Good evening, let's begin our
evening service by standing and singing 309, 309, Beneath the
Cross of Jesus. Beneath the cross of Jesus, my
pain would take my stand. The shadow of a mighty rock within
a weary land. A home within the wilderness,
a rest upon the way, from the burning of the noonday heat and
the burning of the day. Upon the cross of Jesus, mine
eye at times can see. The very dying form of one who
suffered there for me. And from my smitten heart with
tears to wonders I confess. The wonders of his glorious love
and mine own worthlessness. I take across thy shadow for
my abiding place. I ask no other sunshine than
the sunshine of his face. Content to let the world go by
to know no gain nor loss. My sinful self, my only shame,
my glory all across. Thank you. You may be seated. I'm going to be reading from
Colossians chapter 1. Let's pick up in verse 3. Paul writes, We give thanks to
God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always
for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of
the love which ye have to all the saints. for the hope which
is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the
word of the truth of the gospel, which is come unto you, as it
is in all the world, and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also
in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of
God in truth. Let's pray. Our gracious Lord,
We thank you. We give thanks to you, Lord,
because you have worked this precious fruit in your people
that we should hear your gospel, that we should hear of Christ
and hear the voice of Christ to know that you are the true
living God and that you have sent salvation in your son, Jesus
Christ, to save your people, to deliver us from captivity,
and to bring us into the family of our God, that we should know
you and have fellowship with our God and be at peace with
you and have fellowship with our brethren. Lord, we thank
you for this ministry. We thank you for your love and
your blessing for your people. We pray that you would pour out
your spirit upon us this night, that we would hear your word,
that we would indeed be blessed by it, and that we would hear
our savior proclaimed and lifted up and be drawn to him by your
power. Because Lord, it's not of us.
We know it's not of our strength or our power, but of you. Lord,
we pray for our brethren who could not be with us tonight.
We ask Lord that you would have mercy upon them and heal them,
help them, strengthen them and join them to be with us this
Sunday. Lord, we pray that you would
bring out your people, that you would draw your sheep and that
you would gather your flock together in this part of the world. Lord,
we look to you because we have no strength or wisdom of our
own and know that if you do the work, Lord, then indeed it shall
be blessed. It's in the name of our Lord
and Savior that we pray these things. Amen. As you remain sitting, let us
sing 318, I Need Thee Every Hour, 318. our most gracious Lord. No tender voice like Thine can
peace afford. I need Thee, O I need Thee. Every hour I need Thee. O bless me now, my Savior, I
come to Thee. I need thee every hour. Stay thou nearby. Temptations lose their power
when thou art nigh. I need thee. Oh, I need thee. Every hour I need thee. O bless me now, my Savior, I
come to Thee. I need Thee every hour, enjoy
Your pain. Come quickly and abide, for life
is vain. ? I need Thee, oh I need Thee
? Every hour I need Thee ? Oh bless me now my Savior ? I come
to Thee ? I need Thee every hour ? Most Holy One ? Oh make me
Thine indeed Now, blessed Son, I need Thee, oh, I need Thee. Every hour I need Thee. Oh, bless me now, my Savior,
I come to Thee. Thank you. Good evening, brethren. Turn
with me to Isaiah 49. Let's go to Isaiah 49, and we'll
be looking at verses 19 through 26. And we'll be doing a bit of a review
of this chapter here. But at the end of this chapter,
Our Lord declares that His word of promise to us that He makes
to us here in this chapter and the gospel truths that are being
declared shall come to pass. And what he's going to reveal
is what we see at the end of verse 26, the last verse of the
chapter, where he says, And all flesh shall know that I the Lord
am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. And so when we gather together,
we're declaring the truths of the gospel. We're declaring the
promises. And what our God says is our
salvation. That's what we are making known
so that all flesh knows that He is our Savior, that our God
is our Redeemer. He's the one that saves his people. So that's what we're going to
be declaring tonight. I've titled this message, The
Prey Taken from the Mighty. And we begin with a little review. There's three objections that
are raised in chapter 49. And conveniently, they're all
in the verses that end in 4. Verse 4, 14, and 24. And the objections are raised
and our Lord answers each objection in grace. In grace. The reply is always the revelation
of grace that you may know the salvation of your God. That you may look away from self
and look to Him. Look to Him who is our salvation. And the first objection that's
raised is by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. And He says in verse
4, Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength
for naught, and in vain. And what He's doing here is he's
making known to us just how desperate we are. He's making us to know
the shame and the guilt and the sin that is within us by nature. He's making his people to know
that left to themselves, we will not hear. left to ourselves,
we will not believe. We will not be turned that we
might be healed by the true and living God by nature. We're not going to cooperate
with the Lord. We don't have a heart for the
Lord, nor an interest for our God. And so the Lord is making
this known. He's bringing this out to show
us that in the flesh, his own people that heard the truth,
that had the prophets, that had his word declaring he would come,
they rejected him. They would not hear him. In spite
of all his truth that he spoke, in spite of the miracles, they
wouldn't receive him. And then he directs our thoughts
away from fallen man. And it's to behold our God. He directs us away from man because
salvation is not in man. Salvation is not of our hands. It's not of our works. Salvation
is of the Lord. And so He's going to show us
that our God has everything. working according to his will
and purpose. He's sovereign God and he's doing
exactly as he pleases. And he ends verse four with that
word saying, yet surely my judgment is with the Lord and my work
with my God. And so everything's going exactly
according to the will and purpose of our God. God, he says, is
the judge. And as the judge, he's the one
who's determined whether or not Christ was successful. And our
God declares his son to be the just one, the one who's accomplished
the will and purpose of God that he was sent to do. We read in
Acts 3.18, But those things which God before had showed by the
mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, including
the rejection by the nation of Israel, that Christ should suffer,
he hath so fulfilled. And so our Lord accomplished
the will of his Father, even in his suffering. Even in his
suffering, he accomplished the will of his God and Father. And
so this rejection by Israel, it must happen. They must reject
him in order to reveal and expose the enmity That is in man. We see how even the most religious
of the religious hate and despise the true and living God. And
they will not hear his word. They will not hear his Christ,
the one whom the Father loves and sent to save his people.
Our Lord said, if God were your Father, ye would love me. but they rejected him, and they
took Christ and crucified him on a cross, just as we're told
in the scriptures. Acts 2, 23, him being delivered
by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have
taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. Verse 24
he says, Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of
death, because it was not possible that he should beholden of him. And so the father, what he did
in sending the son was to redeem a people. A people precious to
Him. A people He chose and committed
to the care of His Son. And the Son came and redeemed,
purchased the people. Only it wasn't with the riches
that man counts as riches. It wasn't with silver and gold. That's what man finds valuable. That's what he counts as worthwhile. That's how he redeems himself.
If there's a kidnapping, the ransom is with money, just like
gold and silver. But what our God values, that's
what the Son gave him, righteousness, holiness. He obeyed the Father. He gave him obedience. And as
the Lamb of God, in him is no sin. no darkness, nothing vile. He's without sin, without spot,
there's no blemish in him, no fault was found in him so that
he is the fit sacrifice provided for his people to make atonement
for our sins unto the Father and to redeem us from eternal
damnation. He accomplished that work. He
accomplished that work, and our God is satisfied with His Son. And so the Lord declares the
covenant of grace is established. It's fulfilled, and He declares
to us that the way to the Father you that would know the Father,
you that are sinners and have no means of saving yourselves,
He declares to us that the way to the Father is the Lord Jesus
Christ Himself. All who believe in Him have access
and forgiveness with the Father. He is the way of salvation. Then we come to the second objection,
which is raised by Zion, the people of the Lord. And they
raise an objection to this good news in verse 14, where it says,
But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
forgotten me. And to this the Lord responds
graciously. He responds to them in grace,
assuring them of the promises that he's made to them in Christ,
that they shall not fail the people. He's not forsaken us,
nor has he forgotten his people. His son, the father, spared not
the son, but delivered him up for us all. There is no way that
the father is going to turn from that accomplishment of what his
darling son accomplished. He's not going to abandon it
and just say, well, forget it now. I'm just going to be turned
away from this vile people. No, he sent his son and spared
him not, to redeem us, to deliver us. And so the Father has not
forsaken nor forgotten his people. And then this brings us to the
promises of this chapter, which are spoken to us declaring that
the Lord is going to bring his people into the church. He's going to fill his church
with a people that he purchased by the blood of Christ. And so
he increases the church and it says in verse 19, for thy waste
and thy desolate places and the land of thy destruction shall
even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants. And they
that swallowed thee up shall be far away. Verse 20, The children
which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall
say again in thine ears, The place is too straight for me.
Give me, give place to me, that I may dwell. And so all that
was destroyed and wasted by man's sin and his disobedience to God
The Lord is showing that he's going to bring a people out of
that destruction, out from those waste places, and bring them
into the city of God, bring them in to the walls, within the walls
of salvation. The believers, those who followed
God, those who heard God, they were whittled down. They became
a small remnant. The nation was taken apart, some
captive by this nation and others taken captive by that nation. And they were whittled down and
brought down to a mere, small, little remnant. And the people
thought, the Lord's forsaken us. The Lord's forgotten us. He's left us to ourselves, and
we're just being picked apart. But he says, oh, no. Oh no, I
have a people which I will draw out from the waste places and
the desolate places, and the place where you are now shall
be too small to contain them. And so the Lord is promising
that he shall greatly increase his church. so that suddenly
there's an abundance of children, an abundance of people that are
crying out and complaining, give place to me, that I may dwell. It's too narrow. It's too cramped
in here. And he'll fill that up. They'll
need room, and they need care, and they need attention. And
they're looking to you believers that have it, and they're looking
to you for the things that they need. And I was thinking, wouldn't
that be a great problem to have? that the Lord will bring in so
many people of his sheep, of his people, to this place that
this room would not be sufficient to contain the number of the
Lord's sheep that he draws out from dark places of prison and
captivity, giving them liberty and bringing them here. And so
that would be a wonderful problem to have. We read of it as having
happened in Acts 6, verse 1. It says, in those days when the
number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring. There arose a murmuring because
there were so many people and so many that had needs. There
were the Greek widows and there were the Jewish widows and the
Greek widows. The Greeks thought that their
widows were being passed over. And so the Lord did that. Many
of the commentators that I read, they mostly spoke of this as
something in the future, to come at the end of days. And that
may be, the Lord can do as He wills, but I see this as first
having already occurred in Christ. when our Lord was raised from
the dead and ascended up to the Father and poured out His Spirit
upon His church, many believers, many believers, especially from
when the gospel went out beyond the borders of Israel and the
Gentiles came in. And the Lord's done this throughout
history in the church where there's been special times of blessing. When the Lord has raised up men
to proclaim the gospel with clarity, a voice that's missing, that's
needed. And the Lord gives his blessing
and that word goes out and calls his people and he fills the churches
with his lost sheep and who need to hear that gospel. And so the
Lord says, I've not forgotten. I've not forsaken you. I'll do
it. I'll call them from far. I'll
bring them. to be and I'll bring them to
be with my small remnant and fill that place so that they
have a place where they can hear the gospel. And the Lord does
it in such a way that the body is going to notice it. The body,
the people are going to see and notice what the Lord himself
is doing so that it's an amazement to them. Look at verse 21. Then
shalt thou say in thine heart, who hath begotten me these, seeing
I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing
to and fro? And who hath brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone. These, where had they been? And
they're asking, how is this possible? Where did all these come? I don't
have the ability. I'm not sufficient for it. We're
looking at each other wondering, who did this? How did this happen?
And it's the Lord. The Lord does it, and then he
makes known. He makes us to ask the question,
to wonder, to cry out to the Lord, because from our perspective,
we know this isn't possible. This isn't possible. Only the
Lord could do this work. Only he could bless us in this
matter. And so we're gonna seek the Lord
and the Lord's going to answer. He's going to make sure that
we come to a knowledge of the truth that it's all of Him. It's all of Him in grace and
His power to His glorious name. And so He doesn't leave us in
darkness, attributing the works to ourselves and to what we've
done, but that we'll know the truth. Look at verse 22 and verse
23. Thus saith the Lord God, Behold,
I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard
to the people. And they shall bring thy sons
in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing
fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers. They shall bow
down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up
the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am
the Lord, for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me."
And so our Lord says here, thus saith the Lord God. It's his
work. It's to his praise. and His honor
and His glory. Turn over to 2 Thessalonians
chapter 2. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and
we're going to look at verses 13 and 14 so don't turn from
there until we've gotten through 14. The first couple of phrases
there in verse 13 Paul says, we're bound to give thanks always
to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord. The Lord's people
are thankful people. And we're going to thank the
Lord for what he does, because he makes us to know that what
is done, the fruit that's born in us, the work that is completed
here among us in his church, it's all by His grace. It's all
by His Spirit doing this and bearing the fruits that He wills
and purposes to bring. Now in the next phrase there,
verse 13, Because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation. And what we learn in the Gospel
being brought here and the Lord teaching us is that His people
are saved in grace. by grace. His people are a chosen,
elect people, given to Christ before the foundation of the
world. And being given to Christ, Christ
is our Savior. He is our surety. He is our mediator. And He can not fail to do that
which God has purposed Him to do for His people. And so He
sent His people. into the earth, bearing flesh,
bearing our flesh, the likeness of our flesh, yet without sin.
And he delivered his people from death by redeeming them with
his own blood. He died in the place of his people
and delivered us from eternal death. And so he made us righteous. in true holiness, in true holiness,
not by our works of righteousness, which we've done, not by our
false ways and through wicked ways and under
cloaks of righteousness, but no, he makes his people righteousness. He gives his people a heart for
the Lord. He gives us a heart and love
for one another and a heart to see him glorified. And we seek
him that he would bless this work and bless his people and
be with his people and reveal himself to his people. And then he makes the salvation
known to us through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the
truth. What he's taught us is that our
belief in him, our knowledge of him is all the work of the
Holy Spirit being poured out upon us so that we are regenerated. When we came forth in this flesh,
we were generated, we were born by the seed of our Father. And
that works all the way back up to Adam. And so now we are born
again, regenerated by the Spirit of God, by the seed of the Son,
the second Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ. We are His offspring. We are His fruit. We are the
people of the Lord. Now, stay in 2 Thessalonians.
I just want to read verse 22 from our text, Isaiah 49, 22. He said, I will lift up mine
hand to the Gentiles and set up my standard to the people. And this is what 2 Thessalonians
2, 14 confirms. Whereunto he called you. by our gospel, to the obtaining
of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. And so our God, in power,
He calls His people from all lands. He draws His people from
among the nations, from among the different tongues, from among
the different peoples, and brings them in to His land. into the city of God, which walls
are called salvation." So that we are brought into the salvation
of our God. Alright, now we come to the third
objection, which is raise and answer. This promise that our
God declares to us here that he's gonna bring in his people.
He's gonna call them and bring them in to the wall, within the
walls of salvation. There's a third objection raised
to this. Look at verse 24. Shall the prey
be taken from the mighty or the lawful captive delivered? And so this objection is raised
to the point of the Gentiles are gonna be brought in This
people that were in darkness, this people who knew not God,
who for generations didn't have prophets, they didn't have the
scriptures, they didn't have the law or the sacrifices or
the types and the pictures that are revealed to the people of
God in this word, they didn't have that. Are they going to
be brought out of darkness? And you think about the ignorance
that we were in by nature. How close we seemed to be, and
yet how far from the truth of God. How caught up we were in
our own knowledge, in our own works, in our own wisdom and
righteousness. And we thought we had it, and
yet how far off the mark were we from the true and living God. We look to ourselves, we look
to our religion, we look to our buildings, the preaching, all
those other things. But we never looked to Christ
and rested in Him. And so the question is, are they
going to be delivered from the mighty? Is the lawful captive
going to be delivered? And the Lord tells us, oh, yes,
most certainly. Yes, they shall. I'm going to
bring them out of the house of captivity. That's exactly what
our Lord is saying to His people. We're going to be delivered from
that bondage and that captivity. The mighty one spoken of here
is the evil one. It's the devil. And he goes about
as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. That one. That's the mighty one whom we're
not more powerful than. We can't overcome him. and deliver
ourselves from Him. By nature, we don't even know
that we're His captive. We think that we're people of
God by nature, but we were deceived and in bondage. And our Lord
tells us in Luke 11, if you want to look there, Luke 11, verses
21 and 22. He says in Luke 11, 21, when
a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace. But when a stronger than he shall
come upon him and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armor
wherein he trusted and divided the spoils. That armor is what
keeps the lawful captive from being delivered. And Christ took
that armor. The accuser has nothing more
to say to the people of God. Those for whom Christ laid down
his life and shed his blood, the armor of the evil one, is
removed. He's got nothing to say to us
and nothing to prevent us from being delivered out of his stronghold,
out of his captivity. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the
one stronger than the mighty one. Not us. We didn't deliver
ourselves. The Lord Jesus Christ is he that
is stronger, and he delivers us from the mighty one. He removed
that armor wherein he trusted and thought he had us. No, he
doesn't. Christ delivered us. Our Lord
delivered us in wisdom and in power so that across the ages
now, whenever our Lord is pleased to do so, he goes into the house,
And he takes out one of the captives, one of his chosen people, and
brings them out of their captivity, saying, go forth. Prisoner, show
yourselves. Show yourselves. Come unto the
light. Come unto the Father. Come unto me. Look to me. And he delivers them out of that
bondage and that captivity. And so our Lord did this. It
says in Hebrews 2, verse 14 and 15, For as much then as the children
are partakers of flesh and blood, he also likewise himself took
part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them
who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage. And so we were taken captive
in Adam, in Adam's fall, and in the sins that we gladly committed. We were taken captive and in
bondage. But our Lord delivered us out
of that and restored that fellowship and reconciled us unto the Father. We read in 2 Corinthians 5 verse
18 and 21, All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to
himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry
of reconciliation. Verse 21, for he hath made him
to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him. So the objection raised, are
they gonna be delivered? Can these lawful captives really
go free? That they may come into the Lord,
into the Lord's land among the people of God and hear this gospel
and be set free and delivered? Can that really happen? Yes,
because Christ has saved his people. He redeemed his people.
They are his and they cannot be lost. So our Lord, our God
is satisfied and pleased with the son and none's going to stop
him because he's fulfilled the will of his father. And it says
now back in Isaiah 49 verse 25, But thus saith the Lord, even
the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of
the terrible shall be delivered. For I will contend with him that
contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. Our Lord is declaring to us that
all our enemies have been defeated. Sin is put away by the death
of our Savior. Death is overcome by our Lord's
resurrection. And the devil, that one who's
mightier than us, well he's been defeated by one who is stronger
than he. And He's delivered His people.
He set the captives free and brought us out that we may know
our God and worship Him. And so our God then sends forth
his gospel that we should hear it. Luke wrote of Paul in Acts
26, 18, that he was sent to open the eyes of the Gentiles and
to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan
unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins. and inheritance
among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me, in the
Lord Jesus Christ." And so it's such a beautiful picture, it's
such a sweet thought to know that our inheritance is not with
Adam, in Adam, which is eternal death. That's what the sons of
Adam, who have no covering for their sin, Their inheritance
is eternal death and separation from God. But in Christ, we have
the inheritance of Christ, which is glory and life evermore in
the presence of our God. And so I'm thankful for that.
I'm so thankful for his grace and mercy to undeserving sinners
and for sending his son to deliver me a slave and a captive to sin,
and for doing that for all his people, all those whom he loved
before the foundation of the world. So, regardless, if you
hear what Christ has done, regardless if you're very religious or just
full in the practice of wicked sins, none of those things can
save you or deliver you from the coming judgment. There is
one way, and our God has provided it in His Son, Jesus Christ. He alone is the salvation that
God has provided for His people. He's the only deliverance from
eternal death. It's through the blood of Christ.
And he said, come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me, for I'm meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest. unto your souls." He takes the
chains off. He opens the prison door and
takes us out of that darkness to know what our God has done
for us. All our enemies, he tells us,
are dealt with by our God. He's defeated our enemies. He
has saved us, is saving us, and shall save us unto the end. He
says in verse 26, I will feed them that oppress thee with their
own flesh. In other words, I'll turn them
against one another. And they'll be so busy fighting
among themselves that they cannot harm you. And they shall be drunken
with their own blood as with sweet wine. And so you rest in
Christ. The Lord deals with our enemies.
He'll take care of them. You keep looking to the Lord,
trusting Him and believing Him. And He tells you, you'll never
be ashamed that wait upon Him. And He ends saying, all flesh
shall know that I, the Lord, am thy Savior and thy Redeemer,
the mighty one of Jacob. Isn't that a sweet promise? You're
laying your head down on the pillow at night to know that
you're God. is your Savior and your Redeemer,
and He's done everything. There's nothing more that your
hands must do. Now, what we do, it's in joy
and rejoicing and gladness, but the work is the Lord's. It's
His work, and He promises blessings upon His people. It's all in
grace. Believe Him, trust Him, and wait
upon the Lord. And you'll see his work. You'll
see his work in your midst. So I pray you bless that word
to your hearts. Let's close in prayer, brethren. Our gracious Lord, we thank you
for your mercy. Lord, your promises, your word
is so full and true. And Lord, in this flesh, we're
such doubters and unbelievers. We're slow of heart to believe
all that you've spoken through your prophets and in your word
here. But Lord, help us. You know our
infirmity, but you're so gracious to us. And you showed us so much
and been so rich and kind in sending your son to be our savior
and our redeemer. And you've brought us out of
darkness, and you keep revealing to us over and over again what
wonderful things you've done for us. And you reaffirm these
promises to us. Lord, help us to believe you
and wait upon you. For you say that your people
will never be ashamed for waiting upon the Lord. And so, Lord,
we commit this work to your hands, knowing that it's all of you. and that you're able to do that
which pleases you according to your will and purpose. Lord,
we thank you for your word. We thank you for one another.
We thank you for your grace and for your son, Jesus Christ, who
saved us and delivered us out of the hand of the enemy. It's
in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, that we pray these
things. Amen. Let's all stand and sing a closing
hymn of 56. I am his and he is mine. 56. Led by grace and love to know,
Spirit breathing from above, Thou hast taught me it is so. O this full and perfect peace,
O this transport all divine, In a love which cannot cease,
I am his and he is mine In a love which cannot cease I am his and
he is mine Living above this softer blue Earth around this
sweeter green Something lives ? Priceless eyes have ever seen
? ? Birds with flatter songs or flow ? ? Flowers with deeper
beauty shine ? ? Since I know as now I know ? ? I am his and
he is mine ? Since I know, as now I know, I am His and He is
mine. Things that once were wild alarms
cannot now disturb my rest. Clothes in everlasting arms,
pillowed on the loving breast. Oh, to lie forever here, doubt
and care and self-resign. I am his and he is mine. While he whispers in my ear,
I am his and he is mine. for only His, who the Lord and
me shall part. Ah, with what a rest of bliss
Christ can fill the loving heart. Heaven and earth may fade and
flee, curse born, lighting gloom decline. But while God and I
shall be, I am His and He is mine. But while God and I shall
be, I am His and He is mine. Thank you.