[Music]
life is life life is is an interesting
journey of ups and downs
but how that journey ends is up to you
today you see when you fall down and you
feel like giving up when times get tough
it’s not the end the question is are you
going to finish strong the definition of
a disability is something that will
hinder you from being able to do
something I think though the greatest
disability is not having no arms and no
legs the greatest disability is your
mind the choices that you make the
question is are you going to make the
right choices are you going to make the
choice to have your life in it’s right
perspective are you going to make the
choice to get up instead of give up are
you going to make the choice to dream be
there is no greater disability that we
have in our life then to make the
decision to give up because once you
give up then there is no hope but until
my passion is to encourage people to
inspire people to be all that they can
be I found my purpose I found my
strength and I want you to find yours
don’t be afraid of failing every time
you fall down every time you fail you
learn something new you’re ready for the
next one you’ve learned how not to do
something well then learn from it and
move on leave what’s behind and press
forward you can only win if you don’t
give up go for it don’t let anything
hold you back
if nothing’s holding me back what’s
holding you back I heard a motivational
speaker tell you that attitude is
everything
I’ll bet you have I’ve heard many say
that in fact they’ll say something like
if you can believe it you can achieve it
and that never quite rang true with me
so I began to press the issue and I have
come the conclusion that attitude isn’t
everything now
I’m not disclaiming or in any way being
disparaging about attitude because I
think attitude is very important but if
anybody comes up to you tells you that
attitude is everything I don’t buy into
that that’s not true
for example attitude can’t replace in
confidence
if you’re incompetent you can be very
happy but you can still be very
unsuccessful
now here’s what I do know attitude isn’t
everything but attitude is the main
thing that’ll make a difference in your
life because I believe that I wrote the
book the difference-maker
you see that’s what attitude is attitude
is the difference maker you have two
people side by side that you’re thinking
about employing in your company both of
them have the same background same job
description education experience I mean
you could almost flip a coin in second
hire the wet one on the right or I could
hire the one on the left but one has a
great attitude and one has a bad
attitude now who you gonna hire you’re
gonna hire the person with a great
attitude why because it was the
difference-maker
I see everyday people with this
mentality that the world owes them
something and it’s popular now to talk
about entitlement and everybody deserves
and all these different things that
people like to bitch and cry about but
people come at life with the wrong
attitude okay and and they don’t like
hearing the truth and the truth of the
matter is this the world owes you
nothing the world doesn’t think you’re
special like your mom does it doesn’t
think you’re a delicate little flower it
doesn’t care about you now with that
being said the world doesn’t hate you it
doesn’t want you to fail
it just is okay and I see so many people
going through their life with this
overwhelming feeling of either a the
world owes me something or B the world
hates me and the reality is it’s neither
and what’s common amongst this group of
people that I find is that both these
groups of people that I find is that
they’re missing the understanding of
what it means to be successful and let
me let me get at exactly what the cause
of this is the cause of this is they’re
selfish they’re self-centered they’re
self focused they’re only worried about
what they see in the mirror and they go
around through their daily life trying
to manipulate the world in a way that’s
going to serve them but here’s the thing
guys if that’s the way you go through
life if you go through life trying to
figure out a way for the world to get
you something for you to be successful
you know at the expense of others or for
you to get ahead at the expense of
others your success or any success that
you’re able to build or momentum you’re
able to build is going to be very
short-lived guys and that’s that’s not
the right way to do things okay that’s
why you see the same people you know who
make money
fast lose money real fast that’s why you
see the same people who you know have a
little bit of success and then go back
to the way they were and then they might
find a new quote-unquote thing to do and
they make a little bit of money and they
go back to the way they were and the
problem with this mentality guys is that
it’s a mentality that is not of service
ok and if you want to be truly
successful in life you have to be
selfless and you have to understand that
being selfless and being of service to
other people is the only true way to
find long-term success he says I want
you to understand something about this
process I’m getting ready to go through
some things and when I go through things
is gonna escalate he said they’re gonna
mock me they’re gonna scared me they’re
gonna crucify me they’re gonna mock me
that’s verbal they’re gonna scourge me
that’s beatings they’re gonna crucify me
that’s killing whenever God is getting
ready to promote you there will always
be an escalation of trouble
[Music]
I don’t know who that was for but it was
worth coming through the rain to get
whenever God is getting ready to promote
you there will always be an escalation
of trouble he said they’re gonna mock me
they’re gonna scourge me they’re gonna
crucify me he’s gonna start out amongst
my own people and he said then they’re
gonna turn me over to the Gentiles and
it’s going to get worse whatever the
enemy knows you have a destiny
he will always sit a distraction to stop
you from getting to your destiny and the
destruction will always escalate before
it gets better they’re gonna mock me
they’re gonna scourge me they’re gonna
crucify me are you the enemy comes to
kill to steal and destroy is always
going to get worse before it gets better
you have to understand that when all of
this is said and done are you sure you
can handle the process before you ask
for the promise because I’m not gonna
let you sit in my seat until you suffer
with me Jesus says you cannot reign with
me if you do not suffer with me I don’t
know who I’m talking to
I know this is not a regular Mother’s
Day message but I’m telling you to him
who much is given much is required and
before you ask for something look in
because Jesus said you’re talking about
the place you want to sit and I’m
talking about the cup I got a drink are
you so focused on where you want to sit
that you haven’t looked at what you have
to drink to get there what amazed me
with about the text is that Jesus tells
this mama be careful what you’re asked
you I can’t put them in that position if
they can’t handle this cop and he says
baptism let me break this baptism for
you new Bible scholars baptism is about
death
it’s not about water when Jesus says I
have a baptism to be baptized with he’s
not talk about water he already came up
out of water he’s talking about what the
water typifies which is the grave and
when he told them you got to drink the
cup and you got to go through the
baptism these dummies said we got this
[Applause]
this text illustrates how we
underestimate what it takes to get to
the next level that we are caught up in
there Lerman of who sits on the right
and who sits on the left but we have not
looked in the cup nor inspected the
cross which is surpassed to the position
we want the promise without the problems
we want acknowledge rape without agony
we want riches without work talk to me
now talk to me now talk to me now we
want fame without loneliness we were
pleasure without play I’m sorry you know
not what you ask before you ask God for
the chair be sure you look in the cup
because between you and the chair is
always a cup and this mother knew not
what she asked for because she was
distracted by the attraction of the
position and she never understood the
pain that goes along with every position
every position has its pain I’m gonna
try y’all every position has its pain if
you’re gonna be a homeowner that’s a
great position but it’s got something to
it he’s got some maintenance you didn’t
have to have before it’s got some issues
you didn’t have to deal with it before
if you own your own car
that’s a nice shiny car you got but
you’re gonna need some gas and you don’t
need some tires and you’re gonna run out
of oil and you will need to change the
battery
see we want positions without paying we
want we want to sit in the seat but we
don’t want to drink from the cup and
with Jesus told how much it cost when he
told her how much it cost we talked
about talking about a check we’re
talking about dying when he told what he
calls his listen we got this really
really he says before I get to the
resurrection I’m gonna be mocked who’s
gonna be scarred and I’m gonna be
crucified my final five minutes is to
all of those who are somewhere in that
stage of being mocked or being scourged
or being crucified you’re going through
humiliation right now your life is a
mockery let me testify many times in my
life my life has been a mockery many
times the things that I did publicly I
struggle with privately
can I be real with you many times I
could help you with your stuff and
couldn’t fix mine can I be real with you
many times my life was a mockery how
could you be so strong about this and so
weak about this it was a mockery have
you ever had something happen to you
that mocked everything you stood for
they said I thought you was a Christian
I thought you were the man of faith I
thought you were a woman of power I
thought you were counselor and other
people’s marriages I taught you I
thought you I thought you I want to talk
to the people that life mocks you life
macchu you running a Counseling Center
your daughter pregnant life box you you
have with your girlfriend with her meds
and your husband just walked out the
back door is there anybody in here that
life mop you will get much sub time
you’ll get beat some time if you never
get beat you’ll never understand how to
win if you never get beat you won’t
respect the game if you never get beat
you’ll never understand who you are I
want to talk to somebody who’s going
through a period where life is beats it
out you almost didn’t even come to
church today because life has beat you
down make some noise if I’m preaching to
and then you can be marked in private
and you can be beaten in private but you
can only be crucified in public he said
they’re gonna mark me they’re going to
beat me and then I’m going to go through
public humiliation they’re gonna crucify
me
they’ll be so I can’t get out of it
strip me naked and expose me to the
world and the terrible thing about being
stripped naked is that it always creates
shame even though the shame is foolish
because your nakedness is no different
than mine your issues are no different
than mine your secrets are no different
than mine your situations are no
different than mine but when somebody
strips you and put your own public
display you feel like you’re in a
situation all by yourself is there
anybody in here feel like you are all by
yourself so Jesus told the woman he said
she said he said they gonna mock me he
said then they gonna beat me and then
they’re gonna crucify me he said but
when they get through crucifying me let
me tell you what’s going to happen next
touch your neighbor and tell him your
story is not over your story is not over
after you suffered a while if you can
stand up to them talking about you if
you can stand up to getting beat
sometime if you can stand up to being
crucified some time we’ve been may
endure for a night but joy
is coming in the morning going gets
tough going gets tight going gets
painful don’t give up when you’re
publicly humiliated don’t give up
you’re on again
I’m crying right now but I’ll rise again
I’m bruised right now but I’ll rise the
Lord told me to be sure to tell you that
on your journey it will not always be
the people
that you expect to bless you
sometimes God will use people in the
world people who don’t even speak your
language people from the other side of
the tracks to bless you and just keep on
gathering the would not know much in the
process of gathering the wood Paul gets
up and tries to help them and he’s
gathering wood from the fire you know
the story and then he gathered up this
wood it ended a shame when you have to
work and you tie it and you just came
out of the store and you can’t even get
your breath from the storm you just got
out of and now you’re having to gather
the wood so he’s trying he’s trying to
work the wild weary and and and when you
worked in and weary you pick up stuff
you don’t even know what you’re picking
up and he’s working tired anybody been
working tired and and you time but you
can’t take a vacation because a vacation
is not an option and you in survival
mode you just got to get up anyway and
your back is hurting and your knee is
hurting and your head is spinning but
you got to do what you got to do it’s
like that and he’s he’s grabbing wood
and he’s grabbed the wood and he’s
moving it to the fire watch it as long
as it wasn’t close to the fire you
couldn’t tell what you had but the
closer he got to the fire because when
he gets close to the fire the snake
comes out snakes don’t come out till
you’re close to the fire
God will hear what I’m saying to you oh
my god you making me want to preach this
morning you see if you understand what
I’m saying
I just helped you to figure out where
you are if you got snakes coming out
it’s a sign that you’re close to the
fire if you weren’t close to the fire
the snakes wouldn’t be coming out but
when you see your enemies slither and
I’m trying to bite you it’s only a sign
that you’re closer
did you ever bit in your lap laughs um I
say I’m close right now
watch this watch this the snake comes
out and bites it bites it not just bites
and fastens itself to him Lord let me
tell you be careful who you let fasten
yeah it’s one thing to bite you it’s
another thing to fasten that the sling
fastened itself to whenever you’re about
to do something mighty for God snakes
were fastened themselves to you and the
snake fastened himself to it and and the
barbarians looked at him and said he
must be a murderer
and maybe he was a murderer trying to
escape but justice let it happen the
interesting thing to me is that Paul did
not respond to the allegations he didn’t
tell motives not what happened that’s
not who I am at all I’m really a great
man of God and this is just how he
didn’t say a word the best response to
criticism is success
[Applause]
so rather than to defend yourself rather
than to defend yourself or your
integrity he just keeps on doing what
he’s doing now now the state has
attached itself to it the people think
that what has happened to him he brought
it on himself he doesn’t respond to any
of it he keeps going doing what he’s
doing and and over time all the time.she
some don’t need a little time the judge
of your heart right now but you need a
little time when they saw then he didn’t
swell up and he didn’t change colors and
he didn’t die and the Lord told me to
tell somebody you’ve been trying to ask
God why did you let this happen to me
God said he let it happen to you so that
people could see that what you been
through should have killed you but when
they saw you survived it was a sign that
looking some I said to call elect so the
barbarians who talks he was a murderer
when they saw him survive the bite they
changed their mind and said he was a god
see the same people who crushed you one
moment will say Hosanna that next murder
but you gotta maintain your focus and
the Lord told me to be sure to tell you
that on your journey it will not always
be the people that you expect to bless
you sometimes God will use people in the world people who don’t
life is life life is is an interesting
journey of ups and downs
but how that journey ends is up to you
today you see when you fall down and you
feel like giving up when times get tough
it’s not the end the question is are you
going to finish strong the definition of
a disability is something that will
hinder you from being able to do
something I think though the greatest
disability is not having no arms and no
legs the greatest disability is your
mind the choices that you make the
question is are you going to make the
right choices are you going to make the
choice to have your life in it’s right
perspective are you going to make the
choice to get up instead of give up are
you going to make the choice to dream be
there is no greater disability that we
have in our life then to make the
decision to give up because once you
give up then there is no hope but until
my passion is to encourage people to
inspire people to be all that they can
be I found my purpose I found my
strength and I want you to find yours
don’t be afraid of failing every time
you fall down every time you fail you
learn something new you’re ready for the
next one you’ve learned how not to do
something well then learn from it and
move on leave what’s behind and press
forward you can only win if you don’t
give up go for it don’t let anything
hold you back
if nothing’s holding me back what’s
holding you back I heard a motivational
speaker tell you that attitude is
everything
I’ll bet you have I’ve heard many say
that in fact they’ll say something like
if you can believe it you can achieve it
and that never quite rang true with me
so I began to press the issue and I have
come the conclusion that attitude isn’t
everything now
I’m not disclaiming or in any way being
disparaging about attitude because I
think attitude is very important but if
anybody comes up to you tells you that
attitude is everything I don’t buy into
that that’s not true
for example attitude can’t replace in
confidence
if you’re incompetent you can be very
happy but you can still be very
unsuccessful
now here’s what I do know attitude isn’t
everything but attitude is the main
thing that’ll make a difference in your
life because I believe that I wrote the
book the difference-maker
you see that’s what attitude is attitude
is the difference maker you have two
people side by side that you’re thinking
about employing in your company both of
them have the same background same job
description education experience I mean
you could almost flip a coin in second
hire the wet one on the right or I could
hire the one on the left but one has a
great attitude and one has a bad
attitude now who you gonna hire you’re
gonna hire the person with a great
attitude why because it was the
difference-maker
I see everyday people with this
mentality that the world owes them
something and it’s popular now to talk
about entitlement and everybody deserves
and all these different things that
people like to bitch and cry about but
people come at life with the wrong
attitude okay and and they don’t like
hearing the truth and the truth of the
matter is this the world owes you
nothing the world doesn’t think you’re
special like your mom does it doesn’t
think you’re a delicate little flower it
doesn’t care about you now with that
being said the world doesn’t hate you it
doesn’t want you to fail
it just is okay and I see so many people
going through their life with this
overwhelming feeling of either a the
world owes me something or B the world
hates me and the reality is it’s neither
and what’s common amongst this group of
people that I find is that both these
groups of people that I find is that
they’re missing the understanding of
what it means to be successful and let
me let me get at exactly what the cause
of this is the cause of this is they’re
selfish they’re self-centered they’re
self focused they’re only worried about
what they see in the mirror and they go
around through their daily life trying
to manipulate the world in a way that’s
going to serve them but here’s the thing
guys if that’s the way you go through
life if you go through life trying to
figure out a way for the world to get
you something for you to be successful
you know at the expense of others or for
you to get ahead at the expense of
others your success or any success that
you’re able to build or momentum you’re
able to build is going to be very
short-lived guys and that’s that’s not
the right way to do things okay that’s
why you see the same people you know who
make money
fast lose money real fast that’s why you
see the same people who you know have a
little bit of success and then go back
to the way they were and then they might
find a new quote-unquote thing to do and
they make a little bit of money and they
go back to the way they were and the
problem with this mentality guys is that
it’s a mentality that is not of service
ok and if you want to be truly
successful in life you have to be
selfless and you have to understand that
being selfless and being of service to
other people is the only true way to
find long-term success he says I want
you to understand something about this
process I’m getting ready to go through
some things and when I go through things
is gonna escalate he said they’re gonna
mock me they’re gonna scared me they’re
gonna crucify me they’re gonna mock me
that’s verbal they’re gonna scourge me
that’s beatings they’re gonna crucify me
that’s killing whenever God is getting
ready to promote you there will always
be an escalation of trouble
[Music]
I don’t know who that was for but it was
worth coming through the rain to get
whenever God is getting ready to promote
you there will always be an escalation
of trouble he said they’re gonna mock me
they’re gonna scourge me they’re gonna
crucify me he’s gonna start out amongst
my own people and he said then they’re
gonna turn me over to the Gentiles and
it’s going to get worse whatever the
enemy knows you have a destiny
he will always sit a distraction to stop
you from getting to your destiny and the
destruction will always escalate before
it gets better they’re gonna mock me
they’re gonna scourge me they’re gonna
crucify me are you the enemy comes to
kill to steal and destroy is always
going to get worse before it gets better
you have to understand that when all of
this is said and done are you sure you
can handle the process before you ask
for the promise because I’m not gonna
let you sit in my seat until you suffer
with me Jesus says you cannot reign with
me if you do not suffer with me I don’t
know who I’m talking to
I know this is not a regular Mother’s
Day message but I’m telling you to him
who much is given much is required and
before you ask for something look in
because Jesus said you’re talking about
the place you want to sit and I’m
talking about the cup I got a drink are
you so focused on where you want to sit
that you haven’t looked at what you have
to drink to get there what amazed me
with about the text is that Jesus tells
this mama be careful what you’re asked
you I can’t put them in that position if
they can’t handle this cop and he says
baptism let me break this baptism for
you new Bible scholars baptism is about
death
it’s not about water when Jesus says I
have a baptism to be baptized with he’s
not talk about water he already came up
out of water he’s talking about what the
water typifies which is the grave and
when he told them you got to drink the
cup and you got to go through the
baptism these dummies said we got this
[Applause]
this text illustrates how we
underestimate what it takes to get to
the next level that we are caught up in
there Lerman of who sits on the right
and who sits on the left but we have not
looked in the cup nor inspected the
cross which is surpassed to the position
we want the promise without the problems
we want acknowledge rape without agony
we want riches without work talk to me
now talk to me now talk to me now we
want fame without loneliness we were
pleasure without play I’m sorry you know
not what you ask before you ask God for
the chair be sure you look in the cup
because between you and the chair is
always a cup and this mother knew not
what she asked for because she was
distracted by the attraction of the
position and she never understood the
pain that goes along with every position
every position has its pain I’m gonna
try y’all every position has its pain if
you’re gonna be a homeowner that’s a
great position but it’s got something to
it he’s got some maintenance you didn’t
have to have before it’s got some issues
you didn’t have to deal with it before
if you own your own car
that’s a nice shiny car you got but
you’re gonna need some gas and you don’t
need some tires and you’re gonna run out
of oil and you will need to change the
battery
see we want positions without paying we
want we want to sit in the seat but we
don’t want to drink from the cup and
with Jesus told how much it cost when he
told her how much it cost we talked
about talking about a check we’re
talking about dying when he told what he
calls his listen we got this really
really he says before I get to the
resurrection I’m gonna be mocked who’s
gonna be scarred and I’m gonna be
crucified my final five minutes is to
all of those who are somewhere in that
stage of being mocked or being scourged
or being crucified you’re going through
humiliation right now your life is a
mockery let me testify many times in my
life my life has been a mockery many
times the things that I did publicly I
struggle with privately
can I be real with you many times I
could help you with your stuff and
couldn’t fix mine can I be real with you
many times my life was a mockery how
could you be so strong about this and so
weak about this it was a mockery have
you ever had something happen to you
that mocked everything you stood for
they said I thought you was a Christian
I thought you were the man of faith I
thought you were a woman of power I
thought you were counselor and other
people’s marriages I taught you I
thought you I thought you I want to talk
to the people that life mocks you life
macchu you running a Counseling Center
your daughter pregnant life box you you
have with your girlfriend with her meds
and your husband just walked out the
back door is there anybody in here that
life mop you will get much sub time
you’ll get beat some time if you never
get beat you’ll never understand how to
win if you never get beat you won’t
respect the game if you never get beat
you’ll never understand who you are I
want to talk to somebody who’s going
through a period where life is beats it
out you almost didn’t even come to
church today because life has beat you
down make some noise if I’m preaching to
and then you can be marked in private
and you can be beaten in private but you
can only be crucified in public he said
they’re gonna mark me they’re going to
beat me and then I’m going to go through
public humiliation they’re gonna crucify
me
they’ll be so I can’t get out of it
strip me naked and expose me to the
world and the terrible thing about being
stripped naked is that it always creates
shame even though the shame is foolish
because your nakedness is no different
than mine your issues are no different
than mine your secrets are no different
than mine your situations are no
different than mine but when somebody
strips you and put your own public
display you feel like you’re in a
situation all by yourself is there
anybody in here feel like you are all by
yourself so Jesus told the woman he said
she said he said they gonna mock me he
said then they gonna beat me and then
they’re gonna crucify me he said but
when they get through crucifying me let
me tell you what’s going to happen next
touch your neighbor and tell him your
story is not over your story is not over
after you suffered a while if you can
stand up to them talking about you if
you can stand up to getting beat
sometime if you can stand up to being
crucified some time we’ve been may
endure for a night but joy
is coming in the morning going gets
tough going gets tight going gets
painful don’t give up when you’re
publicly humiliated don’t give up
you’re on again
I’m crying right now but I’ll rise again
I’m bruised right now but I’ll rise the
Lord told me to be sure to tell you that
on your journey it will not always be
the people
that you expect to bless you
sometimes God will use people in the
world people who don’t even speak your
language people from the other side of
the tracks to bless you and just keep on
gathering the would not know much in the
process of gathering the wood Paul gets
up and tries to help them and he’s
gathering wood from the fire you know
the story and then he gathered up this
wood it ended a shame when you have to
work and you tie it and you just came
out of the store and you can’t even get
your breath from the storm you just got
out of and now you’re having to gather
the wood so he’s trying he’s trying to
work the wild weary and and and when you
worked in and weary you pick up stuff
you don’t even know what you’re picking
up and he’s working tired anybody been
working tired and and you time but you
can’t take a vacation because a vacation
is not an option and you in survival
mode you just got to get up anyway and
your back is hurting and your knee is
hurting and your head is spinning but
you got to do what you got to do it’s
like that and he’s he’s grabbing wood
and he’s grabbed the wood and he’s
moving it to the fire watch it as long
as it wasn’t close to the fire you
couldn’t tell what you had but the
closer he got to the fire because when
he gets close to the fire the snake
comes out snakes don’t come out till
you’re close to the fire
God will hear what I’m saying to you oh
my god you making me want to preach this
morning you see if you understand what
I’m saying
I just helped you to figure out where
you are if you got snakes coming out
it’s a sign that you’re close to the
fire if you weren’t close to the fire
the snakes wouldn’t be coming out but
when you see your enemies slither and
I’m trying to bite you it’s only a sign
that you’re closer
did you ever bit in your lap laughs um I
say I’m close right now
watch this watch this the snake comes
out and bites it bites it not just bites
and fastens itself to him Lord let me
tell you be careful who you let fasten
yeah it’s one thing to bite you it’s
another thing to fasten that the sling
fastened itself to whenever you’re about
to do something mighty for God snakes
were fastened themselves to you and the
snake fastened himself to it and and the
barbarians looked at him and said he
must be a murderer
and maybe he was a murderer trying to
escape but justice let it happen the
interesting thing to me is that Paul did
not respond to the allegations he didn’t
tell motives not what happened that’s
not who I am at all I’m really a great
man of God and this is just how he
didn’t say a word the best response to
criticism is success
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so rather than to defend yourself rather
than to defend yourself or your
integrity he just keeps on doing what
he’s doing now now the state has
attached itself to it the people think
that what has happened to him he brought
it on himself he doesn’t respond to any
of it he keeps going doing what he’s
doing and and over time all the time.she
some don’t need a little time the judge
of your heart right now but you need a
little time when they saw then he didn’t
swell up and he didn’t change colors and
he didn’t die and the Lord told me to
tell somebody you’ve been trying to ask
God why did you let this happen to me
God said he let it happen to you so that
people could see that what you been
through should have killed you but when
they saw you survived it was a sign that
looking some I said to call elect so the
barbarians who talks he was a murderer
when they saw him survive the bite they
changed their mind and said he was a god
see the same people who crushed you one
moment will say Hosanna that next murder
but you gotta maintain your focus and
the Lord told me to be sure to tell you
that on your journey it will not always
be the people that you expect to bless
you sometimes God will use people in the world people who don’t
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