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open our Bibles. We'll we'll go to a

safe spot.

>> Let's go to the word of God [laughter]

to uh Luke chapter 13.

Luke 13 · chapter mention

you you know God uh if you go back

through the very beginning of the church

when you go back through really

in uh Acts chapter 1 vers8 where the

Acts 1 · chapter mention

disciples were asking Jesus about his

return and and so on and he said Acts

Acts 1 · chapter mention

chapter 1 uh uh verse 8 he says but

you'll receive power after that the Holy

Ghost has come upon you and you'll be

able to have uh your bills all paid your

your master card will be fine and and

well you Now, don't misunderstand me.

I'm all for having the bills paid.

That's a good thing. All right? Because

they do they do come around. But really,

if you go back through what did what did

Jesus launch us out for? I mean, how did

he start this out? You'll receive power

after the Holy Ghost has come upon you,

and you shall

>> be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem

and Judea and Samaria and the uttermost

parts of the world. He didn't say, you

know, you'll be witnesses unto me in

Jerusalem. If you ever get that city

reached, then you can go to Judea. And

yeah, if you ever get past that, you He

didn't say go one step at a time. He

said you just attack all four.

Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the uttermost

parts of the world. We have a four-point

plan. Starts out where we live and it

ends up at the uttermost parts of the

earth.

The way Jesus started all this was uh

with um I I I don't know if it's f if

it's okay to use the terminology, but

kind of a rag tag remnant.

120 people in the upper room. And they

didn't mind staying in the upper room

because that's the city that just

crucified Jesus. They're not real they

don't they're not real concerned about

getting out into the streets at that

particular point. But if you go back

through there, um

Jesus, he was raising an an army. You

stop and think all he had if that 120

would have would have just decided not

to do anything, I'm not sure where we'd

have gone. Not sure what would have

happened, but those 120, he said,

"You'll receive power after the Holy

Ghost has come upon you, and you'll be

witnesses unto me." And so on. And so he

got them all fired up, ready for it. And

um and then next thing you know, Acts

Acts 2 · chapter mention

chapter 2, you know, now when the dead

Pentecost was fully come, they all with

one accord in one place. And suddenly

there came a sound from heaven as of a

rushing mighty wind, filled all the

house where they were sitting. There

appeared unto them cloven tongues like

as of fire and sat upon each one of

them. They're all filled with the Holy

Ghost. Began to speak with other tongues

as the Spirit gave them utterance. And

and next thing you know, they're

launched to the nations of the world.

You know, Peter and John, you know, like

they they went into the temple at the

hour of prayer, Acts the third chapter.

And here's a man laid daily at the gate

to ask alms, never taken a step in his

life. Okay? He's sitting there. He's

been begging all of his life. He's, you

know, he's he's he's a middle-aged guy

and and his controllers taking they

apparently put him in that spot every

day and and they give him enough money

to eat on and they take the rest. That's

kind of the way those things work in

those locations

as far as we can tell.

And you know, Peter and John uh they

they go into the temple at the hour of

prayer. But on the way in the man, he's

begging there and Peter stops and

fastens his eyes on him. Says he says,

"Uh, silver, silver and gold have I

none, but what I such as I have give I

thee. I don't have what you want, but I

got what you need. What you want will

feed you for part of a meal. What you

need will change your life." Amen.

>> Okay. So, if you look at the church,

what's the church doing? The church

caught hold of our of our uh mandate.

The mandate was go into all the world,

preach the gospel to every creature.

Markapter 16, Acts 1:8, you'll receive

Acts 1:8

power after the Holy Ghost has come upon

you. You'll be witnesses. Didn't just

say you'll go witness, you'll be

witnesses. And then, you know, the the

further you go, the more you see from

the very beginning of this thing, God

got across to the church what our

purpose was. And that is to shake the

world.

>> That's who we are. That's what we do.

Okay. Now, I'm, you know, and don't

misunderstand me. Like I said, I'm I'm

all for getting the, you know, the

master card paid. I'm all for getting

the utility. I'm all for our needs being

met. That's a part of it. My God shall

supply all of our need according to his

riches and glory by Christ Jesus. But

you, I'll be honest with you, might as

well. You know,

when I uh when I got my life right with

God, it was a ways away. But when I got

my life right with God, November 1972, I

was in college,

uh, doing the best I could to not do

anything, um, you know, two and a half

years in college. I never declared a

major, missed a lot of classes, you

know. Well, anyway, um, but I go to this

meeting, I walk an aisle, I pray a

prayer, I and and I make a decision to

walk with Jesus. I I I do that. and uh

you know and so boy I mean I I got

involved with um the the the guy that

got me to go to the meeting where I went

was George Fiero. He was from Holland,

Michigan. He was one of the students

there. Um you know God will go a long

ways. I mean, I don't even know where

the guy lived on the campus. But next

thing I know, in the middle of the term,

he gets transferred to my dorm. And he's

one of those

believer people,

you know, and he came walk first thing

he comes walking down the hall looking

for me. I don't know how he knew I was

in there, but anyway. Anyway, he's the

one that that coerced me to go to this

meeting. And so anyway, and he was one

of the navigators. didn't know what the

navigators were, but it was, you know,

was found out it was a good campus group

and I didn't know there was such a thing

as a campus group. I just knew I was on

a campus and uh so I started going to

the navigators group and I went there

for a little while and and uh learned

some good things, began to grow in some

things and and then I found some more

friends in the dorm that went to um um

uh Campus Crusade and Campus Crusade for

Christ. That was another organization,

campus organization. And um they they

had the campus directors had my life all

planned out for me. They let me know I'm

going to finish up. I'm going to I'm

going to eventually go to classes and

get grades and I'm going to I'm going to

graduate and and they're going to send

me to goodness, where is it? Out in

California somewhere out there. The the

headquarters for Campus Crusade. They're

I'm going to be I'm going to end up

being a campus director. They got this

all figured out for me. So, they're

they're taking me um with, you know, I'd

go with the campus director and a couple

other guys and we'd go we'd go to the to

the uh dorms. We'd go we'd go to the

frat houses, you know. Um we bunch of us

went one time to uh spring break. Uh we

we somehow got went left a blizzard up

in Michigan and we caught a trip down to

um Daytona Beach and went on beach

product projects. We we took handfuls of

four spiritual laws and we went up and

down the beaches and just praying with

people. We were getting we were getting

people saved. I mean probably the first

four or five days I was on that uh beach

project. I don't think I had excuse me.

I [clears throat] don't think I had

anybody that said no I don't want that.

I prayed with almost everybody I stopped

to talk to. Hungriest people I'd ever

seen. So anyway, that's what that's that

was life. Getting people saved, you

know, and I'm thinking, "Oh, I'll

probably do what these guys are saying.

probably go ahead and be a campus

director for some university somewhere.

I got this all figured out.

And uh and it was okay until I went home

for the summer and got filled with the

Holy Ghost.

And then they had a talk with me and

said, "You know, when this happens to

people, we we have to ask them to leave

because they make it a test of

fellowship." I'm thinking

I didn't I I didn't make it a test of

fellowship. You're the one that told me

I had to leave. But anyway, but but

honestly, it was a good thing. Uh God

had something different for my life. And

they were very nice about it. Honestly,

they were. And uh you know, but I what I

never could figure out was uh once I got

over into being filled with the Holy

Ghost, Jesus said, "You'll receive power

You'll what? You'll receive power after

the Holy Ghost has come upon you. And

what's the next thing he said? And you

shall what?

>> Be witnesses unto me.

>> So I thought, boy, this is great, man.

Once you get filled with the Holy Ghost,

you ought to really be a soul winner,

man. We've been doing this for oh, a

year, year and a half, something like

that. Got a lot of people born again on

the campuses, you know. And but then I

found out I got filled with the Holy

Ghost and I got around all the full full

gospel people and they didn't soul win.

Now,

>> I don't know if you ever saw that or

not, but the the soulwinning went out

the window. I never could figure out

why. You get power to be a witness and

then you quit being a witness.

>> But it's it but it's coming around full

circle.

>> God's raising up another army. He raised

up an army in Acts 1:8. He raised up an

Acts 1:8

army in Acts chapter 2. Um,

Acts 2 · chapter mention

honestly, I don't know. You know, it's

it's strictly an opinion. Um but uh you

know a lot of people have said of course

brother Hagen's his primary um mandate

was to go teach my people faith. You

know most of us we've heard him say that

lots and lots of times before he checked

out and went to heaven what 22 years ago

something like that. But um anyway you

know uh that was his mandate. But I've

heard a number of people that are have

been around longer than me and they said

if you look at this his his message was

to go teach my people faith. His mandate

was to raise up a generation of leaders.

And if you look at what he did, he

raised up a generation of leaders. And

when I mean we started out that was I

was there 1974.

I got there September 1974.

And um there were there I don't know

that when I got there I think there were

70 of us and within two weeks time we're

down to 58. We were not going the right

direction with all that. And when I saw

that I mean I I rode a bicycle from out

by OU up to like fourth and Sheridan

in traffic.

They were using me for target practice.

It was just crazy out there. And so I

you know uh so I'm I'm I go to school. I

don't I, you know, I'm I I'm dressed

like a Mormon missionary. I don't know

what to expect.

I got a white shirt, I got a tie, I've

got, you know, and I had hair at the

time and I buzzed a lot of that off, but

I thought, you know, I'm I'm going to a

Bible school and I'm and and I I showed

up there and I walked up to the side

door. I'm going somewhere with this. And

I went up to and it was just this it was

Shared Road Assembly, which was a nice

church, but then they had little wooden

chapel on the side of it. And brother

Millard had told Brother Hagen, "Yeah,

you can use that. You can use that to

start your school in." And which was

good because we had 58 of us and and we

pretty much filled the the place. Did it

didn't hold a lot. And so I I you know,

I pull up on this borrowed bicycle. My

roommate had borrowed it from his

girlfriend who was an OU student and he

was he was housing it for her at his

apartment. And so anyway, so I ride up

on this bicycle. So I get off and I

said, "Look, I mean, if all I needed was

a little badge over here that [laughter]

and this guy comes walking out and and

he's he's got this long ratty sweater

on. He's got all you can see are two two

wire rim glasses and hair. He's got hair

down over his shoulders. He's got a full

beard. He's got all you can see I think

he's talking, but all you can see these

two little eyes coming through this."

And I said, "Is there a Bible school

here?" He said, 'Yeah.' And I said,

'Where is it?' He said, ' It's not

inside the door. I said, 'Are there any

students?' He said, 'Yeah, I'm one of

them.' And I thought, I am in the right

place. I [laughter] am this is really

going to this is going to be good, you

know. I got rid of my white shirt, my

black tie, my badge, everything,

you know, and and uh but I got in there

and God, there were 58 of us and it was

a miracle that there was ever a second

year.

>> You had to have seen the first year. and

and there's a few still a few of us

around 50 years later. But but anyway,

looking back through there, you know,

God took a bunch of um rag tag wild

hungry

kind of unusual people and

[clears throat] put us in there for nine

months time and and launched the

beginning of a move of God. Now my

goodness, now you can find Rama

graduates all over the world everywhere.

There are Rama schools. There arama

churches. There are Rama graduates.

There aroma of Bible schools. They're

all over the world. And God raised up a

gen I don't know. I'm not saying that's

what it was all about, but it sure

produced a generation of leaders. And

And but but what did it do? It launched

them all over the world uh to raise up

churches, crusades, frontier evangelism,

and reach people, get people born again.

And that was great. But here we are 50

years later and and uh there's just

there's a stirring right now. Um you

know I uh we had uh prayer con last week

and and one subject one subject we did

not get to we just you just four days

you run out of time. But one subject I

wanted to get to we will sometime and

that is we we're going to pray for

revival of the supernatural church.

>> And now we got churches everywhere. And

I I don't mean this in a bad way, pretty

much so, but we got churches all over

the world. But where is

a guy told me there's a guy that

[clears throat and cough] was actually

was in our church when we were in

Anybody remember uh East Central.

One person said yes. They were most of

us won't admit it. We were our church

was in East Central and there was a guy

walked up and he kind of looked kind of

like that guy that was in the school

that I met there. Guy walks up and and

he said, "I'm part of the uh

part of the he said, "I'm in I'm in a

music group called the Kentucky Head

Hunters."

>> I didn't know either. And uh [cough]

[clears throat]

he said uh found out later it's pretty

well-known group. He did a lot of

traveling and so on. and out of a we

have a friend has church in in uh uh

Tennessee and he'd come out of that

church and he came out here to to tell

us I'm not real sure exactly what his

purpose was but uh really a nice guy and

he came up and after a number of weeks

he came up and he said you know I he

says I've been listening every week I

said yeah and he said you keep talking

about a move of God you keep talking

about revival you keep talking about the

gifts of the spirit you keep talking

about the power of God you keep talk I

said good you're listening he said yeah

I got one question.

I said, "Okay, what's that?" He said,

"Where's the I've been hearing this all

my life?" My question is, "Where's the

stuff?

>> I that never that phrase has never left

me."

>> Okay. He said, "Where's the stuff? We're

talking. Everybody's talked. I've heard

it all my life. I've heard it all

growing up." He he'd probably have been,

I would say, maybe in his mid-30s at the

time. I've heard it all my life. I've

heard everybody say it in every way you

can think of. But he said, "I got a

question. Where's the stuff?" And I

said, "If you can find out, please let

me know because there's a lot of us that

are looking for it, praying about it, a

asking. We're doing everything we know

to do." But I'll just say this. I

believe we're back there. I I believe

it. God started out with 120 in the

upper room and he changed the world with

that. I believe if God can just get a

rag tag remnant of hungry people and get

a if he can get in us what he got got in

them 2,000 years ago, if he can do that,

we can shake the world.

>> Yeah,

>> I've got I am very convinced of that.

There's something happening. There's a

there's a move of God. You know, you see

we've got, you know, the Gen Z revival.

Well, that's going all over the world, a

lot of places. There's something

happening. There's churches being raised

up. There's groups of young people

getting hungry for the things of God.

It's it's it's coming on the university

campuses. It's it's

I've said it before. Some of us remember

the

uh Woodstock generation.

Few do. Okay. Few before most of you,

but anyway, some of us remember the

Woodstock generation, the the hippie

movement, the whole bit. That's what was

going strong when I was in college. Um,

but then all of a sudden, here comes out

of kind of out of nowhere, here comes

the Jesus Revolution.

And when the Jesus Revolution hit,

everything began to change. It turned

into the charismatic move and it shook

planet Earth. We were we were in places

the Berlin Wall had just come down. We

were in places in in the eastern part of

East Germany

and um they'd been having prayer 24

hours a day, seven days a week for a

hundred years. And it didn't stop

because of the didn't stop because of

the communist movement. It didn't stop

because of of you know the Berlin wall.

Didn't stop. The the move of God kept

going. And uh you know and I thought you

know if they could if they could do that

through the communist move through

through Moscow and all that if they can

do that then what should the church be

able to be doing now?

>> I've just I've got a a stirring that I

believe what we're looking for. We need

to get back over where we not just have

churches and big churches. We need to

have

Holy Ghost churches.

>> We need to have

we need to have churches with the

supernatural. We need to have re we need

to have a revival of the power of God.

>> That really that's how we started. God

didn't plan, as we've said many times,

God didn't plan to start us out with

fire and end us up with ice. He didn't

plan to get us to the place where we can

go, oh, we kept getting bigger and

bigger and bigger and bigger until we

said, "This is all done. Let's all just

check out and go to heaven." No. No.

When we go there, there's going to be

rain. There's going to be harvest. And

then we're checking out, but we're not

checking out until there's a harvest

that comes from the rain.

>> He said he'd come to us as the rain, the

former and the latter rain of the earth.

God's not done yet.

>> He's just looking for cooperation.

>> There's a move of God. it'll show up if

he can just get he doesn't it's not the

money doesn't bother him.

He's got plenty of that. He knows where

the gold's all buried. Okay. But all he

needs is manpower. All he needs are

people with an insight into the fact

that we'll do it. God will back us up.

>> So anyway, that's not even my message.

That was just a place to start. So where

did I say Luke the 13th chapter?

Um, I I've got a a a stirring um for

particularly for midweeks, the Wednesday

nights. Um, I've said it before. I'm not

real sure where all it's going to go or

how it's going to get there, but I've

got a stirring that our purpose in

Wednesday night is a little different

than anything else we're doing. And I

believe God, if we'll let him do it, I

believe God will raise up a group of

people here and he'll get us um he'll

get us focused on why why we're on

planet Earth. I believe he'll get us

raised up for what we're supposed to do.

Okay. Um we've seen it. We've been

there. We we've seen God do amazing

things in different meetings. Uh again,

uh I was I worked for Brother Hagen from

1975 on for a few years. Um spent a few

years working, traveling with them and

so on and and was able to see healings

and miracles on the road back then.

Okay. Um, but I'm yet to see what I

believe the Bible shows us in the

beginning days of the church. And we've

just got to get back there.

>> All it takes is people.

And here we are. So uh so anyway, um uh

let's we'll start there. Luke chapter 13

Luke 13 · chapter mention

in verse uh we'll start with verse 10.

I'm not sure if we'll get any further

than that. We'll see. Says here in verse

10 says that he meaning of course

meaning Jesus he was teaching. Now he

was doing what? He's doing what?

>> He was teaching in the

>> synagogue on the Sabbath. Okay. All

right. This is how this all starts. If

we can find out

Jesus said uh John chapter 14, I believe

John 14 · chapter mention

verse 12. He said um uh he said uh

you'll receive power after the Holy

Ghost has come upon you and you'll be

witnesses unto me. No, I got the right

verse here. John chapter 14 verse12. He

John 14 · chapter mention

talked to us back there and said um how

we would uh

>> the works. Thank you. He that believeth

on me. I was just seeing if you knew it.

[laughter]

>> He that believeth on me. John 14:12. He

John 14:12

that believeth on me. He didn't say you

have to be an apostle, a prophet,

evangelist, pastor, teacher, helps,

governments, diversities of tongues. No.

He said he that believeth on me.

>> Anybody got any believers in here?

See, you put your hand up. You just

qualified yourself.

>> God wrote it down. He that believeth on

me, the

>> works that I do.

>> I don't I don't know why the church lost

track of this over the years, but it's

we're getting it back.

>> He that believeth on me, the works that

I do shall he she do also,

and greater works than these shall he

do, because I go unto my father, and

I'll pray the father. And and then he

goes on says if we'll just use his name

that whatever we ask he will do it. We

could go on into all that but the bottom

line is he said he that believeth on me

the works that I do. You stop think

about it. If we should if we can learn

what that is and how that works. Jesus

was on planet earth took on flesh and

dwelt among us. A body thou has prepared

me. Okay to showed up on planet earth

uh as a baby comes to planet earth. We

see him when he's born. We see him when

he's probably about two years old when

the wise men finally located him. And

then we see him when he's 12 years old.

He's in the temple. He's asking

questions. He's learning. He's studying.

He's he's he's finding himself in the

scriptures.

Okay. I don't know. I wasn't there. But

I'm It looks like he was going in there

studying the scriptures, learning,

finding himself. I don't think it just

came as automatic. Well, he's born, took

his first breath, and he just knew

exactly what he's on planet Earth for.

Had to grow up.

>> Okay, so we see there he's in there

study. He's 12 years old. We know the

whole story there. He got he was in the

temple and his parents couldn't find him

and the whole bit. And we go back there

and then we see when he's about 30 years

old and he goes to the River Jordan,

baptized in Jordan by John the Baptist,

his his cousin, goes over there and at

this point he's never done a sign, a

wonder, a miracle, a healing, a

demonstration. He's never done anything

supernatural that we can find. He just

grew up

>> and got himself prepared and learned. We

So we see him doing that. So he uh

he uh he's baptized in the Jordan, comes

up out of the water praying. The heavens

open, the the spirit of God comes down

upon him in bodily form like a dove

remains upon him. And we see that Jesus,

you know, all of a sudden, all of a

sudden, everything changes. He's never

he's never healed a body. He's never

raised the dead. He's never cast out a

devil. We don't see anywhere in the

first 30 years of his life that he's

done anything. And then John said in so

many words, he said, "If everything he

did could be written down, I don't

suppose the world itself could contain

the volumes." So he went 30 years not

doing anything

far as the supernatural that we're aware

of to then he steps over in the the next

three to three and a half years, he does

more than they can write down.

>> Okay. Well, it's because he was Jesus.

He was Jesus when he was 29.

He was Jesus when he's 29 years old, 11

months, 18 days, 24 minutes. He was

Jesus all the way through. Well, he was

the son of God. Great. He was, but he

was the son of God then. As much as he

was the son of God when he turned 30.

And if it was just being the son of God

to cause that to happen, then

>> where are we?

>> Yeah.

>> To as many as believed on him, to them

gave he the power to become the

>> sons of God. He He was a son. showed us

his son, demonstrated a son, and then

made us sons.

>> And he says over there, he that

believeth on me, he didn't put any real,

you know, he didn't say you have to

reach perfection. Okay? He didn't say

you have to be, you know, a specially

designed mature. No, he just said he

that believes on me. I was glad to read

that. He that believes on me,

the works that I do shall he do also.

What I what works? The ones I do shall

he do also. And greater works than these

shall he do because I go unto my father.

So what happens when he went to the

father? He prayed the father. The father

poured out the holy ghost. What was it

that equipped Jesus to do the miracles?

The heavens opened. The spirit of God

descended in bodily form like a dove

upon him remained upon him. Jesus didn't

work any miracles until the word and the

spirit came together

>> and stayed on planet earth. And then he

just said, "He that believes on me, the

works that I do shall he do also, and

greater works than these shall he do

because I go unto my father." What's he

going to do when he goes to the father?

I'm going to pray the father and he'll

send

>> another comforter. So the one that

equipped me to do what I did, he'll come

on you and he'll equip you to do what I

did. So therefore, what I do, you'll do

because you're going to have the same

equipment I'm going to have. Isn't that

what he said?

>> This this is not rocket scientist.

>> It's really what he said.

>> We we've, you know, we've got the truth.

We got the scriptures. Somehow we have

failed to put this into operation.

>> Yeah.

>> But them days are gone forever.

>> God's raising up an army.

>> That's good.

>> Heard somebody say new breed.

I remember graduation at Rama. There

were 58 of us. It's a wonder any of us

graduated, but we're there and and and

uh Brother Hagen prophesied about a new

breed. And that's really what he did. We

didn't belong to any particular group.

We we were not in a denomination or a

non-denomination. We weren't

Pentecostal, charismatic word. There was

no word of faith. We beca we were the

first year of what we talked about as

the word of faith.

You may not think of it that way. I did.

But anyway, and and so, you know, it was

like we weren't part of anything except

there was a new breed of people, new

breed of leadership. New We didn't know

we were going to ever going to be

leadership. We just We're just glad we

could graduate.

[laughter]

Weren't sure that was coming. So,

anyway, the part I want to get to, need

to get going here. Part I want to get to

in here is

is uh

Jesus. Okay, let's let's follow this

through. Jesus said he and Jesus was in

the synagogue

on the Sabbath. What's he doing?

>> He's teaching. He's teaching. If you go

back through, and we've talked about

this so many times over the past years.

If you go back through in Matthew uh 4th

chapter 23rd verse, Jesus went round

about their cities and villages teaching

in their synagogues preaching the gospel

of the kingdom and healing every manner

of sickness and every manner of disease

among people. Well, it wasn't good

enough to put it in there once. Then you

go to Matthew the 9th chapter 35th

verse. Jesus went round about their

cities and villages teaching in their

synagogues preaching the gospel of the

kingdom and healing every manner of

sickness and every manner of disease

among the people. And he looked out and

he saw the people scattered as sheep

without a shepherd. He had compassion on

them. And he said, "The harvest truly is

plenteous, but the

>> labors are few. Pray therefore the Lord

of the harvest that he'd launch out

labors into his harvest."

He said the harvest, if the harvest was

plenteous 2,000 years ago, think what it

must look like now.

>> I don't know how many were on planet

Earth, but now we got what, 8.2, 8.3

billion, something like that. There is a

harvest out there. It's not any more

ripe than it was. There's just billions

more of us. So anyway, anyway, so

we know Jesus, his earthly ministry,

the the the basis of it was teaching,

preaching, and healing.

>> Teaching, preaching. Matthew uh 4:30 23,

Matthew 9:35, both places. And then you

Matthew 9:35

follow his ministry and you get back

here. this there there there's a there's

a woman she's been she's had uh some

kind of uh arthritis

uh spirit of infirmity for 18 years

could in no wise lift up herself what's

Jesus going to do to help her he didn't

just walk up there and tap his f no

what' he do taught her he taught her in

the ministry of Jesus in his earthly

ministry I don't have the exact numbers

I've counted them out before but I' I'd

have to start all over to do it now. But

in his earthly ministry, in three and a

half years, of all the people that he

healed the sick, cleansed the leper,

raised the dead, all the people, he got

a miracle into their lives, about 70 to

75% of them, he either said or inferred

it was their faith that did it. So,

you're talking about 22, 24, 25% got

something out of what we'd call the

sovereignty of God. They got a freebie.

They got a miracle just by spiritual

gifts. And we might as well get ready

because we're going to see a wave of

that come that's coming back to the body

of Christ. There is a wave of SP. But

you can't live on that. If they didn't

in the ministry of Jesus when he walked

on earth, then he's not going to expect

us to just wander

and just go by and just, you know, tap

people on the head and get them. No.

Even if we did, it wouldn't do him a

whole lot of good if we didn't teach

them something. That's right.

>> He said, "You cast the devil out of

somebody." Don't just let him go like

that because the the unclean spirit goes

out of a man and uh seeking rest finds

none. He comes back to the house from

whence he came and finding it swept,

garnished, and empty, he finds seven

more spirits even worse than himself.

Comes back in entering in and the last

state of that man's worse than the

first. If we don't get folks raised up,

healed up

and then put something on the inside of

them, they're just going to wander

around, get sick all over again. We got

a job to do. We need to teach them,

train them, equip them, and disciple

them.

>> It's not one or the other. It's the

system.

>> That's the way things work. That's the

way they didn't just go from place to

place to place in all the chapters of

the book of Acts and get a bunch of

people raised up. When they did the

everywhere they went, they ended up

Jerusalem. What' they do? They planted a

church. Antioch. What did they do? They

planted a church. Um um when you get

back there, you've got

um Acts 13:1 Church at Antioch. Certain

Acts 13:1

prophets and teachers such as Barnabas,

Saul, and three other men. Uh the Holy

Ghost launched them out of there. First

thing they did is go out and start

getting people saved and planting

churches. That's where all these Pauline

epistles came from. Paul raised works up

and then he sent letters to them. What

did he What's he talking about? We'll

get them saved. We'll get them in the

kingdom, but then we're going to get

them raised up.

We're going to we're going to teach

them, train them, disciple them, and put

them to work in the harvest field.

>> I don't know where we're going with all

this.

>> Am I still on the first verse? Yeah, I

think I am.

>> I was going somewhere with that. I know

I was. It's all right. That we've got

till the rapture. So, but anyway, so he

says back here, Jesus, we we know we

know his his uh the method to his

ministry

>> and he goes into the synagogue on the

Sabbath day and what's he doing? He's

>> he's teaching. See, he knows that about

three three out of four people are going

to get something. They're going to get

it because he's going to put something

into them. If they'll believe that and

act on it, they'll get it. But if he

didn't put something into them, they're

not gonna get anything. one out of four

they might we we saw that we saw in in

the um the pool of Bethesda,

you know, guy doesn't know anything.

Okay, he's been he's been laid up. He's

sick there at the pool of Bethesda.

Everybody else is getting healed, but he

can't get into the water in time to get

healed. Jesus walks up to him, knew he'd

been now a long time in that case. Was

it 38 years? Knew he'd been a long time

in that case. He said, "Is it is it your

will to be healed?" He said, "I can't."

Oh, there's your candidate for a miracle

right there.

>> I can't. I'm too slow. Somebody always

gets there ahead of me. He saw people

get in the water sick and he saw him get

out. Well,

he couldn't get there. He didn't have

the money to hire somebody to carry him

and he couldn't get there himself. He's

going to spend the rest of his life

there. Jesus doesn't say, "Okay, sit

down. I have a syllabus.

I'm going to start teaching you out of

my book, and we're going to I'm going to

teach you on the subject of faith and on

the subject of healing." We'll we'll

it'll take us probably a year or so, but

we'll just keep doing this. And I'm not

making fun of that. What I'm saying is

sometimes we think we get things all

figured out. Jesus didn't say anything

about that. He just said, "Is it your

will to be healed?" He said, "I can't."

He says, "Well, get up and walk anyway."

>> Anyway, I put I added that in. Guy gets

up, takes up his bed, and walks away

whole. The next day, he's walking down

the road. And people said, "What are you

doing? You're carrying your bed. You're

not supposed to do that on the Sabbath."

He said, "I can't help it. The guy that

healed me told me to do it." Who was it?

He said, "I have no idea who it was."

Jesus had conveyed himself away. A

multitude being in that place. He didn't

know. He didn't get healed because Jesus

walked up there. Jesus didn't teach him

anything. He just walked up and

delivered. So, he did do some of that.

We could just spend sessions just on the

miracles Jesus did. Those you those two

uh two and a half out of five those or

however we could spend time doing that.

But the bottom line is, as a general

rule, Jesus would get miracles into

people's lives because he put something

into them. I'm I'll always be eternally

grateful for what people put into my

life. Have, do, will. I'm I'll always be

thankful that people

took the time

>> to put something in my life.

>> Just start with some I didn't know

anything. My goodness. They didn't teach

it where I went to church. I guess I

wasn't there that often, but but uh you

know, so we see Jesus here and he's in

the synagogue teaching. Okay, that's

what he does. Teach, preach, heal,

teach, preach. And if he didn't get

people healed, he didn't just throw up

his hands and say, "Well, I tried. It

didn't work." If he didn't get people

healed, he backed up and he started

teaching again. Mark chapter 6:5, he

went to his own hometown and said there

he could do no mighty work. Save laid

his hands upon a few sick folk and

healed them.

few people with hangails. He just I mean

he's used to signs, wonders, and

miracles. He goes to his own hometown,

Mark 6:5, and he can't get anybody

Mark 6:5

healed.

He did no mighty works. Say he lay laid

his hands upon a few folks with minor

ailments. What did he do then? Marveled

because of

>> their unbelief. You know, if you can

find the problem, you can fix it.

>> What did he do about that? He marveled.

He didn't marvel because their unbelief,

shake the dust off his feet and say,

"You're a miserable group of people. I'm

out of here." No. Marveled because of

their unbelief and went round about

their cities and villages teaching. He

knew the cure for this was to put

something in them. They can't believe

for it if they haven't heard it.

>> Everything starts out there. If we get

this in the church, what what was the

word of faith all about? It's about you

and I getting a hold of something out of

the Bible so we can get it in our lives.

Put it in other people's lives. People

can hear it. They can believe it. And

pretty soon they can get it.

>> And that's our next step is just let

folks get it.

>> You know, lay hands on the sick. Well, I

don't know, man. What if somebody

doesn't get something? Well, it's going

to be hard for them if somebody doesn't

do something.

>> Well, what if they don't get something?

Well, it's not my fault. Tell them to

talk to God about it. If I do my part,

then it's between them and God. If they

don't get it, then he's going to have to

deal. It's It's not my issue.

>> If I do my part, but how can God do his

if I don't do mine?

>> So anyway, goodness, the evening is

going I have I'm still on my first

verse. And he went he was in their

synagogue. I'm sorry. He was teaching in

one of the synagogues on the Sabbath

day.

And and so you know, this is the way

this whole thing starts. He's in the

synagogue on the Sabbath day and he's

teaching. He's teaching. Now, now again,

we know

uh Matthew 4, Matthew 9. We know his

ministry operated basically for three

and a half years by teaching, preaching,

healing, teaching, preaching, healing.

If people didn't get healed, he just

backed up and started teaching. All He

didn't He didn't say, "Well, we missed

it here. We failed." No. If they didn't

get healed, he'd back up and start

teaching. If they didn't get healed,

it's because they hadn't heard what he

what he brought to them. What do you do?

Give them more.

>> Give him more. Back there in goodness

Mark uh Luke chapter

six.

Uh Jesus was in the house. We don't

know. Maybe Peter's house. We don't

know. He was in the house and and the

place was packed full of scribes,

Pharisees, and doctors of the law. And

the Bible said the he was what was he

doing? Teaching. And the power of the

Lord was present to heal them. Why?

because he'd been teaching that. If he'd

teach it, the power would show up to do

it. See, we need to give God something

to work with.

>> That's it.

>> He'd teach it, the power and the power

of the Lord was present to heal them.

And you know, not one of them old

buzzards got healed.

>> They're so busy trying to find him

saying something wrong, they didn't

listen to what he was saying right.

>> And what what'd he do? He knew they

weren't getting it. He did. He didn't

say, "I I've had enough of you guys. I'm

out of here. I I've heard about you

people before. I'm leaving this. I'm

shaking the dust off." No, he didn't.

What did he do? He kept teaching. He

kept teaching. He kept teaching. He kept

teaching. He kept teaching until the

roof started coming apart. And four guys

brought their friend, took him up on the

roof and lowered him. They didn't go

with him. They lowered him in.

>> That's a dirty trick. They put they put

him on a stretcher and lowered him into

the middle of that room full of scribes,

Pharisees, and doctors of the law. They

were trying to catch Jesus saying

something wrong. Lowered him down in the

middle right in front of Jesus. And he

stopped.

What did he saw their face?

>> What'd he do? He kept teaching and

teaching and teaching and teaching and

teaching and teaching. He didn't care

how long it was going to take. He'd keep

doing it until somebody got it.

Yeah, they got it. Jesus said, you know,

rise, tuck be, but that you may know the

son of man has power and earth to

forgive sins. I say unto thee, rise,

take up thy bed, and walk. And he got up

and walked away forgiven and healed.

>> And the people are going, "Woo, we've

seen strange things today." They

wouldn't have known it was strange if

they'd have been listening to him.

>> I mean, think about this. I I've got to

find a place to quit here in a few

minutes. Think about this. Um,

you go you go back through here. Um, I I

like to go back through I I again, you

know, some things you can't prove, but

you can't disprove.

>> I try not to spend too much time on

those, but u I I heard one time or more

than one time. Uh I I heard brother

Hagen make the statement that in one of

the visitations he had when Jesus

appeared to him teaching him some things

about the different ministry gifts about

divine healing so on he uh if I got it

right okay he basically Jesus basically

said uh uh over there in Luke the 4th

chapter verse starting verse 14 15

something like that says back there uh

and Jesus returned in the power of the

spirit to Galilee his fame went through

all the region roundabout. He taught in

their synagogues being glorified of all.

And as his custom was, he went into the

synagogue on the Sabbath day, stood up

for to read. That was uh Luke the 4th

chapter and around the 17th verse,

something like that. Stood up for it to

read. And there was, now here's what

we're looking for. There was delivered

to him. Didn't even say he asked for it.

There was delivered unto him the book of

the prophet

>> Isaiah. And when he opened the book, he

found the place where it was written. He

knew where he was going.

>> He knew what he was looking for. But I

don't know if you know all I know is

that what I heard brother Hagen say that

in one of the visitations Jesus said

there this was the message I taught

everywhere I went. I'm thinking if

that's what he did that he didn't make

life so difficult for us. Why don't we

just do what he did? Preach what he

preached. Taught teach what he taught.

Do and get the same thing. Because if

this if it took Jesus teaching this to

the multitudes and it kept working,

[laughter]

he he didn't make our life real

complicated. What did he do? He opened

the book

to I won't do it out of the uh Isaiah,

but Isaiah 61st chapter verse one. We we

get this. Jesus said over in Luke the

4th chapter verse 17 he's when he opened

the book he found the place where it was

written the spirit of the Lord is upon

me that's what he saw it's what he found

himself in Isaiah the 61st chapter he

found his ministry now he he opens the

book of Isaiah there he said open the

book he found the place where it was

written the spirit of the lord's upon me

now notice this spirit of the lord's

upon me because he's anointed me to

preach the gospel to the poor sent me to

heal the brokenhearted, preach

deliverance to the captives, recovering

of sight to the blind, set at liberty

them that are bruised, preach the

acceptable year of the Lord, or we'd say

the year of Jubilee. Okay? And he closed

the book, gave it again to the minister,

and he sat down. He'd been standing up

apparently.

Sat down, and the eyes of all them that

were in the synagogue were fasted upon

him, and he began to say unto them,

"This scripture is this this day is this

scripture fulfilled in your ears?" He'd

probably been all over

teaching that in synagogues and he'd get

all done. He'd give the book back and

sit down. That's just it. This time he

stops and he goes, "This day this

scriptur is fulfilled in your ears."

Everything that was in that chapter you

can have today.

>> Anything in what happened? Why? Why?

Why? What was the difference? Why could

he do this everywhere he went and nobody

got anything? Now he does it and he

says, "You can have anything that's in

there." What was the difference? The

spirit of the Lord's upon me.

>> Yeah. He'd just come from Jordan. He'd

just come from being baptized. He just

come from the spirit of God coming on

him. And he said, "Now, if you want, you

can have it. I have the ability to

deliver that to you." But later on, he

says in John the 14th chapter, he said,

"He that believes on me, the works that

I do shall he do also, and greater works

than these shall he do because I go unto

my father."

If that all started working when the

Holy Ghost came on him, then what should

happen to the church when the Holy Ghost

comes on us?

>> Yeah. Yes, sir.

>> Shouldn't it be the same thing?

>> I didn't say it. I just read it.

>> Thank you.

Anyway. Anyway, didn't plan it. I didn't

wasn't had no intention to go. I was

just going to start out with verse 10

and not end up with verse 10. But

anyway, we've gone long enough for

tonight. But but

God has equipped us. He's prepared us.

He's filled us. He's fueled us. He's

given us old and new testament. The new

better than the old. He's given us the

Pauline epistles. He's shown us what he

did at the through his death, burial,

and resurrection. He showed us what

redemption looked like. He's done

everything he knew to do. All he all he

needs now is to get some folks to go do

something with it.

>> What would happen if we did that?

>> What would happen if we got real, real

bold about I think I'll just go tell

somebody about Jesus. Now, if I find

somebody sick, I'll tell them about

Jesus. And I'll tell them that he healed

the sick, cleansed the leper, raised the

dead, and cast out devils. If you need

healing in your body, I'll lay hands on

you.

>> I'm not going to pray for you. He didn't

say pray for the sick. He said minister

to the sick. I

>> Oh, I don't know, man. You get a lot of

trouble over that.

>> You can get in a lot of trouble over not

doing that.

>> Oh, we've gone long. We need to We need

to stand up.

>> Next week or whenever we'll get to verse

11.

That's where we were headed anyway.

But think about that. If Jesus,

if his ministry was launched when he

came up out of the water praying and the

heavens open and the spirit of God

descends, the Holy Ghost is not a dove.

There are places they'd shoot him, use

him for dinner. The Holy Ghost is not a

dove. He He descended in bodily form

like a dove.

came upon him, remained upon him,

>> okay? Stayed. He didn't leave if that's

what he did. And Jesus went out and then

he goes, you know, we we know the the

the progression, okay? He goes into the

wilderness. He goes through the

temptations. He overcomes the enemy. He

comes out in the power of the spirit,

goes into the synagogue, stands up. They

deliver to him the book of the prophet

Isaiah, and he says, "The spirit of the

Lord's upon me because he's anointed me

to preach the gospel to the poor." He

could he apparently read that a lot. He

said everywhere I went, I preached the

same thing. He might have done that who

I don't know how long he might have done

that. No idea. But if he did that for a

good long time, but all of a sudden the

big difference is this day this scriptur

is fulfilled in your ears. Difference

was the Holy Ghost. What about the

church? There ought to be a mentality.

Ought to be a mentality. I am I I've

been equipped.

>> Yeah.

>> I'm wallto-wall Holy Ghost. I got the

power of God head to toe. I've got the

spirit of God in me. I'm born again,

bloodbought, redeemed. I'm a new

creature in Christ. I'm the I'm the

righteousness of God in Christ. And I am

I am I'm commissioned. I'm empowered.

I'm set.

>> And if you need something, I know the

one who can fix you.

>> I can't do it. Jesus never said I do. He

never said I'm doing the works. He said

the father in me, he's doing the works.

I don't have say well I don't think I

can do that. Well, I could have told you

that ahead of time.

He never said you and I had to do it.

Jesus said, "The Father in me, he's

doing the works." If he had to wait till

the Father to do the works by the Holy

Ghost, then he gives us the Holy Ghost.

So, we should be able to expect the same

things to happen.

>> All we got to do is get to where we

believe it.

>> That's it. That's it.

>> Hear it and believe it. If he had to

teach it to people and get them to

believe it, then probably we ought to do

ourselves a favor and do the same thing.

So,

where is it going? I don't know. But all

I know is the next time we come back,

we'll go to verse 11

>> and see where it goes from there.

>> Jesus taught and then he demonstrated

that taught and then he demonstrated.

Taught then he demonstrated. Seven out

of every 10 somebody got something

either he either said or inferred it was

by

their faith. Well, if their faith would

work back then, then what about us?

Shouldn't our faith do the same thing

today?

We're just not as we're just not as nice

of people as they were back there. We're

not as smart.

>> Well, I don't know. But anyway, they

just got it working for them.

>> Oh, goodness. We've gone long enough.

Let's lift our hands and give him

thanks. Let's Let's thank him for who he

who we are.

>> I know who I am. I know who's I am. I

know who's in me. I know who I'm on the

inside of. I am I am persuaded of that.

I know. I know who I belong to.

>> Hallelujah.

>> I know. I'm fully persuaded what he's

promised. He's able to perform that

under the day of my Lord Jesus Christ.

He didn't send me down here clueless and

helpless. He sent me down here fully

equipped

>> with the third person of the Godhead.

>> If I just learn to work with him, learn

to cooperate with him. Learn to feed on

the word.

>> Yes. Father, I pray over us. May we

learn like we've never learned. May we

do like we've never done. May we say

like we've never said before. May we get

hold of things we've never had before.

May we rise up and be [music] a part of

a rag tag remnant bunch of people that

is afraid of absolutely nothing.

>> And I pray that over this house in the

name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

>> And we thank you in Jesus name. Father.

Amen. Amen. Amen. Well, let's give him

thanks.

>> Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus.

>> Hallelujah. You want to You want to come

up?

>> Thank you, Lord.

>> Okay.

>> Thank you, Jesus.

>> Hallelujah.

>> Good. I don't know what you got there,

but I'm sure it's right.

>> Yes.

>> Yes, sir.

>> Okay. Good.

>> Aren't you glad you came tonight? Wow.

So grateful. [music] Go ahead and take a

seat real quick if you wouldn't mind. We

have one more thing that we need to do.

Um, we have a send out tonight. Um,

yeah, we have a send out tonight. Are

you excited, man? I'm so excited about

this. We have Jose and Cathia Pena and

their family. They are going to a uh

Alecante. Yeah. Aante, Spain.

Ready for this? From April 1st, 2026 to

April 1st, 2029.

Hallelujah. Would you all come on up?

Would you all come on up? So, they'll be

serving in full-time uh missionary and

pastor.

They're going to Georgia 1st on January

27th until April 1st to work on visas

and paperwork.

Uh there will be some outreach to Muslim

communities and local neighborhoods,

preaching, teaching, evangelism, and

pastoral care. [music] Hallelujah.

Pastors Mark and Janet.

>> Yeah. Hallelujah. There we go.

>> Okay. We have to make a deal here.

>> Yeah. Uh

>> oh.

>> You leave the girls with me. [laughter]

>> I don't know if I can do without my

Sunday hugs.

>> It's a truth.

>> This is really exciting. We actually we

just got to meet. Was that just

yesterday?

>> Whoa. This week's going really too fast.

But anyway, um we got to meet a little

bit too.

uh get a full view of what they've got

planned. And uh I'm not going to go into

all that. We'll we'll try to update you

at different times in the future, but

they're going into a place uh uh in

Spain. Uh I told him we we had a school

in Barcelona. Barcelona,

I think I can say that right now.

Anyway, uh had a Damatada school there.

Uh and it was one of the strongest

schools we had. Um

and and we we found the the the Spanish

were some of the hungriest people for

the things of God. Had a great school.

Churches raised up out of that. Churches

raised up went different directions in

that part of the nation. And uh so I I

I'm not sure exactly where they're going

to go. I'd have to look on a map and see

where it is. But but um uh there's a

whole community there of people that do

speak English, but they're going to work

with a community of people that don't

speak English. They speak Spanish and

they're already equipped for that. Well,

I thought, wouldn't that be nice?

Fluent. Fluent. I'd be I'd be glad to be

fluent in English, you know. It's just

>> That's your first language.

>> Yes. Your first

>> Spanish.

>> Yeah.

>> Yes.

>> So, as they said, they're they're

they're leaving Sunday.

>> Um, Tuesday.

>> Tuesday. Got to Georgia. I kept thinking

he meant Georgia, like Georgia, Eastern

Europe, something like that. Well, no,

Georgia. Georgia, the the real one here.

So anyway, and uh so then they they'll

prepare everything and uh their

paperwork will come through, their

finances will come in and uh

>> they're going to move over there for

three years then.

>> Yeah. So we're really excited about

that. We they they showed up at the

church and they plugged in and they've

just been uh working just doing what

needed to be done. And so we're we're

thankful for that. We're going to miss

them. So I I don't know if the I don't

think these girls are going to Are you

going to stay here with us? Is that what

you [laughter]

No, no, no. I don't blame you. I don't

blame you.

>> You speak Spanish, too. Do you? Boy,

must be nice.

Uhhuh. There's my buddy here. Yeah. Hey,

how you doing? You good? Yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> No.

>> No. Yeah. So, what we're gonna do is

we're gonna I said, let's just do this,

you know? I mean, it's like, uh, you're

leaving that quick, that soon, but they

are. And so, we believe in them. We're

believing with them, believe for them,

and we're going to get behind. And so,

anyway, so, uh, we said, "Just can you

be at service tomorrow night?" Said,

"Oh, yeah, of course." So, we said,

"We're going to launch you out of the

service tonight." So, um, it's just kind

of a special time. We just really had a

stirring to do this. So, so we're going

to we're just going to send him out.

Acts 13:1

Acts 13:1

uh the Holy Ghost said, "Separated unto

me Barnabas and Saul for the worker unto

I've sent them." When they fasted and

prayed, they laid their hands on him,

sent him forth, and they being sent

forth by the Holy Ghost departed unto

Spain. Well, Salucia, but Spain anyway.

And so, uh we're going to keep track of

see what what all they're doing. But, uh

they've got the ability, they got the

goods, they got the call. You've been

over there for what just two weeks?

Three two weeks. and uh got an

assignment and is heading back over.

There's a there's a minister and a

church to work with, but they're going

to launch out into a whole another

dimension of people over there. So, so

anyway, so let's all stand to our feet.

We're going to believe God with them.

>> Just like this. Can we pray for you? Is

that all right? Huh?

>> Yeah. Yeah. Is that good? Okay. Okay.

Okay. Everybody re Let's just reach our

hands out and believe God with them.

Father, thank you so much for this

family. Thank you for the hand of God.

Thank you, Father, for where you brought

them from and where you brought them to.

Thank you, Father, for uh assigning them

to this house, bringing them over in

here where we got a chance to to get

connected with them and get to know them

and see the hand of God on their lives.

And so, we thank you right now as a

church. We're putting our faith with

them. We're believing you with them.

every need to be met, every bill to be

paid, all the finances they need to to

do what you're sending them to do for

the next three years. And and thank you,

Father, for the doors opening up into

places into into people where they speak

English, where they speak Spanish, uh,

Castellian Spanish, wherever it is. And

we thank you for it in Jesus name. So we

we thank you, Lord, for prosperous

journeys by the will of God. Thank you

for the paperwork all being done

supernaturally quickly uh when they're

in Georgia, for everything to be done,

for the visas to come through so they

can go and and uh step into their place

over there.

>> Thank you for every need being met in

the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. We

thank you for what you have on this

family to do. And we as a church, we

surround them with our faith, with our

love, and our words. And we lay hands on

them. We thank you, dear Father,

for we for sending them out just like

you did Barnabas and and Saul. You you

sent them out into another region. Thank

you for sending them out into the place

you've called them to. Thank you for a

um boldness to touch so many lives over

there. And we thank you in the wonderful

name of Jesus, Father. Hallelujah. Glory

to God. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank

you, Father. We thank you for meeting

every need abundantly. Thank you,

Father, for taking care of everything

they do. Thank you for this precious

family they've got. Thank you, Father,

for being the God that goes before them.

Show them where to pitch their tents.

You'll you'll take care of everything.

Fight every battle, meet every need,

give them a great place to live and

abundance of everything in Jesus name.

Health and strength and wisdom and

everything you've given them to do. We

thank you in Jesus name, Father. Amen.

Amen. Amen. Amen. Well, we'll lift our

hands and thank God for them.

>> Thank you,

>> Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. We love you guys. We believe

in you.

>> Thank you so much.

Launching out into the deep.

Oh, are you girls excited about going?

>> Excited about going. Oh, I think it's

exciting. I've been there before. I love

it over there. People are wonderful.

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