Real Salvation works for everyone! When it is tested, proven, when the price is paid and conditions met, there’s a guarantee that it will work. Seminary is all about making people feel good. If you are going to get saved, you have to feel bad first. No one ever got saved by repeating sentences, singing Amazing Grace, or joining church!

The devil is religious. There is only one way to get saved. You cannot get saved when YOU want to.

No man cometh to the Father…… Unless I draw

The working of Christ in the Salvation of mankind is not a program. It is instantaneous, but it is a work. It can only be gotten God’s Way! The very thing you do not want to give up, is what He wants.

II Cor 7: 8-10 Paul’s letter to the Corinthians…..he said, Though I made you sorry….. Not many preachers are making people sorry.

Godly sorrow – is a sorrow that God produces….worketh repentance (to turn away from)

Not a sorrow to please people. You cannot be casually sorry. Real Salvation comes after Godly sorrow.

Joel 2:12-13 Rend (tear) your heart and not your garments….. Turn with your heart weeping and mournings…..

There is no Salvation without a broken spirit and a contrite heart! Prisons may capture and hold individuals, but the spirit is not broken.

A broken spirit – when you lose all hope of doing what you want to do. Many are not preaching this. They will tell you “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved.” you cannot believe, unless you have a broken spirit.

Some sinners do not know that they are sinners – but they can justify all of their actions.

Ps 38:1-2 Thine arrows stick fast….. A sinner can be in the depth of sin and God comes along with His arrow…when you have been shot with the arrow of the Lord, you will hate your sins. You will bid your friends farewell! Try having fun and you will feel the press (the Love and Mercy of God). His arrows will cause the soul to cry out “I NEED GOD!!! When you get to the place of feeling like you cannot even stand yourself – then you are a good candidate, to meet the conditions of getting saved.

God is angry at sin!

A broken spirit and a contrite heart – No fear, no grace! Most people, because of the condition that sin have them in, are on a collision course! If you love your sins, you are not a Christian or even in the place to become one.

There is no scientific formula to getting saved! The is no Salvation without a broken spirit and a contrite heart!

We thank God for His help during these meetings. Both nights we had eight visitors (no repeats). Please pray for these souls that came out and for the city of Muncie.

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On Friday night Bro. Ray preached a powerful message on “The soul that sinneth, it shall die!” He began by saying “Thank God, that we have a real God, in a real world, Who can fix real problems. Christianity is not a mere profession of faith, or a lifestyle. It is more than theology.

Gen 3:1 The serpent said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said…..? God is not confusing in His statements. This question was the beginning of real trouble for the human race; the downfall of the creatures God created.

Political committees, church committees, Washington D.C., are all looking for remedies

to fix the effects of what happened in the Garden of Eden. Sunday morning preachers with religious narcotics, are trying to aid sinners, without dealing with the real issues.

Jesus came to deal with the real issues!

The serpent said “…ye shall not surely die.” This is the beginning of all false doctrine, the very root of it. In direct contradiction to what Almighty God said, the serpent continued “….for God doth know…..” The devil is telling the same lie in 2012. “God knows…He understands….” Pulpits on Sunday morning are repeating the same lies. They make sin synonymous to Christianity.

We have bumper stickers that read “I’m not perfect, just forgiven; I’m a sinner saved by Grace; We all sin” – This is a cleaned up version of what the serpent told Eve in the garden.

Ezekiel 18:4 – Behold, all souls are mine….the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Regardless of what television false preachers are saying, – The Bible said it, if you are a sinner, you are dead.

One sin – Ate a fruit…This separated them from God. Changed the nature of beast and mankind, all because of one sin. Sin is not a misdemeanor! It is a felony against Almighty God.

We believe as we do, because the Bible has undeniable facts and speaks so well of the times we are living in (a statement Bro Ray gave to a Mormon, and a Hindu man, while traveling abroad)

Romans 7: 14 – 25 Paul speaks here of a condition he WAS once in! It is not HUMANLY possible to live above sin. On your own you will sin again. To will is present…You may say “I’ve got the will…(to get saved) – You cannot get saved with a good will! How to perform…I find not! – This is the condition of every soul that is NOT in Christ. Paul speaks of the Law (Mosaic) – The law taught me right from wrong, but the law could not help my condition. But to find the power, the ability to perform, to do what you know….O’ wretched man that I am (and he WAS before he met Christ) Who shall deliver me….

(vs 25) I THANK GOD! Through JESUS CHRIST…. (Who was able to deliver Paul)

Continue reading right on into the next chapter…(Chapter 8:1) There is therefore NOW, (he was speaking of his condition above, as BEFORE)….no condemnation!!! (Thank God!)

Romans 8:3 – For what the Law could not do…..God sending His Own Son….condemned sin in the flesh! THAT IS BEAUTIFUL! Being saved is a miracle!

You cannot get saved joining church, or singing Amazing Grace! Being saved gives you the power to do what you want to do. I found the power to do right and NOT wrong!

I John 3: 8 – He that committeth sin IS OF THE DEVIL… For the devil sinneth from the beginning. FOR THIS PURPOSE, the Son of God was manifested…. Jesus came to DESTROY sin (the works of the devil). Bro Ray – I had issues BEFORE I got saved. King Jesus went to war with king sin, in my life and HE WON!!! I am a recipient of His great Love and Mercy!

Vs 9 – Whosoever is born of God DOTH NOT COMMIT sin. Whosoever doeth not righteousness IS NOT OF GOD!

Romans 6:14 – For sin shall NOT have dominion over you. Bumper stickers should say “WAS a sinner” You cannot be free and bound at the same time.

Ephesians 1:19-23 – …exceeding greatness of His power…Jesus did no sin, knew no sin!

(Vs 21) – Far above all principality and power and might and dominion…. This is the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Continue reading to Chapter 2:1- 6 – AND YOU…this means you and I….hath He quickened who WERE dead in trespasses and sins. …..in times PAST….we all HAD our conversation IN TIMES PAST….and WERE by nature…..BUT..

BUT GOD!!! WHO IS RICH IN MERCY……even when we WERE dead…..hath quickened together WITH CHRIST. From a dead sinner to a live Christian.

There is no scientific formula to becoming a Christian! It is a translation from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light! “I’m in a new world!” You cannot do wrong and stay alive. The wages of sin is death! If you are a sinner, you are not a Christian.

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Malachi 4:2

Revelation 8:12

Revelation 9:1-2-After Bro. Warner’s time, the gospel was again clouded by
compromise. If you have compromise, you can’t have the full light of the
sun. When it gets dark, there is chaos. People get sleepy. Night creatures
come out of hiding, because they feel comfortable in the absence of light.

John 3:18-21-Unholy people love spiritual darkness.

Nahum 3:17-False preachers are like grasshoppers. They don’t like it to be
hot. They eat living things. They will eat up your experience.

-At the pouring out of the fourth vial, the message heated up, and the
animals started running for cover. Ministers had become powerless in the
silence, but God gave their power back to them.

-If you speak against God’s message, you speak against Him. The purpose of
the burning was to make men repent, but they were scorched because they did
not want to repent.

-We need an experience that will not burn up, no matter how hot the message.
When the message comes forth, some are burned, and some healed. Some gnash
their teeth, and some rejoice. It is up to us how we react. We need the sun
to be hot. We have to love the sun.

In the evening, Bro. Benjamin preached to the parents on “Let the Children
Come.”

Matthew 19:13-15-There are many people who want their children to come to
the Lord, and yet are actually hindering them in coming.

Song of Solomon 1:6-Besides getting your own soul to heaven, your most
important responsibility is to get your children there. There are pastors
who work hard for their congregation, but allow their children to be lost.
There are missionaries who go to faraway places, but leave their own
children with unsaved people for the devil to get.

-We have to work for the future of the Church. (Not that the children are
the Church of the future, but they will live longer than we will. They are
the ones who will carry on the work.) We cannot have serious parents and
worldly children. They will not suddenly become spiritual when they are
older. We must keep the same standard for them as for the older saints. We
want them to go even further than us.

Ephesians 6:1-2-The children are depending on you to help them be obedient.
By teaching them to obey you, you are teaching them to obey God. We cannot
“count to four” before we require obedience, because God will not count to
four. We cannot allow them to say “Why?” to us. God does not always tell us
why. If children say “No!” to their parents, they will later say it to God.

-Sin does not just come out of the air, but it comes from the sinful heart.
Although young children cannot help it, they have within them the same
sinful nature that causes people to commit murder.

Proverbs 29:15,17-We cannot allow children to have their own way. Just to
live by your own will is enough to be eternally lost.

-There are two rules children need to learn:

Rule #1: The parent is always right.

Rule #2: If the parent is wrong, (see rule #1).

Thank the Lord for answering prayer and giving us another wonderful meeting.
Please pray that the word would not be lost, but would bear fruit in each of
the ones who heard it. We are very thankful to see what God has already
wrought in the Philippines, and are eagerly looking forward to seeing what
more He has in store for these islands.

Bro. Andrew Wiebe

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-Jesus and government are inseparable. You cannot preach Jesus without
preaching government.

-If we realize who God is and who we are, it will be natural to submit to
Him.

-Even though a man gives the message to us, it is still from God. The police
officer did not invent stop signs. He is just there to make sure you obey
them.

Isaiah 1:26-Before there can be general restoration, there must first be a
restoration of judges. There can be no progress without order.

Luke 19:14

Act 7:23, 27, 35-It’s not bad for someone to tell you what to do, as long as
God told them.

2 Peter 2:9-10

-God is taking you to heaven by the easiest way possible.

In the evening, Bro. Benjamin preached on “Not Bearing Them That Are Evil.”

Revelation 2:1-3-Babylon is Babylon because it bears them that are evil.

John 2:13-17-Although Jesus loved and died for them, He could not bear them
that were evil. Before He did most of His miracles, He first cleaned the
temple. He did not give it up as a lost cause; He had a burden to change it.
It is not wrong to be angry, as long as you are angry at sin. If we want to
be like Jesus, we have to do the same thing. Violence is part of the
Christian life. We preach, “Come out of Babylon,” but we must also preach,
“Get out of here!” to sinners, so that this will not become another Babylon.
Compromise spreads like rotten fruit. One compromiser, left alone, will make
more compromisers.

Revelation 2:14-Jesus had something against this congregation because of
whom they tolerated in their midst.

Matthew 13:47-50-The Gospel is like a drag net that moves along and gathers
everything in its path. Some of the things it catches are not worth keeping.
We love everyone, but not everyone is Church of God material.

Numbers 25:6-13-Like the man in these verses, most apostates are very bold.
Violence against evil brings peace with God.

Bro. Andrew Wiebe

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-There is a price for restoration. The devil will never give back anything
free. You will have to fight for it. The price keeps going up and we must
keep paying it. What are you willing to give up for the glory?

Isaiah 58:12-People are looking at the breaches in the wall as normal,
because they have been there for such a long time. But we are restoring
things all the way back to the very beginning.

Luke 1:16-17-The fire did not fall until Elijah restored the altar. People
are praying for revival, and, like the prophets of Baal, are getting no
answer, because you cannot have the fire until you restore.

Psalm 101:2, 6-We can’t force our children to be saved, but we can force the
devil out of our homes.

I Kings 1:5-6

In the evening, Bro. Benjamin preached on “Glorifying God in the Church”

Ephesians 3:14-21-Unlike us, God has a right to glorify Himself.

-You cannot praise God unless you are holy. God does not accept praise from
unholy people; He rather abhors it.

-Some people come to the Church of God to try to get some glory for
themselves.

It does not matter whether the preacher has been to college. All that
matters is that he can stay out of the way so God can get the glory. It is
not “Worthy is the preacher,” or “Worthy are the singers,” but “Worthy is
the Lamb!”

John 12:23-28-In this verse, Jesus, troubled in soul, resolves it by saying,
“Father, glorify Thy name.”

-If God notices that we are not giving Him the glory, He will get rid of us.

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-The Lamb does not stand alone. He always stands with the 144,000

Hebrews 10:16

Isaiah 8:18-Being part of the 144,000 is a miracle greater than rising from
the dead.

-It is not enough just to agree with the Lamb. You must stand with the Lamb,
and stand for everything He does, one thousand percent (one hundred percent
is good, but it is also very close to ninety-nine).

-Jesus does not date; he is looking for commitment.

When you get saved, God puts His name in your head. Not the letters, G-O-D,
but everything He is. Christ can have only one mind, so He gave us His.

John 17: 6, 8

Acts 13:22-People believe all kinds of false doctrine because they do not
have the name of God in their forehead.

Revelation 14:4

John 21:19-22- Jesus will take you where you do not want to go, to test
whether or not you will follow Him. Finally, He will lead you right into
heaven.

In the evening, Bro. Benjamin preached on “The Pearl of Great Price”

With salvation, you have to surrender in order to win.

Matthew 13:45-46-The man mentioned in these verses made it his business to
trade in pearls. It was not just his hobby. He was used to seeing pearls,
and he thought he had found some good ones. But then he found one pearl that
made all the others look bad. When you see the Church, you realize that
everything else is nothing.

Proverbs 23:23-You can never get the Truth, and still keep what you had
before.

Philippians 3:7- Although not everything that Paul had was intrinsically
wrong, it became wrong because it took the place of the Truth. Truth is not
Truth unless it is the whole Truth.

-The merchant man changed his vocation as soon as he bought the pearl. He
was no longer looking for another pearl. He became the poorest man and the
richest man at the same time: so poor that he could not afford anything
else, and so rich that he did not need anything else. Nothing else is worth
buying. God demands that we “put all our eggs in one basket.” You cannot get
to heaven with some eggs in your pockets and some in your hands. You have
trade all of your pearls for the one pearl.

Bro. Andrew Wiebe

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In the first service this morning Bro. Ray preached in continuance of the study on the Gospel Day on “Restoration – Harvest time”.
Rev 16:8
One of the marks of the true church in the evening time is that she has power to scorch men with fire and burn up what needs to be burnt up.
Rev 14:18
Revelation 14 talks about two harvests, the first one in Bro. Warners time, the second one in our time. Christ, the angel of the altar, crying with a loud cry to the 7th trumpet angel: Thrust in thy sharp sickle! Not Christ Himself but the angel is supposed to thrust the sickle.
We need to understand the urgency of thrusting the sickle. It is not the time to settle down and establish ourselves in this world.
Mt 13: 47
The harvest time is at the end of the season, at the end of the Gospel Day, the evening time.
There was a time during the Gospel Day when the Lord allowed tares to grow among the wheat, but the waiting time is finished now. This is the time to pull the net to the shore, get our hands in there and gather the good ones on the one side and the bad on the other side. God is anxious about this work to be done, because the wheat is suffering because of the tares. It takes the nutrients out of the ground and does not give anything back in return.
The church is doing better now than ever before because some were put out.
This is a wonderful time and a dangerous time. If we don’t pay the prize and choose to be a tare we cannot remain.

In the second service this morning Bro. Marcus Tovstiga preached on “The divine visitation through the church”.
Lu 19:41-44 Christ weeping over Jerusalem: Thou knewest not the time of thy visitation”
We came out of the terrible silence, apostacy, through a sudden divine visitation through the restoration, a personal visitation from God.
But many recognize or accept the vessel of this visitation only after it has passed away.
Mt 23:29-31 Christ says: Woe to you Wesleyans, Mennonites, Faith & Victory…
They hold to the name but reject the present truth, which proves that they would have also rejected the truth in the time of Wesley, Menno Simon, Bro. Warner …
Whenever God visits an individual through His church there is an immediate response from that individual, a critical moment – their own mind steps in – they miss the visitation.
They don’t understand one thing of the restoration and go back to their place where they have 1000 questions. The true reason for that: A hate for the light that God has sent for their deliverance (Jo 3:19-21).
Everyone who loves truth will end up here in the church of God.

Saints, we feel like the Lord has blessed this meeting and the saints abundantly. We are very thankful to Him, to the faithfulness of His angels and all of your prayers and ask the Lord to sweep over whole Europe to spread this wonderful restoration.

In His service,
Sis. Hariet Rampelt

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After a wonderful special singing (in german and english) with much rejoicing this morning, Sis. Joselle Manalastas preached on “Restoration”.
Haggai 1:2-4
Haggai had a burden for the building of the house of God, while the people of Israel were more concerned about their own houses.
We are in restoration time; it is time to built the house of God, not be comfortable with ourselves.
The Lord is coming back. Consider your ways. There is a great work to be done. Make use of your time!
Hag 1:7-8 “GO up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house…”
The Lord looks for people that have a burden to go and labour with a vision of what we’re doing.
Neh 6:2-3 “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease…”
There are some trials that are too low for us. Tell the devil, “Why should the work cease, I’m not coming down, this is low living!”
We need to keep up with this gospel; it is getting hotter and hotter.
The Lord wants more labourers, Restoration-Saints.

Right after morning service we had a streetmeeting in Bludenz; different ones stopped to enjoy the singing of the saints. The mayor really likes the saints having streetmeeting and came because he knew we would be there.

In the evening service, Sis. Doreen Tovstiga preached on “Wild grapes only?”.
Isa 5:1-2 “My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill…and he looked that it should bring
forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.”
God has done His part for this vineyard. He thought about it – a fruitful hill, fenced it, gathered out the stones, with the hope of good grapes. – What a disappointment! Wild grapes from choicest vines.
Outwardly they looked like good grapes, but when you looked closer, tasted them, they were sour, bitter… A “christian” – without power, just a form of good fruit.
John 15:5 “He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit”
If we profess to be a Christian, we need to hang on His vine and on His vine is only good fruit.
The fruit is necessary to confirm your profession.
The good fruit shows in a conduct, where the love of God flows out of the heart. Everything less than that is bad fruit.
Does what you show outside match the inside of your heart?

Sis. Hariet Rampelt

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This morning’s message was preached by Sis. Julia Anselm mainly on “Psalm 100″.
Vers 1: “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.”
God does not like silence. He enjoys joyful noise, and it is not only the saints but the whole world that should praise Him. But the people withhold from God the praise that He deserves.
Vers 2: “Serve the Lord with gladness…”
It is serving, not being served as many people these days want to, but not in a sad way, with joy!
Vers 3: “Know ye that the Lord he is God”
Your life shows if you know who God is. Man is to God like an ant compared to a man. Our service does not make God more perfect – nothing you do helps Him – if He has you or not does not make a difference, but if you have Him or not makes a big difference for you. You see that people do not know God because other things become their God.
People now laugh about the thought that people in the past thought that the earth was the center of the solar system and that everything else turned around it. Spiritually they actually still think the same way. Everything turns around them, their earth.
“it is he, that hath made us”
We are His. He hath the right to decide what to do with us, but man lives as if he hath made himself.
“we are his people”
We belong to Him. He is our king and when you got saved you had to put yourself under Him.
“sheep of his pasture”
A wonderful service, he leads us to green and fat pastures, but we need to follow. Follow where?
Vers 4: “Follow into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise…”
He leads all the sheep to the same place, into the court of the temple, the church of God. And why do sheep go into the court? To be slaughtered, to lose their head. All you have to say is amääähn.
Forget about any reward from your service. God does not have to bless you (though you will be happy in His service). But you shouldn’t expect anything, and then you will not be disappointed.
The saints really appreciated this message and said amääähn with joy. Bro. Ray said afterwards that this kind of message needs to be heard on a regular basis.

In the evening Bro. Ray taught on “The Silence”. He told us a lot of interesting details, names from the time of Bro. Warner up to our time.
We are living in the most excellent time of history. The church of God is the ONLY place that is increasing in number and in holiness – this is the greatest miracle.
Bro. Ray told us about Bro. Warner’s wonderful time of reformation first, but how the scripture says that this movement had a tail (Rev 9:19). He explained how they first lost their sharpness and down through time all their doctrine and living. He told us about the development of many splits and divisions and how Bro. Layne got saved in such a disastrous atmosphere of confusion. He went on with Bro. Layne’s experience as a preacher in Faith and Victory, his first trip to Germany, how other envious ministers forbid him to preach while others liked him, his coming out in 1988, Bro. Ray getting saved in 1989, Bro. Layne’s faithfulness in preaching hard though many people left.
No other minister had the sharpness and vision that God gave Bro. Layne. We are a product of the miracle-working power through him. His hard preaching made us what we are.
Rev 8:1 talks about the silence between Bro. Warner’s time and our time.
Rev 18:6 mentions two cups, the first cup consisted of the 3 angels (1-3) of Rev 16, that pour out the wrath of God, the second cup of the last 3 angels (5-7) of Rev 16. The first cup was the 6th trumpet, the second cup is the 7th trumpet. Bro. Layne was the principle vessel of the 4th angel in between (Rev 16:8), who reheated the message, that the silence had cooled off, and scorched the people.
The midnight cry (Mt 25), where did it come from? From someone that was not a part of the ten virgins that were asleep – Bro. Layne
Where did he go? First God sent him to the sleeping virgins, the remnant of Bro. Warner, and when they had rejected it, we came in! As Jesus mentioned in different places that salvation was for the jews, who where God’s people. After they rejected it, the Gentiles came in.
We can take the restoration and describe it out of the scriptures like Stephen described Christ.
The truth has a home, an abiding place, the church of God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
We need to know who we are, where we came from and how we got there.

Saints we are so thankful for what the Lord has already done in this meeting and we ask you to please pray for the weekend in Austria.

Sis. Hariet Rampelt

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Br. Ray felt the burden to do a bible study this morning, which was so wonderful. He taught on: “The Gospel Day”. If people are off on this point, they will be off on the very foundational doctrines of the Bible. In Genesis 1 we learn that the constitution of a day is morning and evening.
Hebrews chapter 4 puts the 7th day rest together with the entering into the land of Canaan, that God had promised to Abraham. But Canaan was not the entire fulfillment of Abraham’s promises, there was another day promised. God never failed in this and we are not a part of plan B, as many religious people think.
1Pt 1:10-12 The prophets preached unto us about this day and we possess all the good that they looked into from far. That’s the reason we rejoice.
Isa 4:1; Isa 66:7-8 We are living in the 7th day sabbath rest.
A whole nation was born in one day; we got saved the same day Paul got saved!
Mal 3:1-3 We find that these prophecies were fulfilled in the Gospel Day.
Mal 4:1-2 Jesus Christ, the sun, rose up in the morning time
All prophecy of the Bible ends on that day, there will not be any millennial reign after that.
Sach 14:6-7 in the evening time it shall be light – this is why we believe in a restoration
Scriptures that deal precisely with the evening time:
Rev. 14:15-18; 16:1-21; 18:1-6; 21:9-11; 15:1-8; 10:1-11

In the evening service Br. Rudolf Becker preached a message on the soul.
Gen 2:7 shows us that man was not created as the animals, not only as a body but also as a soul. The soul is the inward part of us. Thats what we really are.
You can be very poor outwardly but rich in your soul. You can have everything outwardly, but be very unsatisfied inwardly. Every sinner has a soul that is longing for God.
2Co 4:16-18;5:1-10
We faint not because we know there is something that will not perish but is renewed day by day.
There is a need to have a better sight for the invisible, that which is behind the outward things. Many trials lose their power if we learn to look on the things which are not seen.
Our relationships with the saints, our family, should be spiritual, soul to soul. True friendship is a spiritual connection. The reason, for example, that many have a problem with women in the ministry is that they look on the outside things. The saints look on the inside, when they ask you, how you are doing, they mean your spiritual condition.
Our burden is to take care of our soul first, so that we can be free from this earthly tabernacle to go home to our house which is in heaven.

We are VERY thankful for Waldemar Wirsum (a young man that had left the saints a few years ago), who got saved tonight.

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