Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Living with Joy”   Our Bible verse for today: “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.” John 15:11 (NIV)   Our thought for today: “A double-shot of joy”   Chuck Swindoll is one of my favorite preachers and Bible teachers. Not only is his preaching and teaching deep, insightful, and very applicable to the issues of everyday life, but his illustrations are usually colorful and fun.   Perhaps the illustration from Chuck that had the most impact on me personally is one that comes out of his personal life. In addition to being a great preacher, teacher, and spiritual guide, Chuck is a lot of fun. He has a gregarious personality, he loves to laugh, and he gets great joy out of living. He once wrote a book about Paul’s letter to the Philippians (the letter of joy). The title of Chuck’s book was “Laugh Again: Experience Outrageous Joy.” I love that book! (Both of them – Paul’s book of the Bible “Philippians” and Chuck’s book about Paul’s book). On the back cover of Chuck’s book there’s a picture of him and his wife Cynthia sitting on Chuck’s Harley Davidson motorcycle. They’re both dressed in black leather with big smiles on their faces. The personalized license plate reads “The Sermonator!”   We live in an angry and contentious world today. There are wars around the globe; more humanitarian crisis’ than we can count; political upheaval in many countries; serious cultural differences that are dividing societies, friends, and families; and in our own country, we’re in the middle of a mean-spirited political season. There’s not a lot of good news out there right now and that could lead us all to become negative and even a little depressed.   I suspect you’re like me in that you could use a good shot of joy. In fact, how about a double-shot? The good news is that there is joy to be found in the Lord. In the early part of John chapter 15 Jesus was revealing elements of the relationship God wants us to have with Him. In verse 11 Jesus was clear that from that relationship God wants us to experience great joy.   All this month we will explore the idea of finding our joy in God and then living with joy. Perhaps you don’t own a Harley Davidson motorcycle, a complete set of black leathers, and a personalized license plate with a tongue-in-check reference to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character “The Terminator.” But I do hope you, and I, and all of us will learn to live with more of a light-hearted spirit and with a great sense of joy.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you’re 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: “The Great Adventure”   Our Bible verse for today: “Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us, keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith.” Hebrews 12:1-2 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “It won’t always be easy, but it can still be good”   In his very good and helpful book, “Life After Loss: A practical guide to renewing your life after experiencing major loss,” professional grief counselor Bob Deits’ primary audience are those who have lost a spouse to death, especially in later life after many years of marriage. But he also notes that sooner or later everyone will be faced with major loss of some kind at some point in life:   “There is no question about avoiding loss associated with later life – we can’t. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward those losses and the manner in which we will respond to them. Choosing to be a victim means being passive and feeling helpless to do anything about the loss. Choosing to be a survivor means being assertive and realistic without giving up hope. Survivors take responsibility for their own future. They face challenges head on … Survivors ask, “How can I get the most out of life, regardless of circumstances?”   That’s an essential attitude for all of us, regardless of age and regardless of what we are currently experiencing. Will you be a victim or a victor? Will you resolve to get the most out of life regardless of the circumstances you are faced with? Jesus wants us to be victors and the Holy Spirit will help us to do it.   Perseverance is a major theme in the New Testament. This adventure of living the Christian life is often hard – there’s no getting around that. Difficulties, sickness, death, and all the normal problems and challenges of life come to Christians and non-Christians alike. The difference should be found in how we Christians handle those challenges.   Throughout this study about the great adventure of living the Christian life we have learned that the Bible teaches us to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus; rely on the power of the Holy Spirit who lives within us; remember that God is sovereign over all the circumstances of life; and then press on. Live with confidence, determination, and courage. Persist and persevere. Don’t give up. And remember, “Trying times produce great men and great women.” Trying times produce great Christians who, together with Jesus, live victoriously while dealing with difficult and often painful circumstances.   Life won’t always be easy, but it can still be good. As we conclude this study of “The Great Adventure” I encourage us all to enjoy the adventure and resolve to live life fully.   God bless, Pastor Jim    (If you like what you’re 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: “The Great Adventure”   Our Bible verse for today: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” Matthew 5:8 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Together, you and the Holy Spirit can do it”   “Blessed are the pure in heart.” Isn’t that what we all really desire, to have a heart that is pure and which sees God? Jesus says that such a person is truly blessed and I would agree. I want that and I’ll bet you do too.   Let’s return to our discussion from yesterday regarding exposing the lies Satan has been telling us about ourselves. We need to replace those lies with truth from God, thereby creating new neural pathways that guide our thinking to better outcomes. Yesterday we learned a strategy for doing that. Identify the lie, replace it with God’s truth, repeat that truth to yourself over-and-over again, and eventually the truth becomes your new default thinking. And over time, your heart becomes more and more pure. That then will have a positive impact every other area of life.   Replacing lies with truth and creating new neural pathways was exactly what Paul was describing in Philippians 4:8-9 when he wrote, “Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable – if there is any moral excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy – dwell on these things. Do what you have learned and received and heard from me, and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.”   When Craig Groeschel offered his personal strategy for developing those new neural pathways (as we learned yesterday), he was simply building on the lesson Paul taught in Philippians 4:8-9. Craig’s method is just another way of doing what Paul was teaching.   It’s the Holy Spirit who produces the actual change in our mind and heart. He is the one who reveals the lies of Satan to us and who replaces those lies with God’s truth. It’s the work of the Holy Spirit that creates those new neural pathways that guide our thinking to good outcomes. But he doesn’t do it magically and He doesn’t do it without any involvement on our part. There is work that we need to do too. It’s up to us to first think this through, pray this through, and ask God to help us identify the lies that have hindered us and held us back for so long. Then it’s up to us to seek the corresponding truths of God that show those lies to be the lies that they are. And then it is up to us to memorize, dwell on, and repeat the truth to ourselves multiple times each day until that truth becomes our new default thinking.   That’s the goal and together, you and the Holy Spirit can do it.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you’re 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: “The Great Adventure”   Our Bible verse for today: “When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.” John 8:44 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Expose the lie; embrace the truth”   Satan is a liar and he is the father of lies. Worse, not only does Satan tell lies, but he tells lies about us and then he gets us to believe those lies. Then he works to embed those lies so deeply into our minds that they become deeply held beliefs we have about ourselves. Those lies then direct our thinking, even at the subconscious level.   In his book, “Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life” Pastor Craig Groeschel relies on both Biblical truth and neurological science to prove this point. The science of the brain has advanced to the point that scientists can now demonstrate that our most deeply embedded beliefs create neural pathways in our brain, almost like a trench or a rut. Those pathways lead our thoughts in the same direction every time, resulting in the same actions repeated over-and-over again. Those neural responses become automatic and take place at the subconscious level.   When Satan has convinced us of a lie about ourselves and then reinforced that lie repeatedly, a neural pathway develops in our brain. Belief in that lie becomes embedded and our response to it becomes automatic, even subconscious. Craig offers an example of this from his own life. As a child he was taught to believe that he was never good enough and that he never would be good enough. That lie was reinforced so often that it created a neural pathway that influenced Craig’s thinking about himself in a thousand ways, without him even realizing it. As a result, he became a strong “Type A” personality driven to workaholism and a constant effort to prove to the world that he really was good enough. That obsession then took over his life; it damaged relationships and drove him to exhaustion.   Whatever the lie you believe about yourself, the solution is to first uncover it and acknowledge the control it has over you. Then you identify God’s truth about you that answers that lie, and then you must do the hard work of creating a new neural pathway based in truth. Here’s what that would look like in Craig’s example:   Lie: I’m not good enough. Truth: “Fear not (Craig), for I have redeemed you. I have summoned you by name; you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1 Declaration: I belong to my Father in heaven. I am His. He has redeemed me and called me to Himself. I am good enough and therefore I don’t have to impress anyone.”   Then you repeat that statement to yourself over-and-over again, multiple times each day (the lie, the truth, and the declaration – multiple times each day.) Over time, the true statement about yourself will replace the lie in your thinking. Soon, a new neural pathway will be created which begins to automatically govern your thinking and drive your actions.   As you can probably see already, such a change would have a dramatic impact on your daily life and on the overall course of your life. We will consider another example tomorrow but for today, ask God to help you identify a deeply embedded lie you believe about yourself that really does need to be exposed and removed from your thinking. Expose that lie for what it is and then begin to embrace God’s truth about yourself.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you’re 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: “The Great Adventure”   Our Bible verse for today: “Guard your heart above all else, because it is the source of life.” Proverbs 4:23 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Change your thinking, change your heart, change your life”   You change your thinking by changing your heart. The heart has to be reborn, renewed daily, and progressively transformed. This is essential because everything else about your journey through life will stem from your heart. Solomon told us in Proverbs 4:23, “Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source (wellspring) of life.”   A wellspring is the source of something. It is the place from where all else originates and flows. When talking about water, the wellspring can be the underground spring or river that brings good water to the surface. When talking about life, the wellspring is the heart. Not the physical muscle that pumps blood through your body but the place where your thoughts, desires, and emotions all come together and from where your decisions are made. It is that heart where our thinking occurs and that is what Solomon was cautioning us to diligently guard.   In recent devotionals on this topic, we have learned that our life will trend in the direction of our strongest thoughts and that because of our human nature, our heart is wicked and desires things contrary to the will of God. Therefore, our heart must be changed if the direction of our life is going to change. This is what Paul was referring to in Romans 12:1-2 when he wrote, “Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship. Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.”   In his book, “Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life,” Pastor Craig Groeschel guides us in some methods to identify our least helpful and most destructive thought patterns, and then to modify our thinking in order to reprogram our brain to make better, God-honoring choices. By doing so, we change the course of our lives.   Sometimes our destructive thought patterns are downright sinful. Other times they are simply not helpful and we would be better off if we changed them. You may have an addiction to pornography (sinful) or you may struggle with excess weight (not helpful). The key is to identify the thought patterns that need to change, and then develop new and better thought patterns. If you do, your adventure of living this Christian life will be a lot more fun, and lot more pleasant, and a lot more effective for the cause of Christ.   The truth is that you can change your thinking, which will change your heart, which will change your life. Tomorrow we will consider an effective strategy for achieving that. God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you’re 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: “The Great Adventure”   Our Bible verse for today: “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV)   Our thought for today: “It’s time to change your mind”   The Christian life is indeed a great adventure – a journey through this world towards our real home in heaven and as we learned yesterday in our study of Jeremiah 29:11, God has a plan for us. However, although that plan is sometimes very specific, often it is general and therefore includes options and choices each of us must make. It is in that choosing that things can get confusing.   The problem for us lies with the heart and the desires of the heart. The Bible is full of warnings that the heart is deceitful and wicked and if left unchecked, it will lead us astray. Jeremiah warned us in Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable – who can understand it?” Likewise, in Matthew 15:19 Jesus declared, “For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slander.”   With those depressing thoughts about the heart in mind, now consider the truth Solomon declared in Proverbs 23:7 (above) that as we think in our heart, so are we. Ouch! Our thinking defines our life. Our life will always trend in the direction of our strongest thoughts.   So, the Bible says my heart is by nature wicked and filled with all sorts of detestable things, and that those things will define my life. That means that as I walk the path through this world, exposed to all sorts of potential evil and wicked, and just bad choices, the natural tendency of my wicked heart will be to opt for the bad? I don’t want that! What can I do? The Apostle Paul struggled with this dilemma too. In Romans 7:19;24 he wrote, “For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do; What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”   In his great little book, “Winning the War in Your Mind: Change your Thinking, Change your Life,” Pastor Craig Groeschel tells us it’s time to change our minds. Regarding all those wicked things the thinking of our heart will naturally lead us to, he writes that, “(our bad choices) are rooted in faulty and negative patterns of thinking. Treating those problems begins with changing that thinking.” This is what Solomon was getting at in Proverbs 23:7 and it is what the rest of the Bible calls us to do – change our thinking.   The life you have will be a reflection of what you think. We must change how we think and that means there has to be a change of heart. It’s time to change your mind. Tomorrow we will consider some ways to do that.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you’re 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: “The Great Adventure”   Our Bible verse for today: “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.” Jeremiah 29:11 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “What did you expect?”   So, what did you expect? Think about what you got, then think back to what you were expecting to get and compare the two. What were you expecting to get and what did you get?  There’s a basic rule of human nature that says your life will move in the direction of your strongest thoughts. That being the case, we tend to get the outcomes we expect to get, be they good or bad. Another way of thinking about it is that in general, optimism tends to lead us to good outcomes and pessimism leads us to bad outcomes.    Now, let’s apply that thinking to the future. As you look forward, thinking about significant events you are anticipating in your life, are you expecting a good outcome or a bad outcome? Are you optimistic about it or pessimistic? Since your life will generally move in the direction of your strongest thoughts, be careful about the direction of your thoughts.   Jeremiah 29:11 is a Biblical promise that is quoted so often by so many people and applied to so many situations that it can often lose its power in our minds. We hear it so often we sort of gloss over it and don’t give it the consideration it deserves. But the reason we hear that promise so often is because it is so true. God is for you not against you. He does have a good plan He is working out in your life and you should therefore be optimistic not pessimistic. You should be looking towards the future with eagerness and with the expectation of good things to come.   Your adventure of living the Christian life is determined and guided by your thought life. Again, your life will always move in the direction of your strongest thoughts. Pastor Craig Groeschel recently wrote a great book about this very subject called, “Winning the War in Your Mind: Change your thinking, change your life.” I recommend it to you and in coming days, I will share a few thoughts from that book with you.   For now, please remember that your life will move in the direction of your strongest thoughts and because that is true, what you are expecting to happen will play a big role in what actually does happen. I want to ask you again to consider: what are you expecting?   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you’re 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: “The Great Adventure”   Our Bible verse for today: “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 (NIV)   Our thought for today: “Take heart!”   Jesus told us it was going to be like this. He told us there would be suffering and heartache; challenges and trials; sickness and death; unemployment and flat tires; misbehaving kids and overdue bills. Life is often good, but life is often hard too. “In this world you will have trouble…” Gosh, ya think?   And that’s just normal life for the average Joe and Sally. That’s without considering the special challenges and expectations that come with being Christian. We are expected to deal with all the normal stuff, just like anyone else, but we’re also expected to handle it in a way that honors the Lord and blesses others. We are called to live a holy life in a hostile world – a world that is broken and bleeding on its best day, and a world that often isn’t kind to Christians.   The Christian life isn’t for sissies. It’s not for the faint of heart. But no problem, Jesus didn’t call us to be sissies He called us to be victors – and then He empowers us to live victoriously. That’s why He told us in John 16:33 that we should take heart from the fact that He overcame the world. You see, by means of His Holy Spirit living in your heart and working in your life, He has already given you everything you need to deal with whatever you face. You are to do it in His power not in your own. What you need is already there within you because the Holy Spirit is already there within you. That’s also why Jesus told us in that verse that in Him we will find peace, and that peace can be yours despite whatever your current troubles are.   This is indeed a hostile world. Not just in terms of the opposition or persecution we may face because of our faith, but because it is a broken, sinful world filled with things like crime and disease and pollution, wars and injustice and corruption.   But by no means should we view it as all doom and gloom. This is not intended to be a depressing devotional but an encouraging one. You have a Savior who has overcome the trials and tribulations of this world and His Spirit lives within you – meaning that since He overcame it all, so can you.   There is nothing you will face today that you and Jesus cannot handle together. So, take heart!   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you’re 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: “The Great Adventure”   Our Bible verse for today: “Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually advanced the gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is because I am in Christ.” Philippians 1:12-13 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Can you find the good in it?”   In her devotional book, “Treasures in the Dark: 90 reflections on finding bright hope hidden in the hurting”, author Katherine Wolf tells her own story about how she went from a beautiful and healthy aspiring actress and model, to a twenty-something stroke survivor confined to a wheelchair. The book is all about the lessons she learned as she struggled to come to terms with how her life had changed, and the reality of what her life was going to be like going forward.   In her case, life was going to be spent in a wheelchair. At first, she found that terribly depressing. But then she realized that the wheelchair was a gift from God. Rather than limiting her, the wheelchair gave her mobility and freedom she would not have had without it. She soon learned to rejoice in her wheelchair for the freedom it gave her. That story reminded me of my own wife, Linda. One year after her stroke and brain surgery she went on a mission trip with me to the Transylvania region of Romania to hold medical and dental clinics and Vacation Bible Schools in gypsy villages. Linda had to go in a wheelchair, but just like Katherine, she chose to view her wheelchair as a gift because it gave her the mobility and the freedom to be on that mission trip.   In Philippians 1:12-13 we read that the Apostle Paul viewed his imprisonment in Rome the same way. He didn’t want to be a prisoner, he wanted to be a free man. He had places to go, people to see, things to do. But he was a prisoner, chained to a Roman guard day and night. However, since the guards were in prison with him, and since not only was he chained to them but they were chained to him, he treated them as his prisoners and he used it as an opportunity to witness to them. He simply accepted his circumstances as they were and he made the best of them.   In Katherine’s and Linda’s perspectives, their wheelchairs didn’t confine them they set them free. In Paul’s perspective his imprisonment didn’t prevent him from working for the cause of Christ, it created new opportunities for him to do so.   Katherine writes, “True freedom is deciding to want the life I have because it’s the life I was given.” And, “We all have our own wheelchairs.”   Can you find the good in yours? It’s a matter of perspective and it is your choice.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you’re 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: “The Great Adventure”   Our Bible verse for today: “This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24 (NIV)   Our Bible verse for today: “Choose to enjoy it”   How we decide to approach each day goes a long way towards determining what each day will be like for us. Your attitude at the beginning of each day sets the tone for the rest of the day. That’s why it’s so important to begin the day with the Lord. Prayer, Bible study, encouraging devotional messages, all help to set a positive tone and to get us started off on the right foot. It’s like Billy Graham once wrote, “If I don’t start my day with God, I meet Satan around every corner all day long.”   In Psalm 118:24 the psalmist offers us an excellent verse of inspired Scripture to help us get the day going. We acknowledge that the new day before us is a gift from God, and then we resolve to rejoice and be glad for it. We go forward into it with a light heart and with eagerness and anticipation as we wonder what it is the Lord has in store for us today. We remember that, “Life is not a problem to be solved but an adventure to live; it is not a destination but a journey.”   That’s a great attitude, especially with respect to the weekend. I love weekends. There is so much opportunity for adventure and fun. For me, the weekend is Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (my normal day off). Saturday is sometimes a workday and sometimes a day off, but often there is time for hiking or other activities. Sunday is the best day of the week because that’s when God’s people come together and it is always an uplifting and encouraging time. Then Monday is a day of rest. Taken together, they are the three best days of the week.   Today is Friday. Do you have special things planned for the weekend? Hopefully you are looking forward to Sunday as much as I am; and hopefully you are approaching it with a sense of eagerness and expectation as the Holy Spirit brings the people of God together for a special encounter with God and with each other.   Attitude really is everything. To a very large degree we get what we expect. Approach each day with thanksgiving, joy, and the eager expectation of good things to come. (And that should be especially true of Sunday.)   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you’re 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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