Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.” John 10:27-28 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Once saved always saved”   “Once saved always saved.” That neat little phrase captures the essence of an important Biblical principle known as “the security of the believer.” This doctrine teaches that once you have made a sincere profession of faith in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, you are saved and nothing can ever change that.   Some people struggle with this. What if you don’t act as if you are saved? What if you claim to be a Christian but then you act like the devil? Or, what if you really were saved at one time but then you kick the dog, or steal your neighbor’s newspaper, or commit adultery, or maybe even murder? Are you still saved then? Those are good questions.   In John 10:27-28 Jesus made it clear that if you really do belong to Him (if you have made a genuine profession of faith in Him for the forgiveness of your sins), then you have eternal life. Additionally, just for emphasis, He emphatically states that no one (Satan) will ever snatch you out of His hand.   Please note that Jesus made no mention there as to whether you are a good and obedient little sheep. He seemed to be referring even to the black sheep of the family. That passage teaches that if you really are His then you belong to Him for eternity and nothing will ever change that. Here’s another passage that teaches the same truth. It’s from the Apostle Paul in Romans 8:38: “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor power, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”   Paul ran out of words and rhetorical devices in his effort to explain that if you belong to God in Christ then there is nothing in all creation (nothing in the physical world and nothing in the spiritual world), no angel or demon or anything else, that can ever separate you from God. And that, by-the-way, would include your bad behavior. “Nothing” in all creation can separate you from God once you are His.   The Biblical doctrine of the security of the believer is important and therefore it’s a subject God devoted a lot of ink to in the Bible. There’s much more about it than we can adequately cover in a single daily devotional message. Therefore, we will continue this discussion tomorrow.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones perish.” Matthew 18:14 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “God wants it even more than you do”   When it comes to having a sense of security about salvation the two most common questions people have are, “Am I really saved?” and “Can I lose my salvation?” The answer to the second question is a lot easier than the answer to the first. Tomorrow we will come back to the issue of whether you can lose your salvation but first, let’s be sure you really are saved.   God wants you to be saved. As Jesus taught in Matthew 18:14, it is not God’s desire for anyone to be lost. That’s the starting place for this discussion. God does not want anyone to be separated from Him for eternity. The Bible, from start to finish is all about salvation. It is about God drawing people to Himself. Matthew 18:14 is just one of the many places where Jesus helps us to understand the heart of the Father about this. God is even more concerned about your salvation than you are.   Second, it’s the job of the Holy Spirit to draw people to faith in Christ so they can be saved. That’s one of His primary roles on earth. In John 16:8 Jesus said, “When he (the Holy Spirit) comes, he will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment.” And in John 16:13 He goes on, “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth.”   There are other verses that teach the same lesson about the role of the Holy Spirit in drawing people to Jesus but I think you get the point. All throughout your life the Holy Spirit works to create opportunities for you to be exposed to the truth of the Gospel, and He creates situations that help you to understand your need for a Savior – all to draw you to faith in Jesus. This is a direct result of the Father’s desire that none be lost. (This does not mean that all will be saved, but it does mean that the Father wants all to have the opportunity to place their faith in Christ for the forgiveness of their sins.)   God wants your salvation even more than you do. Therefore, if you have ever had that moment in time when you made a sincere profession of faith in Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins, then you are saved. You were born again in that moment (as we discussed in yesterday’s devotional).   God loves you and He wants you to be in heaven with Him. He sent His Son Jesus to pay the penalty for your sins, and then He sent the Holy Spirit to draw you to faith in Jesus. So, now the question becomes “can lose your salvation?” We will discuss that tomorrow.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “Truly I tell you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again.” John 3:6-7 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Something was missing”   Nicodemus was intrigued and confused. He was a trained religious professional, a Pharisee who has spent his life studying the Old Testament Scriptures and he knew his stuff. Or so he thought. Then along came Jesus and Nicodemus realized there was an important element in his relationship with God that he had somehow missed. He knew that somehow, in some way, Jesus was the answer.   So, Nicodemus came to Jesus secretly, at night so nobody would see him, and he asked Jesus to help him discover what was missing in his relationship with God. John 3:7 was the answer, “You must be born again.” (I can relate to Nicodemus. That’s how I came to faith in Christ. I had a good life but deep down in my heart I knew something was missing. There was still a hole in my heart that needed to be filled and which could only be filled by God. So, I came to Jesus and He filled that hole in my heart.)   All of us are born once, physically. But to be alive spiritually we must be born again. At the time He created us God breathed a living spirit into us and gave us the breath of life (Genesis 2:7; Job 33:4). But in the spiritual sense that Jesus was speaking about in John 3:6-7, that spirit is not alive in a relationship with God. Paul taught about that in Ephesians 2:1 when he told us that before salvation “…you were dead in your trespasses and sins …”   Without Jesus, the spirit within you is a dead thing that could never be allowed into heaven. It is contaminated with sin and it is dead to God. Thus – the new birth Jesus spoke of is needed. The dead spirit must be born again with a new life. Jesus then went on in John 3:16-18 to explain that the new birth occurs in a moment of time when a decision is made to place your faith in Him for the forgiveness of your sins. The Apostle Paul expanded on this teaching about the new birth when he wrote in Romans 10:9, “If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Also, in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come.”   Perhaps right now, as you are reading this, you like Nicodemus and like me have come to the point where you realize something is missing. Despite the life you have and all the good things it is filled with something is still not right, something is missing. Could it be that you need to be born again? It is the new life in Christ that will fill the hole in your heart with the love of God.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift – not from works, so that no one can boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “No extra charge”   Sometimes when someone thanks me for doing something for them I will jokingly respond, “You’re welcome. No extra charge.” When I say that I’m being a wise guy, of course, but the point is that I am happy to serve them in that way and to do it for free.   Salvation is like that too. It’s a gift from God, it is free, and He is happy to give it to you. But you do have to accept it as the gift that it is.   Martin Luther was a Catholic priest and monk in the 1500s in Germany. He was terrified by the thought of a God who is holy and righteous and who requires holiness and righteousness from us, but who at the same time is impossible to please (or so Luther thought). Trying to satisfy that God, Luther prayed eight times a day. He sometimes spent six hours or more confessing his sins to another priest. He fasted multiple times each week. He often slept without blankets – even in the winter, because he considered himself too sinful to deserve the pleasure of blankets. He once ascended a staircase on his knees, pausing at each step to pray a prayer of confession and to beg God’s forgiveness. And yet, Luther was miserable. No matter how much he repented he still felt guilty and unforgiven.   Finally, one day in Bible study and prayer Luther had an epiphany. The Holy Spirit helped him to understand two critical Biblical truths. The first was in Romans 1:17 that the righteous shall live by faith. The second was Ephesians 2:8-9 (above), which teaches that our salvation is a result of the grace of God by means of faith in His Son for the forgiveness of our sins, and not from any works that we perform. It is a gift, it is free, and it can only be received by faith (it cannot be earned, not even by extreme acts of penance).   That was the most revealing and liberating truth Luther had ever experienced – and it changed everything for him. In that moment he realized that he did not need to earn his salvation. In fact, he couldn’t earn it – he had already learned that sad truth through his many years of extreme and fruitless acts of penance.   The truth is that you cannot earn your salvation, you cannot purchase it, and you will never be good enough to deserve it. It is a gift from God, simply as a matter of His amazing grace, and it comes only through faith in His Son Jesus Christ.   Please stop trying to pay God for your salvation. It has already been paid for – and there is no extra charge.   God bless, Pastor Jim     (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “There is no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away; all alike are worthless. There is no one who does what is good, not even one.” Romans 3:10-12 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “As sinful as ever”   Before we go any further in this series, I want to be sure we are all clear on just how bad sin is and how much it continues to impact our world today. In Romans 3:10-12 The Apostle Paul made it clear that there isn’t a single individual on earth who can stand righteous before God apart from Christ. That was true then and it continues to be true today. Paul went on in verses 13-18 to say, “Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers’ venom is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and wretchedness are in their paths, and the path of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.”   Things are no better today than when Paul wrote those words. In fact, they are probably worse. In his book, “The Doctrine of Salvation” Dr. Darrell Robinson cites s study conducted by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with historians from Egypt, England, Germany, and India. The study was intended to determine if perhaps the character of the human race has improved as civilization has advanced. They discovered that it really hasn’t. They wrote,   “Since 3600 B.C. the world has known only 292 years of peace. There have been 14,531 wars, large and small, in which 3,640,000,000 people have been killed.” That’s 3.6 billion killed just in wars. And that’s just deaths in wars. That statistic makes no mention of all the pain and suffering inflicted by murder, rape, domestic violence, burglary, fraud, sex trafficking, child abuse, or any of a host of other crimes that continue to plague mankind daily.   As much as the world has advanced in terms of science, technology, and standard-of-living, people are as evil and as lost in their sins today as they have ever been, and everyone still needs Jesus.   Tomorrow we will consider the one and only thing that any person can do to receive the gift of salvation and to begin a process of spiritual transformation.   God bless, Pastor Jim     (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” 2 Corinthians 5:21 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “This is how it happened”   This month we are spending our devotional time to review the basic truths about the most important Biblical doctrine there is – salvation. We need to know this. We need to have embraced it, internalized it, and know it so well that we can quickly, easily, and clearly explain it to others when the Holy Spirit gives us the opportunity to do so.   With respect to understanding salvation, 2 Corinthians 5:21 is one of the most illuminating verses in the Bible. More than twenty-five years ago, I was at a Bible conference in Los Angeles when I heard Pastor John MacArthur explain this verse in a sermon. It was the best and clearest teaching on salvation that I have ever heard and so I will simply paraphrase it here for us this morning:   On the cross God treated Jesus as if He had committed every sin by every person who would ever be saved, when in fact He committed none of them. This is the doctrine of substitution – the innocent dies for the guilty. “He made him who did not know sin to be sin for us …” On the cross God poured out upon Jesus all the wrath and punishment for all the sins that have ever been committed. All those sins had to be punished and now they were – Jesus was punished for them. In short, God punished Jesus as if He had lived your sinful life and mine.   Then God treats us as if we had lived Jesus’ perfect life. This is why Jesus had to live thirty-three years on earth. During those years He was fully human and he was subjected to ever temptation that you and I are subjected to, but He never sinned. He lived the holy, pure, and perfect life that you and I are not capable of living and He did it so that “… we might become the righteousness of God.”   That’s the doctrine of substitution. Both sides of it. One the one side Jesus gets all your sin. On the other side you get all His righteousness. The sins had to be paid for and they were – Jesus paid the price so you and I would not have to.   In life we often see shades of this kind of sacrifice – the solider who jumps on the live grenade, giving his life so his comrades can live; the hero who jumps into a raging river to save a child being washed away but who then loses his own life in the process; the husband who takes a bullet to save his wife and children. On the cross Jesus took the bullet for us so that we can live for eternity in heaven with the Father.   So, the penalty for your sins has been paid. Jesus took it for you. His sacrifice is a great gift. But like all gifts, you must choose to accept it. The gift is not forced upon you. You must make a conscious decision to open your heart and accept the gift of salvation. There is nothing you can do to earn it and you can’t pay Him for it. It is a gift and you must simply accept it. I pray you will accept the gift of salvation today.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Why was salvation even needed?”   So, why did we need to be saved anyway? Why couldn’t God simply bring us to heaven in the condition we were in? The answer is found in Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” We have all sinned. Many times. All of us. None of us is without sin and our sin causes us to fall short of God’s glorious standard.   God is pure and perfect and holy. Heaven is also pure and perfect and holy, and if God ever allowed an impure, imperfect, or unholy thing to enter heaven, heaven would no longer be pure and perfect and holy because it would contain something that isn’t. Since you and I have sinned, repeatedly, that makes us impure, imperfect, and unholy – and therefore unfit for heaven.   However, God loves each of us so much, and He wants us to be in heaven with Him so badly despite the sins we have committed, that He was determined to make a way for it to happen. In Matthew 18:14 Jesus said, “In the same way, it is not the will of the Father in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.” Likewise, in 1 Timothy 2:3-4 the Apostle Paul wrote, “This is good, and it pleases God our Savior, who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”   Those are just two of the many verses which show us the heart of the Father with respect to salvation. We have all sinned and thereby separated ourselves from Him. But it is His desire that none should be lost. Instead, He wants everyone to understand how it is that their sin has separated them from Him, and how those sins can be forgiven and wiped away. (Please note that this does not mean everyone will be saved. Many will not be. But it does mean that God decreed that there would be an answer to the sin problem and He then created a pathway to heaven for whoever would choose that path.)   Sin is our problem. It separates us from our heavenly Father. Jesus is our answer to the sin problem. Tomorrow we will see how it is that Jesus solved the sin problem for us and opened the way for each of us to have our sins forgiven so that we can one day join the Father in His pure, perfect, and holy heaven.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:36 (NIV)   Our thought for today: “Jesus sets you free; your habits keep you free”   There was a notorious prison in 17th century Italy that was a genuine horror for anyone sentenced to it. No prisoner ever escaped from that prison and none was ever released. The prison was for those with life sentences. If you were sent there, you would die there. The prisoners were brought into the prison by boat through an opening in the dark, massive stone wall. Above the opening in the wall, carved into the stone were the words “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!”   Imagine a prisoner chained to the wall in a small cell in the belly of that miserable place. Suddenly the door to the cell opens, the warden walks in and says, “Congratulations! You have been forgiven and you are being released.”  Imagine the sense of relief that washes over the condemned man as he is being escorted out of that prison. Imagine the new lease on life, the hope, the eager anticipation. And then imagine him going right back to his life of crime that put him in that place to begin with.   Say what??!! He’s going back to the very life that put him in that miserable prison to begin with? Why would he do that? He then lives the rest of his life still suffering all the consequences of a debauched, crime-ridden, sin-filled life. And now consider this: Is he really free or is he still a prisoner living in bondage?   As a Christian you have been set free by Jesus from an eternity in hell – but that’s not all He set you free from. He also set you free from a life of sin and the bad consequences a life of sin produces. That’s the full meaning of John 8:36. He has set you free from the eternal penalty for your sin, but He has also set you free from a life of sin now.   Sadly however, many professing Christians have, just like that prisoner, gone right back to the life they have been freed from. Many Christians have had their sins forgiven, but they are still living in bondage to Satan. It is possible to have been set free from the eternal penalty of sin but to still be living in bondage to sin and to spend the rest of your life suffering the consequences of sin.   An encounter with Jesus will set you free but your it’s your habits with Jesus that will keep you free. Since you have been set free from the eternal consequences of your sins, you should now live like you are free from the bondage of sin.   Again, Jesus sets you free but your habits keep you free.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, so that you may grow up into your salvation.” 1 Peter 2:2 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “It’s more than just having your sins forgiven”   Usually when Christians think of salvation we think of a one-time event when a person prays and asks Jesus to forgive their sins. In that moment their sins are forgiven and the person has the assurance of going to heaven instead of hell.   Although that one-time event is part of the plan of salvation, it is just a part of it. The Biblical doctrine of salvation involves more than that. Salvation is a one-time event, that’s true, but it’s also an ongoing reality and a future promise. Salvation provides for the forgiveness of our sins; and it provides us an ongoing sense of security in this lifetime; and it offers us the promise of eternity in heaven.   There are several paradoxes associated with the truth of salvation. A paradox is a situation where two seemingly contradictory things are both true at the same time. Salvation is both free and costly; also, it is a gift and yet it requires something of us; and it is permanent and therefore cannot be lost, but it must also be safeguarded and treated as the precious thing it is. The full doctrine of salvation is complex and involves actions by the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and by us. We will think about all these aspects of salvation this month.   In 1 Peter 2:2 Peter urges us to “grow up into our salvation.” This clues us into the fact that salvation is something that has already occurred if you have placed your faith in Christ (that one-time event), and yet, according to Peter, there is more to it (not something more required to be saved but something more to do because you have been saved).   In that verse Peter refers to a newborn infant. For a newborn infant who has already experienced birth there is now a growing and maturing process that must take place so the life that comes after birth can be fully realized. So too, just as the birth experience is only the beginning for the newborn infant, the moment of having your sins forgiven is just the beginning for the new Christian. Salvation is a one-time event, but it is also an ongoing reality that should bring with it growth and maturity – just like for that infant. And then, salvation carries on into eternity.   Salvation is so much more than just having your sins forgiven. It is the start of a new and wonderful life with Jesus that continues for all the days of your life and then on into eternity.   God bless, Pastor Jim     (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed – not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence – continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.” Philippians 2:12-13 (NIV)   Our thought for today: “Similar but different”   Salvation and sanctification are both theological terms which are similar but different. Therefore, Christians are sometimes confused about the difference between them because they both have past, present, and future features.   Salvation is a one-time event that happens in a moment in time when a person places his or her faith in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of their sins. In that moment the person is saved. That is salvation in the past tense. However, salvation is also an ongoing reality in that once you are saved you remain saved. You cannot lose your salvation. In the world of theology this is referred to as “the security of the believer.” That is salvation in the present tense. Once saved, always saved. And then, salvation guarantees us eternity in heaven. That is the future of salvation.   Sanctification means that something or someone has been set-aside for holy purposes. The person or thing has been sanctified to and for God. That was true of the implements used for worship in the Temple in the Old Testament, and it is true of all who place their faith in Christ. In that moment you are set aside as holy for God. That is the past tense of sanctification in the life of the believer. You have been sanctified.   But sanctification is also an ongoing process as the Holy Spirit works in the life of the believer to transform him or her into the likeness of Jesus. This is sanctification in the present tense and it is an ongoing lifelong process. Not only have you been sanctified but you are also in the process of being sanctified, you are changing and transforming more and more into the image of Jesus. And then in heaven you will be fully sanctified, you will be the person God has always intended for you to be and who you will be for all eternity.   Salvation and sanctification are similar but different. The distinction between the two is important but sometimes confusing. Your salvation was a one-time past event that is also a present reality and a future hope. And the time of salvation, you were sanctified (set-aside for God). You now continue in the process of being sanctified as the Holy Spirit slowly transforms you more and more into the image of Jesus, and one day in heaven you will be fully sanctified.   You are a saved, redeemed, work in progress! You are not yet who you will be but you can thank God you are no longer who you used to be!   God bless, Pastor Jim     (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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