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Our Position in Christ

For in Him we live and move and have our being…
(Acts 17:28a).

Christianity is not a religious conviction but the

family of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. Through faith
in God and Jesus Christ you become a child of God,
a Christian, a born-again believer. Since you are
joined to Christ, you become one spirit with Him
and God places you in the body of His Son. As you
are born of God, you are a son of God and God is
your Father. You as a Christian, in union with Christ,
should always be concerned about your Father’s
kingdom and business. You must view salvation in
the light of God’s purpose to bring forth many sons
to glory. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all
things and by whom are all things, in bringing
many sons to glory, to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through sufferings. For both He
who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified
are all one, for which reason He is not ashamed to
call them brethren (Hebrews 2:10-11). God will
always shift the emphasis to His family, which finds
its expression in the Father-son relationship in
Christ. The family of God, which is God’s
kingdom and business, can only be found in
Jesus Christ, the second person in the
Godhead, creation’s one and only Creator,
Maintainer and Redeemer.

You must also understand what you have lost in

Adam, where you are now in God’s restoration plan,
and in that light you ought to understand your
position in Christ, which is the foundation of your
walk with God.
God is the Source of all light. His light has
substance and dimension. He is the most brilliant
and luminous life-form in the universe. All majesty,
all righteousness, all love and affection, all
forgiveness and grace are contained in the light
that is in Him. In Him is no shadow of darkness
meaning that His light is all penetrating but His
light cannot be penetrated by anything. His light is
life and truth.

Since the beginning of creation God purposed to

bring forth a harvest of sons after His light-image
and likeness of light. God’s word is light and His
sons were meant to be His manifested word.

Consequently, the Lord God formed Adam of the

dust of the ground and created him in His light-
image and likeness of light. Adam was the light of
God coming into the earth, a light that shines for all
creation to see. Man was a city set on a hill that
could not be hidden. God blessed His son Adam
(Luke 3:38), who was His godly seed, and Eve to
be fruitful and to multiply and to fill the earth, and
not only the garden, with sons (and daughters) of
God. Everything brings forth after its own kind.
Thus Adam, son of God, would have produced sons
of God. Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in
your law, ‘I said you are gods?’ (John 10:34).

Adam was perfect in his spirit, soul and body,

complete in Christ, his Creator. His eternal spirit
was alive to God and he was one spirit with Christ.
His body was immortal and his divine soul was filled
with the light of God. He was created a son of God
to serve the will of his Father. God created him a
living soul (Greek: psuchë; 1 Corinthians 15:45)
meaning that Adam responded to God, his own
body and all other creatures, things and places
predominantly from his soul and not so much from
his spirit. That was perfect because there was no
darkness in him. His untarnished soul was in
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harmony with both God and creation and his body
fully obey his virtuous soul. Adam knew no conflict.
The light of the Word was in him because he was
one with the Word of God. He was created to
manifest the Word of God. He was the godly seed,
the word of God made flesh. He had no need to
pray, meditate on the word and wait on God or
practice the presence of God. He knew no need or
lack. He abided permanently in God’s presence. His
life was total fulfillment in God. He was so full of life
that he lived 930 years after sin entered him and
the discord of sin entered his soul and destroyed
his godly life. All life in creation lost its power when
Adam ceased to abide in Christ, his Creator. His
destiny was to grow up and change from a living
soul to a life giving spirit in Christ but he wasted
this opportunity through rebellious disobedience.

Before the fall all things were subjected to God in a

universe with one realm where God, man and all of
creation lived together in harmony. There was only
one kingdom, the kingdom of our God and of His
Christ. The number one, the one realm, denoted
divine primacy. There is one body and one Spirit,
just as you were called in one hope of your calling;
one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and
Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and
in you all (Ephesians 4:4-6). One excluded all
differences, for there was no second with which it
could either harmonize or conflict.

The serpent was more cunning than any beast of

the field which God had made. Before Lucifer fell he
was the anointed cherub who covers. He was the
seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in
beauty and he was on the holy mountain of God
and in Eden, the garden of the Most High. Because
his heart was proud as a result of his beauty and he
corrupted his wisdom for the sake of his splendor
God casted him down to the ground. He became a
horror and God decreed that he shall be no more
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forever. Why would such a wise creature turned to
utmost folly? The Bible does not tell us. However,
Scripture reveals that through the ages Lucifer was
purposely out to destroy the godly seed. Firstly, he
attacked the first Adam, then Christ, the last Adam.
The first time he succeeded but the second time his
head was bruised. I believe that Lucifer became
jealous when God created His son Adam, who was
higher in glory and authority than the son of the
morning. The idea that the Father purposed to
bring many sons to glory might have something to
do with him becoming arrogant because of
jealousy. This is just my personal opinion and not a
big flash of revelation.

When Adam sinned he died to God as death

entered into his spirit, soul and body. Adam’s
eternal spirit that was one with Christ died to God
as Christ separated His Spirit from his because of
sin. God forsook Adam for his sin just as He forsook
Christ because of our sin. Adam’s immortal body
put on mortality, meaning that his body died to God
because of sin (Romans 8:10). His soul which was
filled with the light of God became enmity against
God, for it was not subjected to the law of God any
longer, nor indeed could be (Romans 8:7). Adam’s
light went out and he entered into darkness
because he was no longer founded in the Source
of all light.

Through Adam’s offense we all sinned and fall short

of the glory of God. In Adam, we all died to God.
We all came into the world separated from God,
dead to Him. We are born in sin and shaped in
unrighteousness. Independence from God is death
because the flow of eternal life ceased when the
branch was severed from the Vine. Adam, the
godly seed, died to God because he founded
himself and his seed, outside of God. He
cancelled the birthright of his offspring to have God
as their Father and to relate to Him as His sons.
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Then God needed a new godly seed to perpetuate
His dream for a harvest of sons. Only when Christ,
the Seed of God, was made manifested in the flesh
He revealed God as Father to man and
demonstrated to the earth the truth about the
Father-son relationship.

Adam, through sin, divided the one realm of the

universe into two realms, into the spiritual and the
physical realms. The number two denotes there is
a second. The Lord would not share his glorious
dwelling with sinful flesh and blood, which is dead
to Him and divorced from His person. Therefore,
the Lord God casted Adam out of the garden to till
the ground from which he was taken. God placed
Adam and creation under his domain into the lower
realm of the natural while He occupied supremely
the upper sphere of His Spirit. As Adam lived in the
natural realm he was no longer aware of God's
presence. With time, because of division, the earth
was divided into the many kingdoms of men.

Then the whole creation started to groan and labor

with birth pangs to be delivered from the bondage
of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children
of God that they once knew. Men began to call on
the name of the Lord as they remembered the
promise God made to Eve that the Godly Seed will
bruise Satan’s head and they within themselves,
eagerly begin to wait for the adoption, the
redemption of their body. Enoch yearned for what
Adam had lost in the garden. He discovered the
Fountain of life and walked with God and God took
him to heaven. Enoch is a prophecy of glories to be
revealed in the end time.

God never changed His original purpose that He

resolved since the beginning of the earth to bring
forth many sons to glory. Following the fall of
Adam, God’s vision was perpetuated in Christ. His
vision was to see His seed. He came 4 000 years
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after Adam to give light to every man coming into
the world.

God at first established a covenant of works with

His people Israel. Then the relationship between
God and His people changed according to the
contents of the covenant. Through the works of the
law they had to justify themselves. If Israel would
diligently obey the voice of the Lord to observe
carefully all His commandments then the Lord will
bless them. If they do not keep all His
commandments and statutes, curses will come
upon them and overtake them because God is the
Righteous Judge (Deuteronomy 28). But showing
mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and
keep My commandments (Exodus 20:6). The
responsibility was with God’s people to uphold the
Law He gave to Moses. All people other than the
Israelites, the gentile nations, were excluded from
this covenant relationship with God. Because the
Law is spiritual, imperfect man could not fulfill its
requirements in the flesh. The old covenant failed
to produce sons of God.

Then God took away the first covenant, the

ministration of condemnation that He could
established the second, which is the ministry of
reconciliation of all peoples, tongues and nations
under the sun, in His Son. Though the first covenant
came in glory that even the skin of Moses’ face
shone, the New Covenant was brought in much
greater glory, even in the glory of God’s only
begotten Son. It was only appropriate for the
Creator and Maintainer of all things to become
Redeemer of His own creation.

The Father entered into a covenant with His Son, on

behalf of mankind, where He gave Him a people for
His own possession. Jesus, for the Father’s sake,
had to fulfill all the requirements of the law and
made it honorable and for the people’s sake borne
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the wrath of God against their transgressions. Then
the Father will forgive, once and for all, their
transgressions, change their natures by writing His
laws in their hearts and sanctify and make them
perfect. For man to be a partaker of this covenant
man has to believe in God and Jesus Christ whom
He sent. Man will then become one Spirit with
Christ and God will place him or her in the body of
His Son. Then God will call them His people. The
relationship between God and man changed again,
by God becoming Father to the believer, and the
believer becoming a son to God. Man was granted
the opportunity and privilege to share in the life
and relationship of the Son of God with the Father.

The Son of God fulfilled His part of the covenant on

the cross. In doing so, mercy was granted to all that
believed and those that will still come to the faith in
God and in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a
covenant of pure mercy and grace. The just shall
live by his faith. In Christ alone and nobody else is
salvation. Christ alone is the way to bring forth
many sons of God to glory. His vision was to see His
seed. Christ, the Seed of God, revealed God as
Father to man when He was made manifested in
the flesh.

As the covenant stands now, it is a one-sided

covenant of pure grace and nothing else but grace.
The Lord Jesus Christ has fulfilled His side of the
covenant 2 000 years ago. The Father will have to
keep His side of the everlasting covenant forever.
One can only relate to God through faith, hope and
love. Thoughts, attitudes, words and deeds void of
faith are sin. People without a vision of hope
perish. Thoughts, attitudes, words and deeds
without love counts for nothing even if you give
your body up to be burned for Christ’s sake.

Christ’s perfect work is a provision. In a nutshell, it

mainly includes the quickening of our entire being
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which is our, spirit, soul and body unto God. He also
subdued all things to Himself making all kingdoms
the one and only kingdom of our Lord and of His
Christ, in a realm where heaven and earth is one.
He has reconciled all things to God in Himself.

Though Christ completed His work on the cross, you

do not yet see your whole person restored alive to
God and not all things are subdued to Christ, and
the universe is not yet restored beyond its former
glory into the one realm of His power. Many lords
still have dominion over the earth.

What do you see right now? When you accept

Christ as your Lord and Savior your spirit is made
alive to God. God place you in the body of His Son
and because you are joined to Christ, you have
become one spirit with Him because of
righteousness. However, your body is still mortal,
void of perfection of immortality, meaning that it is
dead to God because of sin (Romans 8:10). Your
soul who is in the blood of your body is enmity
against God, for it is not subject to the law of God,
nor indeed can be (Romans 8:7). The universe is
still divided into the realm of God’s Spirit and the
carnal realms of the soul (psychic) and the natural
and all things are not yet subjected to Christ. Many
lords still have dominion over the earth. Those
kingdoms are not yet the one and only kingdom of
our Lord and of His Christ. We still labor in the
sweat of our brow to mainly satisfy the needs and
desires of our body of death. The whole creation
still groans and labors with birth pangs until now to
be delivered from the bondage of corruption into
the glorious liberty of the children of God and we
still within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the
adoption, the redemption of our body.

If Christ brought all of perfection into manifestation

when He died and was raised from the dead it
would have been the end of the world. Only the Old
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Testament saints and those who were Christ’s at
His resurrection would have been saved and would
have been taken into glory at the time when the
graves were opened. The Holy Spirit would not
have been poured out and the Church of our Lord
Jesus Christ would not have been born. All the
nations of the earth with their billions of people
would not have been born and the gospel of the
kingdom would not have reached the ends of the
earth. God has done this on purpose. Everything
that He is doing is marked by His wisdom. The
manifestation of His kingdom can only come about
as the body of Christ reaches into it through faith.
When the Son of Man comes shall he find faith on
the earth? (Luke 8:18).

The variance between the perfect work of Christ

and the imperfection of the fall that we are
experiencing now reveals another side of God’s
overwhelming love. God made us to be co-creators
in Christ Jesus that through a flow of hope and faith
we may with Him restore all things. Firstly, we need
to learn to trust Him that He will finish the work
that He has started in us and creation; that He will
bring to pass what He has promised. He could have
restored the universe without our faith. But how
does He restore our relationship with Him without
involving our faith, without making us robots, which
is not His image and likeness? A relationship comes
from two sides. He will not restore creation that
was under Adam’s domain without us. He is using
our faith, hope and love to restore all things of
which our relationship with Him eclipses in glory all
other things put together. He will not restore
anything apart from our relationship with Him.

Our hope in Christ is that we will be alive to God, in

spirit (already alive if we
body when the Spirit of
Jesus from the dead will
(Romans 8:11). Then we
are born-again), soul and
Him (Father) who raised
quicken our mortal body
will be alive to God as a
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whole man when the Spirit of God (Father) dwells in
us (Romans 8:9). Christ’s bodily resurrection is the
guarantee that we will be bodily clothed with
immortality and incorruption and that our soul that
lives in our blood will be made perfect.

If you are born-again you can now live with the

spirit part of your person in the realm of God’s
Spirit. It is the only part of you that can experience
Him and His kingdom since it is the only part of you
that is alive to Him because of righteousness. Your
relationship with God is not through your physical
senses but by faith. Faith, hope and love is the
three doorways into the Spirit, which is the three
dimension of a divine relationship (1 Corinthians
13:13). God is Spirit and one with your born-again
spirit. He reveals Himself to you in your spirit
through the Holy Spirit. It is the will of God for you
to live with your spirit in heaven while be physically
on earth. No one has ascended to heaven but He
who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of
Man who is in heaven (John 3:13, emphasis
added). Jesus said he was on earth and heaven
simultaneously. Through faith you can have a life in
the Spirit (heaven) while being on earth. Waiting on
the Lord is one way to train your spirit to be
constantly aware of the Lord.

Your carnal mind, which is part of your soul, is

enmity against God (Romans 8:7). If the carnal
mind is enmity against God the entire soul is
enmity against Him. The heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked; who can know it
(Jeremiah 17:9). Paul desperately desired to be
freed from the bondage of his sinful soul. His will,
which is part of his soul, failed him often. For what I
am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do,
that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do
(Romans 7:15).

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A faith-life is when you present your soul to God,
which is enmity to Him, as if it is a friend of Him,
bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ by meditating on things that
are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report,
virtues and praiseworthy that you may be renewed
in the spirit of your mind. What does it means? It
means to constantly remember what Christ has
achieved on the cross that you may walk in it
through faith. God never called us to die at any
stage of our lives. Christ overcame sin and death
that you may have life in abundance, in our spirit,
soul and body. If He has set you free from death,
the last enemy, why would He wish to commit your
body over to death again? Death is the enemy of
everybody and a friend of nobody. People die
because they believe they must die; they give
substance to their fear (negative hope). The only
scriptural death under the New Covenant is the
death that the Lord tasted on our behalf.

If you live like a mere man you will die even if you
believe in the doctrine of immortality. If you see
yourself constantly in the natural you will subject
yourself to the force of sin and death; you will end
up like the first Adam – in the grave. To live a
resurrected life you need to live like Enoch (without
the law), Elijah (under the law) and Paul (under
grace), who lived the life of our Lord Jesus Christ. If
you are raised with Christ, live the heavenly life
where the eagles soar, not the earthy life where the
turkeys gobble. Develop heavenly perception of all
things and not a religious view. Perceive all things
by the Holy Spirit and not the carnal mind. Live with
your heart in heaven and hunger to be alive to God
in your spirit, soul and body like Enoch and Elijah
did. Remember they were people like us and yet
through their faith God took them that they did not
taste death. If you never want to die in your body
then repent from a life style of death, darkness and
deception and turn and remain with the Fountain of
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live, Source of all light, the Beginning and End and
Embodiment of all truth. His name is Jesus Christ.
Though He had to die on our behalf, His body never
experienced corruption. Learn from Him. Die to the
natural realm and be raised in the Spirit where He
lives forever more and your body shall never
partake of corruption.

Your body is dead to God because of sin and is a

prisoner of the natural realm. Your body of death
cannot experience God with its physical senses
because your body lives in the natural realm and
God dwells in the Spirit. Because you cannot feel
God with your hands, or smell Him with your nose,
or hear Him with your physical ears, or see Him
with your eyes of flesh, or taste Him with your
tongue does not mean He is not there. Your bodily
senses and God are in two different worlds, that is
why you are failing to notice God who lives in
heaven. As the kingdom of God is in the realm of
spirit, flesh and blood cannot inherit it. Peter, James
and John witnessed Jesus’ transfiguration on the
mountain. They observed the transfiguration in a
vision with the eyes of their spirits because
flesh cannot observe in the realm of spirit but are
limited to observance in the natural realm. Now as
they came down from the mountain, Jesus
commanded them, saying, “Tell the vision to no
one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead”
(Matthew 17:9, emphasis added).

If Paul knew flesh and blood could not enter into

heaven or see heavenly things, why did he deem it
not strange for his body to be caught up into
heaven? I know a man in Christ who fourteen years
ago – whether in the body I do not know, or
whether out of the body I do not know, God
knows – such a one was caught up to the third
heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2, emphasis added).
Through faith, Paul lived a life where he saw
himself bodily alive to God. He knew that faith is
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the substance of his hope to be bodily alive to God,
hence his bold statement.

To please God you present your body, which is

dead toward Him, through faith as being alive from
the dead and the members of your body though
dead, as instruments of righteousness to God. This
is how you live your life on earth as if you are in
heaven. Paul said that this is acceptable to God, the
way a normal Christian should live (Romans 12:1-
2). Our faith in God is in hope to attain bodily to the
resurrection from the dead and to be perfected in
our soul. We also hope to see all things under Christ
in a sphere where heaven and earth is one, as it
was in the beginning. In the books of God, faith is
the substance of our hope even if we have not yet
received the promise (Hebrews 11:1). Faith is
always in the present and hope points to future
fulfillment. Faith is to walk our vision of hope which
points to the future, today. Our hope in Christ is
when that which is perfect has come, then that
which is in part will be done away. While we are
living our lives through faith in the Lord we must
look to Him in hope for the redemption of the
whole man. Our hope is to be alive unto God,
spirit, soul and body and to see all things
subdued to Christ as all kingdoms have
become the one and only kingdom of our Lord
and of His Christ, in a realm where heaven
and earth is one.

When God looks at you, He is not looking for

perfection but for faith. …when the Son of Man
comes, will He really find faith on the earth? (Luke
18:8b). The religious man (man of flesh) always
tries to impress God with some level of perfection
while the spiritual man believes God. Faith, hope
and love are the virtues that bring joy and
fulfillment to His heart. Faith is the substance of the
life of Christ in you. When you manifest faith God
sees the perfection of His Son in you. You need to
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express faith toward God according to the measure
of grace He gave you, which is the measure of your
faith. Faith and hope is not yet attainment to bodily
resurrection and perfection of the soul but pressing
on in hope that the Spirit that raised Jesus from
the dead will quicken your mortal body. However,
in God’s books faith and hope are perfection in
Christ because faith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. By faith
you procure the treasure of your hope in heaven
where moth and rust do not corrupt and thieves do
not break through and steal. Hope cannot be seen
while faith and love often have visible
manifestations. Faith and hope is in part and
belong to the imperfect realm because hope is
dreaming of perfection and fulfillment and faith is
walking in the time of imperfection and lack as if it
is the time of perfection and fulfillment. When that
which is perfect has come, then that which is in
part, faith and hope, will be done away. When
perfection comes, faith and hope will become
redundant as all things will be perfection and
fulfillment in Christ. Only love that never fails will
remain. However, for the moment abide faith, hope,
love, these three; but the greatest of these is love
(1 Corinthians 13:13).

At the last trumpet, those who went before us, the

dead in Christ, who were sown in corruption, will be
raised with incorruptible bodies, and those who will
be alive with their mortal bodies will be clothed
with immortality. The heroes of faith and the rest of
the family of God that is captured in the cloud of
witnesses is not yet clothed with a glorified body
because it is written that they should not be made
perfect apart from us. For, if those in heaven would
have been clothed with an incorruptible body, Paul
would not have prophesied of this perfection to
come. We who are alive and remain until the
coming of the Lord will by no means precede those
who are asleep. Those in Christ will be clothed with
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an incorruptible, immortal body at the last trumpet
that mortality and corruption may be swallowed up
of life.

In contrast, through faith Enoch and Elijah cross the

boundaries of times and seasons as they lived lives
where they were more at home in the spirit than in
the natural. The realm of God’s Spirit is far exalted
above all limitations including time and space. The
realm of God’s Spirit is where faith, hope and love
dwells, the three doorways into the realm of God’s
Spirit, which is also the three dimensions of a divine
relationship. Their faith saw heaven and earth
fused into the one world of Christ. Separation,
death, darkness and deception exist only in the
lower realm of the natural that is tarnished with its
countless blemishes and imperfections; the prison
of carnal man. Though their faith projected them
into the realm of spirit they did not see all things
subjected to Christ but they saw Christ who is the
author and finisher of their faith. In God’s book faith
or the vision of the imagination of the heart, good
or bad, is reality. Their faith demanded that the
fulfillment of the last trumpet was to be walked in,
in their day. Their faith created substance of
heavenly perfection in a sphere where heaven and
earth is one. In their world the will of God has being
done on earth as it is in heaven. As far as they were
concerned they were alive to God, in spirit, soul and
body, the New Jerusalem has come down and
heaven and earth has become one. Consequently
they were changed in their bodies before the time
of the last trumpet. Through faith God took them
that they did not see death. They had so much life
in them that if God had not taken them, they would
have still walked the earth today. When God took
them into heaven their body did put on immortality
and their soul were made perfect as no flesh and
blood or any blemished thing can enter into
heaven.

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Paul manifested the same faith as Enoch and Elijah
when he groaned within himself to attain to the
perfection of sonship. If, by any means, I may
attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I
have already attained [bodily resurrected], or
already perfected [perfected in the soul]; but I
press on, that I may lay hold of that for which
Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me
(Philippians 3:11-12, emphasis added). I am
convinced that if God did not destined Paul to die
for His name sake, he would have attained to the
resurrection from the dead just like Enoch and
Elijah because of the same faith that was in him.

Let me repeat the vision of our hope, which is the

cry in our spirit for manifested sonship: “Our hope
is to be alive unto God, spirit, soul and body
and to see all things subdued to Christ as all
kingdoms have become the one and only
kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, in a
realm where heaven and earth is one.”
According to Revelation 12 there will be those that
will enter in this glorious promise before the last
trumpet.

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