What was his mission on earth? What did he say from the beginning? This is what I’m doing here. That’s what Luke 4 tells us. It’s a really important question because many people would like to get their hands on Jesus, so to speak.

Many people would like to claim him for their cause and say this is what Jesus was about and this is why he came and and many people because there’s so many divergent opinions have forgotten that the place to look is from Jesus’s lips himself. What did Jesus himself say about his mission? Every Christmas and Easter, magazines like Newsweek and Time will publish something about here’s the latest findings on the historicity of Jesus. Here’s something you didn’t know before. And and usually it’s this is what the church gets wrong is often thrown in there.

But I read recently an encouraging report put out by Bara and it basically said that young people are eager more than in recent years they’re eager to learn about Jesus. And the the really cool and somewhat surprising thing also was that they’re also willing to learn from Christians about Jesus of all people. Imagine that. People who will follow him. But the big thing is they wanted to learn about Jesus from someone who loved them, someone who was willing to invest in them.

And so this whole idea of we need to do this evangelistic appeal to, you know, just get decisions and check the box. That won’t work. That won’t work because what young people want to hear is not just what do you know about Jesus, but do you care about me? And one of the best places of course to look is what Jesus said himself about how he came. And he presented himself to a lost world not as someone who was just making it up as he went, but as someone who had this plan from all eternity about what he was going to do, what he was going to accomplish for people.

And so in Luke 4, we’re going to see that Jesus tells us why he came. The big idea this morning is that Jesus preached a gospel of deliverance from the rule of darkness to the kingdom of God. Jesus looked at a world full of PS, prisoners of war, and he said, “I have come to set you free.” So, if you would please stand for the reading of God’s holy and perfect word. Luke 4, beginning in verse 14.

Luke says, “And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country, and he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.” And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, “Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” Thank you.

You may be seated. 30-year-old Jesus is just launching his ministry, just getting underway. And it says, Luke says that he was traveling all over the place as this itinerant preacher. He would go from town to town in northern Israel called Galilee. And he was beginning to become popular.

People were recognizing the name Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus of Nazareth is coming to town. This young preacher, he’s he’s going to be preaching in the synagogue. Let’s go and hear what he has to say. And the other gospels focus on his ministry of healing and preaching as well.

And that was his way the healing was his way of both showing and telling people about the kingdom of God. Later in verse 43 of this chapter, Jesus sums up his ministry. He says,”I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to other towns as well, for I was sent for this purpose.” Jesus says, “I came to launch the kingdom of God. That’s what I’m here to announce.

That’s why I’m here.” He will also say things like, “He came to seek and save the lost.” Now at this point Jesus is already becoming a bit of a celebrity a kind of a small town celebrity celebrity as this this itinerant preacher. People are recognizing him. You know today we would say he’s got a lot of views and a lot of likes and subscribers.

He is really popular and the word that Luke uses is he was glorified by all. In other words, people really liked Jesus. They they praised him. They were amazed at what he had to say because they recognized he has something to say that other rabbis aren’t saying. Either they’re not willing to say it or they can’t say it because they’re not in a position to.

He had lots of people, but Jesus didn’t come to collect fans. He came to create followers. And for the most part, these people who are kind of streaming to Jesus early on didn’t actually understand who Jesus was yet. We’ll see that as we go through the gospel. But Luke says everything that Jesus did and his healing and his preaching and his mighty works, all these things that we think of when you think of Jesus, he did it all in the power of the spirit.

That’s what Luke points out here. Jesus lived life not as superman but as the perfect man. He lived under the guidance of the father and empowered by the Holy Spirit in everything he did. So, first in your notes, all of ministry begins with spirit empowered proclamation of the word of God. That’s how Jesus began his ministry.

And as a pastor, I can’t tell you how encouraged I am by the fact that Jesus himself was a preacher of God’s word. That that makes me feel like I’m in pretty good company knowing that Jesus preached. And how awesome would it be to hear Jesus preach a sermon? I mean, just think about that being there. Yeah, I mean it would be way better than hearing me preach just st sitting there in the congregation and the son of God gets up and he begins to exposit the word of God.

That’d be awesome just to have even the sermon audio would be amazing. Now I recognize we do have his words and and many of his sermons recorded in scripture if not word for word at least in summary form a lot of them. But to just be there in person hearing Jesus preach would have been awesome. And like every true preacher of the Bible, Jesus preached in the power of the Holy Spirit. This is how God calls his pastors to preach.

It’s not based in our own wisdom and strength. It’s always based in the power of the Holy Spirit and his wisdom. See, if it was all up to me, then nothing would get done. That’s just the facts. The Holy Spirit is the one who empowers the preaching of the word.

And the moment a preacher forgets that, he’s in big trouble. And so with Jesus’s popularity as a preacher rising, it’s only making sense that when he comes back to his hometown of Nazareth, they look at Jesus and they recognize, you know what, our hometown boy, he’s kind of popular. Let’s let’s give him the stage. Let’s let him preach today. And keep in mind, Jesus was a novelty.

He was not your ordinary rabbi because he didn’t go to Jerusalem and and he didn’t get specially trained in the in all the ways that all the rabbis typically were in the halls of the lecture halls of Jerusalem. He wasn’t there with all the professors. He didn’t have this special certificate. Everything we know about Jesus tells us that he was not formally trained, but he was a student of scripture from his earliest days. As a young boy, he was there speaking with these scholars.

And then of course, he was as an adult always quoting scripture from memory. He was like the Psalm one man who was spending day and night meditating on the law of the Lord. And this becomes clear even in our passage. Notice verse 16. Luke says, “And he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up.”

Both Matthew and Luke agree. Jesus was born in Bethlehem but raised in Nazareth. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day and he stood up to read. Now, don’t miss that little phrase. Every word of scripture matters.

It says, “As was his custom, he went to the synagogue.” Going to synagogue was the equivalent of going to church for us. Do you think Jesus ever heard a bad sermon? Oh, yeah. Do you think he could have preached better than those he heard?

You bet he could. But we don’t see Jesus saying, “What’s the point of coming and listening to this guy? I could do way better than him.” He doesn’t say that. And and he doesn’t say things like, “Forget the synagogue.

I can connect better with my father out in nature, you know, out in the woods. I feel closer to God. So, I’m just going to skip synagogue.” Jesus doesn’t do that. It was his custom.

In other words, this was his regular practice. He saw the importance of coming together with the people of God to assemble, for worship, for reading of the word, for preaching, for all the things that even today we practice in church. Many people today say, the church is full of religious hypocrites. What’s the point? But listen, Jesus saw through religious hypocrisy better than anyone.

He called out religious hypocrites throughout his ministry. He was constantly sparring with hypocrites. But we don’t see Jesus deconstructing or carving out his own spiritual path away from people. Jesus went to church. He went to the assembly of God’s people.

It was his custom. He knew as a man he needed community. He needed to be with the people of God. And he sat under less than stellar preaching, but he still went. He saw flawed and failing people in his church, but he still went because Jesus is humble and he loves flawed and failing people.

See, there’s this kind of spiritual pride that says, “Ah, the church is full of hypocrites.” But it’s actually a kind of phariseism because what you’re really saying when you say that is I’m too good for church. I’m I’m not like all those people, those struggling sinners over there. I do better on my own. Thank you very much.

It’s interesting because the accusation turns around on itself. If your mindset for going to church is, “What can this church do for me?” You’re always going to be disappointed. It doesn’t matter where you end up, you’re always going to think, “This church does not measure up because it’s not doing everything exactly as I want it to do.” But if instead it’s how can I get involved in this church?

How can I serve? Who can I disciple? Who can disciple me? Or who needs a friend? Who needs prayer.

See, if that’s your mindset, then you’re going to find yourself growing to love the family of God. You’re going to see the church as a place to be because it’s not all about you. That’s how Jesus viewed the church. And all families, of course, have their issues. There’s no perfect family.

And the church is that unique place where we get to say to one another, “You’re not perfect. Me neither.” Great. Let’s help each other follow the one who is perfect. But if you join a church, you’re not only going to get a family, you get to be a part of something much bigger than yourself.

[snorts] Something that will last for all eternity. Revelation talks about the church in eternity when we’re all gathered together. People from every tribe, people, tongue, and nation. We’re going to be gathered together worshiping as one. And that will be an awesome thing to experience.

And God has gifted you, by the way. He’s gifted you in particular with unique gifts. And unless you’re plugged into a church, those gifts are never going to come to full bloom. It’s only in the context of the body that those gifts begin to show themselves. So here’s Jesus.

He’s going to church. He’s in the synagogue. And typically the liturgy for a synagogue service worked like this. They would start by singing the psalms. That was the the song book for Jewish people.

And then they’d recite the shama here. O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And then they had 18 benedictions recited aloud. And then came the reading of scripture. And just like we have just done, they would have everybody stand up and they would read from the scriptures.

And then everyone would sit down and he would the guy going up there would preach a sermon from that passage. And they would often do the Torah and then the prophets. And since Jesus was this new young popular rabbi, he was asked to give a sermon to the hometown crowd. And those in those days, you didn’t have Bibles in book form. You had a scroll, a massive scroll.

And so they they didn’t have little, you know, pocket Bibles. They didn’t have little light up rectangles that showed them scripture. You had to go to the synagogue. That’s where scripture was found. And you had to open up this massive scroll.

So, just imagine doing your morning Bible study. And the way you do that is you you go down to the synagogue in the morning and you can’t sit down because you got to stand up and you you unroll this massive scroll in front of you and you can’t drink your coffee because if you spill coffee on that scroll, I mean, that’s the only copy in town. So, you got to go through all of that if you’re going to read scripture. And so Jesus knowing how well he knew scripture and yet he had to study it in the synagogue and do it in that way makes it all the more impressive. In fact, I was going to see about borrowing a copy of a scroll from a local synagogue, but our brother Daniel mentioned that the rabbis have a rule that if you drop the scroll, the entire congregation has to fast for 40 days.

So I didn’t want to put all of you at risk for that. But Jesus stands up there. He’s handed the scroll of Isaiah and he because he knows scripture so well. By the way, they didn’t have numbers for chapters and verses back then. If you’re going to find a place in scripture, you just had to know where it was by heart.

And so, he knew it so well that he comes to what we call Isaiah 61. And he reads this, “The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. Again, Jesus was there to preach the kingdom of God. This was his emancipation proclamation for the kingdom.

In your notes. In the kingdom of God, people are set free from the brokenness, bondage, blindness, and burdens of sin. Jesus was proclaiming a message of liberty. He says, “It’s time for you to experience freedom, true and lasting freedom.” We were all prisoners of war, destined to remain captive under the rule of sin, death, and Satan.

But Jesus arrived and he and m makes this gospel announcement of freedom. And keep in mind this is Nazareth. This is a small rural town. Not very many people and most of these people would have been poor. Jesus was poor.

He’s the king of kings, but he came to earth and he lived as a popper. And these people have lived under the oppressive rule of Rome for about 90 years at this point. Just imagine that generation after generation getting used to it except never getting used to it. That Rome is over you. You are ruled.

You are not free. And so these people were ready to be liberated. And Jesus chose what we could say is the perfect passage because he says this passage is all about liberty. It’s all about being set free from those who oppress you. This was the kind of message they could get on board with.

Many people would have heard Jesus making a political statement here. And in one sense, he was. And when you preach about an anointed one, you’re preaching about a king. And so, he’s talking to them about a king and a kingdom. If there were any Roman soldiers who overheard him, they would have quickly been suspicious.

Is this man saying that he is king? That would be treasonous. Even today, we want to cheer for the underdogs. We want to see the little guy rise up. That’s why we love stories like Star Wars, Luke Skywalker, you know, rising up against the evil empire.

Or we like to cheer on Rocky, you know, he’s the underdog, so we want to see him beat Apollo Creed. And in Jesus’s day, the Jewish people were longing for an underdog hero, someone who would rise up against Rome and be the ultimate freedom fighter. But notice what Jesus’s message centers on here. It’s not first victory over evil. He doesn’t talk first about judgment.

He doesn’t talk first about war. He’s talking about deliverance for those enslaved. He hasn’t yet identified the real enemy. But here Jesus is announcing a kingdom ruled not by sinful men but by God himself. And the question is, what does it mean for broken and battered people to come under the reign of God as king?

What does that look like? Some people hate the thought of God as king because they think that would be so restrictive and and stifling and I I couldn’t be me if I was ruled by a king. So, not everyone wants to be ruled by God. That’s why many live as atheists. They don’t want a god over them.

Others will look at all the suffering in the world and they think, you know, if there was a God, well, surely he would care enough to get involved. But see, this is what makes Jesus’s message so unique. He came and he said, listen to me, God is involved. He’s come and he’s reigning. And people when he is reigning, people are set free from bondage.

He was alluding to themes like the Exodus when God was the great liberator who rescued his people from slavery in Egypt. He’s also alluding to the year of Jubilee. According to the law in Leviticus on the 50th year, every 50th year, it was a time to proclaim liberty in all the land. That’s when debts are canceled and slaves are set free. So, it was a time to celebrate because what does a captive do when he’s set free?

He parties. That’s why Jesus, no wonder throughout all the gospels, he’s constantly finding himself at parties. He’s celebrating. He says, “I’m here to proclaim a year of jubilee for all of you.” He was saying, “I have a message of freedom and joy and forgiveness.

You’re not going to find this anywhere else, and it’s worth celebrating.” This echoes the inscription on our Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. It says Leviticus 25:10, proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. [snorts] So Jesus is saying that in the kingdom of God, there’s this great reversal that happens. Wrongs are writed, chains are broken, the unloved are loved, the outcasts are welcomed in, the poor are cared for, the proud are brought low, the repentant are forgiven.

And even today, people will often hear Jesus’s message wrongly in two ways. And the first way people will hear it is they think, you know, Jesus is only talking about social justice here. He’s talking about helping the poor and meeting the physical needs of today. That’s what his message is all about. [snorts] But if you only see Jesus saying that, then you you miss the fact that he’s not just coming after corrupt systems and governments.

He he’s coming after our need to be reconciled to God. The the great debt he’s addressing here is our debt of sin. The other wrong way to hear Jesus is only to hear him talking about our deliverance from sin in the next life. But it has nothing to do with meeting needs and changing societies today. But the reality is that Jesus came to save us to deliver us from sin in all its effects.

He didn’t just come with a message about what happens after we die. He came to transform the world. And that could only happen if Jesus came not just as king, but as a crucified king. He had to come not just to inspire us, but to die for us. That was our greatest need.

Jesus could have overthrown Rome, but he first had to rescue us from the bondage of sin. He had to make us new on the inside before he made a new society. In other words, Jesus didn’t just need to come and and save us from all these bad governments and policies. He first needed to save us from ourselves. And Jesus’s message always worked this way.

He basically said, “If you’re humble enough to receive it, the kingdom of God is something to celebrate.” But many people, especially the self-righteous, were angry at what Jesus said. They didn’t like to hear about this. They didn’t they didn’t like this kind of deliverance because they wanted to focus on the externals, the problems in the world that Jesus should fix now. And Jesus said, “No, there’s an order to this.”

They wanted a reversal, but not in the way Jesus was talking about. They wanted to go from being those who are overpowered to having power over others. But notice Jesus said, “I’ve come to proclaim.” Three times he uses the word proclaim. And that’s important because the gospel is a message that must be proclaimed.

People cannot be saved and enter the kingdom of God if the gospel is not proclaimed. Paul would later write, “I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.” In other words, the gospel itself, the message is the liberating power. And God has chosen to rescue people from spiritual bondage through a message, through the gospel. Entering the kingdom of God isn’t about coming under a a stifling and and strict overbearing authority.

When you live life under the rule and reign of God, what you’re doing is you’re living life as it was always meant to be. You’re you’re finding your true created purpose because it can only happen as God reigns in your life. This is the paradox that most modern people miss. Every other so-called freedom I is actually slavery to just one more thing. Slavery to self, slavery to sin.

True freedom is found in obedience to God alone. Because it’s only when God is reigning over us that we’re able to live out that created purpose. After reading this passage in Isaiah 61, he rolls up the scroll, hands it back to the attendant, and then when everybody is fixed on him, focusing on what he’s about to say, he says, “Today, right now, this scripture has been fulfilled.” In your notes, Jesus proclaimed that he was the Messiah Israel was promised. This statement would have surprised the people of Nazareth because Jesus was crystal clear about what he was claiming for himself.

But they would have been startled because they recognized the weight of this. They’re thinking, “Does he really mean what he just said?” They knew Jesus since he was a small boy. He was just another Nazarene peasant like them. Nothing special.

You know, they had that saying, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Even in Nazareth, they were skeptical that anything good can come out of Nazareth. But he applied this prophecy to himself and he was claiming he was the one it pointed to. He was the one anointed by the Holy Spirit. All of God’s promises find their yes in him.

Now, keep in mind, they were expecting the kingdom of God to arrive. They were ready for that. But Jesus had to show them what the kingdom really looks like. They still had their assumptions about where the Messiah would come from, what he would look like, what his pedigree would be, what he would do when he came. Jesus’s announcement was startling because everyone listening would have realized this sounds like a challenge to the existing authorities.

First of all, you’ve got the Caesar in Rome, Tiberius. He wouldn’t want to hear about a new king and a new kingdom. And then there’s the tetrarch, Herod Antipus. He’s the son of Herod the great who was known as the king of the Jews. And then there’s the high priest Caiaphas.

He enjoyed his authority that was given to him and approved by Rome. And so everybody, all the power brokers at this time would have been threatened by what Jesus was saying because if he’s announcing a kingdom, it can only be a rival kingdom. Just imagine someone going around the US today and and without any election saying there is a new president. He’s going to fulfill all the promises he’s made and I am him. That’s how it would have landed for these people.

Either they wouldn’t take him seriously or they would have seen him as a genuine threat. And a genuine threat needs to be extinguished. This would be the case all the more in Jesus’s day. He used this prophecy because he was trying to help them understand this is what the purpose of my coming is. This is what the Messiah is to be about.

He wanted them to see why he’d come. We saw Jesus was anointed by the Holy Spirit at his baptism. The father declared, “You are my son whom I love.” That was his coronation ceremony where God the Father poured out the Holy Spirit and he was anointed as Messiah, designated in public. And now he’s announcing a kingdom as king.

Many politicians today will run their campaigns with certain slogans that are catchy and, you know, kind of get behind what they want to do. In recent years, we’ve heard things like change we can believe in, make America great again, build back better, battle for the soul of America, or my personal favorite is, if you vote for me, all your wildest dreams will come true. That was Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite. But Jesus, on the other hand, wasn’t looking for votes. He wasn’t trying to stir up a rally around him and say, “Listen, guys, we need to cause a revolution right now.

Let’s go after the king. I’m going to train you guys to fight with me.” He doesn’t do anything like that. But he does announce that he is the anointed king of Israel. To me, it’s a bit strange when people are so offended by the idea of God ruling over them as king because I think, do we really think we can do better with the next candidate?

Right. Like he somehow he won’t be flawed like everybody else who came before him. If there’s one thing that the Bible and human history has taught us, it’s that when you give people power over others, they will let you down 100% of the time. That’s what happens. But with Jesus, if he rules us, then things are finally set right.

Things are as they should be. We need an authority, but we need the authority of Jesus over us. And here he’s announcing a year of jubilee, a cancellation of all debts, pardon for sinners, healing of souls and bodies, a restoration of justice and peace. He was announcing the kingdom of God that Jews were ready for. But he’s going beyond that because he’s saying, “The kingdom is arriving in and through me.

It’s through me. It’s been fulfilled in me. And this is how Jesus always preached. Whenever he’s preaching about the kingdom, it’s always ultimately about him. You can’t have a kingdom without a king.

When he announced the forgiveness of sins, people always questioned him. They said, “Wait a minute. Only God can do that.” And then he would say, “Do you want to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins?” And then he would prove he has that authority by healing physical bodies like the paralytic.

In other words, Jesus’s ministry of healing proved he was the Messiah he claimed to be. The other thing Jesus did was drive out demons, which proved he had the ability to release people from spiritual bondage. It’s often said that forgiveness is the most powerful force in the world. You know, it it reconciles enemies. It ends wars.

It cancels those longheld riffs between family members. And so if Jesus was bringing forgiveness of sins, he could transform the world. And if Jesus could heal the physically blind, then of course he can heal us of our spiritual blindness that keeps us from seeing our own sin. This is the gospel Jesus preached. He came to rewrite your story and he came to set you free from whatever enslaves you.

In your notes, Jesus sets us free to take this gospel of the kingdom to the world. Think about that. What if the church was known as a place where true freedom is found? Where people both the the poor are cared for, the the sick and the hurting are loved, a place where souls are mended. And people feel the freedom to share their struggles because they know that if they share it openly and honestly, then they’re going to be loved and prayed for, not judged.

Most Christians recognize they don’t have it all together. We recognize there’s things in our lives that need to change. But what we do is we often think what I need is just more willpower. I I just need more grit and I need to just buckle down and change these things about myself. Disciplehip to Jesus is about becoming totally convinced that there’s no problem in your life that Jesus can’t handle.

And then it’s about humbling yourself enough to admit you need him in your life every step of the way. There’s no point at which you don’t need Jesus and his reign over you. The gospel Jesus preached is both liberating and offensive. It’s offensive because the gospel says you can’t save yourself. In fact, you know, you need to come to the end of yourself.

You need to give up on you in the salvation process. You have to look away from yourself to Jesus on Jesus alone to rescue you. But it’s liberating because Jesus came to rewrite your story. Jesus can set you free from whatever enslaves you. It doesn’t matter what it is.

Anything you can imagine, Jesus liberates you from that. So what is it that you need to be set free from right now? The need to prove yourself, the opinions of others, fear of rejection, fear of the future. You need to be set free from addiction, anger, guilt, a sense of hopelessness, bitterness, the need to be in control. For some of us, we need to be set free from the lie that life is all about me.

But Jesus doesn’t just set us free from something. He saves us so that we can be free to live out God’s purpose for our lives. So we can bear fruit and glorify God. Jesus sets us free to start fresh. He says you can begin again.

You have a sorted past. Come to me. Come to me. You can be washed clean of all that you’ve done in the past and you can begin again. And you can have confidence in God’s provision in your daily life.

For me personally, I’ve often struggled in the past with comparing myself with others. I remember thinking about that in high school and other times. You know, what if I’m not like this person or what if they see me differently? But the more I experience the power of the gospel in my life, the more I see comparison as just a waste of time. And and the more I even though I have plenty of struggles, plenty of things that I need to work on for sure, the power of the gospel says that because of Jesus, I can become a little bit more like Jesus every day.

And that means the future could not be brighter. In Christ, you’re set free to let go of self-righteousness and confess the righteousness of Christ. You’re set free to come to God as a father who loves you, who will forgive you, who will set you on the right path. And you’re free to ask him for the impossible. So the more you experience the power of the gospel in your life, the more you will want to share it with others as it impacts you, you will feel that urge, that great desire.

I need to tell other people about this Jesus because if he can change me, he can change anybody. And so I’ll leave you with this question. In what areas of your life are you needing to experience the liberating power of Jesus? Every single one of us needs that power in our life. There’s something that we know we need to let go of.

Something we are wrestling with. Something that only Jesus can set us free from. Let’s give it to him this morning. Awesome heavenly father, we thank you so much that you are the God of freedom, the God who sets captives free. And I know Lord, no matter how many people are listening, every single one of us has something that we need to let go of, something that we’re struggling with, something we need to find liberty and Christ from.

And thank

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