Let's be going back to 1 John,
but we're going to be in chapter 5. 1 John 5. In our text here, John
sets forth the witness of God concerning our confession. And God himself bears a witness
that our confession is of God, that it's His work, that He has
purposed this, that He has sent His Son, and His Son, the Son
of God, is the Lord Jesus Christ. So, first, since I used that
word confession, right, He's a witness to our confession,
well, what is our confession? What are we saying when we speak
of our confession? Well, we're talking about our
hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. And John had just said back in
verse 5, so 1 John 5, 5, who is he that overcometh the world?
But he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God. What a blessed
hope we have, brethren, that we have overcome the the wrath
of God which is upon the world, that we have been delivered from
that, that we've been delivered and saved from the wickedness
of this world, and going the way of the world, and being in
bondage to the world, and that strong man in whose house we
were, we've been delivered from that wrath, and that we may know
the true and living God. And so, in addition to overcoming,
it's It's by Christ. It's by the Son of God that we
live and have life and have our being in fellowship with the
true and living God. So this is the hope of every
believer that our Savior, Jesus Christ, who came and accomplished
this, that our hope is not in a mere man, but our hope is in
the Son of God. in the Son of God who came and
accomplished this work. This isn't just the work of some
man who's a good man and a man who's a little better than we
are. Right? Not at all. This is the Son of
God. This is perfect, holy God robed in flesh. Flesh as a man. You see, we all
were born of Adam's corrupt seed. Not so with the Lord Jesus Christ. He is, as God promised, he is
born of the seed of woman. by a virgin, a virgin, by the
overshadowing of the Holy Ghost, by the overshadowing of the Holy
Ghost. So, this is what makes John's
declaration so meaningful when he said back in chapter 4, verse
2, chapter 4, verse, 1 John 4, 2, every spirit that confesseth
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. We are of God. Every spirit that
confesses that the Son of God came in the flesh, that he came
robed in flesh to accomplish this redemption, that spirit
in you testifying of that is of God. And we've covered this
a lot, so I'm not going to belabor it very much, but when we're
talking about what we confess, our hope, we're speaking of who
Jesus of Nazareth is, that he is the Son of God. We're speaking
why he came. He came that we might have life
through Him because we cannot save ourselves. He had to do
the work. And then we're confessing what
He accomplished as the Son of God come in the flesh. What did
He obtain for us? It says back in the second half
of chapter 4 verse 9, God sent His only begotten Son into the
world that we should live through Him. that we should live through
him, have eternal life through him. So if the Lord Jesus Christ
redeemed you, purchased you with his own blood, then you will
believe Christ. You will hear, you will receive
him, you will believe him unto the saving of your soul through
that gift of faith which God gives to his children. And God,
manifesting his grace toward you, gives you this hope that
though I'm a sinner, that though I'm a sinner by nature, by deed,
by word, by thought, though I'm a sinner and though I cannot
keep the righteousness of the law, holy God receives me in
the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not because
of my works of righteousness, which I've done, which I have
none. their filthy rags, but because of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's why he sent them for this purpose, so that without the
law, we are free in the Lord Jesus Christ, freed from sin's
dominion, freed from the yoking and bondage of the law, and free
to serve God and to worship him in spirit and in truth. delivered
from that fear, and the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the torments,
and what we were under, because it's all finished in the Lord
Jesus Christ. God reveals in every redeemed
child, he reveals in us a new birth, and this hope of the new
birth is Christ in you, the hope of glory. So there's a living
faith. And you think about it, brethren,
this is a glorious manifestation of God's grace in you that you
should hear. that you should be turned from
dead works that cannot save, and that you should find your
all in the Lord Jesus Christ and rejoice in him. That's a
miracle of grace. And it stems, it flows out of
the life of Jesus Christ. It's because of the Lord Jesus
Christ that we live. It's because of what he did for
us, incoming in the flesh and redeeming us. with his own blood
on the tree. That's why you live. That's why
I live. That's why you have this hope
and this faith and this love in you. It's because of the Lord
Jesus Christ. It all flows from him and so
And so this work of salvation is the Lord's wrought in you. Paul said to the Ephesians, we
are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works
and faith and hope and love. and gentleness and patience and
long-suffering are good works. They're good works, which God
hath before ordained that we should walk in them, in this
fellowship with one another, loving God, being loved of God,
and experiencing that grace of his mercy. Having gone through
that and set forth the believer's spirit rock confession, this
living hope and confession we have, John now declares God's
witness of Christ. Making it known that Christ is
worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners. This is our hope, brethren. This
is our hope, that though we were born of the corrupt seed of Adam,
we now are born again by the righteous, incorruptible, holy
seed of the Lord Jesus Christ. In verse six, here it is, John
now speaks of this witness of God concerning Christ, to establish
you firmly on the rock, which is Christ, all right? So verse
six, this is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ,
not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the spirit
that beareth witness, because the spirit is truth. All right, so right out of the
gate. we come to some words that people
have a disagreement on as to what John means by this water
and this blood. When I first read it, I thought,
I'm going to need some time to study this, to be more settled
upon this. And so I'm not going to speak
decidedly on this. But I have studied it and looked
at it and see many blessed and beautiful pictures of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And this is how you, in the flesh
we get so caught up and fixated on being right. And we're so
quick to cut off people that have disagreements. But I can
tell you that there's blessed brethren that we would call brethren.
that have a different viewpoint on this. But, and this comes
down to that spirit that is of God versus the spirit that is
another spirit. Because the spirit of God exalts
and glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. Because in the things,
the different viewpoints, they're all speaking of Christ and glorifying
him. and what he has done. And they're
emphasizing some aspect of what the Lord Jesus Christ has accomplished
for us. And none of it's not true, right? It comes down to, well, is that
exactly what John was saying? It's true. We know it's true
because the scriptures say it's so. This is what Christ did and
what he accomplished. But whether John was meaning
that particular one or something else, the Lord knows. And that's
the blessedness of the Lord, that another spirit glorifies
man and will put the emphasis on man, but the spirit of God
will put the emphasis on Christ. And he grows his children. As
we're learning and growing and seeing more and more of Christ,
we might see more clearly that, oh wait, I think actually John
was meaning this particular thing that the Lord did here. All right? But he grows us. And if there's
anything wrong, that goes. And if it's true, it stays. And
the Lord adds to it and builds upon it. And so I say that to
comfort your hearts in this. And I think you'll see that,
because some would say that this is speaking of how that Christ
fulfilled, right? The water and the blood, how
that speaks to the ceremonial law. That speaks to the law of
Moses, and what the law of Moses under that Levitical covenant
spoke of, which spoke of water and of the blood. It spoke of
baptisms and washing couches, and there was a washing of things
with water, and there was the blood, the shedding of blood,
without which no man shall be justified. There's a sense in
which, yeah, that's true. The Lord Jesus Christ did come
and fulfill all the law and all the prophets. And all that was
written of him, he fulfilled every jot and every tittle of
that law. And it's beautiful. It's a beautiful
picture. It's a wonderful picture in that. And I don't have any problem
with that. But I don't think that's what the Apostle has in
mind here when he wrote that our Lord came by water and blood.
It's true. That is very true. It's not untrue.
And it glorifies Christ. But I don't think that's what
the Apostle John is revealing or saying here when he said Christ
came by water and blood. I believe that in the context
here, John is affirming to us the witness that our God, giving
us that this Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that he is sent
of God, and that he is. This is speaking of the witness
of God to you that this man, this Jesus of Nazareth, is the
Son of God. And so, what we see here is that
when Christ's ministry began, and I believe what he's talking
about here, and there's layers, there's tracks here, just like
in the Old Testament, we see Christ, and you can go back and
see Christ, and you can go back to that same passage and see
Christ, another aspect that's like a diamond, right? It's the
same diamond, you're just holding it up against different light
and against different backdrops, and you're seeing the beauty
and the glimmer of it. And so there's a sense in which
it's all true, as it glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ according
to this word and his spirit. All right, so when our Lord began
his public ministry, how did God bear witness to his son? When he began his public ministry,
how did he begin? It was at the waters of baptism. It was at the waters of baptism,
at the very beginning of his public ministry, he went down
to the waters of Jordan, where John was baptizing, to be baptized
of him to fulfill all righteousness. Everything Christ did was to
fulfill the scriptures and to fulfill all righteousness, to
fulfill the word which was spoken of him. So turn over to Matthew
3. I'm going to take you to a couple
of scriptures, and we're going to be looking at Matthew and
John, a few, a number of scriptures, mostly John, but we're gonna
begin in Matthew here. Matthew 3, verse 16 and 17. And Jesus, verse 16, when he
was baptized, went up straightway out of the water, and lo, the
heavens were opened unto him. And he saw the Spirit of God
descending like a dove and lighting upon him, and lo, a voice from
heaven saying, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."
There's a witness born of Christ, the dove descending, and him
hearing the voice of the Father saying, this is my beloved Son
in whom I am well pleased. Don't lose your place in Matthew,
but go over to John chapter one. John chapter one. And don't leave
John too quickly, because I'll take you to another place after.
John chapter one and verse 32. And John bare record, saying,
I saw. John saying, John the Baptist,
who baptized Christ, said, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven
like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not. Before
this, I didn't know who he was. But he that sent me to baptize
with water, would be the Father, sent me there. The same said
unto me, upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending. and
remaining on him, the same as he which baptizeth with the Holy
Ghost. And I saw and bear record that
this is the Son of God. And then from that time, from
that moment, that testimony there at that water, at the waters
of baptism there for him, of Christ being baptized there,
from that time, everything our Lord did in his public ministry,
was testifying to that he is sent of the Father. All the words
he spoke, all the miracles he did. So this stands as a bookend,
if you will, from this point to this point, is what John is
saying here. So from that time, a forewitness
turned to John chapter 5. John chapter 5, verse 36. Because everything John's saying
here is about a witness, a witness, a witness, a witness that our
confession is true, that it is of God, that we are speaking
of the Son of God. So John 5.36, our Lord says,
but I have greater witness than that of John. For the works which
the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear
witness of me that the Father hath sent me. And the Father
himself which hath sent me hath borne witness of me. Ye have
neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape, and
ye have not his word abiding in you. For whom he hath sent,
him ye believe not. It's obvious you don't have his
word abiding in you, because you don't believe the one whom
he sent. Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have
eternal life, and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come unto me
that ye might have life. And so on this beginning here,
we have the witness of the water. At the beginning, we have the
witness of the water, and then everything in between that happened
after the water baptism is a picture here of what Christ
did. But it was not, and then John,
you can stay in this area here, but John, look back at verse
six. And 1 John 5, 6. But John said
there in the middle, he says, but not by water only. It wasn't
by water only. It wasn't just miracles. It wasn't
just demonstrations of the Father's power in him. He didn't just
come in to give us a signpost. right, as a direction, like to
reset our direction. No, we needed something more.
He didn't just come in this glory and this manifestation with these
words that we never heard before in these works that we've never
seen any man do. It wasn't by water only, right? If we're holding this thing true,
right? This salvation, your salvation,
my salvation requires blood. It requires blood. He came by
water and blood. He came by miracles in life and
an establishment, a witness of God, and by blood. By blood. So we come now to his
coming in the blood, which speaks of his sufferings and death.
It wasn't just all him talking to miracles. No, he suffered
and died for you, brethren. He suffered and died where he
shed his blood as the Lamb of God to atone for your sins and
my sins because we're filthy, bloody rag sinners. Our righteousness
are no good. They don't earn us any grace
with God. Our salvation is entirely by
the Lord Jesus Christ, who by himself made satisfaction unto
the Father, and obtained the forgiveness of sins for you,
to deliver you, brethren. So that if Christ shed his blood
for you, then from that point he undertakes to do everything
In fact, he was already undertook to do everything for you in eternity.
But what you're going to know is, if he did this for me, you're
going to know it. And he's going to do everything.
And you're going to keep seeing more and more how he does everything
for me because he undertook it to save you, to love you, to
bless you, to provide all that you need, and to give you life
in himself. But if he did not shed his blood
for you, then you are left to only your own strength, your
own power, your own wisdom, your own will and your will works,
and you will die in your sins, because you will not make yourself
righteous and accepted to God. and you will not come to Christ. If he died for you, you will
come to Christ. If he did not die for you and shed his blood
for you, you will not come. You are left to your own resources
and it just shows the corruption of man and what Christ did and
how it requires his glorious power to do it. It requires him
to do this by his miracle of grace, by his blood, by the giving
of his spirit. So looking at Christ's sufferings
now, don't lose John, but go over to Matthew 27, the end of
Matthew there, 27 verse 50. Here we have another witness
at the end there, at the shedding of his blood here. Verse 50,
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up
the ghost. And behold, the veil of the temple
was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And the earth
did quake, and the rocks rent. They tore open. They broke apart.
And the graves were open. Now, this happened after the
resurrection. But the graves were open, and many bodies of
the saints which slept arose and came out of the graves after
his resurrection. Paul speaks of that. How they
saw many people rise from the dead after Christ's resurrection,
and went into the holy city and appeared unto many. Now when
the centurion and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw
the earthquake and those things that were done, they feared greatly,
saying, truly, this was the Son of God. All right? Now one more. Go to John 19. John 19. John
adds this here. John 19, verse 34 and 35, But one of the soldiers with
a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood
and water. blood and water. And some think
this is all that John's talking about is this blood and water
which was shed, right? And that's beautiful also. I
don't have any problem with that. It's all true. It's all true. And he that saw it bare record,
and his record is true, and he knoweth that he saith true that
ye might believe, right? That this is the Son of God.
So in the life of our Lord and in his death, There is a witness
of God testifying to the whole of it that this is His Son, His
only begotten Son, whom He sent into the world to save His people
from their sins. He did this, and He's bearing
witness of these things, and that by the water and the blood,
whether we're talking about He came to fulfill all the law for
us. Yes, absolutely, that is true. He came and fulfilled all that
the prophets wrote concerning Him. of his birth, of his lowliness,
of his person, of his character, of his sufferings, of his death. All these things were written
of him, and he fulfilled all those things in that word, the
water of his word. We see it, too. We see that.
We see how that he's fulfilled. There's a witness of him in the
word, in the water of the word, because the word is compared
to water, right? And so this is all being witnessed
in the piercing of his side. And again, there's more of a
witness here. The piercing of his side and
out flows the blood and the water. The blood and the water affirming
that he accomplished redemption. And this is the real takeaway,
that Christ accomplished our redemption. The covenant of grace
is established and opened for sinners. for sinners, for you
and I, for our healing, for our healing, for our salvation, brethren. And John also said this in verse
6, and it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the
Spirit is truth, and it testifies to the witness born in every
child of God. The Spirit witnesses in you,
you that have the Spirit, that this is so, that Christ accomplished
this redemption, that all his works are of the Father, because
how many people saw his works and did not believe and rejected
it, but you believe? And you weren't even there, just
testifying to the power of Christ who prayed in this high priestly
prayer of John 17. Blessed are they who shall not
see, but shall believe because of their word. You believe because
of their word, brethren, witnessed unto you. That's a miracle of
grace. a miracle of grace that you live and believe the Lord
Jesus Christ. It's a witness for you, and he
witnesses to you in your salvation, that birth that he gives to you.
Now, at this point, we might as well look at another verse
that we think of, which is John 3, 5. John 3, 5. This is where
the Lord is talking to Nicodemus, who came to him by night. I think that's how they always
explain. I always describe them. So John 3, 5, Jesus answered,
verily, verily, I say unto thee, accept a man, be born of water
and of the spirit. He says, right, born of water
and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. So here our Lord is speaking
of this glorious regeneration work, this glorious work of regeneration. Because we were generated first
of Adam's corrupt seed, we must be regenerated, born again, of
Christ's incorruptible seed. And it makes so much sense when
you hear it. It's so simple. We must be regenerated,
brethren. And so our Lord's work in coming
here in the flesh, and our Lord's redemption work in shedding his
blood, doing the miracles, and his redemption, brethren, We're made partakers of this
grace, to hear this word, to receive this word, to believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ here, and to be delivered from death. And he gives his Holy Spirit.
And the Spirit takes that Word, the water of that Word, and by
the miracle of Christ's grace, His power, His life still working,
still doing what He does, is wrought in you so that you're
raised from the dead. and giving life in him, you that
believe. Praise God. I mean, he's the
one that does it. And so he accomplishes that miracle,
right, as we saw him do miracles from his baptism through his
ministry work. He did miracle after miracle
after miracle. He's still doing miracles, brethren. He's still
raising people from the dead. And he gives you his spirit,
who makes that word effectual, who applies that blood of the
Lord in us. And I'm already a little ahead
of myself, but our Lord gives life to his people. And listen
to how he describes our life in him as one of complete satisfaction,
of righteousness and sanctification, everything you need. He said
in John 4, John chapter 4, speaking to the woman at the well in verse
13 and 14, Jesus answered and said unto her, whosoever drinketh
of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the
water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that
I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing
up into everlasting life. So that that water there testifies
of all the miracles and it speaks to the miracle which he gives
you. You that are born of water, it's
that miracle of his life which is given unto you. that fountain
which is flowing and ever flowing, and so that all your satisfaction
is found in Him, and you're not looking for another Savior, you're
not looking for another word, you've heard Him, of whom Moses
and the prophets wrote. And He's fulfilled it all. He's
fulfilled it all, brethren. And so, my words fail me to satisfactorily
explain this, and I want you to see it. I'm just, you know,
I'm hanging on to it too and seeing it here, but I believe
the Apostle John is saying that life and death of Christ, which
was fulfilled in his ministry and sufferings of his death are
the substance of the witness, right? That's what he's, it's
that which is wrought in you of every child of God. that blood
and that water, we come forth being born of him, being made
alive, new creatures in the Lord Jesus Christ, so that the spirit
of God is sent unto you and he takes the things of Christ, those
things, right? In the preaching of the word,
the water of his word, the miracle of his grace, the blood of his
sufferings and redemption, so that he takes those things and
shows them unto you. makes them part of you. I mean,
you're in Christ, you're fixed in Christ, and you now know these
things, you hear these things. All right, and we saw last week
how we come forth with grave clothes, but those grave clothes
are unwrapped as we go, as we keep hearing that word, and that
water of that word just washes us, and washes us, and washes
us, and it all speaks to the miracle of his grace. And I'll
just quote that, what Paul said, he that ministereth the spirit
unto you, He therefore that ministereth the Spirit to you, the Spirit
and worketh miracles among you, you and your brethren being raised
from the dead, doeth he it by the works of the law or by the
hearing of faith. And so through that preaching,
the Spirit takes the things of Christ and shows them unto you.
reveals them, manifests them, bears witness, testifies that
this is the Christ, this is your hope, this is our life, this
is our salvation, that we continue in him, that we not draw back,
but that we continue in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, By that
power, we die with Christ, right? We understand that we died with
Christ, and that we now live by Christ, and we live with Christ,
and we have that witness of his life and death, that water and
blood wrought in you, given to you. You receive that, that witness
in yourself. As Paul said, I'm crucified with
Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by
the faith of thee, Son of God, who loved me and gave himself
for me. There's a witness wrought in
us. Paul even said to the Corinthians, he said, I die daily. But I live. There's parts of my flesh that
die daily. And not to mention even from
a natural sense, but even in an understanding sense. We're
delivered from death, but we live. We live in Christ. We live
by Christ. So now we're told in the scriptures
that in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be
established. And this is what John gives us.
in verse seven here. It won't be as long on the rest
of these few verses, I just wanna look at. Verse seven, he says,
1 John 5, seven, there are three that bear record in heaven, the
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. And so that's a reference, a
beautiful reference to the trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
right? All giving witness Because the
word is Christ, and they all give testimony that this Jesus,
who came in the flesh, that he is the eternal, uncreated word
of God. He ever liveth, for in him dwelleth
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And God is one. There
can only be, philosophically speaking, we know there's only
one almighty God. There can't be two almighty gods,
there can only be one God. And he tells us in his word,
it's me only, and there's none else. God is one. God is one,
and he reveals himself in three distinct persons, Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost. And this one Savior is testified
to us in verse eight. And there are three that bear
witness in earth of what the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost have
done, who they've sent, the Son of God. There's three that bear
witness in earth, the Spirit and the water, which is the miracle
of His grace understood and made known through the preaching of
His word. and the blood, and these three agree in one. And so this confirms what I was
trying to say before, how that the salvation of God is wrought
in every believer by the word and the miracle of life of the
Lord Jesus Christ, which the scriptures describe as a fountain
of water. flowing in you now. You live. You live. You feed upon the bread
of heaven. And there's the blood of our
Lord's suffering in the room instead of His people on the
cross. And there's the giving of His
Holy Spirit who applies the blood and the life of Christ, giving
you a new birth, brethren. You are regenerated, born again
of Christ's incorruptible, holy seed, so that you are new creatures,
that though this flesh still reflects Adam, but in the inner
man, it is Christ in you. It is Christ, and we hear him,
and we follow him by faith, and were raised a new man, no more
dead in trespasses and sins, no more blind and just going
the way of the world, but we see and follow him. We see and
believe him. And so the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
have undertaken for you all that pertains unto your salvation
so that you, hoping in Christ, will not come short of that which
you seek. and that which you've entrusted
unto him against that day of judgment, that he is all my righteousness. And when I stand before that
throne, I don't want anything of my own works of righteousness
which I've done. I want to be found in his righteousness. And that's our hope and our confidence. Then, very quickly, verse 9 and
10. If we receive the witness of
man, well, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness
of God which he hath testified of his son. All right, so here's
that witness of God manifesting to his child of Christ. He that
believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. He that
believeth not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth
not the record that God gave of his Son. And so, in that,
it speaks of that, in that new birth, you're redeemed, brethren. You can't not believe Christ. The Spirit has been given to
you. Sometimes it's described as He's given you a new heart,
a new heart. We had a heart of stone, but
now we have a heart of flesh, meaning that we are being conformed. and molded in the image of Christ
through various pressures, through various temptations, through
various trials, through various hardships and difficulties, through
the love of brethren and the fellowship of one another and
the worship of God and hearing his word, we're being Well, we're
made, but we're being taught and led of Christ by faith and
growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. Other times it's talked about as a circumcision. which
is only the Holy Spirit reaches and removes that, cuts that veil
of flesh that was over the heart, whereby we were blind and could
not see these things. So that we're no longer content
with dead letter religion, we're no longer content with the tinkerings
of this flesh trying to work a righteousness. We don't need
those things. We have Christ, and God the Father,
And God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit, bear witness of
these things in us, brethren. And so I'll just stop there for
now. But we're not condemned anymore. We were condemned, not because
Christ condemned us, but because we were condemned already in
Adam. But now we're not condemned. And how do you know? Because
He's born witness in us that Christ is my all. Christ is my
Lord and Savior. He is my only hope. He is my
righteousness. And you whose confession is that,
that is the witness of God in you, brethren. It's really that
simple. it's the Lord makes it known
so I pray that he comfort you with that and again it all speaks
to the glories that Christ has done it all speaks to what he
who he is and what he's accomplished it's a witness of that confession
which he's given to you. It's a witness. God bears witness
to that. Yep, that's my son. The one you're
hoping in, that's the one who I've sent, and he is the Savior.
Trust him. Believe him. Stay upon him. Don't
be moved from him.