William C. Turner, Jr. - The Ordeal of Salvation (March 12, 2000)

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-	The first chapter.	0:03
	In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was	0:07
	baptized by John in the Jordan.	0:13
	And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the	0:16
	heavens torn apart and the spirit descending like a	0:20
	dove on him and a voice came from heaven, you are my son,	0:25
	the beloved, with you I am well pleased.	0:31
	And the spirit immediately drove him out	0:37
	in to the wilderness.	0:40
	He was in the wilderness 40 days, tempted by Satan.	0:42
	And he was with the wild beasts	0:47
	and the angels waited on him.	0:50
	Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee	0:54
	proclaiming the good news of God and saying,	0:59
	"the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God	1:02
	has come near, repent and believe in the good news."	1:06
	This is the word of the Lord.	1:13
-	Good morning.	1:35
	I greet you in the name of Lord Jesus who is	1:38
	good all the time, and especially today.	1:40
	Let me read verse 21 from First Peter, Chapter three.	1:48
	I reread it from the authorized version.	1:55
	The light figure wherein to even baptism doth also	2:01
	now save us.	2:04
	Not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,	2:06
	but the answer of a good conscious toward God	2:09
	by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.	2:13
	Consider with me this morning, the ordeal	2:18
	of salvation, the ordeal of salvation.	2:23
	Let us pray.	2:29
	God be merciful on to us and bless us.	2:31
	Cause your face to shine upon us that your	2:34
	way may be known upon the Earth.	2:36
	Your saving health to all generations.	2:38
	Send the power of the holy ghost upon your servant	2:42
	and your people, that your word may be truly declared	2:45
	and heard for Christ sake.	2:49
	Amen.	2:53
	The ordeal of salvation.	2:55
	This is one of the very familiar passages in	3:00
	the New Testament, to one who spends significant time	3:03
	instructing candidates for baptism.	3:08
	Because baptism is a mystery and its meaning is	3:14
	given in figures, this passage necessarily comes	3:18
	to the fore.	3:24
	What its poignant image concerning the meaning of	3:26
	this gift of baptism compels us to visit it	3:29
	again and again.	3:35
	This passage states forthrightly that	3:38
	baptism saves us.	3:42
	It then moves immediately to a qualifying statement,	3:46
	but does not remove the direct claim	3:53
	that baptism saves us.	3:57
	Rather it opens space	4:01
	that enables us to say more fully what is given in baptism	4:05
	and what is given in salvation.	4:10
	There's a real sense in which what is given in salvation	4:16
	is precisely an ordeal.	4:19
	An ordeal.	4:23
	Salvation highlights the problem	4:25
	of the venture on Earth,	4:28
	in a land that is soiled by sin, tainted by greed.	4:32
	Bent on ordering itself in a manner that is contrary	4:37
	to the will of God.	4:43
	Tension is forced	4:46
	between those whom God is saving	4:48
	and a world that is lost.	4:52
	See the image if you will,	4:56
	those who are being saved, like the family of Noah,	4:59
	are taken in to the Ark of safety, while the flood	5:03
	runs its course and does its work of judgment.	5:08
	The ordeal of salvation, the ordeal of salvation.	5:14
	Aren't we informed that salvation is a gift by grace,	5:18
	we are saved through faith.	5:22
	That not of ourselves, it is a gift from God.	5:25
	Not of words, lest anyone should boast,	5:28
	we are familiar with those words.	5:33
	So how can we say then that	5:35
	salvation is an ordeal?	5:38
	Is this heresy?	5:42
	Have we misspoken in the matter?	5:44
	Have we stated something other than the truth?	5:47
	I think not, I think not.	5:52
	Salvation does not unfold, and progress	5:55
	to its completion without an ordeal.	5:59
	An ordeal if you will that may be compared to the flood.	6:04
	Salvation must be worked out with fear	6:09
	and with trembling.	6:13
	With fear and trembling on the ark, in the wilderness	6:15
	where we have no assurance concerning the outcome.	6:21
	The only promise is that God is with us,	6:25
	that we are in God's hands, that our lives	6:31
	belong to our God.	6:35
	After being given the figure in this text,	6:39
	we are informed that what is at stake is not the	6:43
	washing of the filth from the flesh.	6:48
	What is at stake says the text is a clear	6:52
	conscience toward God.	6:55
	When I see this image here of a clear conscience toward God,	6:58
	what comes back to my mind is the way we used to have	7:02
	light, light and days gone by.	7:06
	Light was a dirty business.	7:09
	Light in a kerosene lamp, or through a kerosene lamp	7:11
	had a globe over the light and the soot from the light	7:15
	would make the globe nasty and in order to see the	7:19
	light coming through the globe one had to constantly	7:22
	cleanse that globe, it got mighty dirty.	7:26
	There may be someone in here who remembers those days.	7:31
	There was plenty of light but the globe had to	7:35
	be kept clear, the clear conscience, the image that gives	7:38
	me insight is that of a clear globe.	7:42
	So that the light can come forth and so that one	7:48
	can peer through, so that God can get in touch	7:52
	with us and we can get in touch	7:55
	with God.	7:59
	To talk about salvation as ordeal,	8:01
	is not to diminish salvation,	8:05
	rather it is to intensify it, to bring forth the grace	8:09
	more gloriously.	8:14
	Make no mistake in the matter, make no mistake in the matter	8:16
	there is grace from God, there is grace from God.	8:19
	That one does not yay, can not know.	8:24
	Til walking in close places.	8:30
	There is grace I declare.	8:35
	There is grace in being jammed by God.	8:37
	Backed in to a corner,	8:42
	crammed in the ark.	8:46
	Where one can do nothing different from what God	8:49
	has instructed.	8:55
	There's great grace in being crammed in a corner	8:57
	and jammed in the ark.	9:01
	It's a humbling experience, it's an humbling experience	9:05
	to be confronted face to face	9:09
	with the potential for failing God.	9:12
	For drawing back when we should go forward.	9:17
	For searching for the way out when God has given	9:22
	us the way through.	9:26
	Many of the ordeals of ancient Israel	9:29
	for following this pattern,	9:34
	many of the ordeals of this sinful world,	9:36
	this hard-headed church, for looking for the way out	9:40
	when God has given the way through.	9:45
	We have a tendency to think of baptism as something	9:50
	that is quite tame, as an activity that is quite tame.	9:53
	Indeed there is often a tendency even to think of	9:58
	salvation in this way,	10:01
	salvation as overly tame.	10:03
	But there is a perishing world	10:08
	all around us.	10:12
	There is a world that is waiting to gobble us,	10:15
	waiting to devour us.	10:18
	Salvation in the figure of this text is not tame,	10:20
	it is not static, rather it is vital it is vibrant.	10:24
	Predicated on remaining in the ark above the waves	10:29
	atop the fray, protected from the dangers of life.	10:34
	See if you will the contiguity here between safety	10:40
	and danger, it's only a matter of inches	10:45
	between safety and danger, but in those few inches	10:50
	there is a world of difference.	10:56
	A point is reached whether one is either in the ark	10:59
	or outside the ark.	11:05
	What a word with which to begin Lent this year.	11:09
	What a time in our larger life.	11:15
	I thought about it this week.	11:18
	Lent begins following Super Tuesday,	11:20
	right in the middle of the ACC tournament.	11:25
	As I pondered these two events it occurred to me	11:30
	that here we have two great symbols	11:36
	that can easily distract us in our devotion to God.	11:40
	Power and allurement on the one hand,	11:47
	indulgence in the sort	11:52
	of pleasure to which only a precious few are privy.	11:55
	But whether it's the campaign or the tournament,	12:01
	or any other distraction that may invade our life,	12:06
	Lent is like a plumb line,	12:10
	a measuring rod being dropped	12:15
	down in to the middle of our affairs.	12:17
	Telling us, square up, measure yourself.	12:22
	Examine the angle of your stance, look once again	12:27
	at your rectitude, come full face with your god	12:31
	and come clean concerning your devotion.	12:36
	Lent drops right down in to our mitch,	12:42
	in to the thickness of our lives.	12:47
	Forcing us to answer the question what is of	12:50
	ultimate concern for you?	12:54
	Forcing us to recognize what it means	12:57
	to live in Christ	13:00
	and to make a sincere offering of ourselves.	13:03
	I declare, it's about living	13:07
	in the ark.	13:11
	Lent is a time to repent, to turn around,	13:14
	to go in the other direction.	13:17
	To break the fascination with what prevents us	13:19
	from being fully yielding in to the hand	13:23
	and to the wheel of god.	13:27
	It is an occasion to pause, to slow down from the pace	13:30
	of this fast world that is no friend to grace.	13:36
	Paraphrase a popular song from a few days gone by,	13:41
	it's an opportunity to get away from the bustling	13:46
	crowd and all that rat race noise	13:49
	down in the street.	13:54
	And somebody knows that song	13:57
	was sung by the Drifters.	14:00
	How easily we pass over the messages of warning	14:03
	and signs so crucial to our knowledge,	14:09
	if we are not slowed down	14:13
	from time to time.	14:16
	In our mad world.	14:19
	Your deal of salvation can be summarized	14:23
	in three moments.	14:26
	Separation form the world	14:30
	that is under judgment.	14:32
	Living and being sustained in the ark.	14:35
	And going from the ark	14:40
	with the promise of God as guarantee.	14:43
	One of the hardest moves for Christians	14:49
	is to acknowledge the judgment under which	14:52
	the world lives.	14:57
	We are part of our world, for we are given our life	15:00
	in communities of nurture.	15:04
	And we can scarcely remove ourselves from the economies	15:07
	that govern our common life.	15:13
	From the time we rise from the bed til we return	15:17
	to that bed, we move from one scene to another.	15:22
	In which we are mediated to our world	15:27
	in primary ways, in ways that tether and tie us,	15:31
	and hold us to it.	15:35
	Surely we are no different from people in the time	15:39
	of Noah, to use the language of the Lord, they ate,	15:42
	they drank, the married, they gave in marriage.	15:46
	The Genesis account tells us that for 40 years	15:51
	Noah preached, and apparently there were no converts	15:55
	with the exception of his family.	16:00
	And the animals who didn't seem to have much choice	16:04
	in the matter.	16:09
	One might imagine that even among his family there	16:11
	were some protests, I can imagine	16:15
	that somebody in the family had business,	16:19
	someone in the family had ties to the rest of the community.	16:23
	Separating to go in to the ark was an ordeal,	16:28
	not just a matter of course.	16:32
	There can be no doubt concerning the ordeal that	16:37
	was present in the separation.	16:41
	The force on Lent, like the ark	16:44
	is to cause us to admit the judgment	16:49
	that is upon our world.	16:53
	The flaw that is present within it.	16:56
	The fallenness of our common condition.	17:00
	That's not always easy to do.	17:04
	As a matter of fact more often than not	17:06
	it is painful to admit	17:08
	the real flaw that is in our lives	17:12
	and in our world.	17:17
	This is the brink that forces us to acknowledge	17:20
	how we are at the very root	17:25
	of our existence.	17:30
	The base line, the bottom line is that we are fallen	17:32
	and even if we don't like that word,	17:39
	the description of the condition	17:42
	amounts to the same thing.	17:45
	You ever watch the news and see the first few snippets	17:49
	and get depressed.	17:53
	A killing here, a strangulation there, a robbery here.	17:56
	A dirty deed here, does it ever occur to us	17:59
	that this is really the way we are?	18:04
	Although we desperately need it,	18:10
	our problem is not	18:13
	a lack of education.	18:17
	We need it in this day and time,	18:19
	but that is not our problem.	18:23
	In the minds of many money is not the root	18:26
	but the cure of all evil.	18:31
	But that is not so.	18:35
	Yes there could be benefits from lowering the	18:41
	price of gasoline or putting a computer	18:45
	in to the hands and the reach of every child.	18:50
	But I declare,	18:54
	this would not solve the problem.	18:55
	I was reading and listening	19:01
	not so long ago	19:04
	to the pitcher from Atlanta	19:05
	who is only 20 years old, the Atlanta Braves pitcher.	19:09
	Heard all of the comments concerning what he said,	19:14
	what the league said that he ought to do,	19:17
	but it occurred to me that at 20 years old,	19:21
	he learned his speech from somebody else.	19:26
	Killer children are repeating patterns of hate,	19:31
	premeditation, and violence	19:36
	that have been taught to them.	19:41
	Cradle cursors, unruly school boys,	19:46
	and mud slinging politicians come from	19:52
	the same bundle of life.	19:55
	The ark is testimony	20:00
	to a great moral divide.	20:03
	And a choice from which we can not escape.	20:06
	Either we enter the ark and be saved,	20:13
	or we stay where we are	20:18
	and perish.	20:21
	In this regard salvation is no less than an ordeal.	20:25
	Surely it was an ordeal for the savior.	20:29
	See the first moment of that ordeal when he is	20:32
	approached by the tempter,	20:35
	who would cause him to disobey the father,	20:38
	facing the frown of the father.	20:41
	For forgiving sin was bad enough.	20:44
	The only experience that could be worse would be	20:48
	forfeiting the sustaining power of the spirit	20:52
	for disobedience,	20:56
	this power of the spirit would raise him.	20:59
	This is the power that sets us in the ark.	21:03
	This is the power that sustains us	21:06
	in the midst of our times and saves us	21:10
	from a perishing world.	21:15
	The ark	21:19
	marks a moral moment.	21:21
	When we can no longer negotiate,	21:26
	straddle the fence, bide time,	21:29
	bargain for a reprieve.	21:34
	These moment leave an indelible mark	21:38
	upon our existence.	21:43
	We come to that point	21:46
	where we must do this,	21:48
	where we must make the move,	21:51
	where we must act now.	21:55
	The spirit says to us, come here.	21:59
	Take this stand,	22:03
	help this soul.	22:06
	Enter the door immediately,	22:10
	or I cannot help you.	22:13
	The ark marks the moral moment	22:17
	after which there is not another chance.	22:21
	It is an ordeal.	22:26
	In that we want to do one more thing.	22:28
	Hold out for one more day.	22:33
	Take care of one more detail.	22:36
	But no such latitude is available.	22:39
	The door of the ark, like Lent,	22:43
	slows us in our tracks.	22:46
	If it were not for Lent then such periods of reflection,	22:50
	we could easily be overwhelmed by the waters	22:54
	of routine business, allegiances, and distractions.	22:58
	If it were not for Lent.	23:04
	What could they do on the ark?	23:08
	They surely could not carry on in the way	23:11
	that God was judging.	23:15
	What could they do in the ark?	23:16
	This was no place for family feuds,	23:20
	this was no time for little picky stuff.	23:24
	For arguments that didn't amount to much.	23:27
	Many petty differences, swiftly are removed	23:31
	when the water keeps on rising.	23:36
	Enough water will get anybody's attention,	23:39
	even the best swimmer.	23:42
	We would have written a different script	23:46
	in our lives perhaps,	23:49
	but we can be thankful for that moment	23:52
	that forced us into the ark.	23:56
	The ark for the Christian is data,	24:02
	primary reality.	24:06
	With it illusion is stripped away.	24:08
	And we are shown of the false notion	24:14
	that there is some other normal world of luxury.	24:18
	Over against which the ark is a place	24:24
	of privation.	24:30
	I declare to you today,	24:32
	life in Christ is real.	24:35
	The world passes away with all of its lusts.	24:40
	Last week in class I was showing some students	24:47
	some old sermons of mine,	24:51
	some were written I suppose 20 years ago.	24:55
	My point was to illustrate to them,	24:59
	how everybody grows. Don't be frustrated because of	25:02
	where you are now, everybody grows.	25:04
	I look back on some of that stuff now and I pray	25:07
	in retrospect, Lord forgive me and bless those people	25:10
	who had to listen to that stuff.	25:15
	Maybe I ought to be praying now, Lord help these folk	25:18
	who have to listen to this.	25:23
	But I'd like to think I've grown some in 30 years.	25:24
	So I wanted them to see what it looked like,	25:30
	what my work looked like at an earlier stage.	25:32
	Well among the observations that they made was	25:37
	when you start putting the notes here, I see the script	25:40
	but when you start putting the notes here,	25:43
	some of it is written in black and some of it red.	25:45
	They could tell it wasn't written in computer font	25:48
	so they couldn't understand how in the world is	25:51
	some of it black and some of it red.	25:53
	And I began to think about what they didn't understand,	25:57
	so I decided to explain a little bit about the	26:01
	old fashioned type writer.	26:03
	That came with a black and red ribbon,	26:06
	they looked at me like I was crazy.	26:08
	I said I'm gonna blow their minds sure enough now,	26:11
	I said there was a third set and a white set and	26:13
	for cutting to stencil, they said what's a stencil?	26:15
	(laughing)	26:18
	And I took a few moments and I begin to talk with them	26:20
	about an earlier time, Maurice,	26:24
	when field work checks weren't so big.	26:29
	And when it didn't cost so much to live,	26:32
	I lived in a community not far from here.	26:35
	Paid 50 dollars a month for half of a duplex,	26:38
	and in the winter time I went and found some wood	26:42
	and split the wood in the yard and made some fire	26:45
	in the stove so I could keep warm in the morning.	26:48
	I told them about how I made sure I had a good	26:53
	pair of shoes so I could hike all over town to	26:56
	my field work assignment in Edgemont and across	26:59
	the Hayti and North Carolina central.	27:02
	Anywhere I wanted to go I just walked.	27:05
	And the semester, the Summer before my last year,	27:08
	I took my field work check.	27:12
	A full 1300 dollars.	27:15
	Took 600 dollars out of that, made a down payment on	27:18
	a new car that cost me 56 dollars a month for three years.	27:21
	And they looked at me and they wanted to know	27:28
	how in the world could anybody go though that	27:29
	for theological education, how could you go through that?	27:33
	They were complaining because they didn't have enough	27:37
	money to make the payments on, you know what kind	27:39
	of cars they drive now, I know what I gave my children.	27:42
	And in the midst of it it occurred to me that we	27:47
	were having a disconnect.	27:49
	Because I did not experience this period as privation	27:52
	at all, I walked away with a degree in electrical	27:56
	engineering and turned my back on that career	28:01
	with my eyes wide open.	28:04
	During those days I didn't have any money	28:07
	and I didn't have any debt.	28:09
	That's not really such a bad way to live.	28:11
	No money, no debt.	28:15
	Plenty of exercise from walking, all the time	28:18
	I needed to read and pray, and give service	28:21
	to God and those who needed the service	28:26
	that I could render.	28:29
	For me, that was good life.	28:32
	Like living in the ark.	28:37
	Seen from the ark,	28:41
	the world is not a place of luxury.	28:44
	Seen from the ark the world is the scene of death.	28:49
	From the ark the world is under judgment.	28:56
	It is as if the fast forward button has been pushed.	29:01
	And we can see all the way to the end,	29:07
	all of the gruesome and gory detail.	29:11
	Actually if the truth is told,	29:16
	there are some of us who are in the ark	29:20
	because God allowed us to go to the end of that story,	29:24
	right to the edge, to the precipice and then gave us	29:28
	the privilege of coming back.	29:32
	The ark is the place where we can see this edge.	29:35
	There are some who are in the ark because they	29:41
	were nearbout at their limit.	29:45
	Thanks be to God that it is possible to come back	29:48
	from the limit.	29:52
	I don't know about you but I'm glad that he saved me	29:54
	before I didn't have another chance and that	29:59
	love lifted me when nothing else could help.	30:01
	Can you see the scene in the ark.	30:07
	Listen to the son who thanks Noah for pulling him in	30:11
	the door at the very last second just before God	30:15
	shut the door.	30:19
	They were not so concerned in the ark about	30:21
	menus and recipes.	30:23
	I don't suppose they had too much roasted lamb or	30:26
	fresh baked barley bread, they were doing good on	30:30
	the ark to have some dried fruit	30:33
	and a few berries to eat.	30:37
	But that was not privation, why?	30:40
	Because outside of the ark	30:43
	there was destruction and death.	30:46
	Ration this day, maybe nothing the next day,	30:50
	but even that was not privation.	30:53
	The frame of reference to which we are brought in Lent	30:58
	on the ark is not one wherein there is privation.	31:03
	For serving God and drawing close to God over against	31:09
	some other alternative that we might called luxury.	31:13
	What we call luxury	31:18
	is a world that is under judgment.	31:20
	The perspective changes when the ark is the datum	31:25
	of our reality.	31:30
	Thank God for Lent, thank God for Lent,	31:33
	it changes our perspective, gives us another datum.	31:35
	The devotion and discipline of Lent are not a matter	31:39
	of agony to be endured for 40 days after which we	31:42
	return to normal life.	31:45
	Lent, like the ark, is normal.	31:48
	Whatever you give up for God can be done without,	31:51
	whatever we get when we are close to God	31:56
	is precisely what we need.	31:58
	In times of devotion when we are uniquely turned	32:01
	toward the service of God and our fellow man	32:06
	and fellow woman.	32:10
	We come to the point where we know what God	32:12
	needs from us all the time.	32:16
	As a witness to a world that is being redeemed.	32:20
	What we call sacrifice,	32:24
	is what we really need	32:28
	in order to live.	32:32
	Going from the ark there is no guarantee that the	32:34
	promise of God	32:38
	is insufficient, when we go from the ark	32:42
	the guarantee is God's promise.	32:46
	God has given the sign of the rainbow,	32:50
	a word of promise, and that is enough.	32:53
	People of the ark can no longer live for themselves	32:56
	for they know themselves as though who have been saved,	33:01
	who have been spared, who have been delivered.	33:04
	Ark knowledge is that	33:09
	we too could have been destroyed,	33:13
	we could have been lost, we could have been overwhelmed,	33:16
	we could have been swept under just like those who	33:19
	did not make it through the door.	33:23
	More, we would not have even known the direction	33:26
	in which to go for safety and refuge had someone	33:31
	not declared with persistence that this is the way	33:34
	of life.	33:40
	Ark knowledge puts a different stamp on our conciseness.	33:42
	In the ark we think differently about the latest	33:47
	sect of immigrants to arrive in our communities.	33:50
	We can not join David Duke and others	33:55
	who raise invectives against them.	33:59
	From the ark we have more to say to child killers	34:03
	and gang members, then prosecute them like adults.	34:07
	We see addicts and homeless ones as persons in search	34:14
	of the same love and nurture that we have found	34:19
	in the ark.	34:24
	For those of us who are saved,	34:27
	ministry is not luxury.	34:29
	It's a small gesture toward the ark.	34:33
	It is a word of gratitude to the one who opened	34:38
	the door and who let us come in.	34:41
	Ministry is a way of saying, Lord I thank you.	34:46
	That of all the families on the Earth you chose me.	34:52
	I was a liar, I was a cheater,	34:58
	I was a crook,	35:02
	I was maybe even I am	35:04
	part of my generation, but you reached out,	35:09
	you pulled me in before the door was shut.	35:14
	And so the summons is, to take the life of the ark	35:20
	in to the world God is seeking to save.	35:25
	Lent is a time to repent	35:31
	for any instance, any moment,	35:35
	in which we are tempted	35:39
	to regard our life in Christ	35:42
	as underprivileged existence,	35:46
	over against some luxury that is seen in a world	35:49
	that is under God's judgment.	35:54
	Your deal of salvation orders the lives	35:58
	of those who live in the ark of God.	36:03
	By the knowledge of the God of the ark	36:09
	who promises unfailing love, devotion,	36:14
	and never ending blessing.	36:20
	So join me in asking our God	36:25
	to accept our thanks and praise	36:29
	for all that has been done for us.	36:34
	Specifically	36:38
	I'm thankful today for salvation	36:40
	which is no less than life in the ark.	36:45
	Amen.	36:52

Item Info

Title:

William C. Turner, Jr. - The Ordeal of Salvation (March 12, 2000)

Description:

Salvation is an ordeal. It is a process that occurs in three primary stages: 1.) Separation from the world that is under judgment by entering the ark; 2.) Living and being sustained in the ark; 3.) Going from the ark with the promise of God as guarantee. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 02:29. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 36:54.
Key quotation: “Seen from the ark, the world is not a place of luxury. Seen from the ark, the world is the scene of death. From the ark, the world is under judgment.”

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Date:

March 12, 2000

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Turner, William Clair, 1948-

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Duke University. Chapel

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