YOU ARE ENOUGH - 2 Corinthians 3:1-6

Well, all right. If you have a Bible or

an app, let's open it up. We're going to

be in the book of Second Corinthians

this morning. Paul's letter to the

Corinthian church. There are two letters

that we find in the scriptures that are

written to the Corinthian church. Three

that we can be certain of. But we do

have two letters that are recorded in

the scriptures. And if you were not with

us last week, we kicked off a brand new

series called Mythbusters. This is the

third year that we've launched this

series. And my goal in a series like

this is to look at some things that are

prevalent in the culture, some

mentalities, some ideologies, some

mantras, some some phrases and

statements uh that have really risen to

the top here recently. And then to ask

the question, well, what does the Bible

say about it? Again, we've been reminded

that if we're not careful, we can

believe something just because the

culture believes it or just because it

is coming alongside our algorithm algo

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uh a lot and if we are not determined

intentional and disciplined to fill our

spirit with the truth of God's word then

we can easily believe the lies of this

world. As a matter of fact, the devil's

mo is to fill our minds and I think so

more frequently now than ever before

because of the technological

advancements that that we have to fill

our minds with everything and anything

so long as it's not the truth of God's

word. And I've said this so often, it

doesn't necessarily have to be bad

things.

Good things if we're not careful can

become bad things if those good things

end up becoming our greatest things. And

so we want to be mindful of what does

the Bible say? What lens should we live

our lives looking through? And we

believe as Christians that lens should

be the lens of faith which is molded,

crafted and built up through the truth

of God's word.

Everybody in here is growing into some

form of spiritual maturity.

You are being discipled by something.

The question is, what does your

spiritual maturity look like? Remember,

our battle is not against flesh and

blood. It's against the powers and

principalities and the darkness and the

chaos and the evil that exists in this

world today.

Uh to put it more simpler, we are all in

a spiritual battle and we are going to

lean to one side of that spiritual

battle. We're either leaning and

depending on the power of the Holy

Spirit who dwells within us or we are

leaning on being guided and influenced

by the evil spirits

who want to pull you away from all that

God has created you to be, all that God

has destined you to be. And so last week

we looked at the cultural mantra of

follow your heart.

How the culture, how society, how how

everything about the world today says

you need to do what you want. Follow

your heart. If it feels good to you, if

you want to live your truth, embrace it.

Live it out. Do your thing. And we

looked at some of the words from the

prophet Jeremiah in the Old Testament.

And as he declared to a rebelling nation

of Judah, he told them, "Be mindful of

following your heart." Because the heart

is deceitful above all else.

If we follow our feelings, it'll lead us

down the road of destruction. Because if

all we ever do is wait to follow the

Lord when we feel like it, then it'll be

a long waiting game. Because the heart

rebels against God. The heart turns from

God. And if we follow our heart, it'll

lead us straight away from the Lord. And

so what did we learn? We don't follow

our heart. We guard our heart. We lead

our heart. Because where your heart is,

what will be there also? Do you

remember? your treasure will be there.

So as children of God, we have to

develop the intentionality and the

discipline to ensure that we are

treasuring the right things.

And that means that I'm going through

the lens of biblical truth lead my heart

to things that honor, obey, and lift up

the holiness of Jesus. And so what I

want to do today

is sort of continue in this theme

because when someone follows their

heart, there is another mantra that the

culture says you should live by.

And it's this phrase that says you are

enough.

that everything meant for success

and accomplishing your dreams and

receiving accolades is found within

yourself. Believe in yourself, trust in

your might, trust in your strength, and

you can get it done. But what does the

Bible say about such a mindset? What

does the Bible say when we begin to form

and craft our life, our marriage, our

family, our finances, our health, and

everything about us after this mindset

that it's all about me. I am

enough.

What I want to challenge us with this

morning

is to reject the mindset of

self-sufficiency.

you and I lack probably in more ways

than we really believe

because at the end of the day we are not

as good as we think we are. And maybe

you're sitting here this morning and you

say, Roland, I came to be encouraged

this morning. Stick with me because part

of confronting the reality and the pain

of the sin that is our life and the

reality that we must reject

self-sufficiency and understand that

apart from Jesus, I am a sinner. I am a

scoundrel who does nothing more than

rebel against his holiness. Then it

allows the spirit through the truth of

God's word to recognize who Christ is

and what his life, death, and

resurrection has accomplished.

and therein lies the hope of the world.

So, we're going to be in 2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 3 · chapter mention

chapter 3 this morning. Look at verses

1-6. And while the context of our

passage deals with the Apostle Paul

giving a defense of his ministry,

letting the people of Corinth know that

his credentials, that his true

credentials for making maximum kingdom

impact, for proclaiming the gospel and

bringing about life change is not found

in structures, organizations, or the

accolades or accomplishments of this

world. Those things are great. Those

things are praiseworthy. Follow your

dreams, your goals, and your ambitions,

but never at the risk of your

relationship with Jesus.

>> And so Paul makes it clear, my

credentials don't lie in the structures

and organizations of this world. My

credentials lie in who God is

demonstrated to me through his son,

Jesus, who empowers me with the greatest

credential there is for the believer in

Jesus Christ, his

spirit.

This is how throughout the entire book

of Acts, and we'll continue in our

series in the book of Acts over the next

couple of weeks, we see the apostles

working under the authority of Christ to

raise people from the dead, to heal

diseases, to call people to new life,

churches thriving in the midst of

persecution.

Why? because the spirit that dwells in

them is greater and far more powerful

than any spirit that would come against

them. And the spirit that comes against

God's people wants us to fall into the

trap of believing that we can trust in

our own self-sufficiency. And when we

trust in ourselves, when we remove any

semblance of confidence in God and make

it a confidence in self, then we become

a people who believe the cultural

mantra, this lie, this deception that

you are enough.

And so in our passage, Paul

begins to give a defense

of where our adequacy truly lies,

of where our trust and confidence

rests.

And this is about us being challenged

to empty ourselves of ourselves

so that Christ might reign true and

supreme and holy and mighty. Every

single one of us, we live our lives

according to a specific pattern and

according to a specific

rhythm. And that pattern in rhythm is

what we perceive to be true. We see this

happening in the culture. What people

perceive to be true about life, what

people perceive to be true about

marriage, about sexuality, about gender

identity. And the list goes on and on.

And we craft beliefs, we hold

convictions, and we live our lives in

such a way that is determined by things

we hold to be true. And often, and I

want us to hear this, if what we

perceive to be true ends up being false,

then it leads us down the road of

destruction.

Let me just share with you real quick

and then we'll get to our text. Proverbs

Proverbs 14:12

14:12 says, "There is a way that seems

right,

but it ends in death."

There are things that we perceive are

right. And so we mold our lives around

such things. Your marriage is molded

around a certain list of convictions.

Your your family, the way that you

parent, the way that you work, the way

that you own a business, the way that

you interact with your students,

teachers, the way that you interact with

your clients, those who are in sales,

the way that you interact with the

cashier at Lowe's, with the server over

at Milas. All these things are being

molded and crafted by what you perceive

to be true. And if your perception of

truth ends up being false, and most

often it is for those apart from Jesus

Christ or those who are not intentional

and disciplined about having their lives

crafted and formed by truth, it's going

to end in destruction.

And so there's a way that seems right to

us, but its end is the way of death.

Or let me phrase it another way. The

world says you got this.

But I want us to clarify that statement.

You got this because God's got this.

God holds it in his hand and through his

grace and mercy allows you

access to it. So with that in mind,

let's go to 1 Corinthians 3. We'll read

verses 1 through six.

Here's what Paul writes in verse one.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves

again?

There's almost a sense of of of being

facitious here. Paul's asking a

rhetorical question and it's based off

of the anticipated rebuttal he's getting

from the Corinthians based off of what

he's written in chapters 1 and two.

We'll get to that here in just a moment.

He continues, "Or do we need like some

letters of recommendation

to you or from you?

You yourself

are our letter written on our hearts,

known and read by everyone.

You show that you are Christ's letter? I

don't want to jump ahead too quick, but

does your life show that Christ is

written on your heart?

Do people look

at what you do? Do they listen to your

conversations? Do they see what you

post? And can they conclude that Christ

is written on your heart?

He continues, "It was delivered by us,

not written with ink." I love this. But

with the spirit of the living God. For

Christ to live in you means that Christ

will live through you. And if Christ is

living through you, he's living through

you by his spirit, the spirit of the

living God. He continues, it's not on

tablets of stone,

but on tablets of human hearts.

Such is the confidence we have through

Christ before God. It is not we are

competent in ourselves to claim as

anything is coming from ourselves. Some

of us need to hear that this morning.

I'm not competent in my self which is

what I love entirely about a particular

portion in the early birth of the church

in the book of Acts.

It goes this way. the apostles are are

looking at the leaders of the church and

they recognize that apart from God,

apart from Christ, it wouldn't be as

good as it is. It wouldn't be going the

way that it goes. And so they'll say

this, we were unlearned

men.

A translation would say we were idiots.

that God would take the foolishness of

my life, the foolishness of us as a

people, and he would use it in such a

way where it demonstrates to the world

out there that it could only be through

God and Christ Jesus and the indwelling

power of the spirit that this is

possible. This is what Paul echoes

here. It's not that we're competent,

that anything that has taken place here

comes from us. I've been so blessed

to pastor a church and no church is

perfect. We all need sharpening. We all

need to do better. We all need to

repent. There are things in our lives we

need to be held accountable for. And I

will be on the top of that list. But

I've been so blessed to lead and pastor

and be active and engaged and part of a

church where things go good.

And that doesn't mean we don't

experience our own pathways of trial and

tribulation, but it goes good in the

sense that together we understand what

it means to be brothers and sisters in

Christ. We understand what it means to

lean on the power of the Holy Spirit so

that through it all, GOD GETS THE GLORY.

BECAUSE WHAT WE recognize as a

collective and what I hope we recognize

as individuals is that we are not enough

in and of ourselves. That what God has

done here, he's done it because of him

and not us. We are not competent in

ourselves to claim anything is coming

from ourselves. But what our adequacy is

from God. He has made us competent to be

ministers of a new covenant. Isn't that

amazing?

The competency,

the wherewithal, the ability comes from

God. But there's a purpose behind it.

It's not so that we would sit on our

laurels. It's not so that we would

remain idle. It's not so that we would

tuck it away in our prayer closet, but

for what purpose? Verse six. To be

ministers of a new covenant. And here's

where Paul comes full circle. Not by the

letter, but of what? The spirit. For the

letter kills, but what does the spirit

do? The spirit gives life. And all God's

people said,

>> Lord, would you bless your word? Holy

Spirit, would you stir our hearts today?

I got three things I want to pull out

from here and show you

on this picture Paul is painting for the

Corinthian church. And then I want to

dive into some application.

Paul's relationship with the Corinthian

church was a bit rocky. Not because the

relationship didn't exist, but because

if you remember his first letter,

there's a good portion in there where

Paul is bringing accountability to the

Corinthian church. He's saying, "These

are things you've got wrong. These are

things you need to sharpen. These are

things you need to completely reject.

And the only way these things are made

possible is through a pursuit, a

seeking, and walking with in a

relationship with Jesus Christ." as he

writes second Corinthians to follow up

on that letter. And between 1

Corinthians and 2 Corinthians, there

were some people who crept into the

church who began preaching a false

gospel. Not only that, began hating on

Paul and telling the church, "Don't

believe Paul. Don't you know where he

comes from? Don't you know his past?

Anybody ever experienced that?

Look at me. Look at my credentials." And

this is what Paul is referencing when he

says we don't need letters. And so

people would bring this long list of

references and credentials saying look

at me. Look how great I am. Look how

accomplished I am. Believe me, don't

believe Paul. And Paul says, "Hey, we're

not enough." As a matter of fact, Paul

will later list his credentials, his

earthly credentials, and he had some

phenomenal credentials. The scripture

says that he was a Pharisee among

Pharisees. And to be a Pharisee among

Pharisees, there's even some debate that

he was part of the Sanhedrin. And just

real quick to dive into some church

talk, to be a Pharisee among Pharisees

and to be part of the Sanhedrin was to

be the best of the best of the best of

the best

>> of religious groups in the Bible. And

later Paul will say,"I had their

credentials, but those things don't

matter if the spirit is absent."

Which is why to believe that I am enough

is to believe in a false truth and to

rebel against God's glory in my life.

And so Paul spends the rest of our

passage, he'll get into it much later

here in the rest of our letter, bringing

about this picture where Christ is at

the center. And when Christ is at the

center, he becomes the very overflow

that extends into other areas of our

life. So with the remaining time that we

have, let me go down three things. If

you're taking notes, here's the first

one we want to look at. Number one, stop

commending yourself.

We would call this patting yourself on

the back. Now, now let me just let me

just give some clarity here. There's

nothing wrong with being proud

for what you've accomplished.

Some of you in here, you are educated

to the highest level. Praise God for

that. Rejoice. Be proud of that. You put

blood, sweat, and tears figuratively

into all of that. Some of you, you have

successful businesses.

Some of you, you've accomplished some

great things in life. Praise God. This

is not a passage against being proud of

yourself. This is a passage in replacing

Christ with yourself as a source of your

success,

as a source of the goodness in your

life. And Paul right out the gate says,

"Stop commending yourself." Go back with

me to verse one.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves

again?

And so Paul's anticipating

this fireback response from the

Corinthians from the very people he's

speaking against.

And so Paul anticipates and say, "No,

here Paul goes again talking about

himself." And Paul is doing the exact

opposite. And in speaking this way, he

is challenging the Corinthians to not

look within, but to look upward, to look

at Christ. I love the way the message

translation puts it.

It writes, "Does it sound like we're

patting ourselves on the back, insisting

on our own credentials, asserting our

authority?" Well, we are not.

When we lift up the name of Jesus, when

we point to him as our confidence,

that's a gamecher. And here's what Paul

is doing. And and I want us to really

grab onto this this morning. Paul is

refusing to make himself the ultimate

evidence of greatness.

So when people look at your life and

they see the good things in your life,

we should make it absolutely clear

through both word and deed that the

greatness in our life is not a result of

ourselves. We need to empty ourselves of

ourselves but is a result of who God is

demonstrated to the world through his

son Jesus Christ and experience affirmed

and indwelt by his spirit. Stop

commending your selves.

Our culture constantly encourages us to

build up ourselves. Promote yourself.

Believe in yourself. Prove yourself. The

strength is in yourself. And eventually,

here's what happens when we believe this

cultural mantra that we are enough. that

the gifts from God and God's work in and

through us subtly becomes evidence

that we don't really need God. Many of

us can bear witness to that truth.

Things are going great in our lives. And

where there was once a stirring, a deep

stirring for abiding and deeper

affections for the Lord begin to wne

away, begin to disappear because things

are going great. And when things go

great, most often, especially in Western

culture, there's little dependence on

the Lord. So what do we do?

Ask yourself

when you are tempted, do you say, "I've

got this."

Or do you say, "God's got this?" Do you

see the shift in confidence? Do you see

the shift in focus? Because sometimes

our our greatest temptation towards

self-sufficiency, our greatest

temptation towards this mantra that that

I am enough, that you are enough, is not

necessarily our weaknesses, but our

strengths. because we look to them and

we say, "Look how good things are

going." And we believe to trust in self.

Let me make sure I I I say this before

we move on. The things we're good at can

become the places where we're least

likely to pray,

least likely to depend on God, and least

likely to seek his wisdom. Let me share

with you a personal story that held me

so accountable.

I came across

a clip from a podcast this past week

that talked about how for the pastor,

the pastor should never go to the pulpit

absent of prayer.

I mean, gut-wrenching on your knees

before the Lord because I don't ever

want you to hear the voice of Roland. I

want you to hear the voice of God as

declared through the scriptures,

proclaimed through his vessel.

And it held me accountable because I

realized,

man, I've this this past week has been

been real difficult in terms of of deep

abiding prayer. Not because I don't want

to, but because rhythm, routine, life,

just the way things are going, it could

keep us and cause us to neglect the

importance of intentionality and

discipline and prayer. Anybody ever been

there? And there was this moment of

conviction, especially for someone in my

role. And I'm so grateful to be in the

role that I am, especially someone in my

role who is afforded the time to

realize, man, I have not sought the

Lord. And this is where this part really

resonates with me because I'm I'm not

looking for a pat on the back. I believe

one of the giftings God has given me is

to be a powerful preacher and teacher.

One of the easiest parts about pastoring

for me is preaching. It just comes so

natural to me. I believe you might

disagree with that which is fine. But it

be it comes very na it's not a struggle

for me to open up God's word to study

God's word. It is a joy

but so often because that is my

strength. I can lean into my strength

absent God's guidance and direction.

Some of you parents are phenomenal

parents. Some of you men and women are

phenomenal spouses. Praise God. Some of

you are phenomenal business owners.

You're phenomenal teachers, phenomenal

administrators, phenomenal employees.

Praise God for your giftings, but don't

ever let your giftings blind you from

dependence on the Lord.

Stop commending yourself. Here's the

second thing. Let your life point to

Christ.

Paul could have easily said, "Look at my

credentials. Look at what I've

accomplished."

But he doesn't.

He lets his life point to Christ. What

does your life point to? Does your life

point to Christ? Let's look at verses

two and three.

Paul writes, "You yourselves are our

letter written on our hearts, known and

read by everyone." Paul Paul is saying,

"Don't look for the credentials. Look

for the evidence. Look at what God has

done. Some of you here this morning, you

might not feel worthy.

You might feel that the sin of your life

is far greater than the mercy and grace

of Jesus. Number one, it's not. But

number two, look at the evidence. Well,

what does the evidence show, Roland?

That God so loved the world. And insert

your name there. God so loved Roland

that he gave his only begotten son. So

that when Roland places his yes, his

hope, faith, and trust, believes in him,

I will escape perishing

and I will celebrate eternal life with

Jesus Christ.

That's the evidence.

You show that you are Christ's letter.

Verse three, delivered by us, not

written with ink, but with the spirit of

the living God, not on tablets of stone,

but on tablets of human hearts. We don't

need manufactured credentials. We heard

a powerful testimony about how it was

all Jesus.

The right time, the right place, the

right people, all orchestrated by the

sovereign God of the universe. And

here's the thing, the Christian life

should never be about manufacturing

an impressive version of yourself. We're

all tempted to do it. We're all tempted

to put, especially in today's te

technological society, we're all tempted

to put the to put one, two, three,

rolling. Come on. We're all tempted to

put the best version of ourselves

online.

And there's not, again, there's nothing

wrong with being proud of what you've

accomplished. There's nothing wrong with

being proud of what you're doing, but

don't ever let it replace a confidence

and a dependency on the Lord. Do people

look at those things and then conclude

Jesus is Lord?

Jesus is moving. Jesus is at your

center. Jesus is your everything.

Because often we can be tempted to write

on tablets of stone

when we need to understand that it's

been written on the tablet of the human

heart. We don't need to manufacture

impressive versions of oursel. What we

need to commit to is becoming living

evidence of what Christ can do in the

life of somebody.

How Christ can restore your marriage.

How Christ can restore self-perception.

how Christ couldn't restore someone who

thought their sin was far great, far

greater than the love of Christ and his

mercy and his grace to then

understanding that though my sin runs

runs deep, God's grace runs deeper. Let

your life point to Christ. And here's

the last thing. Let's put our confidence

in Christ.

Let's not trust in self. Remember, we

need to reject self-sufficiency. Empty

ourselves of ourselves. And again, Paul

is doing this in the contracts of his

apostolic ministry.

He's defending

who he is as the person God has called

him to be. And what he is saying is,

look at what the spirit does.

And the confidence and dependence that I

have is not on anything that's been

accomplished. Praise God for what's been

accomplished, but it's on the Lord

Jesus.

Go with me to verses 4-6.

Such is the confidence we have through

Christ before God. Well, why does he

phrase it that way? Because remember,

he's talking about the spirit of the

living God that is written on the tablet

of the human heart. So, as a result of

that, the confidence we have through

Christ before God. It is not that we are

competent in ourselves to claim anything

that's coming from ourselves, but what

our adequacy, our sufficiency,

it all comes from God. He has made us

competent to be ministers of a new

covenant, not of the letter, but of the

spirit. For the letter kills, but what

does the spirit do? The spirit gives

life. Now, it's not up on the screen,

but if your Bible's open, fast forward a

couple of verses to verse eight. Because

I love how Paul's bringing clarification

here. Because in verse eight, he'll say,

"How will the ministry of the spirit not

be more glorious?

all your accomplishments, all your goals

that have been met, all your accolades,

all the greatness that is your life and

the blessings you've received and

experience. Yes, the spirit is always

far greater.

Why? Because even absent all of that

stuff,

there is still a confidence in Christ.

This is tough even for me to live out

often.

Even when things are not going good,

our confidence in Christ should not

waver or falter. And the reality is it

does. It does. But that should be the

trigger. That should be the catalyst for

us to pursue all the more who Christ is.

And Paul has never said, he is not

saying that I'm incapable.

What he's saying is I'm dependent.

I'm dependent on the Lord. So let's

close with this. Let me just share with

you some quick application.

How do we do this? How do we reject the

temptation towards self-sufficiency so

that we can grow in our confidence of

who God is? I'll go through these real

quickly. Number one, this is real

simple. Trust in the Lord.

Trust in the Lord. Now, there's a

diagnostic question that I think we can

ask ourselves to determine, am I

trusting in the Lord? And here's how the

question is asked. Am I fulfilling

am I filling my mind with the opinions

of the world more than with the truth of

God?

What do you fill your mind, your heart,

your spirit with? Is it the truth of

God's word or is it the things of the

world?

The more that we are engaged with this,

the more we're making investments into

our spiritual bank account, so when the

world attempts to come against us, and

the world will, it's not a matter of if,

it's a matter of when, come against us,

we can make spiritual withdrawals.

Trust in the Lord. Number two, crucify

your flesh.

That is a daily, daily discipline.

Crucify your flesh.

Crucify your thoughts. Crucify your

mouth. Crucify your flesh. What does

that mean? Let's ask the question.

Am I saying no to the things that

dishonor Christ?

Think about what you've posted this last

week. Think about what you've looked at

on your algorithm this past week. Think

about the thoughts that you you've had

this past week. Think about the actions,

the choices, and decisions you've done

this past week. And then ask yourself,

have I said no to the things that

dishonor Christ? My guess with a crowd

this big is that probably most of us

have not.

This is the reality of the of the

spiritual life.

Now when we recognize that we have not,

then the follow-up question is, am I

broken over it?

Is my spirit broken over my flesh taking

control over the self-sufficiency that

I've made God?

And if your flesh is not broken, I'm no

judging jury, but if your flesh is not

broken over it, that could be that could

be evidence that you have yet to place

your hope, faith, and trust in Jesus

Christ.

And here's the third one. Walk in faith.

Walk in faith. Am I saying yes to the

things that honor Christ?

And again, with a crowd this size, I

would say some of us are saying yes to

that. I am honoring Christ.

It's a struggle to honor Jesus. Did you

know that?

Now, it can get easier for us because

the more we fall in love with God's

truth, the more we engage with God's

truth, the more we fill our spirit with

God's truth, the more we are made aware

of the spirit that dwells and rests and

works through us. Again, I say this

often, we'll never be sinless,

but the more we abide in the Lord, the

more we will sin less.

And so let's walk in faith. Let's honor

the Lord. Let's trust in him. He is our

daily bread.

He is our guidance. He is our direction.

Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your

word. We thank you for your truth. And

we thank you that in the midst of a

culture

that pulls us in a direction saying

we're adequate. We're sufficient in and

of ourselves, we can be reminded through

your truth that indeed we are not.

And so Lord, I pray that you would stir

hearts today as you've always done. Your

spirit is present here, but would you

stir in us a greater awareness of how

your spirit is moving and working? This

we ask in Christ Jesus name. All God's

people said, amen. Hey, we're going to

close our service. We're going to sing

together. Let's stand.

And this is going to be a time of

response.

What that means is [music] you've heard

the word of God proclaimed. We've sung

the word of God. We've opened up the

word. We've learned the word of God

together. Now, what is going to be your

response?

What's going to be your response [music]

Monday morning on the conference call,

at the sales meeting, at the water

cooler?

What's going to be your [music]

response? Maybe for some of you, the the

spirit is calling you out of your sin

into [music] eternal life. If that's

you, Pastor Eric and myself, we'll be

available up here. We love to walk you

through what salvation is. We love to

celebrate with you your decision.

Maybe some of you, [music] you just want

prayer through a struggle that you're

going through. Or maybe you want to just

rejoice in a blessing God has brought

your way. Again, Pastor Eric and myself

will be available. We'd love to

celebrate and pray with you. Or if you

just want to have some time with the

Lord right here at the altar, this is

what this response time is available

for. I love you, church.

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