Well, good morning. Thank you, appreciate that. Alright, we're going to be looking at the Passover, which is in Exodus chapter 12, so I invite you guys to turn with me there if you have your Bibles this morning. Alright, and I do have an outline this morning for those of you guys who like structure and direction and really need that. three points. Point number one, the Lord's passion for his glory. Point number two, the purpose of the Passover, the Lord's passion for Israel. And point number three, the mixed multitude, the Lord's passion for missions. So for those of you guys who enjoy having structure, particularly this group over here, always gives me a hard time about that. There you go. Point number one, the Lord's passion for His glory. The Westminster Catechism identifies the chief end of man as the goal to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. The purpose of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. It is with this purpose that God created man. God created man worthy and having value and beautiful when He created man in His own image. Unlike all the rest of creation, God places His image in man, therefore giving man his worth and value. The purpose of doing so was to fill the world with His image bearers with the purpose of worshipping Him and enjoying Him. The purpose of man is to worship God. He has given man his value and worth by creating man in His image. The purpose of God's creation of man was to fill the world with images of Him. The purpose is worship. And it's with this purpose that the psalmist writes in Psalm 117.1, Praise the Lord, all nations. Extol Him, all peoples. No one is exempt from this purpose. Everyone in all creation is given the purpose of praising God, all nations, extolling Him, all peoples. No one is exempt from this purpose to worship the Lord. This is God's command to everybody, every nation, all peoples. Why do we praise Him? The Bible gives us lots and lots of reasons to praise God. The psalmist writes in Psalm 94-4, Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. He is to be feared above all gods. Simply to praise the Lord and worship Him because He is great and to be feared above all gods is sufficient reason for His creation to worship and serve Him. God is the chief of all beings. There's nothing greater than Him. And it is for this reason that we worship Him, because God is great. And though Adam's race is fallen, God has an intention and a plan to restore His creation back to Himself. God intends for all humanity to worship Him. And though Adam's race has fallen, the Lord does not forsake His plan. He's going to redeem and restore one man named Abraham. And this is in Genesis chapter 12, verses 1-3. We're going to be looking at a very pivotal text in the Old Testament. In a lot of ways it's this text that sets the groundwork and the framework for what's going to unfold in Israel's history over the next 1500 years. So this is an important text to know, the next homework assignment I'm going to have for you guys to memorize this verse for my college and career group. Adam's race is fallen. We've just seen Noah. Noah's family is fallen. And the world is again plunged into chaos. And the Lord rescues Abraham and calls him to Himself when He says, Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. Be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless you And those who curse you, I will curse. And in you, all the clans of the earth will find their blessing." So the Lord's going to make a nation out of this old man and his wife. The Lord's going to make this nation great. One of the greatest nations to ever live. The greatest nation to ever be into existence. And he commands him to go. The Lord's going to give him a land, a promised land for this nation to inhabit. And he commands him to be a blessing. And the Lord promises that he will be with him. And he's going to build this nation that's going to be called Israel out of this man. And as we see in point number three, the purpose of exalting this nation, Israel, is not only for Israel's sake, but it's that through this nation that all the clans of the earth will find its blessing. God has a plan for every nation, for all peoples, to again restore them into His Kingdom. And He's going to do this through building the Kingdom of Israel. So that's the backdrop in which the Exodus is going to take place. Now I have a really helpful little, maybe it's not super helpful, maybe it's just cute, way of getting to... How do we get to Exodus 12? What's going on in Exodus 12? The Lord's promised Abraham a land. The Lord's promised Abraham a kingdom, a nation, and a people. Well, Abraham has Isaac. His son Isaac has Jacob. Jacob has 12 sons, and these 12 sons are going to be the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, are going to be named after these guys, right? Long story short, there was a fight between the rest of the brothers and one particular brother named Joseph. They end up selling this brother named Joseph into slavery. He goes to Egypt as a slave. And this slave is, long story short, then exalted to being second to Pharaoh. He becomes one of the highest rulers in one of the greatest nations, Egypt. And Israel becomes, they populate, they become a big nation in Egypt. And that brings us for 400 years, this nation is living in Egypt, and that brings us to the time of Moses. Now in the time of Moses, there arises a pharaoh that doesn't know who Joseph was, he doesn't recognize the citizenship of Israel, and he enslaves the nation of Israel. So as of right now, where we're talking about in Exodus 12, Israel is not in the Promised Land, they're enslaved to Egypt. And that forms the backdrop of what we'll be looking at in the Passover. Which takes us to our second point, the purpose of the Passover. The Lord's passion for Israel. God's passionate to carry this plan forward. He loves Israel and He's going to see this plan and this promise through. When the Lord makes a promise, He will not break it. We'll see that the Lord has a special relationship with Israel. Yahweh calls Moses to himself and he tells him to give this message to Pharaoh. You shall say to Pharaoh, thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son. I say to you, let my son go that he may serve me. And if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son. So the relationship between God and Israel is one of that of a father to a son. Israel is God's firstborn son. The Lord is zealous for his son to succeed, to carry his plan through, at the cost of killing the firstborn son of Pharaoh. We'll see that this plan is going to extend to not just the firstborn son of Pharaoh, but the firstborn son of everyone in Egypt. Now the last couple days leading up to Exodus chapter 12 have been pretty crazy in Egypt, right? We've seen the Nile River, which is what gives Egypt its sustenance, right? This is what causes Egypt to be great, is the Nile River. The Nile River turns to blood. That's crazy. All the livestock in Egypt are destroyed, though strangely Israel's livestock are untouched. They're fine. We've seen the crops of Egypt devastated by locusts, though strangely Israel's crops are just fine, untouched by the locusts. We've seen the kingdom of Egypt flooded with darkness so that no one could see anything, though strangely Israel had light they could see. So the last couple of days have been pretty wild, and the Lord's definitely set apart Israel from the plagues He's been sending on Egypt. God's plan will not be thwarted, and no matter how stubborn the Egyptians are being, His plan will prevail. And this is the time for the greatest and most terrible plague of Egypt, the killing of the firstborn son. So this takes us to Genesis chapter 12. We'll be looking at verses 1 and 2. Follow along with me. And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be to you as the head of the months. It will be the first month of the months of the year. What was about to take place in Egypt, for Israel's sake, was going to be so monumentous, so instrumental, The salvation that was about to take place was going to be so important that Israel would now celebrate their calendar year every year. Their new year would begin by remembering the Passover. That's how important this event was going to be for the life of Israel. That their calendar was now going to start by remembering what God did on this day for generations to come. There's going to be a ritual that takes place. We're going to read about that in Exodus 12, 3 and 4. Speak not to the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of the month they will take for themselves a sheep individually, a lamb for his paternal household, one lamb per house. Unless the house is too small, then they may go in with their nearest neighbor to his house and take one, according to the number of persons. and you may allocate a lamb in proportion to what each person will eat." This was to be a household meal, celebrated together as a family. Right? So this is... Do we have a ritual like this? We just celebrated one? This is kind of like Thanksgiving, except for instead of a turkey, they have a... We're getting some participation. That's great. They're going to have a lamb. OK, so this lamb was for a ritual of we'll see that there's a lot of purposes to the lamb. But important to note is that on the 10th day of the month, they're going to set apart a lamb and each house is going to have this lamb. Now, what are the credentials of this lamb? What does this lamb have to be? Verses five and six, the lamb must be flawless, a male yearling. It may be taken for you from the sheep or from the goats, and it shall be held for safekeeping until the fourteenth day of the month. Then you will slaughter it, the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel, at twilight." So you pick out a lamb, you pick out a flawless lamb, this would be your best lamb, and you're going to watch over it, keep it safe for four days and then that night on the 14th day of the month you're going to slaughter it at twilight and you're going to eat it as a family. Verse 7 tells us the purpose of this. Then you will take the blood and put it on the two door frames of your house and on the lintel of your house where you will be eating it. What in the world is a lintel? I'm not going to lie, I totally had to look that up. Lentil is the upper crossbeam of your house. So you're going to take the blood and you're going to paint it on the door frames of your house. Pretty strange ritual. Israel, it's been pretty crazy in Israel, right? So like Yahweh is telling you this, at this point you're going to believe it. The Nile River is in blood right now. So they tell them to paint it on the door frames of their house. Now how is this meal to be eaten? The instructions are pretty specific. You will eat this meal that night, fire roasted, with unleavened bread and with the bitter herbs. You will eat it. You cannot eat it raw or boiled in boiling water, only fire roasted. Its head to its legs and its entrails. And you shall let nothing remain until the morning. But if anything does remain in the morning, you shall burn it with fire. This was all an act of worship. Every part of the lamb was sacred for this and nothing of it could go to waste. This was a sacred lamb that had been set apart and devoted for a unique purpose of celebrating this Passover meal. This meal was to serve as an annual reminder of the work that God was about to do in Egypt for Israel. The lamb was going to be used as a substitute for the judgment that was about to take place. The herb was to remind the Israelites of just how hard, the bitter herb was to remind the Israelites of how hard life was in Egypt. We see that in Exodus 1.14. The Egyptians had made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of works in the field. Life in Egypt was now hard and Israel was called upon to remember how great the redemption of the Lord was. And it was also to be eaten with unleavened bread. The purpose of having it unleavened was so that there wouldn't be time for it to rise, right? So it takes time for bread to rise when it's leavened. They're not going to have time to let bread rise tonight. They're going to be hurried out of Egypt tonight. So that was the purpose of the bread being unleavened. It's important to note that both Israel and Egypt had sinned against the Lord. Israel had failed to respond in faith when Moses told them the word of the Lord. But unlike the Egyptians, the Israelites had a substitute. They didn't need to bear God's wrath that night on their firstborn son. A substitute was provided through the blood of the Lamb. Verses 11 and 12 tell us how this meal was to be eaten. And this is how you shall eat it. your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in a hurry. It is Yahweh's Passover. And I will cross over the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man and from beast, and I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt." The people of Israel were leaving this night. This is what it looks like for a nation to pack their bags, so to speak. Their loins girded. What does that mean? In Egypt they wore, or in Israel, ancient cultures, they wore this longer dress looking thing. And so when you girded up your loins, what you're doing is you tied this up into a diaper basically so you could run. So loins girded because they're going to have to run. Staff in hand, sandals on your feet, packed and ready to go. This is the Lord's Passover. The Lord is going to strike the firstborn of everyone from man and from beast tonight. It's going to be a pretty horrific night. And I want to draw the last line of this verse out. And I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. This was an act of war. Yahweh was declaring war on the Egyptians. In the ancient world, the deity was expected to be the protector of a people. So when you go to war, what you do is you pray to your god to protect you during the war, right? Does that make sense? Right. Alright, so when you go to war and you're defeated, what does that mean in the ancient mindset? Your gods were weaker than their gods, right? Yes. Okay, never mind, that's alright. It meant that your gods were weaker than their gods. When we think of it today, we think of nations defeated by another nation. Clearly they must have had inferior firearms, right? But that wasn't the ancient mindset. The ancient mindset meant that your gods were weak. And what Yahweh intends to do is show the Egyptians just how weak their gods are by slaying the firstborn. Now the slaying of the firstborn son is in effect a military victory. When the firstborn sons, the finest young men of a nation, are slain, any ancient people would have recognized this as a defeat on their gods. Verse 13. This is one that you want to circle and highlight in your Bibles. But the blood will be for you as a sign on the houses where you are. And I will see the blood, and I will pass over you. and I will not send my plague of destruction for you when I smite the land of Egypt." The purpose of the Lamb was to use its blood as a sign so that they could avoid the coming judgments of Yahweh. The blood was going to block this destroyer angel from entering into their house. This is how the Lord had made a provision of grace for Israel by providing a substitute that they didn't have to bear the wrath of God that night. The lamb was going to be the substitute for the firstborn of the sons of Israel. The next couple of verses are going to talk about how this meal was going to be celebrated for generations to come. And then what happens is Israel takes this message to the elders of the peoples and they're going to relay this message to everybody. And that takes us to verse 28. And the sons of Israel went and did just as Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron. So they did. Right? We've seen some really crazy things happen in Egypt this week. And Israelites are going to respond in obedience this time. 29-30 is going to tell us what happens the night of the Passover. Please follow along. I'm just going to read what happened that night. And so it was, in the middle of the night, Yahweh struck the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the captives who are in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the beasts. And Pharaoh rose that night with all of his servants, with all of the Egyptians. And there was a great crying out in the land of Egypt, because there was not a house where there was not someone dead. And he summoned for Moses and Aaron that night and said, Arise and go from the midst of my people, you and your sons. Go and serve Yahweh, as you have said. Take your sheep and your cattle as you go, and also bless me." And the Egyptians encouraged the people to hurry in order to send them from the land because they said, we will all die. This was the night of the Passover. This was the night of the most terrible plague on Egypt. The firstborn sons of the nation are killed and Moses tells and Pharaoh tells Moses to take his people and all that's with them and leave. And so we have the Lord's judgment on a wicked people and salvation for Israel who is saved through the blood of the Lamb. Not only did Israel just leave, they also left with the wealth of the nation with them. Verses 34-36 tells us the story. So the people carried off their dough before it was leavened. Their kneading bowls were bound in their cloaks around their shoulders. And the sons of Israel did according to the words of Moses. And they asked the Egyptians for vessels of silver and gold and clothing. Now, Yahweh had given favor in the eyes of the people and the Egyptians and whatever they asked the Egyptians for, they received from them. And so they plundered the Egyptians. The idea here is that the Egyptians were so thoroughly defeated by the God of the Hebrews. Their army is now laid waste. Their livestock and crops are devastated. Their firstborn sons have all died. The Egyptians are now fearing for their lives. This is a defeated people. And Israel emerges victorious. And just like what happens on the victory on the battlefield, they get the wealth of the nations and they carry it out the front doors of Egypt. They didn't just escape. They walked out the front doors of Egypt carrying the wealth of the nation with them. And so we have our exodus in verse 37. And the sons of Israel journeyed from Ramesses to Sukkoth. About 600,000 foot soldiers. The warriors not including the non-combatants. Israel left. This is their exodus. Ramses is presumably one of the places where Israelites were held captive at. And they got to leave and they went to Sukkoth. We're not totally sure where this is. Our best guess is that it's about 15 miles outside of the border of Egypt. So they get to leave Egypt, and they leave 600,000 foot soldiers. And that's just counting the men. That's not counting women, children, other elders, and those who are with them. This would bring about the total population of Israel at this point to roughly 2 million. So all of them just got to walk out the front doors of Egypt and exit. They're headed home. This brings me to my third point, point number three, the mixed multitude. the Lord's passion for missions. Verse 38 And also a mixed multitude went up with them, with sheep, cattle, and a very massive amount of livestock. It wasn't just Israel that left that night. They got to leave with all sorts of other people. Nubians, Numidians, Egyptians. We don't know who all these mixed multitudes were. Presumably Egypt had other slaves that they were keeping, also some Egyptians. They got to see the gods of the Egyptians at work, and they got to see the god of Israel at work, and they forsake their country, they forsake their gods, and they go and join their alliance with Israel, and they get to walk out with Israel. We saw that from Abraham, the Lord had a purpose for all nations to serve Him, to exalt Him. All peoples, right? The Lord has an intention for all the clans of the earth to find their blessing through Abraham. And now we see a small fulfillment of what that looks like as a mixed multitude now joins Israel. Remember, it's not just Israelites who are Israel, right? Just because you're a descendant of one of the twelve brothers isn't only what makes you an Israelite. You don't have to be necessarily a bona fide Israelite to be called an Israelite. It just means that you've aligned yourself with Israel. A mixed multitude now becomes part of Israel. So these days of this gathering in of the nations didn't just begin in the age of missions that dawned with Christ. It began all the way back in the Old Testament, in the days of our patriarchs, when we see other nations aligning themselves with Yahweh. And there will be a fulfillment of this in the second coming when all the nations have aligned themselves with our great King. Verse 42 tells us what kind of night this was. It was a night of watching for Yahweh who brought them out of the land of Egypt. This night is for Yahweh. A watching for all the Israelites throughout all their generations. It was a night of watching. What that meant is that Israelites, they had a lamb to eat that night. They killed it that night and they stayed up the rest of their night eating it. Right? So they're up all night. They're pulling an all-nighter. and they're watching the Lord to act. This would be the day of their salvation. The Lord was going to save Israel this night and they were going to stay up and watch it. So this night was going to be celebrated for all generations. So you're going to stay up all night on Passover night eating this meal for generations to come and they're going to be remembering the work that the Lord did to save Israel and grant them freedom from oppression. And it's this night that's still being celebrated 1475 years later when Jesus gathers with his disciples in the upper room to celebrate the final Passover. So we're done with our text in Exodus. I want you guys to turn now to Luke 22 and we're going to see the fulfillment of the Passover. Then the day came of unleavened bread, on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed. So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare the Passover meal for us, that we may eat it. And they said to him, Where will you have us prepare it? And he said to them, Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house where he enters, And tell the master of that house, the teacher says to you, where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples? And he will show you to a large upper room furnished. Prepare it there. And they went and they found it just as he had said to them. And they prepared the Passover. So this was the night of the Passover still being celebrated roughly 1500 years later. And Jesus is going to celebrate this meal just as they have always done growing up. with his disciples. And then the hour came. And he was reclining at the table and his apostles were with him. And he said to them, I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. This Passover is the one that Jesus eagerly desires to eat that night. I tell you, I will not eat of it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." This is a meal that needs to find fulfillment. This meal has a purpose. There was a plan in the Old Testament and it finds a fulfillment in the kingdom of God. Verse 17, And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, Take this and divide it among yourselves. For I tell you, that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes. And he took the bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Likewise, he took the cup after they had eaten, saying, This cup is poured out for you. This is the new covenant in my blood. So Jesus celebrates the Passover. They've been celebrating this as a people for 1,500 years. What was so significant about this one? Why was Jesus eagerly desiring to eat and drink this one? The reason was because this was the final Passover that would be celebrated in Israel. The true Lamb has come. Now in this meal that we've just seen, and what we saw from how the meal was prescribed in Exodus, there's a lot of similarities and there's also a few differences. Similarly, just as Israel celebrated the Passover for generations. It was celebrated at twilight. We see continuity here. They gather with them that night. They slaughter a lamb. Presumably there's a lamb at this feast, right? That's how it was supposed to be celebrated. The disciples wouldn't have known any other way to prepare it. But there's no mention of a lamb at this feast, right? That's the central element of the feast is the lamb. It doesn't talk about the lamb there, right? There's also no talk of the bitter herb. the elements that are being brought into focus at this meal are shifting. Right? In the Old Testament, the central elements would have been the lamb and the bitter herb. Here, the central elements are the bread and the wine. Jesus is stating that the wine is His blood. Right? So Jesus is identifying Himself with the wine. And where we had a lamb in the Old Testament, now we're seeing wine representing the blood of Christ. Also in the New Testament, the bread, whereas in the Old Testament it was celebrated to show that Israel left in a hurry, it had to be unleavened, in the New Testament we see the bread represents the body of Christ which is given for him. In the New Testament, all the elements are focusing on Jesus and pointing to Jesus. Jesus is identifying himself with the blood, the true blood of the Lamb has come and it will atone for the sins of the people. My body, like the Lamb in the Old Testament, is now being given for your sake, to save you. And the judgment of Yahweh is coming and my blood will be used to cover you. I want to pull the last line of this section forward. This cup is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. The final lamb has come. In the death of Christ, the old Passover meal is replaced with something better. A new lamb is provided, celebrating a new meal, celebrating a new and better Passover. This new Lord's Supper is both backwards and forward pointing. It points backwards to the day when Israel celebrated this, that day that saved them from the judgments of Yahweh when they painted the blood on their houses. And it looks forward to the day when the Lord will provide a true Lamb that will actually save the people from their sins. The Old meal was pointing us forward to the blood of the true lamb who had atoned for the sins of the people. And the Lord's judgment will pass over us because we are covered by the blood of the lamb. When the Lord delivers us from this world and we will find our exodus into the kingdom of God, where we will sit with Christ and reign victorious and recline with Jesus at the table and celebrate for the final time the marriage supper of the lamb. A new and everlasting covenant is now being instituted. In the death of Jesus, God forms a covenant with his firstborn son, the true firstborn son, the true Israel, who now stands as the head and representative of a nation. The new lawgiver has come, the final king of David. In him we see our escape from the Passover of God and the judgments that we deserved because of our wicked, rebellious heart. The stupid and sinful things we've done that deserve condemnation of God, a substitute is provided through Christ who died in our place in order that we would find salvation and victory in Him. It's also under this new covenant that the shift of Israel, the focus of Israel, changes. There's a shift that goes on. In the Old Testament, the Lord was building a kingdom that the nations would come and see. Come and see this work I'm doing in Israel. Come to Israel and be a part of the kingdom I'm building. And in the New Testament, there's going to be a shift. Instead, He says to the church, the new Israel, Go and tell. So it shifts from a come see nation to a go and tell the nations of the work I am doing, of the kingdom I am building. It's with this emphasis that Paul writes in Galatians 3. Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the scriptures sing beforehand that God would justify the Gentiles by faith preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, In you shall all the nations be blessed. The promise to Abraham is still not fulfilled. Every nation has not yet found its way into the fold of the church. The Lord has sent us on a mission to gather his people from the darkest corners of the world so that they could find salvation through the blood of the Lamb. And one day we'll stand together with every nation, all the sons and daughters of Abraham being finally grafted into the kingdom, and we will look with John and behold a great number, a great multitude that no one could number. Revelation 7, 9, a great multitude that no one could number. from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out in a loud voice, Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb. Until we see this day, it is our mission to align ourselves with Israel and go and tell the nations of the coming judgment of God. We are to say to them, salvation belongs to our God. As the Egyptians found out the hard way, there is salvation in no one else. There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. We are to go and tell the nations, and we live in a very dark one, here in Montana, the nations of the work God has doing of the coming judgment and of the final Passover and the blood of the true Lamb of Jesus Christ. And when the final trumpet sounds, we will join the angels in singing, worthy is the Lamb who was slain in Revelation 5, worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea and all that is in them saying, to him who sits on the throne And to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever. And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the elders fell down and worshipped. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank You for the work of salvation that You've done in each of our lives, Father, that You've provided a substitute to atone for our sins, Father, that we do not have to bear Your wrath like we deserve because You've covered us with the blood of Christ. Lord, we thank You for this gift of grace that we do not deserve. Lord, we pray that You will make us into a holy people, a pure people, who love you and love righteousness, Father, that when the nations look at us, they will see that this people is devoted for a sacred purpose. They live differently in the midst of a dark and dying world. Lord, I pray that you give us courage to go and tell Those who are in our workplace, those who we live with, those who are neighbors of the work you're doing, Father, make us evangelists in the nation that you've called us to be in. Father, help us to love each other rightly and love the lost and dying world around us. And we look forward to the day when we will celebrate this meal anew, the new marriage supper of the Lamb, where we will see Christ face to face. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.