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472 | Throwback - His Promises are True · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  God has made so many promises to us, promises that we can count on because each
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  and every one of them is true.
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  What he has done for others, he will surely do for you. He has promised you
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  that he changes not and he is no respecter of persons.
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  What he has done in days of old, he is still doing today.
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  Trust in Him, and He will make it happen. Join us in this broadcast,
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  His Promises Are True, as Kim Miller of Women at the Well Ministries takes us
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  through 1 Kings 8.56 and Malachi 3.6, which say.
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  Blessed be the Lord that hath given rest unto His people Israel,
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  according to all that He promised.
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  There hath not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised by
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  the hand of Moses, His servant.
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  And then we read, For I am the Lord, I change not.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  And I love talking about God's promises.
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  It's like a great big treasure hunt. Only when you go on a regular treasure
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  hunt, you're not certain whether or not you're going to find the treasure.
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  You're not even certain whether the time you have spent is going to be worth it or not.
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  But when you open up the Holy Word of God, regardless of where you put your
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  fingers, you're going to find a treasure of knowledge and truth that's life-changing.
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  And when we learn of God and we begin to read his promises and we begin to see all that he has done,
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  it increases our faith and it allows us to live the kind of life that God intended for us.
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  And he said that he came that we might have life and have it more abundantly,
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  and it's found in the treasures of his scripture.
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  I love the fact that you cannot read his word.
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  Without it doing something to your heart. Even the genealogies that are found
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  in the beginning of Matthew and such, and you think to yourself,
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  or even perhaps the book of Chronicles, and you think to yourself,
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  I'm not really getting anything out of this.
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  When you think about it, and you meditate upon it, and you read the scriptures
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  that are associated with it, and you pray, God will give you something even
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  out of what you think are the most obscure pieces of scripture.
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  But as you begin to read God's Word, and no doubt you'll find scriptures that
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  appeal to you more because you feel like you can understand them,
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  you're going to find something amazing.
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  The Word comes alive. No other book in history and no other book ever will be
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  written that is as alive and full and dynamic as the Word of God.
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  And the reason it is is because the word
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  was made flesh and dwelt among us and as
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  we begin to look at the scriptures we are spending
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  time with the most high god not only
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  are we learning the truths that he would have us
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  to learn that transform our lives but we
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  are spending time with the most high
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  God and the Bible says that he will reveal to
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  us the things that we need
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  to understand and he does
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  that through the the scriptures and through
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  the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives and as the Holy Spirit reveals
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  to us the meaning of scripture you'll find that you may read something today
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  and you may have read that piece of scripture 20 or 30 times but today it speaks
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  to your heart in an entirely different way.
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  That's what I mean about it being alive and dynamic.
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  Because it truly is God speaking to us.
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  It's an amazing thing as we begin to look at the promises that he gives us.
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  And the promises are too numerous for me to spend the time with you about them.
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  But I want to inspire you and motivate you to spend the time in the holy word
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  of God that you might dig out the promises that you love most.
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  But perhaps all of us should
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  pay very close attention to what
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  he says in Romans 10 13 for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall
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  be saved and all of us have the honor and the privilege to be titled a whosoever
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  you don't have to be rich you don't have to be poor you don't have to be famous.
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  You don't have to have your name in lights. You don't have to have high intelligence.
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  You don't have to be from a certain family.
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  You don't have to have been to church.
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  You certainly don't have to have been perfect.
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  None of those things are required for you to become a child of the most high God.
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  He says, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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  And when we call upon the name of the Lord, we are doing an act of showing him.
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  That we believe in who he is and we are dependent on what he can do for us.
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  And we realize that he is the holy son of God and that he and he alone can wash away our sins.
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  And we have the promise that he will do so.
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  I believe that when I begin to think about that promise and.
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  Romans 10.13, I quickly come to 1 John 1.9, where the Bible says that if we
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  confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse
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  us from all unrighteousness.
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  If you only dug up those two treasures, you would have a peace that passes understanding
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  and a joy unspeakable and full of glory.
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  Again, a promise that the Holy Word of God reveals to us as we read the Scriptures.
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  I only have time for a few, but I would be remiss if I didn't read to you, John 3, 16.
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  If I did not, in your hearing, allow you to hear the promise that you are loved.
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  By God and that he sent his son to die on the cross of Calvary, so that you, whosoever,
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  should call upon his name and find eternal life.
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  The Bible says for God so loved
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  the world that he gave his
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  only begotten son that whosoever believeth
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  in him should not perish but have
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  everlasting life I ask you
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  my friend have you placed your faith in
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  Jesus Christ have you come to
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  the saving knowledge that you cannot make
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  it in this world and that we're all sinners and have come
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  short of the glory of god that the way of
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  the world leads to the wages of sin that are
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  death but the gift of god is eternal life through jesus christ that you can't
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  buy it you can't steal it and you can't lose it the bible says for by grace
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  are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of god
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  not of works lest any man should boast.
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  There's no other way to get there. There's none other name given among men whereby we must be saved.
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  But if we believe, we have the promise that he will receive us unto himself.
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  And that, my friend, leads me to the other promise that I want to make sure
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  you hear. He's coming back.
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  He made that very clear to us in John chapter 14, beginning at verse 1.
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  He told us about what he had gone to prepare for us.
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  He told us about how he loved us so much that he went away and that while he
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  was away in John chapter 14,
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  he tells us he sent us the Holy Spirit as a comforter that we might be comforted
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  by it and we might learn of him.
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  The Bible says in John chapter 14 and one says, let not your heart be troubled.
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  You believe in God, believe also in me.
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  In my father's house are many mansions. if it were not so i would have told
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  you i go to prepare a place for you and if i go to prepare a place for you i
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  will come again and receive you under myself that where i am there ye may be also,
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  then he says and whither i go you know and the
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  way you know not only does this verse
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  reveal to us the promise that he's gone to prepare a place for us but it reveals
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  to us the promise that he's coming back and those that have believed in the
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  holy name of Jesus Christ will be saved and they'll go to that home not made
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  with hands eternal into the heavens that he is prepared for them that love him.
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  In fact the Bible says that eye hath not seen and ear hath not heard what lies
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  in store for them that love the Lord.
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  But this scripture in John chapter 14 also
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  reveals to us that he tells us the things
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  we need to know but i believe as christians we
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  have an obligation but we should also have the
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  desire to read his word to learn
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  of him he said that we could take
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  his yoke upon us and that we could give him his our burden and he would give
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  us his burden and it would be light there is no other deal in the world that
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  you can do that with where you pretty much give rags and nothing and you receive an amazing return.
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  Jesus doesn't build junk. Look at the earth when you begin to see a beautiful
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  sunrise and you watch a sunset.
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  It's a beautiful painting in the sky that he effortlessly puts for us to enjoy each and every day.
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  I tell you what, if I hath not seen and ear hath not heard what lies in store
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  for them that love him, you can be sure that heaven is way too beautiful to miss.
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  But you must also realize that if you're not going to heaven, you're going to hell.
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  And you'll go that because you've refused to believe in the only begotten Son of God.
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  Because whosoever, and you are
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  a whosoever, has the promise that you can receive eternal life in heaven.
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  You need to realize that you do have eternal life.
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  You will just either spend it in heaven with Jesus, or you will spend it in
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  hell where the pain and suffering never stops, a place never meant for me or you.
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  But we go if we do not believe.
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  Perhaps another one of the greatest promises that I'd
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  like for you to really hang on to
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  is that he says for i am the lord i change
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  not you can trust him because he's
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  not one way today and another way tomorrow you can believe in him because what
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  he did for others he'll do also for you he's no respecter of persons he will
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  never leave you and he will never forsake you and he never changes.
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  You don't have to worry about how God is going to greet you because he will
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  do it the same every time. And it is with a loving, caring heart.
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  The promises that I have spoken about over these last few moments with you have
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  but scratched the surface,
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  but I hope they served as an appetizer for you to open up the holy word of God
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  and let him speak to you that your faith would be increased,
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  that your peace would be multiplied, and that your joy would be unspeakable and full of glory.
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