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0:18Good morning. My name is Nick Whitehead. I serve here on staff as a pastor for Global Outreach and it's an exciting week in the life of our church. Hopefully not just for me, but for many of us who are here. You'll notice that we're putting the book of Matthew on the shelf picking up the book of Acts, and that's where we're gonna be for our next two Sundays. We're gonna be smack dab right in the middle, acts 13 and 14, looking at the first missionary journey. And we're gonna tackle it in a little bit of an unconventional way. As you probably notice, based on our reading this morning, I'm actually gonna be preaching the verses that you just heard read.

0:59That's Acts 13, one through three and Acts 1421 through 28. These are the bookends of the first missionary journey, the start and the end. And I've given Pastor Steven the meat of the text to preach next week. He is the lead pastor after all. So I've assigned him a whole bunch of verses. He's gotta cover a lot of ground. Um, but that's his job, right? So we'll be walking through these chapters this week to highlight two key components. This is what we really want our congregation to see. First is that the central role, this the local church plays a central role in missions. And then second, we want to focus on the central role of the word in missions.

1:40So that'll be next week. I do wanna pray and ask the Lord for his help as we look at this text this morning. So would you join me? Father, we come before your throne and we ask that you would work through your word this morning. We humbly plead that you would cast aside distractions and call us to be attentive to what you have for us in this particular text, for our good, for your glory, and for the joy of the nations. We ask in Jesus' name, amen. A couple of weeks ago I got a text from one of our global partners, actually one of our global partners who was standing up here playing guitar this morning.

2:20And he told me that 47 of the hundred largest and least reached ethnic groups on Earth are in one country. 47 of the hundred largest least reached groups are in one country. That country is India. The Joshua Project says that 90% of the people groups in India are unreached. And this goal partner just said sort of hyperbolically India is the task remaining? And these types of statistics feel very overwhelming to me. India is just one country on our globe, certainly a very populated one, but it's just one. There are thousands of other people, groups and other places where the gospel needs to be preached or preached again.

3:04And where healthy churches are few and far between. And I don't think it's just for the missions pastor or for our global partners to feel a weight of this burden. I think it's your burden. Jesus has given the command to make disciples of all nations to the church. We brothers and sisters of the North Church are called to this global endeavor together. And yet it seems so beyond the scope of what we can really handle, even as a large church in the north suburbs of the Twin Cities, this just seems like it's beyond our resources and beyond our capacity. The idolatry and lostness of 2000 people groups in India seems like an impossible thing for our little church to truly engage with, to really get our hands around, to really have any impact on.

3:54And yet what our text this morning shows us is that God intends to use faithful God centered spirit, empowered local churches to carry the light of Christ to the darkest corners of the earth. So yes, this sermon is about missions, but it's also a sermon about a local church, specifically it's about the church in Antioch. The first verse of Acts 13, as you heard said, now there were and the church at Antioch. So by way of orientation, before we jump into the bookends, I want to tell you the history of this church in Antioch that we find ourselves observing in God's word. This morning, the story of the church in Antioch starts with Jesus.

4:39Luke, the author of Acts in his gospel records these final words from Jesus to his disciples. Listen. And Luke 24, Jesus says, thus it is written that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead. And that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations beginning from Jerusalem. And so Jesus makes it clear that the gospel news and the mission to the nations are tied together. The Bible doesn't give us a missions list. Gospel. Jesus's sin bearing death and life giving resurrection are loaded with global objectives right from the start. And that is ascension. Jesus will say to his disciples in Acts chapter one that the spirit will come upon them and they will be his witnesses first in Jerusalem and then in Al Juday and Samaria, and then to the ends of the earth.

5:35And then almost immediately in Acts two, we begin to see this happen. In Acts two, the spirit does indeed fall upon the apostles in the city of Jerusalem. They proclaim the gospel and Jews from a variety of nations, diaspora, Jews, hear the gospel in their own languages, they're baptized. And boom, 3000 souls it says, are added to the church in Jerusalem, 3000 Acts two. But Jesus has said that his witnesses will be go beyond Jerusalem. So what happens next? We fast forward to Acts eight, Steven, the first Christian martyr is stoned and a great persecution arises against the church in Jerusalem.

6:20And who's the lead instigator of ravaging This church, it's a Jewish leader named Saul of Tarsus. And as a result of this persecution, some of these everyday believers from Jerusalem are scattered as far north as the city of Antioch. And they preach there, they preach the good news of their dead, but risen and saving savior. And many believe, and when the church in Jerusalem hears about what's happening up in Antioch, they send one of their leaders Barnabas up north to help with this fledgling movement. Barnabas begins to shepherd these new converts in Antioch. We see in Acts chapter 11, and the spirit continues this work.

7:04A great many people were added to the Lord. It says, so then what does Barnabas do? More and more people are being saved. There's more ministry to do, more saints to be equipped. So he calls for reinforcements. And who does he bring in to help him shepherd this new Christian community in Antioch? Saul of Tarsus, the persecutor who scattered these Christians to Antioch in the first place has now been converted to the Lord Jesus and he's being called back to teach and lead this church. You can't write a better story than God's story. This is remarkable and redemptive. Then in Acts 11, Paul and Barnabas, it says, spend a whole year meeting with this church and teaching a great many people there.

7:52So when we finally get to Acts 13, our text this morning, we know that the first missionary journey is not just a story about Paul and Barnabas, these early missionaries, it's also the story of this local church in Antioch. And so we walk through the beginning and end of this missionary journey. And as we do that, my aim is that you would see the central role the local church plays in advancing the gospel to the ends of the earth. And we're gonna take this in three sections. First, from Acts 13, one through three, we're gonna see that missionaries are sent from the church. And then in Acts 1421 through 23, we'll see how missionaries are sent for the church, from the church, for the church.

8:39And finally in Acts 1424 through 28, we'll see how missionaries partner with the church along the way. So in short, the mission starts with the local church, ends with the local church and happens in partnership with the local church. Let me read starting in Acts 13, one through three, look at it again. It says, there were in the church at Antioch Prophets and teachers, Barnabas Simeon, who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene. Manan, a lifelong friend of Herod, the Tetra and Saul, while they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, set apart for me, Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

9:19Then after fasting and praying, they laid their hands on them and sent them off. So as I mentioned earlier in Acts, we've already seen Christians scattering and spreading the gospel as a result of persecution. But this is the first time we see a church commission, a formal missions initiative to the Gentiles. Here we see the early church move from sort of spontaneous, unplanned ministry among the nations to a strategic and intentional outreach to the broader Mediterranean world. And the local church is the launching place for this strategic mission. So what I wanna do is draw out three characteristics from this text of the sending church in Antioch.

10:02Three characteristics that I think are worthy of our emulation as a congregation. So first, the church in Antioch is characterized by word centered, spirit guided leadership. So eventually in Acts, Luke is gonna start using the term elders to describe the group of men leading a local church, which I do think is what these five men are in verse one, they're elders. Luke describes 'em here. As prophets and teachers, the text doesn't give us a clear distinction between which of these five were prophets and which ones were teachers. I think it's likely that it's an overlap of both of these giftings in each of these men, but, but I think these two giftings imply a, a healthy balance of what it might look like to serve faithfully in a church's leadership.

10:52So a healthy church leadership is able to interpret and instruct and pass on the apostolic teaching. They've received the word of God and they have the ability to spontaneously discern the spirit's leading and guiding in particular situations for the help and encouragement of their congregation. So regardless of how exactly we might understand what it means for these men to be prophets and teachers, Luke certainly means to tell us that the church in Antioch was led by mature word centered spirit, discerning men. The second characteristic of the church in Antioch that is worthy of our imitation is their genuine worship of God.

11:38The context of this missionary commissioning is so important, so pay attention here. Verse two says, when did this happen? It says that it happened while they were worshiping the Lord and fasting the language of worshiping and fasting and praying causes me to think that this is in the context of a congregational gathering. The whole church is gathered for worship just like we are this morning, and it's not just something these five leaders are doing off in some corner. And I must say that when I read this, the word fasting stuck out to me in particular ways this time around. It's not something that we typically include in our congregational worship services and my time at North, I'm not aware of us ever giving a congregation wide invitation to join in a fast.

12:27And yet interestingly, the church at Antioch is including this practice in their worship service, at least this once. And this congregation is hungering for God and for his will to be done in the world in such a way that they're willing to cast aside food to express their dependence upon him. And it's in this context of worshiping and fasting and praying that the spirit speaks to them. Now, we don't get the details. We don't know if he spoke to one of the prophetic leaders or all of them. We don't know if his voice boomed to the whole congregation or or was he just subtly impressing it upon the minds of these leaders?

13:10We don't really know how it happened, but Luke writes with certainty in verse two, the Holy Spirit communicated to them, set apart for me, Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. And I just wanna wave a flag for us North Church. We need to watch out for what God might do in our midst by his spirit. If we're a church that is prioritizing worship of the all powerful God of the universe who's worthy of praise from every corner of the globe, then the spirit might actually direct us like this. If we're truly asking for the Lord to dwell with us and to move in us and to work through us, don't be surprised if he asks some of us to go and spread a passion for his name Among the nations, worship is the context in which missions is birthed.

14:03Worshipers are first worship spreaders a word centered God. Exalting, spirit attentive church will produce the types of Christians who will feel compelled to spread a passion for God's supremacy among all peoples through Jesus Christ. That's what we have up there on that wall. And this leads us to the third characteristic of the church in Antioch worthy of our emulation. The church is characterized by sacrificial obedience. For the sake of the great commission, we need to feel the weight of the Holy Spirit's directive here. He's asking this young church to send out 40% of its leadership and its very first two leaders.

14:48The Holy Spirit does not direct Antioch Bible Church to send out a few folks on their fringes who are barely serving and barely connected to the congregation. He's calling the church to launch out their very best. I mean, imagine if we sent out two fifths of our elders, that'd be eight guys. We're sending two of our elders just down the road to Stillwater with their families and some other families, and that is painful enough. Paul and Barnabas were not the kind of guys of whom you say, no big deal. It won't hurt the church. Too bad if they leave. No, the church in Antioch was leaning on these guys.

15:28These brothers were teaching them the word week in, week out. And so just imagine how the church in Antioch felt. Here they are in the middle of this amazing worship service and the Holy Spirit says, send out those two guys. I mean, it made me think, what if the Apostle Paul was on staff with me at the North Church and the spirit said, send him away. I mean, what a loss, what a loss. I'd be digging my nails into him like, no. But this is the type of thing that happens when a local church gets caught up in a grand vision of God's global glory and they begin to loosen their grip on this little kingdom that they're building.

16:08And I do wonder North Church, are we continuing to lean in and allow his spirit to do this among us for the sake of the gospel going to needier places? Some of you're pretty comfortable here, you're serving in your sweet spot, the church is leaning on you in significant ways. Do you have a category for God calling you out of that? Are there some of us, even perhaps among our elder council brothers who are open to leaving this church that we love, that we've poured our lives into, that we've given our all for these disciples here in order to go out and make new disciples elsewhere? And church, I ask, are you so confident in our father's sovereign care for his people that you'd be willing to commission out your own shepherds and your own leaders and other mature men and women in this congregation for this type of work?

17:05Are you willing to not only raise up your kids and grandkids to maturity in Jesus, but to also dispatch them to the spiritual battle on the front lines of God's global mission? And just to be clear, I believe the spirit is working in these ways among us already. I have the privilege to meet with many in this church body who have expressed a willingness to give their lives to this sort of ministry. And I'm very encouraged, but I will say this for those who may be sensing this calling from the spirit or for those wondering in our midst how to tell if the spirit is moving in this way. I wanna point out something else from these first three verses.

17:48I wanna point out that there are three parties involved in confirming Paul and Barnabas for this work. First, there's the Holy Spirit who clearly gives the command the churches to set these guys apart. So it's ultimately God directing this great commission. But then there's Paul and Barnabas's own internal call. Notice what the Holy Spirit says to them at the end of verse two, he says, set these men apart for the work to which I have called them. So Paul and Barnabas have already been called to this work. They feel a personal ambition to make Christ known among the Gentiles. But then we see this third party confirming them for this work.

18:31It's the church. The church and her leaders. The Spirit could have just spoken to Paul and Barnabas privately in a room and commanded them to go, but that's not what happens. The spirit tells the church to set these brothers apart and the church is fasting and praying and then confirming these men for this calling. So a subjective desire to minister the word to the nations is not in and of itself sufficient grounds for an individual to go. This sense of personal calling should be paired with corporate affirmation. Any person can make themselves available for missionary service, but it's the church that determines whether they're worthy of it.

19:14And this is not the only place in acts where we see the local church affirming potential missionaries. Just a few chapters later in Acts 15, Paul chooses Silas to go with him from Antioch on another missionary journey. And it says there in Acts 15 that they were both commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord. Then just a few verses later, acts 16, Paul picks up another missionary companion in Lira. This is Timothy. And the text is clear to mention that Timothy was well spoken of by the brothers at Lira and e Iconium. So this confirmation by Timothy's local church is crucial for Paul's decision to grab him and have him join his missionary band.

19:59So again, if you believe that the Lord might be stirring up your heart to minister around the globe, if you feel this internal call by the Holy Spirit, test that by bringing it before those who know you in this congregation and then ultimately to one of your leaders, it would be our privilege to walk with you and pray with you and together confirm with you that you're qualified, gifted, called and you have what you need to make the gospel known among the nations. And until that day, I would just encourage you until that day you're finally launched out channel your zeal and your energy and your gifts to serve this local church and the lost around you just like Paul and Barnabas were doing until the spirit made it clear.

20:43So what we see in Acts 13, one through three is that the first missionary journey came to fruition because a faithful local church and Antioch of Syria followed the spirit's prompting to send their very best. The church is God's vehicle for advancing the gospel. And some of you may ask, well, what about missions organizations and and Parachurch ministries? Are these not helpful? And I'll just give one line on that. Another pastor on our team made a helpful comment this week in response to a question like that, and he just said this very simply, these organizations have their place as long as they don't replace the church.

21:24The church is the bride of Christ. Agencies are his bride, the bridesmaids to the church, the great commission fundamentally belongs to and starts with the church. But now I want to jump to the other side of this missionary journey to look at the goal of missions. And that's Acts 14. So you can turn to verse 21, if the local church is the starting place for missions, what is its end? What were these apostles aiming for? And the simple answer is this, the end goal of the missionary journey was to establish local churches and all the places where they the gospel. In some sense, you could say that the local church is both the starting place and the end goal of missions.

22:08The local church is both the driver and the destination. I heard this quote recently from someone and I found it very helpful. I'll say it twice so you can get it. The mission of the church is missions. And the mission of missions is the church. The mission of the church is missions. And the mission of missions is the church missions is from the church and for the church. So I wanna show you this from Acts 14 verse 21. We're skipping over the first missionary journey. Pastor Steven will cover that next week as Paul and Barnabas travel 600 miles by sea and by foot and preach the gospel in many places.

22:52But the last of these places is a city called Derby, and that's where we find these apostles. In Acts 1421. Let me read that verse. It says, when they, Paul and Barnabas had preached the gospel to that city, referring to derby, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lira and to econ and to Antioch. Now at first read, you may think, okay, they've gotten to the end of their journey, they're ready to pack up and head for home. So it makes sense that they would retrace their steps through all the places they've been in order to get back to Antioch and Syria. But if you look at a map, which I think will be put up on the screen here of their first journey, you will see that they were not traveling in a straight line away from Antioch of Syria this whole time, but that they actually landed on the southern coast of Asia Minor and were incrementally moving east, circling back to where they started from.

23:52So after they preached the gospel in Derby, it actually would've been way quicker and easier for these men just to continue southeast on foot back to their starting place in Antioch of Syria. They could have even stopped exactly halfway through at Paul's hometown of Tarsus. If you see it there, maybe grabbed some a packed lunch from his mom or something and then continued their journey. Instead, what do we see? Paul and Barnabas make a deliberate decision to backtrack in a westerly direction to the cities from where they came. This route would require them to cover hundreds of extra miles by foot, potentially face the same violent opposition they had already encountered, and then make another dangerous 240 miles sea voyage across the Mediterranean.

24:39And so I think this text and this map beg us to ask the question, why did they do this? Why? Why did they take this longer route? And the answer is that they had remaining work to do in these cities in which they had already preached the gospel. The work was not finished. And this costly de detour demonstrates how important that work was to them. So what was the remaining work? I don't need the map anymore. All right, awesome. Read with me in verses 22 and 23, what is the remaining work they returned to Lira, acon, and Antioch of Pisidia? That's not the Antioch of Syria. That's a different Antioch.

25:18And what do they do? It says they strengthened the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith and saying that through many tribulations, we must enter the kingdom of God. And when they had appointed elders for them and every church with prayer and fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed. So Luke gives us two main reasons that Paul and Barnabas returned to these cities. First, it was to encourage and strengthen the faith of these new believers. So implied in this is that they were teaching these new Christians, they were applying God's word to their lives and reminding these believers of his promises, Paul and Barnabas are not merely concerned with preaching Christ to the lost.

26:04They're committed to discipling believers into maturity and perseverance in the faith. But Paul and Barnabas also knew that eventually they would have to leave these places and that they could not be with these churches teaching and leading them forever. And so the second thing they did, as you see in verse 23, is they establish local elders to teach and oversee these fledgling churches. Paul and Barnabas appoint multiple elders and every church in these cities, they return to set up really an organizational structure that will serve to best protect new believers, ensure the longevity of these congregations and play a role in advancing the gospel further and deeper into these regions.

26:50Establishing local churches that could stand on their own two feet was their end aim enough to backtrack majorly to ensure that this happened. And my desire is that our church would continue forward in our missionary sending with our eyes set on that same goal, that we would continue to launch out global partners into frontier contexts or strategic support roles who have a passion to see healthy local churches established around the globe. That despite the messiness and weakness and limitations, we would be a congregation that trusts that the local church is God's good design for the edification of the saints and for the advance of the gospel among the lost.

27:34And in order to send these types of men and women who love the church, we need to be a people who love the church and all its messiness and all its challenges. We need to be a people committed to local church membership, A people who see that God uses the little local church to guard and to grow his people and ultimately transform the nations. So what we've seen so far is that missionaries are sent from the church, they're sent for the church. And finally in Acts 14, verses 24 through 28, we see that missionaries partner with the church along the way. So missionaries are not to just be vetted and sent off from churches, never to be heard from.

28:20Again, local churches are actually invited into ongoing gospel partnership. And these remaining verses demonstrate what that might look like in the life of a local church. So let's look at the final section of Acts 14. These brothers, as they travel back to their sending church in Antioch says this. Then they passed through Sidia and came to pedophilia. And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Italia. And from there they sailed to Antioch where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled. And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles and they remained no little time with the disciples.

29:05So this text gives us an account of three particular ways that Barnabas and Saul engaged again with their sending church in Antioch. And I think these are three signs of a healthy partnership. First, the missionaries reported to the church all that they had accomplished. So in Acts 13, two, back in Acts 13, two, we saw that the spirit set these men apart for the work to which God had called them. And now here in 1426, we read that Paul and Barnabas fulfilled or completed that work which they had been commended for. As Pastor Steven unpacks many of the details of their journey. Next Sunday, you will see that it was indeed work. Okay?

29:49They walked hundreds of miles, they sailed hundreds more. They met with strangers, they entered synagogues, they proclaimed the gospel in private and in public. They taught new believers, they unpacked the scriptures, they responded to opposition and they appointed leaders. These guys worked their tails off for the sake of the gospel and the glory of God among the nations. And now they have the joy of gathering this congregation that sent them off and telling them, we did the job, we did the job you sent us to do. Not only was this probably a joy for them to share, but I think this is a picture of healthy missionary accountability to their senders.

30:30But these hardworking missionaries are also eager to give credit where credit is really due. So the second thing that I want us to see is that Paul and Barnabas lead the church in worship of God for his sovereign grace in it all. Verse 27 says that they declared all that God had done with them. God is the actor in that sentence. Paul and Barnabas are merely recipients of his grace instruments of his purposes. And Paul and Barnabas are sure to boast in God for the spiritual miracles he has done. Paul and Barnabas could walk all day, they could preach the gospel all night, but there's something they couldn't do.

31:10They couldn't open eyes to see Jesus for who he really is. They can't grant faith. They couldn't pry open the ears of these deaf gentiles. Only God can open the door of faith and let the Gentiles enter into the kingdom. Only God could do that just as he's done it for each of us who are trusting in Christ this morning. And Paul and Barnabas tell their brothers and sisters and Antioch of their front row witnessing of God bringing pagan gentiles who've never heard the name of Jesus into mass numbers of faith. And it's just amazing. And so this congregation gathers to hear this missionary update. And this is a worship event.

31:56They are marveling together in God's lavish grace poured out upon the nations. So the first missionary journey actually starts and ends, perhaps not ultimately with the local church, but with worship that is in fact the deepest fuel and goal of missions. But then notice there's one last sign of this healthy partnership between these missionaries and the church in Antioch. We could easily fly over verse 28, but it's worth lingering on. It says, and they remained no little time with the disciples in Antioch. So Paul and Barnabas take a break from gallivanting the world preaching the gospel and during opposition and they settle into a more extended stay with their beloved brothers and sisters at Antioch.

32:45And it's very reasonable, I think this text suggests for these gospel laborers to take a pause from their cross-cultural work in order to reconnect and be encouraged by the fellowship of the church that sent them out. And I'm eager for us to continue to lean in this way with our global partners to really own this partnership and be a place of respite and encouragement to our gospel laborers so that when they return, they are eager to spend no little time in our midst. So let's continue to be a church eager to hear the reports of what God is doing in the world and to worship him together. With that in mind, I just wanna give a quick plug here.

33:26A really practical way for you to respond to this is to join us on Saturday morning at 10:00 AM in the chapel for an event we call stories from the field. We're gonna do exactly this. I believe it would be a worship full time that honors the Lord as we remember what he's done and as we ask him to do even more through our global partners around the world. Believe it or not, part of how God is going to do more in this world is through US North Church being a faithful worshiping, disciple making local church, God has surprisingly chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. He's chosen local churches to shame the raging and rebellious nations.

34:09He's chosen messy, imperfect, sin filled congregations as his vehicle for accomplishing his redemptive work in the world North Church. We must not underestimate what our God can accomplish through us for the sake of his glory among the nations. And he's already done remarkable things because of this church's willingness to partner with so many. For many years we've been praying for a small unengaged, predominantly Buddhist people group in northern Thailand. I won't say the name of this group, just 'cause of the live stream and uh, and our global partners working with them. Todd and Karen were sent out from our midst and they've been making visits into two villages of this people group seeking to find avenues to share the gospel.

34:59A couple of months ago, Todd wrote to inform me that God had opened the door of faith in Christ for three ladies from one of these villages. Todd wrote this to me and I quote, I hope this news will encourage the whole church who has prayed and given so long for this people group. Please encourage everyone to keep praying. As you know, the road of discipleship is usually much harder than the road to conversion. There is a long road ahead and many other people from this group have yet to believe. We have no doubt these ladies have been trying to count the costs they will each have to pay when they return to their community as believers in Christ.

35:39The amount of resistance, opposition, and persecution Satan will throw at them could be enormous, more than they might be able to even imagine. We really need to be in prayer for them. End quote. So North Church, may we continue to be a worshiping people, a people tethered to the word who hunger for God, who raise up oaks of righteousness so that out of the overflow of what God is doing in our midst, we might continue to spread His name and see Kingdom outpost established among this people group in Northern Thailand and many, many more. So lemme pray to that end.

36:22Father, we do thank you for the church. We thank you for how you show off your marvelous global purposes by using what is weak in the world. In Ephesians three 10, Paul reminds us that you father display your manifold wisdom even to heavenly beings through the church. And so we're asking, Lord, that you would work through this congregation to make a disproportionate impact in the world that as we gather week in and week out, to remember the gospel and to build one another up into the image of Christ. That your love and your mercy would overflow out of this place to see churches established and strengthened in neighboring Stillwater and in the villages of India and in the deserts of Chad and in the jungles of Thailand.

37:10And we pray for these three new sisters in Christ just months into their faith, would you strengthen their souls cause them to persevere and not to grow weary as they face opposition and tribulations. So do this. We ask for the praise of your name and the joy of this people. Amen.

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