Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “I am sure of this, that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” Philippians 1:6 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “You are going to love it”   Yesterday I told you the story of how at one point in my life I had a goal of becoming a bodybuilder. I never got there. I never even really came close. But I did have a picture in my head of what it might look like if it ever did happen (I was really something in my imagination!)   It’s good for us to have goals regarding what we want to achieve in life and the person we want to become. That’s not a bad thing. But God also has a plan for the kind of person He wants you to become and He is in the process of bringing that to pass in your life. And here’s the really good news: God’s image of you is better than your image of you. His plan for you is better than your plan for you.   In Philippians 1:6 Paul informs us that the One who started a good work in you will carry it on until it is completed in the day of Christ Jesus. The good work that He started in you began on the day you placed your faith in Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins. That’s when He started changing you into the kind of person He wants you to be. The “carry it on to completion” part is the process of sanctification. The completion happens on that day in eternity when your spirit is united with your resurrection body and you are finally the completed person you will be for the rest of eternity (we will think more about that later in this series).   In Jeremiah 29:11 God assures us, “For I know the plans I have for you – this is the Lord’s declaration – plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” The good and perfect plan God is referring to works itself out over the course of your life and leads you to becoming the person He wants you to be.   Another example God used in the Bible to help us understand what He is doing in our lives is the example of a potter forming clay into the shape he wants it to be. Isaiah 64:8 is a good example, “Yet Lord, you are our Father, we are the clay and you are our potter; we all are the work of your hands.” Being transformed into the person God wants you to be is a huge benefit of having been saved, and it will be a determining factor in the person you will be for all eternity. That transforming process is taking place now and one day, it will be complete.   You are going to love being the person God is transforming you into!   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, dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, so now, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling.” Philippians 2:12 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Don’t skip your workout”   In my twenties and thirties, I was a big fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not “The Terminator” Arnold, but the “Mr. America” Arnold. Arnold, the bodybuilder. I wanted to be a bodybuilder too. I wanted to have 20-inch biceps and be able to bench press small automobiles.   I had a copy of Arnold’s book, “The Education of a Bodybuilder.” It was filled with suggested workout routines and lots of picture. I had an image in my mind of what I wanted to be like, and I had a plan to follow to help me get there. I never even came close to Arnold’s stature, but for about ten years I was kind of pumped-up and muscular (Linda once told me I was more of a musclehead than a muscleman, but sometimes she got mean like that. Lol)   In Philippians 2:12 the Apostle Paul used the metaphor of working-out and he applied it to the process of sanctification. Paul tells us there that we must work-out our salvation. He does not say we must work for our salvation (we have already addressed that issue and we learned that salvation is by grace not by works.) Paul does say we must work-out our salvation and by that Paul means the same thing Arnold did. If you want big muscles and a big physical stature, you must do exercises to grow those muscles. Likewise, if you want a big spiritual stature, you must do your exercises (the spiritual disciplines that will help you to grow spiritually).   As we learned yesterday, this present state of salvation that we live in during this lifetime is a period of spiritual growth as the Holy Spirit transforms us into the people God wants us to be. It’s the time during which we are supposed to be learning, growing, transforming, and becoming progressively more like Jesus.   Once upon a time, in a different season of life, I wanted to be like Arnold in physical stature. Now I realize it would be much better to become more like Jesus in spiritual stature. Our exercises for this spiritual growth include things like daily prayer and Bible study, worship, full participation in the life of a good church family, acts of service in the name of Jesus, good stewardship, and the other basic disciplines of the Christian life.   When I was trying to grow physically, I relied on Arnold’ book as a guide. If you would like a great book to guide you in learning and applying the basic disciplines required to grow spiritually, I can think of none better (after the Bible itself) than Richard Foster’s classic work “The Celebration of Discipline.” You will find it to be very helpful in guiding and accelerating your spiritual growth.   I encourage you, as part of your daily routine, to work-out your salvation.   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: “To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy … 1 Corinthians 1:2 (NIV)   Our thought for today: “Live different, live better”   Your state of being saved began in the moment you placed your faith in Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins. If you have had such a moment, then it is a settled fact – a past reality. Although that decision may have taken a long time to arrive at, the actual moment of salvation and the consequent new birth happened in a moment, in a flash, and it is now an accomplished fact.   That brings us to the present. Your present state is that you are saved. In other words, you have been saved, you are saved, and you will continue to be saved. This present state is also where you live-out what is already true of you. In 2 Corinthians 5:17 the Apostle Paul wrote about the new birth, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” Now that you are a new creation you should live your life in a new way. What has happened inside of you should result in a change in how you live.   However, the change is not instantaneous. Salvation is instantaneous. It does happen in a flash. But the changed life occurs slowly and progressively over a lifetime. This is the part of salvation known as “sanctification.” Sanctification is a fifty-cent theological word that simply means “To make holy. To dedicate, consecrate, and set-apart for a divine purpose.”   That’s you. Now that you belong to Christ you have been set-apart, dedicated, and consecrated for His divine purposes and you are in the process of being transformed from the person you were into someone who is holy and who reflects the attributes of Christ. That’s what Paul was referring to in 1 Corinthians 1:2 (above) when he reminded the Corinthians (and us) that as Christians we have been called to live holy lives.   Your salvation will be perfected and complete in eternity. But between the moment of forgiveness when you placed your faith in Christ, and your eventual perfection in heaven when you will be the person you will be for all eternity, there is this long process of transformation as you progressively become more and more like Jesus. That is the life of a Christian and it is what should be happening because you are saved.   We are called by Christ to live differently and to live better than we would if we had not been saved. We will think more about this in the days to come.   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: “What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?” Romans 6:1 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Grace is free but not cheap”   In one of his songs the singer Jimmy Buffett has a lyric that has become famous over the years. It goes, “Oh there’s a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning!” He’s referring to those who live like the devil all week long but then sing like a saint on Sunday morning. Unfortunately, we all know the type. In fact, some Christians are the type!   In 1937 the great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer published one of the most important Christian books of that era. The title was, “The Cost of Discipleship.” In that work Bonhoeffer introduced us to the concept of “cheap grace.” He wrote: “Cheap grace is preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession … grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ …”   “Grace” is the undeserved blessings of God freely bestowed upon us by a loving and merciful God. When applied to salvation, the grace of God is what saves us even though we don’t deserve to be saved. Salvation is the ultimate expression of God’s grace, and it is also by God’s grace that we remain saved (once saved always saved). It’s all true because of the grace of God.   But that truth often creates a problem. This is where “cheap” grace comes from. Cheap grace is what Paul was writing about in Romans chapter six. Some people conclude that since they are saved, and since they can never lose their salvation, they can live any way they want and still go to heaven. That’s a terrible cheapening of grace and it’s the thinking Paul and Bonhoeffer both attempted to correct. It’s also an issue that we will address in upcoming devotionals.   Now that you are saved, and since you can never lose your salvation, does it really matter how you live? The answer is “yes” it does matter how you live and we will now spend a few days exploring the reason it matters.   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, anyone who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has eternal life and will not come under judgement but has passed from death to life.” John 5:24 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “You are secure”   John 5:24 is another passage in the body of New Testament literature which teaches about the permanence of salvation. Here we read Jesus assuring us that if you have made the decision to place your faith in Him for the forgiveness of your sins, then you have experienced the new birth He taught about in John 3:3. Such a person has been “born again” spiritually. They have passed from death to life and now will never come under judgment for their sins. And the important thing about being born (physically or spiritually) is that once you have been born you cannot be unborn. Once it happens it is a done deal.   John 3:16 is also a familiar verse for most Christians and it is a continuation of Jesus’ teaching about being born again. In John 3:3 He said that you must be born again. In John 3:16 He said that anyone who believes in Him shall not perish but has eternal life. However, the eternal life Jesus referred to is not something that begins when you get to heaven, it begins the moment you place your faith in Him. It begins in the moment of being “born again” and it lasts forever. Eternal life is by definition “eternal,” it is life that does not end.   In this discussion of the security of the believer we haven’t come close to covering all that the New Testament teaches about it, but I think we have covered enough to make the point.   To summarize what we have learned: God loves you with unconditional love that does not end. Despite your sin, His deepest desire is for you to spend eternity with Him in heaven. So, He sent Jesus to earth to pay the penalty for your sins so that through faith in Him, your sins can be forgiven and it is therefore possible for you to go to heaven. Then God sent the Holy Spirit to convict you of your need to be forgiven and to draw you to faith in Christ. All throughout your life the Holy Spirit works quietly behind the scenes creating situations and opportunities for you to come to Christ.   So, as you can see, God has gone to extraordinary lengths to provide for your salvation – it’s the deepest desire of His heart and He has worked very hard to bring it about (short of making the decision for you). Therefore, once He finally has you, there’s no way He’s going to let you go. You are His and Satan cannot have you back. That’s what Jesus meant in John 10:29 when He said that no one will snatch you out of His hand. Now that you are His, He will not give you up. That’s the assurance we have. Once saved, always saved. That’s salvation as a past event. It has already happened.   Tomorrow we will begin to think about the implications of salvation in the present. What should the fact of salvation look like in the life of the Christian?   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: “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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