I'm going to say that again. Good morning, in charge. Let us pray. The last time, Father, we thank you for the opportunity, for the blessings of this day.
Thank you for your grace. I gave us confidence to be at your presence today. We pray that you teach us, that you open our highs of understanding, that you speak to our heart, to know you more, and to appreciate what your son or you did through your son. What your son did for us on the cross.
We pray. Now you guide our thoughts, and guide our minds. We pray for all this in Jesus' name. Amen.
So this morning, I will be sharing a few thoughts of mine from the topic of the Jesus Christ, our perfect sacrifice. It's all about Jesus Christ for us. And not book Bible chapel is a church that believes so much in the Bible. The Bible is everything we've got.
So I will be doing a lot of digging in the Bible, a lot of reading in the Bible as well. So I'm going to say thank you for the opportunity to stand here. I'm just to do. And I appreciate the leadership of this church for giving me these moments to share a few thoughts of mine to the people of God this morning.
And Jesus Christ, our perfect sacrifice. I would like to look at this topic from the lens of two attributes of God. The first one is God is holy. I mean, you have all believed that.
And the second one is God is love. So God is holy. What does that even mean? According to A.W.
Tozer, it's a famous American future. It isn't that a long time ago. And it's a author of many books. It's said holy is the way God is.
To be holy, it doesn't conform to its standard. E is the standard. And I had a depart about that. E is the standard.
God is holy. God is the ultimate source and standard of goodness. And this is foundational, even though I believe as Christians or believers. It also implies that moral values are grounded in the nature of God himself.
And therefore, God's laws and actions are inherently good. But yes, more to it, God is holy. So many stories in the Bible made me believe that it's holiness. And they're very attractive.
And at the same time, they're very dangerous. The duality of God's comforting presence and the potential attract posed to those living on holy lies is a common thing in the Bible, if you will agree with me. In Isaiah, chapter 6, verse 1 to 5. Isaiah saw the throne after something happened when Isaiah died.
And this particular verse that made me want to know more about King Isaiah, it was marvelously held. Boy, in the hand well, tried out its way along the line with him and in the hand well. But when he died, Isaiah put it up there that I saw, the ye died, I saw the Lord. And I, OK, what did you see about the Lord?
He said, he was sitting on a lofty throne. And the train of his robe filled the temple. Attending in, one mighty seraphim, each having six wings. With two wings, they covered their faces.
With two, they covered their feet. And with two, they flew. They were calling out to each other. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven's Hamming.
The all hurt is filled with glory. Their voices shook the temple to its foundation. And the entire building was filled with smoke. Then I said, this is as I have gotten.
It is all over. I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filled the lips, and I live among the people with filled the lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven's Hamming.
The one of the seraphim, one of the seraphim, flew to me with a burning coal. It had taken from the altar with a pier of tongues. It touched my lips with teeth and said, see, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed and your sins are forgiven.
We need to see the reaction of Isaiah when this was revealed to him. It's over. Like I'm not worthy. He expressed the default nature of human when he got our revelation.
And it seems, man, I don't even have what he takes. It's all over. I'm doomed. And that passage gave me an insight that as human, we need divine intervention from God to come, to meet the standard of God.
By default, we are sinners. Isaiah just confirmed that to us. There are so many babblicals, illustrations, which I believe are there to help us understand God's holiness and demand for its reverence and obedience, especially from those who seek to live in harmony with Him. God is holy.
If we can open our Bible to Revelation 4, and by the way, my references are from New Living Translation. So Revelation 4. Revelation 4 gives us a snippet of what worship in heaven is going to look like. And it's amazing that God is referred to as holy.
It says, then, as I looked, I saw a door standing open in heaven. And the same voice I heard I had heard before, spoke to me like a trumpet blast. The voice said, come up here, and I will show you what must happen after this. And instantly, I was in the Spirit.
This is John Righton. And I saw a throne in heaven and someone sitting on it. The one sitting on the throne was as brilliant as gemstones, like just bare and anelian. And the glow of an emerald suckle is thrown like a rainbow.
24 thrones surrounded in, and the 24 elders sat on them. They were hot-clothed in white and had gold crowns on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning and the rumble of thunder. And in front of the throne were seven poches with burning flames.
This is the sevenfold spirit of God. In front of the throne was a shiny sea of glass sparkling like crystal. In the center and around the throne were four living beings. Each covered with highs front and back.
The first of these living beings was like a lion. And the second was like an ox. The thought had a human face and the thought was like an higgle in flight. Each of these living beings had six wings and the wings were covered, all over its highs inside and how.
Day and night, day after day and night after night, they keep on saying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord, God, almighty. The one who was, who always was, who is, and who is still to come. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord, the whole mighty. The one who always was, who is, and who is still to come.
Now we have an idea. Well, we're doing that. The truth is regardless of how your voice is, maybe it's like mine, we are all going to sing, holy, holy, holy. The Lord almighty, the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come.
Who always was, who is, and who is still to come. That shows consistency. That's God. The Bible says Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.
It's forever living. God is holy. First Peter from verse chapter 1, from verse 13 to 16. Say, so prepare your minds for action and exercise, self-control.
Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will continue when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. So you must live as God's obedient children. Don't slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn't know any better than.
But now you must be holy in everything you do. Just as God who is choosing is holy. For the scripture says, you must be holy because I am holy. Leviticus 26, you must be holy because I hide the Lord.
I am holy. I have set you apart from all other people to be my very own. You must be holy because I hide the Lord and holy. It's a common instruction in the book of Leviticus.
You must be holy because I hide the Lord and holy. God is holy. And as human, we are sinful in nature. How do we reconcile this?
And what does holy nice mean? It means it's untainted by evil or sin. It's secret. It's pure and perfect.
Here we have sinful sinners. And God is giving us, it's making a request. That you must be holy because I am holy. That sounds like a tall order.
That sounds like something that is almost impossible. How do we do it? This is an instruction that was given to the Israelites. If you agree with me, what a blood of Jesus Christ brought us in.
And that's a confidence. We have to live on top like this. You must be holy because I am holy. It's not only the Israelites now.
Even you, me, must be holy because I am holy. Now, the Bible shows us many illustrations about humans encounter with God. That can be both awesome, frightening, especially when it's divine laws or instruction. Heder ignorantly or deliberately disobeyed.
God is my joker. One of my own life experience that gives me more insight about God's willingness is between me and my father. I have a very strict father. I am from a very strict Christian home.
And my father is very disciplined. He doesn't even let my rationality. He doesn't even let it slide. And the way he deals with me is going to call me when it's time for judgment.
And he's going to tell me to hop on into some books in the Bible and go to Proverb is always one of the common books. And that's why I don't really like Proverb because every time I read Proverb, something comes off with it that I don't like. So it's not made me read Proverb. And after that, he's going to say, OK, now, lie down.
I know it gives me. And he's human. He's not even holy, he's compared to God. But he has his time there.
That he will not allow me to take for granted. And every time I did, there's all this punishment. If we human, then have that kind of character. Now, let's think about God.
So let's see examples of people who try to take off for granted at some point and how God tells to them. Leviticals, chapter 10, from verse 1 to 3. Aaron had four songs. And Aaron was chosen by God to be the leap priest.
And his songs helped in that duty as well. Two of his first two, native, happy, who the last two is Eliaza and Eta Maya. So the first two did something one day. Let's read.
Aaron's sons, native and happy, put calls of fire in their incense bonus and sprinkle incense over them. In this way, they disobeyed the Lord. It's always disobedience. The Lord is there.
It's always disobedience. By burning before him the wrong kind of fire. Different than he had commanded. So fire blazed forth from the Lord's presence and burned them up.
And they died before the Lord. How many people remember the story of King Zai as well? That looks similar, right? Then Mosi said to Aaron, this is what the Lord meant.
When he said, I will display my holiness through those who come near me. I will display my glory before all the people. And Aaron was silent. When I read that, that silent was so loud that I can even still hear it now.
Losing to sons. To sons at the same time. You will have thoughts. OK?
They should have learned from there. Silent Aaron made another mistake. But this time, God warned him. The Lord spoke to Mosis.
Then that's Levitical 16, verse 1-2. The Lord spoke to Mosis after the death of Aaron's two sons. Who died after the entire Lord's presence and born the wrong kind of fire before him. The Lord said to Mosis, one your brother.
Aaron, not to enter the most holy place behind the inner court scene whenever he chooses. If he does, he will die. For the hearts cover, the place of atonement is there. And I myself am present in the cloud above the atonement cover.
One your brother. We have John 3, verse 16. I always make reference to that. We have it on our board in front of the church over there.
You want to take a picture with it, feel free? And what it says, for God so loved the world that he gave is only the greatest son. Now, who so ever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life? Every time I think about that verse, it sounds like a warning to me as well.
Why? Because the consequence of not choosing life is in that statement. Perish. And this is exactly.
It seems like the world God is telling Aaron here. And if we think more about that, we appreciate what this Christ said to his disciples when they asked him. How shall we get there? And he says, hi, and the way, the truth, and the life.
No one come to the Father except through me. That's John 14, verse 6. No one, no unholy one come to the Father except through me. Together the holiness lies.
How can we even meet up with this standard? The book of Leviticus revealed a lot to us if you want to take time to read it about Aaronic's priesthood, the animals involved that we sacrifice, and the rituals which were performed. And all of these become a type of Jesus Christ's priesthood. His performance is sacrificed and is in no sense.
Trust me, it's in no sense. It's so significant. If we read the book of Leviticus, God always tell them, go without defect. Lamb without defect.
Jesus Christ became the Lamb without sin. It became our whole sin, my own sin, your sin. We heard that this morning when Brother John was talking and I was like, God always have a way of giving us the snippet of what to come in the following service. And God stepped in and said, OK, Aaron, this is the instruction you must follow if you want to come to my presence.
And we'll find that in Leviticus chapter 16. Throughout that chapter, it's all about how to go about it. So I broke it down. So the first one is from verse 1 to 6, 11 to 14.
It's all about preparation and forgiveness of the priest, even the priest, which happens to be Aaron, after preparing himself, asked for forgiveness. It doesn't have what he takes to just walk in. That was what I guess he was trying to do before God wanted. Like, OK, you are the priest.
It doesn't mean you should walk into my presence anyhow. From verse 7 to 10, 15 to 19, it shows what to do about forgiving the congregation. From verse 7 to 10 and 20 to 22, sending away a congregation and singing through a scapegoat. You know, the whole place at the hand on the scapules confess the same on the girl and send the girls into the wilderness.
And after that, there is a post-ceremonya appreciation of the priest. What the priest have to do when all of a sudden John. And what they need to do to make this an ongoing thing, a continuous thing. Atonement, the topic from for that verse is text for atonement.
And what the atonement means? Like I said, I grew up in a Christian poem. And you will want to believe with me that there are times you just get familiar with some words that you don't even bother to know the deep meaning. You're just wrong with it, just like that.
One of those words for me is atonement. We have it in songs, atonement for saints. Atonement is the process by which people remove obstacles to the reconciliation with girl. And if I am atonement is talked about, something about sacrifice, which is for ritual cleanness of saints to initiate or to bring moral purity, and religious acceptability, atonement for saints.
That's what Jesus Christ became for us. But this pep, given here, only did little. And we're surprised. It says, the ceremony must always take place on the seventh month on the 10th day of the month.
It doesn't have a strength in that. And this is going to be a permanent law for you to purify the people of Israel from their sins, making them right with the law once in each year. So the struggle continues. Between a sinful man and a holy God, and the standard is so high, I am holy, I want you to be holy.
Because sin is repeated in the society. The ritual of forgiveness becomes an endless statute. OK, we just have to start killing all these goats. We just have to do a lot of command for us.
And it becomes a human effort, because you have to fulfill it. So the book of Hebrew gives us a clue about how that didn't work perfectly for us. And we will see that in chapter 10 from verse 1 to 4. The whole system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a deep preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves.
The sacrifices on that system were repeated again and again year after year. And they were never able to provide perfect cleansing. For those who came to worship, in the good of provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped. For the worshippers would have been purified once for all time.
And their feelings of guilt would have disappeared. But instead, those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins year after year. For it's impossible. It's not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
So every year they do that, it reminded them of their status. The book of Romans, chapter 3, from verses 5 to 8, it gives us an insight about human mind, especially people that have knowledge of God, that are very knowledgeable, that are very smart. A claim of moral uprightness. Vassars on wavering holiness of God, it is time that.
I love how Paul brought this out, because I can see myself in it. Sometimes you just understand some things and you're like, OK, I think I should be able to speak for myself in this. There are three of them here. The first one is it.
But some might say, our sinfulness has a good purpose, for it helps people see how righteous God is. Isn't it of fear then? For him to punish us, since it's our sinful nature that makes him look righteous. You can imagine how he might mind him.
Of course not. If God were not entirely fear, how would he be qualified to judge the world? Instead of that, he says, some might even say again, how can God condemn me as a sinner if my dishonesty unlights his truthfulness and brings him more glory? And he sees the truth again?
Smart people. And some people even slander us by claiming that we say the more we sing, the better it is. Those who say, for things, deserve to be condemned. But I love how Paul handside them.
I found my handside that as well. I can only talk about this because I can find myself in it. I can relate with it. It says from verse 19 of the same chapter of 20, it says, obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given.
For its purpose is to keep people from having excuses and to show that the entire world is guilty before God. So holiness brings, holiness of God brings our sinful nature. It brings it how? And the Bible says, oh, I've seen, oh, everyone.
Everyone, think of anything you think is so holy of that? It used to be in that group. For all I've seen. And come shut out the glory of the kingdom of God.
So what's the purpose of the law? It shows how sinful we are. It exposes it. How sinful we are.
So our reaction to that depends on how we see the law. Do you see the law as something you want to engage with your moral capabilities? Or do you see something as you humble you before God? And that's why I help.
When I was reading, this is a very deep study. And this is just a few times of mine. It has not been the last beyond 45 minutes. But when I was studying some of these, I discovered that God gave this feeling more than 600 laws.
I mean, sometimes I even forget to keep up with my telling all those each. So I can't even spend any chance. There are some, if you are bowed like me, there are some laws in the book of the tournament that you have to do something. Well, it like me.
So in Romans chapter 7, verse 14 to 24. Paul revealed is in a mine on Sunday in this struggle. When I was reading this, you know, all that's the only thing we all do. I believe we all do it.
This year, I want to safeguard. This year, I want to worship in a department. I want to do this. I will be the first country to the comedian.
And this is a thought. We have opportunity to talk about it. And you know that you've already broken 50%. And it's not that you've only broken.
You know that I don't think I can fulfill this. God, you have to help me. So this is Paul's state here. He said, so the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good.
The trouble is with me, for I am all too human and powerless. And I'm a slave to sin. I don't really understand myself. I want to do what is right, but I don't do it instead.
I do what I hate. But if I know what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong. It is sin living in me that does that.
And I know that nothing good lives in me. That is, in my sinful nature, nothing good comes out of me. And for me, there's an almost sense of humility, acknowledging that you need help. I want to do what is right, what I can't.
I want to do what is good, what I don't. I don't want to do what is wrong, but it's just me. I do it anyway. But if I do what I don't want to do, and I'm not really the one doing wrong, it is sin living in me that does that.
I've discovered this principle of life, that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God's law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.
And there is an answer to that from verse 7 again to, from chapter 7, Romans chapter 7, verse 24 to 25. It says, oh, what a miserable person I am. Oh, it's free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death. I think in the book of the Corinthians, it says, the law gives power to sin, and it gives and sin gives power to death.
So Paul is explaining the life is living that is dominated by sin and death, what a awful life. Thank God the answer is in Jesus Christ, the confidence we have today, the hope that became a gift to us is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is in my mind. I really want to be a God's law, but because of my sinful nature and it's saved the same.
So the onlyness of God and the sinful nature of man, if you have been consistent with the messages from not book Bible chapel, I'm very sure you will have listening to Brother John Wells talking about sin. You know what? Anytime I want to read, I just have to make this confession now. Anytime I'm reading Romans, I just can't read it in my own voice.
It's all this voice of Brother John Wells. Now one of his verse, his favorite one is this verse 12, it says, when I done sinned, sin enthired the world. I done sin brought death. So death spread to everyone for everyone's sin.
One man sinned and the consequence of his, of YD spread to everyone by default. So what is sin? First John, chapter three verse four says, everyone who sins is breaking God's law. For all sin, all sin, our sin, our regardless of how you want to see is contrary to the law of God.
So I picked a line from one of Brother Magonav's slides when he talked about sin. We have the series on some cloud if we are interested in it. Any lack of conformity to the character of God, whether in act or state, sin. First John verse one to eight, say, if we claim we have no sin, we are only full in ourselves and not living the truth.
And that's the thing is, if we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar, really? That is that deep. Your moral of brightness is actually calling God a liar. Who the are called the liar?
And showing that is what has no place in our heart. So every time we talk about sin, blood is not always far from that discussion. In Leviticus chapter 17, God gave Moses the instruction to follow when it comes to them presenting blood on the altar. And it's a lengthy one quite long.
And verse 11 says, for the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on the altar to purify you. That is, the blood of God's lamb, which I recommend you to be on the altar. And the essence is to make you right with the Lord.
It is the blood given in exchange for a life that makes purification possible. Hebrew 9, verse 22 says, in fact, according to the Lord, Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood. For without a shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. For I am holy, and I want you to be holy.
How do we achieve this? That means fast running against me. So, oh glory to God for his son, Jesus Christ. What makes this perfect?
I would like to sacrifice him. What makes it perfect? Is the love of God for us. Spoken of John 3, verse 16, 1 John chapter 4, verse 9 to 10 says, God showed how much it loved us by sending his one and only son into the world, so that we might have eternal life through him.
This is real love, not that we loved God, but in love. But it loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Romans 18, verse 32 says, since it did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all. Until he also gave us everything else, since it did not spare his own son.
And with the love of God, we can see that Christ became the same. We can find that in 4 Corinthians 5, verse 21, it became the Lamb. John chapter 1, verse 29, look, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. And it became the priest, Hebrew 5.
All this emphasizes the extent of God's love and the length to which he went to reconcile the manatee who backed himself, who once loved. He took him, that's the, to bring us back. All glory belongs to God for his unwavering and incomparable love for us, as demonstrated through the life, the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So what makes this perfect?
This, what makes Jesus Christ our perfect sacrifice? Hebrew chapter 7, verse 23, 25, he says, there were many priests under the old system, for death prevented them from remaining in office. But because Jesus lives forever, his priest would last forever. Therefore, he is able once and forever to save those who come to go through him.
He lives forever to entacid with God on the other behalf. Jesus Christ our perfect sacrifice. Verse 9, Hebrew chapter 9, verse 11 to 14 says, so Christ has now become the high priest over all the good things that have come. He has entacid greater, more perfect, than a book in heaven, which was not made by human hands and is not part of this created world.
With his own blood, not the blood of goats and cows, he he entacid the most holy place once for all time and secured our redemption forever. He secured our redemption forever. One of my favorite enemies in Christ alone, and one of my favorite line in that song is, no power of hell, no scheme of man and heaven plucked me out of his hand. He secured our redemption forever.
14, just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consequences from sinful deeds, so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the Etonasteries, Christ offered himself to God as perfect sacrifice to our sins. Hebrew, it's all about the book of Hebrew. If you have been paying attention, Hebrew chapter 10, verse 8 to 12 says, it's amazing that I don't wear that passage this morning, and I say, I'm gonna start from verse 10.
For God's will was for us to be made holy. If we can pause there for a while, I am holy, and for I am holy, and I want you to be holy. For God's will was for us to be made holy. Now we have the answer to it.
By the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time. So God gave that order, and he himself came to make it possible for us. And that's why efficiency is let no man boast. You know how I text the boast?
It's a gift. I love this verse 19. It says, and so the Abra'an's and sisters, we can boldly enter heavens, the most holy place of the blood of Jesus Christ. Those errands to Son, they couldn't survive.
They won on earth. But Jesus Christ, with his death, his blood, went to the one in heaven and gave us a thorough passage. Like, okay now, he can walk this way. Bodly enter heaven.
By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the coffin into the most holy place. And since we have a great high priest, who rules over God's health, let us go into the presence of God with sincere hearts, fully trusting in for our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ blood to make us clean. And our bodies have been washed with pure water. So some of my still have the mind like, okay, how do we now come in, you know, this?
Because most of all these instructions are for this, they're like, I know how God, this was written in Ephesians. You know, God had me in mind before he put this down in letters. And he says, from Ephesians chapter two, verses 11 to 18. I mean, I was a bit about Gentiles for a while, you just, you know, you wrote with that word and you don't even know the meaning.
Like, you hear Jews and Gentiles. I used to be Gentiles, Gentiles, Gentiles, Gentiles. I have little idea of what it means. I have a faint idea of it, but not that deep.
So for, if you have been like me, I put it up there, like Gentile is a modern English time that is used to translate God. Eberwatch for nation. That is a non-Jewish passing or nation. If you're not a Jewish origin, that includes you.
I'm no one, that includes me. And how does that bring me into God's promise? Let's see. So don't forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders.
You were called on circumcised healings by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. In those days, you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel. And you did not know the covenant promises God and made to them.
You lived in this world without God and without hope. Wow. But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God.
But now you have been brought near to him, through the blood of Christ. For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people. When in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us.
Regardless of what the news is telling us, Christ has broken down the wall of hostility. And he didn't do it. Right, just, you know, like, I brag about magic, you know. It cost him something.
He made peace between, okay, so he did this by ending the system of law, which is commandment and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups, together as one body. Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross and our hostility toward each other was put to death. He brought these good news of peace to you, Gentiles, who were far away from him.
And peace to the Jews who were near. Now, all of us, body Jews and the Gentiles, can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us. Father can come to the Father can come to the source again through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us. Jesus Christ, our perfect sacrifice in conclusion.
Redeem, redeem that another world that's, you know, it's even the name of a church in Nigeria, like, I'm so used to that world and I've never taken the time to do this. What does it even mean, you know, to buy back, to regain possession, to repurchase? So, with his own blood, Hebrew 7, verse 12, not the blood of goats and cows, he entered the most holy place. Once, for all time, and secured our redemption forever.
If you want to know how valuable product is, you have to check how much it's paid for. For it, it cost God his son. He came down in human form. What was then done to goats and bulls was done to him.
And he took it in, you know, he didn't fight it. That's why you and I. Jesus Christ died to prove how valuable we had to God. And his resurrection was the evidence that sin was destroyed.
My question this money is, don't waste it. There's no question, it's just an advice from this, from me, just a single one, don't waste this. When Christ said it is finished, it means it, it is finished. Sin is destroyed.
That was free. And the last thing for you all, this money, we thank you for how you have spoken to us. We pray you help us to make this make meaning to us. We pray that you retain it in our mind and help us to understand you more.
We pray as we go out, as we step out of this place. We guide our thoughts, we guide our hearts. And you help us to remain in your presence forever. All this is grateful in Jesus name, amen.