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 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast.

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 If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.

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 Thank you for joining us today.

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 So if you could turn your Bibles, in your Bibles, to Acts chapter 7.

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 You're bulletin says Hebrew 7, but today we're doing something different.

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 you'll see why, you know, with everything going on

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 again, Acts chapter 7

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 many of you know the story of Stephen and the martyrdom of Stephen and and so

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 You know as a Calvary Chapel as you know, we teach through the Bible

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 That's the title now. So your title is wrong in your bulletness. We won't be silenced and

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 You know we go through the Bible and

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 Nowadays the news cycle is so fast and furious, isn't it?

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 I mean that you can't even keep up with it. If we try to do a topical study every single Sunday based on the previous week's

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 You'd never actually go through a book of the Bible because there's so much happening, which is really an indication, isn't it?

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 To for end times and so forth. There's a lot happening and it's pretty exciting and yet

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 there's a lot of pain and sorrow that comes with it and

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 With this past week just the heaviness of the week and yet in some ways the the miracles of this week

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 It's such a phenomenon that I as I was reading through I had the Acts chapter

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 I mean Hebrews chapter 7 all planned in the beginning of the week and all of a sudden as the week went on

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 I'm like I just this isn't for today. You know, we have to we have to teach on the

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 freedom of speech, you know with the assassination of

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 You know, it's and the increase of violence to suppress

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 Really just horrendous, isn't it? And yet at the same time we know through Scripture and we're gonna see in this

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 Account of Stephen how when persecution presses down

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 Faith expands. It's just something that happens the courage and every believer suddenly

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 Rises up and we all rise to the occasion

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 This is such a phenomenon. I was just shocked to see all around the world

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 Do you see all the countries that are having prayer vigils for Charlie Kirk's family and also?

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 For the spread of the gospel. It's it's really amazing we have in England. Did you see that?

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 It's like a million-person March right across the bridge. It's amazing. It didn't even like

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 Cave in it's just expansive and South Korea

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 They're they're just having prayer vigils in Australia

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 Italy I saw this one worship service that was just so joy-filled of

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 Young people coming to the Lord and you don't know how awesome that is for old heads like myself

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 for us to see young people

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 Experiencing salvation and experiencing Jesus Christ to us

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 We just thrive on that because that's what it's all about is passing the mantle to the next generation

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 I mean, I'm saved. I have nothing to worry about. I am born again. I'm going to heaven

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 Okay, but to see the next generation saying yes, or I want your will for my life

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 I want to follow you. I want to live for you

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 I need I need your spirit in me to to carry me through to eternity to see that happen is so

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 Certainly Charlie Kirk had an amazing role in that now if you're here saying where this whole thing is gonna be about a man

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 No in the end. It's about Jesus Christ. It really is right. It's not about a person

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 Okay, but this is certainly a spark or a catalyst for something that is going on in this world in this country

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 But even around the world and it's finally it's like we've had enough of trying to shut us up

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 You know because the world needs to know that the deceiver that Satan the devil

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 He is a liar and the first thing he wants to do is suppress the truth

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 You read through Romans 1 and that's what happened to humanity

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 We suppressed the truth and what happened the decadence of humanity, right?

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 And so today we're gonna look at this of this idea of what the Lord says about

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 freedom of speech and also what we're to do in this in this time and

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 Season and you know this message I just want to say isn't about like getting us all filled with angst and anger like yeah

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 They can't do this to us. It's not that at all. It's actually almost the opposite

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 What do we do in this time? How do we how do we?

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 Stored this time this epic time frame in humanity really?

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 I mean we need to be ministers of peace, right?

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 We need to carry the love of Christ in the midst of turmoil

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 Let the devil show his cards reveal himself on how

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 Fearful he is about the truth getting out about humanity. Amen

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 And so as we're thinking about this, you know

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 I've been listening to Charlie Kirk for four years on podcasts and and

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 On the YouTubes and all those things and I think a lot of people do have the wrong idea of him because of the mass

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 Media are always saying he's hateful. He's this he's that

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 He's racist. He's a such a bunch of malarkey. It really is if you've ever listened to him for any time you could realize

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 He was always so gracious

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 all he wanted to do is debate ideas and

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 Discuss ideas challenge people especially kids in college who are being indoctrinated

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 Right of the lies of the enemy. He wanted to challenge their thinking and for that, of course, he lost his life

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 But he also met a lot of resistance all along the way. Okay

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 constantly and he spoke of a variety of things and

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 So there's so much evidence throughout scripture that the Lord has always known us before we were even in the womb

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 The Lord cares about marriage one man and one woman. I mean, that's almost like, you know, you're walking on thin ice

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 You start talking about basics that are scriptural. They're all throughout the Bible, but people don't even know it

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 Separate Christianity because they don't know what God thinks of these things, you know how the Lord feels about transgender

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 But these are still things that God cares and thinks about right?

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 And so we want to think like him. I think the word says we have the mind of Christ, you know

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 About you know work, you know, in fact, you know, he believes that anyone who can work should work

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 Stern isn't it right? He who does not provide for his own family

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 Boom. Yeah, that's biblical. That's in the Bible, right?

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 So these are things that you just don't hear anymore because it's it's politically incorrect

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 Even saying that Jesus is the only way, you know, there's there's

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 Well, the Lord says I am the way the truth in the life. No man comes to the Father

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 Except through me. I mean that's pretty clear, you know

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 Like whether it's homosexuality whether it's transgender whether it's whatever they want to bring an issue to the table

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 To see where you stand and it's right then I start to think well, I really want them to get saved

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 I want to kind of like maybe even appease them a little bit just to get through that question and and but you know

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 What is not doing anyone any favors, you know, I mean the world calls this hate speech

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 Telling what how God feels about things. I call it love speech

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 Really, it's loving them telling them the truth is loving them

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 So I really believe we are on the threshold of a great awakening around the world. I really do

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 I think that the the assassination of Charlie Kirk is going to bring out a spirit of martyrdom

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 And you know martyrdom really first foremost means means actually messenger

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 In fact, I have truth on my side. I could speak truth, you know as we're thinking about this

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 Do you remember in the Bible any time that that freedom of speech was suppressed?

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 You know trying to speak truth to humanity and it being suppressed or trying to be silenced, right?

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 Ahab was a king of Israel and he married a Sidonian woman named Jezebel and you even if you don't read the Bible

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 Jezebel, right and yet Jezebel the first thing she did because she worshipped bail this false

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 Brought forth her own prophets of bail which really didn't have any prophetic utterance, of course for Yahweh and so she

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 Right and then another one is um when they were exiled. Do you remember Shadrach Meshach and Abednego?

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 We're throwing you right in there

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 And you remember what happened they threw in Shadrach Meshach and Abednego into the fiery furnace and so the Nebuchadnezzar say what women

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 There's three there's four people in there. Who's the other one?

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 Well revelation to Nebuchadnezzar

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 They actually were all thrown into the lion's den and so the Lord always knows how to rescue his saints

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 He knows how many days we have on the earth and I always just think of this that how do I want to go out?

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 I want to go out in a blaze of glory and that doesn't necessarily mean being

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 You know, that's what we have a tendency to do. We kind of stay in our comfort zone, right?

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 They spread the gospel everywhere, you know, so the Lord is using this

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 Assassination of Charlie Kirk to spread the gospel everywhere. In fact, you know what Jill just told me this morning

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 He used to have 1.5 million followers

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 He's probably at 15 or 20 by now. I mean, this is epic. This is epic. What's happening here, right?

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 It's a spiritual realm. We know that in fact Ephesians 6 12 says our warfare is not we don't wrestle against flesh and blood

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 Beautiful, I got them right where I want them to be. No one's gonna be able to discern the good guys from the bad

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 Don't we amen and then the next thing we have to speak the truth and love but also not have fear

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 I don't want to miss out on what God wants to do in my life. I don't want to miss out on that

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 He doesn't let other spirits come in and live with him. Right? He's he doesn't he's not a

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 He says what I tell you in the quiet stand up on the roof and shout it out

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 Free indeed and and and the world is so shackled with lies

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 You know this what has happened to Charlie Kirk and others

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 Shackling us. We need to be free of that. We need to be clear-minded and

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 And a full vessel like Jerry was saying a vessel that's just

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 Overflowing overflowing with goodness. We need to be ready because the Lord is counting on you

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 He's counting on you to speak out for him

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 You are his messenger

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 You are his ambassador. He is sending us. Isn't that amazing? Like I don't know if he can trust me

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 Well, he chose you

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 He trusts you

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 Now you have to trust him. Amen. Let's all stand up and Lord

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 We just thank you that you have put us on earth for such a time as this this epic

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 Monumental time to bring many to you Lord and Lord. We need your Holy Spirit to just fill us

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 To fill us right now to complete

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 And if there's anyone here right now who has never

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 Given their lives to Jesus Christ

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 Probably a lot of what I've said right now

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 Is strange and peculiar

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 But right now you can receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior

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 And it's so easy

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 Romans 10 9 10 says if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is the Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him

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 From the dead you will be saved. Why not get saved right here

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 Right now on this epic time

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 This is the moment be a minister of this moment and just pray something like this Father God

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 I am a sinner and

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 I need to be saved. I

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 Believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins. He became my sin on the cross

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 So that I could have eternal life he paid for my sins

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 Offering me forgiveness today. I want to receive that gift of

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 Forgiveness I want to receive you as my Lord and Savior

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 Today, I give you my life. I lay my life down for you right here right now and

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 I asked you to fill me with your living spirit your Holy Spirit

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 In Jesus name

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 Amen, if you did that today, please come up afterwards

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 We'd love to talk to you more and give you a Bible

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 And so may the Lord bless you and keep you may he be gracious to you

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 And may he lift up his countenance and give you peace father God

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 We just thank you that you have chosen us

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 For great things because you are great in Jesus name. Amen. Let's give the Lord a round of applause

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 Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church as we praise God and discuss his word

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 Don't forget to join us for worship lives Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. Eastern on YouTube

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 Be blessed and have a great day

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 You