You can start by laying down your life for others in the body of Christ, just as Jesus gave everything for you. Let His love heal your past so you can serve with joy and reproduce what you see in Scripture. Today, choose to love the church as a way to say 'I love you' back to God.
Good morning. My name is Heidi Hunter, and I just wanna say thank you for listening to this real church podcast. Today is week 9 and the final week in our series called I love you, and I'm going to be sharing what it looks like to say I love you to God in the church. I pray you are encouraged to go deeper with the Lord and are empowered to walk in all that he has for you. Enjoy.
So I am Heidi Hunter, and I've been attending Real Church since the prelaunch. Pretty good long time. Something different about me than the other speakers that have spoken in this amazing I love you series is I didn't grow up in church. I didn't have godly parents. Life was tough.
Life was rough. And so what's exciting to me is that I'm pretty sure there's other people in here that came from what I came from, living a childhood and a life of fear, of having to survive. Anybody else? So I know that God wants to speak through all of us, and if he can do what he did in my life, he can do it in yours. So we're gonna pray.
Father, I just thank you for today. I thank you, Holy Spirit, that you are here. I thank you that you're good. I thank you that you have a word for the body of Christ today. I thank you, father, that you're faithful.
*Lord, I pray* that you would prepare ears to hear your word and hearts to receive your presence. We love you, God. Thank you for being here with us. You're so good. Jesus' name, amen.
I wanna say hi to the online people. I'm there's a lot of people watching, but I know my little girl's watching. So, hey, girl. Thank you, pastor David, for asking me to speak. Pastor David asked me to speak 2 months ago, and I didn't know what I was gonna share until 2 weeks ago because Holy Spirit does that sometimes, but it's good.
I I know you're like I said earlier, I know your life is gonna be impacted because it's not about me and what I can do, but about who he is and what he will do for you if you let him. So the first thing I'm gonna do is because we have been in this I love you series, and today I'm gonna speak about what does I love you, saying I love you back to Jesus. How does that look like in the church? What does that look like in our relationships in the church? How can we say I love you back to God in the church?
But I wanted to go over really quick the weeks that we've had and just share like a little smidgen of what the Lord has taught me because that's what we do. We get we listen to the word of God, and we soak in what Holy Spirit is teaching us individually, and then we act on it. Week 1, prayer. Pastor David John preached about prayer, and I learned Holy Spirit wants to communicate God's thoughts. But we can't comprehend what God is saying without Holy Spirit.
Week 2, prayer and fasting, pastor David John Phillips. And what I learned was hearing God teaches us to live by the spirit, which increases our faith, which overcomes unbelief. I had some great things happen. I mean, my marriage was like just because I'm reading the Bible. I just wanna say this, I am not a morning person.
I've always said that. You know what? That was a lie that I might in myself believe. I'm like, I can't read the word in the morning. No.
I ain't getting up reading the word. I can't even think. I woke up every morning, the first thing I did before I got out of my bed is I read the word, and I realized that I can read the word in the morning. I can soak it in, and I can love it, and it can radically change my life. And it did.
I didn't have to learn it all, I just read it. *God*'s so cool like that. Week 3, praying without ceasing. Mariah, who was impacted by that? Do you guys remember?
I have to share this really quick. Mariah talked about prayer without ceasing. I learned, God, I love your thoughts more than I love my own. Holy Spirit wants to communicate. So at the end of the service, pastor David said, we're just gonna we're gonna worship, and we're gonna ask the Holy Spirit to speak to us.
And I'm over there with my husband, and the music's it's dark because, you know, that's when Holy Spirit speaks, has to be dark. And we're back there, and the and the music is gone. We're worshiping, and I'm back there, and I'm just like, Lord, I wanna I want you to speak to me. I don't wanna hear what I wanna hear. God, just speak to me, Lord.
I'm listening. And he spoke to me. And do you know what he said? It's powerful. It's a heavy rebbe.
He said, Hey, girl, hey. And I'm like, I don't even look up because I know it's God. And I'm going, You just said that, didn't you? And he goes, Stop being so serious. Now, there's a time to be serious, but in that moment, I needed freedom.
And I made God so complicated, and he just wanted to say, Hey, I'm your friend. I'm your lover. You're my child. So cool how God does. He knows how to deal with me.
Week 4, worship. John, oh, that was amazing. So every every week, everyone, every time we're in God's presence, it's amazing. But I learned how to worship. I learned how worship is loving Jesus.
It's an offering to the Lord, and that we can't have true worship without encountering the person of Jesus. Our team that is up here, our team that's back there is evidence of *relationship* with God because I can tell you this, they don't come here and practice music. They practice. Praise the Lord. But they practice relationship.
They practice serving God and serving others. That is the majority of their time is intimacy with 1 another and with Jesus, and then they're obedient to practice the songs, but it comes out because that's what God wants. That's why it's so amazing every week, because it's Jesus, and that's what their focus is on. Not coming up here and playing a guitar or playing some drums. It's good.
Week 5, stories of I love you. Gabe, Mariah, and Courtney talked about a story where they knew that god was speaking, love you to them, and I learned how god meets us in our pain and the reward of *obedience* in word or deed. Week week 6, covenant, pastor David John Phillips. Y'all, I do this all the time, but we got done with that 1, and I was like, I mean, how many of you I might be the only 1, but it was like, he was saying some stuff, and I was like, ugh. And he'd be saying some love stuff, and then ugh, which was also the love stuff.
It was so good. And I said, pastor David, that was the best 1, and he laughed. He's like, Heidi, you always say that. And I'm like, no, but it really is like, that's how it is with God. It gets better.
Ain't that what we sing about? And what the word says, it just keeps getting better and better and better? That's how he is. I'm so excited because I can be excited about the next week and the next week and the next day and the next day because it just gets better, just when we don't think it can get any better. Week 7, marriage.
We talked about marriage. Pastor David and Courtney got up and just shared some really good stuff about marriage, and we had a wedding in here. Beautiful wedding. And then we got to get with our spouses and do the what is it called? Renewal.
Renewal, our vows with our spouses. It was good. It was very emotional for us. And then last week was Daniel, he talked about friendship. Wow, that was so powerful.
That even in the times when it might not look like to the world that it's super friendly, but really loving somebody is **speaking truth** and love. So today is week 9, and I am Heidi, like I said, and I'm gonna be talking to you about how do we say I love you back to God by loving his church. So I've been asking the Lord what he wants me to say and what does it look like to say I love you back to God in the church. And he said, if you love me, "feed my sheep". If I wanna know how to say I love you back to God in the church, I need to look in scripture to see how he loves me That's right.
And see how he loves the church. That's right. If I look in scripture and see how God loves me, then I can *reproduce* what I see and love the church in that way, and that is saying I love you back to him. So the first point is, number 1, how did Jesus love the church or the body? Because the church is the body.
Right? So we have to jump into scripture and look and see how Jesus loved the people, loved the disciples. What did that look like? Because love looks like something. *John-3:16 says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life*.
About a couple months ago, I was watching 1 of those sappy Hallmark movies. Anyone? And we watch them over and over. I saw 2 people. Come on.
Daniel, thank you. Some men. And I ask God, I'm like, I just I'm on my couch, right? In relation this is what relationship with Jesus looks like. It's so fun.
And I'm like, I wonder why I like those. They're the same story. You know what's gonna happen. You cry every time at the end because you know it's coming. And I'm like, Lord, why do I love this so much?
And he said, because you know it's always like this king, and there's like somebody who works in a coffee shop, and they go out of the country, and this king accidentally falls in love with her, and it's beautiful, but she's been lying the whole time. And then he finds out, and there's bad people trying to set him up, and she runs back to Florida, to the coffee shop, because she's ashamed, every 1 of them are the same. And you're like, but you know he's coming back. So you wait for it. And then all of a sudden she's serving coffee and she's sad.
And she looks out the window and there's it's nighttime, and there's perfect snow. And there he is. He's not in his king stuff. He's just standing there with flowers, and she looks out the window. And she runs out there, and it's so good.
It's so good. And I'm like, God, why do I love that? And you know what he said? I wasn't even expecting a heavy revvy. He said, you've always wanted to be enough for someone to fight for and come back for.
And I'm like, oh, that was a longing in my heart that he wanted to show me. He told me to ask him that question, and then he said, I chose to give up everything, my kingdom, even to the point of death, to come back for you because I love you that much. *1 John-3:16* through 18 says, by this we know, love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. But if anyone has the world's good and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not "love in word or talk", but indeed in truth.
So it's cool because I figured out I was like, oh, John-3:16 says this, and 1 John-3:16 says this. And I'm like, it's like part 1 is he gave his son for you. Part 2 is loving him back is you giving your life for the church, indeed and in truth. And I'm like, I wonder if everybody anybody's ever seen that. But I'm thinking I'm the only 1, so don't tell me if you did.
*Mark-10:45* is, for even the son of man came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. And if you remember last week, Daniel shared that that literally means he paid the full price for our freedom. *1 John-4:19 through 21, we got a good bit of scripture, it's good because that's God*. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar.
For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God who he may whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him whoever loves God must also love his brother. So if you hate your brother, then you hate God, and he is not in you. I didn't say that. God did.
*God* said that. This is the truth part of that scripture in John-3:18. Like Daniel says, we must love someone enough to speak truth even in the face of losing that friendship, but this must be bathed in bathed in love. What is your motive? If your motive is for them to know the love of God, you give up your selfish desires.
Part 2, believe and receive. Do you believe he loves you? *Romans-5:8 says, but Christ proved God's passionate love for us by "dying in our place" while we were still lost* and ungodly. Just like my Hallmark story, he did this for you. He gave up everything, laid down his life for you.
He came after you while you were still lost and ugly. You can't *reproduce* what you don't trust and believe. This comes through *relationship* and obedience. You will learn to trust and believe God when you are obedient to what he says even though everything in you is telling you don't do it. Don't do it.
Don't listen to that. Try him. He'll prove it to you. Have you ever noticed how god does things completely different than we do them or understand them? He died for your sin before you ever committed 1.
He gave you life when you did nothing to earn it. When you are being obedient and serving, you end up getting more, so much more than your little bitty sacrifice. So when you are selfish, you're depleted. The only way to get full is to sacrifice. My husband says this, and I love it, He saw your success before you ever knew your failures.
Rest on that. He knows what he created for you for and what you're gonna become. So go against all of that worldliness in you, all of that self preservation because your life doesn't belong to you. Now I'm a quote some scripture that you don't hear a whole lot at church, but we're gonna go to Song of Solomon. Praise the Lord.
In *Song of Solomon-2:16*, it says, my beloved is mine, and I am his. And that sounds good, and it is good because that's where we are at our beginning relationship with Jesus. But that is self importance, just like a baby. But as so this is a story about the bridegroom and the bride. But as her progression grows in her relationship with him, you get to Song of Solomon-7:10, and it says, "I am my beloved's", and his desire is towards me.
So you see the progression of the relationship. Her self life no longer controls her desires or her actions. My beloved is mine is her saying, I love him for what he can give me, and we do that, and he does have gifts, and he gives them freely, but it's self serving. But there should be a transition in that relationship that changes to I am my beloved's and his desire towards me, which is his desires towards me, which shows he has become the center of my life. Instead of possessing the Lord, which is religion, She is possessed by him, which is a spiritual relationship with God.
She has left self centeredness, and her desire is to serve him. And the cool thing is, when you get to that place, don't be afraid of that place because all that other stuff you get still. Just the other day, was talking to Mariah. We were in the car about just conversation, how we talked to Jesus because we were talking about when she preached, and I told her I was gonna share that little thing, and how I just talked to Jesus like I talked to you. Like, I don't know if you guys it doesn't have to be super serious.
Like, I forget that I can just "talk to Jesus", And he knows my thoughts. So I don't keep anything back because if he can't get what I'm saying, then I'm in trouble. I'm like, if I can't be real to him and him not get offended, then I'm gonna be in trouble. And so I always I told her, I was like, I just picture God, you know, when I'm laying on the ground kicking and screaming and having my fit. I can just see him there going, Let me know when you get done, Heidi, and we can move forward.
And I'm kicking and screaming and he's like, because he knows me. He gets me. He has grace for me. And I was sharing that with her and she was laughing and, you know, because sometimes we can act like a stubborn child. And I just have to say this, there is there's nothing uglier.
So think about this in the spiritual realm, but your mind is gonna go to the physical realm. I don't wanna see a 30 or 40 or 50 year old laying on the floor kicking and screaming, having a fit, having to change their diapers and feed them because they don't wanna grow up. We don't need that in the church. That's not God. God wants to grow you up.
That's about yourself. So if you're acting like that, get over yourself. It's not pretty. So we're having this conversation, and the Holy Spirit just stops me, and I'm like, oh my gosh. As soon as that came out of my mouth where I saw that, he said, Heidi, that's where you've been.
There was a time when I had to teach you as a father and a child. I was the daddy, you're the child, and I had to have patience and grace, but you're not there anymore. He said, now I am teaching you as the bride of Christ. I am your groom, and now I am growing you and preparing you as the bride. And it just I was like, because I haven't seen myself like that.
I'm not even there anymore. He's grown me up so much, and you know why? Serving, saying yes to him, being obedient even when I know there's nothing in me. And I went, Mariah. She goes, what?
I said, the Lord just told me something. You wanna know what it was? She goes, yeah. He just told me I was the kid and now I'm the bride. She's like, Oh my gosh, that's so beautiful.
In the car ride, y'all. He'll speak to you wherever you let him speak. That's because I recognize that I am my beloveds. Part 3, reproduce. Action.
This is action. So if I know him and I'm in a relationship with him, then I can reproduce what I see him doing, and that's saying I love you back to God. If you want to come to church every week and listen to a message and leave and do nothing with what the Lord has poured in, then that's not relationship. Church is not a funeral home. I'm sorry.
We do not come here and talk about a really cool guy and how amazing he was and leave and do nothing. Church should be like a "birthing center" where we celebrate life, and when we leave, it's just the beginning. And this is where you'd learn in a safe place to be able to receive and love God's people because we are family. Out there isn't family, but they're gonna be family. People not giving, people not serving, it's just taking.
Taking, taking, taking. If you are serving and get offended or feel like you are doing more than someone else, so pitiful, you're not serving. You're taking. It is self motivated. That is consumer relationship and not covenant relationship.
There is no such thing as a consumer servant in the kingdom of God. Only covenant. Only covenant. If you wanna know more about that because it is amazing, it is the most such a powerful message. Pastor David John Phillips preached on that in part 6.
So go back and look for part 6 in the I love you series. People, that's not giving, that's taking, and that's not Jesus. I'll also love when pastor David said recently in that message, if all you are doing is sucking from your local church, then you are exploiting it. But I say, you're exploiting her because the church is the body of Christ. Colossians-1:18 says, and he is the head of the body, the church, and in everything he might be preeminent.
He is first, not me and not you. Everything that we do is out of what he has already done in us, so we just reproduce. Easy peasy. If you're not in a relationship with Jesus, you can't reproduce. And evidence of a intimacy, intimate relation with blah blah.
Evidence of an intimate relationship with Jesus is going to look like serving the church, an intern that says, I love you back to God. So reproduction is a process, and there are times when reproduction is really fun. Can I get an amen? But there are times that it's super painful, we press into him and his promises because we know that the outcome is new life. Right, Courtney?
She got a baby in the belly. Do you feel empty like you're giving and giving and just don't have anything left? We get like that. Then get with the Lord. He alone is your source, not your pastor, not your spouse, not the people in the world.
Their opinion doesn't matter. He showed me recently that as I spend time with him in his word worshiping, he's continually filling me up. And because I am filled up, there is no there is a constant overflow, and that's what splashes out onto the body of Christ and onto the world. See, I had this mindset of I get in the presence of God, I get filled up, and then I go serve. I serve, serve, serve, serve, serve, serve until I get empty.
And then what do you do? You go back to God, and you're like, Lord, fill me up, Lord, fill me up. Right? And he fills you up because you have to sing it like that. He fills you up, then you're like, okay, I'm ready, and you go and pour out.
Holy Spirit said, no. I never intended for you to be empty. He said, I want you in my presence. I want you to let me fill you up all the time, and I am so full that he is just overflowing, out of the overflow, out of the abundance, I am able to serve because even in my serving, I'm looking at him. And before I know it, I'm scrubbing toilets, praise the Lord.
I'm out there greeting people when I didn't even know I even liked people. I mean, that's out of the abundance, out of the overflow. My job is to stay in his presence. If you're exhausted and in need, go to the **living water** because if you're going to all those other places, you're drinking some "dead water", some dead diseased water, and it will not satisfy you. In loving the church, obedience, and serving, you will be filled by the Lord.
*Hebrews-10:24* and 25, and let us consider how to stir 1 another up in love and good works, not neglecting to meet together as is in the habit of some, but encouraging 1 another and all the more as you see the day drawing near. Did you hear my knees crack? Nothing should ever come out of our mouths that is not encouraging or lifting 1 another up. I just wanted to throw that in there. Any negative thing that comes out of your mouth towards the body of Christ or towards anybody is the works of the devil.
There is no such thing as sarcasm in that. That is a tactic of the enemy. We should be speaking positive, good, loving things to the body, and that's it. Not negative. Let's not let's not be that.
Love looks like something. James-2:15 through 17, if a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food and 1 of you says to them, go in peace, be warm and filled, Jesus' name, without giving them the things they need for the body. What good is that? So also faith without works is dead. Serving the body of Christ is evidence of your relationship with him.
I think about people like Loretta Keith, y'all, if y'all knew Loretta. She's in the nursery now. If you knew Loretta before she really was serving Jesus, she served and got transformed. I can't help but smile when I think about her. Mary Krueger, I bet a lot of you don't even know who she is.
She sacrificially serves in a backroom every week, every service to make sure all of this techie stuff that I don't understand, to make sure all of this is done well. A sacrifice. Jackie Thomas, she's another 1. *God* radically moved in her life when she started serving. She serves in church.
She serves her community. She says, God, I want to do whatever you want me to do. I love it. That's the fruit of *relationship* with God. That's the fruit of saying, Not my will, Lord, but your will.
Veronica, always back there. I don't even know she's been in the service. She works tirelessly with our kids, even on her days off when we have to call her because nobody wants to show up. She says, I'm there. I'll serve.
By the way, we need some help in children's church. *God*'s leading you, sign up. Be obedient. These people served passionately, and like I have seen lives radically changed in my life, and my life is 1 of them, and so many others when they decided to serve in the church and in ministries. Really quickly, had when I first came to Real Church, I was asked to greet, and I'm like, I don't like people.
And if you've been here any amount of time or been in any of the women's small groups, you already know this because they love to tell this testimony for me, and I love it because it's good. But, you know, I didn't want to look bad to the pastor and his wife who I just met, so I'm like, okay, I'll serve. I started serving and found out that I love people. I never knew that because I believed a lie that said, This is just my personality, and I can speak to this because I was there. So I pray that this gives you revelation because if you're still doing it, you're doing it out of disobedience because God loves people.
*God* loves people. I literally did this. I'm serving, and I'm like, I love people. Like, who would have thought I love people? I love people.
I got up the first time I preached and I was like, and I didn't even plan on I'm like, I love people! I love you guys! I wanted to hug the whole Clearwater High School that was there. I didn't know that about me. It it was like learning a new me.
It's so good. That's what God wants to do in you. Everywhere you go, serve. Love looks like something. It's action.
So I hear the words saying over and over, give, love first, serve, lay down your life, sacrifice, show love indeed and truth, give your life as a ransom, "die to self", stir 1 another to love, and in good works, love as Christ does. I don't see anywhere where Jesus took. I see nowhere where Jesus took. *God* gave his son. The only took that I saw was Jesus Christ took your pain, your death, your suffering, your insecurities, your depression, every bad thing Jesus took on the cross so that you could have life.
People of God, church is a wellspring of life. This isn't a guilt message. This is a life message. I'm so passionate, and so is pastor David, and so is God about you having life. If the body of Christ is sick and thirsty, how can we be used for the Lord in the world?
*Galatians-2:20 says, I've been crucified* with Christ. It's no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me and the life I now live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I'm not sure if you know this or not, but this life right now that you're living, not about you. Not about you. Just isn't.
*1 Peter-4:10*, as each has received a gift, use it to serve 1 another as good stewards of God's varied grace. *John-13:34*, a new commandment I give to you that you love 1 another just as I have loved you. You also are to love 1 another. This is my last story, promise. It's the best 1.
So January 5 was my birthday, and it was a good birthday. And I had a but by the end of the day, realized I was so sad. And I'm like, what is wrong with me? You know, and I'm getting on to myself thinking, girl, you're so selfish, you know, and what? And so 1 of my friends called me, and I'm not gonna say who it was because the Lord specifically wants you to understand how much he loves you because this was God.
And 1 of my friends called me and was talking to me about my birthday, and I'm like, oh, it's been good. She was telling me happy birthday, and I'm like, I'm so sad. And she's like, why? And I'm like, I don't know. I mean, I don't know if it's because right after Christmas and all this stuff and you wait for your birthday because that's the only day of the year you get to be special until you find out somebody else has the same birthday.
But I didn't know why, but I just knew there was something in me that God wanted to heal in me. I just knew that just I had a heaviness. And so then my parents were, like, FaceTiming me, you know, because they all have to call and sing happy birthday in that really weird, like, out of tune, crazy, whatever way they have, and so I'm like, hey, I gotta go. So I get off the phone because you gotta go ahead and answer the call, but it's good because you love it because it makes you smile. But I get off the phone and all of a sudden, I get this text and it says, hey, if you could have anything that you wanted for your birthday, if you could ask God for anything, what would it be?
I'm like, Oh, that's a good 1. I'm gonna have to say I'm gonna have to give a good answer. So I took a while. I'm like, I gotta think I only have 1, so I gotta think, What is the best thing? What can I have?
And I'm thinking, Oh, like this, and some of it was material stuff because I want some material stuff, you know, and that's okay, but I'm like, No. And I'm trying to think is what is the 1 thing that can encompass everything that I desire? I was like, I got it. I want I said, I wanna this isn't my exact text, but I said, I wanna love like Jesus loves because if I love like Jesus loves, then I know the love of Jesus because I can't love like Jesus loves unless I know his love fully, and then there'll be no more pain, no more regret of the past, no more shame, no more fear, no more of anything. And I'm like, I just wanna love like Jesus loves.
I'm like, okay. Send it. Nothing. I'm like, she ain't gonna reply. A while later, I get the reply.
She says, the catch is he wants to give all of that to you. And when she said that to me, it just like, he wants he wants to give all of that to me. And I just cried, and I'm like, ugh. And I texted her. I'm like, girl, that just wrecked me.
Thank you so much. And I'm crying, and I'm telling my husband about it, and I'm like, he wants to give me everything. And then all a sudden, I get another text from her, and it says, Happy birthday. Love Jesus, your groom. And I lost it then, and I texted her and I'm like, Jesus has oh my gosh, Jesus has never said I love or happy birthday to me before.
Like, that's the craziest thing. Like, I needed to hear I love you from I mean, I needed to hear happy birthday from Jesus. And immediately when she said that, happy birthday from your groom, it healed so much in me. It filled whatever was broken in me. And I promise you, because I know this person, that person got off the phone and said, God, what do you want me to say to her?
And she asked a question, and it brought me great deliverance, and I promise you, it brought her probably even more joy to be able to have being obedient to God, have that opportunity to love and to serve in that kind of a way. This is obedience to God and serving the body and saying, I love you back to God, which she did. And this person was so blessed. How do we say, I love you back to God? The worship team, you guys can come up if you want to.
How do we say I love you back to God in the church? In a nutshell, we lay down our life for her. Jesus gave everything, therefore, so that you could have everything, so we produce what we see Jesus doing in scripture. I just wanna ask you, in obedience and serving, does your life tell a story of I love you back to God in the church? Did he speak to you this morning in this message?
If so, respond to his drawing and experience his fullness in him and watch in awe what he will do in your life, and soon you will be giving your same testimonies that I'm giving because love looks like something. Father, I just thank you for today. I thank you, God, for your word. I thank you, Lord, that when we don't even expect it that you show up, that your desire is to passionately love us and for us to be free of ourselves so that we can love and serve, Lord, the way you loved and serve us. Father, I thank you that you spoke to your people, and, Lord, I pray that you would prepare them just to respond to whatever it is, however you want them to respond to you.
We thank you, Lord, in Jesus' name.
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