Speaker 3: Hello, everybody.
Speaker 1: This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren. I'm
Speaker 1: really glad you're here today. We're continuing our series from
Speaker 1: 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. Okay,
Speaker 1: and now here's the final part of a message called
Speaker 1: how God's Goodness can restore.
Speaker 2: You Number two. What about when we do wrong? What
Speaker 2: about when we sin? What about when we have that
Speaker 2: unconfessed guilt? How does God the good Shepherd deal with that? Well,
Speaker 2: God's good God. And here's the answer. When we do wrong,
Speaker 2: Jesus takes my sin on himself. He says, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take your guilt. Please just hand it over to me.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to go die on the cross and
Speaker 2: pay for all your sins, so you don't have to
Speaker 2: pay for your sins. This is the best news in
Speaker 2: the whole world. We call it the gospel, which is
Speaker 2: an Old English word for good news. And Jesus takes
Speaker 2: all my guilt on himself. He says, I'm going to
Speaker 2: give you all my goodness.
Speaker 3: It's also called righteousness.
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you all my goodness so you
Speaker 2: can get into heaven and you're going and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take all of your guilt, and I'm going to pay
Speaker 2: for it on the cross. Nearly seven hundred years before
Speaker 2: Jesus died on the cross, so that would be about
Speaker 2: two thousand, seven.
Speaker 3: Hundred years ago.
Speaker 2: A guy named Isaiah was a prophet, and God told
Speaker 2: him in very specific terms that he was going to
Speaker 2: send a savior to the world, a messiah to save
Speaker 2: all our sins and to pay for him seven hundred
Speaker 2: years He gave him this prophecy. It's in many chapters
Speaker 2: of Isaiah, but Psal I mean Isaiah fifty three is
Speaker 2: the clearest. And when you read these details, you got
Speaker 2: to read that this guy was saying this seven hundred
Speaker 2: years before it happened. Only God could have told him this.
Speaker 2: And in Isaiah fifty three, Verses five and six, it
Speaker 2: says this about Jesus. Seven hundred years before Jesus arrived,
Speaker 2: he was wounded and crushed for our sins. This is
Speaker 2: on the cross. He was beaten, and he took our
Speaker 2: punishment so that we might have peace. And through his wounds,
Speaker 2: our wounds are healed. All of us have strayed away
Speaker 2: like sheep. You know, sheep, I told you last week,
Speaker 2: not real smart. We've all done our own thing. We've
Speaker 2: left God's path to follow our own. Yet the Lord
Speaker 2: laid on him the guilt and sins of us all. Now,
Speaker 2: what I just read to you is the most basic
Speaker 2: fundamental truth of the Bible. If this wasn't true, we
Speaker 2: could all go home right now, because we wouldn't have
Speaker 2: anything at all, if Jesus Christ hadn't come to pay
Speaker 2: for your sins. The most basic truth is that he
Speaker 2: did that. Everything you're going to do wrong in life,
Speaker 2: including the stuff you're going to do tonight and tomorrow
Speaker 2: and next week and ten years from today, it's already
Speaker 2: been paid for. It's already been paid for. You just
Speaker 2: have to accept God's grace and goodness. That is the
Speaker 2: goodness of God, that He's already paid for everything I'm
Speaker 2: even going to do, not just a past, but in
Speaker 2: the future.
Speaker 3: It's already paid for.
Speaker 2: I remember one time there was a guy out on
Speaker 2: the patio at the Lake Forest campus and he came
Speaker 2: up to me frantically after the service, and he said,
Speaker 2: I need to know what do I need to do
Speaker 2: to get to heaven? I said, well, you're too late.
Speaker 2: Just thought it shock.
Speaker 3: Him, you're too late?
Speaker 2: He is, no, no, no, really, what do I need
Speaker 2: to do in order to get to heaven? I said, sorry,
Speaker 2: you're too late? So what do you mean it's got to.
Speaker 3: Be something I can do? I said, there's nothing.
Speaker 2: It's already been done by Jesus Christ two thousand years ago.
Speaker 2: This is what makes Christianity different from religions that are
Speaker 2: out there. Every religion has a list of things to
Speaker 2: do to get to heaven, and each religion this is
Speaker 2: our list, and this is our list, and that's our list,
Speaker 2: and another religion that's our list. And if you'll do
Speaker 2: these things, it's all based on your performance, you might
Speaker 2: make it into heaven. Can't be sure, but you might.
Speaker 2: And so all the other religions can be summed up
Speaker 2: in the word do. Christianity is summed up in the
Speaker 2: word done. And when Jesus was on the cross, he
Speaker 2: cried out, it is finished.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Notice he didn't say I'm finished, because he wasn't. He
Speaker 2: came back to life three days later and he wasn't finished.
Speaker 2: And he's alive today. He lives in my heart. I've
Speaker 2: been his friend now for over fifty years, and many
Speaker 2: of you have too. But when he says it is finished,
Speaker 2: he's saying you don't need that anything. It's not I
Speaker 2: die on the cross, plus you do these ten other things,
Speaker 2: then you get to go to heaven. There's only one
Speaker 2: thing you need to get into heaven, humility. To realize
Speaker 2: you're never getting there by what you do. The only
Speaker 2: way is to say I am a sinner and I
Speaker 2: need a savior. That's what you say. That's humility. That's
Speaker 2: the sin that will keep you out of heaven. I
Speaker 2: don't need anybody to saying I'm good enough to get
Speaker 2: there on my own. Really, it's a perfect place. I
Speaker 2: stop being perfect about thirty seconds in to this planet,
Speaker 2: and so nobody bats a thousand. I've never met anybody
Speaker 2: who actually claim to be perfect. We all know we're imperfect,
Speaker 2: but we say to God, God, we're gonna trust you.
Speaker 2: And when you come to Christ and you say I'm
Speaker 2: gonna you're gonna take my sins on you? Yeah, what
Speaker 2: are you giving me in return? My goodness? You don't
Speaker 2: have to beg Please God, please please save me. You
Speaker 2: don't have to bargain. If you'll do this God, then
Speaker 2: then I'll do that. You don't have to bribe. I'll
Speaker 2: read my Bible every day. If you do this, breag, bribe, bargain.
Speaker 3: You don't do anything. You don't beg. You just believe.
Speaker 3: That's it. That's why it's called the good news.
Speaker 2: The word gospel is just nold English word that means
Speaker 2: good news.
Speaker 3: And what's the best news.
Speaker 2: You can't get to heaven on your good works, but
Speaker 2: it's already been paid for. You just have to humbly
Speaker 2: admit you need a savior, that you're not good enough
Speaker 2: to go to a perfect place. He said, But Rick,
Speaker 2: you don't know what I've done. It doesn't matter. I
Speaker 2: don't need to know what you've done because I know
Speaker 2: what Jesus has done. And what Jesus has done is
Speaker 2: bigger than what you have done. The good thing he
Speaker 2: did on the cross is bigger than the bad thing
Speaker 2: you have done. That's why we call it good Friday.
Speaker 2: When he died. It's not good for Jesus, it's painful,
Speaker 2: but it's good for you.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 2: Well, Rick, I've asked God to forgive me.
Speaker 3: I just don't feel forgiven.
Speaker 2: It means you don't fully understand it yet, because once
Speaker 2: you understand how fully forgiven you are, you just want
Speaker 2: to shout, you want to jump up it down. And
Speaker 2: if God comes into your life, it's gonna make some changes.
Speaker 2: You can't have him come into your life and it
Speaker 2: not changed you. So if your life hadn't changed any
Speaker 2: you might have gotten something, but you haven't gotten God.
Speaker 2: Somebody as big as God can't come into your life
Speaker 2: and not change you. And when you the more you
Speaker 2: understand grace, the more joyful you'll be. Many of you
Speaker 2: know that one of my mentors in life was the
Speaker 2: father of modern management, Peter Drucker, and he mentored me
Speaker 2: the last thirty years of his life from about sixty
Speaker 2: five to ninety five, and he trained all of the
Speaker 2: who's who of business leaders that are leading businesses today.
Speaker 2: And one day I was up at his house and
Speaker 2: he was mentoring me on some leadership things, and I said, Peter,
Speaker 2: when did you step across the line, When did you
Speaker 2: find Christ? When did you put your faith in Jesus?
Speaker 2: And he said, in that thick Austrian accent, Well Rick,
Speaker 2: he said, when I finally understood the concept of grace,
Speaker 2: I knew I was going to never get a better deal.
Speaker 2: When you finally understand how good God really is.
Speaker 3: You're not going to go anywhere else because he's a
Speaker 3: good good father.
Speaker 2: Now, as I said, Isaiah wrote that part about Jesus
Speaker 2: suffering on the cross. Let me read you some more
Speaker 2: of it and listen to the details of this seven
Speaker 2: hundred years before it actually happened Isaiah fifty three, verses
Speaker 2: seven to twelve. He was beaten down and punished talking
Speaker 2: about Jesus on the cross before the cross, but he
Speaker 2: didn't say a word.
Speaker 3: That all happened.
Speaker 2: He was led out like a lamb to be slaughtered.
Speaker 2: He was condemned to death without fear judgment, and then
Speaker 2: he was put to death for the transgressions of everyone else.
Speaker 3: That's us.
Speaker 2: He died like a criminal, but then was buried with
Speaker 2: the rich, even though he'd done nothing wrong and had
Speaker 2: never lied.
Speaker 3: You know this is true.
Speaker 2: Jesus died on the cross as a criminal. You know
Speaker 2: that was the worst capital punishment available. It's humiliating death
Speaker 2: on the cross. But when they took him down, there
Speaker 2: was a wealthy man named Joseph of Verimathea who had
Speaker 2: a brand new tomb he'd bought for his family, off
Speaker 2: in baptized, bury people in the same tomb for decades
Speaker 2: and then like a hole in the wall of a cave.
Speaker 3: And then covered up.
Speaker 2: And Joseph Verimathea was quite wealthy, and and but he
Speaker 2: offered his tomb for Jesus because he's not going to
Speaker 2: need it very long. Think about that, like, you know,
Speaker 2: what's a few days? You know, he said, he's coming
Speaker 2: back to life, So why would I worries borrowed for
Speaker 2: a couple of days. I don't intend to die between
Speaker 2: now and then. But seven hundred years, Isaiah says, a
Speaker 2: rich man is going to provide him a tomb. And
Speaker 2: it says, yet it was God's plan to cause him
Speaker 2: to suffer. It was God's mind who put Jesus to death,
Speaker 2: not the Romans, not Jewish leaders. God did, God did.
Speaker 2: Jesus said, I lay down my life. He's part of
Speaker 2: the training. I voluntarily do this for you and me.
Speaker 2: It was God's plan to cause him to suffer and
Speaker 2: make his life a guilt offering for our sins, sacrifice
Speaker 2: to bring forgiveness. But after his soul suffered many things,
Speaker 2: he will enjoy life, enjoy again, that's the resurrection. He's
Speaker 2: saying this seven hundred years before it happened. But my
Speaker 2: suffering servant God says, will make many people right with God,
Speaker 2: and he will be He will bear all their sins,
Speaker 2: and he will willingly give his life. And he was
Speaker 2: treated like a criminal, but he took the place of
Speaker 2: everyone who had sinned, and he interceded for their forgiveness.
Speaker 2: And when Jesus died on the cross, he covered all
Speaker 2: your sins and he forgave you. And the Bible says
Speaker 2: he throws your sins in the deepest part of the sea.
Speaker 2: It's like a metaphor. And then I want to add,
Speaker 2: and he puts up a no fishing sign. Why would
Speaker 2: you drag out something to remember that God has already
Speaker 2: forgiven and forgotten.
Speaker 3: When you keep feeling.
Speaker 2: Bad about something you've already confessed to God and God's
Speaker 2: forgiven you and Jesus died for it, then it says,
Speaker 2: I don't really believe.
Speaker 3: Jesus paid for my sin. That's unbelief.
Speaker 2: When you keep asking for forgiveness for something you sincerely
Speaker 2: ask for already is unbelief. Because Jesus gives completely and
Speaker 2: freely and instantly and with grace. When Jesus forgave all
Speaker 2: your sins, which one were not included?
Speaker 3: None?
Speaker 2: They're all included, every single one. This is why I
Speaker 2: serve Jesus Christ. I don't serve him for money. I
Speaker 2: don't serve him for fame. I don't serve him out
Speaker 2: of duty. I don't serve him out of fear. I
Speaker 2: don't serve him out of guilt. I serve him out
Speaker 2: of gratitude. And you should too. And if God has
Speaker 2: forgetting all forgiven all your sins, shouldn't you?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: What about the third thing? We talked about? Guilt, we
Speaker 2: talked about grudges. What about this third area that warps
Speaker 2: my soul?
Speaker 3: Grief?
Speaker 2: He might write this down When we experience loss here
Speaker 2: it is loss in pain. Jesus feels my grief and
Speaker 2: heals my heart. He feels my grief and he heals
Speaker 2: my heart. Why does Jesus feel my grief because he
Speaker 2: understands grief. He's been there, He's experienced it too. He
Speaker 2: understands to earth and became one of us. So he's
Speaker 2: experienced all of the loneliness that people experienced, the betrayal
Speaker 2: that people experience, the rejection that people experience us, and
Speaker 2: he came to feel my grief and heal my heart.
Speaker 2: That is the goodness of God. The Lord is my shepherd.
Speaker 2: Again more in this same chapter, Isaiah fifty three, same place,
Speaker 2: seven hundred plus years before Jesus came to earth, Isaiah
Speaker 2: says this describes Jesus, the Messiah, the Savior. He was
Speaker 2: despised and rejected by others. If you've ever been despised,
Speaker 2: you know how that hurts. Maybe you were despised at school.
Speaker 3: That hurts.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're despised because of a handicap, or the color
Speaker 2: of your skin, or because your female or male or whatever.
Speaker 2: If you've been despised, Jesus understands. He was despised.
Speaker 3: He was rejected.
Speaker 2: If you've ever had somebody reject you walk out on
Speaker 2: your life, Jesus understands that hurt. There's no hurt you
Speaker 2: can experience that. He doesn't understand no grief. Why can't
Speaker 2: Jesus understand my grief he's experienced at all? Isaiah. He
Speaker 2: was despised and rejected by others. He was a man
Speaker 2: of sorrows, which endured much pain and suffering, and he
Speaker 2: experienced deep grief. Imagine leaving heaven and come here to
Speaker 2: live a bunch people who hate you. He experienced deep grief,
Speaker 2: but we ignored him and we looked the other way.
Speaker 2: He was hated and we did not care. Yet it
Speaker 2: was our weakness that he was carrying on the cross,
Speaker 2: and it was our sorrow, our sorrow that weighed him down.
Speaker 2: So he understands. He doesn't just understand, he doesn't just feel.
Speaker 3: He heals.
Speaker 2: Look at the next verse, Ps. One forty seven, Verse three.
Speaker 2: He heals the broken hearted, and he binds up their wounds.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's broken your heart. Some of your
Speaker 2: heart's breaking right now. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, and I'm
Speaker 2: glad you're here because this is a place for the
Speaker 2: healing of broken hearts. But the fact of life is
Speaker 2: Jesus says, I heal, and I feel, and I care
Speaker 2: about what you're going through.
Speaker 3: Now. So what are you doing with your grief?
Speaker 2: Maybe you just had a big breakup, Maybe you just
Speaker 2: got fired at work.
Speaker 3: Maybe you just go.
Speaker 2: Does anybody want me? Does anybody want me? Does anybody
Speaker 2: notice me? And there's that ache in your heart? What
Speaker 2: do you do with that ache? You take it to
Speaker 2: Jesus because he heals, and he feels he understands it all. Now,
Speaker 2: Jesus never wanted us to forget the sacrifice he made
Speaker 2: to handle your grudges, your grief, and your guilt. And
Speaker 2: he gave us a symbol called communion, the Lord's Supper.
Speaker 2: He said, I want you to remember what I've done
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I know you can't stand to have an unfilled blank,
Speaker 2: So I'm going to give them to you real quick.
Speaker 2: All right, you want to write these down?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: You gonna write these down. Three things that are my
Speaker 2: response to what Jesus does for me because of my guilt,
Speaker 2: my grief, and my grudges. How should I respond? Well,
Speaker 2: it's all summed up in the attitude of believe trust,
Speaker 2: And number one is trust the good Shepherd to forgive
Speaker 2: my sins. Actually believe that he has forgiven my sins.
Speaker 2: Start acting like all your sins are forgiven rome Is three,
Speaker 2: twenty three and twenty four. All of us have sinned,
Speaker 2: yet God declares us not guilty if we trust circle
Speaker 2: that word trust in Jesus Christ, when this free mercy freely.
Speaker 3: Takes away our sins.
Speaker 2: So I just trust, I believe, I accept that my
Speaker 2: my sins have been forgiven because of what Jesus did
Speaker 2: on the Cross. Number two, Release my offenders, Release my
Speaker 2: offenders people who've hurt me, and focus on the future.
Speaker 2: Don't let them get under your skin anymore, because your
Speaker 2: soul cannot be restored until you let go of resentment
Speaker 2: in your mind, in your thoughts, and let go of
Speaker 2: revenge in your emotions, and let go of retaliation in
Speaker 2: your actions.
Speaker 3: And your decisions.
Speaker 2: You gotta let it go, said God. Today, I'm letting
Speaker 2: them go. The Bible says Ephesians four thirty. Get rid
Speaker 2: of all bitterness. Let me just you should not. Bitterness
Speaker 2: is a barrier to your life forgiving each other just
Speaker 2: as Christ forgave you. Not only is that you to
Speaker 2: get rid of resentment, he said, you got to get
Speaker 2: rid of retaliation Romans twelve. Never avenge yourselves. Leave that
Speaker 2: to God. He said, He'll repay those who deserve it.
Speaker 2: So I trust God really did forgive all my sins.
Speaker 2: And then because of that, I start offering forgiveness of
Speaker 2: other people. I let other people off the hook, and
Speaker 2: I released my offenders so I can focus on the future.
Speaker 2: I've certainly not got to get stuck in the past
Speaker 2: for the rest of my life. Then number three, I
Speaker 2: team up with Jesus to carry my load. God never
Speaker 2: intended for you to go through life carrying all your grief, guilt, grudges, problems, pressures, stresses,
Speaker 2: situations by yourself.
Speaker 3: And Jesus says, I.
Speaker 2: Want to team up with you. I want to yoke
Speaker 2: up with you. And when he uses the word yoke,
Speaker 2: he's not talking about an a yoke. He's talking about
Speaker 2: the kind of yoke that they would put over two
Speaker 2: cattle is a beam, and the beam, then the two
Speaker 2: cattle can pull the wagon together. Here's what it says.
Speaker 2: Look up here on the screen. Come to me, Just
Speaker 2: come to Jesus. Come to me, you who are weary.
Speaker 2: You're tired. You carry a heavy burdens, and I will
Speaker 2: give you a lot more to do. No, that's all
Speaker 2: he says. Come to me, and I will give you what. Yeah,
Speaker 2: rest we talked about that last week.
Speaker 3: Take my yoke upon you.
Speaker 2: Let me teach you because I'm humble and gentle, and
Speaker 2: you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke
Speaker 2: fits perfectly, and the burden I give you is light.
Speaker 2: Now when you read that, it sounds like he said, okay,
Speaker 2: you know this cattle yoke that they would put over
Speaker 2: two horses or two cattle they pull the wagon.
Speaker 3: You go, wait a.
Speaker 2: Minute, he's putting something else on me. That sounds pretty heavy.
Speaker 2: That doesn't sound good, A little big heavy.
Speaker 3: Thing like that.
Speaker 2: No, no, you don't understand. The purpose of a yoke
Speaker 2: is not to put more on you. It's to take
Speaker 2: off half of your load. If you're pulling the wagon
Speaker 2: by yourself, it's one hundred percent dependent on your energy.
Speaker 2: Jesus says, yoke up with me, let's share it and
Speaker 2: guess what I'll help you carry, and it will be
Speaker 2: half as difficult. That makes sense. The yoke is not
Speaker 2: to put more on you. The yolk is saying I'll
Speaker 2: pull your load. Jesus doesn't have any load. He's God.
Speaker 2: He has no load. Everything's easy for him. And so
Speaker 2: when you yoke up, team up with Jesus, he says,
Speaker 2: I'll help you pull your load. And by the way,
Speaker 2: when you yoked up to Jesus, it's impossible for you
Speaker 2: to run the wagon into the ditch because he's not
Speaker 2: gonna let you do it. You got to go the
Speaker 2: direction he's going, and you got to go with the
Speaker 2: pace he's going, and he will go at a more
Speaker 2: reasonable pace than you will. That's what he says, I
Speaker 2: want to do in your life. It's bower heads. Would
Speaker 2: you pray and would you talk to God right now?
Speaker 2: Say God? My soul needs restoring. I don't always think,
Speaker 2: I don't always choose right, I don't always feel right.
Speaker 2: And I need you to restore my damaged soul, my mind,
Speaker 2: my will, and my emotions. And Lord, specifically today, I
Speaker 2: want to help ask your help on the things that
Speaker 2: do damage my soul. About those unaddressed grudges. I know
Speaker 2: it's not doing me any good to hold onto the hurt.
Speaker 2: I'm only hurting myself with the anger. And every time
Speaker 2: I remember that the way they hurt me, it just
Speaker 2: hurts again. Would you turn my hurts into holiness? Would
Speaker 2: you turn my pain into gain? Would you do what
Speaker 2: only you can do? Would you transform me and turn
Speaker 2: the conflict and the chaos into character.
Speaker 3: In my life?
Speaker 2: I need your help to do that, and Lord, I'm
Speaker 2: going to ask you also with the unconfessed guilt. And
Speaker 2: there's stuff I've been carrying around in a large garbage
Speaker 2: bag for a long time, and it's starting to stink.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say to you, I need your forgiveness,
Speaker 2: and then more than that, I'm going to believe it.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to listen to my feelings or what
Speaker 2: anybody else says, or what thoughts that Satan might try
Speaker 2: to put in my mind. Thank you Jesus for taking
Speaker 2: all of my sins on yourself at the Cross. Thank
Speaker 2: you that you were wounded and crushed for me. You're beaten,
Speaker 2: took my punishment so that I might have peace. You've
Speaker 2: said in your word that your wounds heal my wounds.
Speaker 2: I'm asking you to do that. And then, Lord, all
Speaker 2: of those losses that I've had in life that have
Speaker 2: caused grief, I need your help with that. I need
Speaker 2: you to feel my grief and heal my heart like
Speaker 2: you've promised. Help me to realize that you understand how
Speaker 2: I feel better than I do. And as I continue
Speaker 2: this journey with learning about your goodness, I first want
Speaker 2: to say, I'm going to trust that my sins have
Speaker 2: been forgiven because I've humbly just come to you and
Speaker 2: said I need it. I need a savior, and I'm
Speaker 2: going to release the people who've hurt me. And every
Speaker 2: time I think of him. Help me to just pray
Speaker 2: a prayer blessing to not hold onto the hurt. Most
Speaker 2: of all, Jesus, I want to team up with you,
Speaker 2: yoke up with you. I'm going to ask you to
Speaker 2: help me in the load that I'm carrying. If you've
Speaker 2: never invited Jesus Christ in your heart, say Jesus Christ today,
Speaker 2: I want to get to know you. I want to
Speaker 2: learn to love you. I want to learn to trust you.
Speaker 2: And I humbly ask you to accept me into your family.
Speaker 2: And I pray this not because I deserve it, but
Speaker 2: because on the Cross it was finished.
Speaker 3: You paid it all right there. Thank you in your name.
Speaker 3: 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 Pastorick dot com and say, Rick, I prayed
Speaker 2: 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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