Exodus 14-15

Please take a seat.

This evening is the second in our series.

I'm not a Christian because we had a cracking start last week.

Great time of fellowship together and looking at why all religions aren't the same.

Tonight we've got I'm not a Christian because you can't trust the Bible.

An absolutely world class speaker called Bob Aykroyd, the principal of Edinburgh Theological Seminary,

what used to be the Free Church College, is coming to speak.

So whatever it takes, whatever the cost, whatever needs to be sold or given up,

make sure you get yourself there because it will be well worth it.

And the coffee's not bad either.

Let's pray and then we'll get to work.

Father God, thank you so much for this morning.

Thank you for all the truths that we've sung.

Thank you that we've been able to seek your face in prayer.

Father, thank you that that's all possible because of Jesus.

And so, Lord, we pray now as we come to study this written word.

Father, would you show us ever more clearly your son, your living word.

Father, bless us and help us in his glorious name.

Amen.

We love escape stories.

We love stories about escape.

We love this idea of incarceration to freedom.

Although I dare say that goldfish is going to find it's not actually greener on the other side.

We love bondage to redemption.

We love prison bars exchanged for open spaces.

Escape stories really resonate with us.

We like them.

We have films like Papillon with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman trying to escape from prison.

We have stories like 12 Years a Slave, that box office hit of last year.

We have Amazing Grace, William Wilberforce and William Pitt trying to end the slave trade.

That classic, the wooden horse where the inmates take up gymnastics in order that they can tunnel out of the prison.

We have that world famous Shawshank Redemption.

We have Les Mis as Jean Valjean tries to escape the clutches of Inspector Javert.

Escape stories seem to resonate with us.

We like the idea of escaping.

We have TV series like Prison Break and Breakout Kings.

Harry Houdini captured imaginations with his escapology.

Children play games like Stuck in the Mud, where people are stuck and then they're freed.

We have fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel and Sleeping Beauty.

Even Aladdin's classic is about Princess Jasmine trying to escape the life of luxury she has in the palace,

whilst at the same time Aladdin trying to escape the clutches of poverty that he has.

The theme of escape resonates with us, but there's no more famous escape story than the aptly named The Great Escape.

If we were feeling more joyous we could perhaps sing the theme tune, but I'll save it.

But the film is based on the true story of 76 prisoners of war

who set about escaping from the Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in Lower Silesia in modern day Poland by tunneling.

They built three tunnels.

One of them was viable.

They left.

76 got out.

But what we learn in the story is getting out is only half the story.

Getting out is only half the story.

There is a massive difference between getting out and getting to safety.

Of the 76 who escaped, 50 were shot dead.

23 were recaptured and severely punished.

Only three made it to safety.

There is a massive difference between getting out and getting to safety.

Good old Alcatraz.

For its 29 years as a state penitentiary in America in San Francisco Bay,

36 prisoners tried to escape.

Six were shot dead.

Seven drowned.

23 recaptured.

There is a massive difference between getting out and getting to safety.

And as we turn to Exodus 14, this is what hangs in the balance.

The Israelites have gotten out.

In chapter 12, verse 31, Pharaoh lets the people go.

But they're not safe.

They're not safe yet.

It's impossible to exaggerate just how key the crossing of the Red Sea is to the rest of the Bible.

There are 24 explicit references to it in the rest of the Old Testament.

Countless in the New Testament.

Most famous, Luke chapter 9, verse 31.

Luke 9:31

They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem.

The word for departure is the word Exodus.

So as Moses and Elijah chat to Jesus on top of the mountain,

they very much see it as a second better Exodus.

Hebrews 11, by faith, the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land.

But when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.

Probably most famous and awkwardly, 1 Corinthians 10.

For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters,

that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea.

They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

And a little bit later down it says,

Now these things happened to them as an example,

but they were written down for our instruction.

This crossing of the Red Sea isn't just a historical fact.

It's important for us.

What we're looking at this morning is about the Hebrews not just getting out,

but getting to safety.

But it's written for us.

It helps us get out of our bondage and get us to our safety, which is the Lord Jesus.

So if you've got a Bible, it will be massively helpful.

If you could turn to Exodus chapter 14.

Exodus 14 · chapter mention

And I want to start reading at verse 5.

Exodus chapter 14 and verse 5.

Exodus 14 · chapter mention

When the king of Egypt was told that the people have fled,

Pharaoh and his officials changed their mind about them and said,

What have we done?

We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services.

So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him.

He took 600 of the best chariots,

along with all the other chariots of Egypt,

with officers over all of them.

The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,

so that he pursued the Israelites who were marching out boldly.

The Egyptians, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots,

horsemen and troops,

pursued the Israelites and overtook them

as they camped by the sea near Pi-ha-hiroth,

opposite Baal-zaphon.

As Pharaoh approached the Israelites,

looked up,

and there were the Egyptians marching after them.

They were terrified and cried out to the Lord.

They said to Moses,

Was it because there were no graves in Egypt

that you brought us to the desert to die?

What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

Didn't we say to you in Egypt,

Leave us alone.

Let us serve the Egyptians.

It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians

than to die in the desert.

Moses answered the people,

Do not be afraid.

Stand firm and you will see the deliverance

the Lord will bring you today.

The Egyptians you see today will never,

you will never see again.

The Lord will fight for you.

You need only be still.

Then the Lord said to Moses,

Why are you crying out to me?

Tell the Israelites to move on.

Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea

to divide the waters

so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians

so that they will go in after them.

And I will gain glory through Pharaoh

and haul his army through the chariots and his horsemen.

The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord

when I gain glory through Pharaoh,

his chariots and his horsemen.

Then the angel of God,

who had been traveling in front of Israel's army,

withdrew and went behind them.

The pillar of cloud also moved from in front

and stood behind them,

coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel.

Throughout the night,

the cloud brought darkness to the one side

and light to the other,

so neither went near the other all night.

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea

and all that night,

the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind

and turned it into dry land.

The waters were divided

and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground

with a wall of water on their right

and on their left.

The Egyptians pursued them

and all Pharaoh's horses and chariots

and horsemen followed them into the sea.

During the last watch of the night,

the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire

and cloud at the Egyptian army

and threw it into confusion.

He jammed the wheels of their chariots

so that they had difficulty driving.

And the Egyptians said,

let's get away from the Israelites.

The Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.

Then the Lord said to Moses,

stretch out your hand over the sea

so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians

and their chariots and horsemen.

Moses stretched out his hand over the sea

and at daybreak,

the sea went back to its place.

The Egyptians were fleeing towards it

and the Lord swept them into the sea.

The water flowed back

and covered the chariots and horsemen.

The entire army of Pharaoh

that had followed the Israelites into the sea,

not one of them survived.

But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground

with a wall of water on their right

and a wall of water on their left.

That day, the Lord saved Israel

from the hand of the Egyptians

and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore.

And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord

displayed against the Egyptians,

the people feared the Lord

and put their trust in him

and in Moses, his servant.

They'd taken a kind of roundabout route

to get to Pi-Hahiroth.

You saw that last week

that they didn't take the most obvious route

so that they would perhaps evade

the Egyptians should they come after them.

But back in Egypt,

the Pharaoh is freaking out.

You can just imagine

he's woken up in the morning

and he had to get his own slippers

because there were no slaves in the house.

He had to spread his own marmalade

on his sourdough toast.

He had to retrieve the paper himself

and open his own post

and he thinks,

what have we done?

I love verse 5.

It's so English.

We have let the Israelites go

and have lost their services.

He really means that we don't have any slaves anymore.

So what does he do?

He throws the kitchen sink

in this retrieval protocol.

This idea of 600 best chariots

is the phrase for his imperial guards.

He calls the boys and says,

right, we're going after them.

His best chariots,

his very own soldiers.

And just for good measure,

he sends everybody else as well.

It's like Barack Obama

sending the Navy SEALs

and the rest of the US Army.

And they overtook them

and they blocked them in.

This is what it looks like.

The Hebrews have been moving left to right.

The Egyptians have overtaken them.

They're penned in by the sea

and if they go back,

it's towards Egypt.

They are trapped.

It's like,

it's going to be like

shooting fish in a barrel.

What we have on our hands

is a potential massacre.

The Egyptians are a fierce,

fighting superpower.

And the Israelites

perhaps have a pitchfork

between all of them.

And I want us to see three things

this morning.

Here's the first.

Salvation is freedom from bondage.

Salvation is freedom from bondage.

If you just flick back

to chapter 13,

verse 18,

it says,

the Israelites went out of Egypt

ready for battle.

You can imagine them.

They've got camo paint,

back slaps.

They're like,

we're going for this.

And they give a good grunt,

like,

ha!

Look at chapter 14,

verse 8.

The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh,

the king of Egypt,

so that he pursued the Israelites

who were marching out boldly.

You can just imagine

they're singing like one of those

army songs,

like,

do,

do,

do,

do,

do,

do,

do.

Do you know,

as they march along,

they look up for it.

But look at chapter 14,

verse 10.

The Israelites looked up,

and there were the Egyptians

marching after them.

They were terrified

and cried out to the Lord,

utterly melted.

It was all for show

that when they saw

their old slave masters

in the distance,

terrified.

And they start to moan.

It seems like God's people

have that kind of

genetically embedded in them.

Why didn't you leave us

in Egypt,

Moses?

Were there not enough

graves for us?

We really loved

being slaves

to the Egyptians.

Why have you brought us

out here to die?

They've got terrible

recollection.

Like,

horrendous recollection.

Back in chapter 4,

this is what really happened.

Then Moses and Aaron

gathered together

all the elders

of the people of Israel.

Aaron spoke all the words

of the Lord

that were spoken to Moses

and did the signs

in the sight of the people.

And the people believed.

And when they heard

that the Lord had visited

the people of Israel

and that he had seen

their reflection,

they bowed their heads

and worshipped him.

Didn't read in that bit

much like,

actually,

we're quite happy here.

I quite like making

yasmin tea

for the Pharaoh.

Do you see,

geographically,

they're free.

But spiritually,

when their old slave masters

are in the distance,

they're back in bondage.

Let's go back.

Let's go back

to once we,

once were.

It's like this guy,

Brooke Hanlon

from Shawshank Redemption.

He's been in prison

for 50 years

and finally,

he gets a parole hearing

and is set free

from Shawshank Prison.

But though he's free

geographically,

inside,

he's still a prisoner

and he ends up

committing suicide

because he cannot cope.

Just like the Israelites.

They got out

but they didn't get

to safety.

Getting Israel

out of Egypt

is easy

compared to getting

Egypt

out of the Israelites.

You know the struggle

in your own life.

You know what it is

to be free in Jesus

and yet still

to be bound

by so many things.

What about things

like this?

On believing

in Jesus,

you're objectively

free

from trying to make

yourself acceptable

to God.

You're objectively

free.

In Jesus,

you can boldly

approach God

because of who

Jesus is

and yet subjectively,

we all still think

that it's about

our performance.

That when we mess up,

it's much more about

running from God

in fear

than running to God

for forgiveness.

just like the Israelites.

Geographically

out of bondage

but spiritually

still so enslaved.

What about this?

Sin.

Still in bondage

to sin.

All of us.

That in Jesus

we're no longer

what we once were

but are what we were

one day be.

The old has gone,

the new has come.

And yet still,

doesn't the old man

still creep up

and show his face

so often?

So we were playing

football on Friday night

and Aaron,

in all of his

youthful enthusiasm,

took a massive

swipe at the ball.

Fortunately,

the ball had long

since left

and all that was

in the way

was my leg.

And I just,

in that moment,

just snapped.

And it was the old man,

the one who got

really cross and angry

and started shouting.

And would have

sought retaliation

if I could have

walked at the point.

Isn't it true?

Free, but still.

So often in bondage

and then in idols.

Idols that so readily

creep up in our lives

and say,

serve me.

Serve us.

The idol of Korea

that you are,

how high up the ladder

you get.

Money.

That secretly

we do all think

that we're the exception

to the rule.

And that we can serve

both God and money

and our bank account

is actually what defines us.

Our relationships

and they all bow at the door

and they say,

serve me.

That though we're free

in Jesus forever,

so often we're still

in bondage.

It's like our

systematic theology.

Past,

when we believed in Jesus,

we're justified,

we're free from the penalty

of sin.

Present,

being sanctified.

sanctified.

We are being freed

from the power of sin

that it's losing

its grip on us.

And then in the future,

glorification,

we will be free

from the very presence

of sin.

The problem is

that middle one

is a story.

The other two

are kind of instantaneous,

but this one

is a story.

God is working out

his purposes

to loosen the grip

of idols

and sin

and still trying

to do it

by our works

from us,

so it's going

to take time.

John 8,

John 8:36

verse 36,

so if the sun

sets you free,

you will be free

indeed.

Two weeks ago,

I had three sets

of people over

for fajitas.

I can only really

make fajitas,

so if you're invited

around,

that's what we're having.

If you're a vegetarian,

bring something.

And I made three sets

of fajitas,

and I have to say,

every time I made them,

they got a little better.

And the reason

they got a little better

is because on Monday,

I made a massive

bowl of chicken,

and I poured the marinade

in,

and it sat in my fridge.

So on Monday,

the chicken was

slightly spicy.

On Tuesday,

the chicken was

a little bit more spicy,

but by Thursday,

man,

beautiful.

so much spice

and juiciness

and flavor

because the marinade

had penetrated

right into the meat.

This is the thing.

We're all

still in bondage

to many,

many things.

And how are we going

to get ourselves free?

We're going to

marinate ourselves

in the gospel.

We're going to

remind ourselves

every day

that we are free

in Jesus,

that we don't need

to worship

what we once worshipped.

We don't need

to perform

like once

we used to think

that we had to perform.

That we're going

to let his salvation,

his freedom,

work its way

into every part

of our lives.

Abraham Lincoln

signed the

Emancipation Proclamation

on the 1st of January,

1863.

However,

because the Civil War

in the South

still went on,

and the Confederates

still had control,

if you were a slave

in Texas,

you weren't actually

free until the 19th

of June,

1865.

The two and a half

years,

your status

was declared free.

But it took

two and a half years

for the news

to travel

and for you

to finally be free.

News travelled

really slowly.

But I have to say

in our lives,

news travels

even slower.

And therefore,

we need to keep

telling ourselves

this good news.

Jesus has set us free.

And he's set us free

forever.

Tell yourself

you're free in Christ

every day

because we forget

all the time.

Salvation is

freedom

from bondage.

Second point,

salvation is crossing

over by grace.

Salvation is crossing

over by grace.

Just look back

at verse 13.

Moses answered

the people,

do not be afraid,

stand firm

and you will see

the deliverance

the Lord will bring

you today.

The Egyptians

you see today

you will never see

again.

The Lord will fight

for you.

You need only

be still.

You don't get

a better representation

of grace

than that.

Stand over there,

don't do anything,

just watch

and see that God

will win for you.

Seems like

it's all grace.

seems like

they're going

to get free

not because

of their efforts

in fighting

but because

God is going

to set them free.

And all night

the wind blows,

the waters part

and they go by

on dry ground

with a wall

on their left

and a wall

on their right.

And this division

is explicit.

Do you see

how the Israelites

have light

in verse 20

but the Egyptians

are still in darkness.

they cross over

by grace

because God

won the day.

Bondage

to freedom.

Instantaneous

death to life.

Darkness

to light.

Unadopted

to adopted.

Dominion of darkness

to the kingdom

of the sun.

Old creature

becomes new creature.

Unregenerate

becomes regenerate.

Condemned

becomes saved.

The area

of bondage

becomes new.

Freedom.

It's a change

of status.

salvation is

crossing over

by grace.

So someone

asks,

are you a Christian?

How would you

answer,

are you a Christian?

Perhaps you'll

answer,

I'm really trying.

Some days

more than others

I'm working

hard on it.

can I say

if that's your answer,

you haven't understood

this at all.

Because what we

talk about

in Christianity

is crossing

over by grace.

We believe

in Jesus

instantly,

we're justified.

It's binary,

yes or no.

It's not about

effort.

One point

they were in

the land

of bondage,

the next

moment

they're free

as they

cross over.

It's crossing

over

by grace.

There's no

middle,

there's no

almost justified,

there's no

quasi-righteous,

there's no

diet

Christian.

It's in

or out.

But I know

what some people

say,

but you need

faith,

that's what I

need to add.

You need a

good,

strong faith.

Well that's

where I think

this is so

helpful.

Because all

the Israelites

cross over,

and as they

walk through

on dry ground,

there's a wall

of water on

their right

and a wall

of water

on their left.

And I dare

say some

people swagger

across.

Isn't God

great?

He's won

the day

for us.

Woo!

But I bet

there's some

other people

who are

clinging to

their friends

going,

we're going

to die,

we're going

to die,

we're going

to die.

Do you

see,

it's not

the quality

of faith.

It's the

object of

our faith.

That God

has won

the day

so that

we don't

have to.

Do you

know I

had the

awesome

privilege

before

Christmas

of hanging

out with

Ruby,

before she

went to be

with the

Lord,

and she

had absolute

confidence of

where she's

going because

she crossed

over by

grace.

Similarly

with Ruth

as I've

seen her

and so

many of

you have

seen her,

real

confidence.

She'll be

with the

Lord because

she knows

what it

is to

cross

over by

grace.

She's not

trusting in

her performance

but trusting

that Jesus

nailed her.

Salvation is

crossing over

by grace.

It's what

it is.

Here's the

last thing.

Salvation is

possible through

only through

a mediator.

Look at

verse 11.

they were

terrified and

cried out to

the Lord.

They said to

Moses and

then they

have this

big moan.

Drop down

to verse

15.

Then the

Lord said

to Moses,

why are you

crying out

to me?

Moses hasn't

been crying

out.

In fact,

he's been

the one

who's been

getting

moaned at.

And yet,

do you see

that Moses

is so

associated

with his

people that

their sin

becomes his

sin?

But then

drop down

to verse

21,

that as

Moses stretches

out his

hand,

the Lord

sets about

parting the

sea because

Moses is

so associated

with God

that his

power works

through

Moses.

What a

brilliant

mediator,

someone associated

with the

people and

someone associated

with God,

so can be a

perfect middle

man.

And yet,

doesn't that

point so

much better

to the

Lord Jesus

who's not

associated

with us

but became

like us

in every

way?

And someone

who wasn't

just associated

with God

but was

God and

dwelt

amongst us

to be the

perfect

mediator.

God.

And he

wasn't just

condemned

for the

sins of

the people

on one

occasion like

Moses,

he was

condemned

for all

our sins,

carried out

in all

our lives

and he

took them

upon

himself.

Such a

better

mediator,

fully man

yet fully

God,

taking on

the sins

of man so

we can be

brought to

God.

And let's

not lose

the significance

of the

water.

Genesis 1-2

talks about

the spirit

of God

hovering over

the face

of the

water.

This picture

of being

uncreated

and what

does God

do?

He takes

uncreation

and makes

it creation.

So what's

he doing

in Exodus

14 to

the Egyptians?

Because they

don't have

a mediator.

Well the

water comes

back in over

the top,

it's an

act of

uncreation,

it's an

act of

decreation

as they're

disintegrated.

Do you

see it's

judgment?

God judges

the Egyptians

and gets

glory for

himself,

that for

enslaving his

people they're

called to

account.

But let's

not make the

fatal error to

think that

Israel was

good and

the Egyptians

were bad,

that's not

it.

The Israelites

would have

tried to

fight back

against the

Egyptians if

they could.

But they

couldn't,

they didn't

have the

technology.

Why is

Israel saved

and Egypt

isn't simply

because God

showed his

grace to

his people

and not to

the Egyptians.

Moses stretched

out hands over

waters of

God's wrath

and saw them

separate so his

people could

cross over and

be safe.

Jesus stretched

out his hands

on a cruel

Roman cross

and was

thrown into

the sea of

God's wrath

for us

so that we

might cross

over and be

safe forever.

Jesus was

decreated and

judged so

that we could

be recreated

and set free.

There's

beautiful bookends

to this story.

In Exodus

Exodus 2 · chapter mention

chapter 2

what do we

start with?

We start with

Hebrew infant

boys littering

the banks

of the Nile

as Egypt

kills

and performs

this infanticide.

The end of

chapter 14

what do we

have?

We have

Hebrew men

the soldiers

who came to

once again

enslave them

littered on

the shore

dead

as God

judges them

for their

acts against

his people.

Salvation

you see

is only

possible

through a

mediator

and that's

what we

perfectly

have in

Jesus.

Just imagine

then if Sky

News had a

roving reporter

amidst the

Israelites just

after they've

crossed over

and kind of

George Alagia

or one of

those guys

gets up and

puts the

microphone in

their face

of

let's call him

Jeremiah and

says Jeremiah

how is it

going?

This is what

he might say.

He says I

was a foreigner

in a foreign

land not my

home.

I was in

cruel bondage

and under

judgment and

sentenced to

death but I

took shelter

under the

blood of the

lamb.

I followed

my mediator

to freedom

and he

stretched his

hand so I

could cross

over by grace.

Now we're on

the way to the

promised land

but we're not

there yet.

We're following

God's lead.

He's going to

give us this

law to make us

a distinct

people and he's

going to dwell

with us in the

tabernacle to

remind us

constantly of our

need of his

grace.

forgiveness.

One day we'll

arrive home to

be with him in

the place he

has prepared

and we'll

receive fully

all that he

has promised.

It's not

radically different

is it to what

we might say

this side of

the cross.

As Christians

all that

language is

exactly what we

see in the

New Testament.

Two quick

things to finish.

number one.

God gets them

out and then

gives them the

law.

Grace first.

He's not

getting them

out because

they've

obeyed.

He's getting

them out so

they can

obey.

They're

obeying as a

response to

grace not a

requirement for

grace.

And this bit

blew my mind

this week.

Just go back

to verse 13.

Do not be

afraid.

Stand firm and

you will see

the deliverance

the Lord will

bring you

today.

Do you know

what's so

beautiful about

that phrase?

The deliverance

of the Lord

could literally

be the phrase

God saves.

Now we all

know one bit

of Hebrew and

it's that that

God saves.

Because it's

the word

Yeshua.

Which will

become

in Aramaic

the word

Jesus.

So literally

God says

to his people

through Moses

stand still

don't

do

anything.

Your salvation

will come and

it will be

through looking

at the Jesus

of the Lord.

It will be by

staring at Jesus

where you will

be saved.

And so what

do we learn

from Exodus

14?

We learn that

salvation is

freedom from

bondage and

we need to

work it into

every part of

our lives.

Salvation is

crossing over

by grace.

Trusting that

God has done

it and walking

through from

one side to

the other

instantaneous

justification.

And salvation

is only possible

through the

mediator.

There is a

great difference

between getting

free and

getting safe.

life.

But in the

Lord Jesus

he sets us

free and

will bring us

safely all the

way home

because he's

that good to

us.

Why don't we

pray?

The writer to

the Hebrews

says how

shall we

escape if

we ignore

such a

great

salvation?

And so

Lord as we've

looked at your

son through the

lens of Exodus

14, Father we're

so thankful to

him.

We're so thankful

for him.

And Father we

pray that his

news of free

grace, of

absolute

forgiveness,

might work

its way into

every part of

our lives.

Father that we

would trust him

that he's won

where we

failed, that

he succeeded

where we

flunked, and

that it is in

him and only

in him that

we are righteous

and able to

cross over.

Father may grace

be so precious

to us.

And Father may

we love him for

what he's done.

May we be those

this morning who

simply stand

still and gaze

upon him,

gazing upon him

in his perfect

life, in his

atoning death,

and in his

glorious resurrection

that keeps us

free for all

eternity.

Father bless us

and be with us.

Commit these

things to our

hearts we pray

in Jesus glorious

name.

Amen.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

If you have any

questions about

anything that's

being said

this morning

then please

feel free to

speak to either

myself or the

John

after the service.

When I'm going to

move into

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