Well, good morning. Welcome to
our continuing Bible study in the book of Luke. We're in the
very last chapter of Luke. Our subject has been, for the
last couple of weeks, dealing with the resurrection. This will
be the third lesson in that series. We might have one more, potentially,
after that. It's an inexhaustible subject.
So we'll just cover a few things and then let you discover the
rest of it in the scriptures. So as we read here, you know,
it's interesting that The religious folks that were
in power, the elders and the Pharisees and the like were pretty
concerned about even after Jesus was actually going to be killed,
they were afraid what might happen. And they went to Pilate and said,
hey, you know what? Maybe you should put some guards
on the tomb in case he tries to get out. Poke him back in
there. or keep somebody from whatever
their minds came up with. And so we're at this portion
of the text in Luke 24 verse 1, Now upon the first day of
the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulcher, bringing
the spices which they had prepared and certain others with them.
the other women and such. And they had prepared these spices
ahead because the Sabbath, and it was a high Sabbath, it was
the Passover that week. And so they prepared these things.
They didn't have time to administer them all before the beginning
of the evening there on the Sabbath. So they said, okay, we'll come
back and take care of it later. And they found the stone rolled
away from the sepulcher. And it would have been a large
stone, not just like a little stone, but a large one, and had
been sealed by the Romans. And they put a seal on there,
and they set a watch on it. to make it secure. And yet, when
they got there, they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher.
And they entered in, and they found not the body of the Lord
Jesus. And it came to pass, as they
were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them
in shining garments. And as they were afraid and bowed
down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek
ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen,
Remember how He spoke to you when He was yet in Galilee, saying,
The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful man,
and be crucified, and the third day rise again. And they remembered
His words, and they returned from the sepulcher, and told
all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest. It was Mary
Magdalene and Joanna and Mary, the mother of James, and other
women that were with them, which told these things to the apostles.
And their words seemed to them as idle tales. You're making
this up. We don't believe it. And they believed them not. Then
arose Peter, and ran to the sepulcher. And stooping down, he beheld
the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself
that which was to come to pass. And behold, Two of them that
went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from
Jerusalem, about three score furlongs, and they talked together
of all these things which had happened, and it came to pass
that while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew
near and went with them, but their eyes were holden that they
should not know him. And he said unto them, what manner
of communications are these that you have one to another as you
walk and are sad? Isn't that an interesting thing?
From a physical standpoint, it would seem the one we love, the
one that we were with, the one that we communed with is dead
and we're so sad. But in the larger scope of redemption,
It didn't make any sense for them to be sad. And one of them, whose name was
Cleopas, answering, said unto him, Are you only a stranger
in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to
pass there in these days? And he said unto them, What things?
Not like he needed them to give him a news broadcast, but these
things were written for our understanding, for our admonition, for the church. And they said unto him concerning
Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet, mighty indeed, and
word before God and all the people, and how the chief priests and
our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have
crucified him. They had that part down. They
almost quoted what he told them word for word over and over again. The son of man must be betrayed
and taken and spit on and crucified and abused and be killed and
raised again the third day. But they kind of left off the
last part there. They delivered him to be condemned
to death and crucified him. But we trusted that it had been
he which should have redeemed Israel. And beside all this,
today is the third day since these things were done. Yea,
and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which
were early at the sepulcher. And they found not his body,
and then came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels
that said he was alive. And certain of them which were
with us went to the sepulcher and found it even so as the women
said, but they saw him not. They saw the, physically they
saw the empty sepulcher and the linen clothes. But after the
physical part, it was all over for them. And he said unto them,
O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets
have spoken, ought not Christ to have suffered these things
and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all
the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the
things concerning himself. I think he went right to Genesis
1.1 and and just went, bop, bop, bop,
bop, bop, right on through all the books of Moses and the prophets
and the Psalms. He expounded to them in all the
scriptures, the things concerning himself. I always thought it
was interesting that a lot of your Bibles will have messianic
prophecies and they'll have a little star by them. And you can look
it up in the back here. If you want to see all the messianic
prophets, there's like 36 of them. You can go to it. But he
said in all the scriptures, the things concerning himself. And
I think it means exactly what it says it means. And they drew nigh to a village,
whither they went, and he made as though he would have gone
further. But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us, for
it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went
in to tarry with them. And it came to pass, as he sat
at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and
gave it to them. And their eyes were opened, and
they knew him. And he vanished out of their
sight." Isn't it interesting? He took the symbols of the gospel, And then their eyes were open.
He used that to effectually produce what he desired to produce in
them, which was understanding and belief. Not that the actual
elements were the magic potion, but he just used that symbol
of the gospel, the broken body and the blood. and we're talking about the resurrection
today. And their eyes were new him,
and he vanished out of their sight. Then they said to one
another, Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with
us by the way and while he opened to us the Scriptures? You know,
sometimes we experience that when the Lord reveals something
really wonderful to us and our heart just goes, oh! We're just
astounded. We're just flabbergasted. David said that, he says, sometimes
I meditate and the night watches and it's just too much. He's
like, I cannot contain. And they rose up that same hour,
and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together,
and them that were with them, saying, The Lord is risen indeed,
and hath appeared unto Simon. And they told what things were
done in the way, and how he was known to them in breaking of
bread. And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst
of them, and said unto them, Peace be unto you." That was
another thing that always struck me as so wonderful, was that
night they all denied him. You know, they always talk about
Peter and the cock crowing three times. Before that happens, you'll
deny me three times. And he thought, I'll never deny
you. And though they kill me, I'll
not deny you. And he did. But then in the other
Gospel it says, so said they all. You know, they all bailed
on him. And they said, we don't even
know him. And then they went and locked themselves in a little
room because they thought they'd all be killed. And you know what? The first thing he said to them
was, you guys all ran out on me. I hate you. You bunch of
stinkers. Look what all I did for you,
and yet you abandoned me. He said, nope. He appeared unto
them and said, peace. Peace be unto you. I've taken
care of that. I even wrote that that was going
to happen thousands of years before it actually did. Smite
the shepherd, sheep will be scattered. Peace be unto you. When they
were terrified and affrighted and supposed they'd seen a spirit,
and he said to them, why are you in trouble? Why do your thoughts
arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet,
that it is I myself. Handle me. And now what John
said, Mike's been bringing it from 1 John. And while they yet believed not
for joy and wondered, he said to them, have you here any meat?
And they gave him a piece of broiled fish and of a honeycomb.
And he took it and did eat before them. And he said unto them,
these are the words which I spoke unto you while I was yet with
you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written
in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the Psalms concerning
me." All things. then opened he their understanding
that they might understand the scriptures." Such a powerful
sentence there about how that occurs. And a little bit later
we'll take a look at another verse from 1 Thessalonians where
it says, Paul said, he called, he went to that folks
and he said, he called them elect. And he said, because knowing
that the word came, the gospel came to you not in word only,
but in power and in the Holy Spirit. And he said unto them, Thus it
is written, and thus it behove Christ to suffer and to rise
from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission
of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning
at Jerusalem. Turning from your self-righteousness,
turning from your own idea about God, turning from your own ideas about how things are, and
that all those things have been paid for. Remission of sins is
from atonement. and you're witnesses of these
things. And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you,
but tarry you in the city of Jerusalem until you be endued
with power from on high.' And he led them out as far as to
Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. And it
came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them
and carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him and returned
to Jerusalem with great joy. and we're continually in the
temple praising and blessing God. Amen. So that is the conclusion
of this gospel record by Luke. So many things in there that
we may dwell a little bit on. Some of them we've covered in
the past. Bethany, the city, that little town of Bethany up
on up above Jerusalem there. And we covered that in that previous
lesson. So we may review a little bit
of that. But today we're we're dealing with the resurrection.
And what we wanted to kind of focus on today was why why that's
important to believers. And we kind of got into that
last week because the resurrection was a testimony that God the
Father was satisfied with the sacrifice of His Son for the
atonement, for the redemption of the church. Remember when
He came up out of the water, when John baptized Him, He took
Him under the water signifying the death part, and then He brought
Him up out of the water And when he came up, the Spirit of God,
like a dove, landed on him. And there was a voice from heaven
that said, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. Well, he did a pretty good job. But you still have some stuff
to do. He didn't take care of everything. So you still have
a little bit of stuff to do." He didn't say that. He said,
this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. He did everything. He satisfied every requirement. And isn't that what we find of
God? Whatever He demands, He supplies. Whatever He requires, He supplies. And so as we continue to examine
why this resurrection is important to believers, We need to look at some basic
things, and we just read Luke 24, and we find that even believers
that were close followers of Him didn't quite get the resurrection
part. And that's a critical part of
the Gospel in 1 Corinthians 15. I gave you what I received, that
Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was
buried and He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. You can't separate those. You can't just pick out one element
to that and apply it in an incorrect way and leave out the other parts. You know, as we mentioned last
week, the resurrection proved the acceptance of the substitutionary
death of Christ for the church. And we read that from Isaiah
53. He shall see the travail of his
soul and be satisfied. My righteous servant shall justify
many." My righteous servant. 13, and as we think back about him
coming up out of the water at John's baptism where he said,
this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Well, if we
turn over to Hebrews chapter 13 and read verses 20 and 21,
it says, now the God of peace. And that's what Jesus said to
those disciples when he appeared to them. He said, peace. There's
no enmity between you and God. There's peace. Peace is I am
peace. Now the God of peace that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great shepherd
of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant.
Boy, what a mouthful. What a tremendous paragraph there.
Make you perfect in every good work to do his
will. working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight
through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen." Well, what is well-pleasing? It's not that you contributed
to supplying food to the Somalis or digging a well somewhere or
something. What's well-pleasing to God is
that you believe in He who He sent, that you believe in Christ,
that you place your trust in Him. And not anything that if
we do a good work, it's because God has foreordained that we
do that. That's what the Scripture says. We're His workmanship. and he
is for to ordain whatever we might do. But belief, that is
the main thing. The resurrection is the proof
of the power, will, and ability to accomplish the resurrection
of the church. And that's why it's important
to believers. In John 14, 19, it says, Because
I live, ye shall live also. And Paul spent some time, and
we'll look at that in Corinthians, where he kind of takes the converse
of that and says, well, you guys say there's no resurrection.
Well, here, guess what's going to happen if that's true? And
he lays it out for him in order. Romans the 8th chapter in verse
11 says but if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from
the dead dwell in you He that raised up Christ from the dead
shall also quicken your mortal bodies By his spirit that dwelleth
in you so the the two principles are linked with absolute assurance
Shall the word shall also that we find Because I live you shall
live also." He raised Jesus from the dead,
he shall also raise the church in like manner. As we demonstrated in the previous
lesson that the substitutionary death of Christ, whom God again
called my righteous servant there in Isaiah 53, And he died that
substitutionary death in the place of the people whom God
the Father gave him in the covenant of the grace. He satisfied the
eternal righteousness and justice of God. It was all done. It was all taken care of. In
his prayer in John 17, he said, As thou hast given him power
over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many
as thou hast given him. And that's an important phrase
there. It's not a willy-nilly, he died
for the sins of the whole world, and it's up to you to accept
or reject that. He gives eternal life to as many
as thou has given him. It's specific. And we don't know
who that is. And he says, God chose by the
foolishness of preaching to make that known. We don't have the. the ability to look out there
and say, okay, you, you, and you, and you, and you, and not
have to worry about preaching. We have to preach to everybody
and declare that gospel, and then we leave it to the Holy
Spirit to make it effectual in them according as sovereignly
His position to do. Our text in Isaiah declares that
God Indeed was and is satisfied with the death offering of his
son. And this offering, as it says in Isaiah as well, said,
justified or made righteous many. My righteous servant shall justify
many or make them righteous. And for he shall bear their iniquities. It's a specific, you can't take
the one thing and make it universal and then take the other thing
and make it specific. They're both the same. And he didn't just make it possible,
but he actually effectually accomplished redemption, actually effectually
accomplished atonement or salvation for those whom it was intended,
as we read in the two previous examples. And as we demonstrated
in the previous lesson, Christ, after he was cut off, and as
it says in Daniel, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself. He shall see His seed. As it
says in Isaiah 53, He shall be cut off and He shall see His seed. And He declared that in another
Old Testament scripture foretelling the absolute success and consequently
the resurrection in Isaiah 8.18. where Christ, if you can visualize
this, He's appearing in His glorious state before God the Father after
His resurrection, a successful resurrection, a successful atonement,
successful in every single absolute way. And He says to the Father
in Isaiah 8.18, Behold, I and the children whom the Lord
hath given me." We're here. And therefore, signs
and wonders in Israel from whom the Lord of hosts which dwelt
in Mount Zion. Isn't that a wonderful passage?
Behold, I and the children whom thou has given me. Absolute success. I have lost none. Every single
one whom thou has given me, I have given eternal life to. We're
all here. All justified. All for whom he
died will be with him. In John 17, in verse 24, he said,
Father, I will that they also whom Thou has given me be with
me where I am. And when you see the words, I
am, in connection with Jesus, it always has an eternal application
there. I am. that they may behold my glory
which thou hast given me, for thou lovest me before the foundation
of the world." So if you don't think that that has an eternal
context, then read that last sentence,
for thou lovest me before the foundation of the world. He's
the lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. Behold,
I and the children whom thou has given me, 700 years before
the crucifixion in the... all predestinated according to
electing eternal love, all called by the gospel of the death, burial,
and the resurrection, all justified by his actual successful atoning
sacrifice, which satisfied the righteousness of God the Father.
That's just such an important thing to keep in mind, because
people have such an erroneous concept of God, and He's just
malleable. He's changeable. And if you don't like his ruling,
you just go to the appellate court above him and say, I don't
like that ruling. And if you don't like the appellate
court ruling, well, then you go to this court. But with him,
you're going right to the Supreme Court. And after that, there's
no place to go. all call by the gospel of the
death, burial, and resurrection, all justified by the actual successful
atoning sacrifice. And Jesus, when he came up out
of the water, there was a voice from heaven saying, this is my
beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased. John understood that. He says,
Far be it from me to administer baptism to you." He says, I need to be baptized by
you. And Jesus says, no, we need to
fulfill this picture that's what this is all about. So he suffered
him, it says. So conservatively and conversely,
we would have to admit that if the resurrection of Christ didn't
occur as began happening as soon as it
occurred. The elders and the priests and
all those folks says, well, let's hire some guys and have them
run around saying the disciples came and stole him in the middle
of the night. Because we can't believe this and we can't have
it spread. So if he did not raise from the
dead, then consequently that would declare that God was not
satisfied, that he was not well-pleased with such an offering. Consequently,
every individual would be required to face the consequences of their
sin individually and completely. it would have been the same as
saying, you know, I know you died, but it didn't quite do
it. And so each person then must
come up with the rest of it. They must do something. That's not true. That's not the
way that it is. And this was a conversation that
Paul was engaged with some Corinthians regarding the resurrection. The
same issue as those who came to the tomb, the same issue as
those on the road to Emmaus. It must be revealed. And It begins with the basis of the
gospel, the death, burial and resurrection that he writes about
in 1 Corinthians 15, 3 and 4. And so he enters into this problem
with these Corinthians, it's common now as it was then, that
man is at enmity with God and his gospel. You can't be at enmity with one
part of it without being at enmity with all of it. They're all linked
together. You can't pick and choose like
so many do. Well, I believe this part of
the Bible, but I don't really believe that Ephesians 1 stuff,
or Romans 8 stuff, or Romans 9 stuff, or Romans 11 stuff,
or Romans 10 stuff, or any of John, none of what Luke said,
You can't just slice and dice the Word of God to suit your
own sensibilities. That's what Jesus said, you err,
not knowing the Scriptures or the power of God. Back in our study in Luke, in
chapter 16, They're always trying to bait
the Lord, and they're always trying to get Him to do some
magic trick so they'll believe. He says, you know, that doesn't
really have any effect. He said, if they'll not hear
Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though
one rose from the dead. which turned out to be the case
with Lazarus. Lazarus rose from the dead. He was stinking four
days in the tomb. Jesus made sure that everybody
was aware that he was like dead, dead, unable to do anything. They said, don't roll away that
stone. That's going to be bad. What was their solution? Well,
we need to kill this Jesus guy. And after we get that done, then
we can kill Lazarus again. If we don't kill Jesus first,
he might raise him from the dead again. And that would be like
twice as bad for us. So anyway, let's go back to 1
Corinthians, because in 1 Corinthians 15, the first few verses there,
he says, I deliver to you that first of all which I also received,
how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.
Well, in a universal concept, Almost all the churches in the
world, all the religions in the world believe that in some way,
and they usually apply it in some kind of universal context
that he died for all the sins of all the world. And then somehow
it's up to the person to either accept or reject that. But he
said how Christ died for our sins. He's writing to the church
there, Corinthians. and that he was buried, and he
rose again the third day according to the Scriptures." Both times. Died for our sins according to
the Scriptures. He was buried and rose again according to the
Scriptures. Now he enters in this problem, and we look a few
verses ahead in 1 Corinthians 15, in verse 12, where he starts
addressing this portion of the Gospel concerning the resurrection. He said, Now if Christ be preached,
that he rose from the dead, How say some among you that there's
no resurrection of the dead? And this same thing can be applied
to the universal salvation aspect. Okay, you're taken to something
that you say, okay, we agree with that, but we don't agree
with the rest of this. I'll say some among you, there
is no resurrection. You cannot believe the one thing
without the other. And he says, if there be no resurrection
of the dead, then is Christ not risen? And if Christ be not risen,
then our preaching is in vain. And your faith also is in vain. That's kind of a hard concept
to swallow. What do you mean? If I believe He died for our
sins according to the Scriptures, but I don't believe the resurrection, then it's all in vain, because
it's incorrect, it's wrong. Yea, and we're found false witnesses
of God, because we testified of God that He raised up Christ,
whom He raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not." And
you can apply that same thing to the other parts that we've
been talking about. He gave eternal life to as many as the Father
gave Him, and all those scriptures that we read a little bit ago. We're found false witnesses because
we testified this, and you're disannulling all that you don't
agree with. For if the dead rise not, then
Christ is not raised. And if Christ be not raised,
then your faith is vain, and ye are yet in your sins, because
God would not be satisfied if there was not an atoning death,
an atoning sacrifice for the redemption of the church. Then
you're still guilty. Then they also which are fallen
asleep in Christ, they're all gone. according to your line of theory
of your interpretation of the Scripture. They're all gone. They're all perished. If in this
life we only have hope in Christ, then we're of all men most miserable.
He says, if you logically follow out the trail of where they're
going with what they say, this is the end result. Norm's always
doing that. He says, well, if Christ died
for the sins of the whole world, then why are those people in
hell? That's the logical consequence
of that line of thinking. If their sin's been paid for,
why are they paying for it now? Why are they going to be paying
for it eternally? I don't know. Well, they didn't believe. He said, well, unbelief is a
sin. And if he died for all the sins, then that sin's been paid
for, too. So that trail leads off into oblivion, too. So it
never holds water. But in the reasoning of man,
where Jesus said, you do error not knowing the scriptures or
the power of God, it all comes back to the same thing. Matthew 22, 29. You do err. So then, the resurrection is
vitally important to the church, but like all spiritual truth,
it must come from above. It must be revealed Romans 4.25,
Christ was delivered for our offenses and raised for our justification. Those two things are separate
but equally linked, can't be separated. The two on the road
to Emmaus whose eyes were were holden, and were foolish and
slow of heart to believe what the Scripture had reported. You
know, if they weren't the elect according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father, He would have just left them in their ignorance
because He says, why do you not hear my word? Why do you not
believe? Because you're not my sheep. And so that was written
for us. who thousands of years later
would say, Lord, help my unbelief. He was so kind to them. We were
looking for a guy to throw off the Romans. We were looking for a physical
guy to come in and throw off the Roman yoke and we could go
back to doing our old religious stuff and unhindered and all
that crazy stuff. But because they were his sheep,
he said, you know what? I'm going to start at Genesis
1, and I'm going to explain to you in all the scriptures the
things concerning myself. It all has to do with the redemption
of the church. It's not just a history lesson. The Lord sovereignly chose to
cause that intersection that the church might learn that all
the scriptures are concerning Christ and the redemptive work
for the church. And you know, there's a couple
of, we're just about out of time here, but there's a couple of
results. from the two results of the gospel.
The gospel, people, it's not ambiguous. People believe it
or they don't believe it according to the working of the Spirit.
Like Paul wrote in Thessalonians, our gospel came not to you in
word only. It was just like some words. He said they came to you, he
called them elect. The bad word. knowing your election of God,
because the Word of God came to you, not in word only, but
in power and the Holy Spirit, because you believed it. And
that only happens one way when you're born again from above. You can't see the kingdom of
God unless you be born again. John 3. So these two results
is, the one is belief and the other is unbelief. Ephesians
1.17 says that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ has to give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge
of Him. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may
know what is the hope of His calling and the riches of His
glory, of His inheritance in the saints. And what is the greatness,
the exceeding greatness, not just It's hard to bring that
word into terms that we can understand in this world, but he said, exceeding
greatness of his power. And then he uses the same word
that Norm quoted here a while back in that he's long suffering
to us word. Well, here we have the greatness
of His power to usward who believe according to the working of His
mighty power, which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him
from the dead, that resurrection power, and set Him in His own
right hand in heavenly places. So the result of the first result
is that the true believer ceases from their own works. in their
own efforts. That's what it says in Hebrews.
He that has entered into his rest has ceased from his own
works. Quits trying to tell God, well,
here's all the stuff I did. I signed here. There's a guy
on TV. All you've got to do is repeat
this prayer, sign at the bottom of the line, and then call me
up. And I'll give you my Place to
send your check. All you have to do is do this. All you have to do is do that. We need to stop that and enter
into His rest. Cease from our own work. You know, unbelief, that other
result, results in self-righteousness, in erring and not knowing the
scriptures nor the power of God. Jesus said, you'll die in your
sins if you believe not that I am he, you'll die in your sins.
Just that cut and dried. So the resurrection is absolutely
indispensable. It's inextricably bound together
with redemption. The one is not possible without
the other. You err in not knowing the Scriptures. Otherwise, you
err in applying human ability and reasoning to God. He said,
you thought I was altogether such a one as yourself, but I'm
not. My ways are so far above your
ways as to be indescribable. You err in not believing the
Scriptures. There's no ambiguity. You know
those Sadducees, the ones that were the intelligent ones. We're the scholars. We're the
ones that we know the stuff. I remember a guy up in Alaska
told me one time, I've read all the books. I don't want you to
read any of them because I've read them all. I'll tell you
what you need to know. And I said, you know what? I run a $12 million a year business
up here. I don't need you to tell me that
I'm too stupid to read a book and know anything. It was just
disgusting. But these Sadducees, They're
the religious ones, the scholars, and they said, have we believed? They didn't believe in the resurrection.
They were convinced of work-based salvation, keeping the law instead
of salvation based on the dayspring from on high. Well, we're out of time. I'm
quitting. We'll take this up next time,
the Lord willing. So thanks for your attention.