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Baptism and Victory
10th in a series of synopsis sermons on "Baptism" by Rev. Eric H. H. Chang.
Baptism, as we have seen, has to do with a dying with Christ to your old life in order to be raised up with Him into a new life, a life of victory over sin. But granted that you have died, granted that you have indeed finished with the old life, what then is the key, or the secret (if you can put it like that) of entering into the fullness of the Christian life, of living victoriously? As a brother was saying today, the problem with him was that he couldn't find the victory. What he needs is the victory, that's what we all need - victory. What is the secret of this victory? This is what I would like to share with you in this message.
Let us turn to 2 Kings chap. 13, v.14-19. This passage already fascinated me as a young Christian and many times my thoughts have returned to it. It is a passage concerned in fact with victory. Let's, read from v. 14-19.
"Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him, and wept before him, crying, "My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" And Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and arrows"; so he took a bow and arrows. Then he said to the king of Israel, "Draw the bow"; and he drew it. And Elisha laid his hands upon the king's hands. And he said, "Open the window eastward"; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot"; and he shot. And he said, "The Lord's arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Syria! For you shall fight the Syrians in Aphek until you have made an end of them." And he said, "Take the arrows"; and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground with them"; and he struck three times, and stopped. Then the man of God was angry with him, and said, "You should have struck five or six times; then you would have made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times".
If God Has Given Us The
Victory, Why Are We Not Victorious?
As I said, as a young Christian
this passage fascinated me. It fascinated me because there was a very
important message in it, and I wonder whether you perceive what that
message is? It is the message concerning victory. Let me give you a
little of the background. Joash was a king of Israel who reigned from
about 800 B.C. - 800 years before Christ. And he reigned for 16 years as
we are told in v.10 of this chapter. His name means "The Lord has
given". The Lord has indeed given - the question is whether you've got
it. There is a difference between what the Lord has given and what we
actually have. The Lord has given us victory - the question is whether
you've got it. What has happened between the giving and our having it?
How come we do not have what He gives? Where is the missing link between
the giving of that victory and the actual enjoying of that victory? That
is the question. Something has been missed out in between, unless we
want to say that God has not given us the victory; unless we want to say
that if we live defeated Christian lives it's because God wanted it that
way; unless we want to say that the grace that God has provided for us
is not sufficient and that we cannot win any victories in the Christian
life. When we look at the Church today we ask: "Did God give the victory
or didn't He? Is this what the Church was meant to be? Is this the
Church of beauty, the Church of power which God meant it to be, which
radiates His light throughout the world?"
To ask the question is already to answer it. The Church has been, for the most part, an abysmal failure. Sure, there are exceptions. There are exceptional men of God, there are exceptional servants of God still around these days. There are still some Elishas in a wretched situation such as Israel was in. Israel was a disgrace, but thanks be to God that there was still an Elijah, there was still an Elisha, there were still a few men of God around. But that is not what the Church was meant to be - the Church was not meant to depend on one or two people to save what's left of its name. The Church was meant to be a light to the world just as Israel was meant to be a light to the Gentiles, a light that would shine. God had chosen Israel to be His servant. But Israel failed. Is it because God meant her to fail? Is it that God cannot give us the victory? If not, then precisely what was the problem? This is what this passage is concerned with.
The Vital Need For Men
Of God
What was happening? Let us look at
the situation. The mighty prophet Elisha was about to die and how
anxious was the king of Israel. He addressed him as, "My father, my
father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen." What does that mean?
It means that Elisha was more important to the king of Israel, or at
least as important to him, and to the whole nation of Israel, as its
entire armed forces put together - its chariots (which were equivalent
to the modern day tank) and its horsemen. Elisha was as significant for
the safety, for the future, for the defence of Israel as its whole armed
forces put together. Elisha was so vital to the survival and security of
Israel and he was about to die. No wonder the king was very anxious.
It's remarkable how important a mighty man of God can be - not only to the Church, but to an entire nation. There are many such examples from history - people such as Ambrose, a mighty man of God who was far more capable than the Emperors of Rome and to whom they turned to in their times of crisis, knowing that the mighty man of God was their only hope, and not the armies of Rome. When the Huns stood at the gates of Rome, ready to wipe Rome off the map, who did the Emperor turn to but Ambrose of Milan. The Hun armies were sweeping the whole of Europe, wiping away everything before them, and now they stood at the gates of Rome, right at the door of Italy. And somehow this mighty man of God was able to turn back the Huns from the gates of Rome. He was able to accomplish what even the Emperor knew the armies of Rome could not accomplish.
Why Did Joash Fail?
Yes, in the same way the king of
Israel depended on this mighty man of God, Elisha. Syria had been a
grievance to Israel. It attacked Israel again and again, putting Israel
under constant economic and military pressure. Strange how history seems
to repeat itself because even to this day, right now, we have the same
state of affairs where Israel is facing pressure from Syria. After so
many thousand years we still have that situation. And here I wonder if
history might have been quite different - whether Syria would still be a
threat to Israel today (as it is) if Joash the king had done what Elisha
expected him to do but which he failed to do. What happened? Well, there
Elisha lay, dying of his illness, very weak by this time, and by God's
power he was giving Joash a last chance - a chance to wipe out Syria
forever as a threat to the survival of Israel. But he didn't take the
chance, he missed if Why?!
Here there are a number of things we need to observe. Look at how totally this king obeyed the man of God. Notice that from v.14 right on to v.17 that whenever Elisha gave him an order to do something the king did it. He said, "Take the bow and the arrows" and the king took the bow and the arrows. He said "Stretch out the bow," and the king did that. He then told him to open the window and he did that. He also told him to shoot out of the window and he did that too. Every time it says, "and he did it", "and he did I." He obeyed. But there was a step beyond which Elisha could not take him, where he must himself step forward in faith and that is precisely where he failed. He failed not for want of obedience, he failed for want of faith. I'd like you to understand this thing very very clearly. Faith is something that I cannot do for you, that nobody else can do for you. Elisha could not implant his own faith into Joash. Joash, when it came to the step of faith, was on his own. And that is where he failed. Now here there are several points that I would like to share with you.
Six Principles Of Faith And Victory
1. God Has Given Us The Victory, But We Must Take Hold Of It
Firstly, notice that in v.17 the
prophetic promise is made: "The Lord's arrow of victory" - the arrow of
victory over Syria - "for you shall fight the Syrians at Aphek until you
have made an end of them." You will gain total victory. That's the
promise made, but two verses later the promise had to be rescinded. Why?
Because of the lack of faith to draw upon the promise. God provided
unconditional victory - a victory that Israel never was able to gain on
its own. Syria was simply far too powerful in those days and Israel
could not gain the victory. Now God promised the victory that they
themselves could not have, but two verses later, the victory had to be
rescinded, the promise had to be taken back because there was not the
faith to avail itself of that victory. Notice this painful account.
Elisha says to the king, "Take the arrows in your hand and strike the
ground - strike it." And what does Joash do? Joash takes the arrows and
he strikes three times and he stops.
Why did he stop?! That is where the man of God became angry as we read in v.19. "Why did you stop? Why didn't you keep hitting the ground?" I wonder what you would have done if the man of God had said to you, "Now take the arrows in your hand and strike the ground." Well, you might just have stopped at one stroke. He just said, "strike the ground" and he didn't say how many times, so that's it, finished. You got one victory. At least Joash did it three times, that's still not too bad - but not enough, not enough. He should have kept on bashing the ground until the man of God said, "Stop, stop." Then he would have the victory. But why did he stop?
2. God's Promise Of
Victory Is Undeserved, A Gift Of His Grace. But Still We Must Take Hold
Of It
Secondly, consider God's mercy.
Consider God's mercy to Joash. You know that Joash was not in himself
worthy of any of this promise. He was not an outstanding spiritual man,
in fact he was nothing spiritually. Yet God, for the sake of Israel,
granted him this promise. Indeed, in v.11 we are told that he was a king
who did evil in the sight of God because he followed in the sins of his
father Jeroboam. He was a sinner in other words. He deserved no grace
and no mercy whatsoever. Yet God in His kindness gave him a promise for
the sake of His people. For the sake of Israel, God would give this
sinner victory. And so it is with us. We are also sinners. Where are we
better than Joash? Yet God promises that He will give us the victory -
if only we have the faith to take hold of it. And Joash didn't have
enough of it. He had obedience. He also had some faith, but not enough.
Isn't that the problem with so many Christians? You've got some faith.
Not enough. And therefore you live in this twilight state of
Christianity where you are defeated most of the time. You gain one or
two little victories, and then you are defeated again - up and down, up
and down - a seesaw kind of life. What kind of a Christian life is this?
3. Victory Comes Only
With Faith, Obedience Alone Is Not Enough
The third thing to notice here,
which we have already seen, is to discern the distinction between
obedience and faith. There is a close relationship between obedience and
faith, but there is also a distinction that we must understand. You
notice that Joash, even though he was king, was amazingly obedient to
the prophet Elisha. Indeed, he obeyed partly out of great respect for
this man of God. But his willingness to obey also shows something about
Joash himself, which is more than could be said for lots of other people
who have very high opinions of themselves.
And here we can see that if we think we are superior to Joash we might not be, because in spite of his position as king, he was willing to obey and do whatever
the man of God told him to do. But here is where obedience is not enough. There is a place where obedience and faith part company. Faith goes beyond obedience. What is that added extra? That is the question we must ask. What is it? We can sometimes follow a man of God and the man of God says, "Do this", and we do it and we succeed, and the man of God says, "Do that", and we do it and we succeed. But there is a point beyond which the man of God cannot take us any more. There is a point beyond which you are on your own. You will notice that it was after Joash failed to strike the ground more than three times that Elisha said to him, "You should have struck the ground at least five or six times and then you would have had total victory. You were 50% under just now. You went only half way. It wasn't enough." But you see, had Elisha told him beforehand, "Now strike the ground five or six times", of course he would have done so. But why didn't Elisha tell him to strike five or six times?
He couldn't do that. Because if he had done that, that would have been Elisha's faith, not the king's faith. The promise was made to the king, not to Elisha. My faith cannot substitute for you, your faith cannot substitute for me. I have to stand or fall by my faith, not by your faith. This is the important thing. And so Elisha had to let him go on his own. "Strike the ground and there God will observe your faith". And his faith went only half way - half way - like so many Christians. Maybe a little bit more than half way but more or less half way. What then is the problem? This really is something that we must look at. Where then do faith and obedience differ? This brings us to the fourth point.
4. Faith Has
Initiative: It Presses On To Victory Without Stopping
At this fourth point, I would like
to draw your attention to the fact that, unlike obedience, faith has a
certain initiative of its own. Obedience is simply that you do
what the other person tells you, but faith is something where you must
act on your own. You must go on, on your own. You must have the
initiative of faith. You have to make your own decision. For example, in
the case of those being baptized today, they have taken that initiative
- not from any pressure from any one else. They have taken a step of
faith. Now that is why it is faith because it is on their own
initiative. I didn't say to them, "You've got to be baptized." In fact I
kept constantly cross-questioning them as to whether they are really
ready for baptism. They have to go on in that act of initiative. Now
they are, in baptism, taking one step. But I want to tell them today, as
I tell all of you, that baptism is only the first step. It is very far
from being the last step. It is the first step and you've got to keep
taking more steps onward. It's very good to take one step but if you
stop there you are not going to enter into the fullness of victory.
"You've got to take a second step and another step and another step and keep going. Only then will you enter into the fullness of victory. So many people take the step of baptism and then they stop. They think, "I've arrived." Arrived? You've only taken the first step on your journey. You've got a long way to go. So many Christians take the first step and then they slowly take a second one, and the third one gets even slower and the fourth one takes even more time to come, and finally they come to a halt, to a standstill, as though they have finished. And what happens? What happens is that they will soon be sliding back. So the important thing then is to consider the problem that Joash had. Why did he stop after three times? Why did his initiative run out? Why did his dynamic (if you like) cease after three strikes? Why so soon? That is a puzzling question. Why do people stop so soon and others even turn back? Where is the root of this problem? Why does our momentum run out so readily? How is it that we do not see people going on from strength to strength - people who instead of slowing down actually increase in speed? You see, the secret of the matter is that we need to keep pressing forward towards the mark as Paul did.
That was his simple secret. He refused to allow anything to sidetrack him. There will be many hindrances. Your commitment will be tested, and tested by fire. But so many people, as soon as they are tested, as soon as they encounter some hindrance, they become discouraged, demoralized, weary, exhausted - they slow down. But that is precisely the point where you must not slow down - where you must keep pressing forward. Pressing forward even when you feel you are getting tired, your steps are becoming heavy, you are weary and you are saying, "Lord, I am so tired." It is precisely at that point, at the point when you are feeling very tired, and when Satan seems to be doing everything to hold you back, that to stop is the fatal mistake. Because there is where faith is going to be put to the test. And as you press forward just one more step you might suddenly find that you are lifted up with eagle's wings. There is the beauty of it. I have many times gone on - gone on against discouragement, feeling weary physically, weary mentally, exhausted - but like Gideon's men, "faint, yet still pursuing" (Judg.8:4). Exhausted but still going on. And you know why? Because as you keep going on, somewhere, somehow, you suddenly find that you are lifted up, that grace has taken over, that God's power has come in and transformed what seemed to be imminent defeat into glorious victory. Maybe so many Christians have failed precisely at the point where they might have had the victory because they gave up just one step too soon. One step too soon. That is the tragedy.
The Important
Connection Between Faith And Grace
God is going to let you go on, He
will allow you to almost come to the point of hurt, of discouragement in
His test and at that point there is victory - just when you think you
can't make it any more, it's your last breath, and the next step you're
going to collapse and just as you are about to collapse you are lifted
up. You say, "What's this? This is too good to be true." Grace has come
into operation. It is very very important that God uses these
circumstances to test our faith, because it is through testing that our
faith is strengthened. Like a father He doesn't pamper us. He doesn't
prevent us from sometimes tumbling over when we are learning to walk -
we trip and fall and bash our nose on the ground and we think, "I'm not
going to take another step. This business of learning to walk is
ridiculous. I've got bruised knees, a bruised nose, a bruised chin -
everything is bruised, and am I still going to go on?" Sure, you go on.
But if your father is always holding you so you never fall, how are you
going to learn to walk properly? Every parent knows that. God also knows
that. But, eventually, when you are finally discouraged, when you sit on
the floor and cry and think, "I'm never going to make it", His comfort
comes, His strength lifts you up. He says, "You'll do it. Stand up one
more time - you will not only walk, you will run and not be weary." That
is wonderful. That's why I said this passage fascinated me.
5. You Are The One Who
Determines To What Extent God's Victory Will Be Yours
It fascinates me for another reason
and this is the fifth point I would like to come to. It fascinates me
because it tells me something about faith. I picture faith rather like a
tap. When you turn on the tap there is a whole reservoir behind that tap
- a whole reservoir - a whole lake behind you. That water comes into
your home through that tap, you turn it on and the water comes. Now if
you turn it on a little bit, some drops from that reservoir will come
into your sink. If you turn it on a little bit more you get some
reasonable flow of water. But if you turn it on full - wow, you will
have showers of blessing. The thing that fascinates me about this
passage is that it is we who determine to what extent God's victory will
be ours - to what extent that grace will be ours. It is in your hands,
not in God's hands. That tap of faith is for you to decide what you're
going to do with it. And the strangest thing is that often though we are
so thirsty, we only turn the tap on a little bit and when we only get a
few drops of water, we say, "What's the matter? Has the reservoir dried
up?" Of course it hasn't dried out! You have barely turned on the tap.
Or you can picture faith like window blinds. Outside the sun is shining
brightly; and inside you are sitting in darkness. Is it because the sun
isn't shining? No, it's because you've got your blinds down! Now if you
open the blinds a little bit, you'll get some light. But if you want to
have the full blaze of light you have to open the blinds fully.
6. Your Victory Or Lack
Of It Has A Profound Effect On Others
There is another remarkable thing
which is this: Not only does our faith affect us, it affects other
people too! Because remember this: When your faith is small your
blessing is small, and when your blessing is small you haven't got much
to share with anyone else. But worse than this, if you close the door of
faith, you may become a hindrance to others. And this is exactly what we
read in Matthew 23 in that passage concerning the Pharisees, "You
neither enter into the Kingdom of God yourselves nor permit others to
enter it" (v.13). You do not enter in yourselves, but worse, you have
shut the door of the kingdom upon others. I want to say this: It is not
just you that is affected by a lack of faith. You may be blocking the
way for others to enter the Kingdom of God.
Therefore whether or not I gain the victory is not just a matter of my salvation. It may be that you and I will be responsible for the blood of many others whom we prevented from entering into the Kingdom, because they looked at the likes of us and said, "Who wants to be a Christian? If that's a Christian, forget it, I don't want to be a Christian." I remember that that was the very thing that prevented me from becoming a Christian. I looked at the Christians and I said, "I don't want to be like them. I don't want to be a Christian." What do your friends see when they look at you? Do they look at you and say, "Wow, it's good to be a Christian. That is what I call life - victorious living - that is what I call victory in day to day affairs"? But we can't have any of this if we do not open our doors wide - the doors of our heart - to let His grace flood into our souls. We cannot live this Christian life in our own strength.
Are You Living
Victoriously? Be It Unto You According To Your Faith
But let me close on one point. By
now of course you have seen that I have dealt with a very basic
principle in Scripture, but the strangest thing is that we have still
not learned the ABC's of the Christian life. The very basic principle in
Scripture is again and again as we see in the gospels: "Be it unto you
according to your faith." It's according to your faith. It's always like
this - according to your faith. We read that in Mt 9:29 for example.
There came two blind men to the Lord Jesus and they asked Him to help
them, to heal them. The Lord said to these blind men, "Do you think I
can do this? Do you really believe I can do this?" They said, "Yes, '
Lord." He said, "According to your faith be it done to you." According
to your faith.
There were lots of other blind men but they didn't receive their sight but these two blind men were healed. Why? Because of their faith. According to their faith it was done to them - they had the faith. "Yes, Lord, You can do it." He did it. How much we miss I wonder. It is always according to your faith as we can see in that same chapter in v. 2,22 and in 15:28, and we could go on and on in the gospels, giving many examples of the principle. You either have it or you don't have it. God has given. The very name "Joash" means "God has given", but have you got it? He gave the victory. Do you have it?
The Christian Life: A
Challenge To You Of Infinite Possibilities
And so in closing I would like to
put this challenge before you as I put it before myself: How exciting
the Christian life could be - how exciting! - if only we would learn
this very thing that the Lord Jesus says in Mk 9:23: "All things are
possible to those who believe." He wanted His disciples to take hold of
the infinite possibilities of the Christian life. "All things are
possible to those who believe." Wow! That is a statement to reckon with.
That is a statement to think about. Indeed, more specifically, "All
things are possible to him who believes" - singular - to any
particular person. You could be an Elisha. Why are we content to be a
Joash if we can be an Elisha?
Elisha was a good student. You know he became exactly as his own master was - His own teacher was Elijah. And I often think of the words of the Lord Jesus, "It is sufficient for a disciple to be as his master" (Mt.10:25). Indeed, that is exactly what Elisha was - he was as his master. You know that the words that the king addressed to Elisha, "My father, my father - the chariots of Israel and its horsemen", those were the very same words that Elisha spoke to his master and teacher, Elijah, when Elijah was taken up into heaven. (See 2 Kings 2:11,12)
Are You A Person Of
Vision? Have You Learned To Dream?
"All things are possible to them
that believe." Oh - that gives you all the possibilities of the
Christian life. I find that challenging. I aim by the grace of God to
rise to those possibilities. And you know what I do? I dream. Because if
you have such possibilities you start dreaming but if you have no
possibilities there's nothing to dream about. I dream of what God will
do in this generation even through somebody as weak and unworthy as I
am. I am nothing. But what God can do through a nobody like me is what
excites me! And so I dream. What do I dream? I dream of what the Church
will be. But of course I have to start with myself. I dream of what God
can make of me, this worthless lump of clay. And even as a young
Christian I started to dream. I looked at the Bible, the Word of life.
It could transform my life and it could transform the life of others,
and I knelt down before the Lord, and I said, "Lord, I beg of You. I am
so spiritually dull. I so lack spiritual insight and understanding. When
I read Your Word I can't understand it. I just can't understand it. I
beg of You, teach me Your Word. Teach me by Your Holy Spirit that
greatest Teacher of all. Illuminate my mind. Bring light into this dull
understanding. Open Your Word to me that I may serve You, that I may
bring this Word of life to others."
That's what I dreamed. And in those days I could not imagine the day would come when I could understand some of the deep things of the Word of God. You know, as time went on He did it. I began to find that he opened to my understanding passage after passage which I could not understand before. How many times I was filled with joy and excitement. Like a new discovery, the Word of God opened up to me indeed even some of the secrets concerning the future, things concerning the past, things concerning the present. I began to find that what I desired - to be able to use the sword of the Spirit in spiritual battle - was beginning to happen. The sword of the Spirit was becoming a weapon that by His grace I was learning to wield with some degree of skill. Oh yes, we have more to learn. There is yet more light for us to enter into, but I saw that He was beginning to fulfill that which I asked of Him to do.
I continued to dream. I looked at the Church. I said, "Lord, what is this? Lord, raise up for Yourself mighty men of God in this generation. Raise them up I beg of You." And then one year and I didn't see anything, two years and I saw nothing and I kept saying, "Lord, where are the men? Raise up your faithful servants in this generation." And then I began to see them. Men of God were being raised up. He was raising them up, and He is raising them up. Of course, the part that I didn't bargain on, the part that I didn't expect, was that He said to me, "Now here are some of them. You take and train them." The part about training them hadn't crossed my mind at the time. All I had prayed for was that they be raised up. He said, "All right. I raise them up. You train them." So that was more than I'd bargained for. That part I had not been asking for. But so it is that He commits some part of this work to our hands.
And so I continued to dream, to see the revival of the Church in this generation, to see the time when the Church is again conformed to the Scriptural pattern of the New Testament Church; to see the time when groups of disciples begin to multiply in a new community with increasing love and concern for one another, deepening in the spiritual life - little groups of disciples - committed to the Lord and to one another, caring for one another, and building more disciples until the Body of Christ grows in this generation.
Learn To Dream Big,
Because No Dream Is Too Big For God If You Seek Only His Glory
Now I have discovered that I can
keep on dreaming - dreaming of the days when the Church will begin to
reach out with power into China and throughout the world, and those days
are coming. But I have also discovered that no matter how hard I dream I
cannot dream anything mightier than what the power of God could do. This
is something remarkable. Let me read to you Eph.3:20 and then you will
begin to understand what the Lord Jesus meant when .He said, "All things
are possible to him that believes." What does Eph.3:20 say?
"Now to Him who by the power at work within you is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, to Him be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus through all generations for ever and ever."
What does this mean? Look carefully and you'll see what it means. "To Him who by the power at work within you is able to do far more abundantly than even you could think." You just try thinking and you will find that your greatest thoughts will be less - far less - than what the power of God can accomplish. Now that is a challenge to rise to. You try thinking. I have tried thinking. I have tried to think bigger and bigger thoughts, and I can't think of anything that is beyond the power of God. He is able to do far beyond what you could think of. Try thinking hard some time. I am determined to think very hard because: when you think, you can ask. But if you don't think of anything, then what is there to ask? Ask for His Church, ask for His glory and I'll tell you that you will be amazed to discover that God is greater than our thoughts - greater than anything that you could ask.
I would like you to capture the vision of this possibility so that we will all be motivated. Joash was not motivated. Joash had no dynamic of faith - after three strokes he stopped. What is this? Your God will give you only three victories against Syria? Take hold of that arrow and bash there on the ground. Until your arm is tired keep bashing - until His grace comes along to give you that total victory - total victory. Don't let that tap be turned on so little. Launch out into the deep. And I want to say to those of you who are being baptized today: Through this launching forth, if you keep on in this direction, walking on even when you are weary, never letting up until God lifts you up with eagle's wings so that you will run and not be weary - if you keep on in this way then the day will come when you will discover that others will say concerning you, as they said of Elisha: "The chariots of Israel and its horsemen." The power of God through faith will be so manifested in your lives that people will say, "You are more important to Israel (the people of God, the Church of God) than all its armed forces put together." God's power will be manifested in your life and you will have the victory. And I do pray earnestly that this victory experience through faith will be ours, each one of us.
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