Quit Ye Like Men, a Call to Biblical Manhood


Sermon by Mike Milton on January 31, 2010 1 Corinthians 16:13-14; 1 Peter 2:8-12, 3:7

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The Lord’s Day Morning

January 31, 2010

1 Corinthians 16:13-14; 1 Peter 2:9-12, 3:7

“Quit Ye Like Men, A Call to Biblical Manhood”

Dr. Michael A. Milton

Good morning! Now let me first
welcome those of you who are visiting with us today.
And preaching this morning is our dear friend and brother, the Reverend
Dr. Mike Milton. Mike is the
president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte
and previously was the pastor of our sister congregation in Chattanooga, the First Presbyterian Church of
Chattanooga.

O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker, for
He is our God and we are the people of His pasture, the flock under His care.
Let us worship Him.

My heart is greatly moved by that choir — “Lead Kindly Light”.
What a joy and privilege it is to stand here.
It was about twenty four years ago that I was called upon to return to Mississippi where I had been living in Kansas, pasturing, and I was called upon to
lay to rest the body of the woman who bore me.
Abandoned as a child and reared by my Aunt Eva, and on the way back home
from Tylertown, Mississippi I called my wife May and I said,
“I don’t think I’m taking the Saturday night plane.
I’m just going to stay over and go to First Pres in
Jackson
and hear Dr. Baird. And so I sat up
— of course you’re renovated now — but I sat up where you’re sitting, in the
back and I’ve told Jim Baird I don’t remember the exact text, but I will never
forget the impression of the Holy Spirit upon my soul from his preaching.
And so pardon me if I feel some of that now.
I feel like I’m exactly where God wants me to be this morning.
Though in my robe, as a servant of Reformed Theological Seminary, the
Lord opens doors for me to preach all over the place and I’m honored to do that.

I feel like the Psalmist in Psalm 84 who said, “How lovely is Your dwelling
place, O Lord of hosts. My soul
longs, yes faints, for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Even the sparrow finds a home and the swallow a nest for herself where
she may lay her young at Your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.
Blessed are those who dwell in Your house ever singing Your praise.”
I feel like that little sparrow who’s found a home this morning with you,
at this moment, at this time and place, in the economy of God’s eternity we’re
together. And I’m so thankful to be
here.

I do bring you greetings from Reformed Theological Seminary, the seminary which
is born out of the vision really of this church, to raise up a training ground
for Gospel preachers and missionaries to take the Gospel to the ends of the
earth to rely up on the inerrant and infallible Word of God to accomplish
supernatural ends with supernatural means with a passion for the great
commission, and I’m honored and privileged to be here.
But my heart again is so greatly moved as I shared with your pastor even
from the first service how, to be with you, is always a joy, to be with God’s
people, so I tremble as God has called me now to serve Him to bring a word from
another world.

We’re carrying on with the theme of Biblical manhood, which we started on Friday
night at our Men’s Rally, which from my standpoint, was wonderful.
Those male voices joined in singing great hymns of the faith — it was
just great — and the fellowship I enjoyed.
This morning I want to continue that with three passages from the Word of
God. So I’ll ask if you’ll join me
first of all in 1 Corinthians chapter 16.
Little did I know that you would be reading through 1 Corinthians and you
would come to chapter 5, a hard chapter, but really then the final exhortations
of Paul in chapter 16, which are really a veritable flurry of exhortations —
like a general giving one command after another — little did I know that when I
prepared the message to bring you this morning and you were reading through
this, that the context would be set by the reading.
And so we come in 1 Corinthians chapter 16 to verse 13.
I’m going to add to that two other readings, one from 1 Peter and one
from Ephesians. But as I read these
passages I remind you that this is the inerrant and the infallible Word of the
living God.

1 Corinthians 16:

“Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
Let all that you do be done in love.”

I add to that Ephesians chapter 6 where the apostle Paul, writing to the church
in Ephesus says in chapter 5 verse 1, “Be
imitators of God,” and then the apostle works that out.
He works that out through a life of holiness — “Be imitators of God.”
He works that out in the husband/wife relationship.
He works that out in obedience of children to parents.
But we are to be obedient to God in another way.
And I turn your attention to chapter 6 verse 4, again a passage to men:

“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the
discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

Now finally add to that in the New Testament 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 7, where
the apostle Peter is likewise giving instructions to the congregational life of
those who have been scattered from Jerusalem who are on the run, who are settling into new
communities of faith in Asia Minor.
And here we read in chapter 3 verse 7 more words about men and their
responsibilities:

“Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor
to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of
life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.”

The grass withers and the flower fades, but the Word of the Lord stands forever.

Dear heavenly Father, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of our
hearts be always acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer and
may I preach as though never to preach again — as a dying man to dying men — in
the name of Jesus Christ the Man, Christ Jesus, I pray.

I have to begin this message by telling you that I may have injured my son for
the rest of his life by an action I took when he was about twelve years old.
John Michael is fifteen now.
He reminds me about this decision that I made.
He tells me that I humiliated him and he says, “Dad, I’m scarred for life
for what you did.” And he goes on to remind me that at about age twelve in Chattanooga his mom
decided that he should be in cotillion and learn what it is to be a gentleman.
And so he came to me and said, “Dad, mom’s got this idea that I’m to go
to classes at the Lookout Mountain Country Club and learn how to ballroom dance
and fold napkins and escort girls and dad you’ve just got to do something.”
So I did. I took matters
into my own hands and went in to see my wife and about three minutes later I
returned and said, “Son, you’re going to be going to Lookout Mountain Country
Club and there’s nothing I can do about it.”
And he says, “Dad, I’m scarred for life.”
And you know what? It did
teach him. Even though his friends
were playing football and playing video games and doing other things and he was
learning how to fold a napkin and dance with a girl to a nineteenth century
dance that he tells me now, “None of the girls know how to dance that way
anyway, dad,” nevertheless it was good for him and soon I suspect he’ll thank me
and thank his mom especially for it.
And the truth is we all need some training these days in manners given
our culture. Don’t worry, I haven’t
come here to tell the boys here that you’ve got to go into such training, but if
your mama says you’ve got to do it, you’ve got to do it.

But I am here to say that the Word of God has a lot to say about what it means
to be a man. The Word of the Lord
has a lot to say in the context of our culture what it is to be a man of God in
relationship to the community and in relationship to our wives and in
relationship to our children. Dr.
Duncan was right in saying that not much changes.
The situation in 1 Corinthians 5 of course looks similar today.
In our culture, the worst sort of debauchery, unimaginable things
happening in our culture, and if there’s ever been a time where we need to have
men of God rise up, like the old hymn says, “Today is that day.”
And the apostle Paul of course wanted the men in
Corinth to rise up and be men of God.
And so in 1 Corinthians 16:13 in the ESV, I read Paul’s words — “Be
watchful, stand firm in the faith.”
And the ESV puts it like this — “act like men.”
Now the NIV says, “be men.”
The King James puts it differently but I like it, not just because it resonates
with me because I grew up hearing it, the cadence of it, but even though it’s
archaic, it’s kind of a little different and it strikes.
Here is what it says, “Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like
men.” And that grabs my attention —
“quit you like men” — be strong.

And Paul is calling the men of the church to literally be a man.
In fact, the Greek word occurs only one time in the New Testament — this
imperative verb which is taken from a noun which means “man” — it literally is
now turning the noun into a verb — “become a man; you be a man.”
A friend of mine from Lee’s Summit, Missouri
translates this verse like this — “Stand up on your hind legs, son, and be a
man.” That works too.
You get the picture. In the
problems of the Corinthian church the men needed to stand up and address the
very sort of sinful situation that was arising in 1 Corinthians 5, the same sort
of problems that were arising in other parts of Corinth.
They needed to take a stand.
It was time for them to step up. It
reminds me of after
9-11 whenever seventeen-year old boys were lining up at
recruitment stations. They were
taking their stands. You know,
“Sign me up. I’ll let my mama sign
for me, but I’ve got to go to the front lines.
I’ve got to fight.” And it
was that type of spiritual warfare going on in
Corinth. And
my beloved, that type of spiritual warfare is going on now and it is time to
stand on our hind legs as it were and be men.

Now of course that doesn’t mean the sort of macho image that we find from
popular culture about being a man.
It’s talking about something different.
It’s talking about not men being a man by going out and partying, or
trying to impress someone else by climbing the career ladder, or getting fat and
lazy as you glue yourself to a sixty inch wide screen.
Men in our culture are denigrated in my opinion in so many ways.
Dad is pictured as a harmless bumbling idiot who must be guided by his
savvy children or his wife feminist wife.
That’s not the man we need there.
That’s the caricature of a man. In fact, that is a boy.
That is a boy. We need men
of courage today. In our
society, our women, our children, in this very congregation, in this very
nation, are crying out for men who will be protectors and defenders, indeed
honorable gentlemen — will show our youth what a man is really all about.
And the honor of our women, the nurture of our children, and really the
continuation of anything approaching civilization are absolutely dependant upon
it. In fact, one social theorists
says that “civilization really is the channeling of strength – the natural
strength, the brute strength if you will – the channeling of all that a man is
into the narrow vein of care and love and nurture of women and children and the
weak and the oppressed” — that is civilization.
When men are domesticated in that sort of noble……

When I began to pray about this message this morning there were a couple of
things on my heart as I go because this morning I want to talk to you about what
I means to quit ye like men, what it is to be a man.
And ladies, as I look at you this morning, you were on my heart — and
children, boys and girls — because I didn’t want you to think, “I can check out
because this one’s not for me, but honey you’d better listen.”
In fact, somebody this morning told me after the service — he came up to
me and he said, “My wife told me, ‘We’ve got a lot to talk about at dinner
today.’” I prayed for you women.
Particularly my heart is moved by single moms who are rearing their
children. As an orphan I was raised
without a father, but I hope that you will find that by the end of the sermon
that God has got a word for all of you, that your life and your mind is shaped
by the Spirit.

First of all, from the passage this is a call to be a man of faith in Jesus
Christ in the community where God has called you.
To quit you like a man is to be a man of faith in the community.
This is what the apostle Paul is saying here in this passage.
You are to be guarding the sacred faith that has been entrusted to you.
Paul says, “Be on guard.”
Such a man is not going to get into the theological whims of the day.
Paul says, “Stand firm in the faith.”
You’re to be a man of courage, not ashamed of the Gospel, a man who is so
studied in the Word of God, so saturated by the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ,
that you can stand firm. This
standing firm is not a standing firm out of your own physical strength, it is a
standing firm out of what you have received — maybe from your mama —
strengthened by the Word of God that you receive week by week here and in your
Sunday school and in your Bible
studies and in your home devotions, standing firm.
It’s a man of God who is courageous, not fearful of what others think or
say. And if you look at the
passage, I find it very interesting that the apostle Paul says that you are to
“act like men,” “be strong,” and then look at verse 14, “Let all that you do be
done in love.” Now some of us think
that strength and tenderness and love are antithetical to each other.

Before the service I had a song come into my head and I asked Ligon, “Ligon help
me with this. Dan Fogelberg;
“Leader of the Band”; there’s a line.”
He got on the computer. He
said, “Here it is. It’s Dan
Fogelberg, a folk singer, writing about his daddy.”
He was a band musician at Central
High School in Peoria,
Illinois.
He said he “earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand,
his gentle ways of sculpting souls first to understand, that the strength.”
God is calling us in the community.

There’s a very famous passage for Mother’s Day and you know it.
It’s Proverbs 31. And
there’s an interesting passage within that, I use it often in marriage
counseling, it’s verse 23 — “Her husband is respected at the city gate where he
takes his seat among the elders of the land.”
You see one of the attributes of this noble woman is that she uses all of
her feminine intuition and all of her godliness to strengthen, to build up her
husband, so that he can go and be the man that God has called him to be, and
that is to sit among other men, to go out into the workplace if you will, to go
out into the arena of the community, and stand as a godly man among them and to
bear witness among other men about his faith.
That’s what God is calling us to do in this passage, to be a man in the
community.

But you say, “I’m too busy to be involved with the work of the church.”
And many a man has said that — “I’m too busy because of work.
I’m too busy because of the sports tickets that I have.
I’m too busy because of this or that or the other.”
And you know what has happened over the years?
I’ve come to think that to do the work of the Lord whether it’s in the
church or being sent out to the church, is the work of a guy who couldn’t get an
honest living — called a preacher — or women.
And thus we have in our nation a confusion of role relationships, even
about the role relationships about men and women in the church.
And sometimes the root of the problem is that men have not gone out and
they have not been sitting at the gates and they have not taken their stand in
the community. This is a call for
men to stand up and be men in the community.
Quit ye like men.

And you know there could be an opportunity right here this morning or maybe
someone listening or watching to commit yourself to the Lord Jesus Christ right
now, to take a stand for Him right now in this body or in the church where you
may belong, but to stand up for Christ and to say, “I’m going to offer my life
Lord Jesus Christ, to You. And to
be a real man is to offer my life for You, to do what You want me to do, to
follow wherever You want me to go.”
For some of you young men it could even mean today that God is calling you to
preach the unsearchable riches of Christ.
It could be that He’s calling you to the mission field.
It could be that He’s calling you to go to the other side of the earth.
And for some of you men it could be that He’s calling you to go to the
other side of the living room and to be a man in your own home.

And that leads us to the second thing that we find in the Word of God about
quitting ye like men, and admittedly the context of 1 Corinthians 16 is dealing
with the problems that are going on in Corinth, but I believe that we can move
from that quite easily to 1 Peter 3:7 where Peter says, “Husbands, in the same
way, be considerate as you live with your wives and treat them with respect as
the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life so that
nothing will hinder your prayers.”
And this is his second call of a man of God, not only to be a man in the
community, but to be a man of God, to be a man of faith in Christ in your
marriage. And we could say from
that to be a man of faith in relationship with other women.
Peter is calling the scattered church to walk before the watching world
in a Christ-like manner. He has
addressed the issue of submission to government, he’s addressed the issue of
submission to rulers and masters, and now he comes to marriage.
Now Peter has commanded wives to submit through respect to the God-given
headship of the husband. But he’s
calling the men here to submit to the role of being a husband.
It remind me so much of Ephesians 5:25 where we read, “husbands love your
wives just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her.”

A number of years ago in Chattanooga I was doing
pre-marital counseling and I remember specially this couple and dealing with
this passage. And so I had talked
to the young lady about surrendering her life — “Will you take this man’s name
and surrender your life to this man?”
And we talked about what submission meant — sweet surrender to this
husband who loves you, who’s your husband to be.
And then I turned to this young man and I said, “You know the Bible says
you’re going to have to love your wife as Jesus Christ loved the church and gave
Himself up for her. Now son” — he
was a young man. I said, “Now son,
how did Christ do that?” And this young man from the back of the mountain he
said, “Well preacher, He died for the church.”
And I said, “Well that’s right son.
Now what does that mean for you in relationship to this young lady who’s
going to be your wife?” He said,
“Preacher, if a Mac-truck ever comes and tries to run down my wife I’m going to
throw myself in front of that Mac-truck and I’ll take the hit for her.”
There was a pause, and then the young lady said, “You know honey, I
haven’t had too many Mac-trucks running after me, but I wonder if you could give
up deer hunting for just one season.”
All I could think was touché, and then I thought, “You’re going to be
preaching that in Jackson, Mississippi.
You’d better make sure you say it’s okay to deer hunt.”

But I wanted him to see, Peter is wanting the congregation there to see, all of
your strength, everything that God has given you…in a chivalry charged way to
just prostrate yourself before her in this world so she can … hold her up and
her feet and you hold her up and you honor her and you study her, literally to
husband, to cultivate. Are you
doing that with your wives, praying for her and focusing on her, lifting her up
in your heart and lifting her up in your prayers?
“Oh dear heavenly Father, Lord, bless my wife, this crowning achievement
of all of Your creation, this woman.
Lord use everything that You’ve given me, this strength, this place in
the community, everything I have to lift her up” really is what God is saying to
us. Consider it and intentional and
thoughtful in the way that we relate to them, to the weaker partner.
Of course he’s meaning the male is physically larger, a stronger
creature, but he’s really showing from this that the Biblical view of manhood
requires us to transform our strength, protection and nurture.
It’s in no way demeaning.
It’s simply speaking to the physical stature and saying the physical stature
that God has given you is really a metaphor for what you’re to do in all of your
life, in the spiritual life. You’re
to life her up. Exalt her.
She’s a gift to you, the Bible says, to you.
And I would say, young men, that is the way you are to relate.
That is what God is calling us to do.
And in fact if we don’t do that, the Bible says that particularly in a
relationship between husbands and wives that our prayers are interrupted.
And yet so many will walk out today and go to lunch and go live their
lives and be together and yet there will be no beautiful connection. The husband
will not be giving his life for his wife or prioritizing her.

There once was a travelling salesman and this man had trouble with living this
truth out. In fact, he was always
quarreling and fighting with his wife.
He belittled her, constantly put her down.
And another trip was coming up, and so he was packing up and leaving.
The whole time he’s packing up the suitcase and getting ready to walk out
the door they’re arguing because he really hasn’t been loving and taking care of
his wife the way the Lord calls us to do.
And generally when he would walk out and slam the door and put the car in
reverse and begin to back out of the driveway he would look and she would kind
of pull the curtain and look out and at least there was a glimmer of love or
sympathy or beauty of marriage in that one act.
But that day as he pulled out he didn’t see the curtain move so he peeled
out and left the subdivision and began heading west.
He was calling in west Texas making sales calls.
And he pulls into this little café that you find all over west Texas and
he slams in there — the dust all whipped up — and he walks into the café, plops
down at a counter, and the waitress walks up and says, “Can I help you sir?”
And he just says, “Coffee.”
“Okay.”

While she’s gone to get his coffee, he looks up and there he sees a cowpoke.
He had obviously been out working — he was filthy.
But next to this cowpoke, and this cowpoke is just kind of leaning in,
absorbing this picture before him, and it was this beautiful young woman in a
blue polka-dot dress. And it was
not just that he was looking at the beautiful young woman in the blue polka-dot
dress, in his mind as they were laughing, as he observed them embracing and
stroking each others’ arms and holding hands, in his mind he began to think,
“I’m the cowboy and my wife…” “Sir,
here’s your coffee. Oh I see you’re
looking at them. Yeah, they come in
here about every week. They’re
married. And that old cowpoke
brings her in every week. This is
kind of their date you might day and they act like that every time they come in
here and others look at them just the way you’re looking at them.”
And he straightened himself up as if he
wasn’t looking. And she said, “Oh I knew you were looking because that is a
pretty sight, isn’t it?”

And just about that time the cowpoke got up and got up out of his chair and he
picked up the girl in the blue polka-dot dress into his arms.
And the traveling salesman who had had problems with his own marriage and
was imagining what his own life might be if he were acting like the cowpoke
looks at this guy picking up this girl in the blue polka-dot dress, his wife,
and all of a sudden her skirt is swept away as he picks her up and he sees her
legs and it’s then that he gasps.
And the waitress even reaches over and grabs his shoulder because what he saw
were steel braces and leather. What
he saw was a crippled woman. And
the cowboy picked her up and brought her outside and he went to his old truck
parked right outside. He could see
through the window. And he opened
the truck door and he put his wife in the driver’s seat and then nudged her over
just a little bit, but his arm around her as if they were college sweethearts,
and that truck went off with the dust flying into the sunset.
And the waitress said, “You know the funny thing about it is she can’t
walk without him; he can’t live without her.
What do you think about…” and that traveling salesman was out the door —
east. This is what God wants.
A real man is a man who treats women with honor and dignity and respect –
would that we would go home today with that vision.

The Bible also calls us to be men of faith in fatherhood and that is what it is
to quit ye like a man. If you turn
back to our reading from Ephesians 6 you will see in Ephesians 6 verse 4 that
we’re not to provoke — or we could use the word exasperate — our children.
Instead we are to bring them up in the training and instruction of the
Lord. So there is both a warning as
well as a direction. The warning is
not to exasperate them. Let your
children be children. Let your boys
be boys. Let your girls be girls.
Not too long ago I was at a soccer field and I was watching as a little 6
year old boy — a dad — was focused on his son and this dad was really into the
game. His 6 year old son was having
just a great time just lollygagging around the field.
The ball was over there but he was just kind of chasing a frog or
something on the side of the field.
And I watched as that dad stripped down that 6 year old boy, exasperate him.

How does God deal with you when you’re not on the ball?
Does He strip you down? No,
my beloved, He sent His only begotten Son to live the life that you couldn’t
live and to die a death that should have been yours.
Your heavenly Father loves you.
He does not exasperate you or provoke you, but He woes you with His love.
Yes, there is that strength, but there’s that velvet hand working
together. You see, all of this is
pointing together not just to as to how we should be great dads and great
husbands, it is really pointing men to how we should be imitating the Lord Jesus
Christ. It is pointing everyone —
man, woman, and child — about how we are to receive and understand the grace of
the Lord Jesus and then reflect that to others in our lives.
And my beloved, if you have not received the grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ, if you have not received His saving grace, then today is the day to do
that, to receive by faith what Christ has already done for you, to appropriate
that victory on the Cross in your own life, that gentle, bold, strong act.

Yes there’s a warning but also a direction to train them up.
Not too long ago I re-read a poem which was a favorite of mine.
I don’t have the time to read it all.
It’s Robert Burns, “The Cotter’s Saturday Night.”
A cotter is simply someone who lives in a cottage and so “The Cotter’s
Saturday Night” was written by Robert Burns to describe what he believed was the
glory of Scotland at the time that he wrote it, why she was the most prosperous
nation producing great men and women of science and industry and the arts and
letters and it begins by speaking about that Saturday night this way — “The
priest like father” — he went on to describe a light — “but the light in the
cotter’s house where he gathered his children…”
How lovely it is when a father or a single mother, as my Aunt Eva did,
gathers us.

I said I remember being in my Aunt Eva’s lap and her reading Bible story books
and I remember her voice connected to the page and my head was against her
breast where I heard her heart beating — her heart, closeness.
Would there not be revival in your heart, would not your children rise up
to call… Well, let me just say that
all of this is going to require the model of a man.
1 Timothy 2:5 calls Jesus Christ “the Man, Christ Jesus.”
Quit ye like men causes us to say, “I want a vision of this manhood” and
the one that is given to us is Jesus Christ.
And Paul shows the humanity of our Lord and sinful and fallen mans needs
redemption. Every dad here is
imperfect, every one of us has sinned, every husband is not the husband we ought
to be, and yes there are single moms here, and yes there are children who have
now grown and they’re fifty and sixty years old and they’re still holding in
their hearts a resentment against their dad for not being this kind of dad, but
this morning Christ moves among us to call us to Himself and to look up and to
see the Man Christ Jesus. The Man
Christ Jesus — He stood before the community.
He was a man of the community.
He stood before His own people and said “This passage is fulfilled in
your hearing.” He went a preaching.
He declared the Word of God.
The Man Christ Jesus, though He did not marry, He showed tenderness and
gentility as He forgave a woman caught in adultery, as He studied the heart of a
woman and entered the world of the Samaritan woman at the well. He’s a Man like
none other. The Man Christ Jesus,
though He hung from a cruel cross, bravely ministered to His earthly family and
what a tender picture it is that the Man Christ Jesus looks down at the very
time when His Father had abandoned Him, when He would cry out, “My God, My God,
why have You forsaken Me?” when He would experience all the pain and torment
that maybe some of you feel in your own hearts, where He would go to the
extremity of abandonment, and yet there He would look down and He would say,
“Woman, behold thy son. Man,
behold…”

What man is like Jesus? What man
would give his life for those who cursed Him?
What man, though He created the world and all that is in it, would yield
Himself up to death by the evil hands of His own creation in order to redeem
that creation from sin? Show me
such a man. He picks you up and He
died for you, claims you as His Spirit moves in you.

Will you stand to sing as we sing number 644?
Let us sing the first and last only of “May the Mind of Christ My
Savior.”

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God our heavenly Father, and
the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you.

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