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[Silence] [Silence] I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart. I will show forth all thy marvelous works.

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[All] I will give thanks to the Lord indeed. I will sing praises unto thy name. O Lord, I offer to thy help. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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[ Music ] [MUSIC] ♪ Joy of the beautiful city of God ♪ ♪ We're marching to triumph ♪

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♪ In the beautiful light ♪ ♪ We're marching on to triumph ♪ ♪ In the beautiful city of God ♪ ♪ For we have now the Lord and heaven's great joy before ♪

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♪ In the summer sweet accord ♪ ♪ In the summer sweet accord ♪ ♪ And busters around the corn ♪ ♪ And busters around the corn ♪

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♪ We're marching for triumph ♪ ♪ Beautiful, beautiful triumph ♪ ♪ We're marching for triumph ♪ ♪ Hallelujah to the King of all ♪

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- Under you, O God, we lift up our hearts. We pray that you would bless us in this service of praise and worship. We ask, O God, that your spirit may be with us,

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grant unto us your power. Grant that the words of our mouths and the meditation of our hearts may be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, our strength and our Redeemer.

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Amen. [music] It's me, it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer.

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It's me, it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer.

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It's me, it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer.

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It's me, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's not my sister nor my brother, but it's me, oh Lord, Standing in the need of prayer.

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Not my sister, not my brother, but it's me, oh Lord. Standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, oh Lord. Standing in the need of prayer.

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It's me, it's me, oh Lord. Standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the meat of prayer. It's me, it's me, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the meat of prayer.

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It's me, it's me, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the meat of prayer. ♪ It's me, it's me, oh ♪ ♪ Scream and leave ♪ ♪ All the prey ♪

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Thanking thee for this expression of our love that we yet spared to pick and choose our own praying ground. At this hour, dear Master, we find ourselves at the house of prayer. Thanking thee, dear Master, for the many blessings that thou hast bestowed upon us all the days of our life. We feel, dear Master, the need of thee. We know we are helpless without thee.

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We come, dear Master, in one accord to give praise to thy holy and righteous name. Blessed is thy people of silver, dear master. Blessed the leader that thou hast placed here at this place. May the words that follow thee today be food for our hungry soul.

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Knowing, dear master, the interest that our word doth give its light. Opened by our understanding, dear master, may we be willing to follow as he leads. Knowing, dear master, someday we must give an account of our stewardship in this life. Blessed are the needy ones and blessed are those who have a father who is near to the grave.

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And especially we ask the blessing upon those who are weak in spirit, dear Master, and fainting and falling by the wayside. We realize we live in a world that is not a friend of grace, neither to help us on the way. Strengthen our faith, dear Master, that we may hold out until the end. We know, dear Master, that the race is not given to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but He that endures to the end.

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Give us faith, and give us courage, and above all, give us love and understanding for what thou wilt have us to do while on the way as we stay. Now I take charge of this meeting, dear Master, in our own way and bless those who in place of responsibility. Give them guidance and give them favor with thee and with man. And we shall come to the end of our way in that hour, dear Master, bringing us to the end of peace.

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With all mankind, without the loss of one, is our prayer. Through Christ our Lord we pray. Amen. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] (gentle music)

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♪ Praise God and song ♪ ♪ All the world ♪ ♪ Praise God and song ♪ ♪ Praise God in the world ♪

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♪ Oh, praise his name ♪ ♪ Praise him, all creatures ♪ ♪ Oh, preachers, ♪ ♪ tell me more. ♪

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♪ ♪ ♪ Praise Him above. ♪ ♪ He is ♪ ♪ worthy ♪

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♪ of praise. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Praise the Lord ♪ ♪ Son of God. ♪

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♪ Holy Ghost ♪ ♪ Raise up ♪ ♪ Raise up ♪ (shouting)

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♪ Let all the world praise Him ♪ ♪ Praise Him ♪ ♪ Praise Him ♪ (siren blaring)

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(dramatic music) [ Music ] Our response of reading is number 552, 552 in the back of the hymnal.

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The Life and Ministry of Jesus, the New National Baptist Hymnal. Let us all stand. (gentle music)

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♪ Hear ye my words, ye children ♪ ♪ I am thy God ♪ ♪ Blessed are they who walk ♪ ♪ With the word of the Lord ♪

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♪ In their hearts ♪ [singing] And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and there went out of fame of him through all the region round about. [Congregation] And he joined his sister in the cross, he became glorified of all.

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And he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up, and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read. [All] And thou, Lord, willest be our healing, and for us all our promises of thanksgiving, and in the name of the Lord, we bow our heads and say this to thee. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor,

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he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. [ Music ] And he closed the book and gave it again to the minister and sat down.

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And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. [All] And Jesus no doubt by all the people, he came to the synagogue, and preached the gospel in the kingdom, and healed all the mental sickness of all the mental diseases of all the people. And his fame went throughout all Syria.

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And they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with diverse diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy, and he healed them. [INAUDIBLE]

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Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. Thy word is life unto my feet, and a light unto my path, way, ♪ Amen ♪

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♪ Old memory days ♪ ♪ To keep you in my life ♪ ♪ I want more than ♪ ♪ Whatever I am ♪

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♪ That will drive you away ♪ Take it all, and I'll run. What ever it takes to keep me close to life, ♪ I, I want more than ♪

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♪ Whatever I have ♪ ♪ That will keep us apart ♪ ♪ Take it all out of my life ♪ ♪ Of all my life ♪

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♪ Whatever it takes ♪ ♪ To prove my love for you ♪ ♪ I won't go away ♪ ♪ Whatever I am ♪

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♪ It will make your heart free ♪ ♪ Take it all ♪ ♪ Out of my heart ♪ ♪ Whatever it takes ♪

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♪ To make my heart shine ♪ ♪ I want more of that ♪ ♪ Whatever I have ♪ ♪ I won't let you be free ♪

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♪ Take it all out of my life ♪ ♪ Out of my life ♪ ♪ All I need is one of you ♪ ♪ I need to feel you leading the light ♪

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♪ If I have anything ♪ ♪ That won't let me be true to you ♪ ♪ If I have anything ♪ ♪ That won't let me be true to you ♪

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♪ If I have anything ♪ ♪ That will love you only ♪ ♪ Oh, please ♪ ♪ Take it all ♪

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♪ Out of my life ♪ - Amen. [music] This is the children's hour.

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All of the children in the congregation from the kindergarten level through the fifth grade are asked to come forward at this time. Jesus said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me. Forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of heaven."

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The wise men of old said, "Train up a child the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." [ Music ] The subject of the message this morning is how to be happy.

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How to be happy. Would you repeat that after me? How to be happy. Say that once more.

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How to be happy. Good. Now there are some times when maybe we're not so happy. If you ever wanted to go out to play

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and you were expecting to go out to play and you did something and they said no, you can't go out to play. Have you ever had that experience?

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You have? Okay. Well, when that happens, you're not so happy. And if you've had your stomach to ache,

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you know, and it doesn't feel good, and you're not so happy, you had your head to hurt. Or if you get any part of your body that something happens to it

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and it begins to give you some pain, You're not so happy. Well, here is a word that is a part of a letter. It was a letter that Paul wrote long time ago,

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and he said to those people who were living in Philippi, rejoice in the Lord always. And again I say rejoice. Rejoice in the Lord always.

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And again I say rejoice. Now would you repeat that after me? Rejoice. >> Rejoice.

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>> In the Lord. >> In the Lord. >> Always. >> Always.

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>> And again I say. >> And again I say. >> Rejoice. >> Rejoice.

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>> All right, now Paul was talking about how to be happy always. Well, it's a word that, you know where Paul was when he wrote that?

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He was in jail. And that is not usually thought of as being a place where you can rejoice, is it? You are confined, there are bars around you, and you're in a dark, dingy place.

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You don't have a comfortable bed. Most of the time it's not, in those days, it's not warm and comfortable. It's cold and dreary and dingy and dark. And yet he was in that prison, and he wrote from that jail to those people a letter in

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at which he said, "Rejoice always." There's one way that we can be happy, and that is in our hearts. We can be happy in our hearts,

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and we can be happy in our hearts when we love everybody. Even when we don't do like we'd like for them to do, we can love them in our hearts,

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and be happy in our hearts. We can wish them well. We can want good things to happen to them, can't we? And when we do that, we can be happy in our hearts.

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And when we are happy in our hearts, we look forward to that day when we can have perfect happiness, perfect happiness. And Paul tells us that when we have Jesus Christ,

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we are happy in our hearts. Jesus says, "Happy are you when you do what I say. "Happy are you when you have the right attitude, "when you have the right spirit.

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"Happy in the heart." So we can be happy in the heart always in Jesus, when we have his spirit. God bless you and keep you.

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You may be seated. (gentle music) [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING]

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It's just good to know the Lord. It's just good to have His mercy. It's just good to know the Lord. Just to know I am the greedy.

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It's just good to know the Lord. It's just good to have His blessing. It's just good to know the Lord. Just to know that I'm His beginning.

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I'm in heaven, the gift of prophecy. I understand my mystery. It's no good to have all knowledge unless you don't really know the law.

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It's just good to know the Lord. It's just good to have His blessing. It's just good to know the Lord, just to know that I've been redeemed.

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I may have the knowledge at all of many races abroad. It may be well to rule the world. It's just good to know the law. It's just good to know the Lord.

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It's just good to have His mercy. It's just good to know the Lord, just to know that all will be. It's just good to know the Lord.

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It's just good to have his blessings. It's just good to know the Lord. Just to know that I've been redeemed. (piano music)

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(piano music) Amen. [ Background noise ] [Silence]

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We worship the Lord now in our giving. [Silence] Macedonians set a pattern for giving in the early church. They first of all gave themselves.

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Having presented unto God themselves as a gift, they in turn gave liberally of their substance. The first and most significant gift is the gift of self.

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When one has truly given himself or herself, then in turn comes the opportunity and the response of the giving of substance. To do this is to recognize our trusteeship and God's ownership of all things. Let us bow our heads.

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Gracious God our Father, sometimes we get mixed up about who we are and what we ought to do and whose things these are that we have in our possession. Sometimes we think that they are ours to use them just the way we want to use them and to ignore you. And sometimes, oh God, we feel that we are going to be here always and we

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try to keep these things and to hoard them and to take the place that you should have. Forgive us of our sins. Forgive us of those times when we have failed to open up ourselves and when we have appeared to you with our fists closed so that you could not really bless us as we ought, grant that we may open up and that we may be a channel of your blessing

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and that we may give not only self and the talents that we possess, that we might give of our money in a way that is pleasing in your sight, not wondering what someone else gives, but giving according to how you have blessed us.

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Help us to give this way, that it may truly be Christian giving in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. (gentle music)

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♪ For things that could not satisfy ♪ ♪ And I heard the master singing ♪ ♪ Sing to me ♪ ♪ Drink from the well ♪

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♪ And never shall run dry ♪ ♪ Fill my cup, Lord ♪ ♪ I lift it up, Lord ♪ ♪ I'll be rich to this voice that never lies true ♪

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♪ I'm well aware of it ♪ ♪ Feed me till I want no more ♪ ♪ No more, no more ♪ ♪ Fill my cup ♪

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♪ Fill it up ♪ ♪ And make me whole ♪ I heard him saying, "Oh, some little Audrey Hill." From the well, all the world was first again.

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But the water that I give shall surely spring forth Into the well of everlasting life. ♪ You my cut, Lord ♪ ♪ I lift it up, Lord ♪

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♪ Come and quit ♪ ♪ It's bursting in my soul ♪ ♪ Oh, when I'm drowning ♪ ♪ In need, Lord ♪

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♪ I want to know my own ♪ ♪ No ♪ ♪ Fill my cup ♪ ♪ Fill it up ♪

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♪ I'm a-making me whole ♪ ♪ Fill my cup ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ I lift it up, Lord ♪

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♪ Come and lift this mercy in my soul ♪ ♪ Oh, bread of heaven ♪ ♪ Feed me till I want no more, no more ♪ [music]

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(bell ringing) (Applause) [ Pause ] Good morning.

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I have two announcements for you this morning. The first is that the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program, otherwise known as VITA, will commence preparation of income tax returns on Thursday--

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I'm sorry-- on February 2, 1980 at Ebenezer from 11 AM to 3 PM. The VITA Center will be open every Saturday thereafter until April 15.

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Vital volunteers are anxious to assist you in the preparation of your tax return. Please come by. The second announcement is that Mr. BL Joyce, the former director of Anderson High School Band, passed yesterday in Seaside, California. Funeral services will be at Wesley Chapel on Thursday, January 30th, 1980 at 11 o'clock.

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The family is asking that X band members who can to attend the funeral and to render a number for additional information, please contact brother Roy Patterson at 478 three five one nine I

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Ask you to please read your bulletin for other announcements I Have the names of the following visitors as I call your names Would you please stand until words of welcome have been given? Ms. Tina Louise Miller.

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Horace and Verma Steen Sherman of Houston, Texas. They're members of Fourth Missionary Baptist Church, Reverend E.S. Branch. Roosevelt Beryl, Jr. of Fort Worth, Texas.

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a member of, I'm sorry, Stronger Rest, Strange Rest Baptist Church, Reverend R.E. West, pastor. Are there any other visitors? Would you please stand? We're very happy that you were able to join us this morning.

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We hope that there's something in the service that will carry you through the next week to next Sunday. We hope that if you're visitors in Austin that you'll feel welcome to come back and visit with us at any time.

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If you're residents of Austin, please feel free to become a part of our family. Thank you. [applause] >> For all of our guests, we not only say welcome to Ebenezer, but we would like to

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thank our panel. [BLANK_AUDIO]