Christian obedience must all the while be mingled with thanksgiving to God the Father. In Jesus we have not a man dead long ago, but a living Saviour and King ever near us, bearing the one name by which we may be saved. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." 3. And shall not such love quicken us to do all things better. A. What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? Macgregor, D. D.)Things sacred and things secularJ. With Him is the residue of the Spirit, and the Spirit is the believer's power. Why is it that some of us look on church-going as an irksome task, and the hours spent in God's house as the most wearisome of our lives? 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. Clergymen, but not men of other professions and employments. What is it that makes our public services in church so frequently cold and spiritless? However extraordinary and extravagant, it is in keeping with the whole spirit of Christianity. He has consecrated what we call secular employments by Himself engaging in them. As a little square serves an artificer to design and mark out a multitude of lines, and to correct those that are amiss, so by this little rule there is no human action respecting which we cannot ascertain whether it is right or wrong; nor is there any part of our lives which this rule is not capable of guiding and forming to perfection.3. If they indeed have risen with him, he argues that they should leave the grave of iniquity and the graveclothes of their sins behind, and act as those who are endowed with that superior life, which accounts sin to be death and corruption. At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. But, after that he had made mention of these evils, he added and said, "On account of which cometh the wrath of God on the sons of unbelief." THE EXTREME BREADTH AND LOFTY SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN DUTY. Not if our Lord be a mere teacher. What it is? Preached February 9, 1851. (1) As the name of God signifies the Hebrew word by which the Lord distinguishes Himself, so Jesus is sometimes taken for the name which was given by express Divine command. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. How intensely secular they may become I How mean and perfunctory the spirit in which they may be performed! Colossians 3:1-4. is also included in the commentary below, because these four verses reveal the foundation in Christ for the way of life . Artizan, labourer, soldier, slave, would learn the truth that God cared for him, and designed him for a glorious destiny. One spirit came and took the body of a king and did his work. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. )PeopleChristians, Colossians, Paul, TimothyPlacesColossaeTopicsAct, Deed, Giving, Praise, Thanks, Whatever, Whatsoever, WhetherOutline1. There is no act, however little, which Christ does not see and .touch, and which may not tend as much to His honour as the songs of the Seraphim; there is no affection, talent, energy on which He does not put His hand and say, "That is mine," and which may not be transformed into a worship as sincere as that of the communion; no step we can take in life over which He does not watch, and which may not be made a step on the road that brings us nearer Him; no time here or hereafter when it will not be a delightful duty to "do all in the name of the Lord Jesus." The author of nature and the author of Christianity give tokens of being one and the same, in that their principles are alike simple, universal, imperious, inexorable. If we would know what Christ wants to be to us, we, 30. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. But our Lord, being God, became man, bore our sins and carried our sorrows, grew up through our life, and tasted death for every man. Faith and Love Towards Christ. It is well, as people's devotions now are, if Christians really prayed to God to carry them through the trials of the day, as really believing that for this they needed the special help of God. To Dominicus. We shall not need to seek far to discover our risen Lord. - we're talking about letting the name of the Lord Jesus motivate you. impart sweetness to teaching children that in them we receive Jesus? Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Christian Training of Children. (Admonition 6). But, after that he had made mention of these evils, he added and said, "On account of which cometh the wrath of God on the sons of unbelief." Will not work be done carelessly? There has been nothing sinful, on the contrary the work, it may be, has been sacred, undertaken with prayer, and been for the good of man and the glory of God, and yet there is no satisfaction.I. (Admonition 5.) (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God.3. The reason is simply this, that their services are being offered in the wrong name. )Consistency and gratitudeJ. By Lois Parker Edstrom. By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. All we have to do is to present our empty, broken self, MUCH is said in reproof of Ephraim by the prophet Hosea. 8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 whom withstand stedfast, 2 Tim. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." "But now do ye also," saith he, "put down all;" [1927] and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort. But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. But Christ claimed the world for Himself and His Father, in the sense that He claimed everything in the world. All the apparent extravagance of the injunction vanishes when we lay our hands on the secret of the Divine life. 3. (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. 12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; 13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye: 14 and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. act what we know in our souls, that we can do nothing good without God. For the glory of Christ (Acts 15:26). Stewart.I begin to see that religion consists not so much in joyous feelings as in a constant exercise of devotedness to God, and in laying ourselves out for the good of others.(D. 3). We are all deserving of his wrath for our rebellion against him, for violating his laws and departing from what is true and right. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915Some General Uses. where shall I begin to describe thine endless misery, who art condemned as soon as conceived; and adjudged to eternal death, before thou wast born to a temporal life? Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. A. And apart from these who learns, in the midst of his conscious and acknowledged besetting sin, to ask for the grace of God? For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Shall Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871Christ is AllMY text is so very short that you cannot forget it; and, I am quite certain, if you are Christians at all, you will be sure to agree with it. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Christian Training of Children. There is no need to enter into the various component elements which go to make up this moral force. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? Faith and Love Towards Christ. He exhorts to holiness;10. to put off the old self, and put on Christ;12. exhorting to charity, humility, 18. and other duties.Dictionary of Bible ThemesColossians 3:171512Trinity, equality of2224Christ, the Lord5629work, ordained by God5636work, and rest5909motives, importance8223dedication8409decision-making, and providence8676thanksgiving8809richesColossians 3:1-173254Holy Spirit, fruit ofColossians 3:12-177125elect, theColossians 3:15-176746sanctification, means and results8352thankfulnessColossians 3:16-173218Holy Spirit, and praise5549speech, positive8666praise, manner and methodsLibraryThe Peace of GodBaltimore, U.S., 1874. He exhorts to holiness;10. to put off the old self, and put on Christ;12. exhorting to charity, humility, 18. and other duties.Dictionary of Bible ThemesColossians 3:171512Trinity, equality of2224Christ, the Lord5629work, ordained by God5636work, and rest5909motives, importance8223dedication8409decision-making, and providence8676thanksgiving8809richesColossians 3:1-173254Holy Spirit, fruit ofColossians 3:12-177125elect, theColossians 3:15-176746sanctification, means and results8352thankfulnessColossians 3:16-173218Holy Spirit, and praise5549speech, positive8666praise, manner and methodsLibraryThe Peace of GodBaltimore, U.S., 1874. Very many of those prayers are like letters with no name and address upon them, which never reach their destination. It is that which lends them their appearance of depth, and the best of their brilliance. He then goes on to declare that the believer's life is in Christ, "for ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth February 17. Colossians 3:16 Sermons: Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to God. Before we come to speak of some particular cases of deadness, wherein believers are to make use of Christ as the Life, we shall first propose some useful consequences and deductions from what hath been spoken of this life; and, I. It is there that the young souls who are to be our successors in cultivating the vineyard of God are to be trained and developed; it is there the process is to begin of restraining and cleansing away the corruption inherent in them as the children of sinful men; there that their earliest longings after fellowship Friedrich SchleiermacherSelected Sermons of SchleiermacherUnity and Peace. A. It is as we Andrew MurrayThe Master's IndwellingMeditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ. Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. One offers it in his own name, he is sacrificing to selfishness; another offers it in the name of fashion, another in the name of respectability, but there can be no reality in our services unless offered in the name of Christ.(H. That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. Colossians 3:12-17 Class by: Mike Mazzalongo This lesson continues the discussion on Christian ethics and how various elements come together to establish a Christian "Standard" for life and morality. For the instruction of our faith. IIEaster Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." Wilkinson, D. D.)Doing all to the Lord JesusE B. Pusey, D. D.All have felt at times a painful void after absorption in active duty. There is no act, however little, which Christ does not see and .touch, and which may not tend as much to His honour as the songs of the Seraphim; there is no affection, talent, energy on which He does not put His hand and say, "That is mine," and which may not be transformed into a worship as sincere as that of the communion; no step we can take in life over which He does not watch, and which may not be made a step on the road that brings us nearer Him; no time here or hereafter when it will not be a delightful duty to "do all in the name of the Lord Jesus." That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. Great, moreover, is the power of charity, beloved brother, which binds hearts one to another in mutual affection with the Saint Gregory the Greatthe Epistles of Saint Gregory the GreatHow Servants and Masters are to be Admonished. Before we come to speak of some particular cases of deadness, wherein believers are to make use of Christ as the Life, we shall first propose some useful consequences and deductions from what hath been spoken of this life; and, I. The aims of an ambitious man and of a true believer have no external difference, yet if you examine the inward springs of both, you will find one a piece of vanity, the other a fruit of charity.2. De Witt Talmage, D. D.Plato had a fable which I have now nearly forgotten, but it ran something like this: He said spirits of the other world came back to this world to find, body and find a sphere of work. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. Colossians 3:17 Sermons: Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him. J. W. Buxton, M. (4)All our actual supplies (Philippians 4:19).2. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. Shall Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871Christ is AllMY text is so very short that you cannot forget it; and, I am quite certain, if you are Christians at all, you will be sure to agree with it. These words cover the whole sphere of Christian activity. Observe the extent of this saying. Where, then, is there any room for dependence on God even with prayer for protection and blessing, since the feeling assumes that they will be granted without any prayer at all.2. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." Text: Colossians 3, 1-7. We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. 1). (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. In the realm of spirit as of matter when we see a great result we know that behind it is a great cause; and we may search the world and we shall not find a power over human hearts comparable with that which lies in this name. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life, Cups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. (b) They are seldom loudly professed, so seldom that a man professing loudly a given motive arouses suspicion that he is acting on some other, and only using this as a blind. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. (2) How many of us fall short of this.(J. Servants, to wit, that they ever keep in view the humility of their condition; but masters, that they lose not recollection of their nature, in which they are constituted on an equality with servants. Some Christians have a very small Saviour, for they are not willing to receive Him fully, and let Him do great and mighty things for them. )The reality of religionDean Alford.I. 1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12). 1). (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. And shall not such love quicken us to do all things better. WHERE IS THE EVIL IN THIS? But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. We-have . It is there that the young souls who are to be our successors in cultivating the vineyard of God are to be trained and developed; it is there the process is to begin of restraining and cleansing away the corruption inherent in them as the children of sinful men; there that their earliest longings after fellowship Friedrich SchleiermacherSelected Sermons of SchleiermacherUnity and Peace. "Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do it to the glory of God."(T. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. Pure religion is when the sense of God's love, of the vastness of His claims, of the breadth of His commandments, so works through the life as to make it one organic whole, and when the poor unworthy distinction of secular and sacred is forgotten; when what is most religious is most human, and what is commonest is ennobled and justified by the grace which flows from "Christ our Life."(J. Read Proverbs 17:9 (NLT) Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. (2)Adoption (Ephesians 1:5). J. W. Buxton, M. A.As a petition to the Queen can only reach her through the hands of a minister, so we can only approach God the Father through His Son Jesus Christ. Some Christians have a very small Saviour, for they are not willing to receive Him fully, and let Him do great and mighty things for them. To walk in the religion of the Lord Jesus (Micah 4:5; 2 Timothy 2:19; Matthew 10:22; Luke 21:17; Revelation 2:3, 13).7. The church is full of half dead people who have been trying, like poor Nero, to slay themselves for years, and have not had the courage to strike the fatal blow. Surely, too, all great music is most truly religious. And yet, after all, this is the most Christ-like ministry of all, for the Master Himself does not even appear in the work of the church except as her hidden Life Rev. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. There can be no duty except where there is a matter of obedience; and it might seem to us that peace is a something over which we have no power. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. The author of nature and the author of Christianity give tokens of being one and the same, in that their principles are alike simple, universal, imperious, inexorable. The merest crystal fragment, that has been flung out into the field and trampled on the ground, shines like a diamond when sunbeams stoop to kiss it. (Admonition 6). Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." Great, moreover, is the power of charity, beloved brother, which binds hearts one to another in mutual affection with the Saint Gregory the Greatthe Epistles of Saint Gregory the GreatHow Servants and Masters are to be Admonished. In the case of the former pursuit will lead away from, in the case of the latter it will lead to, the truth. Some Christians loom up in larger proportion than is becoming. Was this a hindrance? But Christ claimed the world for Himself and His Father, in the sense that He claimed everything in the world. For the instruction of our faith. )The all-pervasiveness of religionW. 1. Now, this definite, absolute and final putting off of ourselves in an act of death, is something we cannot do ourselves. What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? Third Sunday after Trinity Humility, Trust, Watchfulness, Suffering. A. To Dominicus. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. where shall I begin to describe thine endless misery, who art condemned as soon as conceived; and adjudged to eternal death, before thou wast born to a temporal life? It will make contradiction sweet, to bear it meekly with Jesus; poverty, honourable to be poor with Jesus; toil, gladsome to labour for Jesus. That is what He became man for; as a man to live a life of trust in God, and so to show to us how we ought to live. Some Christians have a very small Saviour, for they are not willing to receive Him fully, and let Him do great and mighty things for them. They can tell, and others can tell, how many souls they bring to Christ. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. That is no religion which we cannot carry with us wherever we go; into our pleasures and sorrows, our business and closets.(J. 15. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Christian Training of Children. Others again seem to blend so wholly with other workers that their own individuality can scarcely be traced. (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. Some Christians have a very small Saviour, for they are not willing to receive Him fully, and let Him do great and mighty things for them. It is His presence by His Spirit in the hearts of His people which is the motive power of their holy life. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. (1) We have a proof of the divinity of Christ. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." The belief in Christ is not only the unavoidable conclusion of a sound mind from evidence, but the only satisfactory way to account for the state of the world in which we find ourselves. 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. UNITY AND PEACE. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. He was in advance even of the earliest seeker that Easter morning, and He will be waiting for us before the break of day with His glad "All Hail," if we have only eyes to see Rev. One offers it in his own name, he is sacrificing to selfishness; another offers it in the name of fashion, another in the name of respectability, but there can be no reality in our services unless offered in the name of Christ.(H. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. (1) If we would be truly Christians, we must have Christ continually before us as the pole star, the rule of our whole life. Was this a hindrance? We must live in close communion with Jesus in the use of all His ordinances (Zechariah 4:12). A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. And what have we to do, but what Hugh BinningThe Works of the Rev. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. Not more cer tainly does the law of gravity reach from world to world than does this law prevail wherever intelligence exists.2. What God hath joined together let no man put asunder; and He has wedded religion and life. To go to God through Him (John 15:3, 16; John 16:23-26).2. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. This clever object lesson demonstrates that something can be there but invisible. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. As to ordinary matters men, e.g., think it unlikely they will die to-day because they have lived safely through so many dangers, and take it for granted that their food will nourish them because it has always done so. If they indeed have risen with him, he argues that they should leave the grave of iniquity and the graveclothes of their sins behind, and act as those who are endowed with that superior life, which accounts sin to be death and corruption. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." 2. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. (Admonition 5.) The faith of those things, which have been mentioned, would be of great use and advantage to believers; and therefore they should study to have the faith of this truth fixed on their hearts, and a deep impression thereof on their spirits, to the end, that, 1. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. Has it these points? "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. is symbolic of heaven and God's way. What is it that makes our public services in church so frequently cold and spiritless? It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. The Christian at his daily task is not ever pondering spiritual truths. These words cover the whole sphere of Christian activity. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. But what is it, that it is not enough for him to say, "Do ye put down all," but that he added the conjunction and said, "ye also?" What combination of forces has cut so deep a groove across the world? We cannot expect God's blessing on anything not done in Christ's name.(H. To Dominicus. Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. 1). The rule is short and easy, but of almost infinite use. As to daily life. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." (b)That we act according to His will. (2) Some religious people, like the former, strain the Bible to its literal meaning, and then require that meaning in full, and thus lead to the same point, and encourage indolence and unbelief. What people hate is being in earnest at all, and so they do not wish to pray for the grace of God lest they should have to be at the pains of using it. "If Ye Then be Risen" (Col. Iii. The purest motive to duty. "Whatsoever ye do," etc., as one bearing His name, in the might of His name, and to its glory. Here is the sum of religion. The life of the saint and of the sinner are made up very much of the same commonplace duties, and in all that is patent to the world there may be little difference between them: but the spirit by which they are actuated constitutes a gulf between them as wide as that which divides light and darkness, heaven and hell.3. Before we come to speak of some particular cases of deadness, wherein believers are to make use of Christ as the Life, we shall first propose some useful consequences and deductions from what hath been spoken of this life; and, I. --Colossians iii. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. Children's Message: Born Again Questions from Nicodemus, and Salvation through Faith . By Mike Dawson Pastor Emeritus, First Baptist Church, Columbia Focal Passage: Colossians 3:1-17 Johnny Mercer wrote a song in 1944 that became very popular while Americans struggled under the burden of World War II. [1923] Surely it was a wholesome alarm that believers might not think that they could be saved on account of their faith alone, even although they should live in these evils: the Apostle James with most clear speech crying out against that notion, and saying, "If any say that he have faith, and have not works, shall his faith be able to save him?" HOW WE MAY DO IT.1. But our Lord, being God, became man, bore our sins and carried our sorrows, grew up through our life, and tasted death for every man. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. We shall not need to seek far to discover our risen Lord. HOW WE MAY DO IT.1. Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. 1). We shall not need to seek far to discover our risen Lord. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. where shall I begin to describe thine endless misery, who art condemned as soon as conceived; and adjudged to eternal death, before thou wast born to a temporal life? Another spirit came and took the body of a poet and did his work. He infers holiness from this also. Mallock.Religion is one of the colours of life which mingles most intimately with all the other colours of the palette. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. Will not work be done carelessly? Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. In Colossians 3:16-17, Paul describes a life that is happy in God. As to daily life. (b)That we act according to His will. For the confirmation of faith. I want to emphasize that word "all." God the Father is the proper object of gratitude as the first principle of action, though not to the exclusion of the Son and Spirit.3. 2 Tim. 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