Hard Times and Wisdom - James 1:1-8

[Music] you [Music] as we come to our study through the book of James we come to chapter 1 verse 1 and we can read that verse together and it just says simply this James a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad greetings now one thing we notice right away as we take a look at this letter from James is that it was written by a man named James and the problem is that there are several men mentioned James in the New Testament but pretty reliable church tradition assigns this book to the one who's often known as James the just who was in fact the half-brother of Jesus there's a few places in the Gospels in mark chapter 6 and in Matthew chapter 13 where there are listed several brothers of Jesus James Simon Josas and a few others now we understand that these are most properly half-brothers of Jesus they shared the same mother that is Mary but they didn't share the same father these half-brothers of Jesus such as James and his other similar brothers they had Joseph as a biological father where Jesus was born of a virgin a wonderful miracle that we call the virgin birth where this virgin named Mary was miraculously caused to conceive and bear forth Jesus without normal sexual relations so properly speaking James is a brother of Jesus yet he's a half-brother of Jesus and as I said before fairly reliable church tradition assigns this letter to the authorship of James the just this early leader of the church matter of fact this man was the man who seemed to lead the church in Jerusalem Acts chapter 15 especially points that out how James the half-brother of Jesus was sort of the head or the leader of the Christians in Jerusalem especially when many of the other apostles started going elsewhere so James is the one who wrote this letter and this letter is sort of wonderful and unique in the New Testament it's unique and wonderful for its emphasis upon practical Christian living now I will not say that it's absolutely unique we shouldn't think that for a moment know it's unique but not absolutely so there are other letters in the New Testament also share an emphasis on practical Christian living but James certainly has its own character its own style it's very direct many of its statements are given in very short sort of a pregnant and meaningful terms such as many people make James in the New Testament to be similar to the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament and I think you can see some similarities both are imparting practical wisdom for life and really challenging the reader to live in a godly way it's very possible that this letter of James that we have before us right now was the first book of the New Testament written now there's no way to say this for certain many people believe that perhaps the very first letter written by the Apostle Paul was written somewhere around 50 to 51 AD but there's a very good chance that this letter of James was written perhaps ad 46 to 49 something like that there's a very good chance that this was the first letter of the New Testament written and it seems to have been written at a time when the church was still predominantly I won't say exclusively but predominantly Jewish in its character in other words Gentile believers had not yet started coming into the church in great numbers by the time that the book of James was written we see indication of this right in the first verse that I read to you notice how he describes the Christian community the 12 tribes which are scattered abroad now we'll get to that in a moment but twelve tribes clearly being some kind of connection with ethnic Israel but then we have this other issue at hand as well that there are certain were words and phrases scattered throughout this letter of James which gives us the idea that it was written very early I'll give you one example if you look at James chapter 2 verse 2 it describes the Christian group as an assembly it says for if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings that word for assembly is the same word as synagogue the one that's used to describe Jewish gatherings and so at this time there was not really a high perception that the church was going to come into its later form of being something that was predominantly made up of Gentile believers with of course Jewish believers mixed in but at this time it was still very much according to its character of being a predominantly Jewish believer Church those who were believers in Jesus as Messiah and Lord no doubt about it they believed the correct things but they came from a Jewish background themselves so James introduces himself James a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ now once you notice two things here first of all James even though we do believe this James to be the Apostle the half-brother to Jesus himself he doesn't introduce himself as an apostle he doesn't introduce himself as the half-brother of Jesus for James the title he would like to cling to is that one that's revealed to us there in verse one bond servant of God and he really was you see it's fascinating to see that during the days of his earthly ministry the brothers and sisters of Jesus again more properly the half-brothers and half-sisters of Jesus did not seem to believe in him or follow him this has indicated to us of for example in passages like John chapter 7 verse 5 where they even questioned Jesus's sanity at that point it's indicated by references to the brothers and sisters of Jesus in mark chapter 6 and in Matthew chapter 13 they were not at least fully supportive of his Messiahship and his mission while he walked this earth yet yet after his resurrection and I mean the resurrection of Jesus it seems that James as well as the other half brothers and sisters of Jesus they did believe upon him in a mighty way it seems that according to 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verse 7 James received a special resurrection appearance of Jesus and isn't that an exciting thought can you just imagine that that Jesus after his resurrection reserves a special appearance a special you know conversation between him and his half-brother and you know for sure that after that James believed and he believed was such great devotion that an early history of the church says that James was such a devoted man of Prayer that his knees had large and thick calluses so much so that his knees looked like the knees of a camel and that early church history also says that James was martyred in Jerusalem by being pushed from a high point from the temple yet his fall did not kill him and as he laid upon the ground he was beaten to death to finish off the job and even as he was being beaten to death he prayed for those who attacked him surely this was a man who was utterly sold out for Jesus Christ this was a man who did believe upon his half-brother his Lord his Savior with great devotion and it's indicated here he was truly a bond servant of God by the way that idea of a bond servant is very important it's perhaps simply better translated just slave it's a slave a bond servant someone who is as it said in a permanent state of devotion to another person and according to some commentators the ancient Greeks had a very negative connotation that worth we might look at that word and think that there's something noble something wonderful about someone saying well I'm a bond servant of God the ancient Greeks thought no such way the Romans they thought no that is only degrading but no it was transformed by the beautiful truth of Christianity saying to be a bondservant of a wonderful Lord like Jesus Christ is better than to be what is often thought as a free man if that freedom would separate a person from God himself now one other thing I want you to see in verse 1 where it says James a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ that's also a very important phrase it translates the ancient Greek word kurios now a carrillo s-- was a master of a doulos Doulos is the word for bond servant or slave right there in verse 1 ok so you got the picture there hey correos is a master of a doulos and in the context it means that James considered Jesus to be God and how do I say that well you didn't I just say that perhaps a Carrillo say Lord could simply be a master of a slave no no understand this when he says of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ please remember that James was a Jew from a Hellenistic background and the Jews of that culture the Hellenistic Jews used correos Lord as a name for God and it's even used here with the article the Lord Jesus Christ which was a formulation grammatically which was especially used for God so right here just in the first line James declares himself first of all not as an apostle not as someone with this high standing because he's related by blood as a half-brother of Jesus Christ but no he's a slave a bond servant of God and he's declaring I recognize my half-brother Jesus Christ Jesus of Nazareth I recognize him as God the Lord and as Messiah because that's the word Christ it's a very very weighty title given to Jesus just here in the very first line then second lien says to the 12 tribes which are scattered abroad now um it seems again that he's referring to Christians you read the rest of the letter and there's no doubt about that he's referring to those who are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and it seems that he's writing to a church at a time when it's predominant makeup is that of Jewish believers now I'm not trying to say exclusive this is a letter that applies to all Christians yet since James seemed to write this letter before Gentile believers came into the church in great number it has a very Jewish field too in this idea of the 12 tribes is really just a Jewish figure of speech that sometimes refers to the Jewish people as a whole now again that concept of the 12 tribes was very strong among the Jewish people even though they had not lived in their tribal allotments of land for centuries now here James is recognizing something that he is something of an apostle to the Jewish believers do you remember that the Apostle Paul was called as an apostle to the Gentiles James has something of a Apostleship to Jewish believers matter of fact in Galatians chapter 2 verses 8 and 9 Paul described some of the first century apostles as this is the phrase he used the Apostleship to the circumcised that is to say that they mainly had their ministry to the lost sheep of Israel both in evangelism and then discipleship with those who had already given their lives to Jesus Christ in the same context Paul mentions James there in Galatians chapter 2 so it's pretty fair to regard James as someone who did in fact have this Apostleship to the circumcised that is the Jewish people and so since the Jewish people were scattered abroad of course across the Roman Empire and even beyond there was a Christian presence in almost every Jewish community in these twenty twenty-five years after actually talking about less than 20 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ now since it was written for Christians not just in Jerusalem but Christians as they existed in the world across the scattered communities of Jewish people all over the world we could say that this is a letter for us today it was a letter for the Christians in the world at that time and if we are Christians in the world at this time we can say that this is indeed a letter to us now you will find some people who think that the letter of James is not important for Christians today and they like to quote Martin Luther's famous estimation of James and his letter he called the letter of James this quote an epistle or a letter full of straw you know straw like hay in other words something not having much substance or meat to it but we should understand Martin Luther's comment about the letter of James in its context you see Luther was frustrated because sometimes those people who wanted to promote salvation by human effort by human works they would quote certain verses taken somewhat out of context from the book of James they would quote them against Martin Luther and what Martin Luther was trying to observe when he called James a letter full of straw was that there wasn't much in the letter of James that advanced that great truth of justification by faith alone through grace alone but for James just alone as a letter Paul Exuma Martin Luther at a very high estimation of it in another place Luther wrote regarding the letter of James quote I think highly of the Epistle of James and regard it as valuable it does not expand human doctrines but lays much emphasis on God's law that's from William Barclays commentary where he cites that from Martin Luther you see Martin Luther knew and taught exactly what the book of James teaches again this isn't from a commentary that Luther wrote on the book of James this is from his preface to his commentary on the book of Romans and this is what Martin Luther writes about saving faith in the preface on his commentary on the book of Romans ready quote oh it is a living busy active mighty thing this faith it is impossible for it not to be doing good things incessantly it does not ask whether good works are to be done but before the question is asked it has already done this and it's constantly doing them whoever does not do such works however is an unbeliever he gropes and looks around for faith and good works but knows neither what faith is nor what good works are yet he talks and talks with many words about faith and good works end quote do you see what Martin Luther's saying there in that section from his preface to his commentary on the book of Romans he's saying that real faith will be demonstrated in action in good works that flow forth from a person lives and bread and sisters that is fundamentally the same message that James has all throughout his letter now the other thing I like about the book of James and we'll just say this before we go into verse two I like the book of James because it echoes the teaching of Jesus there seem to be at least fifteen let me count that ten five more fifteen allusions to the Sermon on the Mount in the letter of James this book was written by a man who knew the teaching of Jesus and who took it very seriously so that's the one who gives greetings again let me read verse one James a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad readings now verse 2 my brethren count it all joy when you fall into various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience but let patience have it's perfect work that you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing what a beginning I mean after that greeting in verse 1 James right out of the gate just like the Book of Proverbs he's not messing around but he's getting into it right away and what does he say he says my brethren count it all joy in other words estimated considerate consider it a joyful happy thing when what happens when you fall into various trials you know the first thing I like about that James seemed to regard it as inevitable that you and I as Christians would have trials my brethren count it all joy when you fall into various trials not if you fall into them but when you fall into them so trials are inevitable now maybe I should just back up for a moment and say what do we mean by trials well the old King James Version by the way I teach from the New King James Version the old King James Version translates it like this it says when ye fall into divers temptations in other words when you fall into all different kinds of temptations actually trials is a better translation there of them than the word temptations it sort of signifies the idea of an affliction of persecution a testing of any kind you know I know a pastor friend of mine who comes from sort of a well he comes from somewhat of a gang background and so before he was a believer he ran into trouble with the law and he had more than one appearance in court and when he first heard Christian talking about trusting God in the midst of trials the only thing he could think of from his prior experience was a courtroom trial so he's thinking yeah whenever I'm in the court standing before the judge and there's the jury over there I need to trust God in the midst of those kind of trials look that's not the kind of trials that James is speaking about here though if you ever should find yourself on trial in that sense you should trust God in the midst of that as well but that's not the kind of trials the idea of a trial is a testing a in experience where your patience your faith will be stretched and you will fall into various trials your life will be faced by occasional difficulty occasional testing and sometimes it feels like more than occasional there are seasons in our life when it seems to be one trial one testing one challenge after another now James says in those seasons when you fall into various trials what does he tell you to do what does he tell me to do he says count it all joy I like what William Moffatt a great New Testament commentator and translator did he translated James chapter 1 verse 2 like this he says greet it as all joy except me greet it as pure joy is what Moffat translated as he pointed out that there's sort of a play on words between the last word of verse 1 which is greeting and then these words in verse 2 in other words it's a similar word um greetings and then he says greet it as all joy when you fall into various trials there is a sense in which we leave faced challenge and hardship and difficulty as believers we can greet those things as actually things that God will use God will bless God will work through in the midst of our Christian life we do not have to have a sour pessimistic view about our life about our Christian living feeling that oh it's just whoa is me and it's problem after problem no we will fall into various trials and God has a blessing for us in the midst of those trials what does he say right here he says very plainly knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience your faith will be tested in the trial and that test will produce more patience now I love that word that's translated patience it's the ancient Greek word Hoopa Monet now that word doesn't really describe a passive waiting that's what we usually think of patients as patients is the ability to just chill out when nothing's happening and to embrace the board and just kind of wait until it's my turn to be called until the light changes from red to green whatever it would be that's not the kind of patients that's being spoken about here actually Hoopa Monet that great Greek word that's translated here actually has the idea of active endurance this isn't so much the quality that helps you to sit quietly in a doctor's waiting room but it's the quality that helps you to finish a marathon it's active endurance it comes from two ancient Greek words Hoopoe which means under and Meno which means to stay or abide or remain it means basically to remain under the idea is this somebody being under a heavy load yet they choose to remain under that look they choose to endure under that load and why why would they do it because they know again verse three that the testing of your faith produces patience and once you notice something it says here that faith is tested through trials it doesn't say that faith is produced by trials trials reveal the faith that we do have not because God doesn't know how much faith we have it's not like God sits up in him and says well I don't know how much faith David guzik as let me allow a trial in his life and then I'll say no God knows how much faith here's the thing I don't know how much faith I have and the trial and my reaction under the trial exposes how much faith that I have again faith is tested in the trial it's not necessarily produced in the trial how is faith fundamentally produced I like what Romans chapter 10 verse 17 tells us do you know that verse so then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God supernaturally faith is built into us as we hear as we understand as we trust in God's Word you see the whole bottom line is God does not allow trials into our life to break down our faith but rather to expose the faith we have and through it all to produce endurance patience so that we can continue on strong in even better in our Christian life that's the idea in verse 3 when he says that these trials produce patience this one I understand this endurance or patience that can come forth from trials this is not inevitably produced in times of trials in other words if difficulties come my way and I choose to receive those difficulties with unbelief with grumbling then the trial can produce bitterness and discouragement in my life that's why James challenges me and you also to count it all joy for me to count it all joy when I fall into various trials that's my response of faith faith says floret this is difficult Lord this is bad Lord I don't know how I'm gonna make it through this but I believe that you were still in control I believe that you have a purpose I am going to trust you in this and matter of fact I ain't even going to count it that you are going to do something good and wonderful in this and I am going to be joyful in that James did not tell us to say it's all joy or to feel it all joy or the trials themselves were joy he said no estimated as joy counted as joy now if we as he says here count it all joy when we fall into various trials now verse 3 knowing that the testing of my face produces patience but he says starting out verse four let patience have it's perfect work that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing you see that work a patient endurance comes slowly it must be allowed to have full bloom patient endurance is the mark of the person who is perfect complete lacking in nothing it's kind of interesting one commentator I read a man named Adam Clarke I like Adam Clarke's commentaries um Adam Clarke said that these expressions as they are presented in this letter of James comes from the Greek Olympic Games well or their athletic context they not only had the Olympic Games they had other games the corinthian games whatever but the Greek games they said the man was perfect if he gained the victory he was entire and had everything complete if he completed the pentathlon or we would call today in our modern Olympic Games the decathlon the one that were there's several different events in the pentathlon there were five different exercises that the Greek athletes would complete in you would be perfect if you won and complete if you won all five of them so that's possibly where he gets this idea he's telling people be perfect and complete you're gonna come through you're gonna come through a winner just like somebody in the Greek Games perhaps even the Olympic Games but there's another idea behind perfect and complete some people think that this idea comes from the world of animal sacrifice that before an animal was to be sacrificed especially in a Jewish context and please remember this letter of James was written while there was a still functioning temple in Jerusalem and most all Christians being from a Jewish background now at that time would be quite familiar with the aspects of animal sacrifice again the idea was that an animal had to be judged perfect and complete before it could be sacrificed well if we allow God to do this work in us that will be the effect let me read verse four to you again but let patience have it's perfect work that you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing do you know what this means this means that if we embrace the trials the difficulties the problems of our life if we will embrace them in faith then God can do a wonderful work in our life in and through those trials I like what Charles Spurgeon said about this let me quote to you something that Charles Spurgeon wrote ready quote I have looked back to times of trial with a kind of longing not to have them return but to feel the strength of God as I have felt it then to feel the power of faith as I have felt it then to hang upon God's powerful arm as I hung upon it then and to see God at work as I saw him then can you relate to what Charles Spurgeon said in those words that we don't long for trials we're not running after trials we're not trying to bring trust listen I don't know about you but I bring plenty of trials into my own life I don't have to seek to add them but but let me say this when we see the strength of God come through in a mighty powerful glorious way we can say well Lord I wouldn't want this trial again but it was worth it you did something wonderful in this because I saw your strength I saw your provision I saw your goodness in the land of the living even though it was difficult even though I thought that this trial might crush me you showed yourself faithful that's a wonderful place for the believer to be now those are an exciting three verses verse two three and four my brethren count it all joy when you fall into various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience but let patience have it's perfect work that you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing now starting at verse five he's gonna speak about how we can receive the wisdom that we need from God ready for this verse five if any of you lacks wisdom let him ask of God who gives to all liberally and without reproach and it will be given to him but let him ask in faith with no doubting for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind for let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord for he is a double-minded man unstable in all his ways right now we kind of get a context somewhat like the book of Proverbs it's not always clear the context between different statements that James gives us but I think we can make a link between verses two three and four and now verses five six seven and eight in two three and four he talks about the values of trials and now starting at verse five he talks about the value of wisdom I don't know about you but me when I'm in the midst of a trial a problem a challenge I need God's wisdom so I need James to help me seek after God's wisdom and he counsels me and all of us if any of you lacks wisdom let him ask of God that's from verse five trials bring a necessary opportunity for us to seek wisdom from God and we often don't know our need for wisdom until we're in the midst of that kind of problem that kind of trial you know sometimes one of the greatest things we need to know one of the greatest examples of wisdom that we need to know in a time of trial is simply this Lord is this something that you want to remove from my life or is this something that you want to give me strength to burst severe through in the midst of my life I think that's a very important aspect of wisdom you see in the midst of these trials these problems these challenges we need wisdom a lot more than we need knowledge knowledge is raw information and believe me it's helpful but wisdom knows how to use that knowledge someone once said that knowledge is the ability to take things apart but wisdom that's the ability to put things back together again and it seems like when our life is falling apart we need wisdom from God to know how we can do what we can do to help things hang together so what do we do when we need this wisdom at a time of problem trial challenge he says there in verse 5 let him ask of God if you want to receive that wisdom simply ask of God he gives this wisdom generously verse 5 says liberally and he also gives it without despising our requests that's the idea behind the phrase without reproach you know so often in the midst of our time of trial of problem of challenge we are so willing to go to anybody except to God will ask books will ask people will go to ceremonies will go to customs will go to podcasts will go to YouTube will go anywhere but where we won't go to is God and we need to ask God for wisdom and if you want God to speak to you you know the fundamental place where you need to listen to him where is the chief the fundamental place that God speaks to us he speaks to us in and through his word the Bible if you want to hear the voice of God read your Bible now I do believe that there are times when God speaks to us in a wonderful way by his Holy Spirit I believe in the voice of the Holy Spirit I believe what Jesus said that his sheep hear his voice but but what we don't seek and voice from God and I'm not speaking about an audible voice I'm just speaking about that inner assurance of God's Word to us no we don't seek that in any other place than his word directly seek God when you want wisdom and seek that wisdom in and through his word when we want wisdom the place to begin and the place to end is the Bible true wisdom will always be consistent with the Bible so ask God but notice this in verse 6 let him ask in faith when you're gonna ask God for wisdom it has to be like anything that you would ask for from God you need to ask in faith without doubting God's desire to give or his ability to give now right now you can use this as a foundation as a promise to God that God does want you to ask for wisdom you know when I'm praying for people I like to pray according to the promises of God and something that I will often pray is like this I say Lord I pray that you'll give my brother my sister whatever might be lord I pray that you give my brother wisdom and we have confidence in this request because you say in the first chapter of James if anyone lacks wisdom let him ask of God who gives to all liberally and without reproach we can have confidence knowing that God does want to give us wisdom and if you want to see that prayer answered again get yourself into God's Word and through his word and through the Holy Spirit God will reveal his wisdom to you but you need to come in faith we need to come to God in faith not doubting and ask of God in faith you know there is such a thing of coming to God kind of thinking you're asking but really not asking God of anything we come to God asking for nothing and you know what that's what we get nothing no God wants us to ask he wants us to ask in reverence in humility before him but in faith with no doubting did you see that line in verse 6 ask in faith and ask with no doubting verse 7 let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord the one who doubts the one who lacks faith should not expect to receive anything from the Lord you see this lack of faith and trust in God shows that we really have no foundation that we are in fact unstable in all our ways that's in verse eight how like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind that's in verse six he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind you know I think that a wave of the sea is in fact a very fit description an appropriate description of someone who is hindered by unbelief and by unnecessary doubts why well a wave of the sea is without rest the waves always come oh I know listen and we surfers we can tell you that sometimes the waves are bigger and sometimes they're smaller but there's always some kind of action the waves are without rest and so is the doubter the waves of the sea are unstable and so is the doubter a wave of the sea is driven by the winds and so is the doubter whatever winds of doctrine or custom or emotion or excessive feeling come upon him or her that's what drives them and a wave of the sea is capable of great destruction and so is the doubter no we don't want to be like the waves of the sea in that sense we want to be firm in our faith on that firm foundation of believing that we have a loving God in heaven who will answer when we come to him and ask for wisdom to be different from this is to be as verse eight declares notice a double-minded man unstable in all his ways to ask God but to ask him in a doubting way shows that we are double minded what does it mean to be double minded well if you had no faith whatsoever you'd never ask God at all if you had no unbelief then you'd have no doubting to be kind of in that middle ground between faith and unbelief that is to be double minded you know according to an excellent commentator on the book of James a guy named D Edmond Hebert Hebert says that double minded here is literally - sold and Adam Clarke adds this quote the man of two souls who has one for the earth and another for heaven who wishes to be secure in both worlds he will not give up earth and he is loath to let heaven go that's what a double minded person is they're trying to live in the middle now do you remember in mark chapter 9 verse 24 when there was a man who came to Jesus and he said this lord I believe help my unbelief I do not believe that that man was double minded he wanted to believe and he declared his belief his faith was weak but it wasn't tinged with the poison of double minded doubt no my friends to the very best of our ability we need to come to God and we say Lord help get me out of that middle ground maybe it's something like maybe not exactly but something like the middle ground that Jesus would later speak about when he dictated letters to the seven churches in what is today modern-day Turkey to the church in one particular place he accused them of being lukewarm neither hot nor cold but in a very unpleasant place in the middle that's being double-minded have too much faith to be truly called an unbeliever but you have too much doubt that you're choosing to hold on to to really walk in the blessings and benefits of faith no brother and sisters we need to ask God and ask him to help us put away any remnant of double mindedness I like what Charles Spurgeon said he said this quote do you believe that God can give you wisdom and that he will do so if you ask him then go to him at once and say Lord this is what I need specify your once state your exact condition lay the whole case before God with as much orderliness as if you were telling your story to an intelligent friend who was willing to hear it and prepared to help you and then say Lord this is specifically what I think I want I ask this of you believing that you can give it to me what a great practical advice from Charles Spurgeon come to God choose to believe to the best of your ability put away the doubts put away the unbelief and say Lord you are a good God who has promised to bring me wisdom and I don't know how you're gonna bring me the wisdom but I am going to read your word meditate it upon my heart and keep my heart and my ear open for the voice of your spirit and believe that you will bring to me the wisdom that I need listen you are like me you're aware of your need for God's wisdom you're aware of it perhaps because you're in the midst of some kind of problem some trial some challenge then let's do it let's ask God believing that he will bring it to us and trust that God will fulfill these promises because he's a good god who loves us very much you [Music]

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Published: Sun Jan 13 2019