God existed before anything and is the source of everything.
In the beginning, when God created the universe … (Genesis 1:1)
God formed human beings, placed us among the rest of the universe, and decided what position we would hold among the vast and tiny things.
Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights … By his own will he brought us into being through the word of truth, so that we should have first place among all his creatures. (James 1: 17-18)
Besides creating all the materials of the world, God gave life to plants and animals. The Bible often uses "breath" as the image of of being alive.
God created the heavens and stretched them out; he fashioned the earth and all that lives there; he gave life and breath to all its people. (Isaiah 42: 5)
All living things depend on God all the time as their source of life. Life and death, confidence and fear, destruction and renewal are the effects of God acting in the world.
When you turn away, they are afraid.
when you take away their breath, they die
and go back to the dust from which they came.
But when you give them breath they are created;
you give new life to the earth.
(Psalm 104: 29-30)
God created everything. Everything is made the way God decided that it should be made and works the way God wants it to work.
He rules over the whole earth,
from the deepest caves to the highest hills.
He rules over the sea, which he made;
the land also, which he himself formed.
(Psalm 95: 4-5)
When we say that God created everything we are also saying that everything and everyone is responsible to God. God gave us the ability to make decisions but in the end only God's ways prove to be good.
God made our ears – can't he hear?
[God] made our eyes – can't he see? …
You have nothing to do with corrupt judges
who make injustice legal …
But the Lord defends me;
my God protects me. (Psalm 94: 9, 20, 22)
Jesus used God's concern for birds to emphasize God's love for people.
Not one sparrow falls to the ground without your Father's consent. As for you, even the hairs of your head have all been counted. So do not be afraid; you are worth much more than many sparrows! (Matthew 10: 29-31)
Later, Jesus assures his disciples that they can ask God for what they need because of God's love for them.
I do not say that I will ask him on your behalf, for the Father himself loves you. (John 16: 26-27)
The story of Jesus' life is told in the Bible in the four gospels (a word which means "good news").
Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea, during the time when Herod was king. (Matthew 2: 1)
Jesus went to Galilee and preached the Good News from God. "The right time has come," he said, "and the Kingdom of God is near! Turn away from your sins and believe the Good News!" (Mark 1: 14-15)
Jesus made clear that he was not a revolutionary trying to install a new government. But at the same time he said that we must give our loyalty to God's authority rather than to any government.
Some Pharisees asked Jesus when the Kingdom of God would come. His answer was, "The Kingdom of God does not come in such a way as to be seen. No one will say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!'; because the Kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17: 20-21)
So the Pharisees and the chief priests met with the Council and said, "What shall we do? … If we let him go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Roman authorities will take action and destroy our Temple and our nation!" (John 11: 47-48)
The local government and religious leaders convinced the Roman governor to execute Jesus on the grounds that when he proclaimed the arrival of God's kingdom he was challenging the authority of the Roman emperor.
They took Jesus to a place called Golgotha … Then they crucified him … With a loud cry Jesus died. (Mark 15: 22, 24, 37)
Even though Jesus was a human being, he was God just as much as the Father is God. Jesus himself said this clearly.
The Father and I are one. (John 10: 30)
Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. (John 14: 9)
Jesus was a human being but at the same time was also God.
For it was by God's own decision that the Son has in himself the full nature of God. (Colossians 1: 19)
Jesus lets us see what the Creator of the universe is really like: The Creator is like Jesus.
He is the one through whom God created the universe, the one whom God has chosen to possess all things at the end. He reflects the brightness of God's glory and is the exact likeness of God's own being, sustaining the universe with his powerful word. (Hebrews 1: 2-3)
God came as a human being in order to have a relationship with us as human beings.
God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be it savior. (John 3: 16-17)
When we say that Jesus is the Son of God it is a way of saying that Jesus is the equal of the one who created everything.
Christ is the visible likeness of the invisible God. He is the first-born Son, superior to all created things. … God created the whole universe through him and for him. (Colossians 1: 15-16)
This is also a way to say that Jesus is offering us a chance to become part of God's family, to be children of God very much like Jesus is.
When the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law, to redeem those who were under the Law, so that we might become God's sons. (Galatians 4: 4-5)
"Christ" is a word that means "annointed" and refers to being chosen for a special position. Whe we say Jesus is the Christ, we are saying that he comes from God and is sent to bring God to us.
And now the Lord God says to his servant, "I, the Lord, have called you and given you power to see that justice is done on earth. Through you I will make a covenant with all peoples; through you I will bring light to the nations. You will open the eyes of the blind and set free those who sit in dark prisons." (Isaiah 42: 5-7)
Jesus teaches us what God is really like and what the world which God created is really like.
The one who sent me … is truthful, and I tell the world only what I have heard from him. … you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (John 8: 26, 32)
By knowing the truth, we are not trapped in misconceptions or lies or misunderstanding. We are free from those traps. Other people have claimed to teach the truth but we often find that listening to them makes people less free.
In one story, Jesus goes to a home where the daughter has just died and brings her back to life.
Jesus said, "Don't cry; the child is not dead – she is only sleeping." They all made fun of him, because they knew that she was dead. But Jesus took her by the hand and called out, "Get up, child!" Her life returned, and she got up at once. (Luke 8: 52-55)
Jesus explained that this power showed that he came from God.
Just as the Father is himself the source of life, in the same way he has made his Son to be the source of life. (John 5: 26)
The four gospel stories all end with Jesus visiting with his disciples after he had died.
Suddenly, the Lord himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." They were terrified, thinking that they were seeing a ghost. But he said to them, "Why are you alarmed? … Feel me, and you will know, for a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones, as you can see I have." (Luke 24: 36-39)
Jesus visited with various disciples for over a month, and then he went away. But the disciples who had been with him were eyewitnesses to the entire story.
We are witnesses of everything he did in the land of Israel and in Jerusalem. Then they put him to death by nailing him to a cross. But God raised him from death three days later and caused him to appear … to us who ate and drank with him after he rose from death. (Acts 10: 39-41)
Christians can have a personal relationship with Jesus which is distinct from our relationship with God as the Creator and Father because we can speak with Jesus as a human being and as a friend.
You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father. (John 15: 14-15)
We can identify with Jesus because he had the experience of being human. We know that God knows everything, but it may be easier to talk to Jesus because we know some specific experiences Jesus lived through that are like our own.
Our High Priest is not one who cannot feel sympathy for our weaknesses. On the contrary, we have a High Priest who was tempted in every way that we are, but did not sin. (Hebrews 4: 15)
God is different from human beings. It would be natural to assume that we can't live as if God were a part of our family. But Jesus lived that way. Jesus eliminated the barrier which we would otherwise see between God and human beings.
For there is one God, and there is one who brings God and mankind together, the man Christ Jesus. (1 Timothy 2: 5)
There was a curtain that hung in the Jewish temple between the main sanctuary and the special area reserved for God. This is used as an image or metaphor of the barrier between God and us. When Jesus died and then rose to life, he cut through that curtain.
We have … complete freedom to go into the Most Holy Place by means of the death of Jesus. He opened for us a new way, a living way, through the curtain – that is, through his own body. (Hebrews 10: 19-20)
Jesus is the person to whom we have given our loyalty, and so Jesus is our lord personally. This means that we accept Jesus' invitation to live the way he tells us to.
Take my yoke and put it on you, and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit; and you will find rest. For the yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will put on you is light. (Matthew 11: 29-30)
Jesus holds the full power of God. Because of this, Jesus is the lord of the whole world.
Christ existed before all things, and in union with him all things have their proper place. … Through the Son, then, God decided to bring the whole universe back to himself. (Colossians 1: 17,20)
We who are the friends of Jesus share his relationship to the world.
All that my Father has is mine … I have told you this so that you will have peace by being united to me. The world will make you suffer. But be brave! I have defeated the world! (John 16: 15, 33)
The word "spirit" originally meant "breath". A person's spirit is what is as natural to that person as breathing. The Holy Spirit is what is as fundamental to God as breathing is to us.
God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship him as he really is. (John 4: 24)
In the first years after Jesus' death and resurrection, some Christians in Antioch heard very specific instructions from the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit said to them, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, to do the work to which I have called them." (Acts 13: 2)
A little later, the Christian leaders met in Jerusalem and talked about what rules the church needed to have. When they announced the decision, they emphasized how the Spirit had been a participant in the meeting.
The Holy Spirit and we have agreed not to put any other burden on you. (Acts 15: 28)
At other times, Christians may feel the Holy Spirit teaching us in a way that changes our attitudes.
The wisdom from above is pure first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle, and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deeds; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy. (James 3: 17)
For this reason, we say that the Spirit is God living in us. Having God living in us means that we are in direct contact with God's knowledge and power. It also gives us a responsibility to make ourselves the kind of home that God should be living in.
Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? (1 Corinthians 6: 19)
Jesus explained the work of the Holy Spirit to his disciples before he died.
The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and make you remember all that I have told you. (John 14: 26)
We are wholly dependent on God's Spirit even for believing in Jesus and becoming Christians.
No one can confess "Jesus is Lord" unless he is guided by the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 12: 3)
By being with us and teaching us, the Spirit frees us from delusion in how we understand the world and from falseness in how we live.
When … the Spirit comes, who reveals the truth about God, he will lead you into all the truth. (John 16: 13)
The books of the Bible are written in different styles (letters, stories, songs, sermons and many other kinds of writings) but all of them talk about our relationship with God.
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the truth, rebuking error, correcting faults, and giving instruction for right living, so that the person who serves God may be fully qualified and equipped to do every kind of good deed. (2 Timothy 3: 16-17)
The Bible contains history and biography, but it wasn't written as a history book. It also has songs and observations about nature, but it isn't a music book or a science textbook. The Bible's primary purpose is to tell about the relationship between God and human beings.
Everything written in the Scriptures was written to teach us, in order that we might have hope through the patience and encouragement which the Scriptures give us. (Romans 15: 4)
God provided the message and inspired the speakers and writers to set it down. Because the message in the Bible is from God, we treat it differently than ordinary human writings.
Remember that no one can explain by himself a prophecy in the Scriptures. For no prophetic message ever came just from the will of man, but men were under the control of the Holy Spirit as they spoke the message that came from God. (2 Peter 1: 20-21)
The Spirit has inspired people to write other books, too, but the writings in the Bible are intended to teach everyone about God.
We don't need to have any other book in order to live as God's people. Sometimes other books or stories are helpful for us, but those other stories aren't necessary.
The word of God is alive and active, sharper than any double-edged sword. It cuts all the way through, to where soul and spirit meet, to where joints and marrow com together. It judges the desires and throughts of man's heart. There is nothing that can be hid from God; everything in all creation is exposed and lies open before his eyes. And it is to him that we must all give an account of ourselves. (Hebrews 4: 12-13)
Knowing Jesus and knowing that Jesus made God's love available to us is what makes Christians different from other people.
God has given us eternal life, and this life has its source in his Son. Whoever has the Son has this life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. (1 John 5: 11-12)
Because we know God loves us we aren't afraid to admit that we are not as perfect as we'd like to be.
All of us often make mistakes. (James 3: 2)
We sometimes say that we are adopted by God to be God's children because we do not pretend to be God's equals as Jesus is. We are obviously not God's equal, and that makes God's love for us even more remarkable.
See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God's children – and so, in fact, we are. (1 John 3: 1)
Because we are united with Jesus, we are able to share in the same relationship with God that Jesus has. Jesus is God's son and becomes our older brother.
It is through faith that all of you are God's sons in union with Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3: 26)
We are not the same as Jesus in terms of being equal to God. But we are bold to accept God's offer to become equal to Jesus in the love God shows us.
Let us be brave, then, and approach God's throne … There we will receive mercy and find grace to help us just when we need it. (Hebrews 4: 16)
Our debts to God are marked "paid" and those times we have fallen short of what God wants us to do are erased from our records. We are no longer trapped by what we've done in the past.
Let us praise God for his glorious grace, for the free gift he gave us in his dear Son! For by the death of Christ we are set free, that is, our sins are forgiven. (Ephesians 1: 6-7)
Our past mistakes are wiped out (forgiven) by Jesus' death, but our future is made healthy and safe by Jesus' life. (The word "salvation" originally meant health or safety.)
We were God's enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Now that we are God's friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ's life! (Romans 5: 10)
Even when we experience trouble, pain, persecution, ridicule, sickness, or alienation, we can look forward to the future with confidence because God has promised us safety.
As for me, the hour has come for me to be sacrificed; the time is here for me to leave this life. … And the Lord will rescue me from all evil and take me safely into his heavenly kingdom. (2 Timothy 4: 6, 18)
God is working in us to make us more and more holy, which means set apart for God's use. Without God, we only wander in our twisted ideas about what is good. God has shown us what is really good and pointed us on the right path. When Jesus taught about how to live as his followers, he set perfection as our goal.
Why should God reward you if you love only the people who love you? … You must be perfect – just as your Father in heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5: 46, 48)
When we claim to be sanctified, we mean that God is working in us to bring us closer to perfection. We aren't pretending that we don't make any more mistakes. We know we make mistakes; we have confidence that God is helping us to be better.
Keep on working with fear and trembling to complete your salvation, because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose. (Philipians 2: 12-13)
The most important rule for Christians is one that Moses first told the people hundreds of years before Jesus came.
The Lord – and the Lord alone – is our God. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. (Deuteronomy 6: 4-5)
Jesus quoted these verses when someone asked him what was most important (Mark 12: 28-30).
Jesus told his disciples that love for each other would distinguish them from other people.
I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples. (John 13: 34-35)
Love for each other follows directly from our love for God.
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also. This is how we know that we love God's children: it is by loving God and obeying his commands. (1 John 5: 1-2)
But Christians are human beings, as we said before, and we make mistakes and hurt each other. Jesus knew that would happen, and he told us how we can love even when someone hurts us.
If your brother sins against you, go to him and shown him his fault. But do it privately, just between yourselves. If he listens to you, you have won your brother back. But if he will not listen to you, take one or two other persons with you … and if he will not listen to them, then tell the whole thing to the church. Finally, if he will not listen to the church, treat him as though he were … a tax collector. (Matthew 18: 15-17)
Remember that Jesus loved people who made mistakes and went to dinner with them. (Matthew 9: 10)
If we are to live like Jesus, we must put other people first, even those who may seem to be unworthy.
Don't do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another, always considering others better than yourselves. And look out for one another's interests, not just your own. The attitude you should have is the one that Christ Jesus had. (Philippians 2: 3-5)
Everyone deserves respect, even though the relationships we have with different people will be different.
Respect everyone, love your fellow believers, have reverence for God, and respect the Emperor. (1 Peter 2: 17)
We try to have the same gentleness that Jesus showed to people.
Show a gentle attitude toward everyone. (Philippians 4: 5)
Suffering is not something that we seek, but we are willing to take abuse in order to advance God's plans for the world.
Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires; the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them! Happy are you when people insult you and persecute you and tell all kind of evil lies against you because you are my followers. (Matthew 5: 10-11)
Being insulted doesn't prove anything about how good we are. But being good to others might sometimes result in us being insulted or hurt.
If any of you suffers, it must not be because he is a murderer or a thief or a criminal or meddles in other people's affairs. However, if you suffer because you are a Christian, don't be ashamed of it. (1 Peter 4: 15-16)
God cares about people and wants good things for us and for everyone else, too. God wants us to help make this happen.
Remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free. Share your food with the hungry and open your homes to the homeless poor. Give clothes to those who have nothing to wear, and do not refuse to help your own relatives. (Isaiah 58: 6-7)
There are bad things in life. God brings good things to life.
People become enemies and they fight; they become jealous, angry, and ambitious. They separate into parties and groups; they are envious, get drunk, have orgies, and do other things like these. … But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility, and self-control. (Galatians 5: 20-23)
The good things we receive from God are better and more powerful than any of the bad things. By sharing these good things with other people we help to make their lives better and to improve the whole world.
Do not let evil defeat you; instead, conquer evil with good. (Romans 12: 21)
Being different from each other is part of God's design for us. No human being can do everything, but together we can accomplish much more than we can do separately. Our limitations vanish as we each do our part.
If the whole body were just an eye, how could it hear? And if it were only an ear, how could it smell? … There would not be a body if it were all only one part! … All of you are Christ's body, and each one is a part of it. (1 Corinthians 12: 17, 19, 27)
God tells us what we should do in order to be good members of God's family.
Let no one deceive you, my children! Whoever does what is right is righteous … anyone who does not do what is right or does not love his brother is not God's child. (1 John 3: 7, 10)
We don't think that every improvement in the world has to be done through us. We try to do our part, and we know that God will do things we can't do.
Don't worry about anything, but in all you prayers ask God for what you need, always asking him with a thankful heart. (Philippians 4: 6)
We each have out own work to do, and one part of our work is to help other Christians to complete their work. This makes the work easier and it strengthens the love we have with each other and with God.
Help carry one another's burdens, and in this way you will obey the law of Christ. (Galatians 6: 2)
We also need to help each other see clearly what work God assigns, so that we can do what God wants instead of what God doesn't want.
Live as free people; do not, however, use your freedom to cover up any evil, but live as God's slaves. (1 Peter 2: 16)
John the baptizer reiterated God's instructions to share our food, houses, and clothing.
Whoever has two shirts must give one to the man who has none, and whoever has food must share it. (Luke 3: 11)
Our responsibility to share extends to all of the gifts God gives us. Jesus didn't hand out much in the way of material goods, but he shared more important gifts like love, peace, and confidence.
Peace is what I leave with you; it is my own peace that I give you. I do not give it as the world does. Do not be worried or upset; do not be afraid. (John 14: 27)
If you are new to living a Christian life it may seem that you have nothing to share. But this may not really be true, because God is already sharing good things with you.
The man who is being taught the Christian message should share all the good things he has with his teacher. (Galatians 6: 6)
Your teacher, minister, or Christian friend may be able to help you find ways to share God's gifts with other people.
When you are a follower of Jesus you become part of this gathering.
You have come to the joyful gathering of God's first-born. (Hebrews 12: 23)
People who know Jesus gather together in some particular place, and this group is known as the church. (The Greek word used for "church" in the Bible means a "gathering" or an "assembly".) There are many of these churches because Christians gather in many places.
the churches of Galatia (Galatians 1:2)
the church that meets in your house (Philemon 2)
the church in Ephesus (Revelation 2:1)
The Church can also mean all of the people who believe in Jesus, all over the world. We are all gathered together in the sense that we are all connected to Jesus Christ.
He is the head of his body, the church; he is the source of the body's life. (Colossians 1: 18)
Jesus himself told us to baptize new Christians.
Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples; baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. (Matthew 28: 19-20)
The practice of baptizing new believers began while Jesus was living on earth.
Actually, Jesus himself did not baptize anyone; only his disciples did. (John 4: 2)
The disciples continued to baptize after Jesus had been raised. The Bible tells of many times when people heard the story and then were baptized into the church.
When they believed Philip's message about the good news of the Kingdom of God and about Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. (Acts 8: 12)
While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit came down on all those who were listening to his message. … So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. (Acts 10: 44, 48)
Since then, the followers of Jesus have baptized people when they become new members of Christ's church.
The water used in baptism is a visible symbol of God's cleaning up our lives on the inside.
Get up and be baptized and have your sins washed away by praying to him. (Acts 22: 16)
Baptism is a sign that we are presentable, that we can go to God without embarassing God or ourselves.
So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and bodies washed with clean water. (Hebrews 10: 22)
Jesus told us to give up our lives in order to live.
Whoever loves his father or mother more than me is not fit to be my disciple; whoever loves his son or daughter more than me is not fit to be my disciple. … Whoever tries to gain his own life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake will gain it. (Matthew 10: 37, 39)
This seems like nonsense when you first think about it. But Jesus gave up his life and was executed on a Roman cross. Then he was raised to life. Baptism is a way of acting out the death of our selfish lives and the birth of our lives in Christ.
We have died to sin – how then can we go on living in it? For surely you know that when we were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, we were baptized into union with his death. By our baptism, then, we were buried with him and shared his death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life. (Romans 6: 2-4)
We remember the life and death of Jesus. At the last supper which Jesus ate before he died, he told the disciples this was how they should remember him.
Jesus, on the night that be was betrayed, took a piece of bread, gave thanks to God, broke it, and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in memory of me." In the same way, after the supper he took the cup and said, "This cup is God's new covenant, sealed with my blood. Whenever you drink it, do so in memory of me." (1 Corinthians 11: 23-25)
We take Jesus' life into ourselves and live his life with him.
The cup we use in the Lord's supper and for which we give thanks to God: when we drink from it, we are sharing in the blood of Christ. And the bread we break: when we eat it, we are sharing the body of Christ. (1 Corinthians 10: 16)
Christians are many different people, but we share our life in Jesus.
Because there is one loaf of bread, all of us, though many, are one body, for we all share the same loaf. (1 Corinthians 10: 17)
This sets us apart from the world as people dedicated to God. This is the meaning of "saint". Sometimes all Christians are called saints because all of us were chosen to be God's workers in the world.
You are a chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God. (1 Peter 2: 9)
This unites all of us with Jesus and with each other.
Your life in Christ makes you strong, and his love comforts you. The Spirit has brought you into fellowship with one another, and you have kindness and compassion for one another. (Philippians 2: 1 note)
Sharing in Christ's holy meal is a public statement about who we are and who we believe in.
This means that every time you eat this bread and drink from this cup you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. (1 Corinthians 11: 26)
Jesus is physically present in the world through the physical presence of the church.
And now I am happy about my sufferings for you, for by means of my physical sufferings I am helping to complete what still remains of Christ's sufferings on behalf of his body, the church. (Colossians 1: 24)
We are united with all Christians now alive, with all who have lived before us, and with those who will come after us.
Actually everything belongs to you: Paul, Apollos, and Peter; this world, life, and death, the present and the future – all these are yours, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. (1 Corinthians:3: 21-23)
This unity is part of our life now, but it is also part of our future forever.
For we know that when this tent we live in – our body here on earth – is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in. (2 Corinthians 5: 1)
We share the life of Jesus, and through him we share in everything that God has created.
The church is Christ's body, the completion of him who himself completes all things everywhere. (Ephesians 1: 23)
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