Pride - The Most Deceiving of all Sins

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Please enjoy the following sermon. We have a large portion before us, and if you would allow me,

I want to read the second half of Chapter 5 all through Chapter 6, because it is so important that we at least once get the whole story in its context.

But before we do, let us go to our Lord in prayer. All we need is help, a lot.

Father, we do need you now.

We need you so much, more than we even understand.

Lord, all of us need you, every single one of us, whether it is me standing here or your people sitting in their chairs.

We ask of you that you display your power in speaking through this weak man, that you would work mightily in opening our hearts to receive your word, that word by which we live.

We don't live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Oh, let us receive this food. Look at your people.

You know their needs. You know the many different needs.

Oh, but you alone are able to meet every single one of these needs all at the same time.

Oh, please meet them. Oh, and give us not, please don't give us what we want, but give us what we need.

Oh, what our hearts need this very afternoon. Lord, feed your sheep.

Glorify yourself through your Son as we come to your word by the power of your

Holy Spirit. We ask this in Christ's name.

If you would join me and we'll read the passage. Esther 5, beginning in 9.

And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when

Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. And he sent and brought his friends and his wife,

Zeresh. And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.

Then Haman said, even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared.

And tomorrow also, I am invited by her together with the king. Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see

Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, let a gallows 50 cubes high be made.

And in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.

This idea pleased Haman and he had the gallows made. On that night, the king could not sleep.

And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

And it was found written how much or how Mordecai had told about Biktunah and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs who guarded the threshold and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

And the king said, what honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this? The king's young men who attended him said, nothing has been done for him.

And the king said, who's in the court? Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to speak to the king about having

Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him. And the king's young men told him,

Haman is there standing in the court. And the king said, let him come in. So Haman came in and the king said to him, what should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?

And Haman said to himself, whom would the king delight to honor more than me? And Haman said to the king, for the man whom the king delights to honor, let royal robes be brought which the king has worn and the horse that the king has ridden and on whose head the royal crown is set.

And let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king's most noble officials. Let them dress the man whom the king delights to honor and let them lead him on the horse through the square of the city proclaiming before him, thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.

Then the king said to Haman, hurry, take the robes and the horse as you have said and do so to Mordecai the

Jew who sits at the king's gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned.

So Haman took the robes and the horse and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city proclaiming before him, thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.

Then Mordecai returned to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house mourning and with his head covered.

And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. And his wise men and his wife

Zeresh said to him, if Mordecai before whom you have begun to fall is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him.

While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring

Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared. In preparation this week is always different when you try to prepare a sermon.

I was reminded above all else really as well by my reading through some other scriptures that we ought to be exceedingly grateful for the scriptures.

That the majesty on high has not left his creatures without having spoken to them.

That he was so gracious really as to give us special revelation that goes beyond creation and reveals to us our

God. And that we have been so blessed that each of us right now as you sit here in these chairs has access to their own copy in a language you can read and understand anytime and any place.

We ought to be thankful that everything that is written brothers and sisters, everything in this book is written for our instruction.

Instruction and the scriptures are so wonderful. They encourage us, they comfort us, they tell us who

God is, they tell us of Christ, they speak of what we must do to be saved and so give hope for the sinner.

We rejoice in that but they also at times as they have done for me recently act as a mirror.

What do I mean by that? They show us our sin through the word.

The Holy Spirit brings us face to face with our sin. He shows us how far short we fall, how helpless we are without Christ.

And he does so not to drive us to despair but as a blessing that we may come to Christ.

That we may confess and continue to strive for holiness and grow in sanctification. And I've been praying all week that this will be our experience as we look at this passage.

That we will be blessed by having our sin exposed by the Word of God. That we would run to Christ.

That we would find our joy and delight in the triune God and grow into the likeness of our

Savior. My prayer is that you come with this sort of heart every week.

But certainly today as we again come to Esther and we will consider a theme as we look at Haman that is difficult.

That is hard. Not difficult to understand intellectually, but difficult to understand and hear in our hearts and to see in our lives.

We're speaking about pride. It might just be the most deceiving of all sins.

It is so cunning. It's so crafty. We cannot think of it only in terms of desiring the praise of man.

This I believe is just the tip of the iceberg. We need to look underneath into the dark waters to see the real problem underneath the surface.

It's been so overwhelmingly clear to me that is a grievous thing.

It was pride, as one preacher pointed out, that once made an angel a devil. Pride is idolatry of self.

And like every form of idolatry, it abandons the God of glory and exchanges

Him for something of infinitely less value. Whether that takes the form of wooden statues, mute and deaf figures of silver and gold fashioned by defiled hands of evil men, or if it lifts up self, placing you on the throne that is not yours to claim.

It is joy in nothing else but self. It is delight in nothing else but one's own desires.

It is devoid of God. It does not acknowledge God. Does not seek Him and does not thank

Him. It will have no other God than self. It will not tolerate another and it will never be satisfied with another.

One Puritan said, it is a lifting up of the heart above God and against God and without God.

Pride might be much more alive and well than we may think. It constantly tries to pull us away from Christ.

To put us in the place as the object of our great delight.

It tries to pull us away from our need of Him. Might be the most grieving form of idolatry.

You know, when the creature that God has blessed and given His Son for tramples the blood of Christ, shaking

His hand at heaven and say, I worship myself. Pride is serious.

And the thing is, none of us here in this room, I have no doubt, want to be prideful, do we? You recognize this.

But it does not want to let us go. And it hides so well.

It's like a disease that goes undetected and spreads throughout the whole body until it's too late.

It's so deceitful that thinking we're not prideful might be an indication that we actually are prideful.

And so what we have here in Esther 5 and 6 is one of the chief examples of pride, of this idolatry of self in the man named

Haman. I don't know if there is a greater depiction of it as well as its consequences and folly in all the scriptures.

He is the example of the proverb that says, pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

But by the grace of God, He's given us an example here of what pride is. And at the same time, a warning that we may guard against it and ultimately humble ourselves before Him, before He humbles us.

Haman serves as a reminder that the Lord will humble those who will exalt themselves and will exalt those who humble themselves before Him.

We need to be on guard. We need to delight in Christ and find our joy in Him to fight this thing.

And you can be sure it is a fight, Christian. It has been ever since the fall in the garden.

You might well say that it was at the very root of it. My pages are sticking.

And so I want to ask you, will you come with me with humility to look at Haman asking that the

Lord would show us what remains of pride in us. That we may kill it.

That we may find true and lasting joy and delight in Christ. I know that is what you desire here.

To humbly delight in the glorious saving. I want to look at two main headings.

First, the pride of Haman in the second half of chapter five. And then secondly, the second main heading is the fall of Haman in chapter six.

And as we'll go through it, we'll look at a couple subheadings as we go along. And so the first thing we'll consider is the pride of Haman in the second half of chapter five.

We will not read the whole thing again. And the first subheading I want to look at is the object of pride.

See pride is obsessed and cares for nothing else but self. Verse nine sort of begins to pave the way for what is to follow, not only in the rest of this chapter, but all of chapter six as well.

We read that Haman went out that day. Referring to that same day, you remember that Esther had gone before the king into his quarters to intercede for the

Jews. And it's the same day that she had held that feast to which only her husband and Haman had been invited.

And we find Haman now leaving the royal quarters after that feast. And he is in this state of joyfulness and gladness of a heart.

After all, he had just dined with the royal couple and nobody else had attended.

In fact, the queen had specifically only requested two guests and he was one of them.

He was part of this exclusive company and he was invited as well for the same festivities the following day.

This was really shaping up to be an exciting 48 hours for him. And the author uses joyful and glad, very similar words if you think about it.

But they emphasize this great delight that Haman had. He's ecstatic. He was bestowed the honor of being alone with the king and queen.

And if we take a brief look at verse 12, he makes that clear. He says, then

Haman said, even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also

I am invited by her together with the king. Haman felt he was honored.

He was special. He was above everyone else. He loved to be recognized. We saw that when everybody had to bow down to him.

However, it turns out that this joy and gladness are rather fleeting and short -lived.

Second half of verse nine. The narrative, you notice, it moves rather quickly.

There's an immediate conjunction here. He's joyful and glad of heart, but there's an instantaneous contrast.

There's an opposition to his cheerfulness. As he leaves the palace complex and gets to the king's gate, who does he see?

But Mordecai, who once again, as he had done earlier in chapter three, does not honor

Haman. Haman does not receive that honor that he wants from Mordecai.

His response is the exact same as it was before. One of wrath and red -hot anger.

He leaves the banquet rejoicing. By the time he gets out to the palace, he's filled with burning rage.

He's obsessed with himself, with his honor, with his standing, with his reputation.

Make no doubt about it. Haman was a worshiper. A worshiper of himself.

The object of his adoration was him. His whole world centered around him.

He delights in that. When he's honored, he rejoices. When he's not, he's filled with wrath.

His emotions, his heart are directly tied to his circumstances, to whatever happens to him.

And that is pride. To be only concerned and obsessed with self.

To think much of self. To believe one deserves all honor from men.

To believe one is more than he or she actually is with no concern for anyone else.

There's only room in Haman's heart for him. And we have to ask ourselves and examine how we react to the things that happen to us.

Certainly we're not to be devoid of emotions. There are times and reasons for grief.

There's a place to spend time in the house of mourning. But when you do not get what you really wanted, what is your reaction?

Can you honestly say it is a good thing that the Lord withheld this or that from me? Are you perhaps glad that when another brother or sister is recognized and honored for her labors instead of you, that someone else has been blessed greatly by the

Lord? When the depths of your heart, do you really wish that you would have this blessing and honor and recognition instead of them?

Where do you still seek your own wants and desires? Where's your own desire more important to you than the glory of God?

The question I've been thinking about this past week is what excites you more than Christ?

That one pierces me. What would you rather do than be with him?

To my shame, I can think of many things. When you find yourself with free time, with no demands on you, with no restrictions on you, you're rested.

What occupies your time then? Is it self -serving or Christ -exalting?

But not only does pride make self the object of adoration and delights only one's own desire, but it boasts in self and rejects

God. Second sub -point is that the boast of pride is in self.

You see in verses 11 and 12, Haman manages to hide his anger and not act in the moment.

He restrains himself. He goes home, gathers his wife and friends, and perhaps you could say in an effort to ease his anger, he begins then to boast of his accomplishments.

He speaks about his glory and splendor. That's the reason he's called them together, to boast in himself and try to find comfort in himself.

Look at verse 11. He recounts to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons.

The more sons you had in the Persian culture, the more prosperity you had in the eyes of the people.

It's even said that the king would send gifts to the person with the most sons once a year. He speaks of his promotions, his standing as the highest official in the land, his exclusive invitation to dine with the royal pair.

It's all about himself. And notice the vanity of this pride as well and who he's actually talking to.

He's talking to his wife and friends. If they're friends on any meaningful level, they already know him.

They know these things about him, don't they? Certainly his wife would know how many sons they had. Yet he boasts in himself even to those who already know these things.

And he boasts in the worthlessness of the temporary and earthly. The things he delights in impress men but not

God. In fact, notice that that's the one thing he leaves out.

It's what he doesn't say in many ways that reveal to us the face of pride.

Who gives riches and wealth to man? Is it not

God? Who is it that opens the womb and knits a child together?

Is it not the sovereign? Who is it that puts men like Joseph and Daniel and Cyrus and Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar in their place?

It is God. Yet Haman never mentions him. He doesn't think of him who has actually given him everything he has.

No, he speaks of his glory, not the glory of God. He has no sense of his need of God either.

The prideful do not think of God. They do not acknowledge him. They rely on and trust in themselves.

And this pride is so dangerous. We must not think we are immune to this.

We have that same heart in many ways. To think you're immune to pride is pride.

And too often we acknowledge God. We affirm our need for Christ.

But then what do we do? We limit it. And we limit it to salvation.

And after that we're good to go. We have no more need of him. You might sit here and say, that's not true.

I've spoken to Christians that have told me when I asked them how

I could pray for them, that they have no prayer needs. Like what? Really you have no prayer needs?

Tell me how you got there. I'd love to know how you ended up in that place. But that's how we operate.

As if we have no need for prayer. No need for Christ and certainly no need for the church.

Brothers and sisters, it is so cunning. It is so crafty. Would the

Lord show us where it still lingers in our hearts. I see this so much at times in myself.

How many times this past week did you go to the

Lord and say, Lord I need my Savior. I need my

Shepherd. I need my rock. I need my God today, right now.

Even though you may have just gotten up, I'm in tremendous need of him.

It's pride that pushes Christ away. It's one of our greatest hindrances to experience more of the love of the

Father, the communion with Christ, the fellowship with the

Spirit. It's because I'm too prideful that I don't bring my every need to him. That I don't acknowledge my absolute dependence on him.

That I do too much without him and apart from him. There's another aspect to pride.

Pride is never satisfied. Pride is insatiable.

Look at verse 13 and 14. It will not be satisfied.

You were calm, solace, splendor. But then he quickly makes clear in verse 13 that it's not enough.

He says, yet all this is worth nothing to me so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

He can have all the status, all the wealth, all the sons in the world. There yet if there remains one man that does not honor him, everything is worthless to him.

He wants more. It wants more and more and more. Never is it satiated.

You may be satisfied with this or that, but there will always be another thing that you cannot get.

One more person that does not know how great you are. What you've done and who you are.

There's always another person who has more to boast in than you. It is a never ending cycle and this lack of satisfaction, this lack of contentment, it drives

Haman to be ready and willing to go all the way. To personally have

Mordecai publicly murdered. To not wait till the month of the year when all the

Jews are to be executed. No. To speed things up. His friends and wife suggest that he arrange for him to be killed because if he's dead the problem is removed, right?

Surely then he can fully enjoy that feast on the next day with Esther and Ahasuerus. His friends and wife cater to his pride, to his desire.

They feed him exactly what he's craving. Instead of telling him to put it to death, they suggest giving into it and killing a man instead.

The idolatry of self is not mortified but nurtured and Haman is pleased with the idea.

So he makes these gallows. Scholars believe it's like a wooden beam.

This was Persian custom in which criminals were literally impaled and the height they suggest as well is ridiculous.

If you do the math it'll be over 20 meters high. But it fits the height of arrogance and conceit that Haman is reaching for.

This lusting after more to show the people all around what happens to those who do not honor him.

To make sure all can see that all would know how important he is. It needed to be extravagant.

But pride destroys contentment. See pride kills joy and delight because it seeks it in oneself.

It doesn't know what it means to be content with what you have because the promise of God that he will never leave you or forsake you surpasses everything else.

It doesn't know that godliness with contentment is great gain or to be content with food and clothing.

It doesn't know what it means to rejoice in the Lord. Whether you've been giving much or little.

It doesn't know how to be content and rejoice in times of blessing as well as trial. All it knows itself and it will never get you even close to true lasting joy and delight.

Because the object of the delight is the wrong one. That's why many

Christians are never glad. Can have all the blessings in the world yet they murmur and murmur and murmur.

Always complaining about this or that. Never being able to be content in Christ no matter the circumstances.

You won't find joy in yourself. Not a lasting one anyways.

Nor in your circumstances because they change all the time. Do you see what pride does?

Replaces ourselves as the object in which we rejoice. Exchanging the glory of God for our own.

Leaving us never satisfied. Never content. Always wanting more. That's what it does.

That's not where it stops. There's more to it still. It has consequences as well.

Christ himself said whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exhausted, exalted.

And we see just that in chapter 6 in the fall of Haman. And in verses 1 through 11 we'll have a larger chunk here.

We see Haman's humiliation. He plots to kill Mordecai.

He has the gallows made. Meanwhile the same night it just so happens that the king cannot sleep.

And that the king decides with all the various forms of entertainment available to him and forms of food and drink and women and whatever else.

To instead have the book of the memorable deeds brought to him and read. These books were fairly boring reading.

They contained lists of war victories and lands conquered and tributes imposed and as well as faithful acts toward the king.

It really was not exciting. Perhaps that was the point to put him back to sleep. But he comes across the description of the time when

Mordecai had discovered the plot of these two eunuchs. This was earlier in chapter 2 if you remember.

Who wanted to lay hands on Ahasuerus and how Mordecai had reported it and by doing so saved the king's life.

Then we find out that there had never been a reward given to Mordecai for this loyalty that he had shown to the king.

Normally Persian rulers were very quick and eager to reward those that had served them well.

It was a means for them to be perceived well by the public and maintain personal safety.

And so this was important to the king that this was done. But what is interesting is that this plot was discovered in the seventh year of Xerxes reign.

There had no reward been given. In fact Haman was the one that got promoted to this high position.

Now we're in the twelfth year of Xerxes reign and now he finds out about this.

Five years on this random night, so to speak, when he cannot sleep. On that very evening that Haman decides to have

Mordecai killed the next morning. You see Haman plots his own exaltation.

While the lord is directing events as he has done all throughout this book that will see

Mordecai honored and Haman humbled and ultimately his people preserved and saved and the enemy of his people destroyed.

And his arrogance, this enemy of the Jews has set himself against the god of the

Jews. Just when the king desires to rectify this mistake, seek counsel as to how to reward

Mordecai, Haman turns out to be in the court at the right time. He's invited in.

Then he's asked what should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor. And we see these idolatrous, idolatrous hearts of Haman there.

And Haman said to himself, whom would the king in verse six delight to honor more than me?

Though the deceitfulness of arrogance and conceit is great. In his mind there's no one else whom the king could possibly want to honor.

In his mind he is even the object of the king's delight. And so he goes on asking for more than he's actually worth.

Asking for more than he deserves. Asking for what he really wants the most.

Public recognition to be significant, to be seen. And he asks for this public spectacle to wear the royal robes the king is worn and nobody gets to wear.

Dried on the horse that has carried the most powerful man in the world. To have it publicly proclaimed that he is the one whom the king honors.

That he is so important that the king delights in him. If he could have asked for the throne he probably would have.

What he doesn't know is the providence of God. And that God wanted to honor the man who had humbled himself before him when he came in sackcloth and ashes lamenting.

And that the king by the hand of God wanted to honor that man. You can imagine the wrath that filled

Haman when he finds out that he's to dress another to receive the honor that he wanted. That he wanted to claim for himself.

And then that that other man is his sworn enemy. What a turn of events.

That he would now have to put the royal garments on Mordecai. Then go before the horse throughout the square publicly giving glory and honor to him.

His pride came before the fall. And then there's

Haman's grief. The last few verses in chapter 6, 12 through 14.

They walk through the square. Mordecai returns to the king's gate, seemingly unfazed and unmoved by what has occurred.

While Haman goes home with mourning and his head covered. Earlier in the story it was

Mordecai mourning and lamenting. Now it's the enemy of the Jews that's grieving. And again he tells his wife and friends of his misery.

That he's not received what he wanted and instead was humiliated. That's not true mourning and true grieving.

All it is is a whining of not receiving the glory and praise of man that he had lusted after.

It's lacking all sorts of repentance. It's interesting is that now his friends and his wife, after the fact that Mordecai had been honored.

Now they tell him that if Mordecai is a Jew, Haman will surely fall before him. They knew that earlier in chapter 5.

I recommend it to have him killed anyways. You see they recognize that he is up against a

God that is far more powerful than he. But Haman does not and he doesn't even know it yet.

But time for repentance has run out. You see that as they're still talking to him, the eunuchs arrive to take him to Esther's feast.

And it will quickly lead to his death. Instead of joyfully he goes to the feast mourning and lamenting and will ultimately be humbled by his death.

It remains a picture of unbelievable pride preserved for all time in the scriptures. And so what do we do with pride?

With pride that lingers. It seeks to make ourselves the object of our delight.

That seeks to boast and rely on ourselves. That is never satisfied. Always longing for more.

Some of you here need to humble yourselves for the very first time before God.

He will not accept those who exalt themselves. Who put themselves in his place.

You see Haman didn't have time. You have time still. Even right now to repent.

To humble yourselves before him. To say

Lord, God, you are God.

You alone deserve all glory. I'm a sinner and I need your son.

If you have never done that, this is the time for you to do this. Why do you wait?

Why? Look at Haman.

Humble yourselves before he humbles you. Then there are those of us who have come to Christ.

What do we do? Because we can feel this pride at times. There is one thing that we do.

That we must do. We don't look at ourselves. You see

Haman never takes his eyes off of himself. Now when he sees Mordecai in the gate.

Not even after he's been humbled. But that's what we must do.

To look away from ourselves. And not only that but look at another.

We must fix our eyes on something. They must be fixed on Christ daily.

He is the object of true and full and lasting delight for us.

Isn't he? I know you've experienced his delight. Haven't you?

That is the joy brothers and sisters that we have. It is a joy that the world knows absolutely nothing about.

We have a joy outside of ourselves that is far greater than us. That is far more beautiful than us.

And what does Paul say? He says rejoice. In what? In the

Lord. Always again I will say rejoice. Peter says though you have not seen him you love him.

Though you do not now see him you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory.

You see he's the only object that will bring full satisfaction. Look at his humility even.

We think of pride. Look at his humility. That God of very God humbled himself to a degree that no one has ever humbled himself.

Not even the most pious person that may have ever lived. To leave the glory that he had.

The power and might and endless worship and adoration of the angelic host to wrap himself in flesh.

Is that not where we find our delight? In who he is.

Not in ourselves. And what we must do is refocus that lens all the time.

It gets blurry so quickly. And you know what?

You are allowed to boast. Do you know that? Not in yourself.

Not in your works. But in him. To boast that he is your full righteousness and redemption.

That is in him that you have all the riches of God poured out on you. That in him you're blessed with every spiritual blessing with the full measure of the glorious grace of God that is far superior than the power of sin and outweighs all the wealth in the world.

You can boast that in him you've been adopted. No longer a child of the evil one.

That you've been promotest from the lowest of places. Dead in sin to already being seated in the heavenly places.

Meaning that your resurrection to life and entrance into glory that he has purchased already is definitely, is certainly, is absolutely yours now.

Is that a reason for joy and delight and gladness of heart?

Not to look at ourselves but to look at him and to boast in him. The one who's purchased all these things with his own blood.

Looking to him, boasting in him, exalting him is the antidote to our pride.

To see him worthy. To see him worthy of all blessing and honor and glory and power.

To see him innocent and unstained and holy as a great high priest.

To see him being the one worthy to be exalted above the heavens. To see him being superior to angels.

To see him being the one seated at the right hand of God the Father. To see him standing in our stead.

To see him humbling himself that we may be exalted in him.

Brothers and sisters this is what we must preach to ourselves all the time.

All the time. That the world is not revolving around us and never has.

That it is all about him. And we must preach Christ to ourselves every chance we get.

So we humble ourselves before him. Continuously. And he will be the object of our delight.

He will be our boast. And Christian he will be your satisfaction.

And you know what? If you're in him, you can take comfort that now the King delights in you.

We have a low view of this sometimes in our circle. And I'm guilty of this all the time.

It's much easier to see my faults than the love of God for me. But he is your delight.

And when you're in him, God delights in you. The Father loves you as he has loved the

Son. And we have no need for another.

We have no need for ourselves and to worship ourselves.

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