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right in. I think we have come a long way and
this is wonderful. I will be continuing on women's
dressing. Don't forget that the series is the
issues about women's liberty and for a while
we have been discussing about women's or a woman's
dressing. And we actually took time to explain
Deuteronomy 22 verse 5. And we saw there was
a need for us to look at the background and to
study deeply so that we can interpret that text
correctly. And we ended on Sunday. by saying
that the law in Deuteronomy 22 verse 5 was not
given to believers. So in the first place, to
use that text for a righteous person is already
an error. Are we together? Hallelujah. And so,
there is no basis. It's just like Jesus is talking
to Pharisees and saying, you brutal vipers, and
then you say he's talking to believers. So, today
we will continue in that light just to look at
some other issues around a woman's dressing.
Besides, Deuteronomy 22 verse 5, another text
that is a point of reference when we come to
the issue of dressing is this text, first Timothy
chapter two. And I'll start reading from verse
eight. He said, I desire therefore that the man
pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without
wrath and doubting. In like manner also that
the women adorn themselves in modest apparel,
with propriety and moderation not with braided
hair, or gold or pearls or costly clothings,
verse 10, but which is proper for women professing
godliness with good works. Now verse 9 has been
a cornerstone for many churches for their dress
coats. And particularly that what was known as
modest apparel is normally considered as long
garment. So once you talk about modesty, you're
talking about wearing something that is a gown.
and you are moving with it. Now, I want us to
look at that word, affarel. You know, sometimes
we turn Bible authors to be Englishmen. At least
in this church, we have taught that one downside
of translation, not because the translators desired
it, but one downside is that you don't normally
have a word -for -word match when you are moving
some documents or you are translating from one
language to another. So for that reason, you
battle to choose the appropriate word that will
represent what you are translating. Okay, let's
look at the word apparel in verse 9. Let's leave
modest for now. We're coming back to modest.
Let's look at the word apparel. Apparel was translated
from the Greek word katastole, that is K -A -T
-A -S -T -O -L -E. K -A -S -M -K -A -T -A -S
-T -O -L -E It means lowering to lower something
lowering or letting down or letting down Interestingly
this is the only place this word appears in the
entire New Testament So that means we need to
study it carefully. Now, catastrophe, which is
a noun, is derived from the verb catastello,
which is K -A -T -A -S -T -E -W -L -O. K -A -T
-A -S... T E W L O It's a noun which means to
quiet Sorry a verb which means to quiet to keep
calm or subdue to quiet to keep calm or to subdue
This word is used in act 19 that is katastelo
is the verb used in act 19 verse 35 look at act
19 verse 35 he says and when the city clerk had
quieted the So the word quieted is the word catastello.
Quieted the crowd, he said, men of Ephesus, what
man is there who does not know the city of the
Ephesians is, wait a minute, what man is there
who does not know that the city of the Ephesians
is temple guardian of the great goddess Diana
and of the image which fell down from Zeus was
36. Therefore, since these things cannot be denied,
you ought to be quiet, that word quiet, and do
nothing rashly. So, already we see there that
it is used when a town clerk or the city clerk
quieted, in other words, calmed already a troubled
and excited mob. Are we together? Amen? So, you
see, there is another word again in the English
Bible besides catastrophe. You know, we said
catastrophe is derived from catastrophe, right?
So there is another word to lay down. I mean,
catastrophe. beside catastrophe. You know, in
English, in this text, festimoti, it uses catastrophe
as apparel. So there's another word for apparel
again. It's in fespita. Let's look at fespita.
Chapter three. Let's see another place that used
the English word apparel even though the The
Greek is not the same First Peter 3 verse 3 He
said do not let your adornments be merely outwards
Arranging hair wearing gold or putting on fine
apparel. Then the word there, apparel, was translated
from the Greek word, Chimaetaeon. That is H -I
-M -A -T -I -O -N. H -I -M -A -T -I -O -N. Hymateon
or Hymateon. Now it means, Hymateon means to
dress, that is, sorry, a dress. It's a noun as
well just like katas tole. It means a dress,
an inner or outer, a cloth, garment, a rope,
a remnant, a vesture, or a cloak, anyone. A dress,
a clothe, a garment, a rope, vesture, cloak,
remnant. So, Hemation appears in different places
in the English Bible, the New Testament, about
62 times in the King James version of the Bible.
So Hemation appears several times. It means a
dress. But interestingly, Paul did not use Hemation,
rather he used catastrophe. Now let's go back
to that text. Festimoti. We want to study, why
did he use that? So look at verse 9 of Festimoti.
Look at verse 9 of Festimoti. I mentioned the
two, where we are studying. In like manner also,
that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel,
with propriety and moderation, not with braided
hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing.
Now, to understand this, I think, as we have
always encouraged when we are studying Bible,
is to depend heavily or majorly on the context,
because that will help us to know what Paul used,
why he used, and what it means by apparel there.
Now let's start reading from verse eight. A little
bit and then we'll go down. I desire therefore
that the man pray, everywhere lifting up holy
hands without wrath and doubting. In like manner
also that the women are do themselves in modest
apparel with propriety and moderation not with
braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothings.
But which is proper for women professing godliness
with good works? Please note this word, in verse
9, in like manner. In like manner. It was translated
from the Greek word hosautos. h o s a u t o s
h o s a u t o s it means likewise or similarly
or in the same manner it means likewise or similarly
Or in the same manner, which is there, but another
word is in the same way. Which ways? Which manner?
Amen. So you cannot read verse 9 without verse
8 because it already connects them. You say it
in like manner. Are we together? Oh, talk to
me. Amen. Yes. So that means we want to know
which manna was he talking about or where he
was he talking about in verse eight. Are we together?
So in verse eight, he was talking to men. So
Paul was addressing men. He now said, I desire
therefore that men pray. Okay. Everywhere lifting
up holy hands with that rat. and doubting. So
he was talking to men, he was not talking about
men's dressing. Are we together? He was not talking
about what? Men's dressing. Please note that.
But Paul was addressing order. Paul was addressing
arrangement, conduct, manner during prayers.
Not what they were. but the state of their hearts.
Are we together? That's why he said, without
what? Wrath. Or what? Doubting. See, lift up
holy hands without wrath and doubting. And then
he moves straight away. Please, for now, disregard
these verses. He now say, in like manner. So
that means the subject of his discussion is not
dressing. Are we together? He's not dressing.
He now said in like manner. He then moved from
men to women. So that means his emphasis or direction
he was talking to men, that is the same direction
he is also talking to the women. Are we together?
That's why that word, in like manner, is crucial.
Then you move to women, in verse 9, in like manner
also. That the women adorn themselves. You know,
sometimes when we hear the word adorn, the first
thing that comes to us is about painting, you
know, about fashion, what we wear outside. But
he said adore themselves in modest apparel with
propriety and moderation. So to the women by
using in like manner also, Paul suggests that
just as men must resolve issues internally, because
he talks about rats, doubting, are we together?
He was focused on the heart, internal issues,
first and foremost. For them to pray effectively,
he now said, women also, in that manner, should
adore themselves in modest apparel. Here, modest
apparel, as we have noted in the word study,
Is talking it will not be talking about dressing
But it will be referring to the menu behavior
Because manners personal bearing Now if cut us
to lay what we studied which is apparel means
a dress the word in like manner will not make
sense here as it will mean Paul was moving because
he wouldn't say in like manner because if he
is just discussing men on their attitudes and
conducts he will not say in like manner because
he would just go straight to talk about the physical
in regards to the women. Just follow me. So Paul
was not just moving from men talking about their
spiritual requirement to just women focusing
on purely material or the outside. Now, let's
look at the word modest, that word modest. The
word modest in verse 9, when you say modest apparel,
was translated from the Greek word cosmos. Cosmos
is an adjective which means well -arranged. actually
it has a link with the word cosmos it is it means
well arranged orderly simply of good behavior
This word is used only in two places. That's
this word modest. Only in two places in the New
Testament. The first one is of course here in
1st Timothy chapter 2 verse 9, our text. The
second one is in the next chapter, immediately
Paul still used the same word. modest. In 1 Timothy
chapter 3 verse 1, well let me read the place
exactly, verse 2. Look at verse 2. A bishop then
must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate,
sober -minded, of good behavior. That word of
good behavior is the word modest. of good behavior.
So, the word cosmos is now seen here as a qualification
for a bishop. They're not talking about dressing.
As a qualification of a bishop. This shows that
the word described is referring to order. or
a well -regulated life. Not talking about dressing.
So, now that we have seen what in the word study
and looking at the context, let's move to the
next verse, which is verse 10. He now said, let
me read verse 9 first, in like manner also, like
that means, In the manner in which I spoke to
the men, he said that women adorn themselves
in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation,
not with braided hairs, or gold, or pearls, or
costly clothings, but instead, he said, goth.
which is proper for women professing godliness
with good works. With good works. So in verse
10 here, Paul clarifies that his focus through
adornment for a godly woman isn't something she
puts on her body. So the emphasis he was making,
of course, we are coming back later on, because
what Paul is trying to teach here has, of course,
implication on our dressing. But that's not the
first thing he is talking about, because most
times the word, once we interpret it wrongly,
it deviates from the direction or the emphasis
of the text. But the focus is good works. But
where is this good works coming from? It flows
from her character. That's why the emphasis,
and I wanted to see verse 9. More or less verse
9 puts what Paul first is emphasizing. and then
said, I'm not talking about outward appearance,
I'm talking about the character of the woman,
just the same way he was talking to the men.
So we can divide the empathy, I mean, or what
Paul was saying here into two. The first one
is spiritual, which means he's talking about
the inner, the heart, the character, which is,
look at it, he said, So it's in no doubt that
Paul uses the word propriety and moderation.
It's not a mystic. It's an order. So modest apparel
is related to propriety, is related to moderation,
these three. So in our set, not. So that means
these three is not talking about dressing at
all. Modest apparel. Propriety and moderation.
They are not talking about dressing. So in our
said not, they is talking about the outwards,
which is a second, the material things, the braided
hair, the gold, the pearls, the costly clothing.
So by saying that the women adore themselves
in modest apparel with propriety, and moderation,
not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or
costly clothings. Pearl was emphasizing character,
spiritual attitude, the inner attitude. That
is the modest apparel, the propriety, the moderation
over out -toward appearance, which is the braided
hair. the gold, the pearls, the costly clothings.
So Paul is discussing priorities here. He was
not given a dress coat. You know what I'm saying?
You know, that word, apparel, cutters, telo,
or tole, sorry. talks about letting down or lowering.
So because of that thing, and of course in Greek,
sometimes in the secular Greek, what I mean secular
Greek, I mean the one that is not captured within
scriptures, the language itself, sometimes is
also used as a dress. So translators, if you
look at others, translators, I mean translations
of the Bible, they use dress in there. Because
they assume that it's talking about long dress.
You do want something? Because it's letting down.
Of course, it's sometimes used elsewhere, that
is outside the scripture, as dress. But it's
also used as character. But I don't know why
the translators in most of the translation pick
the dressing instead of the character, because
even in the Greek general language it's also
used as character, just the same way as it's
used also as a dress. So what Paul is talking
here is that the woman give priority to her character.
that eventually produce good works. So it's about
piety. That's why he said not, right? That is
the focus. The piety should not be on appearance,
on braided hairs, on gold, on pearls, on costly
clothings. The piety should be on her character.
attitude, you understand, and eventually produces
or will produce good work. He said, that's why
Vaisten says, but which is proper? That is, once
the focus is the insight, it is proper. That
is what is proper for godly women or women professing
godliness with good works. The word propriety
means reverence. The word propriety means reverence.
It is used in two places in the New Testament.
One is in this first Timothy 2 .9 and the other
is in Hebrews chapter 12 verse 28. That word
propriety which means reverence is used in the
other place that is used is in Hebrews chapter
12 verse 28 verse 28 says therefore Since we
are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken
Let us have grace by which we may serve God acceptably
With reverence that what reverence is propriety
The word moderation, let's go back to first Timothy
2 verse 9 The next word is moderation The word
moderation there means self -control or propriety
Self -control or propriety that is S -O -B -R
-I -E -T -Y. This word is used only in three
places in the New Testament. One is in 1 Timothy
2 -9. The other is in 1 Timothy, just some verse
ahead. 2 -15, look at verse 15. Nevertheless,
she will be saved In childbearing, if she continue
in faith, love, holiness, with self -control,
that word self -control is the word moderation.
Is the word moderation. Now you see also where
it appears here, he's not talking about dress,
he's talking about character, attitude. Are we
together? The other one is in... Act 26 was 25.
Act 26 was 25. What he said, I am not mad. Oh,
Act 26. I think I mix this. I'll check it out.
I'll tell us. But that's the second one is in
act. Are we together? oh yes the word reason
i'm not hungry you understand means with uh with
uh with which you are not you understand are
we together amen so the mention of the word modest
now the modest as we see are we together is not
in relation in all the places that this is used
it's not in relation to dressing it's in relation
to behavior to conduct So the mention of modest
apparel, propriety, are we together? Which means
reverence and moderation or self -control aligns
together. That means emphasis of Paul is on character,
on the attitude, on the inner posture. It shows
Paul's call for order, for being quiet, godly
behavior and conduct. and of course translating
into good works when you read verse 10. So the
main message of the text is not teaching a dress
code that you must wear long gown. You understand?
That's not what he's saying. Paul cannot give
dress code. Of course, we will always use the
word modest as in use of English. You understand
what I'm saying? In terms of let your dressing
be modest, meaning don't be appear to provoke
lust. Are we together? But this is not the text
we will use. Here is talking about not dress
code. The style of a dress. Just like some people
have interpreted the tronomy 22 .5 as also dress
code for believers. A style of a dress. Women
you cannot wear trouser. You know, when your
village people are following you, that's how
you do. So, all men can not wear this. No, it's
not about dress code. No. But the teaching of
Paul that women should focus on a character,
does it have implication in their dressing? Yes.
What about the men? Yes. Also. I want us to note
that word, go back to first, Timothy. He now
said that women should adorn themselves. That
means the emphasis is adorning yourself. The
focus is that, and what do you adorn themselves?
He said the adorning of a woman should be first,
or the character must be prioritized. That is
it. Her character must be prioritized above her
outside. That's why he said not wheat. You know
because so many people interpreted the first
one and many churches and they are sincere but
they are wrong. You see being sincere is different
thing. Being right is a different thing. So people
are forced if you enter the church you see like
a dress code as if it's a profession. When you
enter a hospital, you see doctors in white, some
in blue, attendants in the same color. When you
enter a certain church, you see everybody looking
almost the same. And they point to some of these
texts and say, that's what the Bible is saying.
No, that's what the Bible is saying. So the priority
is to add on yourself. You know, because this
generation, we are more attached to material
world. So immediately we are adorned. The first
thing is physical. You understand? It doesn't
occur that no, it can be the inner part that
we're talking about. So you adorn yourself with
this character, with reverence. You understand?
With modest apparel that is orderly, well -behaved.
You understand? With self -control. And there
is a note. By using the word not with braided
hair or gold or pearls or costly clothings Paul
was not suggesting is prohibiting these items
because this is the problem Then they prohibit
you cannot many churches don't wear. What do
you call it? Attachment rights. Yes is because
of this they say Paul said not that is he prohibited
Not! With gold, with pearls, with costly clothing.
And I'm just wondering, who measure what is costly?
I was here, I traveled back to meet my damsel.
When I spoke to her and she said she will follow
me. You know, at that time I paid the flight
ticket. It was 4 ,000 Tia, to and fro. At that
time, I think it was around, that 4 ,000 tier
was barely, around three, 400 ,000, something
like that. I forgot. So when I arrived and my
uncle saw me, he said, you, since you have gone,
you have not returned to this country. I said,
the problem is that it's a flight ticket. How
much is a flight ticket? You can't access the
car. I said, it's 400 ,000. He said, did you
understand what he said? Now that one you are
saying is not money to somebody is because it's
expensive. So how do you measure costly clothing?
The one you are wearing, if somebody sees in
your village, they will pursue you. You say you
are wasting resources. You carry that money to
go and buy shoe. What shoe? So, you know, when
you are blind by religion, you will be thinking
that my own is all costly. It's their own that
is costly. Did you understand what I'm saying?
So, because you're using your mole to measure
everyone. Don't do that in the sun. Because...
Many years ago, what you are affording now, you
couldn't afford it, but now you could afford
it. It looks normal to you, but it wasn't normal
five years, 10 years ago. So Paul will not be
saying that he's prohibiting those things, no.
Remember, when you miss the main thing, you keep
going saying other things. Paul is saying no.
While we do and wear those things, your priority,
where is it? I'm coming to that. But I want to
finish with the interpretation first. Are we
together? Amen? So stay in the context. He was
not saying you should dress shabbily. Are we
together? He was not saying you should dress
shabbily. Some people have taken shabbiness as
a mark of holiness You want to appear in a tart
way so that they will say you are humble No,
no not at all Some of us have refused to learn
how to dress Because the Bible said don't consider
it. It is prohibited You don't know colors When
you dress they will see you as if you're a firefighter
That's not what Paul is saying Listen, it's good
to dress properly. So by interpreting katastole,
that is apparel, as diminu, as orderly conduct,
now the passage becomes clearer that Paul was
giving instruction on worship. Because if you
look at it, that's where he started. Are we together?
Amen. Yes. He started by talking to men. He said,
be careful, wrath. Doubting, disputing. That's
that word, disputing. He now said, in like manner,
women, in like manner. Your focus should be your
character. Your focus should be your character.
So Paul's emphasis starts with the inner adornment,
verse nine, and then he ends in the practical
expression of it. So if you are going to please
and walk in the ways of God, Your emphasis must
be on your inner beauty that translates into
expressions of good works. We should see that
more than any other thing. Are we together? We
should see that more. That is what it means by
emphasis. When somebody Visit your house. What
is the first thing that is greeted with? Is it
40 shoes? Huh? Or is greeted by an attitude?
Many people because of my house, I had to be
teaching many of us. We read the Bible, pray
in tongues, but there's this attitude, you understand,
that is lacking. You see an elderly person, you
understand, in your head, it does not occur to
you that this person deserves respect. You come
and pass as if you brush the person. No. In the
church you always complain, I was sick, they
didn't call me, they didn't visit me. How many
people did you call? You is everyday complaining,
they didn't visit me. You are not focused on
developing an inner beauty that translates into
daily good works. Hallelujah. So modest apparels
is modest quietness, not a loud woman. That's
what it means. That's what it means. In terms
of behavior, means somebody that is not loud.
You know, that's why I use that. Greek word I
invented. Raga, raga, raga. You understand what
I'm trying to say? That's what he's talking about.
It's not referring to clothes. Modest Apparel
is talking about quiet spirit. It implies an
attitude that is worthy of emulation. a way and
a manner of doing things that reflect your identity
in Christ. It reflects on all that a good conduct.
That's exactly what Peter was teaching. First,
Peter chopped the tree. Let's go there now. If
you ever have any parallel texts that was discussing
the same thing I was teaching, it was Peter.
Are you in verse, Peter, chapter three? He said,
wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husband
as Husband that even if some do not obey the
word, they without a word may be won by the conduct
of their wives. What's the emphasis? Conduct.
What's the emphasis? Conduct. Look at verse two.
When they observe your chaste conduct accompanied
by fear, Verse three, do not let your abdomen
be merely outwards, arranging the hair, wearing
the gold, or putting on fine apparel. Rather
let it be the hidden person of the heart. incorruptible
beauty of a gentle and a quiet spirit, which
is very precious in the sight of God. For in
this manner, in the former times, the holy women
who trusted God also are done themselves. Did
you see what we were talking about? The adamant.
Is a bill submissive to their own husbands. Asera
obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, that is master.
Whose daughters you are, if you do good and are
not afraid with any terror. Did you see that?
So Peter, like Paul, was contrasting outward
adornment with the hidden person of the earth,
of the heart. So this instruction is timely.
It's timely because of this day we are in what
we normally call the attention economy. The temptation
to focus on the physical appearance above the
good works, the attitudes, the character is high.
I want to ask you, how many hours do you spend
in the front of Miro? Refining. adjusting tilting
straightening coiling compared to the time you
spent to build the inner character in prayer,
in the world. You know, I don't have a problem
with you making and looking good, but I have
a problem with the priority. There are some sisters
that are sad. They spend more than two days making
me hair. Two days. But check, they are canonical.
Something you just, few minutes you read it a
day. They are, they don't even know where they
are. They are like jumping frogs. They will do
today, today, today. Then they will jump two
weeks. Then they will do one, two. Then they
will jump another two weeks. That is what Paul
is addressing. That's what Peter is addressing.
Your attitude, it stinks. It stinks. I mean your...
Character is not just about you, it's about also
your mission. Did you understand what I'm saying?
Yes. To the woman we are reading in Peter, he
said, even if her husband did not obey the word,
he would be warned when he will see her chase
conduct. So that means there are people who have
heard the word, but they are still disobedient.
So don't look down because there is supposed
to be the attitude, our attitude supposed to
be given a parity. Are we together? How much
do we invest in your cosmetics, in your hair.
You know, I told my wife, stop, forget about
these sisters. She'll be say, ah, maybe they
don't have money. I want to give them discount
when I'm making hair for them. I say, I laugh.
You'll be shocked. And always she's shocked.
Because the same person that she's pitying that
doesn't have money, if she sees how they blow
money, she'll tell you, my love. hey i can't
believe it i say welcome back you see you come
here to support god's work and you will give
20 tears shame on you understand it's a shame
i'm telling you it's a shame but you can carry
two thousand three thousand tears to just put
on here, one hair. You understand? Just to make
your nails. You understand what I'm saying? Sometimes
they will say $150, no problem. You just give.
When you be coming, sometimes fastidious to tell
us the TL is even torn. That is a misplaced priority.
Something is not happening in you. Understand?
Let me tell you the truth. There are a few things
that should be markers. Write it. You will know.
I'm telling you the truth. That you will know.
These are markers of your spiritual life. If
you see them doing sheke sheke sheke, know that
that's the reality. Where you spend your money
more. That's where your heart is. Forget about
I love the Lord. You don't know. You don't. You
don't. You don't. Where are your money going
more? That's where your heart is. Check. Look
at in a month, check all the year. Look at where
do I spend more of my money? You will know where
your heart is. Another thing is prayer. It tells
you whether you are healthy. Did you get what
I'm trying to say? So I can keep telling you
some of these markers. It's no use, you will
know. Is Paul saying you shouldn't buy shoes?
No. Is Paul saying you shouldn't have your hair?
No, that's not what he's saying. But he's saying
the priority should be on your character that
eventually is expressed through good works. You
have to be deliberate in this season of your
life. You have to be deliberate. When people
come close to you, they need to be provoked.
They need to feel that I need to work more for
God. Are you a quenching machine? One that quenches
people's fire? Immediately they come close to
you, they stop coming to fellowship. That is
what Paul is addressing here. It's not long clothes.
You know something? It's not a style of addressing.
It's the attitude of the heart. You know, I've
watched so many things. You have to adjust. Many
of us are individualistic because I discovered
that, sir, this place, this country, somehow
subtly, if you're not careful, it makes a person
selfish. Many of the homes we are staying in
were selfish. You go out, you don't discuss with
anyone, you don't talk to anyone. When you come,
you know, I understand. But I'm saying you be
careful. I'm not saying you allow yourself to
be taken advantage of. but i'm saying be careful
lest your your love will wax coil i see that
when they enter my house they finish drinking
water they will just go and wash their own cup
alone and they found so many things inside the
sink they only wash their own because that if
you give them food they they eat you know they
will just go they are seeing all that is there
no matter what they will just carry sponge and
clean their own and keep it and go you see your
life I am saying be careful because that's how
you know when inequality is growing okay you
know the rest you can complete it but what I
am saying is that you have to be careful in these
seasons of your life so the modesty Paul is talking
about is not a call To reject beauty is to prioritize
spiritual substance. Something more heavier.
So it asks whether our outwards appearance, that's
the question. Your outwards appearance, is it
a proper, is it an honest reflection of your
inner quiet spirit? Catastellu. Or a Marx, you
understand? That is designed to hide your soul
disorder. That the soul is in desire, but the
outside is a Marx. For our modern sisters and
brothers, the challenge remains to be as well
arranged in character as we strive to be in appearance.
That's the challenge. To what? To be as well
arranged in character as we strive to be in appearance.
Can you just pray? Say, Lord, I need you to help
me. Sometimes some of these attitudes is because
of the generation that we are. There is an emphasis
on appearance than substance. Lord, I want you
to help me. Can you pray? We appreciate you being
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