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Matthew 17:1-9 Can You Keep a Secret?
Posted in #findingJesus, #jesus, #sharingfaith, #weareprophets, fear, Intentional Spiritual Growth, Jesus, law, Preparation, Prophets, Radical Hospitality, Resurrection People, Scripture, Transfiguration on February 25, 2017
A Strange Order to Keep Quiet
- Could it be Jesus we testing reverse psychology?
- Could it be Jesus didn't think they understood what they saw
- Could it be Jesus want these disciples to have something the others did or couldn't know?
- Could it be Jesus had more than one purpose in taking the disciples along to see this event?
Learning the timing when to tell
- If Jesus had multiple reasons for the trip, what were they?
- Jesus sharing with Moses and Elijah, Law and Prophets
- Jesus is confirmed for being foretold
- Jesus is confirmes preparing to complete the law
- Jesus places himself in the context for the disciples
- What did the disciples learn from the trip
- Peter, James and John were either more mature or needed remedial reinforcement
- Peter receives a lesson in
- asking before declaring,
- praying before acting,
- trusting before explaining.
- If Jesus had multiple reasons for the trip, what were they?
Can you keep Quiet about who Jesus is to you?
- Do you notice that the disciples 2:1 keep quiet on the mountain.
- Reasons for speaking
- Reasons for listening and observing
- Learning lessons for future opportunities
- Trusting the lessons of the law
- Trusting the lessons of the prophets
- Affirming the mission and minsitry of Jesus
- knowing they can Get up and do not be afraid
- Trusting God's time for telling.
Knowing your time to listen and your times to tell.
- Being in the right place and time for learning
- Taking time to wait and listen to God
- Asking for guidance instead of declaring (our agenda/thinking/etc.
- Jumping ahead: This story is appears in Matth 17, Mark 9, and Luke 9, it is retold for us.
Someone needs to hear about Jesus
- Have you prepared for those moments?
- Have you mis-spoken in the past?
- Have you ever gotten up from fear of taking what we have experienced and kept it in the past?
- Homework:
- Go tell someone what Jesus Christ has done for you.
- If you don't then spend this Lenten season in prayer and study, because Easter is coming!
Matthew 5:38-34 The New Commandment
Posted in #2017, #conversation, #forgive, #jesus, #lovelikejesus, #newlife, #rsumc, #sermons, Christian LIving, connection, conversation, God, grace, Jesus, Joy, new life, Relationship, Salvation, Scripture on February 19, 2017
You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well; and if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile. Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you. "You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax-collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. [NRSV]
Love your enemies
The prescription for healing our personal relationship, to our national and global relationships, requires love.
That makes this teaching one of the hardest.
The Big Ten Commandments are a list of "do and don't," Jesus raises the bar beyond following rules of "do or don't." Jesus is after our "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" [Luke 10:27]
To love our enemies requires more resource that we have.
God's Love can do what nothing else can do.
In order for us to love with God's love, we must rely on God's love to shape our love.
- STEP 1: Love God and know God Love you
- STEP 2: Love God and know God loves your enemy
- STEP 3: Model God's love by loving first, without merit, rather because we are modeling God's work in us.
Easy Love, does not require God's help.
Find someone who likes you,
- Find those who think and believe as you do like you,
- Find those who will not challenge your actions or opinions, and
- You can easily be successful in love that is self-affirming.
- This might feel or seem to be loving others,
- but love is actually not even noticed
- and may not even be real.
What is the difference in Easy Love and Challenging Love
One we can do without God's help and lasts as long as everyone is of like mind.
But when someone challenges the core, we desire "them" to return to the comfort and conformity of "us"
While we yet sinners.
God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. [Romans 5:8]
- Jesus didn't wait for us to go first,
- Jesus didn't judge us first to see if we are worthy of forgiveness
- Jesus didn't make us prove any reason to receive love, grace and new life.
- Jesus loves us. Period.
In our Steps toward loving our enemies:
- STEP 1: Love God and know God Love you
- STEP 2: Love God and know God loves your enemy
- STEP 3: Model God's love by loving first, without merit, rather because we are modeling God's work in us.
God's love is preemptive
- God goes first.
- God makes the first move toward forgiveness
- God makes the way possible where there is division.
The model for our loving those who are difficult to love
- Begins by opening the conversation
- Begins by making a way for grace
- Begins by reminding ourselves and our enemies that God loves us even though we are at odds, broken or divided.
BUT WHY? Why does God loves us first?
It is the fundamental core of the nature of God
The core of our relationship with God and one another
God intervenes because we have broken the trust, we have divided our hearts, we have sided with like-minded.
If one side is righteous and the other totally corrupt, we would expect God to 'smote', flood and drive out the sinner from the garden. All these leave us separated and divided.
Jesus Reveals God's Love as THE way to the heart of God.
Why don't we move a far apart from one another and don't cross paths, don't interact, just avoid each other?
Why not write off the relationship and the people that are enemies?
- It's not what God does
- It's not what God has called us to do
- It keep us both from knowing Love/God
You can Never make someone love you
But you and I, as God models for us, a love, respect, hope, and longing for good with our enemies.
- They may never repent
- They may never respond in love
- They may never relent
But their response is
- not our responsibility,
- not our challenge, and
- not our calling.
The Way God's Love Works
- It goes first, overlooking sin, broken, past, etc, with the hope of restoring the relationship
- It waits, not condoning sin, but hoping that by being loved first, the door/conversation/way is opened.
- It is genuinely longing for good, peace, joy, reunion, and the like to follow.
- It remains even if rejected.
Dirty Work, but Most Rewarding
- Loving our Enemies is more difficult than following any rule or commandment
- It is the primary work that we are all called to share.
- Our ability to love and reciprocate love is linked to our salvation and eternity.
This is where it matters.
The challenge is to be perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect. Yikes!!
It is crucial that we define perfection as wholeness, completeness and not correctness, or a test score.
To be able to love those who have sinned, who are our enemies, is God's work
And God gives us the same task to find wholeness by loving sinners.
To your Neighbor:
I'm a sinner, love me, forgive me and love me more
Back to your Neighbor: I'm a sinner too, I love you, I forgive you and need you to love me more,
God says: repeat daily.
Matthew 5:21-37 "People of a New Heart"
Posted in Church, grace, Jesus, Love, Marriage, new life, Putting God First, Relationship, Service, Sin, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, Trust, Truth, Valentine's Day on February 11, 2017
"You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, "You shall not murder'; and "whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.' But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to the council; and if you say, "You fool,' you will be liable to the hell of fire. So when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift. Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are on the way to court with him, or your accuser may hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison. Truly I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.
"You have heard that it was said, "You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to go into hell.
"It was also said, "Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
"Again, you have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, "You shall not swear falsely, but carry out the vows you have made to the Lord.' But I say to you, Do not swear at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Let your word be "Yes, Yes' or "No, No'; anything more than this comes from the evil one. [NRSV]
Core Values of One Made New in Christ
Core Value Number 1 (Murder with Words)
How you communicate affects your relationships and your identity.
Sticks and Stones AND words can kill someone's spirit, reputation and ability to be included into the community.
Word's spoken in anger carry poisoned daggers that kill one's spirit, identity, reputation and relationship to the community.
- "Well I only thought it, I didn't do anything wrong"
- "What's in my own head doesn't hurt anyone."
- "I was so angry at what I saw on FB I had to teach them a lesson, I didn't kill anyone."
Core Value Number 2 (Satisfying Self in a Covenant Relationship)
How we respect one another, affects both them and us.
Sexual sins occur first in the heart and head. Stop the sin there to avoid going further to lessen the effect on others. But best of all see that sin occurs before the action.
- Don't be looking
- Don't just love the one you are with
- Don't invalidate the person by objectifying the person and justifying a behavior that is harmful to God, self AND the other person.
Our society has so twisted the self-satisfaction, self-pleasing and self-affirming our sexual selves has become paramount in movies, songs, and laws and even in the church.
Core Value Number 3 (Don't Look at the Line, much less cross it)
Marriage is the basis for integrity and of the family unity.
Marriage is a covenant with God, while you can't change your spouse you can add to their relationship with God or you can pull them away from God by your actions of both fidelity and by infidelity. Everything we do affects our spouse. Don't get into a marriage covenant if you are not holding God the whole time because marriage is not always easy nor simple.
Core Value Number 4 (Integrity Speaks truth in love)
Speaking as a person of integrity.
Speak the truth.
Don't dodge the difficult conversations, don't blame anyone or anything. Speak with respect, certainly don't add God's name to your ideas, thoughts or excuses. The practice of taking an oath or swearing our testimony assumes that most of the time we are untruthful except on these special circumstances.
- "Don't lie to me, we are in church." But if we weren't at church it might be alright to bend the truth, is the implied false assumption.
- "I'm not under oath" I don't have to be completely truthful with you because we are not in court. The rules are flexible to benefit me, especially when I might be in the wrong.
- I said, "Yes, your honor, I believe I completely certain that No, I have no recollection of having said what you thought I said or did. That is my honest testimony"
Jesus said: The ten commandments were easy, I'm stepping up the game.
How will we ever measure up? Don't be Discouraged:
Jesus model's some real life issues that we twist:
Jesus said: you will need to out behavior the most devout religious leaders. Jesus said this knowing we also say/think things like:
- I want to be right
- Its what they do in the movies/tv, in songs, etc.
- I want there to be an absence of conflict, so it's ok to keep quiet even if it is not true
- I want to be served and satisfied
- I want to be able to say/do whatever gets me out of this mess in the name of grace and love
- I don't want accountability; I ask you to continue trusting me in grace.
- It's my turn
The Remedy starts small:
Jesus begins with the small stuff.
- Start with how you treat the people that are around you every day.
- Be a truthful person of integrity
- Speak with strength, but know your words matter, speak truthfully.
- Speak with integrity
- Be one who respects boundaries
- Don't objectify people
- Don't forget marriage is about covenant and not being served
- If you are looking away from God, spouse or good, you are looking at what is evil, broken even in the name caring for ourselves.
- Speak with respect, boundaries, and integrity and you will be trusted, blessed and respected.
Don't let your words kill someone's spirit
Don't objectify people in the name of pleasing yourself
Don't believe you can buy your way out of sin
Don't let your body kill your spirit.
Don't think you are caring for your spirit by pleasing your body
Don't believe your actions only harm yourself.
Don't look for excuses, look for Christ.
Community Support: The Role of the Church
It is quick and easy for us to judge, blame and segregate ourselves in the name of protection or ideology.
- Help those who are blaming find Christ
- Help those who are destroying marriage to refocus on Christ/Covenant
- Help those who focus on pleasing themselves to see they sin and model loving them.
- Model speaking the truth instead of swimming in the ocean of blame, regret, fear, etc.
We are people of the New Life in Christ, Protect the heart of God within you and do not trade it for the world.
Hebrews 2:14-18 "For Folks Like Us."
Posted in #2017, #conversation, #cross, #freshstart, #goodness, #jesus, #relationship, #resurreciton, #sacrifice, Communion, creation, God, holy communion, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Love, Relationship, Sacrifice, Salvation, Sin, sinner, Trust on February 4, 2017
Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death. For it is clear that he did not come to help angels, but the descendants of Abraham. Therefore he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make a sacrifice of atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested. [NRSV]
Christ Came to for sinners like us.
One of the Core faith questions is: Why did Jesus have to die for our sins? If God created the world in the first place, why not just speak the word, MULIGUN or DO-OVER and "so be it!"?
How many backyard ball games have been remedied by the power of the "do over"?
The relationship God creates humanity for is one of mutual trust, respect, and love. When we trust our own will, when we disrespect God's rules, and when we turn "love of God" into "love of self," we give up the innocence, wholeness, and life. We have no more than our own life to offer, and if we give it up, then we have no relationship with God.
In the Garden of Eden, once sin broke the relationship, Adman and Eve were out of the God-relationship and had to work on their relationship with God rather than only enjoy a relationship with God.
In the Flood and Noah, God tries the do-over, but sin continues to show up as quick as the remedy cleans the way, sin returns and the same as before the cleansing.
God offers to keep the relationship for us, even if we break it, if we will trust God to provide, lead and love us. But the offer is short lived and God's will is questioned and rejected.
In the "Shark Tank" deal, God offers 100% of the profits, gives 100% of the resources, for us to choose life instead of death, knowing we will throw the whole deal away again and again. To seal the deal: God gives us the life we cannot restore, at God's full cost, because the one thing God desires most is that you be freed from death, freed from the power of sin and free to 'be' with God, all of us.
Still, we listen to voices of talking snakes, tempting devils, and convincing logic within our own minds and we throw the gift away.
For us, Sin: That which distances us from a relationship of trust and love with God and the People of God.
Traditional, the Cardinal Sins our favorite, go-to list that usually needs our attention:
- Pride,
- Greed,
- Lust,
- Envy,
- Gluttony,
- Wrath, and
- Sloth
Virtue: That which helps build a relationship of trust and love with God and the People of God.
- The Old Testament virtues are to Love God with all your
- heart
- mind and
- spirit.
- The New Testament virtues are
- Faith,
- Hope, and
- Love.
We can spend all day a church, feed five hundred people and sing praises till the cows come home and with one little word, we fail God.
Look at the short list
- Pride, misplaced achievement
- Greed, the assumption that things and money are our peace and hope and joy.
- Lust, Self-gratification of power or the absence of love in our relationships, satisfying only the body or mind.
- Envy, Not being content or satisfied, but alway wanting.
- Gluttony, satisfying the body, thinking that daily bread will bring us wholeness.
- Wrath lost in Anger, anger is, at times a healthy response, but when anger seeks revenge and dominance we come to the dark side.
- Sloth. Apathy and Laziness, the waiting for what we deserve to be given to us.
The remedy and our salvation:
The Gospel Remain, Jesus Christ who dies for our sins and his resurrection for our eternal life.
Because he himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested
- We come to communion as it is our reaffirming Christ's life has been given for our life
- We come confession our sins and trusting God's promise to save
- We come to the table to eat, not of gluttony, but of grace
- We come giving praise for God's mighty acts and not our own
- We come because we see the wealth in a life of giving ourselves to God
- We trust God's power is greater than our own.
- We come knowing that we are empty without God's mercy
- We come knowing God would be justified in being angry with us, but instead God set's a place for us at the table.
So come, You life is waiting at the table
- Gilligan' s Island
pride, The Professor
- greed, Mr. Howell
- lust, Ginger
- envy, Mary Ann
- gluttony, Mrs. Howell
- wrath, The Skipper
- sloth, Gilligan
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Lion Witch and Wardrobe: Gluttony
- Prince Caspian: Envy
- Dawn Treader: Greed
- Horse and His Boy: Lust
- Silver Chair: Sloth
- Magician's Nephew: Anger
- Last Battle: Pride
- Pride, Luke
- Greed, Boba Fett
- Lust, Han Solo
- Envy, Obi Won Kenobi
- Gluttony, Jabba the Hut
- Wrath, Darth Vader
- Sloth. StormTroopers?
Harry Potter
- Pride, professor Gilderoy Lockhart
- Greed, Dumbledore of knowledge
- Lust, Snape for power
- Envy, Wormtail
- Gluttony, Duddley Dursley
- Wrath, Voldemort
- Sloth. Horace Slug-Hornn
Show Time Series
- Gwen as Wrath.
- Bridgette as Sloth.
- Lindsay as Lust.
- Beth as Envy.
- Courtney as Pride.
- Izzy as Gluttony.
- Heather as Greed.
Micah 6:1-8 A New People, Yes or No?
Posted in #2017, #forgiveness, #humility, #lovelikejesus, #newlife, #sermons, 5 Practices, atonement, Christian LIving, Disicpleship, Hope, Jesus, justice, law, Patriotism, Sacrifice, Salvation, Sin, sinner, Wisdom on January 28, 2017
Hear what the LORD says: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the LORD, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel. "O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me! For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of slavery; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised, what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the LORD." "With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of [Dodge] rams, with ten thousands of [pipelines] rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?" He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? [NRSV]
Living in a World of Protests
The Presidential Election was a protest voice giving upheaval to our political system.
The various marches and movements are protest voices. Have any of us here and everywhere not heard the voice of those drawing attention to racism, class-ism, sexism, socialism, communism, ism-ism. The Voices have been heard!!
It is time for active transformation, healing an Atonement
- We are living in a time when people are talking and not thinking.
- We are witnessing a period where people are acting and not grounded.
- We are experiencing a rending of our national fabric stumbling over our righteousness in the name of God's righteousness.
- We have woven identities of like-minded factions using the threads of grace and gifts of our collective spiritual journey.
Atonement: At-One-Ment
When we deserve entombment God intervenes in human experience to save, claim and restart our lives.
- We call this grace.
- God created Atonement,
- We think we need extra credit home work, God just starts us fresh.
God's Good News has something to say about our collective sins AND God offers a solution for healing.
Two Roads Diverge in a Nations Path
- God has doubled-down our on innocence.
- The world is being driven by blame, guilt, shame, fear, and failures.
God is all-forgiving. He does not seek to judge and punish us, but to correct and heal us. He is not invested in our guilt but in our innocence. The spiritual principle by which He helps us return to love when we have strayed from its ways is the principle of Atonement. The Atonement was introduced into human consciousness by God Himself, as a response to our capacity for fear. It is our eternal opportunity to choose again. That is what makes the Atonement a miracle: it is something introduced into the laws of time and space, by a power beyond them both. Grace supersedes the law of karma. To atone is to admit our errors, praying that God free us from what would otherwise be their inevitable consequences. It is a humble return of our minds to God's love. It is to recognize where we ourselves have taken a path away from God's will, and ask to be corrected and forgiven and healed. The story of the Prodigal Son makes clear how delighted God is when the son who strayed returns. By willingly and consciously unburdening ourselves of the weight of our mistakes, we are given the chance to begin again, to go forward in life from a healed perspective. Could America not use a miracle? The command to atone is a universal spiritual theme. In the Jewish religion, Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, where Jews admit our errors of the past year, asking God's forgiveness and for His willingness to inscribe us in the Book of Life for another year. (Healing the Soul of America, Marianne Williams p.92)
The Lord Requires a relationship
[1 Cor. 18-31] For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: "Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord."
The First Action for Healing: Confession
The Second Step of Action is GOD's work of Atonement. God Forgives and restores FIRST.
The Third is to model God's Atonement and make whole to the extent that we can. We Follow God's lead.
Note: Law can give leverage to Atonement, but only God can make us new, whole, complete.
The Final Step is to continue walking with God, until such time that we wander again.
Frustrating Game of Jenga: by Hasbro. The fun of the game is tearing the tower apart, God's game is about building a people together.
Something to try this week: If you hear/see/experience someone protesting, tell/email/notify them this:
- "I hear your voice,
- Your Voice is Heard."
- Now let's ask God to heal us,
- make us new (God is not about revenge or back-pay, God simply starts us over.)
Let us find God's foolishness our new way together and walk together in grace, humility and seeing the justice God has shown us all.
1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Divided? Power in the Cross
Posted in #2017, #cross, 5 Practices, Christian LIving, Disicpleship, Forgiveness, Hope, Jesus, Politics, Preparation, Prophets, Sacrifice, Service, Suffering, Trust, Witness on January 22, 2017
Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same purpose. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters. What I mean is that each of you says, "I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apollos," or "I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to Christ." Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name. (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize but to proclaim the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its power. For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. [NRSV]
The World is divided
Politics, Religions, Football Teams and Left Twix or Right Twix. Have you tried having a meaningful conversation about the hot topics of the day?
- You either talk to no one and TRY to avoid the conversation and grow cynical and isolated?
- You surround yourself with like minded people for comfort and protection.
- We dare begin the conversation because we think we can change someone's mind and end up fueling fires we didn't intend to start or
- We love starting arguments because we enjoy bullying, shaming or agitating people.
I suggest we need to show the world an alternative to the division. Hear Paul's challenge and calling to do just that:
Paul writes at the opening of his letter.
- His first letter,
- his first matter,
- his most important point is about agreement and division.
He urges us to think about how we define ourselves.
- I'm one of Chloe's people
- I belong to Apollos,
- I belong to Cephas
- I belong to Paul
- I belong to the original member core
- I belong to the newbies
- I belong to this Preacher or that minister
- Well, I belong to Christ, with a self-righteous tone of judgment.
Paul's Letter begins with a Super Nanny Interruption.
You know the Super Nanny, that British nanny that sets up cameras throughout a frustrated parent-child home and observes and then lays down the new laws to correct the dysfunctional and divided family.
Paul's Letter begins laying the hammer down on what divides us.
- I will tell you what divides us?
- It is not Christ that divides us,
- WE divide ourselves
We are being called to take responsibility for what divides us.
- It's not social media
- It's not tv and politicians
- It's not elections and conversations
- It is what is cooking in our own hearts, mind and souls.
Paul's call is #1, first step
- Stop with the groupings.
- Stop with the interest groups.
- Stop with the privileged class, stop being in the victim group.
#2, Second Step: Remember the Goal,
- Agreement
- Same Mindedness
- Same Purpose
As an aside, one of the things I love about this passage is Paul's (wasteful misuse of paper in writing his rambling thoughts about who he did or did not baptize in the middle of a power challenge and stern instruction.)
Number #3, Step three
Personal Question of Faith and Self-Reflection
What does the cross of Jesus Christ actually mean to you and your life?
We are studying the Apostle's Creed as a historic listing of points about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the church. But there is a core question that is at the heart of any statement of beliefs:
What does the cross of Jesus Christ personally mean to you and your life?
When we have come clinging to the power of the death and resurrection as our only hope and salvation, then we have a place to reflect on our differences.
Facebook proves verse 18 to be true. "The cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but a power to those being saved."
When we start talking to another person, we might heart lovely words about Jesus, but sometimes the words are a
- noisy gong,
- empty platitudes,
- self-righteous memes, or
- "the correct answers, without listening to the questions."
Let's be clear about step #3:
- Does the cross of Jesus Christ mean that Jesus died for all your mistakes, sins and failures?
- Does the cross of Jesus Christ mean that Jesus Died for your times of pride and arrogance?
- Does the cross of Jesus Christ mean that Jesus Offers himself in your place in judgment?
- Does the cross of Jesus Christ mean that Jesus Promises to stand with you in the face of fear?
- Does the cross of Jesus Christ mean that Jesus Promises to stand with you in the fiery furnace?
- Does the cross of Jesus Christ mean that Jesus Gives your strength in the face of persecution when you are trying to be faithful to his example?
- Does the cross of Jesus Christ mean that Jesus Encourage and empower you to see the best in others?
- Does the cross of Jesus Christ mean that Jesus Divides us into groups, camps, parties, etc.?
- Does the cross of Jesus Christ mean that Jesus Calls us to bully and shame one another as long as in his name?
- Does the cross of Jesus Christ mean that Jesus Wants us to continue sinning and testing?
- Does the cross of Jesus Christ mean that Jesus Wants us to act nice when we are together, but ponder evil in our hearts?
- Does the cross of Jesus Christ mean that Jesus excuses us from avoiding evil and confrontation because we are uncomfortable?
- What power does the cross of Jesus give your daily life?
If you don't have an answer, then we have found our place to start.
We will not find agreement, one mind, one purpose until we find the POWER of the cross.
Paul calls on Chloe's people, people of Apollos, Cephas, Paul, Rock Spring, Peavine, D.C., Chattanooga, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, Dallas, and every nation and tribe.
God offers us the power of true hope, complete salvation, and confidence to see a way out when we have closed our hearts, our minds, and doors.
If you are ready to claim the power of Jesus has for you, for our church, for our country, for a world hurting and divided. We let go of control and commit ourselves newly or renewed, Take my Life and let it be filled your power, your word, your love, your truth,
Your hope, Your Peace
And Jesus leads the way from there.
Paul's call here is for the faithful, the church, not the unbeliever. His task is to make sure the GOSPEL has a POWERFUL hold on our hearts.
Ask your neighbor: Do you know the Power of Jesus Christ
- IF they say yes, say praise the Lord
- If that say no or I'm not sure, say, let's talk
- If they don't say anything, then say, Today's the day to "get of the pot/fence" and live in Christ.
- When you hear division: Call on Christ to heal, protect and bring solutions.
- When you see chasms of thought: Think what does the Cross compel me to do or say.
- When you experience a brother or sister remaining quiet and not backing you up, ask them if they want to know more about Jesus or are in their silence are they choosing someone/thing other than Christ. Now is when the world needs the cross.
Hebrews 2:10-18 Childish vs Childlike
Posted in #2017, #lovelikejesus, #oikos, #relationship, Christian LIving, Church, connection, Family, Fellowship, Ministry, Resurrection People on January 14, 2017
It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. For this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters, saying, "I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters, in the midst of the congregation I will praise you." And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Here am I and the children whom God has given me." Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death. For it is clear that he did not come to help angels, but the descendants of Abraham. Therefore he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make a sacrifice of atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested. [NRSV]
Act Like Children
Looking back twenty, forty and sixty years ago, Being able to be "Child-like" has radically changed.
- Does it mean to seen as miniature adults
- Are equally gifted with limitless possibilities
- Do children have voice, vote or rights
- Do children have to worry or work
- Do children have privileges or are privileged
Children of developed and developing countries have a common starting point:
We all start dependent.
This is the relationship God desires for us all.
God steps up our relationship from simple dependent into children of God's household.
A Relationship of Kinship
One of the few Greek words that stuck with me from seminary, thanks to XX, is the work 'oikos'.
Predating the yogurt crazy, Oikos is kinship.
- Oikos is term meaning household,
- particularly, for us it is the household of the people of God.
- We share a common spiritual fire
- We share a common home
- Our belonging includes all those in the household not limited to bloodlines.
Jesus becomes one of us so we know how to find God's family.
So, What?
Living like a child of God
- Knowing Jesus shows us we are brother in sisters in grace, in faith, in God
- Knowing Jesus lived and died for us to both KNOW and ACCESS the God's family
- Living as one empowered and saved to love
- Living to show that God has created us to see past our difference to be God's family.
This first Quarter's Project
- Identify a member of God's family that feeling excluded from the community
- Model and teach them that you are their brother or sister in Christ
- Share the fellowship of church community, God's family
- Continue until Christ returns.
What if I don't want to work on that project?
- I risk moving myself and others away from God
- I test God's grace rather than trust God's grace
- I model love of self, convenience, or laziness to myself and others
- My disconnect from loving and connecting with the disconnected separates me from God.
You and I were born to be dependent on God
You and I are called and challenged, saved and claimed to model that with others
The New Year's resolution is to not be childish, rather claim the help of our Oikos, our kin, all God's people: and show the world how God's children think, behave, trust, love, forgive, etc.
John 1:1-14 Starting with a Word
Posted in #2017, connection, God, Love, Meaning, new life, Resurrection People on January 7, 2017
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth. [NRSV]
Let's have a conversation
- Talk about bowl games
- Inaugurations
- Resolutions and getting in shape
- the weather
- Or about purpose, meaning and life.
LATIN 'Fiat': So let it be
- Before "Let there be light" there was Word,
- God starts creation with conversation.
- John's gospel is about telling, explaining and persuasion to believe.
- Before the bang of creation was the Word.
There was the relationship of love without the expression of love. If these us only self to love, love is not possible. God formed the meaning of love in our creation and spoke us into being.
A conversation of relationship rather than just order.
- John does not say in the beginning there was
- Physics,
- Mathematics and
- Gravity.
- Rather in the beginning was the relationship, conversation and love.
A self absorbed creator would only need mechanics. God starts with conversation relation and meaning. That purpose is to love which requires relationship conversations as purposeful constructs.
Long before galaxies were formed far, far away there was god who had all power purpose and possibly. The meaning at work is not only order but the why before the order.
God so loved that creation was indivisible with Gods identity and purpose for creating.
So what?
Speech assumes a conversation and conversation assumes a relationship and the desire to be in relationship is the core of love and thus God speeaks because God wants love, relationship and meaning
Start a new year committed to preparing for God conversations.
In a world that is so desperately seeking a world void of God, you and I have a mission to bridge the gap of chaos.
Love gives the meaning to our lives else we are a purposesless existence
People live that way every day
Is fairness a principle of gravity?
Is justice necessary in physics?
Is kindness or needed in science?
Does mathematics demand love?
What would we see things develop and evolve if it to find a more perfect interdependence and relationship?
Genesis. God speaks order because God desires to love more than to exist
That's why God would die for us. It is what gives meaning to our existence and god's identity of love.
Because of sin, where we love ourselves more than loving god abs o e another god speaks the word of recreation in Christ to restore our relationship
2017 Resolution to
- Talk with God
- Talk with family about God
- Prepare to open conversation to God beyond bf out family and friends
Where there is fear and division open conversations rather than taking sides and dividing relationship
Explain why you believe what you trust
keep choosing chaos over love
Applying Titus 3
Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, 2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone. 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another. 4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. 6 This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 8 The saying is sure. I desire that you insist on these things, so that those who have come to believe in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works; these things are excellent and profitable to everyone. 9 But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
Titus 3:4-7 'Living the Good News'
Posted in #2017, #freshstart, #jesus, #mysundaysermons, #rsumc, 5 Practices, Christian LIving, Christmas A, Relationship, Witness on December 31, 2016
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- 4 level cups of White Lilly's self-rising flour
- 1/2 cup of Crisco all vegetable shorting
- After the dough begins to form add
- 4 cups of coarsely grated extra sharp cheddar cheese
- approximately 2/3 cup of whole milk, base on temperature and altitude
- Mix by floured hands or in KitchenAid with three hole mixing blade
- Roll with a wooden rolling pin on floured cheese cloth
- Cut with a medium size round cutter
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- Make enough for one sitting for a family of four with friends.
Advice for 2017 from Paul through Titus
- Trust and Obey
- Ready for Good
- Avoid Fussing
- Be Gentle
- Courtesy to everyone
Q: How different 2016 would have been if we Trusted God, obeyed authorities, lived expecting Good, avoided fussing, acting out of gentleness, and showed courtesy to all?
But How? Jesus is How!
Know the story:
- God is good, loving and kind
- God showed up as Jesus
- Through Jesus, God saves us from sin
So What, Footnotes:
- Note 1: God's actions have nothing to do with our worthiness
- Tell you neighbor: "I'm not worthy. You're not worthy. We are not worth it, but God loves us anyway.
- Note 2: through baptism, we find the rebirth and renewal of God's gift through the Holy Spirit.
- Ask you neighbor: "I want the Holy Spirit to make me new." "Fix me, forgive me, make me whole!"
- Summary: The Spirit is poured out on us, richly, through Jesus who makes us whole through God' s grace which makes us kin to Jesus, belonging to the ongoing work of God from now and forever.
- Join hands with your neighbor and lift hands to Jesus: "I have holes in my heart, in my track record and I want you to make me holy, whole and new.
Memory Verse for 2017
The Good News for 2017: But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. [Titus 3.4-7]
- By the end of the year, you will know this very my memory, you will know it by heart.
- By the end of the year, you will learn to share this verse with many other people.
- By the end of 2017, you will be known as a witness of Titus 3.4-7
- By the end of the year, you will experience what it means to be gravy coated and ready for the heavenly banquet that we share here on earth and for eternity.
Christmas Sunday Luke 2:1-21 20161225
Posted in #2016, #benotafraid, #Christmas2016, #gotell, #jesus, #linkChrist2Christmas, #rsumc, belief, Church, Extravagant Generosity, Faith, Fellowship, God, Goodness, grace, greatness, heaven, Intentional Spiritual Growth, Marriage, Passionate Worship, Relationship, Salvation, Spiritual Growth, Truth, Worship on December 24, 2016
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Shock and Awe
The Shepherds Go
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Christmas on Sunday
Our Responses?
- Thank you Jesus
- Sharing the News
- Going to See, Show and Retell
- Pondering and Remembering in our hearts


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Derbyshire were at the centre of a swine flu scare but it was Essex who looked out of sorts as Chris Rogers reeled off his second double-century of the season to leave his team in charge of the LV County Championship promotion match at Derby.
Rogers was one of six Derbyshire players feeling ill but he batted brilliantly on a green pitch to score 204 not out, his sixth championship hundred of the summer, after Essex had put the home side in. The captain also passed 2,000 runs for the campaign, sharing century stands with Garry Park and Dan Redfern to take his team to 368 for 3 in a game they have to win to have a chance of going up.
It was an excellent response by Derbyshire who had seamer Tim Groenewald ruled out of the game on Tuesday and then had to send pace bowler Tom Lungley home before the start of play with suspected swine flu. Four other players were also ill but Essex failed to take advantage by bowling poorly in helpful conditions.
Graham Napier beat the bat but the others could not maintain a consistent line and Rogers and Wayne Madsen gave Derbyshire a solid platform with a stand of 61. Chris Wright broke through in the 17th over to have South African Madsen lbw for 16 but Rogers and Park added 121 in 30 overs. Rogers drove Danish Kaneria for his 10th four to reach 50 off 78 balls. Park passed 50 when he drove David Masters for his eighth four but on 57, he edged Wright to first slip.
Essex must have known it was not going to be their day when he edged Masters into his stumps without removing a bail on 134.
The new ball brought an immediate reward when Wright got Redfern to drive away from his body to be caught at gully two short of a half-century and give Essex their first point of the game.
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Euclid of Alexandria Circa BC The library of Alexandria was the foremost seat of learning in the world and functioned like a university. The library contained manuscripts. 2 , 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29,,,,,,,
The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic: Every positive integer (excluding 1) can be expressed as a product of primes and this factorisation is unique (Euclid IX.14). The first part of this result is needed for the proof of the infinity of primes (Euclid IX.20) which follows shortly. The type of proof used is a little different and is known as "Reductio ad absurdum". It was first exploited with great success by ancient Greek mathematicians. The idea is to assume that the premise is not true and then apply a deductive argument that leads to an absurd or contradictory statement. The contradictory nature of the statement means that the "not true" premise is false and so the premise is proven true.
prime 2 2 x 3prime x 5prime x 3prime2 x 73 x prime2 x 3 2 prime2 2 x 53 x x 11prime2 3 x x x 7prime2 x 3 x 5prime x 112 x 175 x 72 2 x 3 2 prime2 x 193 x x 5prime x 3 x 7prime2 2 x x 52 x 23prime2 4 x x x x 13prime For example: Assume that 54 is the smallest non–prime number that we suspect cannot be expressed as a product of primes. Since it is composite, it can be written as a product of two smaller factors. These factors are either prime or have already been written as a product of primes (6 x 9 or 3 x 18). It is quite easy to see that any number is either prime or can be expressed as a product of primes. Suppose that we check this for all numbers up to a certain number. 2 x 3 3 Any whole number is either prime or can be expressed as a product of its prime factors.
prime 2 2 x 3prime x 5prime x 3prime2 x 73 x prime2 x 3 2 prime2 2 x 53 x x 11prime2 3 x x x 7prime2 x 3 x 5prime x 112 x 175 x 72 2 x 3 2 prime2 x 193 x x 5prime x 3 x 7prime2 2 x x 52 x 23prime2 4 x x x x 13prime 2 x 3 3 Any whole number is either prime or can be expressed as a product of its prime factors. This argument can obviously be extended to larger numbers = 2 x 3 2 x 17 x = 46 x 153 This could be generalised for any whole number N, by using a "reductio" type argument as follows:
x x x 32 x 73 x x x 53 x x x x x 72 x 3 x x 112 x 175 x 72 2 x x 193 x x x 3 x 72 2 x x 52 x x x x x 13 Any Number Can Be Expressed As a Product of Primes 2 x 3 3 Since N is composite (otherwise it would be prime), N = p x q, both less than N. Since p and q are smaller than N they are either prime or a product of primes. Therefore the assumption is wrong and N can be written as a product of prime factors. Assume N is the smallest number that cannot be expressed as a product of primes. There is no smallest N that cannot be expressed as a product of primes. Any number can be expressed as a product of primes. QED 7038
In G.H. Hardy's book "A Mathematician's Apology", Hardy discusses what it is that makes a great mathematical theorem great. He discusses the proof of the infinity of primes and the proof of the irrationality of 2. G.H. Hardy ( ) "....It will be clear by now that if we are to have any chance of making progress, I must produce examples of "real" mathematical theorems, theorems which every mathematician will admit to be first-rate."…. "....I can hardly do better than go back to the Greeks. I will state and prove two of the famous theorems of Greek mathematics. They are "simple" theorems, simple both in idea and execution, but there is no doubt that they are theorems of the highest class. Each is as fresh and significant as when it was discovered – two thousand years have not written a wrinkle in either of them. Finally, both the statements and the proofs can be mastered in an hour by any intelligent reader…." "Two thousand years have not written a wrinkle in either of them."
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, The Infinity of Primes 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, …… This again is a "reductio ad absurdum" proof, commonly known as a proof by contradiction. Remember, the idea is to assume the contrary proposition, then use deductive reasoning to arrive at an absurd conclusion. You are then forced to admit that the contrary proposition is false, thereby proving the original proposition true. To prove that the number of primes is infinite. *Assume the contrary and consider the finite set of primes: p 1, p 2, p 3, p 4, …. p n-1, p n Let S = p 1 x p 2 x p 3 x p 4 x …. x p n-1 x p n T = (p 1 x p 2 x p 3 x p 4 …. p n-1 x p n ) + 1 Consider T = S + 1 T is either prime or composite. If T is prime we have found a prime not on our finite list, proving * false. If T is composite it can be expressed as a product of primes by the But T is not divisible by any prime on our finite list since it would leave remainder 1. Euclid Proposition IX.20 (Based on). Therefore there must exist a prime > p n that divides T, also proving * false. The number of primes is infinite. QED "Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic" (Euclid IX.14).
The Square Root of 2 is Irrational 22 1 1 This is a "reductio-ad-absurdum" proof attributable to Pythagoras. To prove that 2 is irrational Assume the contrary: 2 is rational That is, there exist integers p and q with no common factors such that: (Since 2q 2 is even p 2 even p even) So p = 2k for some k. (Since p is even even q 2 even q even) So q = 2m for some m. This contradicts the original assumption. 2 is irrational. QED (odd 2 = odd)
Incommensurable Magnitudes (Irrational Numbers) 1 1 22 The whole of Pythagorean mathematics and philosophy was based on the fact that any quantity or magnitude could always be expressed as a whole number or the ratio of whole numbers. Unit Square The discovery that the diagonal of a unit square could not be expressed in this way is reputed to have thrown the school into crisis, since it undermined some of their earlier theorems. Story has it that the member of the school who made the discovery was taken out to sea and drowned in an attempt to keep the bad news from other members of the school. He had discovered the first example of what we know today as irrational numbers.
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This is one of my most favorite stories. I reread it all the time hoping for more. I'll keep hoping because where its left at is awful I want Kurt happy damn it!
Btw I'm totally all about Kurtbastian they are my OTP but I love Cale as an OC and I've always loved the idea of Kurt/Jeff. So I'm hoping for happy endings all around :)
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Now there's a twist I didn't see coming. I do hope you update this soon!
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What's gonna happen? What's gonna happen!? WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN!? ...Okay... I've calmed down... Sorry about that... Umm this was a really good chapter and I'm really liking the story so far. As you can see, I'm dying to find out what happens next and I can't wait for the next update! Nice job.
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- 3.0″ Vari-angle Touchscreen LCD Monitor
- A 3.0″ Clear View II Vari-angle Touchscreen LCD monitor with 1, 040k-dot resolution provides clear composition and playback viewing even in bright light. Its tilt and swivel capability makes shooting at odd angles easy, and a smudge-resistant coating keeps the monitor clear. Seven-level brightness control is available. Intuitive touchscreen control makes menu control simple, and even offers Touch Autofocus.
Full HD 1080 Video Capture
Full HD Movie mode supports Movie Servo for continuous focus tracking of moving subjects during recording. Manual exposure control and a built-in stereo microphone with manual audio level adjustment provide high-quality control over your shooting, and multiple frame rates and resolutions provide quality-level and stylistic shooting options. The ISO range in Video mode is 100-6400, and is expandable to 12800. Stills can be recorded during video shooting simply by pressing the camera's shutter button.
14-bit A/D Conversion
With 14-bit analog-to-digital conversion, the EOS Rebel T5i captures and records images with subtle tonal gradations and details resulting in more realistic and color-accurate images. By recording up to 16, 384 colors per channel, the EOS Rebel T5i ensures that the fine details are recorded with accuracy.
ISO Range Stills
An ISO Range of 100-12800 (expandable to 25600) provides low-noise capture in low light situations and saturated colors in bright conditions.
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