Speaker 1: Hello, everybody. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren.
Speaker 1: I'm really glad you're here today. We're continuing our series
Speaker 1: from Psalm twenty three called Living in the Goodness of God.
Speaker 1: It's all about how God's goodness meets you right where
Speaker 1: you are and brings hope even in difficult seasons. And
Speaker 1: let's join Rick right now in the final part of
Speaker 1: a message called why you Don't need to Fear the Future.
Speaker 2: You have opposition in your life. There's some people who
Speaker 2: don't like you. There's somebody who's gunning for your job.
Speaker 2: There's somebody who just doesn't like you because of what
Speaker 2: you believe. There's some people just they're mean. They just
Speaker 2: their opponents. You have competitors. These people generous people are confident,
Speaker 2: fearless in facing their opposition. Because they give generously to
Speaker 2: the needy, they will have influence and honor. I want
Speaker 2: you to hear a testimony of how instead of choosing
Speaker 2: worry and complet you choose generosity and gratitude in your
Speaker 2: life and what it does. These are miracle working attitudes.
Speaker 2: Give a warm welcome to Phil right now. Well, Hello
Speaker 2: is sattle Back Church.
Speaker 3: I'd like to share my story about God's goodness and
Speaker 3: the power of gratitude. Like many other couples in our
Speaker 3: church family, for several years after we were married, my
Speaker 3: wife Connie and I tried unsuccessfully to start our family.
Speaker 3: We really wanted to have a baby, but it just
Speaker 3: didn't happen. We prayed, we waited on the Lord, and
Speaker 3: we tried literally everything. With each year passing we became
Speaker 3: more frustrated and discouraged.
Speaker 2: Well, we knew the.
Speaker 3: Promises of God, but our experiences seemed to contradict those promises.
Speaker 3: You know, truthfully, there were many days and sleepless nights
Speaker 3: where we felt hopeless and really just wanted to give up.
Speaker 3: I want to tell you, if you're currently in this
Speaker 3: situation wanting to have kids but not seeing any way
Speaker 3: that it might happen, Conyie, I understand your pain.
Speaker 2: Well. As the childless months.
Speaker 3: Turned into years, we could have easily given into Satan's
Speaker 3: temptation to become bitter and to just throw in the towel,
Speaker 3: to give up believing in God's goodness and mercy and
Speaker 3: just walk away from running the race with Jesus. But
Speaker 3: we didn't do that.
Speaker 2: We did not give up believing in the.
Speaker 3: Goodness of God, and we chose to take specific steps
Speaker 3: that demonstrated our faith in God and our trust in
Speaker 3: his perfect timing. First, we began just to simplify our lives,
Speaker 3: both spiritually and financially, to prepare ourselves for the hope
Speaker 3: of becoming parents. We wanted to remove just any hindrances
Speaker 3: or barriers that could prevent us from keeping our lives
Speaker 3: solely focused.
Speaker 2: On Jesus regardless of what happened.
Speaker 3: One of the things that we decided to do was
Speaker 3: to have Connie stop working at her job. This would
Speaker 3: lower her stress, but it also was a visible demonstration
Speaker 3: of faith. Second, we decided to sell our house. It
Speaker 3: was a big decision and move into something smaller so
Speaker 3: we could afford to live off one income while paying
Speaker 3: for the very expensive infertility treatments. We would do whatever
Speaker 3: we could do while trusting God for what only He
Speaker 3: could do. You know I stand here today honestly I
Speaker 3: wrested with the feeling that we were moving backwards financially
Speaker 3: in order to move forward towards our dream of starting
Speaker 3: a family. But during this time of trusting and waiting,
Speaker 3: God led me to a verse in the Bible as
Speaker 3: he often does about praising God and being grateful for
Speaker 3: the good things that God had already given to us.
Speaker 2: Isaiah twenty five, verse.
Speaker 3: One is a bold statement both of gratitude and faith,
Speaker 3: and it's where the Lord directed us. It says, Lord,
Speaker 3: you are my God. I will exalt you in praise
Speaker 3: your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful
Speaker 3: and good things, things planned long ago. This verse really
Speaker 3: is the exact opposite of complaining and worrying and being
Speaker 3: frustrated about the things that you don't have. Instead, it
Speaker 3: taps into the power of gratitude. Well, this verse became
Speaker 3: our anchor. We would be grateful for all the good
Speaker 3: things God had already given to us, and in faith,
Speaker 3: we would express our gratitude in advance for the good
Speaker 3: things that we believed God would provide for us in
Speaker 3: the future. In other words, we would trust the goodness
Speaker 3: of God, and we would keep telling God how grateful
Speaker 3: and how thankful we were. It was our faith in
Speaker 3: the goodness of God that gave us the courage to
Speaker 3: put up our house on the market. Well, two months
Speaker 3: later our house sold and we moved into a teeny tiny,
Speaker 3: one bedroom condo, and it was at that very moment
Speaker 3: that my wife surprised me with the best news ever
Speaker 3: that we were finally pregnant with our first child. Our
Speaker 3: beautiful baby Roz was born this year on January thirteenth
Speaker 3: in that little condo, and my hands were the first
Speaker 3: hands to hold her. So I want to testify that
Speaker 3: God is good and God is faithful. And if you
Speaker 3: look up on the screen, this is from last month.
Speaker 3: This is Connie and I's first Mother's day. Obviously you
Speaker 3: could see that I outpunted my coverage with my wife.
Speaker 2: She's beautiful.
Speaker 3: God gave her temporary blindness to marry me. She's a
Speaker 3: gift from the Lord. But looking back, we can now
Speaker 3: see all the lessons we learned through all the days
Speaker 3: of waiting and delays.
Speaker 2: We often wanted to give up, but.
Speaker 3: Our trust in the goodness of God kept us going
Speaker 3: and also kept us growing and becoming more like Christ. Faith,
Speaker 3: like a muscle, only grows when it is tested and stretched.
Speaker 3: But I also want to be clear that even if
Speaker 3: we had not received our miracle baby, we would still
Speaker 3: believe in God's goodness and we would still be grateful
Speaker 3: because everything we have is a gift from God's goodness
Speaker 3: you know God has God has not guaranteed that we
Speaker 3: will get everything we want in life, but God has
Speaker 3: guaranteed that He knows and wants what is best for us,
Speaker 3: and everything He does for us is good. In closing,
Speaker 3: I want to urge you to practice the power of
Speaker 3: daily gratitude in thanking God for his goodness. As Pastor
Speaker 3: Rick teaches, gratitude to God has the power to change everything.
Speaker 3: It releases miracles, it can break through barriers, it can
Speaker 3: make the impossible possible. So I urge you to develop
Speaker 3: the daily habit of being grateful for God's goodness to you.
Speaker 3: And when you feel like something you really really want
Speaker 3: will never happen, I challenge you to decrease your doubting
Speaker 3: and increase your thankfulness for all of the good things
Speaker 3: that God has already done for you. Then watch what happens.
Speaker 3: God bless you Soughtobaur Church family, this is a good place.
Speaker 2: Conyie.
Speaker 3: Now are grateful for you and we love you dearly.
Speaker 2: Thank you. You know. Another study that I read shows
Speaker 2: that if the first thing you do in the morning
Speaker 2: is you just mentally go through a list of things
Speaker 2: you're grateful for, you know, make a list of ten
Speaker 2: or twelve things, and you get up, you sit on
Speaker 2: the side of your bed, and you thank God for
Speaker 2: these things. That actually starting your day with gratitude actually
Speaker 2: changes your brain chemistry. It actually transforms your mind for
Speaker 2: the better. You'll think clearer during the day if you
Speaker 2: will start your day not with complaining, not with bad news,
Speaker 2: but with things you could be grateful for. So let's
Speaker 2: do a little experiment. Okay, I dare you to do this.
Speaker 2: How about for the next thirty days, we make a
Speaker 2: commitment together that we're not gonna complain about anything. You
Speaker 2: catch yourself complaining, you just cut yourself off. We're not
Speaker 2: gonna complain about anything, and we're not gonna worry about anything. Instead,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be grateful and we're gonna be generous. You
Speaker 2: think you'd be any better in thirty days? Hello? Hello?
Speaker 2: Now here's the problem. When I say, you know, get
Speaker 2: up in the morning and make a list of things
Speaker 2: you're grateful for. Sometimes you're a little blurry eye and
Speaker 2: you can't even think about what you're grateful for. You,
Speaker 2: I thank God for my doggie that I woke up. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank God for sun and moon and breakfast and my
Speaker 2: spouse and yeah, yeah, what about all the spiritual blessings
Speaker 2: that you forget? God does for all of his goodness
Speaker 2: and mercy every day. So I've made a tool for
Speaker 2: you to use inside your program. I want you to
Speaker 2: pull it out. I made this just for you. It's
Speaker 2: called my Daily Gratitude Reminder. And if you're watching online
Speaker 2: or you're listening on Daily Hope, you can go to
Speaker 2: the Daily Hope website and get this, or you can
Speaker 2: email me at the Daily Hope website and we'll send
Speaker 2: this to you. My Daily Gratitude Reminder is a list
Speaker 2: of God's goodness to me from A to I just
Speaker 2: went through the alphabet, and what I want you to do.
Speaker 2: I filled in the spiritual side. I want you to
Speaker 2: fill in the material and relational. There are spiritual blessings
Speaker 2: in your life. There are material blessings and their relational blessings. So,
Speaker 2: for instance, you Lord, spiritual blessings. You A. You're always
Speaker 2: with me. Thank you for that. You anoint me with
Speaker 2: your grace. Thank you for that. You b you bring
Speaker 2: out the bad, bring good out of the bad things
Speaker 2: that happen to me. You bless me with abilities. See,
Speaker 2: you care about my problems. You calm my worries and fears.
Speaker 2: You call me your friend. D You designed my life
Speaker 2: for your great plan and purpose. Thank you God. E.
Speaker 2: You empower me with your spirit. You empathize with what
Speaker 2: I feel. F You forgive and forget my sins. You
Speaker 2: free me from shame. You fill my life with meaning.
Speaker 2: G You give me what I need. You guide me
Speaker 2: in the right way. You guarantee my salvation. Thank you God.
Speaker 2: H hear my prayers, You heal my hurts. You help
Speaker 2: me grow every day. Thank you God. I. You inspire
Speaker 2: me with ideas and I need some today. Lord, you
Speaker 2: invite me to depend on you. You include me in
Speaker 2: your family. Thank you God. Jay. You justify me, justify
Speaker 2: means just as if I never sins. So you say
Speaker 2: there's no condemnation in my life because of Jesus. Thank
Speaker 2: you God. Kay. You know what's best for me. You
Speaker 2: keep your promises. You keep me saved and secure. Thank
Speaker 2: you Elle. You love me unconditionally. You lift me up
Speaker 2: when I'm down. M You made me to be loved
Speaker 2: by you, and you meet all my needs. And you
Speaker 2: notice what I don't see. You nourish my soul. Thank
Speaker 2: you God that Oh you open doors of opportunity for me.
Speaker 2: You overflow my life with blessings. Pee, you protect me
Speaker 2: when I'm attacked and I'm overwhelmed, and you're patient with
Speaker 2: my doubts. Thanks Q, you quiet my mind and my
Speaker 2: heart when I trust you. Are you remain faithful to
Speaker 2: me even when I'm unfaithful to you? Are you renew
Speaker 2: me when I'm tired? S You sacrificed your son for me.
Speaker 2: You show me your mercy. You set me free from myself,
Speaker 2: not just my habit search and hang ups. But the
Speaker 2: biggest enemy of you is you t You teach me
Speaker 2: your truth or your word. You transform my life with
Speaker 2: loving discipline. You you understand my pain, you use it
Speaker 2: to help others. You uphold me when I want to
Speaker 2: give up. V you valued me enough to send a
Speaker 2: savior for me. Thank you God. W you wait for
Speaker 2: the right timing to answer my prayers. Thanks you warn
Speaker 2: me of traps. Thank you God. X. You express your
Speaker 2: favor over me as your child. Why you yearn for
Speaker 2: fellowship with me? You want to spend time with me?
Speaker 2: WHOA Thank you and ZE you zoom in on every
Speaker 2: detail of my life. You miss nothing. You can use
Speaker 2: this You can use this. Now here's what I want
Speaker 2: you to. I want you to take this, and then
Speaker 2: over here in the material you can just put ABCD
Speaker 2: give something you're grateful for, a material, physical thing. A
Speaker 2: thank you God for air. Have you ever thanked God
Speaker 2: for air? You wouldn't go very far without it? Be
Speaker 2: you could put a Bible, Thank you God for the Bible.
Speaker 2: Thank you God for all the beauty in the world.
Speaker 2: Thank you God for books and all the things I've learned.
Speaker 2: Thank You for my eyes and ears. This gave you
Speaker 2: some examples. Over under t I have thank you God
Speaker 2: for taste buds. What if God hadn't given you taste buds,
Speaker 2: everything would taste like oatmeal. Have you ever thanked God
Speaker 2: for your taste buds? Say thank you God that you
Speaker 2: created taste buds, and then you made cinnabon. Okay, And
Speaker 2: so you can where I live, thank you where you
Speaker 2: just make a list. And then over under relational, I
Speaker 2: give you a couple categories. Thanking God for your church.
Speaker 2: Under P I put thank God for pastors because I
Speaker 2: want you to thanking God for me. Thank God for
Speaker 2: us my small group. But you can just go down
Speaker 2: the list, put family members, friends, Hey, thank you God
Speaker 2: for Amy, my daughter. Thank you God for be Bobby,
Speaker 2: my mother in law. Thank you God for Claire and
Speaker 2: Cole and Cassie, three of my grandkids. And you just
Speaker 2: you can write them all down. Write that down, put
Speaker 2: it by your bedside, and the next thirty days you
Speaker 2: before you get out of bed, you develop the attitude
Speaker 2: of gratitude. It will blow your mind. It will change
Speaker 2: your life, It will reform your brain. It will do
Speaker 2: all kinds of health mental, physical, and spiritual benefits. If
Speaker 2: you develop the attitude of gratitude because God's goodness and
Speaker 2: mercy are following me every day of my life. You
Speaker 2: can do that. You can do that. Now, let me
Speaker 2: be quick on the other two things you need to
Speaker 2: do in light of these three commitments. Because God's I
Speaker 2: have to be gracious to God. I'm gracious. I have
Speaker 2: to be grateful and generous because God is grateful and generous,
Speaker 2: I mean, is good and generous with me. Now here's
Speaker 2: the next thing. Second thing. After I stay grateful and generous,
Speaker 2: I have to be gracious to everyone. Write that down.
Speaker 2: I have to be gracious to everyone because God is
Speaker 2: so gracious to me. And the more gracious you are
Speaker 2: with other people, the less fearful you're going to be
Speaker 2: in life. Grace and fear don't reside in the same brain.
Speaker 2: God wants you to pass on the good things. Here's
Speaker 2: what the Bible says Ephesians four thirty two. Be gracious
Speaker 2: and merciful to everyone. Why because God's gracious and merciful
Speaker 2: to you. Be gracious and merciful to everyone, and forgive others,
Speaker 2: just just as God has forgiven you because of Christ.
Speaker 2: God cuts you a bunch of slack. Who are you
Speaker 2: still holding on the hook. Who do you refuse to forgive?
Speaker 2: Who do you refuse to let off the hook? Who
Speaker 2: do you refuse to let go? Who do use refuse to?
Speaker 2: Just wipe the slate clean and say, Okay, you're off
Speaker 2: the hook. God was gracious to me. God has forgiven me.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be gracious to you, and I'm going
Speaker 2: to forgive you. You know what being gracious is. It's
Speaker 2: another name for love. The more gracious you are when
Speaker 2: you're gracious somebody, you're loving to them, and love, the
Speaker 2: Bible tells us, is an anecdote to fear. Next verse
Speaker 2: one John four eighteen, there is no fear in love.
Speaker 2: Instead of perfect love drives out all fear because fear
Speaker 2: has to do with punishment. I don't think God will
Speaker 2: be merciful or graceful. He's gonna punish me. Fear has
Speaker 2: to do with punishment. The one who fears has not
Speaker 2: matured in love. Every time you invite God's love in
Speaker 2: the front door of your life, fear goes out the
Speaker 2: back door. And every time you invite fear into the
Speaker 2: front door of your life, love goes out the back door.
Speaker 2: Why Because fear is focused on you and love is
Speaker 2: focused on God and others. It's gracious. Now, how do
Speaker 2: you know when somebody doesn't understand the grace of God,
Speaker 2: they're not gracious to anybody else. Ungracious people are ungrace
Speaker 2: to people. They don't realize how much they've been forgiven,
Speaker 2: so they want to hold it over everybody else's. If
Speaker 2: I don't feel forgiven, if I don't feel if I
Speaker 2: feel guilty and I feel ashamed, I certainly want you
Speaker 2: feeling it too, because I don't want you feeling better
Speaker 2: than me. But if I remember how much God has
Speaker 2: forgiven me, and I remember how much God has wiped
Speaker 2: out my guilt and wiped out my shame. I can
Speaker 2: be pretty gentle with you, I can be pretty gracious.
Speaker 2: I can let you off the hook. I can cut
Speaker 2: you some slack. Anytime you see somebody who's ungracious, no,
Speaker 2: they're walking around with a ton of guilt. You may
Speaker 2: have a mother or mother in law, or father or
Speaker 2: father in law, or a friend or a neighbor, or
Speaker 2: a brother or sister, and they can't let anybody off
Speaker 2: the hook. It's because they feel guilty. As long as
Speaker 2: they don't feel grace, they're not gonna be gracious. But
Speaker 2: the more grace you feel, the more you know you've
Speaker 2: been forgiven, the more gracious you're gonna be with other people.
Speaker 2: So I gotta stay grateful and generous because God is
Speaker 2: so good. And I've got to stay gracious to everyone
Speaker 2: because God is gracious to me. Here's the third one. Finally,
Speaker 2: to live fearlessly, to live fully and furiously. I need
Speaker 2: to live my life for God's glory, because He's gonna
Speaker 2: share his glory with me someday. Right now, you live
Speaker 2: for the glory of God, and one day you will
Speaker 2: receive the glory of God forever and ever andever. He
Speaker 2: says he's going to share it with you in heaven.
Speaker 2: How do you do that? How do I live for
Speaker 2: God's glory at work? How do I live for God's
Speaker 2: glory at school? How do I live for God's glory
Speaker 2: in the neighborhood? How do I live for God's glory
Speaker 2: with my family? Matthew five sixteen. Jesus says, this, let
Speaker 2: your light shine before others, so that they may see
Speaker 2: your good works. That's the key. The good works, and
Speaker 2: give glory to your Father, who is in heaven. You
Speaker 2: just try to do your best, live in for God,
Speaker 2: and he says that brings glory to God. What happens
Speaker 2: when you do that? What happens when you live for
Speaker 2: God's glory. It opens up your life to more of
Speaker 2: God's goodness, to more of God's mercy. The more of
Speaker 2: God's grace, the more of God's glory in your own life.
Speaker 2: The Bible says this one Peter one last first on
Speaker 2: your outline, Verse three. God, in his divine power, has
Speaker 2: given us everything we need for living a godly life.
Speaker 2: Because of His goodness and mercy. He gives you everything
Speaker 2: you need. You got it all to live a godly life.
Speaker 2: Now this power is given to us through knowing Jesus
Speaker 2: and the benefit he has called us to share in
Speaker 2: his own goodness and glory. One day you will share
Speaker 2: in God's goodness and God's glory. Now, let me wrap
Speaker 2: this up. When you think about the future, when you
Speaker 2: think about the next six months, the next year, the
Speaker 2: next ten years, the rest of your life, how do
Speaker 2: you see it is your mind filled with doubt, confusion, anxiety, fear, worry.
Speaker 2: It means you're not focused on In the last versa
Speaker 2: Psalm twenty three, surely goodness and mercy will follow me
Speaker 2: all the days of my life, and all dwell in
Speaker 2: the house of the Lord forever. It's the antidote to
Speaker 2: the three biggest fears about the future. You see, really,
Speaker 2: you have a choice. You don't get to choose what's
Speaker 2: going to happen to you the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: You don't, But you do get to choose how you respond.
Speaker 2: You can face the future as a cynic, as a critic,
Speaker 2: as a pessimist, as a doubter. You can face the
Speaker 2: future experiencing the worst and expecting the worst. You can
Speaker 2: face it being ungrateful. You can face it being stingy.
Speaker 2: You can face your future being ungracious to other people,
Speaker 2: and you can live for the glory of yourself, or
Speaker 2: you can face the future with gratitude and generosity and
Speaker 2: graciousness and the glory of God. Which one you think
Speaker 2: will make you happier? Which one do you think will
Speaker 2: make you more successful? Which one do you think will
Speaker 2: bring the smile of God and the reward of heaven.
Speaker 2: And it's amazingly how different you feel about life when
Speaker 2: you begin to live in the goodness of God and
Speaker 2: you begin to live for the goodness of God. As
Speaker 2: I said, there's gonna be a lot of events that
Speaker 2: happened in your life you can't explain, but you can
Speaker 2: face them confidently because you know surely goodness and mercy.
Speaker 2: You're going to follow me and God will bring good
Speaker 2: even out of the bad, no matter what the loss
Speaker 2: of a loved one. God will bring good out of
Speaker 2: the bad, surely goodness and mercy. And I may screw
Speaker 2: up in the future big time, but God is merciful.
Speaker 2: And I may be facing all kinds of problems in
Speaker 2: my life, but ultimately I win because I will dwell
Speaker 2: in the house of the Lord forever, and I'm going
Speaker 2: to share in God's glory one day me. Why because
Speaker 2: I deserve it? No, because He loves me. Now in
Speaker 2: Psalm twenty three, you need to hear all these messages.
Speaker 2: If you haven't, twelve expressions of God's goodness for you.
Speaker 2: But they're not for everybody. All of these things only happen.
Speaker 2: Goodness and mercy don't follow everybody. They only follow the
Speaker 2: person who can say, the Lord is my shepherd. So
Speaker 2: who's your shepherd? That's the question of the hour. Who's
Speaker 2: your shepherd? Are you your own shepherd? Who's running your life,
Speaker 2: who's managing your life? Who's the boss of your life?
Speaker 2: Who is your shepherd? If you're saying I'm my shepherd,
Speaker 2: goodness and mercy aren't following you, and you will not
Speaker 2: dwell in the house of the Lord forever. This is
Speaker 2: for people who say, I'm in the flock, I'm a
Speaker 2: sheep in God's family. The Lord is my shepherd. And
Speaker 2: when you can say that, you can say with confidence,
Speaker 2: and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.
Speaker 2: It's power heads. Some of you have been attending for months, weeks,
Speaker 2: or maybe even years you've been listening online that you've
Speaker 2: never stepped across the line spiritually you need to do so.
Speaker 2: Right now, you need to say I want the Lord
Speaker 2: to be my shepherd. I'm going to ask everybody who's
Speaker 2: already done that to be praying right now for everybody
Speaker 2: else who hasn't done that. And if you've never made
Speaker 2: that decision, say right now in your heart thank God
Speaker 2: for his goodness and mercy to you. Say, Dear God,
Speaker 2: thank you that you give me what I don't deserve.
Speaker 2: You give me good things. You are a good God.
Speaker 2: And God, thank you that you don't give me what
Speaker 2: I do deserve. You give me mercy. And then say,
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, I want you to be my shepherd, and
Speaker 2: I want you to be my savior. And I don't
Speaker 2: want to follow you the rest of my life with
Speaker 2: your sheep dogs goodness and mercy coming up from behind
Speaker 2: keeping me on the right path. And say, God, I
Speaker 2: humbly ask you to reserve a home for me in
Speaker 2: heaven because Jesus died to make that possible. As much
Speaker 2: as I know how, I ask you Christ to come
Speaker 2: into my life and transform me. And I want to
Speaker 2: be a person who's grateful and generous and gracious and
Speaker 2: live for your glory because you are so good to me.
Speaker 2: You're so generous with me, and you're so gracious to me,
Speaker 2: and you're going to share your glory with me one day.
Speaker 2: That is amazing. Thank you in your name, I pray Amen.
Speaker 2: You know, if you just prayed that prayer for the
Speaker 2: very first time, or you just recommitted your life to
Speaker 2: Jesus again today, would you let me know about it.
Speaker 2: There's something real about sharing your commitment. So write me
Speaker 2: Rick at pastor Rick dot com and say, Rick, I
Speaker 2: prayed that prayer of commitment. I gave my life to Christ.
Speaker 2: And I'll send you some material that will help you
Speaker 2: on your journey with Jesus. And I'll also pray for you.
Speaker 2: God bless you.
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