This morning I want you to consider
with me the fullness of Christ as our mediator. Fullness of
Christ as our mediator. Now a mediator is a arbitrator,
a negotiator. A mediator is a go-between. I suppose that would be the simplest
definition. A mediation is an intervention
in an altercation designed to resolve a relationship dispute. An intervention is an action
that is taken to directly address a particular situation to either
change or stop a harmful behavior, to improve circumstances, or
resolve a problem. And that's what we, as wretched
sinners, need. We need an intervention. We need
a mediation. We need a mediator. One to go
between us and God. You see, we've offended God.
We've offended His law. We've been alienated from God,
separated from God. And we need someone to go between
and mediate our case before God. An intervention is a relationship
in a legal dispute. Man's conflict with a thrice
holy God, there's only one mediator. The scripture's very clear. There's
one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Only
one go between to successfully negotiate our legal dispute with
God. Webster's dictionary defines
the term mediator as one who attempts to make two or more
parties involved in a conflict come to an agreement. That certainly
applies to a mediator in this world. It's one who attempts
to make, but it doesn't apply to our mediator because he doesn't
attempt to do anything. Some mediators are successful
and others aren't. Some issues are resolved and
some are never resolved. But the Lord Jesus Christ is
the one and only mediator between God and man, man being the offender,
does not attempt to do anything. He does, and every case that
he mediates is successfully resolved in his own substitution by the
shedding of his blood. It's assured. Not every man and woman in the
world is justified. But every man and woman who has
Christ as their mediator is successful. And as the offender of justice,
they're justified. If He pleads my cause, my cause
is going to be resolved. The wages of sin is death. If
Christ mediates for me, then I have life. You would think, you would think
that with Christ's 100% success rate as mediator, that everyone
would flee to Him to be their mediator. But many insist on
representing themselves. You know, there's an old proverb,
I'm sure you've heard it, that says, a man who is his own lawyer
has a fool for a client. That's true. That's true. Not only in earthly courts, but
especially in heavenly courts. I don't want to stand before
God Almighty in judgment and try to plead my cause like those
dead that the Lord tells us about. They said to Him on that day
of judgment, Lord, Lord, haven't we done this? And haven't we
done that? And the Lord said, depart from
me ye that work iniquity. I don't know you. I don't know
who you are. And there are men and women today,
multitudes, that claim to know God and claim to know Christ,
but Christ doesn't know them. And that's all that matters.
Does Christ know me? Is the Lord Jesus my mediator? I'm happy to tell you this morning,
He is my mediator. And I pray and hope that He's
yours. We've offended His law, His justice,
and we've offended Him. Listen, we've offended God. And
I won't ask you to simply take my word for it, but I'll ask
you to take God's Word to be true. Before we get into our
text, which you can go ahead and turn to, by the way, Colossians
1. Go ahead and turn there. While
you're turning, let me say that the Bible, the Word of God, is
very clear on this matter. Very clear. What does God say about it? Our
sin violates God's perfect law. Our sin insults the justice of
God. And we desperately, now listen,
we desperately need a successful mediator to reconcile us back
to the God that we've offended and have been separated from.
You know what the word reconcile means. If a man and a woman have
marital problems and they separate, they get back together, it's
called reconciled. We've been separated from God.
We need to be reconciled back. And the only way that we're going
to be is if Christ is our mediator. Because all the fullness of God
dwells in Him. Let me read a few verses before
we look here in Colossians 1. Psalm 51.4. David, the psalmist,
says, Against thee and thee only have I sinned. and done evil,
this evil in thy sight, that thou mayest be justified when
thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest." Lord, you're right
if you condemn me to hell. That's what that means. When
you speak against me and tell me that I am deserving of hell
and nothing else, you're right in what you say. The problem
we have is taking sides with God against ourselves. That takes
a gift from God, that takes special grace. Isaiah 59 too, but your iniquities,
your sin have separated between you and your God. And your sins
have hid His face from you that He will not hear. Oh, what a
desperate place to be! Romans 3.23 For all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God. All. Everyone. 1 John 3, 4, Whosoever committeth
sin transgresseth also the law, for sin is the transgression
of the law. James 2.10, For whosoever shall
keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of
all. He's guilty of the whole law.
Nahum 1.3, The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and
will not acquit the wicked. Now there is an exception to
that. If the wicked is in the Lord Jesus Christ, you'll be
acquitted. Not on your righteousness, not
by your work, but by His. That's why Christ and Him crucified
is the issue. What does that mean, Christ and
Him crucified? Jesus Christ is God, and God died as the worst
criminal that ever lived in the worst criminal's place. I'm the
worst criminal that ever lived, and you would argue with me and
you'd say, no, I got you beat on that. Romans 2, 5 and 6, But after
thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest thou unto thyself
wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous
judgment of God, who will render to every man according to his
deeds. That seems hopeless. I know what
I am. I know what I've done. God, don't
deal with me according to my deeds. Deal with me according
to Your mercy and Your grace and what Christ Himself did for
me. Colossians 1. Our text is in
verse 19, but let's work our way there. Let's begin in verse
10 where we see the believer's desire and spiritual goal is. Every child of God desires this.
Verse 10, Colossians 1, that you might walk worthy of the
Lord unto all pleasing. I want to walk worthy unto the
Lord. I do. Being fruitful in every good
work. I want my work, what I do in this life, to be fruitful. And increasing in the knowledge
of God. I want to increase in the knowledge of God, don't you?
I want to know more about Him than I did yesterday. strengthened
with all might according to His glorious power unto all patience
and longsuffering with joyfulness." I want to be more patient. I want to be more longsuffering. And I want to do it happily and
joyfully, not grudgingly. Okay, well, I'll be patient. You know, nothing but joy. And
there's not a child of God that does not desire to do these things,
to walk worthy of the Lord and all-pleasing, to be fruitful
in every good work, to increase in the knowledge of the Lord.
Don't you want to increase in God's knowledge, in the knowledge
of God? To be strengthened with all might
by His glorious power and to be made patient in long-suffering
and joy. I'll take it. I'll take all of
it. Now, have I attained unto these
things? No, far from it. But I want to. I may never attain
unto them all, but it's my desire to. And here's the good gospel
news. That's what gospel means, good
news. Good news for sinners. If you're a sinner, this is good
news. God can bring all these things
to pass. Every one of them. And regardless of all my faults,
and regardless of all my failures, if I trust in Christ, He already
has. My Lord has mediated for me by
His blood. So when God sees me, He sees
His perfect Son. We talked about that the first
hour. Isn't that an amazing thought? And I've been made worthy of
these four aforementioned things. Let me tell you something that
ought to tickle your innards like Mountain Dew. The believer
is perfect in Christ. Perfect. Here are three reasons
why that's so. Hebrews 10, 14, for by one offering,
He hath perfected forever those who are being sanctified. Christ's
sacrifice made the believer perfect forever in God's eyes. Second
reason, Colossians 2, 10, and you are complete in Him who is
the head of all principality and power. Child of God, you're
complete, lacking nothing in Christ. Everything that God requires
of you, the Lord Jesus Christ has provided for you. Third thing,
Matthew 5, verse 48. Therefore, Christ said, you shall
be perfect just as your Father in heaven is perfect. We now possess Christ's perfection
and we are as holy and as perfect as God Himself. Now you say,
that can't be. It can't be in and of yourself,
but it is in Christ. We now possess Christ's perfection. Now here's two reasons why. Hebrews 10.10 By that will we
have been sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all. Friends, if you're in Christ,
you've been sanctified, made holy. That's what that word means.
You know, we've got these big words. They have simple definitions.
Sanctified means set apart and made holy. Only God can do that. You can't set yourself apart
and make yourself holy. Just try it. You can't do it. Holy by Christ's sacrifice in
His own body on the tree, on the cross. Second reason, 1 Peter
2.9, but you're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
His own special people that you may proclaim the praises of Him
who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. called
you out of darkness. And His call is effectual. When
God calls, you'll come. Now listen, if mama calls you, or
grandma calls you, or if the preacher calls you, you may not
come. And if you do, it'll be to no
avail. But when God calls you, it's an effectual call, and you'll
come. You'll come. So, I've got to ask, what do
we do? Well, there's only one thing
that we can do. And we don't do it in order for God to save
us. We do it because God saved us. And what is it? We give thanks. Look at verse 12. Giving thanks
unto the Father which hath made us meet. That word means fit.
He's made us fit to be, oh, I like this word, partakers. Partakers. of the inheritance of the saints
in life. It is God who has made us fit. It's God who has made us worthy. It's God who made us partakers. What does that mean? That means
God has made us one who shares in, partakes in, and has a portion
of all that belongs to Christ, His inheritance, the inheritance
God gave Him. And you know, I've thought about
this a lot. When a man, maybe a wealthy man
dies and he has ten children, he in most cases divides his
assets, leaves them to all equal shares to all ten. But when God
gives his inheritance, all the people of God get it all. You
can't divide his inheritance. It belongs to all of them equally. What an inheritance. And in Christ
we're partakers of it. We share in the blessings of
what Christ as our mediator has done for us. Is He your mediator? We're partakers of His divine
nature. Having escaped the corruption
that's in the world through lust. We are partakers of Christ. Scripture
says if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to
the end. And let me tell you the flip
side of that. It's God that keeps you to the end. Having loved
His own, He loved them unto the end. So, we're safe on that. Oh, you're one of those who believe
once saved always saved. Yes, I am. If God saved me, I'm
saved forever. We're partakers of His holiness,
Hebrews 12.10. We're partakers of His grace,
Philippians 1.7. And here's the difficult one. We're partakers of His sufferings.
The Lord sends sufferings. Do you believe that? He's the
one that sends them. He's the first cause of everything.
Why does He send sufferings our way? To depend on Him. To keep depending on Him. To
keep trusting in Him. that we may grow in the grace
and in the knowledge of Him, partakers of His sufferings.
And here we see that we're partakers of His inheritance. We're heirs
of God, joint heirs with Christ. We have eternal life. And this
is the record, the testimony, John wrote, that God had given
to us eternal life. And this life is where? In His
Son. And then he goes on to say, he
that hath the Son has life, everlasting life. He that has not the Son
has not life. That's pretty plain, that's pretty
direct, that's pretty simple. Why would anyone and everyone
in the world want to have Christ? As an heir of God and joint heir
with Christ, we inherit the kingdom. Then shall the king say unto
them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. We're blessed as an heir of God
with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places, Ephesians
1-3. And as an heir, we'll reign with Christ. As an heir, we'll share His glory,
Colossians 3, 4. So how do we become a partaker
in Christ? Are you interested? By faith
in Him. Simply believing Him. Trusting
Him. Depending on Him for everything.
Depending on Him that when I stand before God in judgment, that
He's taking care of everything for me. He is. This is not fables we're preaching. This is the truth. The truth
of God. The Word of God. To be a partaker means to be
a participant. It means to share in what God
has provided for us in Christ. And whether it's His divine nature,
or His holiness, or His grace, His sufferings, or eternal life
with Him, through faith, the Lord Jesus In the Lord Jesus,
we are partakers of everything that He's provided for us. Now,
if we could truly get that in our hearts, we'd close up shop
and go home right now. Everything that Christ has received,
eternal life, the kingdom, the divine blessing, glory, is ours
in Him because we're joint heirs with Him. Well, what did we have
to do with it? Nothing. How did we participate
in our salvation? We didn't. In verse 13, the apostle is still
speaking of what God in Christ has done for us, and he says,
God, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath
translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son. Who delivered
us? God has delivered us. Salvation
is of the Lord. That word delivered implies being
rescued. That's exactly what I was. I was rescued. Rescued from danger. Rescued from oppression. Rescued
from sin. Salvation is entirely God's work. Rescued from the dominion of
darkness. And darkness in the Scriptures
symbolizes and represents sin and evil and ignorance. Rescued from the slavery of sin. From the bondage of sin. I'm free. I've been rescued. No longer am I separated from
God. Translated. That word means transferred. to the Kingdom of God. The verb
transferred means a complete relocation from one realm to
another. I'm transferred from darkness
unto light. Darkness representing sin and
light representing salvation. I've gone from death unto life. Transferred. Translated. We're translated from spiritual
death into spiritual life. And this transformation signifies
eternal life. Not just the quality of life
we have here, even though that improves too. Because we begin
to see that it's not just having more and all, it's a quality
of life. But living in this life knowing
that Christ has provided for us everything we need for the
next life, everything is a-okay. Brother Montgomery used to say,
everything's gonna be all right. That was assuring to me because
he's right. Everything's gonna be all right
if we have Christ. Old things passed away, Paul
said in 2 Corinthians. That means all your sins passed
away. Behold, all things have become new. We get to start over. In Christ, believers are not
only forgiven, but also given new life and understanding. The
light of the gospel illuminates our minds and our hearts, revealing
the truth of God's will and the path of righteousness. These
are the things that God has done for us in Christ. But that's
not all He's done. Look at verse 14. It says, "...in whom..." Now
let me tell you, salvation is in a person. It's in a whom.
In whom we have redemption. We've been redeemed. The wages
of sin is death. And God, in the person of Jesus
Christ, came along and He said, how much is the oath? I paid it in full. That's what
redemption is. I'm redeemed. God delivered us. Our redemption
is in Him. Where do folks get the idea that
the sinner did anything to be saved? I wish somebody would
show me that. How are we saved? Through His
blood. Why are we saved? Through His
blood is the forgiveness of sins. Without the shedding of blood,
there's what? No remission for sin. No forgiveness
for sin. God's too holy to forgive sin.
The wages of sin is death. So Christ died in His people's
place. He shed His blood for the remission
of their sin. And all of our sins paid in full. I told you this story, it's worth
telling again. One time in my life, I was having
a rough time financially. And I'd bitten off a little bit
more than I'd chewed. And I went down, I finally scraped
up the money to make my truck payment. No, I take that back. I didn't have enough to make
the payment. So I made an interest payment. You know anything about
that? Don't do it. But I went down
and made an interest payment. Nothing came off the balance
of what I owed. It just pacified them for another
month. And the lady looked up my account
and she said, your truck's paid for. I started laughing. No, it's not. Yes, it is. It's paid for. I said, how so?
She said, well, I have a note here that Leo Edmondson came
and paid it in full. He paid our account in full. The law required blood for atonement
because life is in the blood according to Leviticus 17 and
11. The shedding of blood, now listen
to me, the shedding of blood in the Old Testament sacrifices. They made one sacrifice after
another. Every year they had to atone
for their sins until the next year. The blood of bull and goats
never put away one sin. It just pacified God until you
had to do it again. The Old Testament sacrifices
represent the death of another being offered as a sacrifice
in the room instead of the offending sinner. In the Old Testament,
animals like lambs, goats, and bulls were sacrificed to atone
for sin, but they never put away any sin. And these sacrifices,
they were only temporary and pointed to the ultimate sacrifice,
the Lord Jesus Christ, who would shed His own blood for the sins
of His people. Now listen, Christ's ultimate
sacrifice points to the necessity of bloodshed and the forgiveness
of sin, and Christ being the ultimate sacrifice. God in the
flesh. Christ and Him crucified. Who
is He? He's God. What did He do? He
died for His people. What an ultimate sacrifice. Is
that not ultimate? It's the fulfillment of sin being
put away and forgotten by God. Well, now wait a minute, brother.
God's sovereign. God can't forgive it? How can God forgive and forget
the believer's sin? There's no sin in the sinner.
Christ doesn't put it away. There's nothing to forgive and
forget. Christ put it all away. Are you following me? Don't you
want Him as your mediator? Don't you want Him as your sacrifice? The fullness of what God requires
is found in Him. Christ did away with our sin. He paid for every single sin
with the shedding of His blood. And His death on the cross, where
He shed His blood, is the final sacrifice for sin. No more required. You don't have to come again
next year or the year after. Paid in full, I'll never forget.
A few weeks after my dad did that, I got a canceled note in the mail and
stamped in red, it said paid in full. Somewhat ironic that it was stamped
in red. Stamped in the blood of Christ,
my account, the wages of my sin has been paid in full. I'm telling you the truth on
this according to God's Word. And get in this Word and see
if I'm telling you the truth. I'm not going to argue about
it. I'm not going to debate it. I'm going to declare it. And
if you've got a problem with it, your problem is with God,
so you get in here and see if it's so. And I mean that in the nicest
way. His blood was the perfect, sinless
offering, making it sufficient to forgive all the sins of all
those who trust in Him. Who is this sacrifice? Who is
this substitute? Who is this mediator? Verse 15,
He's the image of the invisible God. He is God. He's God in the
flesh. You can't see God who's invisible,
but you can see, they could see Christ the visible one, God in
the flesh. He's the God-man, not 50% God,
not 50% man, 100% God and 100% man, the God-man. And what did
He do? He died to put His people's sin
away. He's God in human flesh, made
in our likeness, yet without sin. That simply means that Christ
as the firstborn, in the sense that He's supreme, and that He
has dominion over all creation as the Creator, had the right
to put away our sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Look at verse 16. For by Him were all things created. That means He created all things. that are, and He created all
things that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities
or powers, all things were created by Him and for Him. And He's
before all things, and by Him all things consist, that just
simply means they exist, they have their existence in Him,
are made up because of His creation. in all that the world might see
and know who Jesus Christ is. He's not the little old man upstairs. He's not someone that we've got
a good thing going with. He's not someone that loves everyone
and wants and needs and begs for someone to love him back. He's God, who Paul calls the
blessed and only potentate, the King of kings and the Lord of
lords. You take the most powerful man
on earth, he's his king, he's his Lord, whether he knows it
or not. who only hath immortality dwelling
in the light which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath
seen, nor can see, to whom be honor and power everlasting."
And then Paul wrote, Amen. So be it. That's the truth. This is God who reigns over all
the nations, God that sits on His holy throne, Psalm 47a. Christ is the God whose dominion
is an everlasting dominion. It never ends. His kingdom endures,
the scripture says, from generation to generation. All the people,
all the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. Grasshoppers,
we're called. Christ does as He pleases with
the powers of heaven and those who dwell in the earth. And no
one can stay, hold back his hand, or say unto him, what have you
done? Or what are you doing? This is
the Lord who has established His throne in the heavens and
His kingdom rules over all. Psalm 103, 19. This is all Scripture. This is not Bible-Baptist creed. I had a man attend here one time.
The second time he came, he said, what is the creed that your church
creed? I said, right here. This is it. Jesus Christ and
Him crucified as it's declared in this book. Not some man-made
rules. Well, do you have to give 10%?
You ought to give more. But we don't harp on giving.
We put a box in the back and say, if you want to give, give.
That's between you and God. You're not going to pressure
people to support God. God doesn't need your support. You need to support God. You need to support the church
that preaches His Gospels. But that's a whole other message
and one I'm not going to ever preach. Where do we start? This is the
Lord who has established His throne. Remember the former things
of old, for I am God and there is none else. I am God and there
is none like me. I am the Lord who declares the
end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that
are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will
do all My pleasure. I am the God who calls a ravenous
bird from the east and a man that executeth My counsel from
a far country. Yea, I have spoken it. I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it. I will do
it. He's not trying. He doesn't want
to. He's not frustrated. His hands
are not tied. You can't stay His hand. Today
the Lord Jesus Christ has been made by ignorant men. I'm not
trying to be ugly. That's what they are. I'm ignorant
about a lot of things. I'm not offended by that. I've jumped on airplanes and
flew from one place to another, but I don't know how, I'm ignorant
as to how airplanes fly. But today men have made Jesus
Christ just a little mealy-mouthed beggar who's dependent on man
and man's will to do anything. Won't you give Jesus your heart?
Won't you make Jesus Lord? He's already Lord. He's the Lord
of Lords and He's the King of Kings. And I declare to you this
morning that that kind of mess is a lie straight from the pits
of hell. Lost men and women better read
this book. It's a holy book written by a
holy God. It's called the Holy Bible. His
angels are holy angels. The men of old that preached
His Word are called holy men. His Spirit is called the Holy
Spirit. He's holy. And you best get ready
to deal with a holy God who will by no means clear the guilty. And we won't be saved because
we let Him. And it won't be because we accept
Him. It won't be because we let Him have His way. I can't stand
that kind of talk. It'll be by grace, His grace,
it'll be by sovereign grace. For this God, the true God, the
sovereign God, the holy and just God, has mercy on whom He'll
have mercy. Who does God have mercy on? Whoever He wants to. Therefore hath He mercy on whom
He'll have mercy, and whom He will, He hardeneth. Who does
God send to hail? Whoever He wants to. But He's
never sent one to hell, yet that loves and trusts His Son. Verse 18, I'll hurry. And He's
the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead, that in all things He might have the preeminence.
Just as a head leads a body, Jesus Christ is the leader and
authority of the church. He's the beginning. He's the
preeminent one, the first cause of all things, who every blessing
and curse flows from. He resurrected from the grave. He was the firstborn from the
dead. That makes Him supreme in all things. That's what preeminence
means. It means first in rank and importance. And Paul is confirming here that
Jesus Christ should be exalted above all and everything in the
universe. It all exists because of Him. But sadly in our day, He's not
exalted. He's not praised. He's not worshipped.
But He should be. And all who reject and neglect
this wondrous truth are going to be without excuse. Without
excuse. Now verse 19 gives us the reason
that Christ is all those things and why he's qualified to be
the sinner's only mediator between God and man. For it pleased the
Father that in him should all fullness dwell. God Almighty, for no reason outside
of Himself, for no reason apart from His will, His purpose, His
pleasure, the fact that He just simply pleased Him as God to
make Christ all fullness. It's all in Him, in Christ. God's
nature, God's character, God's essence, God's attributes, all
according to God. Omniscience. Christ's possession
of complete knowledge. Omnipotence. Christ has unlimited
power. Omnipresence. Christ is present
everywhere. Love. Our Lord embodies perfect,
unconditional love. Eternality. The Lord's eternal,
without beginning or end. Immutability. Christ is unchanging
in His nature and character. And sovereignty. He's on the
throne. Do what He will. Where's your
God, David? My God's in heaven. He'd know
us wherever He pleases. No one but Jesus Christ who has
the preeminence and is qualified like He is to reconcile you to
God. In verse 19, that word should
expresses something that was determined intended and predestined
to happen. Not just something that may or
may not happen. It doesn't mean something uncertain or that God
is under obligation to make Him all fullness. It reflects God's
deliberate will and purpose. Now in closing, look at verse
20. And having made peace, how? Through the blood of His cross,
by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself. By Him, I say,
whether they be things in earth or things in heaven, Christ our
one and only Mediator made peace." How? Through the blood of His
cross, right back to that. What did that do for us? It reconciled
us to God. What was the result? It restored
harmony and brought peace between us and God. How did it affect
sinners who believed? Verse 21. And you that were sometime
alienated, and that doesn't mean alienated
one minute when you did bad and not alienated
when you did good. It doesn't mean you were just
sometimes alienated. It means for a long while you
were alienated. You were for some time alienated. And we were all our life until
Christ intervened. You were enemies in your mind
by wicked works, yet now have He what? Reconciled. He went between us and God and
He made everything all right. How? Verse 22. In the body of
His flesh through death. What was the outcome and effect
of that? To present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable
in His sight. What does that mean? It means
that we're reconciled to God. You're reconciled to God. Once angry with us, God was. Every day, God no longer angry. Not with us. Not with those who
are in Christ. Now, there is therefore no condemnation
to them who are aware in Christ Jesus. And we are now, look at it, holy,
set apart, purified from sin. We are unblameable, without fault
or defect, with no charge against us. We are unreprovable, no reason
for reproach or punishment to us. Have you heard any better
news than that? Seriously. Have you heard any
better news than that? Not if you're a sinner. It's
good news for sinners. Come to Christ. Trust in Him. Lean on Him. Not on your own
understanding. Not in your own filthy works.
Christ is our only mediator. He only has the fullness of God. He's the only one who can reconcile
us because salvation is of the Lord. And He is the Lord. He's the Lord of Lords. So may
God enable you to believe in Him. Amen.