Why Does the Holy Spirit Not Fill the Church: A.W. Tozer (Transcript)

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And the windows of heaven were opened, and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.” (Genesis 7:11-12)

“And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man.” (Genesis 7:21)

“And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heavens. They were destroyed from the earth, and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.” (Genesis 7:23)

After the Flood

“God remembered Noah, and every living thing and all the cattle that was with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged, and the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained. And the waters returned from off the earth continually, and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.” (Genesis 8:1-3)

“It came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made, and he sent forth a raven which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.”

“He stayed yet seven other days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more.” (Genesis 8:6-12)

The verse I have particularly in mind is a part of verse 9 of chapter 8: “But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.”

Interpretations and Reflections

I say this as an illustration rather than a type, but I believe the Holy Spirit put it here. I don’t wish to enter this strange, beautiful region of the Genesis world, for the landscape is as mysterious as it is lovely, but its scenes are sketchy and fragmentary. I’ll leave close exegesis for somebody else tonight, and I want to illustrate why the Holy Spirit does not fill His Church.

First, we notice the world as God saw and judged it before the flood. God searched into the hearts of men, it says here, and He saw that mankind was corrupt and wicked, filled with evil thoughts and imaginations continually.

Now, the Holy Spirit says this, that man is corrupt, wicked, evil of thought and of imagination. And God saw the ways of men, that they were corrupt, violent, and engrossed with transitory interests even amid their corruption and violence. The result of what God saw among men was grief to God’s own heart.

It grieved Him at His heart. And as I said on another occasion, only love can grieve. You cannot grieve unless you love. And God loved the man whom He had made and the degenerate and corrupt race that had descended from him, and God’s love caused Him to grieve, and it filled Him with anxious care. The result was a sentence. You see, the kindest thing a physician or a surgeon can do sometimes is to take off the leg.

Divine Judgment and Mercy

The kindest thing he can do is to remove that which otherwise would kill the patient. However shocking it may be, and however terrible the news might be to the patient, the best news for him is amputation, for otherwise it would be death.

So the dear God who loved mankind looked upon man and saw that moral corruption had gotten such a hold on men, it had gone out into all the bloodstream and was in all the tissues and cells. And He knew that the patient would die unless He sent a kindly judgment to destroy it and saved a few to start over that the race might not perish, borne down by the spongy corrupt weight of its own sin.

So God sent a judgment on the earth, and the water covered the earth as they had formerly covered the sea. And after the passing of a great many days, a great number of days, 150 days, the ark of God still floated there with eight persons aboard and with the animals and birds and all the creatures that would drown and did not die, didn’t take fish or the aquatic animals because they could live in the water. But all that which would die by the waters of the flood, there they were in the ark.

The World Renewed

And of course after the passing of so many days, it had long sat at the flood stage where people and things were simply dead. Corruption had already started to set in. And Noah opened the ark that had settled upon Ararat, he opened the ark and sent the bird out to see. The windows of the ark were upward toward heaven, and there were apparently no portholes out so that Noah could look down.

So Noah decided to find out from the birds whether there was dry ground below, whether the waters of judgment had assuaged, as it’s called here. And he opened the window and pushed the raven out. And there we have a sight the like of which it is probably very hard to visualize or understand, but there it is, that sight of a dark bird sailing across the desolation. Now what was that desolation?

The Raven and the Dove

What did it amount to? What did it add up to? It added up to the judgment of God, because the angry displeasure of God was on the world, and the waters of the judgment, the [boiling silks] and the floating corpses and all dead things and bits of flotsam and jetsam that were there all over the waters, they were a mark of the Judgment of God upon the world.

And the dark bird sailed across the desolation, and his dark heart felt at home there, for he was a carrion eater, and he felt at home among the carrion. And as that raven sailed away from the warm, lighted ark and from the presence of Noah, he croaked with delight, because out there now swollen with internal gases until their hides were popped as a drum, and then wetted with the waters of the flood, these floating things, cattle and all creatures, human corpses floating there in the waters, to everything and everybody else it would have been a repulsive and horrible sight.

The Raven’s Nature

But the raven was built for it, something in his dark heart loved it, because he lived on it. So he immediately sailed down and lighted on a near and likely corpse and began to tear with his great claws and with his huge beak, great hunks of half-rotten flesh he tore away, and ate until he was low-geased and sleepy with overeating.

Then, fastening his claws down into the floating thing, and being happy and restful, he went to sleep, croaking a good night word, the happiness that he had found what his heart wanted: corruption and desolation and filth and flotsam and rotten flesh and dead things. For I say this fitted his disposition and his temperament.

So he stayed on the floating death, and so, my friends, this is, if not a type, at least a brilliant illustration of how things are in the world today. When man sinned, and God deserted him, and he deserted God, and he went out from the place that had been Eden, the Garden Eastward in Eden, and began to propagate himself, man had the judgment of God upon him. “The day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” It is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment, says God.

The Judgment of God

And God says that He is displeased with every man, and that unless we repent we shall all perish, and all the nations of the world shall be turned into hell. God is displeased with the nations of the world. He is displeased not only with the East, He is displeased with the West. He sends His judgment not only upon the iron curtain country, but He sends His judgment upon the so-called free nations of the world, of which this is one.

So that the great judgment of God is upon mankind, all the stock of mankind, red and yellow, black and white, educated and uneducated, cultured and uncultured, cavemen and learned men around the world. And yet you know that because man has in him that thing we call sin, it doesn’t seem to bother people, it doesn’t bother them at all. Because just as the raven was at home in the desolation, his dark heart had an affinity for the judgment and desolation. So it is that men find themselves at home in a world under the judgment of God.

The World’s Response to Judgment

The only one good Man that ever came to the world could only manage to stay alive 33 years, and then they took Him out and nailed Him on the cross. The better men are, the worse they are despised by those who love the desolation and the darkness that is the sin of the world. And just as the raven never came back to the ark but lived out there in the desolation, so men have built their civilization upon floating death, and you’ll find it everywhere. We like to think otherwise.

We’re proud of our culture, and we’re proud of our bridges and our roads and our footnotes and all the things that we can do. But God looks on the heart, and God says the world is filled with violence, and it’s filled with violence now. And it’s filled with corruption now and it’s filled with iniquity now, just as it was then. But the woeful thing is that we accept it. Men accept it as such. Instead of being horrified by it, they accept it, and they accuse it, and they write books to call it something else.

The Acceptance of Sin

I think, for instance, of sodomy, of homosexuality, that the plain name is sodomy, that brought the fire of God down on Sodom and Gomorrah. I have seen books and read books that have been written to excuse this and say that it’s quite the proper thing. And that if a man is born with a yang for another man instead of a woman, he’s natural and he ought not to be criticized. He’s living his own nature, and they ought to call it not something bad, but it’s his way of living. So we have books and learned professors rise and rattle their degrees and stand up and argue in favor of sodomy and every other vice under the sun.

God’s Response to the World

So the judgment of God is upon the world to this, upon floating death everywhere. Well, the judgment now, God sends out the raven and the raven never comes back, because the raven is pleased with what it sees.

But God sends out the dove — Noah sends out the dove, acting for God, sends out the dove. And have you ever heard a dove or a pigeon, a dove got huddle of where their wings have, how they cling to your wrist, and you put her up on his wrist and she took off and whirled and banked and turned and banked and turned, and pretty soon he heard the whir of the wings again.

And he put out his wrist and she hopped on his wrist and he pulled her back in. She had something in her that couldn’t stand corruption, she couldn’t stand filth, she couldn’t stand bloated corpses, she couldn’t stand what the raven loved. Because she had in her not the dark heart of the raven, but she had in her the heart of the dove. It was not for nothing that when the Holy Ghost came down upon Jesus, He came in the form of a dove, the pink feet and the round bright eye of the dove.

The Holy Spirit as a Dove

Those pink feet will never land on anything dirty, those pink feet will never land on anything filthy, and those round bright eyes will never look with allowance upon anything that is filthy. The dove is a type and picture of the Holy Ghost, harmless and pure and neat and sensitive and loving.

So she came back, she couldn’t stand it, the judgments of God were everywhere and the filth, the flotsam and jetsam were too much for her dove heart, so she came back and asked to get in the best she could, fluttering against the edge of the window, and he pulled her in and kept her there for a while.

Why did Jesus say, when He spoke of the Holy Spirit, “whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him”? There is one thing absolutely that Christians ought to get in their minds. It is that the world knows nothing about the Holy Ghost. The world knows nothing about the Spirit.

The World’s Ignorance of the Holy Spirit

The world knows about good men, the world appreciates a good man if he gives to colleges and hospitals and goes over and runs a clinic to take care of lepers, they’ll write books about him and celebrate him. The world knows about good men, but the world has absolutely no affinity for the Holy Spirit, because even good men are under the judgment of God.

And the best that we have in the world, our universities, our oratorical societies, the best we have apart from the new birth, apart from the presence of God in the life of a man, is only corruption and the wrath of God is upon it. The world cannot receive it, and I think that the most awful, the most terrifying thing that the sensitive Christian heart can hear is the whirring of the wings of God.

God wants to come down, He wants to get into our Houses of Parliament, He wants to get into our Congresses and Senates, He wants to get into our United Nations, He wants to get into our groups that play baseball and hockey. God wants to get in, but He can’t get in because the judgment, His wrath is upon men, His fury is upon a corrupt and violent and vicious world.

So the Holy Spirit is restless and He can’t come down, and He would come down, for He loves mankind. He loves the blackest sinner in all the world, it might be you or me, because sin is of the heart as well as of the body and upon that. It would be something else again, and I suppose I wouldn’t preach this sermon tonight if all I had to say was that the world could not receive the Holy Spirit. But that which gives me the most concern is that the Holy Ghost cannot even light upon Christians.

Now, every Christian has a measure of the Holy Spirit; let’s get that straight, except the man who has the Holy Spirit, he is none of His. And when the Holy Spirit converts a man, regenerates the man, there is a deposit of the Holy Spirit in the life of that man. That is one thing.

Now, I want you to know my theology is quite sound indeed; in fact, I preach this same sermon at Moody Bible Institute, and I teach in college and a few other places, so it’s not heresy and it’s not Pentecostalism.

I’m trying to get through to you a truth that I want you to hear, and it is that the Holy Spirit is in some measure resident in the breath of everybody that is converted. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be converted. The Holy Spirit doesn’t stand outside the man and regenerate him; He comes in to regenerate him. That is one thing, and we’re glad and grateful for that.

That is one thing, but it’s quite another thing for the Holy Spirit to come down with His wings outspread, uninhibited, free, and pleased, and to fill lives and to fill churches and to fill denominations. That’s quite another thing, that some measure of the Spirit is in the breath of every man is good and right and real, but that the Holy Spirit wants to come down as the dove wanted to land on the earth, on the dry ground, and could find no place for the sole of her foot. That is also true. Now, the Spirit seeks, I say, among us a resting place for His feet.

The Need for Revival

The Holy Ghost seeks a resting place for His feet. We have called these lightings down, these coming down of the Holy Ghost, we have called them revivals, and we’re languishing for the lighting down of the Spirit. I say this to you now, as you know, I can’t hope to continue to please people very long because I have to tell the truth, and the truth is not very well received, not even by the saints.

But the simple truth is, unless we have a lighting down upon evangelicalism, upon fundamentalism, upon such churches as our life churches, unless we have a lighting down, unless the dove of God can come down with His wings outspread and make Himself known and held among us, that which is fundamentalism today, in 25 years, will be liberalism.

You can be certain of that, and liberalism will be unitarianism, because this vile world is not a friend of grace to lead us on to God. We’re going the other direction. Have you thought about it, my brother, have you thought about it, or are you simply running around being entertained? Have you thought about all this?

Judgment and Reflection

You and I are going to face judgment one of these days. You and I are going to stand before the Man whose eyes are like fire and out of whose mouth there comes a sharp, two-edged sword, and we’re going to have to talk to Him about deeds done in the body. And we’re going to have to face what’s to be called the greatest time, and there be judged for the deeds done in the body. Not the Great White Throne Judgment, which is for sinners, but another judgment which is for Christians. And we’re going to have to show Him that we’ve been serious about all this.

If we weren’t out to be entertained, we were out to be that we might be holy, and the Spirit is seeking a rest for the sole of His foot. He’s seeking it, and yet I hear the fluttering of holy wings, and I hear the mourning sound of Him who is grieved and quenched. I see Him looking about for signs of repentance, for signs of sorrow of heart and the leaching of the judgment of God from the Church. When God judges the world, it will be terror and fire. But God wants to judge the Church; He wants to judge you and me, His children.

The Judgment of the Church

He wants to begin at the house of the Lord, and He wants to begin to judge us. The absence of the full power of the Holy Ghost is perpetual condemnation. What are the marks of God’s displeasure upon His people? What are the marks of them?

Let me name a few of them for you, plain sins which nobody can deny, sins of act and of habit, sins of selfishness such as reveling in wealth while the world’s parched, living like kings while millions perish, sins of the heart such as lust. You know, you can be a Christian, or at least you can belong to a good church and still have lust in your heart.

You can belong to a good church and still have spite in your heart because you go to the pastor or the elder or the deacon or whoever takes them in in your church, and they can’t look in your heart and know whether you’ve got lust in there or not. We’ve all cultivated a religious grin, and we all manage to look pious when the occasion comes up.

The Deception of Appearances

So when we apply for membership, we smile piously and they say, “He’s a fine young man,” but in his heart, there is lust and God hates it, and the dove won’t come down. He can’t look in a woman’s heart and see that she’s spiteful there because the woman across the street has a longer car than she has, or a fur coat that costs more. She can’t see the resentment that’s in the hearts of people and blamed there.

There are churches where deacons and elders sit on the same board for years with unconfessed resentment in their hearts, and resentment in the heart of the man is just as bad as adultery, and resentment and spite in the heart of a woman is just as bad as the world.

We make ourselves very holy, and we laugh at Elvis Presley. I don’t think he’s worthy of even being laughed at myself. I think he should go get lost. That’s the way I feel about him.

But I wonder, after all, a poor hillbilly from, where is it, Mississippi or somewhere, never had a chance in his life, and all he learned to do was to look pretty and wiggle and sing. Well, he made a million at it, he made a million at it. They wanted him here in Toronto and he asked for $50,000, and the fellow that was signing him up said, “I can’t stand the spent and I can’t stand Elvis.” So they didn’t bring Elvis.

Reflections on Judgement and Grace

But why should we look down our holy noses at that hillbilly? He’s doing the only thing he knows to do. And I wonder if Elvis, when he goes into a coma and begins to swing and sing, I wonder if Elvis is any worse than some of us pious people that have spite in our heart and resentment and jealousy. Well, I hope it’s not so in your choir, and I have no reason to think it is.

But you know what they call the choir of the War Department, because up there’s where the fights take place. “Well, why don’t you ask me to sing?” Well, chiefly because you can’t, is the main reason, you know, that’s chiefly. But we have this kind of evil thing in our heart: resentment. I’ve met people that just lived with resentment. You know, friends, I just won’t stay mad at anybody. I refuse absolutely. I come from a fiery, nervous English strain.

My father, his temper was like the trigger on an atom bomb, and he could blow up. I’ve seen him take a shovel and beat a wheelbarrow in anger, you know, just beat a wheelbarrow. And I got it. But I won’t stay sour at anybody. I refuse to do it. I refuse to have resentment and ill will and unforgiving spirit eat at my vitals. “Forgive the guy, for God’s sake, forgive him, sister. He didn’t know any better anyhow, and if he did, he’s sorry now.”

Spite, Jealousy, and Pride in the Church

“Forgive the fellow, and you’ll feel better inside.” Yet we’ve got spite, and we’ve got jealousy, and we’ve got envy, and we’ve got pride. Pride of person, and pride of creed, and pride of possession, and pride of race, and pride of accomplishment. And then there is coldness of heart toward the Godhead.

We sing about God, and we pray, but there is a lack of warmth. And we worship, but coldly and stiffly, and toward the languishing church. Back in Israel, the man of God warned the Jews. He said, “Woe unto them that are at ease in Zion, stretch themselves on beds of ivory, and make instruments of music like David, but they are not grieved for the judgement of Israel.”

The Church’s Indifference

And that’s where we are. We’re fundamental. Sure we are. Carry our Scofield Bible, sure we do. And we’re evangelical, but we, the church is languishing, and we don’t care. At least we don’t care very much. And then there’s the poor, sick world out there. I, for my part, as I’ve said again before, I don’t want to be happy while the world aches.

Nobody loves the world quite enough. The man who loved the world enough to die for it, died for it. And the man who loved Israel enough to want to perish for Israel, cried out he wanted to be accursed for Israel’s sake. That was Paul. But I don’t know, we don’t seem to have it much these days. Much of our Christianity is social instead of spiritual. We should be a spiritual body with social overtones. Instead of that, most of our churches are social bodies with spiritual overtones.

Spiritual Focus in the Church

The heart of the church always ought to be Christ and the Holy Spirit. The heart of the church always ought to be heaven and God and righteousness and they that love the Lord spoke often one to another, and what they spoke about was spiritual things. I have met men, I have met men that you couldn’t talk to about anything but God. You had a Canadian right here in this city by the name of Jaffray.

I wrote his life. I called it “Let My People Go.” Robert Jaffray used to be part owner of your Globe and Mail. And he became a Christian, pulled away from his family over their protest. They got over it later and everybody was happy. But at first, he pulled away and went to the mission field, that man of God, that good godly man.

And after a few years of searching for the lost and winning them and reading maps and going where no man in his condition should ever have gone because he was overweight and he had diabetes so that it was difficult for him to eat right. And yet he went and went and went and lived on whatever he could find to eat and lived among the poor and the miserable peoples of the world, always saying to God, “Let My People Go,” and winning them.

The Burden of the Spirit

Well, that man got to a place where you couldn’t talk to him. I sat beside him in a home in Chicago and I tried to discuss his farm and things with him. You couldn’t do it. He looked down and answered and began to talk about God and mission. I have met people like that, people who were so interested in the things of God that nothing else mattered.

My brother and sister, the Holy Spirit loves people like that. He loves that kind of spirit and He’s quick to come and to fill and to take over and to take charge. Ah, I’d hoped that at least an olive leaf, that we might find at least an olive leaf.

But I don’t know, I don’t know. I thought I could come to Toronto and that I could perhaps spend my time writing during the week and then spend Saturday getting ready for Sunday, preach on Sunday, and then go back. But I find I can’t do it. I carry the burden of it and the load of it on my heart. And if the people aren’t going to obey, if they’re not going to follow God, if they’re not going to surrender, why should I waste this time?

Seeking God’s Presence

God’s looking for a people, a people who want to be right. He’s looking for a little spotted leaf where the waters of His displeasure are dried up, where there’s no more judgment, no, no, no more death, where there’s filth and flops and gorgons cleaned away and where the blessed Holy Spirit can come and come down in power. He wants to do that at Avenue Road Church. He wants to do that beginning with, if we were on the platform maybe, I don’t know, He doesn’t always, and going to everybody in the church. He wants to do that for us.

A Story of Revival and Love

Now I close by telling you an honest story. This, a man was on the train once, I don’t remember where I was traveling from, but he got on and he sat down with me and I knew the man. He was a missionary from India. He seemed very tender and broken and he said, “I’d like to ask you something.” He told me, “I’m troubled, I’m bothered and I’d like to ask you something.” And I said, “I’m so used to it and it’s just another one I thought,” but he said, “this is my problem.”

Now he said, about, he named a number of years back, he said a strange thing happened on our mission compound in India. He said we had been having blessing and people were blessed and everything was going all right. But he said the missionaries got together for a little conference in this field in India and the native Christians were there. And we were all sitting around together and he said a Presbyterian preacher, a missionary, got up to preach here and he preached and he sat down and he said, “Mr. Tozer, I’ll never be able to describe what happened.”

And I don’t know why it happened, but he said suddenly there came down on that assembly something like a wave of love and light and he said it broke it up completely. And he said one missionary ran to another one said, “Forgive me, forgive me,” and another one ran to the other and they wept and hugged each other. Now he said, a strange result has been, this has had a strange result.

Transformation Through the Holy Spirit

It is this. He said in my home it’s been completely transformed. Now he said my wife and I were getting on perfectly well, normal Christian homes. But he said, “Oh, the business since that time. Home is heaven now,” he said. But he said now that didn’t bother me, but here’s what bothers me. He said since that time I am so tender and I weep so easily that it bothers me. He said when I get up to preach, I am just as likely not to break down and cry.

Now he said never was that way before, but he said since the coming down that day, that sudden wonderful visitation in India, he said I just cry so easily that my heart is tender. And he said that I get up to preach and there it goes again. He said now coming across on this ship I had this experience.

So they asked me to take chapel on shipboard one morning and I did. And he said they told me there were some communists who would be present in the service. And he said I took my chance and there it came again and he said this memory of all the glory came down on me and he said I just began to cry like I couldn’t finish my sentence. I said, “What did the communists think of it? Did they make fun of you?”

Embracing Emotional Expression

“Oh, no,” he said. He said they were very reverent about it, he said. “I’m not saying anything good about the communists, I can’t. But at least in this case the Holy Ghost had cut them out even of the communists.”

And then I said to my friend, Bert, “You’ve asked me for advice, how can you overcome your tender heart?” He said, “For God’s sake, Tozer, don’t try it. We’ve got so many dry preachers in the United States now down there. We’ve got so many and of course we have them here.”

We’ve got so many dry preachers and we’ve got so many men who couldn’t shed a tear. I said if you can keep the tears of God on you and keep your heart tender, keep it, brother, you’ve got a treasure I’d never give up. But you know how he got that way? The coming down, the lighting down.

Now I don’t think that first-team preacher had anything to do with it, he might have, you know, God knew this. But they got right with each other. They got cleaned up. They got trouble out of their hearts and they got their sins put away, even missionaries got their sins put away.

The Effect of Divine Presence

And when there was no more evidence of the displeasure of Almighty God, the Holy Ghost came down. You know what I believe? I believe that this church and you who are now in this building, I believe that we could have and enjoy a sense of the divine presence so sweet, so beautiful, so tender that it would change our whole personality, that it would change our attitude toward each other, that it would clear up a lot of things some of you are troubled with inside of you, that it would be like the coming of spring to a landscape, sweet and fresh and warm with birdsong and sunshine.

And there would be no fanaticism and there would be no wild doctrines and there would be no sea-forded wonders, there would just be a coming down of the dove. We should find no place for this cold as we speak. And I wonder if that isn’t the trouble now with most of us. You want to be filled and blessed, but you’re not willing to pay the price of letting your life get cleaned up so that you’re not only a Christian, you’ve not only accepted Christ, but you’ve gotten right so God can do it. Are you concerned?

Reflection and Commitment

Are you interested? Next Sunday night I want to talk about how to be filled with the Spirit. But unless the impurities and the things that God hates are cleansed out of our lives, we won’t be able to do anything about it. You say, “Are you charging this church with wrongdoing?” No, I just know people. I know people, and you’re just people. You’re nice people, you’re good people. And I don’t think too much of the Holy Ghost.

Maybe that’s the reason. He just isn’t at home. He’s here. He’ll always be here. “Oh, I miss you always.” But He’s not here, and He’s not happy in the midst, as He could be and would be if we’d all personally decide to put away lying and dishonesty and impurities and spite and jealousy and anger and hate and unforgiving spirit and pride and egotism and vanity and all other things, or any other things, and say, “Come, come, Lord Jesus.”

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The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer

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