THE LIVING WORD TRANSCRIPT
PROGRAM AIR DATE: 12-5-2021
LESSON TITLE: HE WHO WOULD LOVE LIFE � TURN FROM HIS EVIL WAY AND DO GOOD
WELCOME
HEAR THE WORDS OF GOD IN JOSHUA 1:9, "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE. DO NOT BE AFRAID NOR BE DISMAYED, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO". HOW WONDERFUL IT IS TO KNOW THAT WE CAN COUNT ON GOD AND THAT HE IS ALWAYS WITH US EVERY STEP OF THE WAY IN LIFE AND EVEN NOW. THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS LORD'S DAY FOR THE STUDY OF GOD'S LIVING WORD AND HOW BLESSED WE ARE THIS DAY TO BE ABLE TO ENJOY SUCH OPPORTUNITIES AND FREEDOMS THAT OFFER US THIS OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER THESE SACRIFICES BEFORE THE VERY THRONE OF GOD. AND I HOPE WE'LL EACH DO OUR PART THIS LORD'S DAY TO PARTICIPATE IN ALL THAT WE DO AS WORSHIP TO GOD, ACCORDING TO HIS PERFECT WILL. AND WHEN WE ALSO DO THOSE THINGS, ACCORDING TO WHAT HE HAS ASKED IN HIS WORD, THE BIBLE. SO AT THIS TIME, AS WE TURN OUR FULL ATTENTION TO THE REASON THAT WE HAVE COME TOGETHER, LET'S APPROACH OUR FATHER'S THRONE IN PRAYER.
PRAYER: OUR GOD AND FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE ARE SO THANKFUL FOR THIS DAY AND EVERY DAY OF LIFE AND EVERY BLESSING THAT WE HAVE, FOR FATHER WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS COME FROM YOU AND FATHER WE KNOW THAT WHETHER IT IS PHYSICAL OR SPIRITUAL, YOU GIVE US ALL THAT WE NEED. FATHER WE ALSO KNOW THESE THINGS ARE ONLY OURS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST AND WE THANK YOU FOR HIS LIFE, HIS DEATH, AND HIS RESURRECTION, AND HELP US TO LIVE EVERY DAY WITH THOSE THINGS IN SIGHT THAT WE MIGHT BE MOTIVATED TO WORK TOWARD THAT GREAT PROMISE OF ETERNAL LIFE WITH YOU IN THE END. AND HELP US AT THIS TIME TO WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH IN JESUS NAME WE PRAY. AMEN.
NOW IT'S TIME TO BEGIN OUR SONGS OF PRAISE. AND LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TO JOIN IN WITH THE CONGREGATION AT THIS TIME, AS WE SING THE FIRST HYMN OF THE MORNING. A SONG THAT HELPS US TO THINK ABOUT THE GREAT REWARD THAT AWAITS ALL THE FAITHFUL IN THE END, THE NAME OF THE SONG, 'THERE IS A HABITATION'.
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS
WE LEARNED EARLIER THIS DAY THAT GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US EACH MOMENT OF EVERY DAY, NO MATTER WHERE WE GO. OUR GOD HAS WITH THE FAITHFUL EACH STEP OF THE WAY. ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL TO KNOW? AND TO UNDERSTAND THAT IN LIFE, WE ARE NEVER BY OURSELVES BECAUSE GOD IS ALWAYS BY OUR SIDE FOR WE ARE HIS CHILDREN, THE FAITHFUL. THERE IS A FURTHER PROMISE, WHICH GOD GAVE THAT IS EQUALLY ENCOURAGING. AND THAT IDEA IS FOUND IN DEUTERONOMY 31:6, THERE WE READ, "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE. DO NOT FEAR NOR BE AFRAID OF THEM FOR THE LORD, YOUR GOD HE IS THE ONE WHO GOES WITH YOU. HE WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU." KIND OF SOUNDS FAMILIAR DOESN'T IT? WELL, IT PROBABLY DOES BECAUSE THE HEBREW WRITER CONFIRMS THE VERY SAME TRUTH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. IN FACT, IN HEBREWS 13:5 WE READ, "FOR HE HIMSELF HAS SAID, I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU". PRAISE GOD FOR THIS WONDROUS TRUTH, HOWEVER, NOTICE THAT HE DOES NOT STOP THERE. HE ACTUALLY GOES FURTHER IN VERSE SIX. NOTICE THERE WE READ, "SO WE MAY BOLDLY SAY, THE LORD IS MY HELPER. I WILL NOT FEAR, WHAT CAN MAN DO TO ME?" NOW THERE'S A REAL QUESTION ISN'T IT. IF GOD IS OUR GOD, WHAT CAN MAN DO TO US? AND WHY SHOULD WE WORRY? OR WHY SHOULD WE BE AFRAID? THE FACT IS, MAN HAS NO CONTROL OVER US IN THIS WORLD, AS FAR AS IN RELATIONSHIP TO THOSE THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER. AND WHY? BECAUSE GOD IS ON OUR SIDE AND THEREFORE WE ARE ALWAYS VICTORIOUS. SO JUST HOW MUCH OF GOD HAVE YOU INCLUDED IN YOUR DAILY LIFE? AND LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TO CAST ALL OF YOUR CARES UPON JESUS FOR HE CARES OF YOU. DO YOU HAVE SUCH CONFIDENCE AND TRUST IN GOD TODAY?
IN JUST A FEW MINUTES IT WILL BE TIME TO BEGIN OUR MAIN STUDY OF THE MORNING AND OUR TOPIC WILL AGAIN FOCUS ON THE IDEA OF HE WHO WOULD LOVE LIFE. OUR SPECIFIC LESSON OF THE MORNING WILL BE THIS, THAT LET HIM TURN FROM HIS EVIL WAY AND DO GOOD. AS FAR AS OUR GUEST SPEAKER, WE ARE HAPPY TO AGAIN HAVE BROTHER JERRY SULLINS WITH US. BROTHER JERRY IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF MISSOURI HERE IN SPRINGFIELD AND WE THANK HIM FOR JOINING US. WE ALSO LOOK FORWARD TO HIM LEADING US AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, IN OUR MAIN STUDY OF THE DAY. BUT FOR NOW LET'S RETURN TO OUR HYMNS OF PRAISE. AS WE JOIN TOGETHER IN THE NEXT SONG IN THE MORNING, THE NAME OF THE HYMN, 'BLUE SKIES AND RAINBOWS'.
LESSON
BY JERRY SULLINS
WELCOME AGAIN TO 'THE LIVING WORD' BROADCAST AND A SPECIAL GREETINGS TO WESTERN KENTUCKY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY THIS LAST WEEK TO VISIT WITH SOME PEOPLE IN WESTERN KENTUCKY, JUST A LITTLE BIT SOUTH OF PADUCAH. FOUND OUT THAT THEY WERE LISTENING TO 'THE LIVING WORD' BROADCAST AND WHAT A GREAT THING TO FIND OUT. WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT WE REACHED OUT THAT FAR ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. BUT WE WANT TO ESPECIALLY GREET THOSE PEOPLE IN THAT REGION OF OUR VIEWING AUDIENCE, AND WELCOME AGAIN TO 'THE LIVING WORD' BROADCAST. WE'VE BEEN IN A SERIES OF LESSONS THAT'S BEEN TAKEN FROM 1 PETER CHAPTER THREE. SO IF YOU WILL TURN IN YOUR BIBLES IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS, WE'LL BE STUDYING FROM THAT TEXT. AS YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN INTRODUCED TO THIS BOOK, WE MIGHT REMIND YOU THAT THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY THE APOSTLE PETER. HIS FIRST EPISTLE OF TWO, TO ACTUALLY LEAD THOSE PEOPLE TO A BETTER LIFE IN CHRIST FOR ONE SPECIFIC REASON. IT WOULD NOT BE TOO MANY YEARS PAST THE TIME THAT THIS EPISTLE WAS RECEIVED BY THESE PEOPLE OF ASIA MINOR, THAT THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM TOOK PLACE. THE CITY WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. CHRISTIANS WERE KILLED MANY, MANY CHRISTIANS. AND SO PETER IS STRIVING TO WRITE TO THESE CHRISTIANS TO WARN THEM OF THAT TIME THAT WAS COMING AND TO GET THEM PREPARED FOR THE TIME THAT THEY WOULD POSSIBLY LOSE THEIR LIVES. WHAT AN ENCOURAGING SERIES OF VERSES WE'VE BEEN STUDYING HERE IN 1 PETER CHAPTER THREE, AND I WANT TO BEGIN WITH VERSE EIGHT OF THAT CHAPTER. IT SAYS BASICALLY, "FINALLY, ALL OF YOU BE OF ONE MIND HAVING COMPASSION ONE FOR ANOTHER LOVE AS BROTHERS, BE TENDERHEARTED, BE COURTEOUS, NOT RETURNING EVIL FOR EVIL OR REVILING FOR REVILING, BUT ON THE CONTRARY BLESSING, KNOWING THAT YOU WERE CALLED TO THIS, THAT YOU MAY INHERIT A BLESSING." AND THEN SOME STATEMENTS ARE MADE ARE ACTUALLY TAKEN FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE BOOK OF PSALMS CHAPTER, OR PSALM 34, WHERE HE SAID THERE IN VERSE 10, "HE WHO WOULD LOVE LIFE AND SEE GOOD DAYS". NOW WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT PETER IS SAYING THIS, AND HE'S INCLUDING MANY DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THIS CHALLENGE FOR PEOPLE. AND THIS CHALLENGE WOULD GO FOR PEOPLE OF TODAY. HE WHO WOULD LOVE LIFE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, LET HIM DO THESE THINGS. NOW MY PART OF THIS SERIES OF SCRIPTURES IS VERSE 11, "LET HIM TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD". I AM HERE TO ASSURE YOU OF ONE FACT, I'VE LIVED A LONG TIME AND MANY OF YOU HAVE LIVED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO SEE GOOD DAYS, THEN WE MUST DO WHAT? WE MUST MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP AWAY FROM EVIL. IT MATTERS NOT TO ME IN MANY WAYS WHAT YOU MAY THINK ABOUT THIS SUBJECT, BUT I KNOW ONE THING FOR SURE, IF YOU DO EVIL, YOUR DAYS WILL NOT BE GOOD AND YOUR LIFE WILL NOT BE WORTH ANYTHING AT THE END OF THIS LIFE AS FAR AS GOD IS CONCERNED. WHAT IS THIS WORLD DOING TODAY? WELL MOST OF THIS WORLD, AS IN ALL GENERATIONS BEFORE THIS GENERATION HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN THINGS THAT ARE NOT GOOD, THAT IS EVIL THINGS. NOW THE WORD EVIL IN THE LANGUAGE, THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE OF THE BIBLE IS KAKOS. AND IT BASICALLY MEANS THAT WHICH IS BASE THAT WHICH IS WRONG, THAT WHICH IS DESTRUCTIVE AND THAT WHICH IS WICKED AND MOST OF THE WORLD TODAY, I THINK WE COULD SAY, WITHOUT BEING TOO CRITICAL OF THIS WORLD, BECAUSE WE KNOW THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE THAT DO GOOD, BUT MOST OF THIS WORLD IS NOT FOLLOWING AFTER THOSE THINGS THAT ARE GOOD AS FAR AS THE BIBLE IS CONCERNED. AND THAT'S WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN. IN FACT, IN VERSES 10 AND 11, AS WE JUST READ, WE SIMPLY FIND OUT THAT IT IS NECESSARY IF WE'RE GOING TO LIVE A HAPPY LIFE AND I EMPHASIZE THAT A HAPPY LIFE AND A GOOD LIFE THAT WE MUST FOLLOW AFTER THOSE THINGS, WHICH ARE GOOD. NOW, EVIL HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN EXISTENCE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. BEGINNING IN CHAPTER THREE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, THE BOOK OF GENESIS, WHERE SATAN WAS INTRODUCED BY OUR GOD AND SHOWING US HIS INFLUENCE, WHICH WOULD BE UPON ALL MANKIND. WHEN HE ACTUALLY TEMPTED AND CAUSED THE FIRST TWO PEOPLE ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH TO SIN AGAINST GOD. BEFORE THAT TIME, THEY HAD A GOOD LIFE AND THEY EXPERIENCED SO MANY GOOD DAYS. BUT AFTER THAT, THEY BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS BAD, WHAT WAS WRONG, WHAT WAS WICKED AND WHAT WAS DESTRUCTIVE. BUT BECAUSE OF UNDERSTANDING THESE THINGS AND THEIR SIN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, WELL, THEY WERE CAST OUT OF THAT GREAT AND WONDERFUL PLACE.
IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES, AS WE CAN READ FROM THE BOOK OF ROMANS, OF COURSE THE BOOK OF ROMANS WAS WRITTEN BY THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE CHRISTIANS AT ROME, TO THE SAINTS AT ROME. AND HE WAS WARNING THEM CONCERNING THE WAY THAT THEY SHOULD LIVE AND ALL OF THE WICKEDNESS OF THEIR AGE. AND AFTER DESCRIBING THE WICKEDNESS OF THE GENTILES AND THE WICKEDNESS OF THE JEWS IN CHAPTER TWO AND CHAPTER THREE HE SAID, "ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD". BUT BEFORE THAT IN ROMANS CHAPTER THREE, VERSE 10, HE SAID, AND TAKING IT FROM AGAIN, THE BOOK OF PSALMS, HE SAID, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NO, NOT ONE". NOW HE WAS SPEAKING OF A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THAT DAY AND AGE, HE ALSO SAID, "THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS. THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS AFTER GOD. THEY HAVE ALL TURNED ASIDE. THEY HAVE TOGETHER BECOME UNPROFITABLE. THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, NO, NOT ONE". NOW WHAT THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS SAYING BASICALLY IS THAT THE SOCIETY AS A WHOLE WAS NOT DOING GOOD. THEY WERE DOING EVIL. THEY WERE DOING WICKED THINGS. AND ANYONE WHO HAS ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE HISTORY OF THAT DAY IN TIME OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE KNOWS THAT THOSE PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED IN ALL SORTS OF SIN, ADULTERY AND EVERY BAD THING. BUT YOU KNOW, ON THE OTHER HAND, GOOD HAS ALWAYS EXISTED FROM THE BEGINNING. ALSO, REMEMBER ABEL, WHO WAS A VERY GOOD PERSON. HE WAS KILLED BY HIS BROTHER, BUT HE WAS DOING GOOD THINGS. HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICES TO GOD, ACCORDING TO GOD'S WILL. HE WAS A GOOD PERSON. REMEMBER ABRAHAM, THE MAN OF FAITH WHO LEFT IDOLATRY, WHO WAS WILLING TO DO THE WILL OF GOD, REMEMBER HIM? HIS SON, ISAAC AND ISAAC'S SON JACOB AND JACOB'S SON JOSEPH. AND THEN THROUGHOUT THEIR LINEAGE CAME JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH. THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT, ESPECIALLY THE PROPHETS OF OLD AND THOSE WHO WOULD LISTEN TO THEM WERE INVOLVED IN DOING GOOD. AND THOSE WERE GOOD PEOPLE THAT GOD SELECTED TO GO OUT TO PREACH TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND TO PROPHESY TO ALL THE WICKED NATIONS THAT THEY NEEDED TO TURN BACK TO GOD. AND REMEMBER JONAH DID THAT AND HE TURNED THE KING OF NINEVEH, THAT IS A BABYLON. HE TURNED HIM BACK TO GOD AND HE TURNED ALL OF THE PEOPLE TO REPENT AND THEY REPENTED BEFORE GOD. SO YES, THERE WERE GOOD PEOPLE, BUT ALWAYS IN THE MINORITY. WE SEE THAT IS SO TRUE. IN GENESIS SIX, WHEN NOAH AND HIS WIFE, HIS THREE SONS AND THEIR WIVES WERE THE ONLY ONES SAVED AMONG MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE WHAT? IT SAYS OF THEM THAT EVEN THE THOUGHTS IN THE IMAGINED NATIONS OF THEIR HEART WERE ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY. NOW, WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS LESSON TODAY? TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW THAT IF YOU WANT TO LOVE LIFE AND TO HAVE A GOOD LIFE AND SEE GOOD DAYS AND HAVE MANY DAYS TO COME AND HAVE THOSE DAYS TO BE HAPPY AND JOYOUS, THEN YOU MUST DO THAT WHICH IS GOOD. BUT MOST PEOPLE CHOOSE TO DO WHAT IS WRONG. EVEN PAUL WARNED THE BRETHREN IN THE CHURCHES OF GALATIA HE SAID TO THEM IN GALATIANS 5:19 THROUGH 21, HE GAVE HIM A LIST OF THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE OF THAT DAY IN TIME, ADULTERY, FORNICATION, LASCIVIOUSNESS, UNCLEANNESS, ALL TYPES OF SINS BECAUSE MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED IN SINS AND HE WAS WARNING THE CHRISTIANS AND THE CHURCHES OF GALATIA TO REMAIN STRONG AND TO DO THAT WHICH WAS GOOD. I'M REMINDED OF WHAT JESUS SAID IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW CHAPTER FIVE, THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE GREAT SERMON ON THE MOUNT, MATTHEW FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN.
REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID IN VERSE 44 OF CHAPTER FIVE, "BUT I SAY TO YOU LOVE YOUR ENEMIES". THAT'S GOOD ISN'T IT? "BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU." IS THAT WHAT WE DO DO? "DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU." DO YOU LOVE THOSE WHO HATE YOU? THAT'S WHAT JESUS WANTS YOU TO DO. "PRAY FOR THOSE WHO SPITEFULLY USE YOU AND PERSECUTE YOU." NOW, WHAT DID JESUS SAY, "YOU MUST DO THOSE THINGS THAT YOU MAY BE THE SONS OF YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN. FOR HE MAKES HIS SON TO RISE ON THE EVIL AND ON THE GOOD AND SENDS RAIN ON THE JUST AND ON THE UNJUST". SO WE'RE SUPPOSED TO LOVE PEOPLE. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO GOOD TO ALL PEOPLE. JESUS SAID, IF SOMEONE COMES UP AND SLAPS YOU ON ONE SIDE OF YOUR FACE, YOU TURN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FACE. YOU RETURN GOOD FOR EVIL. THAT'S WHAT THE APOSTLE PAUL SAID. REMEMBER, IN ROMANS 12:17, "REPAY NO ONE EVIL FOR EVIL HAVE REGARD FOR GOOD THINGS IN THE SIGHT OF ALL MEN". AND I REMEMBER THOSE WONDERFUL VERSES, IN ROMANS 12:1-2. NOW LISTEN CLOSELY TO WHAT PAUL TOLD THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE LIVING IN A WICKED WORLD. HE SAID, "I BESEECH YOU THEREFORE BRETHREN BY THE MERCIES OF GOD TO PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE HOLY AND ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD, WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE". AND THEN VERSE TWO, "BUT BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MINDS THAT YOU MIGHT PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD, ACCEPTABLE AND PERFECT WILL OF GOD." SO HE WHO WOULD LOVE LIFE AND HAVE GOOD DAYS ARE MANY DAYS IS THAT PERSON WHO DOES WHAT? WHO ACTUALLY STRIVES TO DO THE WILL OF THE FATHER. I'M REMINDED OF SOMETHING THAT IS SAID ACTUALLY TO YOUNG PEOPLE BACK IN ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 11, HE SAID, "REJOICE OH MAN IN YOUR YOUTH AND LET YOUR HEART CHEER YOU IN THE DAYS OF YOUR YOUTH". VERSE NINE, "WALK IN THE WAYS OF YOUR HEART AND IN THE SIGHT OF YOUR EYES, BUT KNOW THAT FOR ALL THESE, GOD WILL BRING YOU INTO JUDGMENT. THEREFORE REMOVE SORROW FROM YOUR HEART AND PUT AWAY EVIL FROM YOUR FLESH, FROM CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH FOR CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH ARE VANITY. REMEMBER NOW YOUR CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF YOUR YOUTH BEFORE THE EVIL DAYS COME", KING JAMES VERSION, "AND THE YEARS DRAW NEAR WHEN YOU SHALL SAY, I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THEM". MY FRIENDS, BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST TO DO GOOD CAUSES US TO BE HAPPY PEOPLE. IF WE DO GOOD, WE WILL RECEIVE NOT ONLY GREAT BLESSINGS IN THIS LIFE, BUT IN THE LIFE TO COME A GREAT REWARD THAT IS AWAITING FOR US IN HEAVEN FOR THOSE OF US WHO DO GOOD. SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TODAY. IN FACT, I CAUSE YOU TO WANT TO REJOICE ALSO, AS YOU CHOOSE THE LIFE OF GOODNESS AFTER THE ONE TRUE AND GOOD LIVING GOD AND HIS SON, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO DO HIS WILL. HOW CAN YOU BE HAPPY IN THIS LIFE? CERTAINLY ONLY BY DOING WHAT IS GOOD, BY FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST AND BEING WILLING TO SACRIFICE EVEN YOUR LIFE IF NECESSARY SO THAT OTHERS MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. SO THE CHOICE IS ALWAYS YOURS AND GOD HAS LEFT IT UP TO YOU. IF YOU DESIRE TO DO GOOD, YOU NEED TO DO IT SO THAT YOU WILL HAVE HAPPINESS IN THIS LIFE AND THE GREATEST HAPPINESS IN THAT WONDERFUL LIFE TO COME IN HEAVEN.
CLOSING COMMENTS
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