The Daily Habit Your Faith Is Missing

it might get loud it might get loud and oh my gosh what's going on i think you're ready for it i think you're ready for week number three it took you three weeks yorktown but you finally you finally got the cue and i'm so so thrilled you're here why don't you do this while you take a seat because we got to jump in today is um is more content than any preacher should ever give you on a sunday all right i'm gonna give the disclaimer right now it's way more content today but with this is the last week and i'm like i gotta get it all in i gotta i gotta teach you a little bit more about a little bit more about worship my hope and my prayer is that you've learned more about worship but more importantly than learning more about worship is that you've taken a step in worship that this series has inspired you maybe emboldened you certainly challenged you to live a little louder when it comes to worship and i don't just mean here in the room although it is nice when you're a little louder in the room but also mean in your life in your daily life my hope and prayer is that you've learned to to worship loudly every single every single day of your life and you kick things off today let's do a little still a little audience poll take a little audience a little audience survey by show of hands and online jump over in the chat you could play along with us as well i'm curious how many of you how many of you maybe you grew up in a in a church different than this or you maybe didn't grow up going to church at all but for how many of you this this kind of expressive worship this loud worship that you experience at water's edge this is the first church you ever experienced it in how many how many of you say i'm never experienced worship like i have in this church would you just buy show of hands how many of you is that that's oh that's most of us that's most of us yeah you put your hands down i'm i'm i'm with you um i'm with you honestly i grew up in little small southern baptist country churches um the the churches i grew up in you know we're we're tiny and um specifically that the church i'm thinking of that i grew up in most uh had a had a um had an organ and had a piano and the two ladies who played the organ and piano were both over 80 certainly and they didn't like each other they they were not friends and so you and they made it clear when they played their instruments like they were going to outplay the other and um and that's the those the churches i grew up in and once one sunday in particular remember we had we sang the song about heaven and when the song was done the the music leader the music director said i mean that's what we have to look forward to in heaven singing like that for all eternity and i was a teenager and that's that's sunday the music was really really bad and i thought to myself if that's what we have

to look forward to in heaven i think i want to go to hell i mean honestly like it was bad y'all that was the kind of church i grew up in and then um later later on in life i ended up in a you know in a little bit bigger and uh a baptist church um and on on sunday mornings on sunday mornings we would sing um out of the hymnal um we would we would sing songs out of the hymnal maybe some of you grew up with a hymnal you always you know sing sing the first second and fourth verse you always skip the third verse i don't know what they had against the third verse some y'all know what i'm talking about but then on sunday nights in this baptist church um that i grew up in uh they they would actually put the words on the overhead transparency come on somebody y'all know i'm old now i'm old i'm telling you how old i am but the overhead trans sometimes the words would be backwards or upside down but we figured it out and um and we didn't have the hymn book anymore you know because the words were up on the overhead transparency and so you had to do something with your hands and that's where i learned to rock the baby y'all know about rock the baby some y'all rock the baby in church this is rock the baby and uh that's where i learned to do that and um because we didn't have to hold the hymnal and then that same that same baptist church progressed a little bit a little bit more and eventually got some drums and some other instruments on sunday mornings and and and that was the that was the first time i ever i ever realized you could ask a question in church um because i saw some people doing this during worship and i was like oh there that's that's i never knew that i never knew that's something you could do and then 23 and a half almost 24 years ago we started this church and this is the first church i was ever in where people went full on touchdown and um come on somebody and yeah yeah yeah all the cowboys fans are like yeah yeah and and full on touchdown in church and um and i discovered something you know 24 years ago that i really i really didn't know i didn't i didn't know because i had never been exposed to and never grew up in it but i i didn't know that worship could be loud i didn't realize that and then and then the more i studied the more i discovered the more i led us so God likes it everybody. God likes it loud. You need to know that. And that's what this series has been about. So we've been learning that and discovering that and studying that all series long. And if that's a little confusing or discombobulating to you, go back and catch one of the first two messages of this series that will help delay the groundwork. Today though, I want to take you to a worship service in Scripture. And I want to show you some important things about worship from this worship service in Scripture. And I should warn you, it's going to get loud. All

right, it's going to get loud. Let me give you a little context though. The Israelites, those are God's people. The Israelites have been in Babylonian captivity, exiled from their homeland for 70 years. And when they're finally free, a remnant of them return back to Jerusalem, return back to the holy city and they find that the temple, the place of worship has literally been decimated. While they've been gone for 70 years, the temple has been torn down and it's gone. And so they prepare to rebuild the temple. And I want you to see the worship service that breaks out as they lay the foundation of the holy temple. This is happening around 536 BC, just to kind of give you a little context into history. This is what the Bible says. It says, "When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments and with trumpets and the Levites, the son of Asaph with symbols, took their places to praise the Lord as prescribed by David, king of Israel." By the way, I haven't even know that two of the loudest instruments are trumpets and symbols. You guys know that, right? If you don't know that, you've never had a middle schooler sign up for a middle school band. You don't know that because I remember when my kids were in middle school band, my prayer was this, "Lord, send them home with anything but a trumpet or a symbol." All right, anything. Y'all take the tuba. I have to. I definitely would love the clarinet, maybe the flute, but not the trumpet or the symbol. That's the worst. It's the loudest. And that's what they're worshiping God with. They're praising God with the trumpets and the symbols. And it says, "With praise and thanksgiving, they sang to the Lord." And this was their song. He is good. His love toward Israel endures forever. And all the people, all the people gave a great shout of praise to the Lord because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads who had seen the former temple wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid while many others shouted for joy. No one could distinguish the sounds of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping because the people made and read this next little part with me, they made so much noise. And the sound was heard from far away. It definitely got loud. Can you imagine this? The trumpets are blaring. The symbols are clashing. Some people are weeping. Others are shouting and they're singing. And it's so incredibly loud. And it all melds together in one sound that people far away can hear. And you know what the Bible calls that? This blows my mind. The Bible calls that worship. That's praise. You're like, how could that be worship and praise? It sounds so loud, so noisy. No, no, no. No, in the ears of God, it's worship.

It's praise and God likes it. He's worthy of it. He deserves it. It might get loud from this service of worship in Scripture. I want to teach you on this final week of the series, I want to teach you three things about worship today. Here's the first one. I want to teach you today about the time for worship, the time for worship. There's a time for it. The worship service I just read to you in Scripture, it happened at an appointed time. Now I didn't show you the first few verses of the story. So let me just backtrack and just help you wrap your head around this. This is how the story begins. It says in the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, and then it goes on to say they rebuilt the foundation of the temple. It was a designated time. Earlier in Ezra chapter three, the Bible says that before they rebuilt the foundation of the temple, they actually gathered to worship God and to rebuild the altar. And this is what it says then. It says when the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people assembled together. on the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burn offerings to the Lord. I've shown you all this because I want you to understand that there were specific times, there were dates, there were days set aside, there was appointments, there was planning, there was preparation, there was intentionality, all of it, for worship. And I want you to start thinking about your life and how that in your life there needs to be time set aside with intentionality, planned and prepared for, where you worship as well. Let me do this, let me give you three times for worship in your life, three times. And I told you, there's a lot of content today so if you hadn't already, get out of the little notes page or open up our water so that it's church app and follow along with those filling notes 'cause you're gonna write these down

so you can apply it in your life as you learn to worship three times for worship. Here's the first one, and you probably know this already, but you should worship God daily. That's the first time, we're gonna worship God. We're gonna worship God every single day. If you aren't doing this already, here's your action item and probably the greatest action item you could take from this whole series is to plan to worship God every single day. I actually think the best time to do it is to start your day every day in worship. Every one of us choose something to start our day with and I would submit to you that what you choose to start your day with sets the course for the rest of your day. That's, think about it. This is why some of you had lousy days, stressful days 'cause you start the day with Instagram. That's a bad idea. You start the day with the daily news, that's a worse idea. Like, what if you chose intentionally? I'm asking you to start planning toward this. What if you intentionally chose to start your day with God? What if we're shipping God was the first thing you did and you did it every single day? Maybe you're wondering how would I do that? Well, let me give you a simple little formula. I call this the first 15. The first 15, we talk about it around here all the time.

Start your day with the first 15, five minutes with God in the scriptures, five minutes with God in worship. That's the length of about one worship song. These songs we've seen on a Sunday. So five minutes with God in the scriptures, five minutes with God in worship, five minutes with God in prayer. And you've just started your day with the first 15. Start your day every day, worshiping God daily. And then I wanna challenge you to do what you've done today. And that is to set aside time to worship God. Number two, to worship Him weekly. Every single week, God's presence shows up in a unique and powerful way when God's people gather together to worship Him. This is the time, this is the time for it. And this is the time for worship. I don't know about you, but I need this and I need it every single week. And let me tell you something. If we could like slip it in on a Thursday and a Tuesday, I'd show up then too. I'm just saying 'cause I need it in my life. And I know, I know there's a lot of things, a lot of things that compete for your attention on a Sunday. A whole lot of things that you wanna do and a whole lot more things your kids wanna do. And a lot of memories you wanna make

and a lot of places you'd like to go. And a lot of chores you need to get after. A lot of clothes you need to wash. A lot of dishes are still sitting in the sink right now. Come on, I'm stressing somebody out. (congregation laughing) But I don't think there's anything, anything more valuable or more important, anything that would make a greater difference in your life, in your family's life, in your marriage, for your kids, for your health, then prioritizing coming to church every single week. There's something about gathering together with God's people weekly, weekly. And I think one of the greatest challenges, especially if a church like ours is we're a kind of a casual church, you know? We come to church casually. But what that can often equate to is that we now start to treat church casually. And that's never God's intention. I often feel like the psalmist who wrote this, when he said, "I was glad when they said to me, "let's go to the house of the Lord." I was glad, y'all, and I don't know about you, but I am glad to have the house of the Lord, where I can come every single week, enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts, with praise, and experience the presence of God.

Is anybody thankful that you worship God every week? It's awesome. So daily and weekly, times that you should worship God. There's a time for worship. Maybe you've never thought about this third time though, but let me teach it to you. I think you should worship God seasonally. seasons to worship. When we read about this worship service, we read that is happening on the heels of the Feast of Booths in the Old Testament. The Israelites have just celebrated this festival. There are seven different seasons, seven different festivals that God gives His people in the Old Testament to celebrate, to create these seasons, these rhythms of worship in this worship service that it's a season of new beginnings. They're laying the foundation of the temple. They're starting something new. It's stepping into a new season. And I just believe that from that in scripture, from that pattern, we see all throughout the Old Testament that it leads us to understand that we've got to build into our lives a rhythm, a rhythm of worship. There are times where we worship God in January. We'll gather together for prayer and worship weekend. You know what we'll be doing? We'll be looking forward to all that what God wants to do

in this new year. It'll be a rhythm, it'll be a season. Starting next week, we'll kick off a season in our church, a rhythm in our church, we call it heart for the house. And it's a season where we end the year with gratitude. And we thank God for all He's done. Glad you're fired up about it 'cause I am. And the people that you just heard respond to that, those are the people who have been firmly planted in this house for years. And because they've been firmly planted in this house for years, it's developed in them seasons of worship. Where it's not just going through the motions. No, it's, hey, I go from one season to the next, to the next, to the next. God created the world in seasons, y'all. And every season brings out a different aspect of worship in our lives. And I wanna challenge you, I wanna challenge you to stay planted. Stay planted in the church 'cause the church will help you and not just you and help your family, and help your kids develop a rhythm of worship, both daily, weekly, seasonally in our lives. We need to make time for worship. In fact, let me just help you understand this. You are never any closer to God than you are during worship. The closest you'll ever get to God is in worship. And that's why you gotta make time for worship. Because without making time for worship,

you'll never get closer to God. So be thinking right now, start thinking, one of your action items can be, when you leave from here today, hey, how am I prioritizing time for worship daily, weekly, and seasonally in my life? There's a time for worship, number two. Number two, there's the sound of worship. What does worship sound like? In the story we just read, it kinda surprised me because worship sounded a little chaotic. It was loud. There was a lot of things happening. It was so loud that people far away, not just people next door, but people far away could hear it. One of the things that shows me is this, it shows me that worship must be expressed. You can't just think you're worship. You can't just feel your worship. You actually have to express your worship. And in the story we read, they expressed it in various ways. Some were blowing trumpets. Some were clashing symbols. Some were singing aloud. Some were weeping. Some were shouting with joy 'cause there's more than one way. I said there's more than one way to worship.

So some of you, you're stuck on just one way. You only ever worship God in your one way. You're used to making one sound of worship. It sounds like this, oh, that's how it sounds. No, I don't know how it sounds. We turn up the music so loud so we don't have to hear how it sounds, y'all. (congregation laughing) But you're stuck on one sound of worship. And I want to submit to you today that maybe perhaps, just consider this, perhaps you're missing a whole bunch of other expressions that God wants to invite you to make, that maybe there's something else God is saying, "Hey, what if you worship me in that way? "What if you say I love you in that way? "What if you express your worship in a different way?" I love, by the way, I love that it said, while some were cheering and clapping and singing, playing their instruments. [BLANK_AUDIO] When I dig into that, I realize that the ones who were weeping in worship were those who were the oldest, the older people, the heads of the house that said the ones who were weeping in worship were actually the ones who had seen the old temple. They had seen the former temple. That tells me they were the ones who had likely experienced all 70 years of the captivity. They were likely the ones who had been through the most. They were probably the ones who had prayed the longest for freedom. They may have been the ones who now were the most grateful to finally be free. I started thinking about that because the ones who had been waiting for God to move the

longest were now the ones who were weeping the loudest. I think I can make the case today that if God has brought you through the darkest valley, that if there's anybody here who's ever carried the heaviest burden, you didn't know if you'd be able to make it another day, but you did. If you've been waiting on an answer for prayer for a long, long time, I'm not talking about a day or a week or a year, but I'm talking about a decade or more and God finally answered it. If you were someone so bound up and sinned before you met Jesus, but now you've finally been set free by Jesus, if God's been good to you or to your family or to your children or to your grandchildren far more than what you ever earned or deserved, if that describes you today, I think I can make the case that we should be the ones who lead the way in worship the loudest because the God has done the most for us. So some were weeping and some were shouting, but all were worshiping. In the book of Psalms, the longest book of your whole Bible, 150 different chapters, the theme all throughout the book of Psalms is worship and it actually teaches us to worship God in very clear terms. The book of Psalms, it's very clear on how we're to worship God and there's a word that gets repeated over and over and over again in the book of Psalms. It's a worship word and sometimes it's used to command us to worship and other times it's a word that's used to describe this act of worship and the word is simply praise. You've heard that word, praise, praise all throughout the Psalms. We see this word, this word praise, it's a worship word and that's the English word, but the Psalms weren't written in English. David who wrote most of the Psalms didn't grow up across the pond in England everybody. The Psalms were written in Hebrew and then later translated in English and something you should know is that there are a lot more Hebrew words than there are English words and so this is not a word for word translation. So the English translators, they use the word praise as a translation of seven different Hebrew words. There are seven distinct Hebrew words, each with their own meanings and all seven of them

get translated for us when we read our Bible as just praise. But I want to show you today all seven of the words in Hebrew to try to give you a clear picture of the kind of praise that makes up the sound of worship. We're going to school now y'all, all right, and I'm telling you, I never gave you this much content, but I'm so desperately want to break you free from the pattern of worship you're used to and I so want to help you see that worship, it's supposed to get loud. So there are seven Hebrew words representing seven sounds of worship, each one just translated for us as praise but it shows you all the facets of praise from the Scriptures. We got to go fast, all right, we got to go fast. The first word is Hallel, that's the Hebrew word Hallel and it means to rave or to boast or to celebrate, I like this last word, it means to be clamorously foolish, that's But when you read it in the Psalms, it's just translated as praise. And I'll show you where this word is used at least once in the book of Psalms. David said this, "David said I will thank you in front of the great assembly." I will, and here's the word, translated praise, but the word is actually hallelujah. I will hallelujah before all the people. And I'll be clamorously foolish in front of all the people as I worship you. This is the sound of worship. I'll give you the second word. It's yada, yada, it means to acknowledge in public. So a lot of people think, well, worship is between me and God. It's a private thing. Well, there is a private aspect of your worship, absolutely. But God likes some public worship as well.

God likes some public displays of affection. This is how it's used in scripture. The Bible says, I will praise, I will yada you. I will acknowledge you in public, O Lord, with all my heart. Number three is the word barak. And it means to bless, to bless by kneeling or by bowing. The older you get, the harder this gets. All right, everybody, barak. But it's a means by which we worship. Here it is in the Psalms. It says, praise, barak the Lord, O my soul. All my inmost being, all of who I am. Praise His holy name. So bless the Lord by kneeling or by bowing, O my soul. And I know I told you this is a sound of worship. I had to think about this a little bit. I guess it's just when the bones crack. That's the sound of worship, everybody. When you go back, cracks, you know, we're worshiping God. Number four, the word is zamar. It means to make music to God with strings, zamar. And I'll interpret it this way. God loves the guitar solo. All right, everybody, to make music with strings. The Bible says this, it is good to praise the zamar, the Lord, and make music to your name almost high. God likes it.

Number five is the word shabak. It means to address in a loud tone, to shout. So if anybody ever told you to whisper in church like you're in a library, they hadn't read their Bible. No, no, you're supposed to shout in church. You're supposed to shout with loud tones. Here it is, because your love is better than life. My lips will glorify you. I will shabak. I will shout. I will praise you as long as I live and in your name, I will lift up my hands. We might get loud. Shabak, number six, God wants worship expressed with this word, toda, toda, it means to lift your hands in adoration, like a child lifting their hands to the daddy, like that response that naturally comes from you, when your team scores a goal. Like this is built in you. You naturally do this, and God likes you to do it to him. To lift your hands in worship to him. It's a sound of worship. The psalmist said this, he who offers praise, toda, glorifies me. It's our way of saying, God, I need you. In other moments, this guy is our way of saying, God, you've got the victory. It's a sign or a sound of worship, finally number seven. What's the sound of worship? It's tahela, which brings exuberant singing.

Tahela, one old country preacher said, not to be confused with tahela. Which may have the sound, the same effect, all right, everybody? Tahela, lifting your voice and singing with exuberant, the Bible says this, I will extol the Lord at all times. His praise, his tahela will always be on my lips. Some of y'all, just spend your favorite verse. His tahela will always be on my lips. Praise the Lord. Now, I mean, we made record time through those, that was awesome, you'll be good. I'm showing you these. I'm showing you these 'cause I'm trying to teach you that the sound of worship is more than you think. It's more than you think. The sound of worship is more than standing there mumbling your way through a few worship songs on a Sunday. The sound of worship is more than just reading You know, like, why do you say it? 'Cause this isn't what the Bible describes as praise and as worship, in fact, look at 'em. Look at 'em all again. I just kind of take 'em all. When you put them all together, you realize, this is the worship God likes. This is the worship God wants. Notice not a single one of those definitions say, tap your toe and cross your arms.

'Cause that's not praise and that's not worship. This is it. This is it. There's a time for worship. And there's a sound of worship. And just a minute, I'm gonna give you the opportunity to practice what we preach. 'Cause sermons are only as good as they get applied. And I just wanna, I just wanna challenge you. I wanna challenge you to take a step in worship that is unique and different from your usual. From your usual. You have a usual. And you know what it is. I mean, I did think how fun would it be if we did like, if we did like, you know, when you go to a ball game and they show people in the stands and how they celebrate certain things like they got the kiss cam and then they got the, you know, and then when something good happens they do a replay of somebody in the audience. I thought how, we could actually have done that today. We could have actually rolled back the film and showed different people in worship. That'd been fun. (congregation laughing) But whatever your normal is, you know what it is, whatever your normal is. I wanna just challenge you.

Just take a step outside of that. And I'm not saying make up your own stuff here, all right? I'm saying the Bible's clear about what worship looks like. So take a step outside of what you've defined as worship, what you like as worship, 'cause worship's not about you. And why don't you worship God in a different way today? All right, there's a time for worship. There's a sound of worship. There's one last thing I wanna show you. There's a battle for worship, a battle for worship. So, you know, they're rebuilding the foundation of the temple and they're worshiping and it's loud. And the people in the next town over are hearing it. The sound is so loud, it's caring across the countryside. Others are hearing their worship and I didn't show you this, but let me show you the very next verse of what happens, 'cause this is what it says, it says the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were rebuilding a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel. And then the local residents tried to discourage and frighten the people of Judah to keep them from their work. They bribed agents to work against them and to frustrate their plans. So, when the sound of worship went out, the enemy came in and tried to stop it. And I just wanna tell you, that's actually still happening today, that the number one thing the enemy doesn't want you to do is to worship. The enemy, and when I say the enemy, I'm talking about the devil, the devil doesn't want you

to worship because he knows the power of worship. In fact, I don't have time to teach all of this, but the thing that got the devil kicked out of heaven in the first place is that he wanted the worship that only God deserved, that he wanted God's worship, and got him kicked out of heaven and he still wants it today. And that's why he's battling for it. In fact, the reason it's so hard for you to make time for worship and to make the sound of worship is this third reason is that there's a battle for worship. And the devil's gonna distract and he's gonna disrupt and he's gonna discourage and he's gonna plant those seeds of doubt. In fact, he's doing it right now for many of you as I'm preaching, the devil's worshiping, oh, that's not whispering, that's not for you. That's worship thing, that's not for you. If you were to worship like that, you wouldn't fit in. You'd feel silly. What would people think? That's not for you. That's only for the fanatical people. That's not for you. The devil's worship whispering this, he's whispering, hey, if you were to worship like that, you'd be a hypocrite 'cause you don't deserve to worship like that 'cause you know what you've done. You know the thoughts you've had. Anytime you feel inhibited in worship, you can know, that's the enemy, trying to keep you from giving God what He wants and what He deserves.

That's the enemy. In fact, today, there's a lot of us. There's a lot of us who probably struggle to get to church on time. Don't raise your hand. It's everybody about mid-ways and back in the service today, and maybe that's your story every Sunday. You're like, "Why in the world is it so hard to get my family to church on Sunday? I can get them to anywhere else the rest of the week, but to get them to church on Sunday it's hard. I'd say it's a battle." That's the enemy battling. If you're watching online today, your internet works perfect on every other day. But Sunday morning, what's going on? It's a battle. There's a battle for worship. Don't be surprised. If you determine tomorrow morning, I'm going to get up, start with the first 15. Don't be surprised when you get distracted because it's a battle. The enemy is fighting, battling for worship because he knows the power of it. In fact, I want to put that verse, that last verse I just read back up because I didn't even get to show you this, but I want you to see what the enemy was doing. It says that the enemy was trying to discourage, frighten, and keep them from their work. I believe that the enemy is doing that for many people today. This is really a sermon for all the discouraged people and all the frightened people. This is really a sermon for all the people not experiencing God's best in your life because the enemies put some things in your pathway that has kept you down, that has discouraged you or scared you, filled you with anxiety. This is a sermon for somebody who's facing a decision this week, and you're so overcome, you're not even sure you know how you can make the decision. You're scared to make the decision. I'm preaching a sermon on praise because I need you to know that when you feel discouraged,

when you feel frightened, when you feel like you aren't experiencing God's best in your life, the way to come out of that, the best way to come out of that is with praise and worship. That's how. That's how we fight the battle. In fact, when I say there's a battle for worship, here's what I need you to know. The good news is you get to choose who wins it because worship is a choice, and even on the days where I don't feel like worshiping, and even on the days where I'm not sure that I've got an enemy to worship, and even on the days when the demands of life are pressing in, trying to keep me from worshiping, I can still choose to worship my God, and so can you. It might get loud, it might get loud. Would you stand your feet all over the room? Particularly today, if there's something in your life feeling discouraging, particularly today if there's something in your life feeling overwhelming that had you scared or frightened for the future, especially for those of you today who feel like I haven't yet stepped into God's best for my life, I need you to know, the way out of that isn't by standing like this. The way out of that is by lifting your hands in worship to our God, saying thank you Jesus, saying we worship you Jesus, saying you're worthy of it all Jesus, saying I'm grateful today Jesus. So can I ask you, are you ready to make the sound of worship because it is time for worship? Come on, lift your hands every voice, lift your voices toward God today, we got something to worship today about. Come on, lift them up. Lift them up. You give me turns after chance after chance and I, I, I, I, I, I, I lift them both of my hands. You give me turns after chance after chance and I, I, I, I, I give it home and I am. ♪ You can be said ♪

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