Acts 19:11-20

Let me invite you to turn there in the Pew Bible, the page numbers in the bulletin.

Continuing our series in the book of Acts this summer, looking at Acts 19.

Let me read this text for us.

And Paul entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.

But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the way before the congregation,

he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.

This continued for two years so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick.

And their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.

Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits,

saying,

I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.

Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Siva were doing this.

But the evil spirit answered them,

Jesus I know,

and Paul I recognize,

but who are you?

And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them,

mastered all of them and overpowered them,

so that they fled out of the house naked and wounded.

And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus,

both Jews and Greeks,

and fear fell upon them all,

and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled.

Also,

many of those who were now believers came,

confessing and divulging their practices,

and a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all,

and they counted the value of them and found it came to 50,000 pieces of silver.

So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.

Let's pray together.

Lord,

Lord,

we have just heard that your word is mighty and it prevails.

So God,

we ask that this word that we have read and the message that it contains by your Holy Spirit would prevail in our midst this morning.

And Lord,

that we would find what our hearts desire and who you are calling us to be more and more as we turn to you and your word this morning.

Amen.

So where does spiritual power come from?

The New Testament is clear that every believer is engaged in a conflict,

not just with sinfulness and brokenness outside of ourselves,

but also with sinfulness and brokenness inside.

Jesus himself said,

in this world,

you will have trial.

In other words,

you can expect there to be challenges,

temptations,

conflicts.

So where do we get the power to meet these challenges?

Now,

of course,

we live in a very pragmatic age,

don't we?

In other words,

if it works,

then we'll do it.

Then we'll trust it.

And this means,

I think,

that we're always looking for new techniques or new methods to sort of get us where we want to go.

And I think that's true in the spiritual realm as well.

I think most people on the street would agree that they need some sort of help spiritually.

But that help usually takes the form of something that we do.

Trying out the new yoga studio down the street,

a new meditation routine,

the latest self-help book,

whether it's 10 Steps to Overcoming Anxiety,

or Three Keys to Unlocking the Real You,

or whatever it is.

But is all that really the answer?

Well,

I think Luke has something to show us this morning about real spiritual power.

And where it comes from.

And even though the examples in our text this morning are perhaps a bit extreme,

they highlight some important points for all of us.

And as we walk through this text this morning,

we're going to see that as a culture,

we've actually been getting it all wrong.

And we're going to see where real,

lasting spiritual vitality and spiritual strength come from.

So let's look down through our passage.

We're just going to walk through it step by step this morning.

And I think the first thing that we see in this passage is that

lasting spiritual power resides in the Word of God.

Look again at verses 8 through 12.

Here we see Paul engaged in a tireless ministry of teaching and reasoning

and explaining the message about the Kingdom of God.

Luke tells us that for two whole years,

Paul uses the lecture hall of a man named Tyrannus in the city of Ephesus.

Now, it's interesting that the name Tyrannus actually means the tyrant.

One wonders whether his students gave them that name

or whether he sort of took it upon himself to sort of instill fear in the hearts of his students.

But there you go.

Paul sort of rents out his lecture hall midday to do some work.

And if you look at the footnote of your Bible, if you're looking at the ESV anyway,

some of the manuscripts add that Paul taught there daily from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

And a lot of New Testament scholars and historians of the first century think that's probably fairly accurate.

Because that was the typical time of the day when most people were taking an afternoon rest.

It was typical in the ancient world to work in the cool parts of the morning,

to rest during the heat of the day,

and then to return to work in the late afternoon and evening.

Some countries, this is still the practice.

If you go to Spain, there's a long afternoon siesta

where people take a break in the middle of the day.

In fact, one historian of the ancient world wrote that

in Rome during this period in the first century,

there were probably more people asleep at 1 p.m. in the afternoon

than in 1 a.m. at night.

But here we see Paul during this lull in the middle of the day,

after he had been laboring in the marketplace as a tent maker,

when no one else was using Tyrannus' lecture hall,

here's Paul busy at a different kind of work,

reasoning daily about the kingdom of God,

about the message of God's in-breaking reign,

and about God's King, Jesus Christ.

And I think this is instructive for us in at least two ways.

First, isn't it interesting that Paul found the time

in his cultural moment when people were free

to hear and to study and to learn,

and he took advantage of it.

I wonder, friends, do we do the same thing with our schedules?

When do you and I intentionally set aside time

to study and engage and wrestle with the word of God's kingdom?

Not just personally and privately,

although that's critical and necessary,

but also with others.

And you have to consider here that no doubt it was very costly for Paul.

I mean, consider he was doing manual labor all morning,

sweating in the marketplace on those hot Asia Minor mornings,

and about to go back to it in the afternoon,

and yet he shows up at the lecture hall,

excited and ready to go.

And just as it was costly and challenging for Paul,

it's going to be costly and challenging for us,

there's no doubt, to rise early enough

to engage with the word.

Just set apart an evening in the midst of a busy week.

It's going to be challenging,

and there will be tiring days.

But friends, don't you see here that Paul's experience of the word,

as it took root and as it grew,

was worth it.

Look at the power that the word had in verse 10.

It has this regional effect.

Luke says that all the residents of Asia,

that is Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey,

heard the word of the Lord.

As people came to this regional hub of Ephesus,

this great financial and political and spiritual center of the region,

this city where power was on everybody's minds,

and particularly as it was a city somewhat in decline,

financially and politically,

spiritual power was on everyone's minds.

And people would come to this regional hub,

and they would hear Paul reasoning in the hall of Tyrannus,

and they themselves would become followers of Jesus,

and then they would take the word with them to their hometowns.

And in fact, that's probably how some of the churches

that we learn about in other parts of the New Testament got started.

Paul writes a letter to the church at Colossae,

and that was a church he didn't found.

That was a church that was probably founded by someone who came,

heard Paul in Ephesus,

and then took the message with him.

We learn in the book of Revelation

that there are many churches in this part of Asia Minor,

and one wonders whether it was through Paul's engagement

with the power of the word here,

in this time, in this space of two to three years,

that actually those churches took root.

But it's not just the time that Paul invests

that's instructive for us.

Look at Paul's method.

Luke again points out that Paul was reasoning,

reasoning daily.

And that word is something like maybe what we would say dialoguing,

engaging with questions,

interacting with his listeners.

You see, Paul in evangelism,

in this sort of public forum,

was always constantly listening and responding with others,

even others who would have disagreed,

even others who would have had profoundly different answers

to the questions that he was positing.

You know, we often think that the way

to really go deep spiritually,

man, how do I actually get deep down rooted

in the life of God?

We often think that the way we should really do that

is to become a hermit, right?

And move far out into the woods

where we can never be disturbed

by those pesky people asking their questions

and those pesky kids who always want to eat.

Why do my children always want food?

I have better things to do with my time.

I want to go think.

Where we can be away from distraction

and the busyness of life.

We think that, oh, if I could just get that,

then I could really grow.

Then I could really go deep.

Now, solitude's good every once in a while.

We see that in Jesus's own ministry, don't we?

But you know, the thought that permanently

getting away from people

as the key to real spiritual depth and growth and power,

that if we could only get away,

then we'd be able to grow,

friends, I posit that that's an idea

we get more from Henry David Thoreau

than from Jesus.

You see, the way to really grow,

to find spiritual vitality,

isn't to find a lonely cabin

on Walden Pond away from society.

No, the example of Jesus and Paul

is that of rich engagement.

This week, a friend recently pointed out to me

that after Paul's two to three-year stay in Ephesus,

he would soon thereafter write

one of the most profound books of the New Testament

and probably one of the most influential documents

ever written in human history,

the Letter to the Romans.

And if you're familiar with that book,

can't you hear in Romans those conversations,

those dialogues that Paul must have had

in the hall of Tyrannus?

Look through that letter again

and look at all the questions

that he's responding to

as he works his way through.

What shall we say then?

Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

By no means.

What then?

Are we to sin because we're not under law,

but under grace?

Questions Paul must have heard

and engaged with day after day in Ephesus.

And what's the lesson?

The lesson is that the best theology

and the best spirituality

is forged on the anvil of rich engagements

in the Word with others.

And friends, even especially with those

who don't yet believe.

Now, we've said that the first thing

we see in this passage

is that spiritual power resides in the Word of God.

And in verses 11 and 12,

we see God giving confirmation

of Paul and his message

through what Luke calls

extraordinary miracles.

Extraordinary miracles.

Now, here's the thing we need to see.

That when Luke says extraordinary here,

you know, when you and I use the word extraordinary,

what do we mean?

We mean, oh, it was wonderful.

It was breathtaking.

It was super duper.

It was extraordinary.

But Luke actually literally means

out of the ordinary.

As in, this sort of thing

didn't actually happen all the time.

It's not as if when Luke rocked up to a new city,

he started sweating in his handkerchiefs

and handing them out.

This wasn't his sort of typical mode of operation.

In fact, in all of Luke's writing,

this sort of sort of massive demonstration

of miraculous healing

seems to be something that only happens

with Jesus and with Peter

in this particular kind of way.

Here in Ephesus, it seems that people

were literally taking the sweat rags

that Paul would have worn around his head or waist

while working at his tent making.

That's what those words in verse 12 actually mean.

His sort of work clothes.

That they were taking those,

I don't know how they got them,

and they were bringing them to people

who were sick or demon possessed

and the people would get better.

You know, and it's funny,

it's not even clear that Paul

even approved of the practice.

Luke just says it was happening.

What are we to make of all this?

Well, friends, isn't it stunning

to see that God in his mercy

and in his condescension

would choose at this time

and at this place in history

to act in this way?

That God's willing to stoop

to use a somewhat strange

and we might even call superstitious practice

in order to make his grace and power known.

And the real effect of such miracles

was to prove as a giant confirmation

of the message that Paul proclaimed.

God was doing stuff like this

in that massively confused

and spiritually mixed up city of Ephesus

so that people would stop

and listen to what Paul had to say.

So that people would stop

and listen to the message about Jesus.

The one who had come

not merely to take away

their sicknesses and afflictions,

but to take away the much deeper,

more serious spiritual problem,

our alienation from the kingdom of God

because of our sin.

So in verses 8 through 12,

Luke's showing us

that spiritual power resides in the word

and he shows us how God

is confirming that message

through these extraordinary miracles

through Paul.

And that means the more we read,

the more we study,

the more we memorize,

the more we discuss

God's word together,

the more we let the gospel dwell

in us richly,

as Paul will say,

in another place,

the more we find

the vitality and power

that we need to face

the challenges we face,

whether they're personal

or whether they're missional

or whether they're ecclesiological,

whatever they happen to be.

But Luke actually has more

to show us here than just that.

Because you see,

if we just stopped there,

it would be so easy to think

that studying the Bible

was merely about getting

lots of ideas in our heads.

And that the point

was just to sort of

get all these facts

and ideas in our head

that we could then employ

or use or implement

or whatever,

that the Bible would just be

like a big toolbox

that we could pull out

at various times

and in various places

depending on which job

we needed to get done.

Now don't get me wrong,

there's nothing wrong,

obviously,

with immersing yourself

in the truth claims

of the Bible.

In fact,

we ought to be doing that

more and more.

But you see,

it can't stop there.

And if our engagement

with the Word

becomes just that,

hasn't the Bible

just become

one more self-help book?

One more technique

that we have to master

and one more pragmatic solution

to put beside all the rest?

But you see,

the message of the Bible,

friends,

isn't ultimately

about a set of tools

and tips

that we master.

No,

it's a message

about a person

who has come

to master us.

That's what Luke

shows us

in verses 13 through 17,

this episode

about the seven sons

of Siva.

And what's happening here

is that these

itinerant Jewish exorcists

are trying to harness

the power of Jesus

apart from a real relationship

with Jesus.

Now,

before we dive

into that thought,

let me just add

as a sidebar

that I know

the idea

of evil spirits

can sound a bit

implausible

to many people

in our culture.

Maybe that's

an understatement.

Many people believe

that belief

in such things

is irrational

and probably

more than a bit

primitive,

right?

I mean,

come on,

in this day and age,

belief in the devil

and evil spirits,

how could one

believe in such things?

But if you're wrestling

with that idea,

let me just suggest

a couple of quick things

and then we'll move on.

First,

the idea is actually

not that irrational

if you think about it.

After all,

if you believe

in a supernatural

personal good,

God,

and there are lots

of really good reasons

for believing in God,

then it's not necessarily

irrational or illogical

to believe in supernatural

personal evil,

is it?

And as far as the belief

in evil spirits

being primitive

or backward,

I think it's helpful

on that note

to consider

that the writers

of the New Testament

actually don't think

that absolutely everything

is caused

by a spirit

or a demon.

they're not thinking

that under every bush

and shade

there's a little sprite

that's going to pop out

and cause mischief.

And actually,

if you look at verse 12

in our text this morning,

you actually see Luke

very carefully distinguishing

between physical sickness

and spiritual affliction.

And you see this

over and over

and over and over again

in the New Testament.

In fact,

the New Testament

actually has an incredibly

robust picture of reality.

a picture of reality

where there are physical,

emotional,

social,

psychological,

and yes,

spiritual forces at work.

Now, friends,

you're welcome to call

that a primitive picture

of reality,

but I don't know,

in my estimation,

that seems quite sophisticated

and quite robust.

And actually,

sort of not entrapped

by the limitations

that we sort of arbitrarily

place on reality.

Well, anyway,

if you want to hear more

about that,

come talk to me afterwards.

I'd be happy to

bat ideas around.

Come back to our text.

You know,

one wonders in reading

this sort of story

about the seven sons of Siva

if Luke is indulging

in a bit of dark comedy here.

Right?

I'm glad that some of you

laughed when we read this story.

Maybe it was uncomfortable laugh

because we were talking

about demons,

but you know,

I think it's meant to be

a little bit funny.

These seven brothers

hear about Jesus

and they decide

they're going to try it out.

Why not?

Let's put it into our repertoire.

And no doubt,

these guys have been

making a name for themselves,

trying to gain influence

and wealth

through practicing magic

and performing exorcisms.

And you know,

if their father, Siva,

was actually a part

of the high priestly family,

then you've got a picture

of these guys

who are far from home,

dabbling in pagan magic

and trying to make themselves

out to be a power

to be reckoned with.

But in this encounter,

this power encounter,

the evil spirit says,

Jesus, I know,

and Paul, I recognize,

but who in the world are you?

And these seven sons

get beat up and bruised

and sent running naked

and wounded.

And do you see

what Luke wants us to see?

that the sons of Siva

are trying to harness

the vitality and power of Jesus

apart from a real relationship with him.

Now, of course,

this is an extreme example, right?

But you have to see

that this is a danger

that we all face.

Jonathan Edwards,

in the midst of the Great Awakening

in the 18th century,

when all sorts of spiritual renewals

and revivals were going on,

spent a lot of time

considering this question.

What's the difference

between a person

who's merely religious

and a really,

truly spiritual person?

Between someone

who has an exterior belief

and acknowledgement in God

and between someone

who actually knows God.

And his conclusion was this,

that the religious person

finds God useful,

but the truly spiritual person

finds God beautiful.

In other words,

the religious person

uses God to get things,

whether it's comfort

or status or control

or power or prestige.

But the spiritual person

adores God for who he is.

Perfectly good,

wise,

powerful,

holy,

glorious.

The satisfier of the soul.

The religious person

sees God as a means

to something else,

and the spiritual person

sees God not as a means,

but as an end.

And in fact,

as the end,

the great goal

of everything else.

And do you see

how the sons of Siva

were trying merely

to use God

as a means here

for their own ends,

for power,

for prestige,

maybe even

for a bit

of monetary gain?

And friends,

do you see

how we can fall

into the same exact trap?

Of course,

it looks different

on the outside,

doesn't it?

But you know,

whenever we say,

God,

I'll follow you

or I'll submit to you

if,

if,

if you take away

this problem

I'm having at work,

if you help me

find someone to marry

so I won't have

to be alone,

if you make my life

just generally comfortable,

you know,

not rich or anything,

no money,

no problems,

I just want to be comfortable,

just give me a life

that's not that hard,

God.

If you can do that,

well then I'll submit

to you and obey you.

But you know,

that's a bit obvious,

isn't it?

We sort of all see that.

But there can even be

more subtler forms of it.

I mean,

when you think of what it means

to be a Christian,

wouldn't we all say

that what it means

to be a Christian

is to have Jesus

become your Lord

and your Savior?

And of course,

friends,

that is very true.

But the deeper question

to ask is,

is Christ your treasure?

Do you come to him

not just because of

something he offers,

because he offers you something,

but because he himself

is desirable?

Because you want him

for who he is

and not just for what he gives.

And that's where real spiritual power

and vitality come from.

When we stop using Jesus

and we start really knowing him.

Now, you might ask,

how do I get there?

How does Christ

become my treasure?

Well, above all,

you have to see

what he's done for you.

The seven sons of Siva

took the name of Jesus

on their lips

and went charging after evil,

and they got beat up

and ran away.

But friends,

Jesus Christ

didn't just take our name

on his lips,

but took our very nature

on himself.

And he went charging

headlong after evil.

Our evil,

our sin.

And he went forth

into our darkness.

And in that great combat,

friends,

in that great conflict,

Jesus could have conquered

with a single word.

He could have sent

the darkness flying

without a fight.

But instead,

he was voluntarily crushed

and bruised

and wounded

and stripped naked.

And in that great conflict,

when Satan seemed

to have the upper hand,

he didn't run,

but he stayed.

The innocent one

underwent the penalty of evil

so that sinful men

and women

could be given

the gift of innocence.

And not just innocence,

but wholeness

and healing

and life

and identity

and purpose

and freedom.

And when you see

that he did all that

for you,

when you can see that,

friends,

doesn't he start

to become

your treasure?

if Christ

would stride

into the darkness

of spiritual evil

for me

in my place

and take all

of its weight

so that I could

step into spiritual life.

Friends,

don't you want to love

someone like that?

And don't you find him

not just a means

to some other end.

Don't you find him

to be the great end,

the great goal

of your life?

So brothers and sisters,

you know him that way.

Do you want to know him

that way?

Hmm?

The beauty is

he's not out

to make it hard on you.

He's not playing hard

to get.

But by his Holy Spirit

is welcoming all

who will come

and receive him.

Friend,

even this morning

you can pray to him

and ask him

to not just become useful

but to become beautiful

to your heart.

If you want to talk

to someone

after this service,

do it.

Pray with someone

as you want to see

that reality

more and more

in your life.

That's where true

spiritual vitality

comes from.

Now there's one last thing

that Luke wants us to see.

He's shown us

the importance

of knowing Jesus

but in the last three verses

of our text

he's going to show us

what knowing Jesus

sort of looks like

in practice

on the ground.

In verses 18 through 20

we see that actually

knowing Christ

means

a lifestyle

of repentance.

A true relationship

with Christ

is characterized

by deep repentance.

That's what's going on

as the Ephesian Christians

burn their magic books

and divulge

their practices.

These were things

that they had clung to

who knows

for how many years

for power

and for security

and for protection

and for their identity.

In fact,

the city of Ephesus

was so wrapped up

in the occult

that in the ancient world

Ephesian writings

was like a nickname

for spell books.

This was part

of their city's heritage

to be involved

in this kind of thing.

And now,

having seen

how worthy

and awesome

and good Jesus is,

they can utterly

do away with those things

and make a clean break.

A couple things

to notice here.

Notice, friends,

that this is believers

doing this.

That they had become

believers

and as they grew

to see more and more

of who God is in Christ,

they actually turned away

more and more

from things

that stole their life.

This was an ongoing thing.

This was an event

that Luke describes here,

yes,

but you see,

the turning away

from false hopes

and from sinful practices,

this is something

we do more and more

and on and on

as we follow Jesus.

As you see God

as he is.

Notice, too,

how specific this is

in these last few verses.

The confession

and repentance here

wasn't sort of a general thing,

that they weren't content

to sort of get together

and sort of make

a general acknowledgement

that they were sinners

and needed grace.

That was true.

And yet here,

they actually took objects,

actual things in their lives

that needed to be done away with

and they brought them

out into the open

and they got rid of them.

And they actually got rid of them

in such a way

that no one else

could be caught up in them.

Friend,

I wonder if you have someone

that you can do this with.

What I mean is,

do you have someone

in your life

that you can make

open and honest

and concrete confession to?

Do you have someone

who can pray with you

and walk with you

as you turn your back

on the old things,

your old life

that used to be

your comfort

and power and pleasure?

Do you have someone

who can sort of sit with you

and hear that

and pray with you

and walk with you

as you step into more

and more the new life

that you have in Christ?

I would encourage

all of us, friends,

to find someone,

one of the pastors

or elders,

a small group leader,

a Sunday school teacher,

a trusted,

mature Christian friend,

find someone

that you can make

this open confession to

in a practical way.

because God uses

this kind of open,

specific confession

to break the power

of guilt

and ongoing sin

in our lives.

But the last thing

we see about the sort

of repentance

that characterizes

those who really know

Jesus here

is that it's costly.

That it's costly.

Luke says that the books

they burned

amounted to 50,000

silver pieces.

One silver piece

was one day's wage

for a common worker.

It's been a long time

since I've taken

a math class.

But if my math is right,

that's 137 years

of wages

that went up in smoke

in one day

in Ephesus.

137 years.

And of course,

for all of us,

repentance feels

so costly.

When we think

of giving up

this or that thing

that we've held

so close,

that we've invested

so much of our time

into,

that so much

of our identity

or our personality

is wrapped up in,

how on earth

could we give

that up?

Repentance is costly.

And we see that.

But friends,

don't forget

that as costly

as repentance is,

God

has so much

more

to give you

than what you will lose.

Whatever you give up,

he will more

than make up for.

You know,

the disciples

came to Jesus

one day

and said,

Lord,

we've left

everything for you.

We've left our homes

and our families

and our jobs.

We've left our identities

behind

to follow you.

You can hear them

calculating in their minds,

was any of this worth it?

And Jesus

turns to them

and says,

truly I say to you,

there is no one

who has left house

or wife

or brothers

or parents

or children

for me

or for the sake

of the kingdom of God

who will not receive

many times more

in this time

and in the age to come

eternal life.

Now,

how could Jesus

say such a thing?

How could he make

such a promise

to us,

his disciples?

Because Jesus

was about to go

lose his life

for us

so that no matter

what we lost

in following him,

it'd be nothing

compared to what

we'd gain.

That what he purchased

for us

was every

spiritual blessing

in the heavenly places

poured out

in him.

And friends,

that's what you

really want.

What you want

behind your friends,

what you want

behind your sex,

what you want

behind your job

is a spiritual blessing

that won't go away.

And Jesus

has won it for you.

Such that no matter

what you give up

in this life,

could never compare

to what he's given you.

And in fact,

when you give

those things up,

you begin to experience

more and more

of what he has

already given you.

And the cross

and the resurrection

of Jesus stand

as a great emblem

of that fact.

that God

has more to give you

than you will ever lose.

So friend,

as we close this morning,

what is he telling you

to turn from

this morning?

In other words,

where do you

and I

sense the Spirit's

finger on our hearts

telling us

to repent,

to turn,

and to step

into the greater

spiritual life

and vitality

that Jesus

has won for us?

What is it for you

this morning?

Let's ask God

for the power

and courage

to do just that.

Let's pray.

God,

we confess

that in our own

strength

we are weak.

Lord,

how often

are we like

the sons of Siva

charging into life,

bold and confident

with your name

on our lips

and yet finding

that we end up

bruised and battered.

Oh God,

would you meet us

this morning

and would you

beckon us

with your mercy

and your grace

and your strength

and would you

call us,

God,

to come unto you

and to turn away

from those things

that might have

at one point

been our very life

and yet need

be our life

no more

because of you,

Jesus.

Lord,

work in us

by your Spirit

these things

more and more

in us as a church

and us as a people.

Lord,

for the good

of our city

and for the glory

of your name.

Amen.

Well friends,

we have the privilege

this morning

as we respond

to God's word

of celebrating

baptism.

So if Wilson

and Grace

and Phil,

if you guys

want to come up.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

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Amen.