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Trusting Traitors [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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a different image. But today's Morning Devo's called trusting traders. Interesting, right,
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trusting traders? What in the world is that all about right, never
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trust the trader. But the title is called Trusting Traders. Amen, since
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to join and I see you, Good morning, God blessed you. Welcome
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back to in the morning, Devo. Let me get to my notes here
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and read on what I wrote down to discuss here. Amen. It says,
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the question is why did Jesus tell the disciples in advance that he knew
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someone was going to betray him? Right, he tells them right off the
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bat. Listen, somebody here among you is going to betray me. Jesus
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said, why would Jesus do that? Why would he sit among a trader?
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And why would he seemingly trust the trader? Because you trust people who
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you sit and break bread with. Right, He said that at the Last
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Supper John, chapter thirteen, verses eighteen to twenty. That's where we're gonna
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be today John thirteen, eighteen to twenty, Trusting Traders Today in the morning,
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Devo. I know you could have questions, comments, concerns, pray
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requests, Amen. Leaving on the live chat so we could get into it.
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Amen. Also, if you're streaming live with me, Amen, and
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you're watching or listening, Amen, Praise the Lord. But we're here to
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get into a morning devotion, Amen, when we're live, but you could
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jump hop on on a replay. It could be at nighttime when you watch
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or listen to this Amen. The reason why I call them morning Devo because
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when I'm doing these morning sessions is in the morning. Amen, But you
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could listen or watch any time. Man. What I'm trying to do is
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encourage you to get into the scriptures, get into this word for yourself.
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To that way you won't be manipulated or tricked or deceived into believing somebody else's
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theology on meology on the matter right, trusting traders. That's the name of
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today's devo. So let's pray first. After we pray, we'll share this
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out for like sixty seconds, and after the sixty seconds we'll come back.
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We'll get into John chapter number thirteen, verses eighteen to twenty. Are you
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ready? Father? I thank you for every single person that's connected now,
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that will connect later, that will listen now or can listen later, or
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watch now or watch later. Bless their hearts, bless their souls, guidegard
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and protect all of us Low God, including myself and my family. Thank
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you, Lord God for encouraging us, inspiring us. Thank you, Love
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God for covering us, protecting us, guiding us. Thank you, Love
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God for your love, your grace, and your mercy. Thank you,
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Lord God that even amongst people who are against you, you show grace,
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and you show kindness and show love. Yet you told us that we all
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assaulted the earth and the lot of the world, so we're supposed to go
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out and be who you called us to be. Thank you, Look God
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for your empowered Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God, which listened every
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single one of us who called upon your name to be saved. Thank you,
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Lord God, that you give us the words to say, the mouth
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to speak, the ears to listen, to the eyes to see. I
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thank you, Lord God, that you are exactly who you said you are.
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And I praise you, Lord God, because you are worthy of praise
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and admiration and glory. So I speak life, Lord God. I ask
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you, Lord God, to teach us and be our teacher, and that
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we would continue to trust in you, because your living words is relevant to
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every single thing that we go on to do in life during our time that
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we spend our life in And Jesus name, I give you glory, honor,
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worship of praise. Thank you for what you're doing or what you're about
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to do. Thank you for the upcoming testimonies on what this word is going
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to do to people choose to listen and choose life in Jesus name. And
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all those who agree, we say Amen and Amen, Manuel Johnson, Manuel,
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God, bless you. Good morning. Welcome to the morning Devo.
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So let's take sixty seconds out to share this. When we come back,
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we dive right into today's Morning Devo. I'll be right back, a man
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and man. We're back. Let's go for it. Let's see what the
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Word of God has for us today. We're calling this one trusting Traders.
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Amen. And the image that you saw earlier was a bag of thirty silver
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coins. And it reminds me of Judas the trader right, and Judas selling
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out the Lord and Savior all for thirty pieces of silver, Amen, and
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then regretting it afterwards to a point that he read it is so much that
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hung himself committed suicide. Trusting traders is a thing, and God is full
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of grace. Amen. Sometimes he descriptures, say, Lord, none of
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it. God is not like me. Amen, He's better than me,
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much better and he's His thoughts are not like my thoughts. So every time
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I put my place, my situation, my mindset in a place of God,
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I'm doing something unjust and kind of like blasphemous. Right. I can
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never say, oh, God, I would have done this better than him.
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But the people out there are actually doing that. I've had conversations with
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people that actually say they would have done something different, insinuating that what they
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would have done would have been better than what God had done. And that's
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really really arrogant. Amen. I'm not that guy. Amen. I won't
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do that. Amen. That's right. So let's go for it. We
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get this ready for those who are watching, Amen, and praise God for
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coming and watching. I'm put something on the screen for those who are just
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listening, No worries, no problem, Amen. Want to read a word
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for word, Amen, word for word, and we could do it from
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that Fancis point, right, Amen. Leaning on their own understanding, Yeah,
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a lot of people lean on the understanding and they call it wisdom,
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and they feel like that wisdom that they have because they're leading on their own
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understanding, is better than the understanding and the wisdom that God has. And
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like I said, that's very arrogant and dangerous as well. Amen. But
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we can pray for people, be kind to people, because for whatever reason
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people are like that. There's a reason why people are like that. We
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can't just assume that they will go one day and say I'm better than God
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or I'm God. Right, So we just go and we pray for people.
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Amen. It is worldly wisdom. Yeah, see right, it is
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worldly wisdom. I used to be there too, I used to be part
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of that worldly system. Amen. So I never point fingers. I just
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try to pray, be kind, and listen to people's stories and listen to
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why they're the way they are. Amen. And although I can respect somebody's
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position, I don't have to agree with the position if it's anti Christ,
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it's anti Biblical, or it's against God. Amen. That's just the way
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I am. So let's go for it. Trusting traders, trusting traders,
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let's go for it. Amen. And the scripture says in John thirteen,
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John Chapter thirteen, verses eighteen and twenty, Jesus said, I am not
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speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But the
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scripture will be fulfilled. He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against
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me. I am telling you this now before it takes place. It is
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prophetic right that when it does take place, you may believe that I am
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he truly. Truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I
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send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
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Un Like a riddle. But Jesus is being playing with the disciples right then
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and there, letting no, no, no. The situation that's going to
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happen beforehand, right, a long list of people who have been traitors.
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We have that long list in history in the Bible, right and government and
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acts of war, or your family, my family, friends, colleagues,
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and your work is a long list of people who are traders. When Jesus
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said, not speaking to all of you, not speaking to all the disciples
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here, I know whom I have chosen. But the scripture will be fulfilled.
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Amen to the bottom line. Jesus saying, listen, I know what's
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gonna happen before it happens, is going to fulfill the scriptures that was wrote
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written about him a man, and it's going to happen. That's why when
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Jesus says, truly, truly, verily, verily, he's letting, you
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know, listen closely. I say to you, whoever receives the one I
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send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
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It's like God the Father speaking through the sun right then and there in that
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place where Jesus was speaking, And it's almost like he was trusting traders.
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But you know, Jesus is just amazing and he loves, he's gracious,
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full of mercy and grace and truth. Amen, it's not that he was
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trusting the trader. He was just letting the disciples. No, this is
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gonna happen. This is how it's going to happen. And it's going to
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happen to fulfill the scriptures. Amen, to fulfill the scriptures. Sinister Alicia,
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God bless you. It's good to see you. Good morning, God
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bless you. Welcome to the morning. Devo's good to see you, my
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sister, Amen, sitting right there with Jesus. Yeah, the person that
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was going to betray the Lord was sitting eating bread among the disciples. Amen.
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And I think, you know, this is just me thinking out loud.
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I think the reason why Judas the Trader Amen, was felt so guilty
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was because he was with the brethren. He saw Jesus do miracle signs and
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wonders. He had the money bag. People say that he was stealing from
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the money bag, but he was among the people, and I think he
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kind of liked, you know, had some love. I think there was
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some love there between him and the brothers and with Jesus. Amen. And
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when somebody does something against somebody that they love, or out of desperation or
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maybe they're trying to come up and they no, no, no other way
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betray you or me. Amen, This guilt involved in that is guilt is
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gonna happen. Amen. So Jesus, yeah, he was calling it what
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it is. Amen. And Jesus was carrying out the father's will. Amen.
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Yes, his emotions. You know what I understand I'm learning about emotions.
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Emotions are not meant to be fixed, like you better fix your emotions.
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No, emotions are meant to be felt. And I think that's why
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anyone who betrays someone else, they feel a certain way. They have to
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feel something. If you don't feel nothing after you've done somebody dirty or betrayed
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somebody or or a trader or somebody even on a like a team, like
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a sports team. Right growing up where where we were from, we used
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to play street football, and you know, we would normally go on the
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same side, unless you know, somebody needed a team member or somebody else
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to be on the other side. But normally, if you were on one
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side team, you will always stick with that team. And what did they
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call you when you go on the other side. Trader? Amen, even
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though we would joke about it, but it's like a way of telling the
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other person. Listen, you were with us, now you're with them.
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You're a trader. Amen. Judas was with the Lord Jesus. Amen.
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And because what happened if you got to read about Judas, Amen, he
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was filled by the enemy and Lord by the enemy. But it was prophecy
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to be fulfilled. It was going to happen regardless. That's why Jesus said,
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I'm not talking to everybody here. I'm talking, you know, to
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the one person. Were not talking to everybody, to the one person.
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And that's why you see, if you notice, if you if you look
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at the scriptures closely, there were twelve and then there were eleven Amen of
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the disciples because one was missing because he was a trader, and that was
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Judas. Amen. So it's so much here, man. But of course
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these are morning DeVos. So I try to keep it bite sized, man,
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something that we could grab on and get about our day. Right.
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So why did Jesus tell the disciples in advance that he knew someone was going
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to betray him? Right? When we go back to the Bible, we
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find all the stories similar to this one, stories of betrayal, right,
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and history throughout the scriptures especially you see one with a Hitefel was King David's
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most trusted advisor. And guess what happened Tewod Samuel sixteen twenty three. Let's
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check it out real quick, Amen, hopefully my tablet will work real quick.
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Candy scriptures. Now, in those days, the council so that a
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hither of Fela gave was as if one consulted the word of God. So
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was all the counsel of a hither Offel esteemed both David and by Absolom.
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So this man was trusted a man, they were trusting a traitor. It's
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all through the scriptures. It's not only in the New Covenant. It's not
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only with what Jesus did with the disciples throughout the scriptures. We see this
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throughout your life and through my life, we see this too. Relevance.
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The word of God is still relevant, right, and the world of Jesus
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and the word of Jesus became flesh and dwelt among us. Yes, and
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throughout the rovers. Thank you for your comments. How about this one?
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So this a hither Offel was a person that was consulting the people because he
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was seeking the word of God. So was all the counsel that said.
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Abslom was King David's third son, who portrayed his own father by conspiring to
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take over the throne. The king's own son. And remember David, God
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said the father said that David was a man after his own heart. Yet
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he was among traders. Right. Abslom was King David's third son, who
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portrayed his own father by conspiring to take over the throne. Right. During
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Absalom's rebellion, a Hithefel advised Absaloms to sleep with his father's concubines as a
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challenge to his father's throne. Absalom followed this wicked advice on the rooftop of
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the palace rooftop. Remember the situation where King David on the rooftop follows this
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wicked advice on the rooftop of the palace, so that all of Israel could
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see wickedness. Man, people would do for other people. People tell you
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should do to try to hurt somebody else, or try to take somebody's position,
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or try to take over something that's not theirs, that's not rightfully theirs.
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A man, those are traders, we have them. Jesus had him
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among his disciples. David had it among his people. A man his own
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sons, you know, were acting buck wild in certain situations. But listen,
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God is a god of mercy. God is a guy who is kind.
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God is a guy who forgives. It's like you could trust your trader,
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right, but not really. You have to use wisdom, use understanding,
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use discernment, understand what's going on around you. Otherwise the betrayal you're
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never going to get over it. It's hard, man, I was the
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betrayer and I've been betrayed, and both is hard. Amen. It's hard
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just knowing that I did something like that to a person, and that somebody
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did that to me. Right, how do you feel when you are betrayed.
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How do you feel when people let you out there, they leave you
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out there to the wolves? How do you feel when a trusted person now
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becomes a trader? Amen. It's not a good feeling, it's not a
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good time, it's not a good experience. Amen. But you can't stay
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there. I can't stay there. It took me years to get over a
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betrayal, over a decade, at least a decade, right, And I
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finally came to the lawd and said, I gotta, I gotta, you
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gotta help me with this. I gotta forgive this person. I gotta,
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I gotta forgive. I gotta move forward or else, you know, I'm
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gonna stay there and stagnant and be stagnant. Amen. We have to keep
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on going. We have to we have to just be who God calls us
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to be. Amen. And were called to be forgivers, it be called
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to be truth seekers. If we called to be ambassador, if we're called
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to be you know, disciples, Let's be that. Let's be that.
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Let's start going around being held captive to unforgiveness, being held captive to things
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that really, if you think about it, they don't really matter after a
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while. Amen, if somebody did something to you and somebody did something to
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me, there's a reason why they did it, although it might not be
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a good reason or might not be a situation where you have to agree with
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why person did this and the why person did that. We have to keep
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on moving according to the spirit of God, otherwise we'll be stuck and will
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be judging, and we'll be pointing fingers and we will be stuck in unforgiveness.
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Amen. And I'm just going through your your comments seeing my brother.
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I don't want you to think that I'm not seeing you. Amen, Just
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be honest. Yeah, the feeling is not good at all. Right,
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we have to be humble. Amen. And the things sometimes that we make
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this big are really like right here, it's a heart condition, and we
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can't make things bigger than they really are. So a lot of scholars consider
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a hit the fela a type of Judas iscariot. So we have a person
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that was in an old covenant, and theologians are saying that's the type of
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Judas, and men both a hit the fel and Judas betrayed a close friend
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by conspiring with the enemy. Listen to kill the king, and both men
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committed suicide after the treachery a hit. The fell committed suicide and Judas committed
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suicide. Because of what happens after you go after a righteous person, a
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righteous man, you feel this guilt and men, and it doesn't go away
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because you know you did something to an innocent person. And the situation that
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always reminds me and runs in my mind. When I was younger, we
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had this big rumble and we was in somebody else's neighborhood and something happened,
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and it reminds in my mind, in my mind, and I pray to
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God, and I prayed little God, let that person be okay, Amen,
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because it wasn't good, it wasn't right, and it had to do
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with betrayal and the situation. Amen. And I ask Gott, please help
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that person, Amen, because I worry about that person of what happened years
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ago, and hopefully you know what I'm thinking, never came to pass,
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Amen. And I'm hoping the best for my enemy at the time. But
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this person had nothing to do with the whole rumble, in the whole situation.
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You don't understand what I'm saying. But these two men, they were
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conspiring to kill an innocent person, to do something to somebody who was trusted
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by these people. Obviously, kick David trusted a hit the fel Judas trusted.
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Judas was trusted by the disciples. Jesus knew it was going to happen.
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Is he is the prophetic fulfillment of the scripture, Amen, and he
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said to make sure that the scriptures are fulfilled. This has to happen.
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Disciples probably don't understand what was going to happen, but Jesus was telling them
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beforehand what was going to happen. Not forgiving right away keeps you in bondage,
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unable to move forward. Yes, yes, of course it does.
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And it doesn't do anybody any good, Amen, especially the one that's not
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forgiving. And if we're part of Christ and we are disciples of the Lord,
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we have to forgive. And I'm not saying that's an easy thing.
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People could do something incredibly hurtful to you. And if you forgive right on
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the spot, praise God. But do you really mean it. I mean,
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it's a difference between doing something and meaning what you're doing. Amen.
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Men of God. You have the identical twin name. Amen. Keeping things
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in perspective. Yes, Louis, God bless you. Good morning. Welcome
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to the morning, Devo. I've learned to dwell on being, not to
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dwell. Excuse me, I'm being portrayed because I've betrayed them. So for
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me, I've just learned to forgive quickly. Yeah, man, forgive quickly.
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And like Manuel says, they become strongholds. They will become strongholds if
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you don't forgive. So we see in the scripture and John thirteen eighteen to
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twenty read the whole chapter for yourself. But in this situation, Jesus letting
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them know what was going to happen to fulfill the scriptures. A man breaking
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bread with a trader, someone among that you know table, was going to
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betray the Lord. Jesus, he knew it beforehand, letting people know this
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is gonna happen, letting disciples know I'm aware, a man, I know
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what's gonna happen, so that the scriptures may be fulfilled. And then Jesus
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says, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I have
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sent, the one I send resies me, and whoever receives me receives the
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one who sent me. So the will of the Father is for us to
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believe in the one who he sent right, and Jesus saying, I'm the
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sent one. But this is gonna happen. I'm going to be betrayed.
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I'm going to be amongst a tradeor And this trader, Judas Amen, was
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found out and he sold out the Lord for thirty pieces of silver. Some
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people would sell us out for a little amount of money, a little amount
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of cloud, a little amount of fame, just to hurt us. Amen.
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And if we're not careful, we might be the person doing the betrayed
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if our heart is not right. But we have a new heart right in
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Christ. We have a new mind right in Christ. So we shouldn't be
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thinking like we used to think before. We should be moving by the spirit,
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Amen, and trying to do what God asks us of to do.
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Not try and just do it and man, and you will see the power
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of God in your life. They became strongholds. Amen. So let's see
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my final thing. I have one minute left. Amen. David wrote about
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being portrayed by those he trusted most seeing in the Psalms right palm chopped,
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chapter fifty five. I open this real quick to be my last piece.
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I'm running out of time here, so I'm fifty five twelve and fourteen.
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David said, For it is not an enemy who taunts me, then I
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could bear it. Right. It's not the enemy, and the enemy I
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was supposed to do what the enemy does. It is not an adversary who
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deals insolently with me, right, then I could hide from him. But
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it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar
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friend. We used to take sweet counsel together within God's house. We walked
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in the throng. In other words, I trusted you. Now you're a
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trader. People go through this. Amen, you might go through this,
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but let's trust God in a situation. Let's trust God through the process.
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So thank you for hanging out with me for this morning, DeVos man,
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So glad you are able to come through a man. Share this with a
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person that might need this word, that might need this devotion. Amen.
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I'm trying to encourage people to go back to the scriptures, go back to
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the basics, and follow the scripts. Man, we were in John chapter
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number thirteen. Read the whole chapter for yourself. We can't die of verses
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eighteen to twenty. But I want you to read the whole chapter to get
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the whole idea of what was going on. Amen. Thank you so much
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for the encouragement about this being a good word. Amen. God is good,
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He's faithful. Amen. I needed to hear this. Amen. So
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did I my bro. So God bless you all. Got to keep you
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all or remember always that God is good. Peace,