WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:19.400 I love stories. I always have. I was read a good many of them as a child, and I have read a good 00:00:19.400 --> 00:00:28.719 many of them to my own children. And one type of story that seemed to have early and endless 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:40.460 fascination for me was that in which the character labored under some fatal flaw, some unfortunate 00:00:40.460 --> 00:00:49.200 quality that finally brought their undoing. There seemed to be lots of those kind of stories that I 00:00:49.200 --> 00:01:00.580 was read growing up. There was the very speedy but overconfident Hare, who in his race with plotting 00:01:00.580 --> 00:01:10.840 tortoise was so far out ahead, he was confident that he could even afford a brief nap and still beat 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:22.380 tortoise. I could never lose to tortoise, but his overconfidence proved his undoing. He overslept, 00:01:22.659 --> 00:01:28.020 was passed by tortoise, and when he awoke could not catch him before the finish line. 00:01:29.240 --> 00:01:35.020 His braggadocio was turned to humiliation by his fatal flaw. 00:01:35.019 --> 00:01:46.539 Or there was the greedy dog, ecstatic at the boon of a large bone in his mouth. That is, until 00:01:46.539 --> 00:01:57.079 crossing a bridge, he caught sight staring up at him of another dog with a bone. Could that bone 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:06.700 be bigger than mine is? Not content with his, he greedily leapt at the other dog to get his bone too. 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:17.599 But the other dog was just his own reflection on the river. The river that carried away the one bone 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:30.659 he had, robbed of his choice treat by his fatal flaw. Or there was the very clever turtle, who knew he was 00:02:30.659 --> 00:02:40.719 clever and so enjoyed that his great cleverness was well and widely known. So clever was he that he devised 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:48.520 a means to fly. He directed two birds to hold the ends of a stick and soar aloft while he clung to the stick 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:57.659 between them with his mouth. So singular was his success that the sight of it, much to the tortoise's 00:02:57.659 --> 00:03:05.280 delight, turtle's delight, garnered effusive praise from the earthbound animals below. 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:15.920 How clever turtle is to devise how to fly. But so high did he fly that it became hard to see who it was. 00:03:17.300 --> 00:03:28.300 Who is that remarkable animal? Squinted one. Proud turtle, unwilling that it not be known that it was he 00:03:28.300 --> 00:03:36.620 who had done this great thing called out in response. It is I, turtle. But of course, 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:45.860 when he opened his mouth to tell it, he lost his grip on the stick and plunged to his demise, 00:03:46.900 --> 00:03:49.740 victim to his fatal flaw. 00:03:49.740 --> 00:04:00.420 Well, whether or not you're familiar with these tales, certainly you know the reality of how such 00:04:00.420 --> 00:04:10.640 a fatal flaw can afflict us. Flaws not just unfortunate, but to our very undoing. 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:18.479 We seem poised for some happy ending, some salutary, even coveted outcome. 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:28.519 Then the fatal flaw strikes, and those laurels of victory which seemed in reach wither. 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:33.919 The hand of bounty stretched out is suddenly withdrawn. 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:48.700 So what is your fatal flaw? Are you conscious of any? Has it made its appearance as an early frost, 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:53.660 blighting prospects, ambushing fair hopes? 00:04:55.860 --> 00:04:59.379 Timidity that cost you that job opportunity. 00:04:59.379 --> 00:05:05.379 Perfectionism that cost you that prospective mate. 00:05:06.579 --> 00:05:12.639 Bluntness that cost you that once close friend. 00:05:14.259 --> 00:05:20.480 Of course, it's quite possible that we are blind to our fatal flaw. 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:27.240 Such a condition is common, and often a feature of these stories, isn't it? 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:29.980 Adding a narrative tension. 00:05:30.980 --> 00:05:37.300 I loved to watch my girls' expressions when we got to the part where speedy hair, 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:43.620 so confident that he, smiling smugly, lies down to take his nap. 00:05:45.060 --> 00:05:46.920 You could read it all over their faces. 00:05:47.100 --> 00:05:51.280 They saw what was going to happen, even though the hair missed it. 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:52.819 Oh, no. 00:05:52.819 --> 00:05:57.620 Well, whatever you think your fatal flaw is, 00:05:58.819 --> 00:06:02.540 and whatever you assess it has cost you, 00:06:04.060 --> 00:06:10.399 or whether perhaps you are blissfully unaware of any such flaw in operation, 00:06:11.980 --> 00:06:17.259 we find the Bible making a remarkable claim. 00:06:17.259 --> 00:06:25.240 It identifies a fatal flaw that haunts all of us. 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:28.079 Each one of us. 00:06:28.860 --> 00:06:35.079 And one that costs us more than we could ever imagine. 00:06:37.719 --> 00:06:39.659 What is this fatal flaw? 00:06:40.939 --> 00:06:42.860 And of what can it rob us? 00:06:42.860 --> 00:06:47.500 And is there any hope that it may be overcome? 00:06:48.819 --> 00:06:57.960 Well, this cluster of questions is the fascinating subject of the paragraph before us that we had just had read 00:06:57.960 --> 00:07:00.840 in Paul's letter to the Corinthians. 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:03.659 It's in your pew Bibles. 00:07:03.659 --> 00:07:09.819 If you want to look on, you'll find it in page 952, chapter 1. 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:14.779 The big numbers are the chapters, and then the littler numbers are the verses. 00:07:15.139 --> 00:07:21.639 So let's consider it together to discover what disclosure it makes to us, 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:31.719 and whether it does not offer us some word of hope in the face of its sobering disclosure. 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:39.959 So first, what is this fatal flaw the Bible speaks of, which afflicts all of us? 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:46.219 Well, like a subterranean river, it flows beneath the surface. 00:07:46.220 --> 00:07:57.200 Its presence runs all along our passage, but breaks out into view just beyond it in verse 29, little 29, little number 29, 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:02.860 where the apostle finally identifies it and calls it by name. 00:08:03.620 --> 00:08:04.240 Do you see it? 00:08:05.180 --> 00:08:07.800 I wonder if it comes as a surprise to you. 00:08:09.440 --> 00:08:12.220 Boasting before God. 00:08:12.220 --> 00:08:16.380 It rolls so quickly off the tongue. 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:20.360 Boasting before God. 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:24.560 But let's not hasten over its horror. 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:31.780 Linger for a moment upon it and catch its enormity. 00:08:32.800 --> 00:08:35.759 Boasting a swelling pride. 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:43.139 And indeed, a swelling pride even in the presence of God. 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:48.319 Now, surely we must reckon this an extraordinary thing. 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:53.439 That any being could maintain a posture of pride, 00:08:54.159 --> 00:09:01.340 a swelling self-boasting in the presence of an infinite, all-splendored creator. 00:09:01.340 --> 00:09:11.320 Surely, the only rational, feasible disposition toward the God of unmatched majesty 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:16.800 is that of the seraphim angels who hover in his presence, 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:23.460 covering their unworthy eyes for the overwhelming splendor 00:09:23.460 --> 00:09:26.620 and crying out without waning or abatement, 00:09:26.900 --> 00:09:29.620 holy, holy, holy. 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:39.100 But to boast in the presence of God is beyond belief. 00:09:39.820 --> 00:09:41.600 It defies imagination. 00:09:41.920 --> 00:09:45.200 It strains credulity that such could be. 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:51.420 And yet, the charge is that it is so. 00:09:52.920 --> 00:09:55.080 How could it be true of us? 00:09:56.160 --> 00:09:58.060 And how came it to be? 00:09:59.960 --> 00:10:05.420 Here, the Bible unfolds for us a fascinating story, 00:10:06.180 --> 00:10:11.180 taking us back to the very opening of the drama of humanity 00:10:11.179 --> 00:10:17.219 and a fateful act with a fatal afterlife. 00:10:18.539 --> 00:10:21.359 Scarcely had the creator fashioned woman and man 00:10:21.359 --> 00:10:23.779 placed them in an abundant garden 00:10:23.779 --> 00:10:27.159 and pronounced his benediction upon them 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:31.120 than their paradise was poisoned. 00:10:32.739 --> 00:10:36.599 Their freedom and joy in it was well nigh boundless. 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:43.200 Eat of the fruit of any tree in the garden, granted their creator. 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:48.840 There was but one boundary he gave them. 00:10:49.920 --> 00:10:53.620 Only this one tree in the midst of the garden. 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.920 Do not eat of that one tree. 00:11:00.920 --> 00:11:04.360 Then came the serpentine seduction. 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:10.019 Has God told you what is right and good? 00:11:12.539 --> 00:11:15.600 You decide for yourself. 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:20.700 You are competent to judge and choose 00:11:20.700 --> 00:11:23.840 and appraise all things. 00:11:25.019 --> 00:11:27.259 You are fit for that role. 00:11:28.460 --> 00:11:30.120 You take the scepter. 00:11:30.980 --> 00:11:32.740 You mount the throne. 00:11:32.740 --> 00:11:41.500 You be the ultimate arbiter of what is good, right, and desirable. 00:11:43.500 --> 00:11:46.680 Those serpentine suggestions 00:11:46.680 --> 00:11:51.379 stirred and stoked a nascent pride. 00:11:52.659 --> 00:11:55.279 Yet it would not be the whole truth 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:58.879 to say the serpent formed this pride, 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:01.139 fashioning it ex nihilo, 00:12:01.139 --> 00:12:02.159 out of nothing. 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:05.419 No, he also found it. 00:12:06.379 --> 00:12:08.580 For these satanic seductions 00:12:08.580 --> 00:12:10.600 could only have appealed 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:14.240 to a pride already present. 00:12:16.100 --> 00:12:19.679 The seducer breathed upon the embers, 00:12:20.620 --> 00:12:22.720 but they were already there, 00:12:23.779 --> 00:12:26.000 incipient, if dormant, 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:27.899 in the human heart. 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:30.620 And what slept? 00:12:31.779 --> 00:12:32.539 Awoke. 00:12:33.259 --> 00:12:36.600 And nurtured on crafty flattery, 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:37.299 grew. 00:12:39.500 --> 00:12:40.259 Yes. 00:12:41.259 --> 00:12:43.059 Why should our creator 00:12:43.059 --> 00:12:45.159 tell us what is right? 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:49.279 Why should not we decide? 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:50.279 Yes. 00:12:51.719 --> 00:12:54.399 We shall judge for ourselves. 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:59.019 We shall determine what is desirable. 00:13:00.199 --> 00:13:02.459 We will be the arbiters 00:13:02.459 --> 00:13:04.339 of what is good. 00:13:04.340 --> 00:13:07.860 And so began, 00:13:08.300 --> 00:13:10.600 at our very birth, 00:13:11.660 --> 00:13:13.460 human boasting 00:13:13.460 --> 00:13:15.340 before God. 00:13:18.300 --> 00:13:19.620 Ah, but that, 00:13:20.139 --> 00:13:21.100 you perhaps say, 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:22.740 was long ago 00:13:22.740 --> 00:13:24.320 and far away. 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:26.620 What does that have to do 00:13:26.620 --> 00:13:27.899 with you or me? 00:13:27.899 --> 00:13:28.459 Here, 00:13:31.019 --> 00:13:33.279 the Bible tells us 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:36.159 that this act of Adam and Eve 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:38.360 had an afterlife. 00:13:40.019 --> 00:13:43.139 It constituted a poisoning 00:13:43.139 --> 00:13:45.139 of the waters of humanity 00:13:45.139 --> 00:13:47.779 at its very fountainhead. 00:13:49.059 --> 00:13:53.799 This self-exalting posture of heart 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:56.719 entered like a virus 00:13:56.719 --> 00:13:59.179 our very bloodstream 00:13:59.179 --> 00:14:02.099 and has been passed along 00:14:02.099 --> 00:14:03.599 our collective race 00:14:03.599 --> 00:14:05.159 ever since. 00:14:06.620 --> 00:14:08.779 It is an assertion 00:14:08.779 --> 00:14:10.120 so remarkable 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:13.019 it might strain our credulity, 00:14:14.019 --> 00:14:16.079 but for the fact 00:14:16.079 --> 00:14:17.740 that it seems 00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:19.939 everywhere in evidence. 00:14:19.940 --> 00:14:22.720 So perfectly 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:24.260 do we resemble 00:14:24.260 --> 00:14:25.860 our first parents 00:14:25.860 --> 00:14:27.720 in this trait of heart. 00:14:28.660 --> 00:14:30.600 To deny paternity 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:32.760 would be to attempt 00:14:32.760 --> 00:14:34.940 to deny the seemingly obvious. 00:14:36.820 --> 00:14:38.780 So ingrained 00:14:38.780 --> 00:14:40.840 has this characteristic 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:42.880 self-exalting 00:14:42.880 --> 00:14:45.580 self-orientation become. 00:14:47.580 --> 00:14:49.540 We might warrantably 00:14:49.539 --> 00:14:50.459 call it 00:14:50.459 --> 00:14:51.559 our very nature. 00:14:53.299 --> 00:14:55.719 Who can plausibly deny 00:14:55.719 --> 00:14:58.039 its pervasive presence? 00:14:59.319 --> 00:15:00.799 We are truly 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:03.459 a self-centered lot 00:15:03.459 --> 00:15:07.059 even in relation to God. 00:15:08.139 --> 00:15:09.759 Who as creator 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:11.000 and God 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:12.959 ought rightfully 00:15:12.959 --> 00:15:13.899 to occupy 00:15:13.899 --> 00:15:16.120 the center of our lives? 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:20.120 But we are usurpers 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:20.820 of the throne. 00:15:21.899 --> 00:15:23.179 We fancy 00:15:23.179 --> 00:15:24.060 we 00:15:24.060 --> 00:15:25.279 should wield 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:25.860 the diadem. 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:28.639 We are all 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:29.440 deeply 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:30.440 infected 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:31.360 by a deity 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:32.120 complex. 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:34.379 We would be 00:15:34.379 --> 00:15:35.440 our own 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:36.279 God. 00:15:37.379 --> 00:15:38.779 Self-determining. 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:41.460 And in the supporting 00:15:41.460 --> 00:15:42.539 stories we tell 00:15:42.539 --> 00:15:43.139 ourselves 00:15:43.139 --> 00:15:44.600 in which of course 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:45.580 we feature 00:15:45.580 --> 00:15:46.360 as the heroes 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:48.080 we stitch together 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:49.620 a thick weave 00:15:49.620 --> 00:15:51.960 reinforcing our 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:52.899 central place 00:15:52.899 --> 00:15:53.899 in our world. 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:56.679 Within our 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:57.059 towering 00:15:57.740 --> 00:15:58.919 self-constructed 00:15:58.919 --> 00:15:59.480 cathedral 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:00.279 buttressed 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:01.299 by a thousand 00:16:01.299 --> 00:16:02.659 self-awarded 00:16:02.659 --> 00:16:03.439 accolades 00:16:03.439 --> 00:16:05.559 we carry on 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:06.860 our accustomed 00:16:06.860 --> 00:16:08.159 and by now 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:09.740 well-established 00:16:09.740 --> 00:16:11.200 self-worship. 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:15.259 Does this sound 00:16:15.259 --> 00:16:16.500 an overly harsh 00:16:16.500 --> 00:16:17.100 description? 00:16:19.340 --> 00:16:20.700 I don't know 00:16:20.700 --> 00:16:21.440 that it is. 00:16:22.620 --> 00:16:23.879 I know 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:24.899 it's on the mark 00:16:24.899 --> 00:16:26.539 in my case. 00:16:27.860 --> 00:16:29.460 I find it 00:16:29.460 --> 00:16:30.879 so routine 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:32.639 in my own life 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:34.279 it has come 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:35.399 to pass now 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:37.159 almost wholly 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:38.000 unnoticed 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:39.579 but it's 00:16:39.579 --> 00:16:40.819 always there. 00:16:42.699 --> 00:16:43.659 Why am I 00:16:43.659 --> 00:16:44.220 always 00:16:44.220 --> 00:16:45.259 more anxious 00:16:45.259 --> 00:16:46.000 that people 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:46.419 will think 00:16:46.419 --> 00:16:46.980 too little 00:16:46.980 --> 00:16:47.659 of me 00:16:47.659 --> 00:16:49.340 than too 00:16:49.340 --> 00:16:49.860 much? 00:16:51.579 --> 00:16:52.419 For better 00:16:52.419 --> 00:16:53.019 or worse 00:16:53.019 --> 00:16:53.939 where does 00:16:53.939 --> 00:16:54.459 my eye 00:16:54.459 --> 00:16:55.159 first go 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:55.840 in that group 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:56.620 photo? 00:16:57.620 --> 00:16:58.279 Ah there 00:16:58.279 --> 00:16:58.860 I am 00:16:58.860 --> 00:16:59.379 third from 00:16:59.379 --> 00:16:59.980 the left 00:16:59.980 --> 00:17:00.879 I was 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:01.779 looking good 00:17:01.779 --> 00:17:03.519 or maybe 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:04.379 oh no 00:17:04.380 --> 00:17:05.140 look at my 00:17:05.140 --> 00:17:05.480 hair 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:05.760 I look 00:17:05.760 --> 00:17:06.160 like an 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:06.560 idiot 00:17:06.560 --> 00:17:09.460 either way 00:17:09.460 --> 00:17:11.120 self-centered 00:17:11.120 --> 00:17:14.060 self-absorbed 00:17:14.060 --> 00:17:16.920 in any case 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:17.580 the apostle 00:17:17.580 --> 00:17:18.900 in our passage 00:17:18.900 --> 00:17:19.740 refers 00:17:19.740 --> 00:17:20.700 to this 00:17:20.700 --> 00:17:22.240 whole complex 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:24.060 of self-oriented 00:17:24.060 --> 00:17:26.520 self-exaltation 00:17:26.520 --> 00:17:27.260 as 00:17:27.260 --> 00:17:28.980 the wisdom 00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:30.960 of the world 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:31.980 the phrase 00:17:31.980 --> 00:17:32.380 is in 00:17:32.380 --> 00:17:33.500 verse 20 00:17:33.500 --> 00:17:33.980 of our 00:17:33.980 --> 00:17:34.840 text 00:17:34.840 --> 00:17:35.740 there in 00:17:35.740 --> 00:17:35.980 first 00:17:35.980 --> 00:17:36.500 Corinthians 00:17:36.500 --> 00:17:38.400 the wisdom 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:39.299 of the world 00:17:39.299 --> 00:17:40.759 if you detect 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:41.460 an irony 00:17:41.460 --> 00:17:41.940 in that 00:17:41.940 --> 00:17:42.759 phrase 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:43.980 as Paul 00:17:43.980 --> 00:17:44.559 uses it 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:45.620 you're probably 00:17:45.620 --> 00:17:46.140 on to 00:17:46.140 --> 00:17:46.519 something 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:49.819 it of course 00:17:49.819 --> 00:17:50.819 crops up 00:17:50.819 --> 00:17:52.240 in innumerable 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:52.779 guises 00:17:52.779 --> 00:17:53.860 Paul had been 00:17:53.860 --> 00:17:54.620 reflecting on 00:17:54.620 --> 00:17:55.299 some words 00:17:55.299 --> 00:17:56.480 of the prophet 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:57.240 Isaiah 00:17:57.240 --> 00:17:58.700 describing 00:17:58.700 --> 00:17:59.980 the nation 00:17:59.980 --> 00:18:00.620 of Israel 00:18:00.620 --> 00:18:01.120 in his 00:18:01.120 --> 00:18:01.559 day 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:02.840 and he 00:18:02.840 --> 00:18:03.360 saw it 00:18:03.360 --> 00:18:03.860 there 00:18:03.860 --> 00:18:05.559 it's 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:05.980 where 00:18:05.980 --> 00:18:07.019 Paul draws 00:18:07.019 --> 00:18:07.539 his quote 00:18:07.539 --> 00:18:08.100 from in 00:18:08.100 --> 00:18:09.059 verse 19 00:18:09.059 --> 00:18:09.440 of our 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:10.039 text 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.240 it seems 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:13.360 that Jerusalem 00:18:13.360 --> 00:18:14.240 of old 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:15.080 was under 00:18:15.080 --> 00:18:15.799 threat 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:16.740 by powerful 00:18:16.740 --> 00:18:17.259 menacing 00:18:17.259 --> 00:18:17.740 neighbors 00:18:17.740 --> 00:18:18.940 and God 00:18:18.940 --> 00:18:19.420 told them 00:18:19.420 --> 00:18:20.319 simply 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:22.100 to trust 00:18:22.100 --> 00:18:22.700 him 00:18:22.700 --> 00:18:23.819 to keep 00:18:23.819 --> 00:18:24.539 them secure 00:18:24.539 --> 00:18:26.619 but like 00:18:26.619 --> 00:18:27.180 their first 00:18:27.180 --> 00:18:27.779 parents 00:18:27.779 --> 00:18:29.139 and ours 00:18:29.139 --> 00:18:31.079 they fancied 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:31.480 they had 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:31.779 a better 00:18:31.779 --> 00:18:32.279 plan 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:33.440 no 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:35.659 when it 00:18:35.659 --> 00:18:36.059 comes to 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