– A better country (Hebrews 11:16). We are called upon to live of ourselves, that would be death; but we have life and all things in union with Him.(C. He is the Creator, and the life of Adam and Eve after the fall depended entirely on the promise of the Redeemer. "When Christ, who is our Life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory." 5. To the favour of God. Because He lives, we live, and our life is hid with Christ in God.III. IN A SPECIAL MANNER WITH THE BELIEVER. He can "strengthen the things that remain, and are ready to die.". When life begins to be true, it announces itself as an eternal thing to the mind; as a caged bird when let loose into the sky might say, "Now I know that my wings are made to beat the air in flight;" and no logic could ever persuade the bird that it was not designed to fly; but when caged, it might have doubted at times, as it beat the bars of its prison with unavailing stroke, if its wings were made for flight. It is a sufficient reason, for —(1) Christ's life is a proof that His work has accomplished the redemption of His people. If there is anything that overcomes and sees us through death it is love, a love stron… Life is an internal principle originating outward and visible characteristics. To the presence of God. This life is communicated, not by anything that is outward, but entirely by the Holy Spirit of God. They, too, had but dimly seen Him while He stood by them; they would gaze on Him with truer insight when He was present though absent. Knowing about what will happen when we meet the Lord in the air, we should really be looking forward with eagerness to the event. An animal feels pleasure and pain, but it feels each sensation as it comes; it never puts them together, or takes the measure of its own life, and looks on it as a whole. Elsewhere He simply assumes it. IS HIS ABILITY TO HELP TO THE UTMOST. Monopoly is a word banished from the religion of heaven. Then I am sure that at this moment Jesus is saying it to you — "I will not leave you an orphan," etc. Happy in prosperity — happy in adversity — happy in life — happy in death — happy forever!3. They would not come to Him that they might have life.4. III. Practically such life is death, and so He names it. Gulfs of millions of miles lie between me and it. Eternal life isn't just something that happens to us after this earthly life, up in some heavenly realm. What pain is to the body, sin is to the spiritual life; and just as our nervous system shrinks from the very touch or contact of pain, so the soul that is in unison with God shrinks from sin as its greatest evil, and the immediate source of all misery.4. If you want the eye of the soul to be opened, you must shut the eye of sense. That it will go on forever is a matter of course, but it is not the important feature of the truth.IV. Unless a spiritual being is immortal, such a being counts for less in the universe than mere inert matter. Belief in God Based on the Knowledge of His Character, Belief in God Emotional as Well as Intellectual, Christ's Appeal to His Disciples' Confidence, Christ's Coming and Our Future Fellowship with Him, Death Brings Christ and the Soul Together, Man's Hope of Immortality Uncontradicted by God, The Christian not Afraid of Unseen Dangers, The continued life of Christ the ground of our hope. And from the Divine side also we get assurances of endless life; but in so hard a matter we are like Thomas, who needed the sight and touch to assure him. It is a great thing for us that this truth has been put into actual fact. 3. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? But the Saviour's unending life is full of terror to His enemies because He ever lives. For if there be a thing on the whole earth which Jesus will not have it is an orphaned heart. Let me make one or two inferences.This life is —1. (1) We live because He lives. "Because I live, you must perish forever." The most magnificent tree only gives enjoyment to other beings; it never understands that itself exists; it is not conscious of losing anything when it is cut down. Wow, is that exciting or what?! And in order that we may know He simply changed worlds, He comes back and shows Himself alive; for He is not here in the world simply to assert truth, but to enact it. (3) How great will appear at last the guilt of those who reject Christ, when they shall learn that even their bodily life has depended upon Him, and that, being destitute of His Spirit, they are none of His.(L. 1. III. The source of all missionary effort.3. That it will go on forever is a matter of course, but it is not the important feature of the truth. His advent postulated the continuance of the race. Cumming, D. D.)Immortality as taught by the ChristT. It is all but a quotation of the name "Jehovah." Paul was burdened. PHYSICAL LIFE. But an assumption is often the strongest kind of argument. It is, however, to the new development of life which accompanied and followed the resurrection that our Lord refers. They "reign in life with Him" — in Him (Romans 5:17; Romans 6:8-11; Ephesians 2:5, 6; Colossians 3:1-4; Galatians 2:19, 20). His treatment of this doctrine was not so much corrective as accretive. Life has the power of assimilation. Jesus knew full well what a wandering life his disciples would have, going into strange and distant countries. 3 “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. Therefore He cheers them with this assurance. Scripture: John 14:12–14. John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions This he says to draw off their minds from an earthly kingdom to an heavenly one; to point out the place to them whither he was going, and to support them with the views and hopes of glory under all their troubles. The only relic I had was a little piece of her silk dress, and this I preserved as my dearest treasure. THIS LIFE HAS CERTAIN SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS. Joy is one of the fruits it bears.3. Spurgeon. He stands steadily upon life, life endless by its own Divine nature. (Ray Palmer, D. D.)The living ChurchJ. Conclusion: The history of the Church that has possessed this vital principle has been throughout a very painful but a very triumphant one. We cannot even look upon the man Jesus issuing from the tomb, and draw from thence a faith that yields peace. Those whom today you are most fondly cherishing, and the thought of whose death you dare not admit to your own heart — if you have none but them, and no Christ in them, you will wake up some morning to such a cold vacancy, for that one will have gone, and will have left you "comfortless." "How shall I live on? Thompson. Hence, when there is an overpowering, all-possessing sense of God as there was in Christ, truth takes on absolute forms; hence it was that He spoke with authority. We are "a royal priesthood."4. "It has pleased the Father, that in Him all fulness should dwell," that out of His fulness His people may receive, and grace for grace.Conclusion:1. That’s pretty neat. "He has made us kings and priests unto God." 2. And in Christ we have both — the human omen and the Divine promise turned into fact. II. Most people before they become drunkards have had some sickness of mind or body preying upon them; but do not fly from your great trouble to drink. And this spiritual life lays hold upon all the elements of nutriment, as these are laid up in Christ, found in the oracles of truth, and at the communion table.3. The true distinction between the Church and the world.4. He found a doctrine of God, partial in conception; He perfected it by revealing the Divine Fatherhood. The reason is evident. Why? He is still proclaiming, "As I live, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked." But what is the believer's life of which Christ speaks, when He says, "Ye shall live also." It is easy to ascertain if a man be dead or living physically; and it is not difficult to ascertain if a man be living or dead spiritually.1. T. The true safety of the Church.5. If you take away Christ the elder Brother, who alone reveals the Father, we are all orphans, who look up into an empty heaven and see nothing there. II. He is their Surety, Representative, Covenant Head. Life is progressive, and Spiritual life grows in likeness to Christ. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Life is an internal principle originating outward and visible characteristics. Example; teaching; miracle; suffering. A Christian is alive —1. He never slumbers nor sleeps; He has all power in heaven and on earth; He is Head over all things to the Church. A dead man does not feel. (3) How great will appear at last the guilt of those who reject Christ, when they shall learn that even their bodily life has depended upon Him, and that, being destitute of His Spirit, they are none of His. Hope in Christ’s promise will comfort your troubled heart (John 14:2-3). Build me a column perfect in base and body, and I will know if the capital is true. At this point, have the children recite John 14:2 several times before playing. THE RENEWED LIFE. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on John 14:2. When he puts his life into harmony with God's laws; when he begins to pray; when he clothes himself with the graces of Christian faith and conduct, when he begins to live unto his spiritual nature, he begins to realize what life is — a reality that death and time cannot touch. The deep cry of humanity is the cry of an orphan for the Father. Jan 11, 2009. What life is it that Christ speaks of when He here says, "I live?" He has been speaking of sending that "other Comforter," who is no gift wafted to us as from the other side of a gulf; but by reason of the unity of the Godhead, Christ and the Spirit whom He sends are, though separate, so indissolubly united that where the Spirit is, there is Christ, and where Christ is, there is the Spirit. This springs from the relation which He holds to them. IS HIS ABILITY TO HELP TO THE UTMOST. Happy, surely, are the living disciples of the living Saviour! Happy in prosperity — happy in adversity — happy in life — happy in death — happy forever!3. Cumming, D. D.)Immortality as taught by the ChristT. Is not this evidence of a Divine presence — of a Divine power? What life is it that Christ speaks of when He here says, "I live?" Science may throw no barrier in the way of belief in immortality; nature and the heart of man may suggest clear intimations of a future life; human society may demand another life to complete the suggestions and fill up the lacks of this; but, for some reason, all such proof fails to satisfy us. His treatment of this doctrine was not so much corrective as accretive. "Ye shall live also." It holds the mind, but does not minister to the heart.2. The soul has broken away from its Father, not its Father from it. And with these longings they believed that they would then exist after all when this life was over. It is proper to ask here, "Is it probable that Christ was mistaken? Had He ever painted His discipleship in false colours? While Jesus was in the flesh, his presence with his disciples was the chief element in their happiness; and as they looked forward to the future, this was the main thing desired, that they should be with Jesus. Does not the Christian's life depend upon his prayerfulness? H. He found a doctrine of God, partial in conception; He perfected it by revealing the Divine Fatherhood. (2) The fact that Jesus continues to live, is the assurance that all who believe in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. max volume. It is hindered by its connection with the old life, by the circumstances in which it is placed by its absence from Christ its Fountain. When a man is cast out of society, and swears in is despair, "I will now do all the evil I can and spite them," if a friend tap him on the shoulder, saying, "Brother, why despair of yourself? (2) By pointing us to the Cross. When he puts his life into harmony with God's laws; when he begins to pray; when he clothes himself with the graces of Christian faith and conduct, when he begins to live unto his spiritual nature, he begins to realize what life is — a reality that death and time cannot touch. "Join thyself," says , "to the eternal God, and thou wilt be eternal."(T. 3. Because it is a world. It was Christ's realization of the living God that rendered His conviction of eternal life so absolute. He teaches us that all things work together for good. The proof that a man is no Christian is, that he is no missionary. Have fun! The Essential Book of Funeral Resources. is the question with the worldling; but the Christian says, "Lift Thou upon us the light of Thy countenance."3. And if there be life in man's soul, that life will adjust itself; will not be conquered by, but will conquer its circumstances. A royal life. 2. He is still with us, the very Christ that He was. They are the thread that runs through everything I will say to you. Let me make one or two inferences.This life is —1. This is the heart of the consolation that, howsoever the "foolish senses" may have to speak of an absent Christ, we may rejoice in the certainty that He is with all those that love Him, and all the more because of the withdrawal of the earthly manifestation Which has served its purpose. It is reason to see with the wise, and to feel with the good. In My Father's house are many rooms. Surely it must be so. So were we not to live, the great end for which He died and rose would be frustrated.2. Whatever is meant by living shall be ours. John Piper Aug 3, 2018 410 Shares Sermon. And in order that we may know He simply changed worlds, He comes back and shows Himself alive; for He is not here in the world simply to assert truth, but to enact it. John 14:2-3 (This sermon was used at the funeral of a 37-year-old afflicted with Down's syndrome. Hence, when there is an overpowering, all-possessing sense of God as there was in Christ, truth takes on absolute forms; hence it was that He spoke with authority. Hence the apostle says, "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God;" and the believer answers, "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live." It received its death-blow on the cross. We are called upon to live of ourselves, that would be death; but we have life and all things in union with Him.(C. All systems, hierarchies, and empires shall be dissolved; but the man that has the life of God in his heart has the immortality of God as his prerogative. Life has the power of assimilation. Yes, our life is bound up with that of Jesus. )The believer's lifeJohn Milne. "The Father hath given to Him to have life in Himself; so that He quickeneth whom He will." Jesus’ Parting Words to His Disciples "Do not let your hearts be distressed. Munger. The Church in heaven and the Church on earth are the members, and all meet in that one Head, and in Him they are here. IS HIS ABILITY TO HELP TO THE UTMOST. A present Christ is the Strength, the Righteousness, the Peace, the Joy, the Life of every Christian soul. 2. It is not otherwise in morals. Undoubtedly, as the body moves towards decay it inflicts something of its weakness upon its spiritual companion. Our Lord, as a Divine Person, is possessed of independent, infinite. But it is meant to be like the great principle of gravitation which controls the planet and the pebble. He never makes a straight assertion of it except once, when the Sadducees pressed Him with a quibbling argument against the resurrection. Intro: Rejections, defeats, and failures that all of us have experienced can create enough negative feelings to destroy us. Others may continue to exist, but continuance is not immortality. "Because He died, we live; because He lives, we live; because He lives" — because He is the living One — "we shall live also!" To lift men out of existence into life was Christ's mission.V. Where then is loneliness? The mere fact that I shall live tomorrow does not sensibly move me. We know not what life is. 2. He will indeed bow his head in obedience to the physical laws of the humanity He shares, but already He enters the gates of Paradise, not alone but leading a penitent child of humanity by the hand. (Ray Palmer, D. D.)The living ChurchJ. H a man eats a piece of bread, that bread is so assimilated that it is turned into the energy of his physical system. "He ever liveth to make intercession."III. All systems, hierarchies, and empires shall be dissolved; but the man that has the life of God in his heart has the immortality of God as his prerogative. He is still proclaiming, "As I live, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked." Within this universe, at its centre, is world around which all others revolve, the sun of suns, the centre of all systems, whose potency reaches to the uttermost verge, holding them steady to their courses. HE ASSUMED THE RECEIVED DOCTRINE AND BUILT UPON IT. We can understand how forlorn and terrified the disciples were, when they looked forward to the things that must come to them, without His presence. (2) The same conviction you and I must have, if the world is not to be a desert and a dreary place for us. Build me a column perfect in base and body, and I will know if the capital is true. O. Feb 5, 1984. I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you. 2. II. 1. Joy is one of the fruits it bears.3. And thus we are brought to the fundamental fact that HE CONNECTED LIFE OR IMMORTALITY WITH CHARACTER. Plato and Cicero discourse of immortality with a certain degree of warmth, but their countrymen get little comfort from it. 2. This enrichment and elevation of being is derived from our Lord. It is noticeable also that the faith of natural evidence awakens no joyful enthusiasm in masses of mankind. Sermon Bible Commentary. Help us continue to create Bible study resources by supporting Study and Obey for as little as $1. The fact that there are millions of Christians who live by faith in Him under the dispensation of the Spirit, proves the reality of His life, of its continuance and power. But an assumption is often the strongest kind of argument. Now it is so with spiritual life. Life is sensible of pain. III. Christ is saying that He is preparing a place for us in heaven where we will dwell with God. "The Father hath given to Him to have life in Himself; so that He quickeneth whom He will." Something must be joined with existence before it gets power.3. (John Milne. Something must be joined with existence before it gets power.3. Tom Stegall . To lift men out of existence into life was Christ's mission.V. 1. When John described the city he saw in Rev. It is hindered by its connection with the old life, by the circumstances in which it is placed by its absence from Christ its Fountain. He found a doctrine of sin and righteousness turning upon external conduct; He transferred it to the heart and spirit. Is not this evidence of a Divine presence — of a Divine power? We cannot read it in the pages of a book, whether of nature or inspiration. It implies such conviction in the mind of the speaker that there is no need of proof. (Ray Palmer, D. D.)The living ChurchJ. But my faith is not only eye, but hand, and not only beholds but grasps. And still further to show us how phantasmal death is, He finally departs in all the fullness of life, simply drawing about Himself the thin drapery of a cloud. We are prone to think that Christianity is a thing for the Bible, for the Sunday, for the Church merely. When Christ speaks of eternal life, He does not mean future endless existence; but fullness or perfection of life. The truthfulness of Jesus Christ . He feels no need of examining the evidences or balancing proofs. John 14:1-3 etc. And is not life a desolation without Him? What were the head without the body? If there be God's life in man's heart, there must be God's holiness in man's conduct. His life shows that He possesses all that is necessary to bestow life on His people. Listen; Downloads Sermon Audio; sermon text 20180909 Open Ears, Open Eyes, Open Hands; September 2, 2018 . And in Christ we have both — the human omen and the Divine promise turned into fact. It is not, however, to this life that reference is made. "Thou God seest me" is the constant feeling of the Christian.2. Is there now some actual work of the glorified Jesus going on which amounts to a necessary preparation for his glorified people? If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” 3. Jesus in Spirit is with you. If God should allow you to be sorely tried your spirit shall still maintain its holy life, and you shall prove it so by blessing and magnifying God, notwithstanding all. Given the fact of God, and all other truth takes its place without question. "I am the Bread of Life;" "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." The patronage of princes may make a rich or a renowned Church. Others may exist, but existence is not life. Man's spirit either exists in its completeness, or it ceases to exist. IN HIS MIND THE INTENSE AND ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD CARRIES WITH IT IMMORTALITY, AS IT DOES THE WHOLE BODY OF HIS TRUTH. III. Thank God, society in this age has loving hearts, and good homes for orphans. 1. O. When life begins to be true, it announces itself as an eternal thing to the mind; as a caged bird when let loose into the sky might say, "Now I know that my wings are made to beat the air in flight;" and no logic could ever persuade the bird that it was not designed to fly; but when caged, it might have doubted at times, as it beat the bars of its prison with unavailing stroke, if its wings were made for flight. John Piper Jan 11, 2009 584 Shares God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him Learn more about Desiring God Desiring God. The birth of the first child was a prelude to the gospel. But if the imagination can take in these vast tracts of time, ten millions years hence we shall still exist, each one with his memory, will, and conscious contact, separate from all other beings in our eternal resting place. True, the believer's natural life is like that of all other men: one of sin, misery, without God, without hope under wrath, on the way to everlasting woe. He is still their life, still our life. Man is an immortal being, just as he is a thinking and feeling being by the original terms of his nature. 4. There must be fellowship with the Christ of the Resurrection before we can feel its power; in other words, we must get over upon the Divine side of life before we can be assured of eternal life. 2 In My Father’s house are many[a]mansions; if it werenot so,[b]I would have told you. 18 Outlines . Our immortality is certain. Read full chapter IN HIS MIND THE INTENSE AND ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD CARRIES WITH IT IMMORTALITY, AS IT DOES THE WHOLE BODY OF HIS TRUTH. - Y. I. Please use these sermons as the Lord leads, but nothing on this site may be used for profit without my expressed, written permission! An immortal life. The proof that a man is no Christian is, that he is no missionary. To the favour of God. It is not worthy of the name of life; it is properly death. IN HIS MIND THE INTENSE AND ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD CARRIES WITH IT IMMORTALITY, AS IT DOES THE WHOLE BODY OF HIS TRUTH. THE EVIDENCES OF THIS LIFE. "Join thyself," says , "to the eternal God, and thou wilt be eternal."(T. V. He not only gave us the true law, BUT WAS HIMSELF A PERFECT ILLUSTRATION OF IMMORTALITY, and even named Himself by it — the Life. And when his disciples ascend to a higher state, all things will be ready then. Alan R. Lindberg. When I first come to Christ, I know I must find all in Him, for I feel I have nothing of my own; but all my life long I am to acknowledge the same absolute dependence. It is the same in its origin. He will indeed bow his head in obedience to the physical laws of the humanity He shares, but already He enters the gates of Paradise, not alone but leading a penitent child of humanity by the hand. (2) It is far more clear. It is not worthy of the name of life; it is properly death. But it is meant to be like the great principle of gravitation which controls the planet and the pebble. It is a life of liberty; He has done with servile work, and now reigns on high. Life is progressive, and Spiritual life grows in likeness to Christ. Senses may deceive; my faith, built upon His Word, cannot deceive. All that we know is, that there is some principle within that looks through the. Because He continues to live, His disciples shall continue to live also. When you transact business you are bound to do it to the glory of God. It is easy to ascertain if a man be dead or living physically; and it is not difficult to ascertain if a man be living or dead spiritually. 2. 1. 4. Because He continues to live, His disciples shall continue to live also. When he puts his life into harmony with God's laws; when he begins to pray; when he clothes himself with the graces of Christian faith and conduct, when he begins to live unto his spiritual nature, he begins to realize what life is — a reality that death and time cannot touch. He can "strengthen the things that remain, and are ready to die."2. Its progress is illimitable, because the principle itself is infinite.6. The solitude of the soul, where He is, becomes peopled with the whole host of heaven. 3. And in Christ we have both — the human omen and the Divine promise turned into fact. O. Thompson.Christ is the basis of —I. Deep down in every human heart there is the instinct that God loves men. Cumming, D. D.1. If the Head has life the members cannot see corruption. If it had been said, "Because your faith is strong, ye shall live," then weak faith would have perished; but when it is written, "Because I live," the argument is as powerful in the one case as in the other. No wonder that the silence is oppressive. Those who believe have everlasting life. 1. That His faith in immortality was but an in. THE RENEWED LIFE. 3. THERE ARE CERTAIN POINTS TO WHICH THIS LIFE SPECIALLY REFERS. Conclusion: A true and satisfying sense of immortality cannot be taken second hand. And it is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ — which has in this, as in so many other ways, opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers. If the cup of life is full, there is little sense of past or future; the present is enough. Spiritual life. Joy is one of the fruits it bears.3. I am going away to make ready a place for you. Not local, for God is everywhere, and no spirit can flee from His presence. WHAT CHRIST'S WORDS DO MEAN. Hence He never uses any word corresponding to immortality (which is a mere negation — unmortal), but always speaks of life. HE ASSUMED THE RECEIVED DOCTRINE AND BUILT UPON IT. By His Spirit. And the more we turn away from looking at the dazzling lies which befool and bewilder us, the more shall we see Him whom to see is to live forever. Life is an internal principle originating outward and visible characteristics. If justification is the article of a standing or a falling Church, regeneration, or life by the Holy Spirit, is the article of a living or a dead Church.2. The Christian cannot see pain he does not wish to alleviate; ignorance he does not wish to enlighten; death in trespasses and sins to which he would not communicate a portion of his own spiritual life.II. Thus, the best of the heathens longed to exist after death, that they might continue to make progress in all such good as they had begun in this life, in high thoughts and in excellent resolves. 1. I. When our nearest and dearest are taken from us, how consoling to think the great God our Saviour lives! Build me a column perfect in base and body, and I will know if the capital is true. He is the Author of our new life, just as our first parent is the source of our first and natural existence. Death was no leap in the dark to Him; it was simply a door leading into another mansion of God's great house. The true safety of the Church.5. Taking his hand from mine he pushed it under the pillow and bringing out a bottle of brandy he held it with his trembling hand, saying, "This is my joy." H. Spurgeon.When Luther was in his worst troubles a friend came in to see him, and he noticed that he had written upon the wall in big letters the word "Vivit!" For man's spirit cannot be resolved like his body, into form and material; the former perishing while the latter survives. 1. Systems that chime in with the fallen propensities of man have sunk before rival systems; but Christianity, which rebukes man's pride, which bridles man's lusts, which rebukes man's sins, has outlived all persecution, survived all curse, and seems to commence in the nineteenth century, a career that shall be bounded only by the limits of the population of the globe itself. Wesley's John 14:2 Bible Commentary 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions — Enough to receive both the holy angels, and your predecessors in the faith, and all that now believe, and a great multitude, which no man can number. Man lives at the Pole, as he lives below the Line. He is still their life, still our life. Life has the power of assimilation. Now it is so with spiritual life.2. That vitality must be a reality since nothing has been ever able to extinguish or destroy it. Apr 21, 2012. Others may exist, but existence is not life. It is a life of liberty; He has done with servile work, and now reigns on high. It is the same as Christ's own life, of which we have been speaking. is the question with the worldling; but the Christian says, "Lift Thou upon us the light of Thy countenance. The Christian cannot see pain he does not wish to alleviate; ignorance he does not wish to enlighten; death in trespasses and sins to which he would not communicate a portion of his own spiritual life.II. And if there be life in man's soul, that life will adjust itself; will not be conquered by, but will conquer its circumstances. Life is communicative. In some of the cathedrals of Europe, on Christmas eve, two small lights, typifying the Divine and human nature, are gradually made to approach one another until they meet and blend, forming a bright flame. "Because I live, ye shall live also." But the soul constantly resists, asserting its own separate and vigorous existence. "I come." 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