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Reversing Addiction Consequences

Dr. Tony Evans

February 14, 2021

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Dr. Tony Evans is known as a relevant expositor and is a pastor of pastors and a father in the faith.

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Reversing Addiction Consequences

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Tony Evans: God knowswhat you're like.
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He knows our propensity,and he has compassion
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when we come home.
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Come back home as quicklyas possible.
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Though your sins be as scarlet,they shall be white as snow.
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Though they be red like crimson,they shall be as wool.
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So, whatever inheritance,whatever God still wants to do
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for you, to you,through you, in you,
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don't lose anymore.
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Jesus Christ broke the curse,so don't ever talk
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about you being cursed againif you know Jesus Christ.
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The curse, the consequenceof the law is broken.
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The greatest miracle of all iswhen you get yourself
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in the blood of Jesus Christfor the forgiveness of sins
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and the gift of eternal life.
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Tony: Many of God's childrenare spiritual POWs,
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prisoners of war,trapped in a sin that
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they have been unable to break,trapped in a situation
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that is contrary to the willand Word of God
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from which they have not beenable to escape.
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Whether it is alcoholism,or drugs, or pornography,
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or gluttony, or profanity,
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whether it is lashing outin anger, in wrath,
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and inabilityto control one's temper,
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they find themselves caughtand unable to get out.
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I want to talk aboutthe consequence of addiction.
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The biblical word for whatthe world calls addiction
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is stronghold,because the biblical word,
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"stronghold", is referringto the spiritual nature
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of the addiction.
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A stronghold isa spiritually-based addiction,
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which means if you try to feel--fix an addiction,
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which is really a stronghold,without the right
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spiritual connection,you can't be released from it
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because you haven't dealt withthe core issue that's behind it.
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So you just dealwith the thing itself.
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We're living in a time whenpeople find themselves stuck.
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Today, I want to try to givea biblical mechanism
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for deliverance predicatedon an understanding
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that Christianscan find themselves
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in strongholdslike non-Christians.
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You don't have to be savedfor long to know
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that when you got savedyour flesh didn't disappear.
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Some of our flesh wasso well-trained
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when we weren't saved that whenwe got saved the flesh looked
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at that as a new opportunityto show how strong it really is.
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Even the most spiritual personin the New Testament,
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the Apostle Paul, struggled withsomething he couldn't shake.
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In Romans chapter 7,verses 14 to 24,
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Paul says he was doing thingshe did not want to do.
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He said he told himself,"You shouldn't do it."
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He said, "The willing was there.
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I was really serious,
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but the ability to pull itoff wasn't.
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I kept promising GodI'm not going to do it again.
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I kept promising God--
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I struggled between my fleshand my salvation,
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and the two were notgetting along."
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And so, this thingcalled stronghold,
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spiritual addictions,is spiritual slavery
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in some category of life,which is why he calls it
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in verse 14 a slave to sin.
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If you are sick--if you are a slave,
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that means you have a master.
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He calls the master sin.
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He doesn't call it a bad habit,he doesn't call it a mistake,
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he doesn't call it somethingthat, you know,
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you need to just get over,he calls it something
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that is in antithesisto the will and Word of God.
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So no, you don't just--you didn't just make a mistake
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over and over and over again.
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You had a master called sin.
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Because if you don't knowwho your master is,
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then you won't address itfor what it is.
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He calls it slavery,being under the whip
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of an entity that he calls sin.
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How does this strongholdor spiritual addiction,
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whatever category it is, occur?
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Because understanding thecause will lead us to the cure.
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When you're sickand you go to the doctor,
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he's going to try to findthe cause
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so he can give youthe right cure.
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Many of us are tryingto cure the wrong cause.
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So we're medicating somethingthat's not the problem
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and wonder why we're notgetting healthier spiritually.
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2 Corinthians chapter 10,verse 2 says,
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"I ask that when I am presentI need not to be bold
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with the confidence with whichI propose to be courageous
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against somewho regard us
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as if we walk accordingto the flesh.
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For though we walk in the flesh,we do not war according
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to the flesh; for the weapons ofour warfare are not the flesh,
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but divinely powerful
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for the destructionof fortresses.
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We are destroying speculationsand every lofty thing raised up
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against the knowledge of God,and we are taking
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every thought captiveto the obedience of Christ."
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The problem of addiction,a sin that has mastered you,
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or us, or me--the problemof addiction has to do
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with a lofty thing, okay?
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You see that phrase?
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He says this lofty thing,in verse 5,
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has been raised upagainst the knowledge of God.
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What Paul is saying is,the reason
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why we stay defeated is becauseof our partition in the mind.
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There is a blockage in the mind.
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He says speculations and thoughtraised up petitioned out
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against the knowledge of God.
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So what the enemy does is,he sets up a partition
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in the mind so that the truthof God can't get through.
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And because he partials offyour thinking,
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your speculation,and your thoughts,
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no matter how many sermonsyou hear,
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it can't cross overto the other room
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because the other room is filledwith contradictory information,
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that the enemy doesn't wantthe knowledge of God
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to cross over into.
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He calls this other informationin the other half of the room,
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your partial-off mind--he calls that information
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knowledge and speculationagainst the knowledge of God.
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So the lofty thing iscontradicting what God says,
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what God thinks so that itdoesn't go all the way through.
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So what happens is thatthe enemy is able to keep
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the truth of Godfrom fully infiltrating
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your thought patterns so thatyou have victory one moment
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and defeat another moment.
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Tony: This blockingthrough a lofty thing
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keeps what he calls in verse 4the fortress, prison,
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or tomb operating.
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So, the momentyou think you getting out,
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you find out you still in,because it didn't cross over.
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It did--the partition made sureit didn't cross over.
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Now, the biblical wordfor this lofty thing is
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double-mindedness,double-mindedness.
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Double, two;mind, thought,
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thinking in two differentdirections at the same time.
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Partition.
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It is the job of Satanto keep you thinking
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in two ways at the same time.
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He doesn't mind you gettingGod's thoughts on Sunday
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as long as in the other roomyou have his thoughts on Monday.
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Because if he can get youto have God's thoughts on Sunday
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but get his thoughts on Monday,he can keep God's thoughts
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from penetratingthe whole of you.
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Therefore, God's thoughtsdon't last long
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because they're in competition.
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It's like on Sunday,after having incorporated
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the other worldviewall week long,
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somehow that diet worship willoverride and give you victory.
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He says, "No, you're operatingwith a partition,
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and that partition cancels outthe knowledge of God,
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making it incapable of your mindbeing able to take
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every thought captiveto the obedience to Christ."
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So in order for the penetrationof God's truth to bring victory
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in the area of the strongholddue to the vise grip of sin
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that has been amplified by Satanand demons--
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in order for that to beovercome,
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that wall must be taken down
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in order that the fortress,the prison might be destroyed,
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not remodeled.
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And the tricky part of this,the tricky part is that
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the other part of the room,the part
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that's not from God feels righta lot of the time.
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See, the reason why Satancan keep us track--
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trapped is when we don't likewhat God wants
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and come to somelogical conclusion about it;
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that we can toss a littleJesus's name on top of it,
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we think then then it must beokay when it's the devil
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controlling the other sideof the room of our minds.
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And when we understand thisand grasp this,
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it becomesa transforming truth that,
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"Wait a minute.
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I have a divided mind,and that's why it doesn't stick.
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It can stay therefor a day or a week,
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but it doesn't stick.
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And even when it comes back,I don't have victory over it.
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It has victory over me."
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So if that's the problem,how do we do this?
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How do we do this?
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How do we begin now to removethe partition so there is
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no longer a division in the mindso that now God's knowledge
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flows through and the fortressis destroyed
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and all the speculationthat's holding me hostage?
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Back to our original passage,John 8.
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He says in John chapter 8,verse 31 and 32,
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"If you continue in my Word,then you will know--
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then you are truly my disciplesand you will know the truth,
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and the truthwill make you free."
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You only are going to be freedby the truth, okay?
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Nobody will disagree with that,so let me say it another way.
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You will only be freeby the truth,
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not what you believe to be true.
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Paul said in the Scripture wejust read in 2 Corinthians 10,
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"We do not war accordingto the flesh."
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The flesh can't fix the flesh.
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You can try to manage it.
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You can try to force it down.
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You can try to makea new year's resolution.
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You can promise you're nevergoing to do it again.
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You can talk to yourself.
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You can go to the counselor.
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You can take medication;
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but if it'sa spiritual sin issue,
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what we do is go to the thingthat's the problem
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to fix the problem.
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He says, "No.
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What you must do,first and foremost,
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is continue in my truth."
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Look, verse 31 he says,"I want you to continue
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in my truthand you will know the truth."
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You must abide in the truth.
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We don't abide in the truth;we visit it.
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No--he says,"No, no, no, no, no.
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To have victoryover the master of sin,
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you must abide in the truth."
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I want you to readRomans 6, 7, and 8,
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those three chapters.
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Romans 6, 7, and 8.
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Why?
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'Cause Romans 6, 7, and 8is going to tell you the truth
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about the master called sin,whatever that sin is.
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In chapter 6,Paul is going to tell you
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about your new identityin Christ.
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He's going to tell youyou've been baptized with Christ
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and you are notwho you used to be.
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Paul's going to tell youto shift your identification
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in your newness in Christand therefore,
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verse 11 of chapter 6,consider your old person dead.
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That's not who you are.
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Then he's going to cometo chapter 7 and he's going--
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Paul is going to tell you,"I struggled like you struggle.
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I had some things in my life--"He doesn't tell us what it is,
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which is good,'cause then
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you can put your stuffin that chapter.
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He says, "And I struggled;
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and the thingI didn't want to do,
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the things I did; and I didn'twant it and it kept coming back;
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and I resisted it,but it showed up again,
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until I got to chapter 8and understood the power
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of the Holy Spirit and thatthe law of the Spirit is greater
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than the law of sin and death."
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So that in verse 13 he says,"Therefore, I have no longer
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any obligation to the fleshwhen I understood that
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I got this supernatural peacewhen it's tied to the truth."
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So if you are strugglingwith something,
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if you are a believer, every dayfor this week read chapter 6, 7,
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and 8 of the Book of Romansover and over again
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and let the medicine seep downand abide in you.
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"Because when you continuein my Word,
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you will then know the truth andthe truth will set you free."
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Because when you lookat verse 36,
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"So if the Son makes you free,you will be free indeed."
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Okay.
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Wait a minute.Wait a minutes.
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We got a little issue here.
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'Cause verse 32 says,"And you will know the truth
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and the truth willmake you free," right?
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That's what it says.
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But in verse 36 it says,"So if the Son makes you free,
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you will be free indeed."
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Wait a minute.
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In the first one,the truth will make me free;
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but in the second one,the Son sets me free.
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In the first one, I'm free,but in the second one,
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I'm free indeed.
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So, what's the differencebetween being made free
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and being set free,and what's the difference
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between being freeand free indeed?
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What's the difference here?
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If somebody comesand you are in jail,
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and comes up to you and says,"Someone has just purchased bail
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for you--posted bail for you,"you're going to shout,
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you're going to applaud.
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Somebody has paidwhat you need to get out.
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You're going to celebrate--
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"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.I'm free."
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But you're still in jail.
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You're free'cause bail has been posted,
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but you're not out.
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But you are free.
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Because once you post bailthat has been accepted,
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you're free.
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But then they got to dopaperwork.
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They got to do the paperwork.
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So there is often a gapbetween legally being free
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and being out.
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The Word of God, post bail,
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but the Son has the keyto the lock.
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The bail makes you free;the Son sets you free.
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It's one thing to be in jailand to hear somebody
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has posted bail.
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It's a whole bunch of otherstuff when folks see you
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walk out of the jailhouseand see that you are free.
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Jesus made his freedom visibleon Sunday morning.
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You know, this isthe month of February,
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and everybody's talkingabout this as naturally
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as African-AmericanHistory Month.
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In 1863 Abraham Lincoln signedthe Emancipation Proclamation,
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but folks in Texas and Louisianaand Arkansas didn't find out
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about it till June 19th, 1865.
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So there was a gapbetween legal freedom,
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and there was a gap betweenthe experience of freedom.
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Not because the proclamationhadn't been signed,
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it was 'cause folkdidn't know about it.
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So, one reason you can staya slave is
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'cause nobody told youhow to be free.
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Oh, but there's another wayyou can stay a slave.
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Somebody can tell youthat you are free,
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but you've gotten so usedto living on the plantation
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that you don't exercisethe freedom that you have.
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So, a lot of folksstayed in slavery,
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who had been set free.
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'Cause they had gottenso used to being there,
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they didn't want to takethe risk of freedom.
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On the cross Jesus signedyour Emancipation Proclamation
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and everybody who trusts Christis redeemed,
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but Satan doesn't want youto know that.
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He wants a partition upin your mind
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so that you don't believeyou can walk in freedom.
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But I'm here to tell you todaythat he who the Son sets free
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is free indeed, but onlyif you continue in his Word.
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You continue in his Word,you call on the Son,
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and then you can declare,like a great man
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a few years ago in 1963in Washington, D.C.,
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"Free at last, free at last.
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I thank God Almighty withmy stronghold I'm free at last."
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♪♪♪
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Tony: Slavery isa terrible thing.
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It's where you're beingheld hostage by something
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or someone that seeksto own you against your will.
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Far too many people todayare slaves to themselves,
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slaves to alcohol,slaves to drugs, slave to sex,
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slaves to wary.
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Slavery comes in all kindsof shapes and sizes.
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The one thing about it is,it owns you.
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It tells you how you're goingto think,
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how you're going to feel,what you're going to do,
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where you're going to go;and you obey it,
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I obey it because we becomechained to it,
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and then we bearthe consequences
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of that reality.
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What we used to control,now controls us,
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and we often findit will not let us go easily.
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Well, the good news is,God is the--he is the--
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he's the breaker of the chainsthat are holding us hostage.
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He's got the keys.
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He knows how to unlockthe handcuffs.
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When we connectwith a relationship with him,
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based on our dependence on hisSpirit tied to the Word of God,
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you will find that the chainsthat hold it--
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or are holding you hostageno longer are made
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of unbreakable steel becauseGod has the key to release you.
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It's time to be released.
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No more being ownedby the illegitimate.
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No more being a slaveto the slave master Satan,
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to the incarceration cellof the world,
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or to the uncontrollablepassions of the flesh.
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Why?
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Because God offers freedom.
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And to be free, free at last,free at last?
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When you experience this,you will thank God
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that you are free at last.
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God is offering you and mefreedom from anything
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illegitimately holding ushostage
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so we can be releasedfrom its consequences.
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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