'm again Pastor David
Bickford, the pastor here in town. We're a small
little work for... Jesus Christ, we're just trying
to build something here in this outstanding community
of Salmon Arm. And today's message I have entitled,
Winners Embrace Hardship, Trading Eternity for
Comfort. So the idea here is that we oftentimes
in life are going to be struggling with the hardships
that we come across. Every single one of us is
going to deal with these hardships. And we have
to learn how to overcome those hardships if we're
ever going to be successful in our lives. But
also, as believers, we need to embrace the hardships
we come across for the sake of the gospel. So
life begins when you're being shaken. Father
Alfred Delp was a prisoner of the Nazis during
World War II. He was charged with treason for
true Christian preaching. From his jail cell,
he wrote about the meaning of Advent, the coming
of Christ. And he writes, Advent is a time for
rousing. Human beings are shaken to the very
depths so that they may wake up to the truth
themselves. The primary condition for a fruitful
and rewarding Advent is renunciation or surrender,
a shattering awakening that is necessary, preliminary.
Life begins only when the whole framework is
shaken. In our society today, we are dealing
with a shaking that is occurring throughout the
entire world. At the time of this recording,
it's being shown that the leading candidate for
president of France has been tried and charged,
and now she's looking at facing a two -year prison
cycle and not being allowed to run in the election.
And it's interesting because we dealt with something
like that in the United States fairly recently.
And we see the machinations of society that are
trying to take away our viewpoints or make us
invalidated. And they're using every legal means
possible. Because this is the problem when your
countries get too big or too corrupt and they
start adding laws upon laws upon laws. There's
a term within the governments that they believe
that they don't need to make you a criminal because
they've already done that with all the laws they
have. They just have to charge you so that they
can put that stigma upon you. But I want us to
remember, as we work through this scripture that
we're going to use, which is Romans 8, 31 -39,
and we look at this text today about embracing
hardship, is that if we remember all of the...
The disciples became criminals in their own time.
Jesus Christ was tried and executed by the authorities
at the time. So these are hardships that we all
have to be willing to endure because society
is consistently wanted to close the mouths of
those who preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and
close the mouths of the preach freedom to the
people. And we're seeing that in our world today.
In a lot of Western European countries, you are
being told that you are no longer allowed your
voice or even your opinion online because you
will be not only chastened by society, but you
will be potentially imprisoned for speaking out
against what the powers that be deem approved.
Let's look at our text in Romans 8, 31 through
39, God's everlasting love. What then shall we
say to these things? If God is for us, who can
be against us? He who did not spare his own son,
but gave him up for all of us, how will he not
also with him graciously give us all things?
Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?
It is God who justifies, who is to condemn. Christ
Jesus is the one who died and more than that,
who was raised. who is the right hand of God,
who indeed is interceding for us, who shall separate
us from the love of Christ, shall tribulation
or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness
or danger or sword. As it is written, for your
sake we are being killed all the day long. We
are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. No,
in all these things we are more than conquerors,
for though... For through him who loved us, for
I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels
nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor
anything else in all creation will be able to
separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus,
our Lord. Let's pray. Dear Lord God, I pray that
this message will infect people's hearts with
your wisdom, with your power, Lord God. You tell
us in the word of God that your word will never
go and return void, but it'll always impact people's
lives. And we need that impact now more than
ever. As a church, we've cried out for revival,
revival, but we don't need revival. We need an
awakening to happen in our societies again. We
need people to be shaken so that they turn to
Christ and instead of looking down at their own
body, they are looking up to you for salvation.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Lou Holtz said,
winners embrace the hard work. They love the
discipline of it. The trade -off they're making
to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as
a punishment. And that's the difference. And
we want to be winners today for Christ's sake.
And so with that, we have to be able to embrace
the hardship that comes. I found this article
from a guy that I follow quite a bit. His name's
Andy Frisella. I think I probably had to sanitize
this a bit. He's got a bit of a harshness to
his approach. But that's what makes him who he
is in a lot of ways. But he wrote, Winners Embrace
Hardship. And it says, success is hard. Winning
is hard. Achieving your biggest goals in life
is hard. It is not the norm. It is not for everyone.
You won't accidentally win. It's going to be
the hardest thing you've ever done in your life.
And it never ends. Trust me on this. Train yourself
to love the hard. And doing all the hard stuff
is exactly what will help you develop the skills
you need to win in the long term. Grit, resilience,
persistence, fortitude, mental toughness, that's
what wins. Let everyone else cheat themselves
out of their own future. Let everyone else try
to work their way around the discomfort and the
struggle. Let everyone else quit. They are trading
comfort later for comfort now. They just won't
realize it until it's too late. Don't put yourself
in the same situation. Train yourself to love
the hard. All winners do. Our Savior Jesus Christ,
He loves the hard. He didn't have to come to
earth. He's God incarnate. He has all power.
But He chose the hard thing, which was to come
to earth in human form and to willingly go to
the cross for our sins so that we would have
a path back to the Father. And through Him we
have all victory. But then we also now as servants
of the all high, we have a choice. Which brings
me to my first point, which is the mystery of
hardship. And when I want to look at this is
I want to think about, you know, you guys probably
know this person, Tom Brady, a former NFL quarterback.
But what you might not know is that he was a
third string college quarterback. How is it that
he ended up in the Hall of Fame for the NFL?
He was a sixth -round draft pick, number 199.
And a remark about him in this article I found
that talks about how he was finally picked to
be an NFL quarterback, and they said he had a
poor build, he was skinny, and he lacks a great
physical stature or strength. His mobility and
ability to avoid the rush was in question. He
doesn't really have a strong arm. He can't drive
the ball downfield. He doesn't really throw a
super tight spiral. He's a system type player
who can't get exposed if forced to ad lib and
he gets knocked down easily. These are not things
you think of when you think of a... a football
player who's destined for greatness. In fact,
this is not what you'd think of anybody who's
going to make it even into college football,
let alone the great heights that he achieved.
But this is the call. This is the challenge that
we see from Abraham in Genesis 12, one through
three. It says, now the Lord said to Abraham,
Go from your country and your kindred and your
father's house to the land that I will show you.
And I will make of you a great nation and I will
bless you and make your name great so that you
will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless
you and him who dishonors you, I will curse and
in you all the families of the earth shall be
blessed. So by faith, God challenges Abram to
leave everything he knows and to venture out
by faith. This is a monumental challenge. Why
would he be willing to do this? He's called to
live in hope. Abraham made a decision to live
by faith and to place his hopes in the Lord.
This choice is the cornerstone of all the beliefs
of Christianity. Abraham is the father of our
faith, and through this, he decides to act. You
will be blessed and protected, he's told. This
was not a choice that came from blind faith.
It was a decision born out of a relationship
that he cultivated with God. Abram had a relationship
with God, and through that, there was a foundational
trust. When God tells Abram that he will be blessed,
he's also confirming that he will be protected.
Abram's faith came from his closeness and his
knowledge of our Heavenly Father. But this didn't
mean that he'd be without hardship. In Genesis
12, 10, we see Abram and Sarai entering into
Egypt. Now there was a famine in the land, so
Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for
the famine was severe in the land. Just so we're
not confusing it, this means we've never experienced
famine in our land the way that they talk about
in biblical times or the way that some of our
African believers have to deal with in real life.
Famines have happened in our lifetime, but not
to the extent that you read about in the Bible.
When there is literally no food and your only
option is to chance a long, arduous journey into
a foreign country in the hopes that they will
give you asylum or amnesty to be able to survive
the famine. This is something very different.
This is a different kind of hardship than what
we can really conceptualize in our place and
time today. But what is hardship? Here's the
mystery. The famine was grievous in the land.
Abraham was in the land in which God had called
him to and where God had promised to bless him.
But now he's struck with famine. This is the
mystery that shows how blind we are and how...
shallow and selfish we are about the thoughts
of God's holy religion. Hardship, difficulty,
and even famine are accepted readily enough by
man whose aims are to be reached by such endurance.
The difficulty is that there was a purpose to
the famine. Maybe not one that's explained to
your understanding or to the extent that you'd
like to see, but every endeavor worth doing requires
sacrifice. And we see early on in the Bible that
this is a reality. It's a part of life and part
of God's plan. We read about Noah's Ark. We know
that as a result of the curse, man is called
to toil in the soil and that women are to endure
additional hardship and childbearing and motherhood.
What we do not like to think about is how this
fits into what God's plan is for our life or
God's will. Last Sunday, I preached about greed
and I preached about looking at greed as a picture
of your will. When you decide to do things according
to your will outside of the will of God, you
are making a greedy, self -indulgent choice.
And you're ignoring what the will is or what
God's will is for your life. Because growth is
the purpose. The athlete in his training, the
soldier in his calling, the man of science in
his search for truth, the student in his work,
sturdy self -denial as a condition of success.
What science and art and love of travel can stimulate
other men to endure cannot this be the same for
our God. The vision he has called us to requires
a challenge and endurance, and we have to learn
to accept it and rejoice in it as well. Hardship
and discipline are a blessing because of God.
He said, I will bless you and you shall be a
blessing. And because here, as everything else,
hardship and stern discipline have their place
and their work to do. What was God doing in the
background to potentially preserve the greater
nation of Egypt and all the people who he wanted
to save and salvage in that land because of Abram
coming to town? God said it and he knows how
to keep his own promises. But he often uses other
things or other ways or other people to fulfill
those promises. And oftentimes we don't like
his methodology, but that doesn't change his
will. Think of a boat captain and about his experience.
You ask him and he's, you know, like, what kind
of experience do you have? He's, sir, do you
know what to do in a storm? No, says the captain,
I do not. I'm thankful to say that I've always
been kept in the harbor in very smooth waters.
What about a doctor? Would you go to a doctor?
Do you know what to do in case of fever or serious
accident? No, he replies, I do not. I have happily
never been permitted to deal with anything worse
than an occasional cold or headache. We would,
of course, prefer another captain or another
doctor. We would also wonder how they came about
their titles. How do you come about the title
of doctor if you don't know how to mend the broken?
How do you come to the title of captain if you've
never fared the seas? If you've never had to
battle through the storms? Because faith needs
to be undeterred during hardship. Abraham gained
wisdom and discernment during his affliction.
And like all the afflictions he suffered in Egypt
or throughout his sojourning, from affliction
to affliction, to trial to trial, God allows
us to learn and to grow. God is there to protect
our soul even in the darkest times. Oftentimes
that's the protection we most need, but the protection
we least want. Because when you're going through
hardship, you want to whine, you want to complain.
Because we see a picture of this in the Bible
in the book of Job. What a tremendous character
Job had. But even over time, after all his friends
were picking on him, even after his wife was
telling him to curse God and die, it took a lot,
but eventually he was worn down where he complained.
And lucky for us and for the story of Job, he
was able to rebound from that when confronted
by the power of our God. But that doesn't change
the fact that during those hard, dark times,
We can struggle, but we need to maintain our
faith. As Christians, we have to turn to God
for our security and our sustenance. The way
that we can do this, the way we can enable this
or help this in our lives is we can focus on
our mental toughness. We can strive to have faith
like Abraham. But it doesn't get built overnight.
It's a process that can seem very tiring and
tedious, but it is critically necessary. Unfortunately,
some of us, myself included, are slower learners
than others. So that means you might end up going
through more trials, more hardship because of
your own poor choices. Every great MVP like Tom
Brady had a lot to learning to do. So we jump
back into his story. We read this excerpt from
the article. It says, we all have experiences
that we dream about, that we look forward to.
And when we get them, they don't always go our
way. I learned it as a freshman on the football
field just outside of this gym, and again I learned
it as a second -year player who finally got a
chance to play in college. Unfortunately, I learned
it three weeks ago as I lost to the Giants in
the Super Bowl XLVI, but I've always been blessed
with the support of my family and friends, and
also with coaches who committed their best to
me with each opportunity, came an understanding
of the things that it takes to be successful,
and often this happens. through trial and error,
and sometimes through outright failure because
Lord knows I made plenty of mistakes. So whether
I was learning through the watching as I did
my freshman year at Sarah or playing and making
mistakes over the course of my career, I continued
to learn to embrace every hardship and to seize
every opportunity on and off the field. The owner
of my current team, Robert Kraft, has told me
time and time again, every bump is a bounce.
So what I've learned very quickly as a professional
was that your job is always on the line. I am
in what you've done for me lately type of business,
because in all business, there are disclosures.
And investments, it says, past performance doesn't
guarantee future result. And that pretty much
sums up the NFL. What I really like about this
excerpt from Tom Brady himself is it's the recognition
that the work never ends. The challenges will
never stop coming. There will always be new challenges,
and you have to be mentally tough enough to continue
to run the race. In Romans 5, 1 through 5, it
says, Therefore, since we have been justified
by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ. Through him, we also obtained
access by faith into this grace in which we stand,
and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not
only that, but we rejoice in our suffering, knowing
that suffering produces endurance and endurance
produces character and character produces hope.
And hope does not put us to shame because God
loves or God's love has been poured out into
our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been
given to us. So part of mental toughness is your
ability to be resilient. The ability of a person
to adjust to recover readily from illness and
adversity or major life changes is a critical
component of your mental toughness. In 2 Samuel
24, 10 -14, we read about the Lord's judgment
of David's sin. But David's heart struck him
after he had numbered the people, and David said
to the Lord, I have sinned greatly in what I
have done, but now, O Lord, please take away
the iniquity of your servant, for I have done
very foolishly. And when David arose in the morning
and the word of the Lord came to the prophet
Gad, David's seer saying, go and say to David,
thus says the Lord, three things I offer you.
Choose one of them that I may do it. So Gad came
to David and told him and said to him, shall
three years of famine come to you in your land?
Or will you flee three months before your foes
while they pursue you? Or shall there be three
days of pestilence in your land? Now consider
and decide. What answer I shall return to him
who sent me. Then David said to Gad, I am in
great distress. Let us fall into the hand of
the Lord for his mercy is great. But let me not
fall into the hand of man. So King David had
succumbed to sin of the census in this picture
of scripture or portion of scripture. He had
failed and now he sat in judgment. He had to
acknowledge that it was appropriate for him to
be called out. He had to cry out and ask for
God in repentance. And because he did so, and
because of the righteousness of God, he was given
a choice. So there had to be discipline done
for what he had done was outside of the will
of God. And as a leader, there was going to be
repercussions for that onto the people. Just
like any government that we elect or any government
you sit under today. there is a punishment that
does tend to fall on the people for the choices
that our leaders make. And this is just the way
things end up going in our society and our lives.
But that doesn't mean that God isn't acting without
grace in this situation. For the wages of sin
are death, but God is a God of mercy. And so
he gave David the choice. So then we get to persistence,
the act of persisting. is to continue steadfastly
or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action,
especially in spite of opposition. It's very
similar to the word perseverance. In James 1
.25, but the one who looks into the perfect law,
the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no
hearer who forgets, but a doer who acts, he will
be blessed in his doing. So we see this with
the continuation of the story with King David.
He had to persevere through the discipline. Eventually
that discipline was shortened on the people of
Israel because of the consistent prayers of King
David. But we have to persist in our faith if
we're going to be able to cultivate that mental
toughness that we need to serve rightly before
God. Israel waited for generations for the fulfillment
of the promises that many believers never lived
to see. The book of Hebrews in the New Testament
touches on this quite a bit, that they had to
believe before Christ came. The promise to Abraham
sustained hope for centuries before Canaan was
possessed. The lessons of the wilderness journey,
when the waning of the initial zeal prevented
the people from entering the promised land. These
are things that can't be forgotten. They had
to persist even when it was no longer comfortable
to persist. Prophets in the Old Testament constantly
looked beyond failure and tragedy, off to the
distant horizon, and they nourished the people
of Israel and Judea with faith of the coming
Messiah. In the New Testament, everything is
urging us to similar perseverance. Among several
Greek expressions, the usual word is proskaterio,
has a root meaning to attend continually. It
hears steadfastly and is variously translated
devoted, continued, constant, or to be steadfast.
These ideas are throughout the Old Testament
and the New Testament about the importance of
putting your head down and continuing forward
in the path that God has chosen for you. This
persistent patience is called for in prayer in
Luke. 18 and Colossians 4. Later on, it's talked
about in well -doing in Romans 2, 7 and Galatians
6, 9. It goes throughout the entire thread of
the New Testament. In being zealous to confirm
our call and election in 2 Peter 1, 10 is an
interesting piece of scripture that highlights.
That if you're to be called to the will of God
for your life, you need to be zealously moving
forward, even during the difficult times. You
have to preserve, even in the face of failure.
And you have to keep in mind that there are possibilities
of discomfort. There are possibilities of even
being killed for your beliefs, but you have to
be able to persevere. persevere and persist in
that. Because as Jesus said, he who endures to
the end will be saved in Matthew 10, 22. Such
extraordinary emphasis cannot be accidental.
The pressures of the pagan society we live in,
the dangers of persecution, the emotional reaction
after the wonderful initial experience, the apparent
implication of instant salvation, made it an
imperative for Christians to understand that
by their endurance they would inherit salvation.
This idea that you're going to give your life
to Jesus, which is great, it's going to save
your soul, but that doesn't mean that you're
going to be without struggles and trials, tribulation,
persecution, all of these things that Jesus himself
had to go through, you will likely have to go
through as well. And that's why you need to foster
mental toughness and fortitude. mental and emotional
strength, and facing difficulty, adversity, danger,
or temptation, and you need to do it courageously.
The scripture never implies that perseverance
depends entirely upon our effort, though. This
is what sets us apart from what I read from Andy
Frisella, is the fact that we do not reside only
on our own strength, for if we did, we would
fail. In the Old Testament, the redeeming purpose
of God is unswerving. God's covenant stands,
though it needs to be renewed, as it says in
Jeremiah 31. But we need to reside. We need to
abide and we need to cling to our Savior, Jesus
Christ. The scripture makes it very clear that
we will see trials in our life. These are not
meant to discourage us, but rather to enable
us for greater purpose. When Joseph was sold
into slavery by his brothers, that was a pretty
big trial in his life, a pretty hard reality.
for him to face. He was imprisoned and he suffered
permanent damage due to the chains that he was
shackled in. The trial was God's way of hardening
Joseph for greater use. As we know, Joseph would
go on to be the savior for his family as he had
rose to the second highest ruler of Egypt under
the Pharaoh. But he would not have been able
to achieve such great heights had he not been
for the hardship that he went through and the
faith that he maintained prior to that. Moses
spent decades in the desert so that he would
become the leader he needed to be. And then we
get upset when we don't get a promotion within
a year or two years of our current vocation.
And if we don't get what we want, we're out of
here. Or if you're in a marriage and you're not
fighting. To keep that and protect it, you'll
say, oh, well, we just, we fell out of love or
whatever kind of craziness you want to attest
to. There are challenges in life that need to
be fought through because in regards to the marriage
one, not to overemphasize it, but I saw a really
simple illustration. A Christian marriage is
like a triangle with Christ at the top and the
husband and wife on either side. The closer you
get to Christ, the closer you get together in
your marriage. The farther away from Christ,
the farther away you are in your marriage. It's
just an interesting picture. It's not in my notes,
but it's something to think about if you're struggling
in that area. Finally, we see our Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ, suffer the greatest of trials in
order to redeem us back to the Father. And this
is where I come to my third and my final point.
God is for us. In Tom Brady's story, he continues
on and says, there are always going to be younger
and hungrier athletes competing to take your
spot. I got my opportunity when it came. Our
starter, Drew Bledsoe, got injured on my second
year. All the practice meetings and time spent
on the field and in this gym and in the classroom
prepared me to take advantage of the opportunity.
So Romans 5, 6, it says, for while we were still
weak at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly.
For one will scarcely die for a righteous person,
though perhaps for a good person one would dare
even to die. But God shows his love for us in
that while we were still sinners, Christ died
for us. Since therefore we have not been justified
by his blood, much more shall we be saved by
him from the wrath of God. I want to touch on
this real quick. Again, this is not in the notes
either. It's a podcast. If you do what I do,
you can listen to this at 1 .75 speed to kind
of speed up the process. My family doesn't know
how I can do that. It sounds really crazy, but
I do. I listen to all of the podcasts and everything
I listen to at 1 .75 speed. But what I was going
to say with this is that, and this is going to
be quite inflammatory to some of you, but the
picture of Christ dying for those who are sinners
is the picture of Christ dying for someone like
Putin. The picture of Christ dying for someone
like Trump. The picture of Christ dying for someone
like Trudeau. The picture of Christ dying for
whoever it is you hate. Whoever it is you hate
is who Jesus Christ died for so that they might
be saved. I'm not saying they are, not saying
they will be, but so they might be saved if they
turn to him. So let that sink in because I know
that'll affect a lot of people. But Jesus Christ
died for the exact person that you say you hate.
And he died for you as well. So that you might
be saved. Because our God is a God incarnate.
Luke 1, 31 -33 says, And behold, you will conceive
in your womb and bear a son. You shall call his
name Jesus. He will be great and will be called
the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will
give him. the throne of his father David, and
he will reign over the house of Jacob forever.
Of his kingdom, there will be no end. He was
born in lowly stature, our Lord. In Luke 2, we
read the story of him being born in the manger.
And eventually, though, our Savior, Jesus Christ,
died on the cross in Luke 23, verse 33 -34. And
when they came to the place that is called the
skull, There they crucified him and the criminals
on his right and on his left. And Jesus said,
Father, forgive them, for they know not what
they do. And they cast lots and divided his garment.
So again, with a point or a purpose to be inflammatory,
Jesus Christ didn't just die for you, but he
died for all the people you hate. And that's
something you have to remedy in your own soul.
When you're saying, I hate this leader, I hate
that leader, that person's beyond salvation.
Just remember, that's exactly who Jesus came
to die for. When he was eating meals with the
unclean Jewish people, the tax collectors, the
harlots, all this kind of stuff. That is literally
who he came to save. Just as he came to save
you. In Luke 24, 6 -7. He is not here, but he
is risen. Remember how he told you while he was
still in Galilee that the Son of Man must deliver
into the hands of the sinful men and be crucified
and on the third day rise. So C .S. Lewis wrote,
So today, let us embrace hardship just as Jesus
did. And certainly, we can embrace hardship for
him. If I could have every head bowed, every
eye closed, wherever you're listening to this
message, as long as it's safe to do so, I just
want you to take a second to reflect on the message.
Winners embrace hardship. We are victors in Christ
Jesus, but maybe you're not right with Jesus
right now. Maybe you've never given your life
to him. Maybe it sounds crazy. Maybe you're full
of that hate that I touched on where you think,
well, I'm a good person, but all these other
people are so horrible they should die. There's
a lot of that's in our society today. I disagree
with this person. They should die. But Jesus
Christ came for that person you disagree with.
He came to set you free just as much as he came
to set them free. So if you're not right today
and you want to get your heart right, you can
signify that uplifted hand. Wherever you are,
God can see that. If you did raise your hand,
I want you to, and you meant it, God can see
your heart, even though I can't. You can repeat
after me, dear Lord God, I know that I'm a sinner,
but I know that you sent your son, Jesus Christ,
and that he died for my sins. I repent of my
sins. I turn away from them and I accept you
as my Lord and my Savior. In Jesus' name, amen.
That simple prayer is what we colloquially call
a sinner's prayer. And it's just the simple reflection
that you know you need a Savior. So I want to
thank you if you prayed that prayer. Reach out
to me if you did. I'd like to pray for you. I'd
like to thank you for listening. I'd like you
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So we can get this message out to more people
because the reality is we are living in a very
hateful world today. That simple disagreements
are causing people to wish death on even their
closest relatives. We need Jesus, but we also
need to ourselves be mentally tough. And we need
to be winners that embrace hardship for our Savior's
sake. So with that, thank you for listening again.
I'll let you guys go. I'm just going to close
in quick prayer. Dear Lord God, I thank you for
your word, your message, and everything that
you do for us. And I pray that you'd help us
to persevere through the hardship, but to embrace
that hardship as a joy because of what you did
for us on Calvary. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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