Book of Romans - Ch. 12, Vs. 7-20 (12/19/2004)

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Bro. Otis Fisher

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We start today in Romans the 12th chapter and the 7th verse and It says or ministry
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Let us minister Let us wait on our ministering or he that teaches on teaching
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Now the key word here is wait. I Want you to tell me?
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How it is? that a person Can discover their gift
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Greg All right
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Brandon how does a person discover their gift? All right
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That's pretty good Dennis Do you know?
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What your gift is before you go into it? Dennis Yes And you may not realize that you have the gift
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David How did you discover your gift? I?
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Think that's true more times than not. I Have a problem with a young man
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Now I'm not saying it doesn't happen But he's he's called to the ministry we say he said
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And he spends his whole academic year years studying for the ministry
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When maybe Dennis he can't minister at all That is pitiful
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Well, we are to wait the word wait And I think that applies to the person
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We are to wait on The Lord We get in a hurry sometimes or most of the time
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I want it and I want it right now But that's not the way of the
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Lord May wait their whole life may never know what their gift is eight
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Or he that Exhort us on exhortation
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Russell what is exhortation? That's good
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Would you care to elaborate on that Greg tell him what is exhorting
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Can anybody or everybody do that? He that giveth let him do it with a simplicity
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He that ruleth with diligence He that showeth mercy
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With cheerfulness He that giveth let him do it with simplicity
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He that giveth With simplicity
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Dennis Explain all of that Is that simplicity?
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All right, David. What does it mean to? Give let him do it with simplicity
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All right, I Admonish all of you again do something this next week without anybody knowing except the
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Lord Suppose you can do that Do it with no one knowing
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He that ruleth with diligence He that showeth mercy with cheerfulness
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Fulfill your gift at the lowest possible level By this
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I mean Do not make it so complicated Do not install a switch
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That turns on another switch That will light up the barn so you can see where the proper switch is to turn off now that may seem ridiculous to you, but We used to have a man working for us years ago
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But absolutely he put one switch in that would turn on another switch that would turn the thing on I Never did understand that.
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I Guess he did Let love be without Dissimulation now, that's a $10 word dissimulation
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Abhor that which is evil Cleave to that which is good Greg what does dissimulation mean?
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very good Means to Disguise under an in severe insincere appearance
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To conceal one's true feeling Always be honest and Dennis what is honesty?
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Well, that's true But Could a crook be honest
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The crook has nothing to do with it To be honest is to be on the outside exactly what you are on the inside honest
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Now if you're one thing on the outside and another thing on the inside that's hypocrisy
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So let's all be honest Simple and honest
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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love in honoring preferring one another
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Now that says a whole lot Be kindly affectioned one to another
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Russell What does all of that mean? Kindly affection one to another
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All right Did I see John come in back there? Was that him at answered?
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John what does it mean? expound a little bit on In honor preferring one another
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All right to choose or be in the habit of choosing as As more desirable or as having more value a
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Christian man or a company Now Dennis suppose you have a company out here and you're trying to raise money
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What's the first thing you look for? Other than somebody with money as a last resort you take
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The Non -christian well, I Won't go into that but we are to Look for the
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Christian man in everything Not slothful in business fervent in spirit serving the
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Lord Greg what's lawful mean very very lazy
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Now You're in business for whom
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What is your business? one answer
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Yes Who do you work for Why?
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Why do you say that? All right
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When we become saved and we know it That is we've been notified
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We went in the business for the Lord You really work for the
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Lord First Corinthians 10 31 somebody looked that up for me
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Whether you're eating or drinking or whatever you do now
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What does that leave out Dennis Whatever we do
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Do it all for the glory of who Why should we do that?
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Brandon, why should we? Why should we do everything for God That's true
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In the end, that's all that matters. So why not jump to the end?
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Rejoicing in hope I'm beginning to get a ring
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Greg. Well the people coming in changed hope
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Patient and tribulation continuing instant in prayer do and say everything as You as though you were in the presence of the
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Lord as though you were Now are we
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David Yes, we are Distributing to the necessity of Saints given to hospitality
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This is a fine time of year for this although This time of year it comes out.
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It should be present throughout the year bless them which persecute you bless and curse not
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Dennis why did he say curse not? Curse not because that's the first thing you want to do
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Why are we told to bless them? joy well
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Bless them which persecute you we're told to bless them Now, why is that Russell?
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All right. All right
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David Greg Absolutely, I wish we all could learn that that's so basic so true
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Well, we're told to bless them because if we were not told to I doubt if we do it
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The reason to bless them Is as Greg says their cursing proves that we belong to who?
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To God Rejoice with them that do rejoice now, that's easy to do
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Weep with them that weep That's a little more difficult to do
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David what does this mean in order to do this?
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John what is the first thing that you have to be able to do? either one
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All right Do you not have to be sensitive to other people?
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To me that comes first Sensitive to the feelings of other people
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I know people that This is the furthest thing from their mind if there's not a dollar in it.
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They don't want to do it Yes there one we have to Perhaps that is harder than than the other
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To rejoice with those that rejoice We're told to do that should be but it isn't
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I guess the older you get the more you turn that way, but I Can remember when
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I was younger? Back when I was an adult I Didn't want that man to get ahead
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Or to be happy Be of the same mind one toward another mind and not high things
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But condescend to men of low estate Be not wise in your own conceits
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Condescend to men of low estate Condescend Greg you're the
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Encyclopedia this morning What do you get out of that condescend?
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That's so true. Don't make it a point to show the difference You can get down on their level
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Perhaps you're on their level and you think you're not Don't be wise in your own conceit
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Recompense to no man evil for evil provide
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All things honest in the sight of all men Abraham was an honest man
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An honest man in Abraham's day gave exactly what the person had bought or required
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Payment Recompense means payment in return for something
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Recompense if it be possible as Much as lieth in you give peaceably live peaceably with all men live peaceably or as much as they will allow you to It's difficult sometimes to live with people in this world
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I try to But I just don't go around them as much
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Yes Sure Yes, there's several people in this world that I just don't
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I Don't look forward to going around them. I suppose I'm peaceable with them
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But they won't allow me to very much Dearly beloved
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Avenge not yourself But rather give place unto wrath
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For it is written vengeance is mine. I will repay as saith the
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Lord Now first of all, what does it mean to give place to wrath?
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Brandon all right
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David what's it mean to give place unto wrath? Did you ever try to get even with somebody?
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John I Won't ask the rest of you
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Well, I'm honest and not asking you Where did that lead you?
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John, where did What come next? Now if we're in business for the
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Lord, which we've decided earlier that we are How can we
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Do something That is not for him
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David well you
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Yes All right.
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Let me ask the question again. How can we? Do something that is not for the
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Lord Dennis? Well, that was in the mind
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But how Then how can we do something that is not for the
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Lord? Thank you Give that time to soak in You cannot do anything
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If he is Lord if he is sovereign the sovereign God Has regulated everything not just some things that we see
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But he controls everything Even that that we perceive to be evil to us.
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I Hear sometimes it it said God's not in that But it was
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I Don't claim to understand. I Just know it's a fact
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We cannot do anything do anything That is not for the
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Lord Therefore if thine enemy hunger feed him if he thirst give him drink for in so doing
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Thou shalt heat coals of fire on their head When you're kind to those who are finding fault with you
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It takes all of the fun Out of it for them Try it
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I Know it works And if there's no fun in it, they'll move move on someone else
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Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil was good
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That every Christian should not only take heed that he be not overcome of evil but also work an
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Endeavor that it is in In him to overcome evil with good.
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It is in him the Christian to overcome evil was good
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What are we to understand? here by evil Greg Alright, what is it to be overcome of evil?
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David How do we do this joy?
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But when we are overcome Have we not dwelled on it too long
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Do we not think about it too much Too often
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Too long We dwell on the injury part As a man that was to take a bitter pill
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He knows it's bitter But he doesn't want to swallow it he just chews on it well
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Just swallow it we're overcome with evil when we
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Commit the same evil By studying to take a spiteful recompense of others
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We're overcome by the evil act if we spend time in plotting how
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I can get even How is it good for me to overcome evil with good
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How is it good for me in overcoming evil with good
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Russell How is it good when when this happens when you overcome evil with good?
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Why is that good for you? All right
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It makes you more like God Though we do evil against him.
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He does good to us continually Can God do evil to you
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Joy, why because he's your his child
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You would not do evil to your child If there's anyone here this morning that does evil to their children,
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I want to talk to you we overcome our
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Way we make them to become our friends, that's the only way when we overcome evil with good
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We are taking the first step on making them to become our friends. How how should we overcome evil with good?
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Dennis how do we go about doing this? All right, let me ask you another question
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Dennis, what is it that you have to have in order to do this
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That's right We cannot accomplish any of these without having the
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Holy Spirit. I Trust that we all enjoy him
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Today. Yes That's right.
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Yes Knowing that and practicing that are two different things
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Sure That's right.
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That's right just on Just understand from the day forward
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We know that everything we do is of the Lord No exceptions then well, that's true most
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Well, do you see how far you are ahead of other people in understanding?
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Let's have a word of prayer Heavenly Father We have presented this portion of your word this morning and we trust that Everything we have said
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Everything that is accomplished Is of you We thank you for that fact
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We have nothing We own nothing It is all of you