Formosa Baptist Church
2026-02-15
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- Big Idea for the Series: In the book of Acts, we see God advancing his Kingdom by his Spirit through his Church.FCF: As we willingly obey God’s commission, God prompts us, prepares the way for us, and produces the results for us. We are just the tool he uses!
Acts 8:25–40 ESV 25 Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans. 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. 27 And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship 28 and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. 29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” 30 So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” 31 And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth. 33 In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.” 34 And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. 36 And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” 38 And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. 39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. 40 But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.Introduction: This passage has a special place in my heart because I have lived this passage.As we willingly obey Jesus’ Great Commission...God Prompts us.The primary way God prompts us is through his Word.Yes, in our passage today, Philip gets a divine interaction with an angel and a specific word from the Lord.But remember, long before Philip got visited by an angel or got a special word from the Spirit, Jesus had told all of his disciples:Acts 1:8 ESV 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”So, what did Philip do? As we saw last week,Acts 8:5 ESV 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ.And a lot of Christians are running around today waiting for dreams, visions, a voice from heaven, and a sign in the sky, all the while ignoring what God has already plainly told them to do in his Word.Sometimes Christians sit around wringing their hands wondering what God’s will for them is in some specific situation, but they’re not following God's plainly revealed will in Scripture. God’s will for you is to be holy. His will is for you to keep yourself from sin, to pray to Him, to read your Bible, to desire him more than anything else, and to share the gospel!If you’re not doing that, you have no right to expect the kind of divine encounters that we see in this passage. (I’m not saying they might not happen anyways—we’ll see exactly that in the next passage when Saul is abruptly interrupted by Christ himself! But, before we seek out the exceptional, let us devote ourselves to the ordinary, mundane tasks that God has called us to.God has called us to make disciples. Are you obeying that? Are you discipling your children? Or are you bringing them to church and hoping that we’ll do it for you? When is the last time you had a spiritual conversation with your kids or your spouse outside of church? When is the last time your read your Bible with your kids or your spouse outside of church? When is the last time you read your Bible to yourself?It’s not too late to start (or resume!) a Bible reading plan this year! Right now we’re in the story of Joseph. You can jump back a couple chapters to Genesis 37 and catch up from there and it won’t take you but just a couple hours to catch up to where we are today, and you’ll have a good understanding of what’s going on as we head into Exodus this coming week.It’s awesome when the Holy Spirit shows up in powerful ways, like what we’re going to see in this passage. But I just want to remind you that those occasional, spectacular moments are not enough to keep your spiritual life vibrant and healthy. You need a steady diet of obedience to God’s Word—just like Philip was doing.His prompting is often counterintuitive.When God prompts us, it’s quite often not what we would expect or desire. Of course, we know in hindsight, that God was sending Philip to lead a man to Christ. But, if we were to try to plan such an encounter, this is most certainly NOT how we’d do it.Acts 8:26 ESV 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place.First off, if your goal is to make disciples, you probably wouldn’t head out into a sparsely populated desert. Philip was in Jerusalem, where there were tons of people. Or he could have gone back into Samaria where there were likely lots more that needed to hear the gospel. Why would God send him out into the desert?Secondly, the direction was probably a bit concerning for Philip. Going north would make sense, but the road south went to Gaza—which wasn’t any more friendly to Israelites 2,000 years ago than it is today! Gaza and Israel have a history that dates back at least 3,000 years to the Philistines who lived there. (Think of David and Goliath.) And, once you pass Gaza, there’s nothing else until you get to Egypt. It’s just a long, dry, hot, desert road that connects Israel to Egypt, and there’s not much in between. The journey to Egypt from Jerusalem would take weeks or months. So, either Philip is being sent to Gaza, of all places, or he’s about to take an extremely long journey. But he has no idea. He’s traveling blind. Neither situation—going to Gaza or to Egypt—was probably amongst Philip’s plans. But even when it seemed to make no sense, even when it was a mystery, God had a plan.Acts 8:27 ESV 27 ...And there was an Ethiopian...He had come to Jerusalem to worshipActs 8:30 ESV 30 So Philip ran to him...Thirdly, Philip is coming from Jerusalem (v. 25), and so is the Ethiopian man (v. 27). Why wouldn’t God have just arranged for them to meet in Jerusalem? Why in the middle of nowhere? And what’s more, the Ethiopian is riding in a chariot. Even though it was probably traveling slowly, he had a head start and Philip had to run to catch up to him.I can remember when we had discerned God’s calling to be foreign missionaries back in 2013, we began researching all the options that were available. We knew that we were going to be involved in Bible translation, so we began looking at all the biggest languages that didn’t have a Bible. If we’re going to go overseas and labor as missionaries, we might as well reach the largest number of people, right? We began looking at places like Nigeria, where there were large cities and people groups that number in the millions or hundreds of thousands and still didn’t have a Bible in their language.But, through a number of incidents that I won’t relate here for the sake of time, ultimately, God led us to a tiny group of around 2,000 people called the Mubami. If where they lived wasn’t the end of the world, you could certainly see it from there. There would never be some massive church planting movement that spawned from that place. It was too small, too inconsequential. And I wrestled with that. How could we justify devoting such time, energy, and money into ministering to such a small group of people when there were groups of hundreds of thousands, even millions, that were still in need of a Bible?And ultimately, I don’t know why God does all that he does. But I do know that I later found out that the Mubami had been asking for help with Bible translation since at least the 1970s. For almost 50 years they waited for someone to come help them. And, I know that in my short time with them, they were remarkably receptive. I have brothers and sisters in Christ now amongst the Mubami people that I got to lead to the Lord. I’ll tell you about one of them later.And I got to see the joy on their faces as they heard God’s Word in their language for the first time, as they heard the story of Abraham and Isaac, and how God had sacrificed his one and only son so that they could have eternal life. And then—speaking of counterintuitive—as soon as we got the project up and running and actually got started translating, God called us back here to Clinton, AR, and then, much like Philip was whisked away to Azotus, we were whisked away back to the US.Why would God have us invest so much of our lives, so much time, energy, and money into starting a project he never intended for us to finish? Why would God kindle in my heart such a deep attachment to those people—some of whom are still, to this day, among my best of friends—only to rip them out of my life? I still don’t have answer for those questions. I will say, though, that it’s beginning to make sense. My successor is younger, more energetic, and is already seeing more people come to Christ and be baptized than I did. And he even enjoys sago, their staple food, which I thought was humanely impossible for an outsider! And, I love it here. We were struggling in a lot in PNG, and about one year after we got back to the US, my eldest son gets saved as a direct result of Church camp, which wasn’t available to us in PGN. So, God knows what he is doing.Here’s my point in all this testimonial. Oftentimes, the way that God works in your life will be counterintuitive. It will be unexpected. It may make no sense to you at all. But God has a plan!Isaiah 55:9–11 ESV 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.What God plans, he brings to pass, and there’s always a purpose for it. Even when it doesn’t make sense, you can trust him.And God doesn’t reveal it all to us at once...God’s prompting is incremental.God does not reveal our entire path all at once, but gradually, step by step.Once Philip is already engaged in the Great Commission, God isn’t giving him some new divine revelation, he’s just directing Philip as Philip is already on mission to “go make disciples.”Acts 8:26 ESV 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place.At first, God just tells Philip “Go south to the desert.” Not much to go off of there. How far down the road, God? Am I looking for someone specific? Why are you sending me there? No answers to those questions. Just “Go south.”Acts 8:27–29 ESV 27 And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian...seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. 29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.”Then, as Philip obeys, he encounters an Ethiopian man in a chariot reading an Isaiah scroll. So, it’s only after Philip steps out in obedience and faith, only after he’s some undisclosed number of miles into this foot journey down a desert road to who-knows-where that he gets his next instructions—“Go join the man in the chariot.”Listen. If you’re waiting for God to lay out his blueprint for your life before you step out in obedience to what he’s already told you to do, that’s not going to happen. God gives us what we need for today, so that we will have to continue to rely upon him tomorrow.The other thing we see in this passage is that as we willingly obey God’s commission...God Precedes us.Scripture is crystal clear that God goes before his people when he sends them out.When God’s people left Egypt in the Exodus, Scripture tells us...Exodus 13:21 ESV 21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.As the Israelites prepared to enter the Promised Land, Moses reminded them...Deuteronomy 1:30 ESV 30 The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV 6 Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”And, as Jesus sends out his disciples in the Great Commission, he says the same thing:Matthew 28:19–20 ESV 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”And we see that promise fulfilled in this passage as Philip goes up to this Ethiopian eunuch to share the gospel.God prepares the hearts of those to whom he sends us.You may not realize just how unlikely this whole situation is. We’ve already talked about the divine orchestration that allowed Philip to encounter this man. But the fact that this man is even in Jerusalem to begin with is a testament to the providence of God.The passage says that he was from Ethiopia, which is the Biblical empire called “Cush” in the Old Testament, which was also known as the empire of Nubia. It corresponds to modern day southern Egypt and Sudan. The journey from his homeland to Jerusalem would have been somewhere around 1,000 miles. If he covered 20 miles a day, that’s a journey of about 2 months each way if he didn’t make many extra stops. This is a monumental, expensive, exhausting, dangerous journey. And yet, something prompted him to make that journey to the temple.Secondly, as an Ethiopian, it’s surprising that he has any interest in the religion of a conquered people that lived 1,000 miles away. It’s even more interesting because, as a eunuch, he might have been able to get into the courtyard of the Gentiles, but he certainly could not have gone any further.Deuteronomy 23:1 ESV 1 “No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.Scholars debate whether he would have even been permitted to convert to Judaism—it just kind of depends upon how the religious leaders of the day interpreted this prohibition. This is probably the best argument for him being a Gentile “God-fearer,” though it’s possible that “entering the assembly” might have just been interpreted as “entering the temple.” Scholars also debate whether ‘eunuch’ refers to his title or his physical condition.Regardless, the point is that here is a black foreigner who would have, at best, been considered an outsider and, more likely, fully barred from any meaningful participation in Jewish worship nevertheless undertakes this journey to Jerusalem to seek out the one true God. He rejects the religion of his own people and instead attaches himself to a religion whose people would have treated him as an outsider at best, or as polluted at worst. Why? Because God was doing something in his heart.Acts 8:27–28 ESV 27 ...He had come to Jerusalem to worship 28 and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.Thirdly, we read that he’s reading the scroll of Isaiah and think nothing of it, because we have books and phones and tablets everywhere. Books are cheap nowadays. But this was 1400 years before the printing press, so every scroll was hand-copied by professional scribes. The scrolls would have been tanned animal hides, carefully prepared, and then meticulously copied by certified temple scribes. The copies had to be perfect. Just imagine how much something like that would cost nowadays. How much would it cost to get someone to tan animal skins and then produce a perfect handwritten copy of one of the longest books in the Bible. This scroll would have cost the equivalent of thousands of dollars.In fact, you can actually purchase a carefully crafted handmade copy—not the original, just a copy—of the Isaiah scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls for the low, low price of only $40,000! Of course, that’s just if you want it printed on paper. Sheepskin parchment will cost you a good bit more.My point is, ordinary people did not just have a copy of Isaiah laying around in their house to read. Just like today, you’ll only find stuff like that in museums or at the Vatican, in Philip’s day, you’d only find a scroll like that in the temple or certain prestigious, large synagogues. The likelihood of encountering someone reading the scroll of Isaiah while riding their chariot home would be about like the likelihood of encountering someone thumbing through an original Gutenberg Bible on a Southwest Airlines flight. Basically none.And yet, it happened. Why, because God went before Philip and orchestrated all of this. This black, Ethiopian eunuch who should have wanted nothing to do with a religion that prohibited his worship in their temple, was located 1,000 miles away in a distant land, and whose religious texts were basically inaccessible to him is somehow drawn to Jerusalem to worship and rides away with a scroll that hardly anyone could afford.And, by the way, he walks off reading just the right book, too. The passage he was reading from was Isaiah 53, which talks about the suffering servant. Written 700 years before Jesus, the passage tells of a coming servant of the Lord who, though he had done no wrong, would be brutally killed for our sins, and yet...Isaiah 53:7–8 ESV 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people.It was the first century AD version of walking up on someone reading John 3:16 and asking you, “Who is this son of God that God sent?” The open door for proclaiming the gospel couldn’t have been more clear.And, just a couple chapters later, in chapter 56, listen to what that Ethiopian eunuch would have read, just moments after Philip was whisked away. Imagine what it would have been like to be that man, newly saved and baptized, reading this passage—perhaps for the first time:Isaiah 56:1–8 ESV 1 Thus says the Lord: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my righteousness be revealed. 2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the Son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.” 3 Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” 4 For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant, 5 I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. 6 “And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant— 7 these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” 8 The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, “I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.”God is preparing the hearts of people he wants to send you to. Outcasts, drug addicts, alcoholics, foul-mouthed rebels, God-haters, homosexuals, transgendered people, atheists, cult-followers, New-age spiritualists, and Muslims—God can and is preparing hearts. He can and will work miracles.Right now, God may be preparing the hearts of people in your circle in ways that you don’t even see. Or, it might be as obvious as this Ethiopian reading a scroll. The question is, will you look for opportunities to get in the chariot with them and share the gospel?So, as we go and proclaim the gospel, God prompts us, God precedes us, and...God Produces the results for us.Here’s the thing that we all need to learn when it comes to ministry, missions, evangelism, and God’s Kingdom:God doesn’t need us.Now, at first glance, that might seem to be the opposite of what we see in this passage.Acts 8:30–31 ESV 30 So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” 31 And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.It would be easy for us to make too much of ourselves with a passage like this. When we read the words, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” we immediately have a sense of importance. We recognize there is a great need. We think of passages like Romans 10:14Romans 10:14–15 ESV 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”And it is absolutely true that people must hear the gospel in order to believe it and be saved by it.But that doesn’t mean that Philip was God’s only option to get the job done. When we look at this passage, we can easily walk away thinking how important and necessary Philip was, and how great a man he was for sharing the gospel.But, when I read this passage, I’m actually struck by the opposite! What stands out to me in this passage is just how unnecessary Philip actually was.Acts 8:26 ESV 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go...Philip didn’t seek this man out on his own. God sent Philip. God was seeking out the Ethiopian eunuch, not Philip. God identified the Ethiopian, and God is the one who set in motion the plan to save him.Acts 8:27 ESV 27 ...And there was an Ethiopian...He had come to Jerusalem to worshipAs we’ve already seen, God had been at work in the Ethiopian man’s heart long before Philip ever met him, wooing him and drawing him to faith. Philip didn’t generate in this man, an Ethiopian, a desire to join himself to God’s people Israel—God did that. Philip didn’t make sure that this man had a copy of the Scriptures—God did that.Philip didn’t die for this man’s sins and create a path for salvation—God did that through his Son, Jesus Christ. And Philip didn’t open this man’s blind eyes—God did that, he just used Philip as the tool.Philip didn’t create the body of water that just suddenly presented itself to him for baptism in the middle of the dessert—God did that.Acts 8:36 ESV 36 And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”The same angel that told Philip “Go towards Gaza” could have just as easily proclaimed the gospel and illuminated Scripture to the Ethiopian man. The same Spirit that told Philip, “Go join the man in the chariot” could have opened the Ethiopian’s eyes himself to the truth.When we see a beautiful house, we don’t ask the carpenter what kind of hammer he used, nor do we give credit to the hammer. If that hammer breaks or is lost, he can get another hammer. When we see a beautiful painting, we do not give credit to the brushes or the paint, but to the artist who wields them.And this is crucial to understand in evangelism and ministry, because if we don’t get this, really get it, we end up making far too much of ourselves and far too little of God.God reminds us...Psalm 50:9–12 ESV 9 I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. 12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.When we serve God, when we share the gospel, when we wash dishes after a potluck, when we give sacrificially of our income in a tithe, when we go on a youth outing as a chaperone, when we go overseas as a missionary and give up comforts and home, when we stand in a pulpit and preach a sermon we have labored over, and even when we lead someone to the Lord—we are not providing God a service that he could not do himself. We are not filling a lack in God, as if the only way God could accomplish his will on earth is through our willing hands. We are not doing God a favor when we share the gospel.And the reason this is important is not merely to prevent you from being prideful if and when you see success in ministry. It’s also important to get you off the sidelines.See, if you think that your engagement in ministry somehow does God a favor, that “need to feel important” might occasionally motivate you to get out and do something. And then you’ll pat yourself on the back as though you have really sacrificed and done something worthwhile. But then you’ll go back to sitting on the sidelines because you “don’t have time” to get more involved. You’ll give money “when you have enough,” you’ll share the gospel “when you get around to it,” because see, when we think we’re doing God a favor, then it’s about us and when we have time to help poor God out. He’s the friend that needs help moving and we’re the one with the truck and trailer, so he’s at our leisure.When I look back at the various ministries in which we have served over the years, with shame, I have to admit that there have been times when I’ve subconsciously thought this way. When I’ve patted myself on the back for how I’ve served God or his people, for the “sacrifices” I’ve made for God, and there have even been times when I’ve felt like God was in my debt.What arrogant fools we can be! God does not need me, and he does not need you.Acts 17:24–25 ESV 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.God did not need Philip. And yet, he did use Philip. Why? Because...God delights to use his children.Why? God delights in using his people to be the tools by which he opens blind eyes and unstops deaf ears.Just as a father delights to teach his son how to hunt—not because the father is in need of the meat his son’s hunting will provide, but because he enjoys spending time with his son. He relishes in the look of joy on his son’s face after a successful hunt. The father knows the rush of joy that comes from the hunt, the patience and restraint that hunting will teach him, the value and appreciation of life that comes from hunting—and he wishes to give that to his son.Can you imagine being Philip in this situation? Can you imagine the rush of joy that must have welled up inside him when his Father said, “Philip, I’ve got a job for you.” Can you imagine the excitement that he must have felt when he heard that man reading from Isaiah and he thought, “I know who that passage is about!” Can you imagine the ecstasy he must have felt in baptizing that man and then being whisked miles away miraculously like Elijah and Jesus himself?!?! Can you imagine the joy at getting to be the tool that God used to spread the gospel to a people who had never before heard it?God could lead them to salvation without us. He doesn’t need us any more than he needed Philip.Psalm 147:10–11 ESV 10 His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man, 11 but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.God does not delight in your strength, your capabilities, or what you have to offer him. He takes pleasure in your humble trust and hope in Him.What we see in the story of Philip is the same as what we’ve seen all along in Acts:In the book of Acts, we see God advancing his Kingdom by his Spirit through his Church.Conclusion: Are you a part of that? Or are you sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to make you feel special? There’s a war raging between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of this World. The end is already decided—God wins. The only question is, are you going to get the privilege of being a part of that victory, or are you going to sit on the sidelines?Benediction:1 Peter 4:7–11 ESV 7 The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. 8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Acts 8:25–40ESV
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