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Leon Fontaine | The Great Exchange | June 9, 2021
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- -ANNOUNCER: World-renowned speaker, CEO of Miracle Channel,
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- and Senior Pastor of one of Canada's fastest growing
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- churches, Leon Fontaine is passionate about teaching you
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- how to tap into the incredible power of Holy Spirit.
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- - Now from drive-in church in Winnipeg, Canada,
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- here's Leon Fontaine.
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- -LEON FONTAINE: Jesus arose from the grave. He arose
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- victorious over the sin, the curse of the law, the power of
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- the enemy. He rose victorious and I want to talk about that,
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- but I want to talk about it in kind of a different way today.
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- You know, Jesus it says in John 10:10 that we could have life
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- and that we could have it more abundantly incredibly. But to do
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- that, there was a great exchange. And probably one of
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- the greatest truths to mankind is this great exchange that took
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- place. We know that Jesus was our representative. He was our
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- substitute in the making of this new covenant. And probably one
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- of the greatest miracles that has ever been on this planet is
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- this miracle of Jesus rising from the grave and giving you
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- and I new life. In John 10, it talks about this new life, this
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- abundance. Now, as we look at God's Word, I want to deal with
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- eight different things that I call our part. It's not a
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- limited. It's just eight of them. There's so much in the
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- Scripture that shows this exchange that took place between
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- Jesus and us. Now, you have to understand. That when you gave
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- your life to Jesus Christ, you had to believe in your heart
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- that God raised Jesus from the dead. You understand that
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- without the empty tomb, without Jesus coming back to life, that
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- we don't have new life. And so as we look at this, I pray that
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- you'd get a revelation of this great exchange. Now, I'll give
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- you an example. The first great exchange is Jesus got our sin.
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- We get His righteousness. In 2 Corinthians 5:21, "He made Him
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- who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the
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- righteousness of God in Him." One of the greatest problems
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- with believers today who think they understand faith, is that
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- they continue to use their faith to try to get something from God
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- and that's a complete misuse of faith. See, to try to get
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- something from God denies the finished work of Jesus. We're
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- not trying to get it from God. We're receiving something He
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- already gave. This is crucial to understand. People say, "Oh,
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- that's just, you know, splitting His trust." No, this is crucial
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- to use your faith. Oh, God, God. Please, God. I'm believing in
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- Jesus name. So many people would tell me, "I've got faith. I knew
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- of -," And they don't understand faith at all, because they don't
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- understand the finished work of Jesus and the great exchange
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- that took place. These eight things I'm about to go through,
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- they are not something you have to get. It's a done deal. The
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- exchange took place. You only need to believe and receive.
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- Jesus got your sin 2000 years ago, precedent and your sins you
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- haven't even committed yet. 2000 years ago He got them. We get
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- His righteousness. And until you get a revelation of the great
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- exchanges that took place here. You are going to always be
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- working in your own effort to try to get something from God.
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- This righteousness the Bible says is a gift. You know, so
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- many people, and I'm going to give you a statement that so
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- many preachers used. I want to just tear apart for a minute.
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- You hear people say this all the time. "I'm just a sinner saved
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- by grace." Now, I know what they mean. They're trying to say
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- they're not perfect but they're saved. But by saying you are a
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- sinner, you are saying that this work of grace never took. The
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- Bible doesn't say to the sinners in Galatia, to the sinners in
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- Rome, to the sinners in Corinth, to the sinners at so and so's
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- house. He always says to the saints. It shows that we have
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- been born again and we are righteous. Now we know that
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- there are things that we still do that are wrong. We know that
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- we sin. We know. The Bible says whatever is not of faith is sin.
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- To him that knoweth to do good, and doesn't do it. It's sin. If
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- you just think it in your heart, it's sin. But none of those
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- things should control us when we realize we're not sinners saved
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- by grace. I am born again and I have this gift of righteousness.
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- Which leads me to the second thing, that is a great exchange
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- between Jesus and you. Jesus got your sin nature. You and I get
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- His divine nature. Oh, my! You've had a nature changed if
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- you've been born again. The Bible says in 2 Peter 1:4, "For
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- by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent
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- promises, in order that by this you might become partakers of
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- the divine nature." This old nature. The old man died with
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- Jesus on the cross. And when Jesus rose again, you get to be
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- a partaker of the divine nature. What an incredible exchange. The
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- third great exchange. Jesus received our name the Son of
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- man. We get to use of His name which carries all authority.
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- It's literally the power of attorney that we get with the
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- name of Jesus. In Act 3:6-8, it shows one of many examples of
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- Peter turning and using not his name. He used Jesus' name and
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- boom! A miracle took place, as these legs were healed. Jesus
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- took the name the Son of man and in exchange you get to use the
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- name of Jesus. A fourth great exchange the Bible tells us
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- about is Jesus got our sickness and disease. We get His healing.
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- If you struggle with disease or sickness in any way. This is
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- something that you need to understand. That Jesus got it.
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- He took it. He was inflected with it. And as He took that, He
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- exchanged His health, His healing, His vitality for your
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- body, your mind. In 1 Peter 2:24, it says, "And He Himself
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- bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin
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- and live to righteousness, for by His wounds you were healed."
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- If you ever need healing in your physical body, healing in your
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- mind. This healing is already been given to you in the great
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- exchange when Jesus died on that cross. He took every sickness.
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- God knows your future. God knows what sickness that you might
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- struggle with, and those diseases and sicknesses Jesus
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- took. And in this great exchange, He exchanged His
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- health and His healing. It literally says in the Word of
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- God that if the same Spirit that raised Christ's body that rotted
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- in the grave for three days, that it will make your body
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- alive. It just makes healing just explode when you begin to
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- realize that you're not trying to use your faith to get God to
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- heal you. Healing has been given to you in the great exchange and
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- you just yield and rest and believe and thank Him. And you
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- just basically receive what is already been given. God's not
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- going yes or no. He's not making the decision. He's not delaying
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- healing. He is not putting sickness on to teach you
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- anything. In the great exchange He took all of the sickness and
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- disease. We get His healing. Number five, a fifth great
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- exchange that took place. Jesus got our poverty. We get His
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- prosperity. This stuns many religious people. Now, it says
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- here in 2 Corinthians 8:9, "For you know the grace of our Lord
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- Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He
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- became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich."
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- In Philippians 4:19, "But my God shall supply all your needs
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- according to His riches, not according to your needs,
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- according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus." God has never
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- been opposed to His people having wealth and riches and to
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- meet every need abundantly and to provide you with so much that
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- you can finance His kingdom, His church. Now, there is a talk
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- that goes across some religious circles about the prosperity
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- Gospel. And I agree that for, for every truth in the Bible,
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- there's two miles of ditch. And one of them is people using that
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- to focus on money, focus on success, and that becomes their
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- God. No. Matthew 6 aptly says Jesus teaches us, you seek first
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- His kingdom and all these other things are added to you as
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- benefits. Never pursue wealth. Never listen to preachers or
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- people who say that if you give, He's going to remove your debt.
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- If you give, they say he's going to give you a hundred-fold
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- return. We understand these teachings in the Word. But
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- they'll take them out of context in order to literally
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- manipulate people. But you need to know that one of
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- the great exchanges is that Jesus got our poverty.
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- We get in exchange His prosperity.
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- [Theme Music]
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- -ANNOUNCER: We'll be right back with more from Leon Fontaine.
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- [Theme Music]
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- -ANNOUNCER: Do you know how faith works?
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- Many Christians are living their lives, trapped in shame.
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- They think that if they only believed or tried harder,
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- they'd see more miracles. If that sounds familiar,
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- this series by Leon Fontaine is for you.
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- Learn the secret to fighting your giants,
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- how you can speak over your future,
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- and how you can suit up in the armour of God.
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- -LEON: I hope you're enjoying the Word today. I want to send
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- you this series on the weapons of faith. You know, it fits so
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- powerfully into what I'm teaching about right now. And as
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- you dovetail this teaching and listen to it over and over
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- again, with this understanding of the heart, man. Can you walk
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- as a man or a woman of great faith. For a gift of $30 or
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- more, I want to send it to you. Join us right now, as a family,
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- a team, that's making a difference on this planet.
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- -ANNOUNCER: It's time to take up your weapon
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- and fight the good fight of faith.
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- Get your copy of "Weapons of Faith" today.
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- [Theme Music]
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- -LEON: The sixth great exchange is that Jesus got our curse. The
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- curse of the law. We get the blessings of Abraham. When you
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- look at the blessings of Abraham. Oh, man! All of the
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- physical needs. All of the things you desire, an incredible
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- quantity in blessing. In Galatians 3:14, "Christ has
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- redeemed us from the curse of the law." And then it goes on to
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- say, "So the blessing and the promise of the Spirit through
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- faith." This is interesting. This is fascinating. That this
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- curse, and that when you read the curse of the law in
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- Deuteronomy 28:15 and on. It's gross. It's brutal. It's ugly.
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- He became the curse and in exchange we got the blessings of
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- Abraham. The seventh thing that we see as a great exchange. It
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- says Jesus was forsaken as a Son so that we can become sons of
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- God. In Matthew 27:46, "Jesus cried out with a loud voice and
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- He said, 'My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?'" Because
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- Jesus became sin. He could sense this pulling away of the Father
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- as Jesus became the most evil thing that ever died if He took
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- the sin of the world. And so He was forsaken as a Son. And
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- today, we all when we give our lives to Jesus Christ, are sons
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- and daughters of the most high God. In John 1:12, it says, "But
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- as many as received Jesus, to them He gave the right to become
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- children of God, even to those who believe on His name." In
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- Romans 8:14-17, we are joint heirs with Jesus. The eighth
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- great exchange. Jesus experienced rejection from the
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- Father's presence. We received His fellowship with the Father.
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- In 1 John 1:3-4, that you also may have fellowship with us,
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- indeed Jesus is saying, our fellowship is with the Father,
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- with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you
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- that your joy may be full. Do you know what an astonishing
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- thought is? Is that Jesus and the Father, all right. Now,
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- people in doctrine struggle with this. But Jesus and the Father
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- were separated for three days after Jesus died on the cross.
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- This, this awful separation is probably why Jesus was agonized
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- about. It wasn't the physical death. It was this separation
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- from Father God. Physical death is when your physical body dies.
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- Spiritual death is when you're separated from the Father. And
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- the Bible tells us in Hebrews 9:11-14, that there was three
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- days that Jesus was in the grave. When you and I understand
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- that we no longer approach God as this poor sinner hoping that
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- we can talk into something. And when you bank your faith on
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- that, something is just wrong and Christians' struggle.
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- They'll say, "Well, I understand faith." No. This is only eight
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- of tons of things the Bible talks about. That there was an
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- exchange. Jesus took this awful side of us and then in exchange
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- we got this beautiful side of Him. This great exchange is
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- done. And so stop thinking that you've got to be good enough to
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- get it. Jesus lived a perfect life to give you a gift of
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- righteousness because you are in right standing with God. You no
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- longer use your faith to try to convince Him, try to get it from
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- Him. In fact, the Bible says come boldly into the throne room
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- of grace that you can obtain mercy and find help. It's not a
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- throne room of judgment. It's not a throne room of works. It
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- is God's grace in your life, and I pray this will help you. That
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- it is so easy to believe God for things. Now someone say, "It's
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- so hard to get into faith." Well then, you're just faith in the
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- head. You just got this external human limited faith because the
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- faith of Jesus Christ is to see what Jesus did. The finished
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- work of the cross. That He died on the cross. He fulfilled the
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- law. The law was nailed to that cross. He took your sin. He took
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- the curse. He died and He went to the grave in your place. He
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- went to hell in your place. Then He rose again. And when you
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- rose, when He rose, you rose with Him. And later when He went
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- up, up into heaven to be seated at the right hand to the Father.
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- It says we are seated with Jesus at the right hand to the Father.
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- So how dare we say after we've become born again, "I'm just a
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- sinner." No, there's not a sinner seated with Jesus. You
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- and I are seated with Him. You need to see yourself because of
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- Jesus and this great exchange that took place. That you are
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- the righteousness of God in Christ. That He looks at us with
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- this beautiful longing as a Father. You know, when my five
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- kids were born and every stage they go through. Whenever we'd
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- have get together now when they're grown up. I just love to
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- watch their lives develop. When they were little, I understand
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- biology and physiology and I'd taken it for my training. But
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- when that little baby was learning to crawl, I could sit
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- there with Sal on the couch, with a cup of coffee, my feet
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- up, and just watched their little hands learned to hold the
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- rattle, or get up and make that first step. I was intrigued with
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- them. I was so interested in them. I was fascinated by them.
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- I was in love with them. They were significant to me. I valued
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- them so highly. And that is what God does when He looks at you.
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- He doesn't see a dirty, rotten, good for nothing sinner. So low
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- down that who-ha my guess will help you out. That is such a -,
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- That's a religious picture of you and it's destroying your
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- faith. You my friend. God is in love with you, interested in
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- you. He is watching you. He's excited about you. He loves
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- everything that you're attempting to do. He's excited
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- to see you learn the Word, to learn to use your faith. He's
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- excited to see you rise up and have a go, and He's going to be
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- right there with you to help you. Let's lose this
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- religiosity. Let's lose this religious, "Well, I'm just
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- nobody." Says who? Let's not deny what Jesus did for you. He
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- died in your place. He took the curse. Okay, for Jesus Christ
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- Himself to howler out, "My God, why have You forsaken Me?" To
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- have to have that separation, to know the curse that we should
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- have had. The sin that took, removed from us, and He arose to
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- give us a new life. What a crazy thing to say I'm not worth it. I
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- remember telling a story about this and using this analogy. You
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- know, if you're a farmer and all of your friends around you are
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- farmers. One day, you know, you're too sick to really get up
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- and seed all your property. And so your friends they come over
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- with their seeders and all the new technology. And all your
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- farmland, they work night and day having to seed all their
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- property and they come and then they plant all your fields with
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- the grain that you need because maybe you're sick in bed. And
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- then when harvest time comes and you're better now and you can go
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- harvest this beautiful fields that your neighbors planted for
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- you. While they're out harvesting and harvest is now
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- over. And none of your stuff was harvested. And they go, "What
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- are you doing? It's all ruined. Why didn't you harvest it?" And
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- you go, "Well, you know, you guys were so special and all the
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- days and weeks you put in to help me up. I just didn't feel
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- right harvesting it. I just felt too low. I just felt that it
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- really wasn't my place to harvest where I haven't
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- planted." And they're going to look at you and be angry. Why?
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- Because they gave days and money and weeks of their life to come
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- in. And I wonder sometimes when God sent His own Son for you and
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- He died in your place and He took your sin. The curse of the
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- law that should have been yours, went to the grave on your
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- behalf, to hell on behalf of you. Then He rises again. And
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- you go, "Oh, golly, shucks, gee. I'm just a poor sinner saved by
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- grace. I'm really nothing." It just, it makes you kind of go,
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- "What in the world is wrong with you?" God is so in love with
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- you. He values you so highly. Let's get rid of whatever
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- religious thinking you've been raised with. Some of you have
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- been raised in decades of religious preaching and it has
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- sabotaged this love that you should feel for God. How can you
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- sense and feel God's love unless you believe it. I gave an
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- analogy in one of our series. That if God was to look over the
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- planet and find the wife that is the most in love with her
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- husband. And let's say that He picks my wife Sally, and she is
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- just so in love with me. I'm glad she is. But I come home and
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- she goes, "Hi, I love you." And I don't believe it. So I go,
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- "Yeah, right." Leon, I'm so proud of you, man. I love you as
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- my husband. Yeah, right. Like, stop just acting and pretending.
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- And every time she tries to show me her love. Every time she
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- tries to do something or tell me that she loves me and I refused
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- to -, You see, if I don't believe she loves me. I cannot
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- receive her love. And so, so many of you if you've been
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- raised in religion. God is in love with you and He is loving
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- you. But you'll never experience that love till you begin to
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- believe that love. The reason the Word of God is so crucial.
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- The reason you need Holy Spirit every day to be your best
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- friend, to ask Him to be, tell Him to be. He'll teach you the
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- Word and you will begin to believe what is true about you.
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- And once you believe the truth about you. That truth sets you
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- free into a life you've never experienced before. These things
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- I'm talking about today with the great exchange are done. Jesus
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- has done a finished work. He is seated at the right hand to the
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- Father. Stop begging and pleading with Him. It's done,
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- and it's yours and faith receives it. Sometimes we get
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- power mixed up with force. You don't have to forcefully reach
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- up and take it away from him. No, power just rest in Him.
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- Father, I pray today. That every person listening to this message
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- will realize that this great exchange has literally given to
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- us all things that pertain to life and Godliness. I pray that
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- their faith would flow easily. That they would believe You for
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- things that would just come so effortlessly as they realize
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- it's already been exchanged. We just need to receive it. I pray
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- that every person watching will be touched and take this message
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- and drive it home in their hearts. For those who are
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- watching right now. If you don't know Jesus Christ as your
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- Saviour. I don't mean, you could have gone to church all your
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- life, could have read lot of the Bible. If you've never believed
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- on Jesus and asked Him to come into your life. Then as I've
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- been speaking something inside of you is stirring. That's Holy
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- Spirit. That's God's Word causing faith to rise up in you.
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- And right now you need to receive Him. You need to choose
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- Him. Just say right now, pray out loud if you're alone. If
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- you're in a busy crowded room, then just pray between yourself
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- and God. Just say, "Jesus, come into my heart. Come into my
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- life. I choose You. I give myself to You. I want to know
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- You. Thank You for giving me Your power every day for the
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- rest of my life. In Jesus' name, amen." Welcome to God's family.
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- That's how powerful, how beautiful that is.
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