Walking the Highs and Lows of God's Path by Faith - Pastor Tom Loghry
Paul and Silas face both success and hardship after being led to Philippi by the Holy Spirit.
Transcript:
Think about God's way for your life. Think about God's way for your life. What do you think it looks like? How you answer that question will mostly depend on whether or not you have completely given your life to Jesus. I think if we're honest, we often have unstated terms and conditions when we say we will follow Christ-- certain stipulations on what God's way will look like in our life. Foolishly, sometimes our terms and conditions are simply this: my way will be God's way. My way will be God's way. In other words, God better take notes on what I want to do. Now, others of us may say, I'm interested in God's way, but God's way couldn't possibly include hardship, pain, and sacrifice. That mindset too, though, reveals that we're still committed to our way. We are not truly prepared to give ourselves completely to his way and throw out our terms and conditions.
Even as we begin to truly seek God's will and not our own, pitfalls remain. As God guides us and our vision narrows and the target is in sight, we can suddenly fall into a trap of thinking, thanks, God. I, I see where we're going, and I'll take it from here. We forget Proverbs three five and begin to lean on our own understanding when we've only just begun.
What often happens to us does not happen to Paul and Silas and their company here in Act 16. Things take an unexpected turn, but Paul doesn't miss a beat, and it's because he is not leaning on his own understanding, he is trusting in God's way, not his own. Departing from Derbe, now with. Timothy in his company, we pick up in verses six through 10 of Acts 16.
And it says, Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phyrgia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. When they came to the Border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia,, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to. So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas. During the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, come over to Macedonia and help us. After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
The course that Paul and his company are, are taking takes them from Derbe, here in South Galatia, across Asia Minor, modern day Turkey, and as they're going along, they're guided by the Holy Spirit. Apparently Paul had some thought of going towards the east into this direction in Asia Minor, but God had different plans for Paul and his fellow missionaries. They couldn't go into Asia in verse seven, it says they tried to enter Bithynia and it says The Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to enter into this, into Bithynia.
Now as you see that in the text, you look at verses six and seven, you might wonder, are we talking about two different things here? It says that they were kept from preaching the word in the province of Asia by the Holy Spirit, and then in verse seven it says that it was the Spirit of Jesus that would not allow them to enter into Bithynia. It can be a little bit confusing, but in fact, if we look in elsewhere in scripture, it becomes clear that we're talking about one and the same person. We're still talking about the Holy Spirit in both cases. Paul in Romans eight verses nine through 11 says, you, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your moral bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
You may have said yourself or have often heard it said Jesus lives within me. Christ dwells within me. If you really think about that hard, you might wonder, well, how does that exactly work? Because we know that Christ has a body. He was, he was raised from the dead, and he bodily ascended, he's going to bodily return. So how it is that, how is it that Christ can be within you? Well, the presence of Christ is communicated to us by the Spirit of Christ. We don't have a fourth person of the Godhead here. This is just another way of referring to the Holy Spirit. And so, and something else that we, we notice here, just even of, of this phrasing of the Spirit of, of Jesus, it almost brings to mind a phrase that is very common throughout the Old Testament, talking about the Spirit of the Lord. This is just another signpost pointing us to the divinity of Jesus Christ, that he is truly, in fact, God.
And when we're talking about the Holy Spirit, we're not talking about an it. We're not talking about a force. As we read, probably a year ago now, earlier in Acts, in Acts five, nine, when Ananias and Sapphira seek to deceive the church and making it look as though they're generous, Peter tells Sapphira, how could you conspire to test the spirit of the Lord? Now, you can't test a, a force in that kind of way. It's indicating that we're talking about a person here.
Now these events that transpire here is where Paul is initially thinking I'm going to certain parts, but then God's redirecting them is a great reminder to us that even while something might be a good thing, it may not yet be part of God's plan for us. Maybe it is not part of God's plan for us at, at all, even though it's a good thing. And that's something that can be really difficult for us to comprehend at times, because we see this thing as like, it's not a bad thing, it's not a sinful thing. Paul wants to share the gospel with people, that's an awesome thing. But it is not part of God's plan, or at least his immediate plan. We know the Gospel's going to spread elsewhere in Asia Minor, they will be reached. But not at this moment. And rather than getting frustrated, Paul follows the direction that God gives him by the Holy Spirit. Now, we might wonder, how is it that the Holy Spirit prevented Paul from going to these places? Was it simply by some spiritual intuition? Perhaps, and some of us may have experienced that at times, where we can feel the presence of the Holy Spirit, just giving a, a sense of, I, I probably shouldn't do that or I should do this. It could have been that. It could have been that they received a revelation, a prophecy, though Luke doesn't tell us about that. It could be that they, they received again, just a revelation or it could have been an obstacle that like appeared to them. And sometimes we have events that transpire where clearly it seems as though God is closing a door. Even while we initially thought that would be the route that we should take.
So we have some negative guidance here. God saying, no, no, no, you shouldn't go that direction. But now we have a positive direction offered by God through a vision that's given to Paul. And during the night it appears Paul has a dream of a Macedonian man saying to him, come over to Macedonia and help. We wonder how is it that he knew it was a Macedonian man, maybe it was by his dress, maybe it was by the way that he spoke. One way or another, he knew it was a Macedonian man and he knew that God was telling him to go there. And Paul's response is, let's go now.
This is kind of a big move here because they're going from really kinda the region of Asia into Europe. If you're thinking kind of just of the historical picture here, Paul's almost working the conquest of Alexander in reverse, because this would've been the course that Alexander the Great would've taken, going from Macedonia down into conquering most of the known world. Now, now, Paul's traveling that same path, with the intent of bringing the gospel to the land of Alexander.
So continuing in verse 11, Paul and his company make their way to Macedonia. It says, from Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day we went on to Neapolis. From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony in the leading city of the district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days. On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.
And something I want you to notice here is how, starting in verse 11, it says, we, little details here, it says we. And we know that Luke is the author of Acts, so it seems apparent here that Luke joins the company. And it's funny, he doesn't make much of himself. He, he doesn't say, and at this time, I decide to join Paul. He doesn't wanna make it about him. But now we know from this point on, he's working with some first hand information here 'cause he was there, he was with them.
They make their way towards Macedonia going through Samothrace. That was an island along the way there. And going through Neapolis, ultimately their journey takes them to Philippi. And we note here that Philippi is said to be a Roman colony. Now there was other cities that were Roman colonies, and Luke doesn't always mention the fact that they're a Roman colony, but the fact that he does mention it here indicates it's a, it's probably a really Roman colony and it's kind of Rome in miniature here. And when they get to Philippi, they seek out basically the Jewish community there, those who are seeking the God of Israel.
Now, there isn't a synagogue in the city, and again, this is just another indication that this is a very Roman city. And the way that these colonies very often got started was that after you served your time in the military, a Roman veteran would would've been given a stake in a colony someplace or maybe given money.
And so he'd move there and he would retire there and be kind of a well todo citizen. And so you would have a certain core of the population that are these Roman soldier, former Roman soldiers. And then you have people that are some of the locals. And so in some of these places you would have Jews, but apparently there, there aren't very many here. And this becomes apparent because they're actually found outside the city gates by a river. Now it's interesting that it seems that Paul expected to find them by a river. That may have been because very often synagogues would've been built near a body of water, other religious sites pagan in nature would've been near water. Water is useful not just for drinking for, but for ritual purification. And so that may have been why Paul thought to look outside the city and by the river, and going there he does indeed find a gathering. He found a place of, of prayer and there is a group of women that were, were gathered there, and there's one in particular that was quite notable.
Picking up in verse 14, it says, one of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message. When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. If you consider me a believer in the Lord, she said, come and stay at my house. And she persuaded us.
So among the women that Paul and his company meet here at the river is a woman named Lydia, and Lydia's not originally from, from Philippi. She's originally from a place called Thyatira which is back in Asia minor, back in modern day Turkey, she would've been a Greek most likely. And the distance between Thyatira and Philippi is about the distance from here down to Wilmington, Delaware.
So she's kind of like a, she's an immigrant of sorts. Now, Thyatira would've been a place that would've been known for its market in purple cloth. And so it makes sense here that given that's where she's from, that she herself is in fact a dealer in purple cloth. Now you might think that's strange, you know, are there dealers in green cloth and red cloth? Why, you know, what's so special about purple cloth? Well, purple was a very expensive color at that time. Some of you may know that in centuries past that spice was very expensive because it was hard to acquire, and purple was a difficult color to acquire as well because the way in which you had to make it was to crush shellfish. You had to get a lot of these shellfish in order to make the purple dye. And so, and that's how purple came to be a sign of royalty. It was kind of a status symbol to be able to have purple clothing. And so given that it's, it's kind of a, an expensive thing to acquire, we might think here that she was probably fairly well to do.
She was basically a businesswoman. She was a, she was a merchant. Now that doesn't mean that she was part of high society there because those that were part of the elites wouldn't have been in involved in the merchant business, but she was doing well enough for herself and she was a worshiper of God. She was in, she was seeking the God of Israel. And when Paul spoke to them, it says that the Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message.
Now I, I think that's something important to notice there. We see how everything's kind of teed up here. She's someone that's already seeking the Lord. And we might think that, okay, Paul's gonna come bring his message. He's gonna be very persuasive, and she's gonna think that's very reasonable and she's gonna believe in his message. But notice it doesn't say that she opened up her heart. It says the Lord opened her heart. Even when everything's teed up, it's God's doing. This brings us back to Acts 13, verse 48, when Paul was in Pisidian Antioch and he brought the message there to the Gentiles and it says, when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
It's by the movement of God upon a person's heart so that they are regenerated, that a person comes to respond and believe in Jesus Christ. It's not their own doing. Now, as she responds in faith, it says that, in verse 15, that not only she but her whole household was baptized. And this isn't that unusual. We're a very individualistic society so that you'd have to kind of twist the arms of your family members to persuade them to consider coming to Christ. But it is not that unusual at that time that if one's going to believe that's gonna be a great witness and testimony to the rest of one's household so that the rest would. Now, that said, it is interesting here, it, I, I think, among other things, it suggests that she's a widow. Because usually the husband would take a leading role here, and if the husband came to believe, then the rest of the family might come and follow, follow suit. And we do have many instances where there's women who became Christians but their husbands did not at this time, but given her trade and every, just all the things together here, we have reason to think that either Lydia was a widow, or she may have been divorced by her husband for whatever reason. In any case, she and her whole household are baptized, and after this it says that she invited Paul and his company to stay with her. She said, if you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house, right outta the gate she's offering hospitality. Now, hospitality is something that most people in that culture would've been expected to offer, but especially Christians should offer that to one another. And it's just a good little reminder for us that it's important for us to offer hospitality to each other, to welcome each other into our homes and share our life together. Not just have it, okay, we meet by the river, but outside of that, you know, we're not gonna see each other. No. We share life together, and that's what Lydia does here. She, otherwise, where's, where's Paul and his company gonna stay? The inns were kind of rough in that time. So this gave him a, a safe place to stay and a great kind of base of operation for sharing the gospel.
So things appear to be gowing great. Paul and his companions have, again, that kind of base of operation in Philippi, a ready-made community that has been gathering at the river for prayer. But even as things seem to be progressing well, spiritual opposition then emerges. We pick up in verse 16. Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune telling. She followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, these men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved. She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and said to the Spirit, in the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her! At that moment, the Spirit left her.
It's interesting how as Luke progresses here in telling his story of what transpires in Philippi he almost sets up as a an instance of comparison. In contrast, we go from the woman Lydia, who's doing fairly well for herself with the sale of this purple cloth, and then you have another woman who is doing well for her owners. She's a fortune teller, but she's entirely enslaved, not only by them, but she's enslaved by spiritual forces at work.
Now, she gets on this collision course with Paul because she just keeps following him, it says for many days, declaring these men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved. Now, you might think initially like, oh, that's a great thing, like she's helping announce the message. But I just, I mean, put yourself in Paul's shoes. You're not trying to make an unnecessary scene. You wanna be able to have conversations with people and explain the gospel. Instead, as you're going just about your day in Philippi, going back and forth between the river, this young woman, probably, probably young is, is making this declaration again and again. It would be annoying.
Now we can consider why in particular it would've been annoying and troublesome, but just turning our focus a little bit more to this, this woman. She may have even just been a mere, a mere girl. Verse 16 says that she had a spirit by which she predicted the future. Now if you look at the Greek, sometimes it reveals details that the English kind of glazes over a little bit, just 'cause we wouldn't understand what was being referred to here without some explanation, but in the Greek it says pneuma puthona. Pneuma is spirit. Puthona is Python. Python spirit. She has a Python spirit. Now, another way of saying that, she would be referred to as a Pythi.an. Now what's being indicated there is that she has the same sort of spirit that the woman who would've been the oracle of Delphi would've possessed, if you're familiar with the oracle of Delphi, would've been this woman to whom people would go in order to have future events revealed, and she came to be known as Pythian and have this association with Python because myth, mythologically speaking, it was said that Apollo slayed the Python there, this, this snake. The woman that became associated with that site became known as Pythian. She had a python, this Python spirit. Now, of course, as as Christians, as those of us familiar with the text of the Old Testament, that just brings us right back to Eden. That's a red flag. That's a Satan right there. A python, a Python spirit. Now we don't know the way in which she was even at, you know, we know what she was saying here, but how she was saying it. Some say that when they would go into kind of these mantic states, it might be quite ecstatic or speak with strange voices. She might have just been simply loud, but it made a big scene. It made a big scene.
So again, coming back to why was Paul particularly annoyed, apart from the sound and just all that? Well, we see what she's trying to do here. What, what the devil is trying to do here. She's acting in a parasitic sort of way because she's trying to steal the glory of the gospel from Paul and his company. They are bringing a lifesaving message, but even as they're doing that, she's trying to make herself, her spiritual powers at work look big and important because she's, she's the one who's revealing this. She's cutting in on God's glory. And it would've been confusing too, for, for the Pagans, because she's talking about the Most High God. They're not gonna necessarily know that that's the God of Israel. She may, they may have thought that she was talking about Zeus. Now we might ask, well, why does Paul delay? Why does he, why doesn't he just cast this spirit out right out of the gate? Well, the reason was he may have known it was gonna cause some trouble. If he did that, it, it could have brought him into conflict with some of the authorities there, and we're gonna see how that, that plays out, certainly with the people there.
Now, ultimately, he gets there, to casting out this spirit, but that might have been part of his concern. And, but when he comes down to it, he, he does exorcise this spirit from her. In verse 18, it says in the name of, he says, in the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to come out of her. Once again, we see here as we have already in Acts, it's not Paul's power, it's the power of God. It's the name of Jesus Christ. And we notice here that there's not some big formula or incantation. It's simply by the name of Jesus Christ this spirit is cast out. And I've had people ask me before, like, what would you do if you met someone that was demon possessed? I say, I would do that. I don't, I don't need smoke. I don't need a whole formula. I, I just need the name of Jesus Christ. If the spirit is going to be cast out, is by the power of Jesus Christ, not by my power. It's not by any other power but his.
Now, the result is the spirit is, is cast out. She's no longer able to fortune tell. And what we see here in this spiritual showdown is that these evil forces at work are no match for the Holy Spirit. The demons cannot stand against God. And then we get to the fallout, verse 19, when her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities. They, they brought them before the magistrates and said, these men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice.
The magistrates that Paul and Silas would've been brought before likely would've been two Praetors, that would've been their titles, two were assigned to, to the colonies often. Now, the accusers that are bringing Paul and Silas before them are doing so because Paul has messed up their business. Now, just again, just thinking about the situation here, not to go over it too lightly. They were trafficking a girl for the purpose of making money of her fortune telling abilities. They were willing for her to be possessed by a demon and afflicted by it also, that they could make some cash. And it says, it says her owners, so it's not just one individual. It's interesting to think about, you know, was it a couple, you know, a married couple? It could have been a group of priests, it could have been a kind of a corporation, a business operation. Very dark to think about, and this is, this is the world that we see without Christ a world that abuses people.
So that's their reason why they're upset with Paul and Silas. But the reason they present to these praetors, to the magistrates, is not that. They, they present them as people who are subversive to Roman ways. And, you know, as their first, the first thing they say is these men are Jews. Very anti-Semitic tone they're, they're kind of taking there and we know that the Jewish, Jewish ways and beliefs did cause some friction with Roman's ways of doing things because they didn't eat what they ate, they wouldn't worship Caesar, they wouldn't do the things that Romans would do, so it put them in some tension there. Even while the empire didn't make a carve out for the Jewish people, there was tension there. It also makes sense when you think about, they didn't have the synagogue in the city. They were very much a minority there.
And again, what we see here just on the big picture, both here and then as we think about how the, when the gospel is brought into any place, is that it's not unusual for the gospel witness to affect someone's bottom line, to hurt their economics in some way. We see, we see this happen with Paul later on, hurts the idol industry, magic books. We can see this in our own day, how the gospel witness, if I'm gonna follow Jesus Christ, that's going to shape the sort of entertainment I consume, and that's gonna affect the entertainment that's gonna be produced, and that ultimately affects someone's bottom line. The gospel witness liberates people from addiction, and that certainly hits some people's bottom line who are profiting from anything that would enslave someone to addiction, whether it's drugs or in, you know, drunkenness or anything else that's, that's not helpful for us as human beings. Sometimes it comes down to the gospel's gonna affect my, the bottom line when it comes to my personal autonomy, to, being able to do whatever I want to do in life. And we see that that that can come into play when we're talking about issues like abortion, and industry that offers the promise of perfect liberty, getting whatever you want. And I would, and extend that too on the other side of, of getting babies that we want, I can speak personally, I, I'd love to have more children, but how you get there, there are very terrible ways that people are going about getting the children they want in this world. Taking children, conceiving children without that, that will never know their mother or father. That is against the way of Jesus Christ. That, if you're gonna witness against that, that's gonna hurt people's bottom line and it's also gonna hurt their autonomy. And yes, in the realm of spiritual practices and commodities, we see it more and more today, people are less formerly religious. We do see a decline in church attendance, but some of that is being made up for spirituality. We see it around us. Witchcraft shops, crystals, all kinds of Eastern religious practices. If I'm gonna witness against that, that's gonna hurt someone's bottom line. It's, it comes down to this, you, you know, you're over the target when you start taking flack, and that's what happens here with Paul and Silas.
Closing out in verses 22 through 24, it says, the crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods. After they'd been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. When he received these orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
So Paul, Paul and Silas are beaten, and the people that we can recently suppose were the ones who beat them were, would've been essentially the magistrate's bodyguards, these fellows known as lictors. Now this is actually, it's a little bit later, second century, but this is a little statue of of, of a man who was a lictor. Now, how do you, how would you like that guy being up on you? Looks like a scary dude. And given that there was two of them, two of these praetors, there may have been as many as 12 of these guys, and it says that they beat Paul and Silas with rods. And the rods that they likely would've used here would've been known as fasces, F-A-S-C-E-S, fasces. They would've carried these rods with them wherever they went. They would walk in front of the magistrates to kind of clear the way. They were a sign of the civil authority and power to punish. If you go on YouTube, you can look up a history of this, you can see it, it's interesting. It's a, it's a bundle of rods, and there's an axe on there which symbolized not just, you know, just a light, a lighter punishment, not a light punishment, a lighter punishment by getting hit with these rods, but ultimately, we could also kill you too. We got the axe there just in case. And it's interesting, you actually, we actually see the symbol around us today. You see it in the seal of the United States Senate. It's a very, it's a, it's a symbol that has long persisted. And if you think the word fasces sounds a lot like fascism, that's not an accident either because Benito Mussolini appropriated that word for his party.
So they're beating Paul and Silas up quite severely, and results in them being placed into prison afterwards, after they're quite seriously wounded. They've gone from the highest, maybe not the highest of highs, but a pretty great place, you know, this great community, people are turning to Jesus, baptizing people, now they're just absolutely down in the pit. I mean, does it get lower than this? Now they have reason to expect this because this is what Jesus has told his disciples. And it's not just to them, it's to us, it's to Christians today, for all time. Luke 21:12 he says, but before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They'll hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you'll be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.
Now, as we'll see next week as we continue on, I'll leave you on a little bit of a cliffhanger here, as we're, we're gonna see, they're not gonna despair. They've been put in a position to continue to trust God, and they're going to continue trusting God. The Holy Spirit is the one who led them here ultimately. Could have avoided all this if he just let 'em go to Bithynia, although who knew what, what awaited them in Bithynia. Holy Spirit has led them here though. Now they're in jail, their feet are in stocks. Is God going to deliver them?
Now, I want you to think about yourself. Where are you now? Have you been pursuing God's way or your own? And we have to be careful here because we can't just judge based on circumstances alone. A lot of times we try to judge whether we're in God's will or think we're where we're supposed to be based upon if things seem to be going well. That if things aren't going well, if I'm having a hard time, then I couldn't be in God's will. Just look at Paul and Silas though, that's not the right measure. The wicked know both prosperity and calamity. And so too, God's way takes us to the mountaintop and God's way takes us to the cross. Knowing which way we are on comes down to our bottom line and whether we're heeding the direction of God. Are we all in for the gospel or for something else? Before your feet are in the stocks, before they hit you with the rods and humiliate you, before you are compelled to take action that will surely upset others, before you are crossing a sea to a land unknown, you'll decide to go your way or God's way, and you can't split the difference.
Paul and Silas may not have known what was coming next, but they knew they were exactly where they were supposed to be. It was God's way. And that was enough. Is it enough for you?
Let us pray.
Father, we thank you for the testimony we have here, testimony of faith and of obedience of how Paul and these missionaries heeded your direction and were obedient even when it led to them being beaten and put in prison.
Father, our prayer is that we would follow their example, that we would be interested in your way, not our way. That we would seek your guidance and heed it.
In the end, father, we're not trying to be obnoxious to people. We will not be afraid of affecting the bottom line by our witness of the gospel, by delivering people from the oppression, the enslavement that afflicts them. Not always as obvious as someone being possessed by a Python spirit, father, but we see people all around us enslaved by sin. Make us bold, father, make us bold witnesses to preach the gospel which liberates, and help us to trust in you that even if things are difficult because of our witness, because of the way that you're taking us on, that you are faithful and good, and that you will deliver us. That you will deliver us because we know that Christ has gone before us through the cross, into the grave and out the other side.
Father, be glorified in our lives as we offer them up to you as living sacrifices. In Christ's name we pray, amen.
Hey there, Pastor Tom here. I hope you enjoyed this sermon I offered to Rockland Community Church. Rockland Community Church is located at 212 Rockland Road in North Scituate, Rhode Island, just around the bend from the Scituate Public High School. We invite you to join us in person or virtually this Sunday as we worship God and hear the preaching of his word. It's our joy to welcome you into our community
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