Abiding in Him

~ A Study on Deepening Our
Relationship with Christ ~

~ A Study on Deepening our Relationship with Christ ~

John 15:1-17

We have a challenge before us. Either we will belong to Jesus or another. If we attach ourselves to Jesus, then we will believe His words as it says in John 15. If we attach ourselves to some other philosophy or person, then we will follow their words.

The secularist world says that the best life possible comes from living a life separate from God, His Word and His influence. The Christian viewpoint on the other hand says that the best life possible comes from living a life united with God, and dependent upon His Word and His influence. Who is right?

We understand the confusion of the world when they think that secularism is the means to gain the greatest possible life they can have on earth. This perspective enables people to live for their passions, lusts and self-interests. Just two weeks ago, I was walking down a bookstore aisle innocent enough looking for a book for my wife. I was assaulted with an array of secular books. One special end section, which was set up to catch the attention of the unwary person passing by, was dedicated to erotic homosexual material. This stuff used to be illegal (and still is in many places) but now without shame they openly display it. 

But it wasn’t just these kinds of books that preach secularism but cooking, healing, relationship, career, wealth books etc. that all evangelize people with the world’s message that living without God, His word and influence offers the best life possible. The message behind the books and magazines on being more beautiful are not to make you godlier or understand why God made you beautiful. Not at all. They believe that by being more beautiful, you have more control over people and life. They believe that is where you will find fulfillment.

Although secularism generally discounts the existence of a God, there is a variant view of which many people are convinced believers. They might not even include themselves in this category of belief, but the best test is what choices they make in life. This tainted version is different not in their commitment that the best life comes from their own choice of pursuits of life whether it be fame, wealth or pleasure. That stays the same. The only difference is that they accept that there is a God and in many cases say that they believe in Jesus. That is right, many Christians are secularists, or should I more accurately say that many professing Christians are secularists.

We started by stating that there are only two alternatives: either a person lives by Jesus’ words or ones own words. The passage that we have before us today superbly sets before us how a Christian’s life is greater and contrary to the secularist’s viewpoint mentioned above.

Jesus’ way is wholly different that we wonder how any Christian could adopt secularism which adopts that a person can live a good life without God, or that we an have a good society without Christ. This is the problem John targeted when he wrote this Gospel. What we believe can have a great difference in our lives on earth and in eternity.

Many professing Christians say they believe in Christ but do not believe. We know this by the life choices they make. They secretly believe that the world has more to offer. It is much like Lot’s wife who turned back or the man who escaped the tsunami. He went back to look for his stuff and was swept by another tidal wave.

Jesus alluded to this in this passage. And though we will not spend much time on this, it is worth noting how inconsistency in our belief. Writing to those that follow Him, Jesus said,

If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown away as a branch, and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned (John 15:6).

There are some branches that think they belong to the vine, but in fact are not. They will be burnt up in the last days. All true believers will not only cognitively say that they are Christians but to really believe that living with Christ is the best life possible. We must confront our doubts or our doubts will conquer us.

What Jesus offers is so much better than anything the world provides.

It is a complete deception to think that God’s ways are inferior in any way to the offer of the world. As time allows, we will show the absolute beauty of God’s way over the world’s ways.

Some Christians are concerned when we talk about success and use terms like productivity. I understand their concerns. Success is more often wrongly than rightly thought of. Jesus however does not want us to ignore or reject these concepts. We should reject the world’s goal and understanding of success but not reject the concepts of life that help us live more fruitful lives. Let me review a few of them.

• This is a world where a person can do better with certain decisions than others. Our decisions can be right or wrong, better or worse.

• People are accountable to make the most of our time, situation and gifts. They are, in other words, accountable for what decisions and choices they make.

• People will not be judged on whether they have got their will done but God’s will. We must refuse to believe that our personal success can be gotten without doing the will of God to be done. Success is getting God’s will done.

The world’s message is that if we are a Christian, then we will have drably and sad troubled lives. Christ gives us no such image. We need to look at these doubts that Satan throws our way via the world mass media and challenge them one by one. Otherwise, we will live in response to these doubts and our faith will not be strong. Would you for example tell others about how great it is to believe in Jesus if you had some doubts? Not unless you were forced or had other motivations.

I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.  Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.  You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.  Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.   I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.  If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. (John 15:1-6)

 Let's now look at eight points from these verses.

#1:  God is the vinedresser (John 15:1)

“My Father is the vinedresser” (John 15:1).

We are very aware that the Father in Heaven cares for us. We are ultimately responsible to Him. Our purpose in life goes beyond fulfilling our self-purposes. We care and manage our own lives in such a way that we can accomplish His greater purpose for our lives. We need to accept His care for us. Sometimes it will require hardships so that we produce more fruit.

Verse 15:1 unabashedly states that ‘My Father’ is the vinedresser. He is tender but tough as a Father. But in the end we can trust Him for His care for us. Everything will happen for the best. We can trust Him in this.

#2: Christ is the true vine (John 15:1)

"I am the true vine” (John 15:1).

Christ is the true grapevine. There are many false vines about. Many people and philosophies claim to fulfill your life, but they are false. It is but the deception of the world. If indeed we say there is another way than Christ, then we openly contradict Jesus’ own words. If we open ourselves to the toleration of the world then we will by necessity reject Jesus. Christ is the only means by which any of us can gain the flow of life and love. This is in fact the 7^th strategic time that He has highlighted this phrase “I am.” The eight time when Jesus only said, "I am" was when the troop of soldiers fell down when trying to capture Him. Jesus is the great revelation of God. We se God through Jesus.

Jesus is the key between true success and failure. He alone can make us unbelievably productive. Christ is the everlasting never changing “Son of God.” Jesus Christ is God. Christ is key to having a fulfilled life for two reasons.

1.    First of all it is only through Christ we can find forgiveness. We are guilt-ridden creatures who have sought our own ways. We need forgiveness and through belief of Christ’s work on the cross, we can have that forgiveness.

2.    But also, He is the means we commune with God. We pray in Jesus’ Name. We need His righteousness. He is our great Priest.

Success is dependent upon our relationship with Christ. Christ is the true vine. There are other vines out there that are saying that their way is better. We need to be discerning and not just believe what the world believes. Secularism is a vine but it is not the vine of life. For example wherever you see the increase of secularism, if you look carefully you will see terrible results. When Christ is separated from our lives, then people will only become more and more selfish. Sex trades, grabbing money from other people’s donations, abortion, parties, politicking all end up with manipulation, less trust, broken down communities, etc.

John Owen, the Puritan, warned people: “You have an imaginary Christ, and if you are satisfied with an imaginary Christ you must be satisfied with imaginary salvation.”[1]

Christ on the other hand is the great ever-flowing river of love. God’s love that will pour through our lives. We evangelize not like the Mormons or Jehovah Witnesses under legal compulsion but because we care. We serve from acceptance and not for acceptance.

#3: Success is Important (John 15:2)

Believers in Christ are the branches that are connected to Christ’s vine. The Vinedresser is very concerned with the productivity of His vine. He does everything to rightly care for it. There are two kinds of branches: non-productive and productive.

(1)  He gives special care to the branches not bearing fruit.

Jesus says, “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away.” We know that this “takes away” is a poor translation that translations keep repeating. Literally it means to ‘lift up.’  The concept is easy to understand. Grape vines grow fast and wild. The goal is to keep the grape vine up high so it can get sun and stay off the ground. When a grape branch hangs down upon the ground, it tends to get mud and disease rather than bear fruit. The goal is to lift the branch off the ground.

This describes the Christian not bearing fruit. Does God the vinedresser want every Christian to bear fruit? Most definitely. Even in the book of Numbers we see God’s great patience with His people. The means by which God ‘lifts’ these branches from the world are quite unique. But if you do not repent and turn back to the vine yourself, God will use sometimes difficult means to bring you back.

(2)  He prunes those branches that are bearing fruit so that they can bear more fruit.

Jesus says, “Every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit.” We find here that God is not only discontent with those branches that are not productive, but that even from the good branches that are bearing fruit, He wants more. So what does He do? He prunes them. This is a drastic step in which difficult situations come to a Christian’s life which in time enable him to be even more successful.

In each case we see that God wants to bless His people. He wants to bring more fruit from their lives. You might be content not to bear fruit but God isn’t. The vinedresser is even willing to induce painful experiences that there might in the end be a net increase of blessings. We are not often thinking about eternity. But if we would weigh this into the equation, we would be much more quick to accept the temporary struggles for greater results.

Do you see God’s purpose for difficult times? It might be because we are being lazy or on the other hand it might be because we are being faithful, but more blessing is what God is after. It makes sense to work with God rather than in opposition to Him.

#4   Success comes from Abiding in Christ (John 15:4)

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me. (John 15:4)

This is the biggest contrast to the world’s advice for finding fulfillment. The world says, “You can do it yourself,” but Christ so clearly states that true success comes not from self-reliance but Christ-reliance. Whereas secularism says that the best life is without God, Christ says that the best life comes from being intimate with Him. Now we might have questions as to how to be intimate with Him, but surely we should not misunderstand Jesus’ key to success.

“Abide in Me” is a command.

The reason for intimacy is so that we can bear fruit. If we are not closely living in union with Christ,

then we will not have the life-giving sap that flows through the vine into the branches to bear fruit. The vine does not have fruit of its own. It is through the branches grown. Christ emphasizes this, “So neither can you (bear fruit), unless you abide in Me.”

Intimacy with God is not very well understood. Perhaps I should say intimacy is not a very well understood concept anywhere it is used. Many people think a husband and wife are intimate merely by sharing a bed. Many a Christian thinks that going to church is the closeness that God desires. I suppose it is hard for a person to understand some place before he or she has experienced it. We will explain this concept more clearly later on. For now let us remember that we will need to be purposely seeking to develop our relationship with God.

“Abide in Me” is a command. Christ commands you to stay attached. He commands you to remain closely united to Him. The reason there is a command is because there is a need for the command. If merely coming to belief in Christ brought us in constant communion with our Lord, then we would not need a command to keep us there.

The fact is that many of us have listened to other philosophies of the world. We have connected ourselves to the false vines of the world. What books do you read? If someone would ask you what you want for Christmas, what is it that you desired? What DVDs would you buy? What would you do with your time? Can you say with the Psalmist?

O God, Thou art my God; I shall seek Thee earnestly; My soul thirsts for Thee, my flesh yearns for Thee, in a dry and weary land where there is no water (Psalm 63:1).

But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night. (Psalm 1:2).

Something special spirit possesses them. They love God and His Word. They meditate on His Word so that it shapes their lives. They deliberately pursue God because of a desire to know and love God. We see this in Jesus; it ought to be in us. If we do not have this inward desire, we are in fact not His at all. If you go through a great bout of doubting, go back to this genuine love for God that has been born in your soul upon salvation.

Why do we need deliberateness? Well sometimes God’s ministry is difficult. You might be a wife to a stubborn husband, a child of uncaring parents, a worker with demanding boss, a cell leader with wandering sheep. Satan will come by and try to cause you to doubt God’s faithfulness to you. Remember all Christians will face difficulties. Some are from our own fault but others simply because God wants to produce a sweeter Christian in us (think sweet and juicy grape). We are deliberate to stay close to God and trust Him through these experiences. Don’t doubt Him. If you abide in Christ, then

If you find there is not attraction to Christ and His Word, then you really are not His no matter what religious feeling or decision you have made in the past. Jesus speaks of them in verse 6.

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.

Listen to Oswald Chambers.[2] We are apt to imagine that if Jesus Christ constrains us, and we obey Him, He will lead us to great success. We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not. The question of getting to a particular end is a mere incident. What we call the process, God calls the end. What is my dream of God's purpose? His purpose is that I depend on Him and on His power now. If I can stay in the middle of the turmoil calm and unperplexed, that is the end of the purpose of God. God is not working towards a particular finish; His end is the process - that I see Him walking on the waves, no shore in sight, no success, no goal, just the absolute certainty that it is all right because I see Him walking on the sea. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God. God's training is for now, not presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the afterwards of obedience; we get wrong when we think of the afterwards. What men call training and preparation, God calls the end. God's end is to enable me to see that He can walk on the chaos of my life just now. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present: if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.

#5 The Promise of Abiding (John 15:7)

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish,
and it will be done for you. (John 15:7)

Many Christians have misunderstood Jesus’ words here. This is because sometimes we think that it means that whatever I want I can get. It doesn’t say that. Jesus says that as we abide in Christ and His words abide in us that we then can ask what we wish and it will be done for you.

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.  My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.  If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. (John 15:7-11)

Jesus is unlocking everything for us. One person at the mission conference was upset that the congregation would pray for the world for five minutes. He thought that it would not have any impact. But actually, when god’s people together seek Him and His will, nothing can hold back God’s will from being done. The promise is meant to be open ended. There is no circumstance too hard; no wall so strong; no person so obstinate that God cannot break down or lead us around. His promise leads us into a world of hope and expectation. We only must not insist on how or when He answers but simply entrust Him to care for the problem. We can hardly understand what is involved in such matters. We need to trust Him.

 

# 6 The Purpose of Abiding (John 15:8)

By this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. (John 15:8).

God’s purpose of bearing fruit goes beyond our own lives. In this sense He is jealous of His Spirit that He pours into our lives. In the end, what we do reflects Him. You know what I mean, do you not? Have you not seen a Christian with a poor spiritual life. It is an insult for that person to say He is a learner of Christ.

How will God be glorified on earth? The answer is simple: that we are very successful in God’s sense of the word. In other words, we use what God gives us to bring glory to His Name. We need to understand the process to see how it brings glory to the Father.

 

When we focus on our desires and our abilities and gain success, it is easy to show how great we are. God doesn’t get any glory. This is strictly man-done. Not too impressive. When we focus on God’s will, however, it is always greater than what we can do on our own. Do you remember God-size projects in the scriptures? Let me refresh your mind a bit. A large group of slaves brings the world empire to its knees. A boy named David defeats a giant named Goliath. Peter and the apostles were imprisoned but escaped from jail but an angel of the Lord freed them. These are the marvelous works of the Lord.

Man can build large churches and with its large resources do many projects. Only God however can raise a godly congregation that in prayer depend upon God to accomplish what otherwise would be impossible.

Let me give you a recent example. At the national mission conference, some people heard about our church’s work in England in assisting the weak Mandarin speaking church there. People thought it came about by our good strategy. No. Our elder Leaf openly shared that he went on a business trip in the beginning. But we were praying. We were asking God to help us be of great help to other churches. When we look back, we are amazed at how God can use our tiny church with little resources.

We are not decrying strategy but instead insisting that the only strategy that we should attempt to use is the one which seeks God’s will, power and glory. We are servants to do what our Master says. We get to watch God do the miracles. You might ask, well how do you strategize that?  Let me say that this is where we compel ourselves to attend prayer meetings because this is where God does His great work. We are so excited about being part of Christ that we don’t want to miss any prayer meeting. There are two other points we must mention.

# 7  The Need of Obedience (John 15:10)

If You keep My commandments, you will abide in my Love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love. (John 15:10)

So we ask, “How do we abide in Christ?” Jesus begins clearly answering this question. Jesus simply told us that we can abide in God’s love if we keep His commandments. There is no secret. Obedience is obedience. We are to live just as Jesus lived. When God asks us to do something, then we must obey Him.

If we turn to Hebrews 11, we would find God asks very strange things from us at times. We need faith to do them. Without faith, Noah would not have built an ark on dry land. Without faith Abraham would not have a multitude of descendants. Without faith, the Israelites would not have conquered Joshua. God did not allow the Israelites to have horses and chariots so that they would need to regularly rely on Him for defense and victory.

Some Christians assert that obedience is an option for His people. God’s Word clearly says it is not.

He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of god abides on him. (John 3:36)

The opposite of belief is disobedience. If we believe that we do not need to obey Christ, then we are in a most perilous situation for the wrath of God abides on him. The secular Christian says he believes in Christ but shows he does not because his life decisions are not shaped by what God wants. God does not at all tolerate this pretension of Christianity.

This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.  You are My friends if you do what I command you.  No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.  You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.  This I command you, that you love one another. (John 15:12-17)

 

#8 The Need of Love (John 15:12)

This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. (John 15:12).

You might then ask, “What commandments are we to obey?” This is a good question. Christ has filled the scripture with many commands. In verse 10 Jesus uses the word ‘commandments’ with an ‘s’ on the end. In verse 12 He isolates one of these commands that seems to summarize the many commands, “Love one another just as I have loved you.”

Do you remember how Jesus loved us? He laid down His life for us. The Apostle Paul twice in Romans 13 says that love is the fulfillment of the law (Romans 13:8-10). Only by preferring the other above our own needs can we avoid the hosts of sins that plague our nation. Love is the opposite of lust. Love forgives and peace is the result of humbling oneself and apologizing for our wrongs. Love always calls us to prefer the needs of others rather than living for our own desires.

This is exactly what God did when He sent His only Son Christ into the world to die for sinners. God’s love enabled others to participate in His great program and reap those rewards. God’s kingdom is a kingdom of love.

Application: the question is whether you have determined to love others. Have you purposed to lift the needs of others above yourself? If others take advantage of yourself, you will still care about them. If others treat you badly, you will pray and seek how God will enable you to love them. All of these things are from God. This is the way God extends His kingdom in the world. Love is from God. We need to abide in Christ if we are to live out His love.

This I command you, that you love one another. (John 15:17)

Let me close with a an illustration on how God so dramatically used the thoughts from this passage to touch my life. Hopefully, this slice of my life will illustrate how all the points work together. It is abridged version from the "Walking with Jesus" series.

Genuine Friendship     John 15:15-16

I have always longed for deep friendship. It is rather embarrassing to discover in the middle of ones life one of the important causes for this. It is not that I had no friends; I had a lot of friends. But I longed for deep friends.

As I began to explore becoming more intimate with God, I asked Him to teach me how to do this. I didn't quite know how to pursue this relationship with Him.

I was rather surprised one of the first steps in becoming more intimate with Him was for Him to teach me about friendship. Fortunately, it didn't take long for the penetrating message to sink deep into my friendship-craving heart. The Lord was to be my friend, not just my master. I sensed the Lord's presence as I thought through these penetrating messages.

A friend accepts you as you are.

A friend likes to spend time with you.

Upon reading this later statement, I was humbled. I realized that I have spent time with Him but that He wanted more time. He wanted me to drop listening to a radio station in order to spend more focused time with Him. I could sense the tension in my soul. I was an active guy. I liked working on projects. It was hard for me to slow down and just be friends.

"No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask of the Father in My name, He may give to you."            (John 15:15-16)

I was determined this close relationship was what I really desired. I even sensed that my childhood difficulty was allowed to shape my desires for deeper intimacy. I made the necessary commitments to follow up more deliberate and concentrated times with Him alone. A bit later I was in my study reading an article on intimacy.

As I was reading, one of my sons came up to my study in order to review his math with me. He was having difficulty with one problem. Actually, for some reason I couldn't understand his second grade book's instructions either. I told him just to do the part of the problem that was clear. I guess my suggestion was too nonconformist. He just couldn't accept my words. I wanted to read my article on intimacy and here my son was disturbing me. Shortly afterwards, I cast him from my study until he could compose himself.

But the Spirit of God was already working in my heart. I clearly saw the Lord's displeasure. Here I was trying to spend time with the Lord, but I wasn't even able to patiently put up with my son. The verse from I Corinthians 13 was convicting me, "Love is patient."

My heart was greatly humbled. I didn't want my Heavenly Father to treat me the way I treated my son! I must not treat God or my son in this way. I apologized to them both. My problem was cleverly identified, "A friend likes to spend time with a friend." I needed to be a true friend myself. I must spend time with those around me that I say I love.

The Lord didn't waste a second. Not long afterwards my 9 year-old daughter entered my study. I found out that she didn't go out with the others to invite children to our next week's Bible Club. I was prompted that this was another opportunity to spend extra time with someone - to be a friend. So I ignored what I was doing and like Jesus would have done, spent time with my girl. This turned out to be the most significant conversation I ever had with her!

How thankful I am that I took time to be with my daughter rather than chasing her out of my study for privacy. I am by God's grace trying to give that special focus to each person that I meet so that I might discern how the Lord wants me to show any special love to them. I need so much help in this area, but what an exciting start!

A friend must be a friend. When walking with Jesus, I need to pause with Him when He wants to spend extra time with people even though I might be busy. Tozer said,

Our relation to Jesus is all that really matters. A true Christian faith is an attachment to the Person of Christ that is intellectual, volitional and exclusive.[3]

 

Summarizing the Abiding Principles

This all started when God was convicting me of having a greater love for God. I asked Him how and He wanted me to give up my free 15-30 minute free time in the afternoon to catch up on news and the like. He was asking me if I really loved His Word. I of course said I did but realized that He wanted me to meditate on His Word more. The only time I seemed to have was this free time.

What other way was I going to get His Word to abide in me? I had to engage in serious meditation of His Word. What God was going to do in my life was totally (it seems totally) rearrange the way I was living so that I could abide in Him. It might seem like 15 minutes but what would happen was life changing. I decided to meditate on some simple Gospel passage. I wanted to learn to watch Jesus as the disciples did. I wanted to ask, “What did they learn from those things recorded?” With every passage that I decided to meditate on, He changed me. The changes were so overwhelming and surprising, that I lost control so-to-speak of my life. This is why I am still scared to meditate on the Gospel passages (I don’t let my fear hold me back of course).

The most important step was to believe that God wanted to speak to me through a Bible passage and that He was able to do. So I decided that I would meditate on a familiar Gospel passage until God spoke to me. Sometimes it was almost instant; at other times it seems that it would never come. He tested me at times to persevere in my faith. I am sure you know how it is to enter your quiet times with and without faith. Without faith, you don’t expect God to speak. With faith, God speaks.

From these meditations developed a series, “Walking with Jesus.” Every passage would first greatly humble me of some sin and then call me to live more rightly. After this I would be given occasion to prove my resolve. Now I didn’t know how God would test me. It was in so many interesting situations involving things happening all about me. I had to be alert and aware. The Christian faith is anything but boring. God sovereignly arranges my circumstances to prove my heart. My faith is seen in how I pay attention to what God is doing around me. God’s work is not just when we are reading His Word. We need to learn to understand the events about us in light of His Word.

Let’s review a few important questions for this passage.

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Paul J. Bucknell



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