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\par \par Today I want to be talking to you about the keys to a beautiful life.
Acts chapter three and if you would like the secret to a beautiful life pay
attention. We read together now the first 10 verses. "Now Peter and John went up
together into the temple at the hour of prayer in the ninth hour and a certain man
lame from his mother's womb which tarried laying daily at the gate of the temple
which is called Beautiful to ask alms of them that entered into the temple. He
seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked of them alms. And Peter
fastening his eyes upon him with John said, Look on us, and he gave heed unto them
expecting to receive from them, then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none, but
such as I have give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and
walk. And he took them by the right hand and lifted him up. Immediately his feet
and ankle bones received strength and he reaching up stood and walked and entered
with them into the temple walking and leaping and praising God. All the people saw
him walking and praising God and they knew that it was he that sat for alms at the
beautiful gate of the temple. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at
that which had happened unto him." Now what was the result of all of this? The
result was that perhaps 30,000 people came to Christ. Look if you will in chapter
four and verse 4, "Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed and the
number of men was about 5,000." How many women were there? Well if you know
anything about worship you know generally there's more women than men. Women have a
softer heart. People would come and go. He's right there at the gate of the temple.
That gate of the temple was called Beautiful. It was gorgeous. It really was a
Corinthian gate made of i Corinthian brass overlaid with silver and gold panels.
And when the sun would come up over the mount of Olives and burst upon that gate
that looks toward the east it would just dazzle- you. Almost blind you in its
beauty. It was unspeakably beautiful and it came to be known as the beautiful gate,
the gate called beautiful. And here's this man just outside that beautiful gate
because he cannot: enter through it because Levitical law says that a man deformed
cannot enter past that gate. He's on the wrong side of a beautiful life. He's just
outside the gate. And he's crippled. Now Peter and John come and they see him and
he says, "Alms." And Peter and John, they didn't have any money. They were like
that preacher when he went to cash his check and the banker said, "I hate to give
you these old dirty bills." He said, "That's alright, no germs could live on my
salary." Heh, heh. That's the way they were. They didn't have anything. They said,
"Silver and gold have I none." Oh, but they had something better than silver and
gold. They said, "But such as I have give I thee." And friend that's something we
all ought to have, Jesus. And then they said, "In the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth rise and walk." And they take him by the right hand and lift him and
immediately his ankles and his feet receive strength. And he realizes he's been
healed. Now the next chapter tells us he'd been this way for 40 years. A forty year
old man never walked. Men are hard headed and hard hearted. So I would imagine
there were more women there. It doesn't mention anything about the children and if
we should just simply say 5,000 men and 5,000 women and 10,000 children, 2 children
for every man and woman, that's 20,000. Just the men were 5,000 that were converted
in this one service. You talk about Pentecost where there were 3,000 saved on the
day of Pentecost. Folks it is beginning to build. And now in a single service
20,000 come to our Lord and Savior. Now what was the background. Something
happened. Three basic ingredients. I want you to see them. Number one, these people
who were saved were confronted with a miracle and there was the miracle that
confronted them. It was the healing of a man that had been lame or crippled from is
birth. Ken was born his father or mother took him and examined him as all mothers
do little babies. They noticed that something was not quite right with the little
babies feet, his rankle bones had not developed. His little feet somehow were not
whole like feet should normally before little babies. And little boy never learn to
walk. When other boys would go out to skip and run and play he couldn't. Later on
when other men went to work there w as no work he could do. All they could do was
to take this man, and loving friends would take him every day and put him down
there at the gate to the temple, the gate that was called Beautiful. He had his
little tin cup there. And as people would come and go to worship he would cry out,
Shatish, Shatish, Alms, help the poor, help the poor. And people would drop their
pennies and their coins into his cup. Day after day that's the way he lived. People
would come and go. He's right there at the gate of the temple. That gate of the
temple was called Beautiful. It was gorgeous. It really was a Corinthian gate made
of Corinthian brass overlaid with silver and gold panels. And when the sun would
come up over the mount of Olives and burst upon that gate that looks toward the
east it would just dazzle you. Almost blind you in its beauty. It was unspeakably
beautiful and it came to be known (\ as the beautiful gate, the gate called
beautiful. And here's this man just outside that beautiful gate because he cannot
enter through it because Levitical law says that a man deformed cannot enter past
that gate. He's on the wrong side of a beautiful life. He's just outside the gate.
And he's crippled. Now Peter and John come and they see him and he says, "Alms."
And Peter and John, they didn't have any they were like that preacher when he went
to cash his check and the banker said, "I hate to give you these old dirty bills."
He said, "That's alright, no germs could live on my salary." Heh, heh. That's the
way they were. They didn't save, they said, "Silver and gold have I none." Oh, but
they had something better than silver and gold. They said, "But such as I have give
thee." And friend that's something we all ought to have, Jesus. And then they said,
"In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise and walk." And they take him by the
right hand and lift him and immediately his ankles and his feet receive strength.
And he realizes he's been healed. Now the next chapter tells us he'd been this way
for 40 years. A forty year old man never walked. Not one step had he taken. And now
he's leaping and dancing and praising God. And now he enters into the gate
beautiful, into the temple of God, in with the people of God. Loving God, serving
God, praising God with the people of God. A miracle. Well you say, "Pastor, do you
have the power to perform a miracle like that?" No, I don't. And I'm not expected
to have. Acts chapter 12, uh chapter 5 and verse 12 tells us that these were the
works., the miracles of an apostle. "By the apostles hands these kind of miracles
were done." Now God gave the apostles special power. You can read in II Corinthians
chapter 12 and verse 12 where the apostle Paul there is arguing his apostolic
authority. And he says listen, "One way that you can know that I am an apostle is
that the works of an apostle are done by me, signs and wonders." God gave the
apostles certain powers to authenticate, authenticate the message of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ. And these were special miracles wrought by the hands of the
apostles to give authenticity to the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now in
Acts chapter 4 this miracle is called a sign. A sign. Now why is it called a sign?
It was more than a miracle, it was a miracle with a message. That is there was a
sermon in this miracle. It was meant to illustrate an even greater truth. And it
would be a shame if all you see is the physical miracle. We don't deny the physical
miracle, but there's a greater miracle and a greater truth that lays behind this
uh, uh, You see, all of us, this man was born crippled and he represents all of
those of us who are spiritually and morally crippled by birth. The Bible says "In
sin did my mother conceive me." Here's a man who cannot walk. And here's a man who
cannot work. And here's a man who could not worship. And what he needed was a touch
of Almighty God. More than merely in the physical realm, but in the spiritual
realm. When, you see, these miracles that Jesus did, John, the apostle, calls them
also signs. And when Jesus opened blinded eyes the greater truth is that men are
spiritually blind. And "except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of
heaven." And when Jesus unstopped deaf ears the greater miracle is that men need
their spiritual ears unstopped because Jesus said, "Men have ears but they do not
hear." And when Jesus raised the dead he was giving the greater lesson that men are
dead in trespasses a-d sin and Christ said, "I've come that you might have life and
have it abundantly." Talking to people whose hearts were already beating. But,
"I've come that you might have life." w And when Jesus through the Apostles healed
this man then what he was saying was this, that all of us need a touch from God to
live a beautiful life. To walk the walk of God, to do the work of God, to worship
God, to go through that gate of God, into the house of God, with the people of God.
To have a beautiful life. He wants to make something beautiful of your life today.
So these men were confronted with a miracle. The miracle that confronted them. Now
I want you to notice several things about this miracle. The very first thing that I
want you to notice, it was a miracle that could not be reasonably
denied. Look in verse 11, "And as the lame man that was healed held Peter and John
all the people ran together unto them in the court which is called Solomon's,
greatly wondering." I mean it was there folks. The only way you could deny this
miracle was to close your eyes. They knew him, for 40 years this man had been
begging. They knew him. It could not be reasonably denied. Secondly, it was a
miracle that could not be humanly explained. Look in verse 12, "When Peter saw unto
the people saying Israel why marvel ye at this, or, why look ye so earnestly on us
as though by our own power or holiness we have made this man to walk." Don't give
us the credit for it. We don't take the credit for this. There is no human
explanation for what has happened. It could not be reasonably denied, verse 11. It
could not be humanly explained, verse 12. And therefore it could not be lightly
dismissed, verse 13. Here's what Peter said, "The God of Abraham and of Isaac and
of Jacob, the God of our Fathers hath glorified his son Jesus whom ye delivered up
and denied him in the presence of Pilot when he, that is Pilot, was determined to
let him go." Now what is Peter saying? Peter is saying, "You want to know who did
this. Jesus. You've still got Jesus on your hands." I mean this Jesus that you
denied, this Jesus that you delivered up, this Jesus you thought you crucified,
this Jesus that thought you finished with. He's the one who healed him. They
couldn't get rid of Jesus. They are like the man who brought a new boomerang and
killed himself trying to throw the old one away. Jesus just keeps coming back and,
and, now he's saying what are you going to do about it. I mean you can't lightly
dismiss that a miracle has been done. Now folks, let me tell you something. If you
don't believe in Jesus Christ let me tell you something. You've still got Christ on
your hands and He's still performing miracles. I mean, listen, you're going to have
to be confronted with a miracle. His life was a miracle. His death, burial,
resurrection and ascension is a miracle. The physical miracles such as the healing
of this man and spiritual miracle such as my own life. You say, "Oh, you're
bragging." Oh no, friend, I'm testifying. My life is a miracle, a miracle. You
can't explain what has happened to Adrian Rogers. You'll never explain what has
happened to me these blessed years since I've known Jesus except that God worked a
miracle in my heart and in my life. I know it is so. I know day by day that the
life I live is a miracle life, that God is alive and He's doing something in me.
And every Christian whose been changed by the power of God and all of those who
will open our eyes and look around will have to testify unless we have bigotry and
prejudice that God is a God of miracles. He's still changing lives today. I heard
of a little girl who was standing at the edge of a crowd while her daddy was giving
testimony. It was a street meeting, an old fashioned salvation army street meeting.
This man was standing up testifying how Jesus Christ had saved him and delivered
him from this alcoholism and his craving for drink and the old life that he had and
there was a cynic in the edge of that crowd who said, "Oh, why don't you just shut
up and sit down. You're just dreaming." Just dreaming. That cynic felt that little
girl pull and tug at his coat. And that little girl, who was a beautiful little
girl, quite mature for her age, said, "Sir, that's my daddy you're talking about.
You say my daddy is dreaming. Let me tell you about my daddy. My daddy used to be a
drunkard~ He used to come home drunk. He used to hit my mother and she would cry
most of the day." And he said, she said, "We didn't have good clothes to wear
because my daddy spent all of his money ,on whiskey." She said, "Sometimes I didn't
even have shoes to wear to school. But," he said, she said, "Look at these shoes,
took at this dress. My daddy has a good job. Over there is my Mother. She's happy
now. She doesn't cry around the house now, she sings around the house. Even when
she's ironing, my mother is happy now. And Jesus changed my daddy. And Jesus has
changed our home. And if my daddy is dreaming, please don't wake him up." Amen. Oh
listen, let me tell you something friend, He is a God of might, and there are
miracles that cannot be denied And the first step is this, they were confronted
with a miracle. But notice not only the miracle that confronted them, but notice
secondly the murder that condemned them. Ah, now Peter goes on, now that he has
their attention he begins to say in verse 14, "But ye denied the Holy One and the
Just and desired a murderer to be granted unto you and killed the prince of life
who, God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses." And now Peter points
his finger in their face and he accuses them of murdering the Prince of Life. And
the way he did it is this. He said, "Do you remember what you did? You were in that
crowd when Pilate said, Which of these two men shall I release unto you? Barabbas
or Jesus." Now remember Pilate said, "I'm going to release a man to you today.
Which of the two?" Peter said, "You denied the Lord. And you chose a murderer to be
released." Now I want to tell you something ladies and gentlemen, God arranged that
Barabbas was a portrait and a picture of every unsaved man, woman, boy and girl in
this world. Think about it. In the first place the Bible tells us that Barabbas,
that man that was released that day, that man they chose that day was a thief. And
every man without Christ is a thief. Oh you say, don't call me a thief pastor. Well
I just called you one. You say, "Why am I a thief. I don't steal." Listen, if you
haven't given God the glory, if you have not submitted your life to your Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ you have robbed him of that glory that is due to his holy name
and you live here on this earth and you walk God's green earth, breath God's pure
air, receive God's sunshine and God's rain. You eat God's food and God is your
Landlord and you do not serve Him, you have stolen from God. The Bible says, "You
have robbed me, even this whole nation. You are cursed with a curse." The earth is
the Lord's and the fullness thereof. And you owe to Him, you owe to Him dear friend
that allegiance and that alliance that service that's His. You fail to give it you
steal. Not only was Barabbas a thief, Barabbas was a rebel. The Bible says he was
arrested for insurrection. And every man, woman, boy and girl without the Lord
Jesus Christ is a rebel against God. When you refuse God, when you refuse Christ,
it is not just merely that you miss a blessing. What unbelief is a clenched fist in
the face of God. It says, "God, if there be a God, you're not big enough to make me
serve you. I am my own God. I'm going to live my own life." And there's rebellion
against Almighty God and the crime of the man without Christ, are you listening, is
the crime of high treason against heaven's king. But not only was Barabbas a thief,
and not only was he a rebel, but he was a murderer. That's what Peter tells us
right here. "You denied, you received a murderer. You chose a murderer and you
denied the Prince of Life." You going to charge me with murder." I just did. You're
a murderer. You say, "I never killed anyone." You killed the Son of God. You killed
the Son of God. You see, when you chose Barabbas you deny Jesus. You say, "Well I
want Barabbas, but I don't want to deny Jesus." Listen friend, it's never Christ
and Barabbas, it's always Christ or Barabbas. Jesus said in Matthew 12, verse 30,
"He that is not with me is against me. And he that gathereth not with me scattereth
abroad." It was our sins that nailed Jesus Christ to the cross. Our hard hearts
drove those nails. And maybe those people there that day, those 20,000, they didn't
literally nail Jesus Christ to the cross, but I want to say Peter said, "You
murdered Him." Murdered Him. If you're not with Him you're against Him. If you
don't crown Him you crucify Him." And in God's court, in heaven's court it was our
sins that crucified him and we're implicated in his murder. Dr. Robert G. Less,
former pastor of this church, one time was witnessing to a man and the man was
getting under conviction of sin and he said, "Well preacher I guess I've done just
about everything except kill a man." Dr. Lee said, "You did that too. You did that
too. Now listen, what he does is this, to bring them under conviction. oh, God,
Holy Spirit, help people who sit in church this morning, so blessed, so nice, and
so cultured, people who come and go to understand in the sight of God that they are
guilty of Deicide, the murder of God. The same kind of crowd that was there in the
Temple area that day is the crowd that listens to me today. People who were
religious little dreaming the crime that condemned them. Now notice, first of all
there was a miracle that confronted them. Secondly there was a murder that
condemned them. Now thirdly, after this platform is laid, there was a message that
converted them. Once they've seen these things, on the one hand they'd seen the
mighty, miracle working power of God, and secondly they'd seen their part, their
complicity in the very death of the Son of God. Now the stage is set for one of the
greatest evangelistic messages ever preached. And I want you to see the message
that converted them. The Apostle Peter begins to preach and point number one in his
message is a risen Lord. Look in verse 15, "And you killed the Prince of Life whom
God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses." Now listen folks, the
death of Jesus Christ is a clearly authenticated fact. Chapter one, verse 3, the
Bible says, "To whom also He showed Himself alive after His passion by many
infallibly proofs." Many infallible proofs. There is more evidence that Jesus
Christ came out of that grave than there is that
Julius Caesar ever lived. "By many infallible proofs." No one who will look at the
facts can deny the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Bible tells us that when Jesus
Christ was put in that grave that uh, the religious leaders warned the Roman
leaders that "He has said that He is going to be raised from the dead. Now it may
be that His disciples will come in here and try to steal the body. So we want you
to seal that tomb and make it as sure as you can." And so they put a great stone.
It would take a forklift to move that stone in front of the tomb. And then they put
a seal upon that tomb. And then they took Roman Soldiers there to guard that tomb.
If you know anything about Roman law you know that a Roman soldier derelict in his
duty suffered the penalty of death. Now you remember what happened that Easter
morning when Jesus Christ came, the stone was rolled away. Now actually the stone
was blown away, it was not rolled off its track, but in a place separate, all the
way over. Human beings could never have lifted and moved the stone that far. Well,
the Sanhedrin got all antsy. And the Bible tells us, the Sanhedrin being the Jewish
court, the Bible tells us that they paid those Roman guards and told those Roman
guards, "Listen, say that the disciples came and stole the body." You can read that
in Matthew chapter 28 and verse 12. Now let's suppose they had a court case there
that day to prove what happened to the body of Jesus. Let's examine, they didn't
have a court trial. I'll tell you why, they did want one. They didn't want to hear
the evidence. Suppose they had had a court trial. Can you imagine how ridiculous it
would have been? The judge is there and first of all he summons, there's a subpoena
goes out and those guards come. And the judge says, "Are you the guards that were
given the job of guarding the tomb?" "Yes your honor." "Is it your testimony that
the disciples stole the body of Jesus?" "Uh, yes your honor." "Were you guarding
the tomb?" "Yes your honor." "Well when did they steal the body of Jesus." "While
we were asleep." "You were asleep? Do you know that to sleep on guard duty is a
crime worthy of death?" "Well yes your honor." "Well have you been arrested?" "No."
"Well why haven't you been arrested?" "Well we don't know your honor." "Well you
say the disciples stole the body while you were asleep, is that right?" "Yes your
honor." "Well if you were asleep how do you know what happened?" "We don't know
your honor." "Throw these bums out of court." Can you imagine the ridiculousness of
a trial like that? Now bring the disciples in. "Do you know where the body is?"
"Yes your honor." "Have you seen it?" "Yes your honor." All of you?" "Yes your
honor." "All, you alone." "oh no your honor, he was seen by 500 people at one time.
Call them in if you wish your honor." Listen friend, let me tell you something.
They didn't want to put those people on trial in that day. He was shone alive by
many infallible proofs. As I told you before, many of these disciples paid for
their testimony with their very lives. Now a man may sometimes lives for a lie, no
man knowingly dies for a lie. But they sealed their testimony with their blood. And
so the first sermon is, uh, the first point in this sermon, He's a risen Lord, we
are witness. But not only is He a risen Lord, He is a residing Lord. Not only is He
alive, but He is present. Look in verse 16 of this same chapter. "And His name,
through faith in His name hath made this man strong." Now the word name stands for
character, nature. Just change it. "And His nature, through faith in His nature
hath made this man strong whom ye see and know, yea the faith which is by him hath
given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all." What's he saying?
That Jesus did it. It's done in His name, in HIs nature, in His power. He is not an
absentee Lord, He is a residing Lord. He is here. He is present. And not only is He
a risen Lord, and therefore a residing Lord, thank God now he sets the stage for
the message and he is a redeeming Lord. Look in verse 17, "And now brethren I know
that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers, but those things which
God before hath showed by the mouth of all his prophets that Christ should suffer,
ye hath so fulfilled." Now friend listen. This thing was not done in a corner. And
it was done exactly as God had said through the centuries it would be done. Through
the fulfillment of Holy Scripture and fulfilled prophecy is one of the greatest
proofs of the character, the deity and the power of our Lord Jesus Christ. And now
he tells them in verse 19, because of this they can be saved. "Repent ye therefore
and be converted that your sins may be blotted out." Hallelujah. Now listen,
listen, you want to be saved? Repent. Repent. What does re, you want a beautiful
life? You want to be spiritually healed? Repent. What does repentance mean? The
Greek word "repentance" literally means a change of mind. "Methanoia." A change of
mind. Well what does that mean? Well you change your way of thinking. Before you
are saved you say, "I am lost and I have no room for Jesus." And now you say, "He
is Lord." Before you are saved you say "Sin is best." And now you say, "Sin is
wrong and righteousness is best." Before you are saved you say, "I think I can make
it by myself." And now you say, "I can't do it by myself, I need the Lord." Before
you are saved you, you sometimes follow after self and sin and Satan, but what is
repentance? Repentance is a change of mind about self, about sin, about the Savior,
about Satan, it is a change of mind, it is an about face. And Jesus said in Luke
chapter 13 and verse 3, "Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish." You don't
have any hope of heaven unless you repent. And if you've joined a church and you've
never repented I'd hate you be in your shoes at the judgment. Repent and be
converted. Have you repented? Have you? Has there been a radical, dramatic change
in your life where you say, "I'm sick and tired of the old way, I'm going the new
way, I want Christ." Repent. Now that doesn't mean that you can clean up your life
God will save you. You can't clean up your life without Him. But dear friend, you
have to be willing for Him to clean it up. There has to be an heart attitude.
Repentance is a change of mind that leads to a change of life. When you repent
Christ comes in and He gives you the power to live the life that you could not
live. That, I'm not telling you if you can be good enough that Jesus will save you.
None of us can be good enough, but there still must be that time in our hearts and
in our lives when we say, "I'm tired of the old way. I want God for work a miracle
in me, a greater miracle than the healing of that lame man so long ago." Repent and
be converted and notice what's going to happen, "When the times of refreshing shall
come from the presence of the Lord." That speaks of something beautiful that He's
going to make out of your life. Times of refreshing. I looked this up in several
translations of the Scripture yesterday. One of it said, "Seasons of refreshing." I
love that. Another said, "Better and brighter days from the Lord." But friend, no
repenting, no refreshing. Have you received the Lord? Look, look, listen, He's a
risen Lord. He is a residing Lord, He is alive and present. He is a redeeming Lord.
Repent and be converted. And then the last thing in this great gospel sermon that
Peter says is he's a returning Lord. A returning Lord. Notice verses 20 and 21,
"And He shall send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you whom the heaven
must receive until the times of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by
the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." Do you know what the
Bible has been saying since the creation of the- world? Jesus is going to come and
redeem us, He's going to go back to heaven, and then He's coming back again to
restore everything. I mean He's going to make it all right folks. What's this world
coming to? It's coming to Jesus. It's coming to Jesus. And if the outlook looks
glum I want to tell you the uplook is very bright. Jesus is coming and heaven has
received Him until, until the time of restitution." I don't want you to be in hell
when all that's going on. I don't want you to be on the wrong side of the gate, I
want you to be inside the gate called beautiful and I want you to be like this man
leaping and dancing praising God when Jesus comes again. Listen, what a day it's
going to be when our Lord comes again. The first time He came He came as a lamb.
When he comes again He's coming as the lion of the tribe of Judah. The first time
He came he came to redeem, but when He comes again He's coming to reign. When he
came the first time they asked where is He that's born king of the Jews, when He
comes again He's coming as king of king-s and Lord of lords_ When He came the first
time they gave Him a crown of thorns. When He comes again in the restitution, He
will wear a diadem of glory. He came the first time in poverty, but friend, He's
coming again in power. When He came the first time He had an escort of angels. When
he comes again He will come with 10,000s of his saints. He came the first time in
meekness. He's coming again in majesty. Now put it all together folks, if you want
a beautiful life, picture yourself on the wrong side of the gate, picture yourself
spiritually as a cripple, unable to walk the walk of God, unable to work the work
of God, unable to enter into the worship of God, on the wrong side of the gate,
Picture a new life, picture a gate gloriously beautiful. You're right on the wrong
side of that gate and you can't enter in without a miracle. I want you to picture
the Lord Jesus Christ who was in Simon Peter that day. I want you to picture him
coming by you today and looking down at you. And I want you to picture
today Jesus reaching down to you, a nail pierced hand, and taking you by your
right hand and raising you up and spiritually giving you a lift that will last. And
giving to you my dear friend, the power to enter into the gate to the courts of
God. That's what this miracle is all about. God wants to give you today a new life.
He wants to make something beautiful of your life. The miracle that confronted
them. The murder that condemned them. The message that converted them. A risen
Lord, a residing Lord. A redeeming Lord. A returning Lord. And if you'll just say,
"Lord, oh come now. Save me Jesus. Save me." He will. For the Bible says, "Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." I want every head bowed. \par \
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