Well, as I read through Job chapter
9, you can probably, just about every one of you, guess what
I entitled this message. It's from verse 2. How should
man be just with God? What a question. Some say that's
the question of questions. Now, there's a lot in this chapter,
and I want to deal with as much as I can, but I'm certainly not
going to get through much of the past the first few verses
here. But let me just show you something
here in this chapter. You go back and read the whole
chapter with this in mind. Job starts out asking this question. He's not asking for information
now. This is a rhetorical question. This is a question. This is a
question that's aimed at making a solid point of truth. A solemn truth. And in answer
to this man, Bildad, the Shuhite, who had sought to give Job his
advice. And we'll talk about that just
in a minute. But it comes down, look down at verse 32. The last
verses of Job 9. And I'll get to this one next
Wednesday. In the message. He says, For
he is not a man, that's talking about God, as I am, that I should
answer him and we should come together in judgment. What he's
talking about, we don't meet God on equal terms here. And
then he says in verse 33, neither is there any daysman betwixt
us or between us that might lay his hand upon us both. And what
Job there is expressing his need of a mediator, that daysman there.
You may have in your concordance the word umpire. Normally, we
think of an umpire as being in a sports arena, in a baseball
field or something. But that's not what it's talking
about. The word umpire there, it's like a mediator. The Bible
teaches there's one God and one mediator between God and men,
the man, Christ Jesus. And Job's expressing his need
of a mediator. And so, it sort of brings us
to the conclusion to answer this question. Of course, we'll answer
it tonight. Should man be just with God? Now, chapters 9 and
10 is Job's response to Bildad, this man named Bildad. You know,
Job had three friends here. He had Eliphaz and Bildad and
Zophar. Zophar hasn't spoken yet, but
Eliphaz has. And he brought forth his advice
to Job. Job, you're suffering. Here's
why you're suffering. Here's what you've got to do
to relieve that suffering. Well, Bildad, he comes along,
and basically he says the same thing that Eliphaz says, except
he has a different emphasis. He's more of a traditionalist,
you might say. So Job answers him in chapters
9. In fact, he addresses Bildad
in chapter 9. That's who he's talking to. Then
in chapter 10, he continues his answer, but in chapter 10, he
more so pours his heart out unto God. So he answers Bildad, and
he pours his heart out to God, and we'll get to that later on. But here's what's happening.
Now, the exchange between Job and his friends has taken on
the tone of like a courtroom drama. It's almost like instead
of comforting Job, they're accusing Job. Here's an accusation. And
always when I think about that, you know, I think about Satan
being the accuser of the brethren. And you understand here is that
God is allowing Satan to chastise Job, to make Job suffer. God's the one who's chastising,
not Satan. I don't want to say it like that.
God's the chastiser. He's the loving father who brings
down loving chastisement. But he's using Satan as an instrument.
He's allowing Satan to have his way here, testing Job. ultimately
testing the grace of God, testing God Himself. Boy, that's something,
isn't it? Oh, we're never, we're never
to test God or to put Him on trial. That's high blasphemy,
isn't it? But that's what Satan is like.
And Job, as Job considers all this, what he's going through. Now, see, Job's been through
a lot. He's lost everything except his existence. And you remember
in his first discourse in chapter 3, he even prayed that he'd lose
that. Remember, he went through that
progression. I wished I'd never been born.
Since I've been born, I wish I'd died at birth. Since I didn't
die at birth, I wish I could go out now. And he's talking
about relief of suffering. That's what he's talking about.
Job is suffering to the point that he wants to die. And I can
understand that. I've never been hurting that
much. Some of you may have been. suffering
to the point that you want to die. But Job was there. And then
his friends come along, and they preach their message. It's a
message of legalism. It's the same health, wealth,
and prosperity false gospel that we hear today, even amongst millions
who call themselves Christian. And as Job considers all this,
And as he's being battered and hammered and whipped by the self-righteous,
legalistic advice of his friends, what he doesn't need, he begins
to sink into an attitude of despair. You can see this digression of
Job as the story unfolds. You know, Job, you remember what
he did when he went out on the ash heap, the dung heap outside
the city of Uz? He sat there silent. It's like
he was numb. All this had happened to him,
lost his family. The only one he didn't lose was
his wife, who told him to curse God and die. And then he lost
his health, and he's out there on the dung heap of the city,
and he's just numb. He's silent. He doesn't know
what to say. And you remember his three friends,
when they came up to him, they sat there for a week, seven days,
silent too. And then Job became disturbed.
And he became confused, trying to figure this out. Why is this
happening to me? Why me? Now, a lot of times we'll
say, you know, that the why me question is in itself self-righteous. Somebody will say, well, why
not me? And I understand that. I do.
I understand that. But listen, if I was going through
what Job went through, I'd be saying the same thing, folks.
I've got to tell you. I'd be saying, why is all this?
I mean, I know there's enough sin in me for God to chastise. I know that. Don't get me wrong.
I'm not trying to say I'm sinful. But if I was going through all
what Job went through, I'd say, why me? And you would, too, if
you went through all this. So he's disturbed and he's confused.
And then in chapter 6 and 7, between Eliphaz and Bildad, Job becomes
angry. Now he's depressed and he's despairing. He's wondering where his hope
is. Some say Job at this time didn't know Christ. I disagree.
I'll show you that in just a moment. I'll show you more of that in
the next message on this next Wednesday. But Job had lost sight
of the joy of salvation. You know, David lost sight of
that. He prayed in Psalm 51, Lord, restore unto me the joy
of thy salvation. David didn't lose his salvation.
And David was suffering because of David's sin. And you could
trace it right back to what David did. That's what Nathan told
him. But Nathan didn't come along like these guys and say, now,
you've got to You've got to make yourself righteous. You've got
to make yourself good. You've got to do enough to please
God to really discern. No, Nathan just spoke the word
of grace to David. He said, your sins are forgiven. And that's what Job needed to
hear. But listen to what he's saying here. These first two
verses, it shows, number one, man's dilemma. We're in a dilemma. What's a dilemma? That means
we've got no place to go to get us out of this. Whatever choices we have, they're
all bad. That's man's dilemma. And this
is what he says. Look at verse 1. Then Job answered
and said, I know it is of a truth. You know, he begins here by agreeing
with Bildad, because Bildad had spoken a lot of truth. Now, granted,
Bildad, just like Eliphaz, he had applied it wrong. It's like
false preachers today. They'll read the Bibles, they'll
quote scripture, they'll say a lot of good things, but they
do not preach the gospel. They do not point sinners to
Christ for all salvation, for all forgiveness, for all righteousness
and eternal life and glory. They put it on the sinner. They
put it on the sinner's shoulder. It's not, it's not, their message
is not what God has done for the sinner in Christ on the cross. But their message is mainly,
what have you done for God? What can you do for God? You
haven't done enough for God. And that's where they have people's
minds. But he said, I know it is so of a truth. And what is
he talking about? Well, Bill Datt had made his
case based upon this. Whatever Bildad said, it was
based upon this. God is just. God is righteous. You remember
what Bildad said. He said in verse 3 of chapter
8, he said, does God pervert judgment? No, God never perverts
judgment. Does the Almighty pervert justice?
Absolutely not. I know it is so of a truth. He
said in verse 13 of chapter 8, "...so are the paths of all that
forget God, and the hypocrite's hope shall perish." Job says,
I know it's of a truth. The hypocrite's hope perishes.
Because the hypocrite's hope is not in Christ. You see, the
sinner saved by grace, his or her hope is in Christ, and that'll
never perish. And then he says in verse 20
of chapter 8, he said, Behold, God will not cast away a perfect
man, neither will he help the evildoers. Job says, I know it
is so of a truth. But he poses this question. How? But how? I know what you're saying
is true when it comes to the justice, the holiness, the righteousness
of God who judges according to truth. But how should man be
just with God? Now, it's important we understand
what Job's Why he's posing that question? Again, it's not for
information. He's saying, how can, when he
says, how should man? Well, what's he talking about?
He's talking about sinful man. He's talking about fallen man. He's
talking about ruined man. Fallen in Adam. That's man in
this book, isn't it? Ever since Genesis chapter 3.
Man dead in trespasses and sin. Totally depraved man. That man. You say mankind. Well, that's
all mankind as we fell in Adam. Isn't that right? Ruined by the
fall. Deserving of death and hell and
condemnation. How should that man, any man,
be just with God? And you know what it is to be
just? It's to be declared righteous. It's to be righteous before God.
It's to be not guilty. And he's making this point. He's
answering some statements made by Bildad who sought to explain
to Job why Job was suffering and how to be relieved from this
suffering. Now that's what Job's three friends are trying to do.
They're coming to Job, now let me explain to you why you're
suffering and how to relieve the suffering. And Bildad, he'd
spoken to Job concerning that absolute justice of God. How
Job could be right with God in view of all the miseries of his
life. That's the question, Bildad.
He's saying this, almost like this. He's saying, Job, you claim
to be a righteous man. You claim to be right with God.
But how could that be? How could that be in view of
all the suffering you're going through? That just doesn't make
sense to me, Bildad is saying. You know why it didn't make sense
to Bildad? Because the natural man cannot understand the things
of the Spirit of God. Bildad was convinced that Job
must be under God's judgment, and even condemnation, or else
Job would not be suffering like this. Job has to be guilty of
some sin, maybe some secret sin, that you've got to dig up Job
and confess it. Confess it. I hear preachers
say, well, aren't we supposed to confess sin? Yes, but not
like Bildad's saying. Bildad's reason is simple and
obvious. And here's what he's saying.
God punishes the wicked. Job is being punished, therefore
Job is wicked. That's his reason. Now, there's
a lot of things wrong with that, but listen. Now, there's some
truth there. Doesn't God punish the wicked? Doesn't He save us? Yes, He does.
But Bildad is using natural, self-righteous reasoning. And
here's the implication. The implication is this. God
blesses the righteous. Bildad is being blessed. Therefore,
Bildad is righteous. Now, that's the implication.
God punishes the wicked. Job's being punished. Job's wicked.
Bildad's not being punished. God doesn't punish. He blesses
the righteous. Therefore, Bildad is righteous.
And that's the reasoning that all three of these men used.
Now, let me say this, first of all, as sort of an aside. One thing that we have to keep
in mind as we go through the book of Job is that these men,
Eliphazim, Bildad, and Zophar, and not even Job himself, I want
you to understand this, not even Job himself knows what you and
I know. We know because we have it recorded
back here in Job chapter 1, as revealed by God the Holy Spirit
to his people that Job is suffering not for sin. You know what Job
is suffering for? He's suffering for righteousness
sake. Blessed are you when you're persecuted
or you suffer for righteousness sake. Job's not suffering because
of any specific sin. How do I know that God said so? Job was suffering and being tested
because Job was a justified sinner. He was a godly man. But even
Job doesn't know that. God is allowing Satan to test
Job. But you know something? Every
child of God is tested by suffering. We read a few sermons back out
of Job, Hebrews chapter 12, where it talks about how all whom God
loves, all whom he redeems, all whom he saves, he chastises. Sometimes we suffer for a bad
behavior, but sometimes we suffer for righteousness' sake if we
belong to Christ. And we identify with Him and
proclaim Him to the world. Peter dealt with that. 1 Peter
chapter 4. You see, that's part of our life
here in this fallen, sinful, cursed world. It's part of the
wilderness journey that we're going through between the time
that God brings us to a saving knowledge of Christ and our death
to go to be with Him. It's part of our struggle with
the warfare of the flesh and the spirit. And let me tell you
something. Here's the comfort and the peace.
Every bit of it is under the sovereign will and purpose and
supervision of God to be worked out by Him for His glory and
our eternal good, our ultimate good. If we're suffering for
righteousness' sake, And I'll tell you, here's the thing about
it. Let me go back. Sometimes we suffer for bad behavior, and
we may be able to pinpoint a time. I mean, you know, I always use
the simple example. And that is, if you run the red
light and they stop you and give you a ticket, you don't have
to stop and figure out why you're being punished. You know. But sometimes we suffer for sin,
or suffer for bad behavior, and sometimes we suffer for righteousness'
sake, but many times we don't know the difference. And I'll
tell you why. Because even if we're suffering
for righteousness' sake, like Joe, every one of us who know
Christ, every one of us who have been born again by the Spirit
and convinced of sin, and know who we are. We know that we're
still sinners in ourselves and we can still always find enough
reason in ourselves for God to chastise us. I mean, if you're
honest. And so we want to know why. And
that raises a question that we cannot answer. Why? Why me, Lord? And we'll ask that. And it's
natural for us to think when somebody goes through a terrible
time of suffering, well what's wrong with them? Or what's wrong
with me? Now that's not really what we
should be asking. But as one old preacher said,
we're all recovering Pharisees. That's it. That's part of that
flesh that we have to fight. But Job's friends, they advise
him from the viewpoint of human works, human merit, human goodness,
human righteousness. And here's what they say. Here's
their message in a nutshell. Job, something's wrong. There's
sin in your life. You need to straighten up and
fly right, and God will turn your suffering into joy. Now
that's their message in a nutshell. That's false Christianity today,
isn't it? And it reveals this, it reveals
that man by nature knows nothing of God, man by nature knows nothing
of himself, and man by nature knows nothing of the only righteousness
that God accepts. There's only one. And you know
what it's called in the Bible? It's called the righteousness
of God. And where are you going to find
the righteousness of God? Not in yourself, not in myself,
but in Christ and Him crucified. For therein is the righteousness
of God revealed." That's the only righteousness God will accept,
friend. He won't accept any other. For
Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believes. Several absolute truths that
are stated here in this question. How should man be just with God? Here's what he's saying. He's
saying, Bill Dad, if what you say is true, if that's the case,
then how could any man be just with God? Sinful, fallen, depraved,
ruined creatures that we are, how could any man be just with
a holy God? If what you're saying is true,
If your gospel is the gospel, and that's the way it is, then
how could any of us be justified? We're sinners. None of us would
be. The best of human righteousness
could not stand God's judgment. Psalm 130 verse 3, If thou, Lord,
shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Not Job, not
Bildad, Not Eliphaz, not you, not me. If God charged us with
sin. And it's not a matter of how
many sins, is it? Because the Bible tells us to
break one commandment is to be guilty of all. You know what
guilty means? That means you deserve condemnation. So if what Bildad is saying is
true, if what Eliphaz is saying is true, then how could any of
us be just? How could any man be just with
God? David prayed in Psalm 143, verse 2, he said, "...Enter not
into judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man
living be justified." That's man in himself. Isaiah 64, 6,
you remember this, Isaiah wrote, "...We are always an unclean
thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. And we all
do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us
away." If what Bildad's preaching, if what he's selling is true,
then how could any of us be just with God? It would be impossible. Turn to Romans chapter 3 and
look at verse 10. Here's the state of man in himself. Verse 10, as it is written, there's
none righteous, no, not one. Bildad's telling Job, you've
got to do good to make yourself righteous before God. Job is
asking that question, making this point. Bildad, there's none
righteous, no not one. And I always make this point
when I read this passage. I want people to understand this.
He's not saying there's none religious, no not one. Bildad
and Eliphaz were religious men. He's not even saying there's
none moral, no not one. As men see morality and measure
it. He's not saying there's none sincere. No, not one. What's
he saying? He said it. There's none righteous. No. Not one. How should man be judged with
God? Look at verse 11. There's none
that understandeth. That is, understandeth God and
understands themselves. understands sin and understands
the way of salvation. There's none that seeketh after
God. He didn't say there's none that seeketh after a God. I'll
never forget the first time I heard Brother Mayhem preach on that.
He said that. He said there's none that seek after a God. And
boy, that clicked in my mind. They seek after a God, a God
likened to themselves, a God that cannot save, a God who moves
at their whim and their will. A God who lowers his standard,
but not this God. Not the God of whom Job is speaking
when he says, How shall man be just with God? He says in verse
12, They are all gone out of the way. What is the way? Christ
is the way. The truth and the life. He's
the way of salvation. He's the way of forgiveness.
It's the way of the cross. He's the way of righteousness.
There is no other. Will they all together become
unprofitable? There's none that doeth good,
no, not one. Hold your finger there at Romans 3, because I'm
going to come back to it in just a moment. But that's the first absolute
truth there. No man, if what Bill Dadd is
saying, there is no man that can be justified with God. What's
he talking about based on their works? So here's the second absolute
truth. And I say absolute truth because
there's never any time or any situation where this is not true.
This is not subjective truth. This is not as I see it or as
you see it. This is standing before a holy
God in the court of His justice. And here it is. We, man, sinful
men and women, we need a righteousness we cannot produce ourselves. It's not a matter of our works
because our works cannot make us righteous. And let me tell
you something. It's not a matter of our will. Because we can't
will ourselves righteous. You can't do it. You can want
to be righteous, but that doesn't make you righteous. We can try
harder. We can try to be better people.
And let me tell you something. I'm the first one to tell you.
We should try harder. We should be better people. Shouldn't
we? But none of it will make a man
just before God. Look back at Romans 3. Look at
verse 19. He says, Now we know that what
thing soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the
law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may
become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the
law there shall no flesh, no man, be justified in his sight,
for by the law is the knowledge of sin." No one living, no one living who is righteous
with the righteousness of God. We cannot produce the righteousness
of God. You know who can produce the
righteousness of God? Only God. And that's why God
sent his Son into the world. You know, the doctrine of works
righteousness in any degree, in any way, at any stage of salvation,
claimed by millions who claim to be Christian, is a deadly
doctrine. And it usually comes in one of
two forms. It's either man can produce righteousness by his
own works and his own will of his own power, or God produces
righteousness in man with man's cooperation. Both of them are
works righteousness. And here's what Job is saying.
He's saying, Bill Dad, what you say I must do, I cannot do. That's what I'd like to tell
every false preacher in this land. What you're telling people
to do, they cannot do. I remember one time I was having
lunch with a fellow who was a son-in-law of a member of the church down
in Albany. And he said he didn't understand
the difference between what his father-in-law believed and what
he believed. And we got to talking about it,
and I began to talk to him from the scripture, and he was beginning
to see the difference, but he made this statement. He was talking
about a woman who had died. And he himself, he said, this
woman had never gone to church, never made a profession of faith,
but the preacher went in, and on her deathbed, he come out,
and he said, he said, well, I know she saved. And the man said,
well, how do you know that? And the preacher said, well,
she did what was required. And the man stopped there. He
didn't say anything. And I asked him, I said, well,
tell me something. What is required for salvation? And he looked at me and he said,
well, he said, I really don't know. And I told him, I said, well,
let me tell you what the Bible says is required for salvation.
Righteousness. That's what's required. Perfect
satisfaction to God's law and justice. That's what's required. You know how I know that? Number
one, God says it. But number two, Christ came into
this world to keep that law perfectly and to die on the cross to satisfy
justice for his people. But anyway, when I told that
fellow that, I said, righteousness, he looked at me, his eyes got
that big, and he looked at me and he said, well, no man can
do that. That's what Job's saying. No
man can do that. And I looked at him and I said,
you're exactly right. And I said, that's why salvation
is by grace and not by works. Grace reigns through righteousness
unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Job's saying, what you tell me
to do, I cannot do. Who can bring a clean thing out
of an unclean thing? Jeremiah 13, 23, can the Ethiopian
change his skin? Can the leopard change his spots?
Then may you also do good that are accustomed to doing evil.
Well, here's the third absolute truth. Now, remember, he said,
how shall a man be just with God? Now, the third absolute
truth is not stated right here in the verse, but it's already
been settled. in the book of Job. Turn to Job
chapter 1. Look at verse 1. And I've told
you now, as you read through the book of Job, you need to keep in mind these
two keys. And I know sometimes, you know,
we'll listen to Job and we'll think, how could he say that?
How could he say this? You know, if you think about
it, you can understand how Job... Job got off track some now, let
me tell you. I mean, he's a sinner saved by
the grace of God. He's still a sinner. He gets
into despair. He says some things that are
wrong. But here's your two keys now to understand something about
Job as it relates to this third absolute truth. And the first
thing is what God says about Job. That's number one. That's
the key. Who shall I anything to the charge
of God's elect? It's God that justifies. What
does God say about Job? And here's what God says about
him. He says there was a man, verse 1, in the land of Uz, whose
name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright. That means
he was a justified man. Perfect meaning complete. And
that couldn't be said of someone who's unjustified, because there's
no completeness outside of Christ. And then he says, one that feared
God. That means he was a man of faith. He believed God's promise
of salvation through the coming promised Messiah, the Lord Jesus
Christ, the God-man. You see, by nature, Romans chapter
3 and verse 18 says this, by nature there's no fear of God
before our eyes. There's legal fear. But this
is one who feared God and eschewed hated evil. Avoided evil. So that's what God says about
him. All right? Now, the next key is found in
verse 5, talking about Job's family. And he talks about how
his sons have sinned and cursed their God in their hearts. And
what did Job do? He did it for himself. He did
it for his family. It says, And it was so, when the days of their
feasting were gone about, that was his children, that Job sent
and sanctified them, he set them apart, and rose up early in the
morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them."
Now, what is a burnt offering? That's a sacrifice. What does
a justified God-fearing man do in the Old Testament when he
wants to call upon the name of the Lord like Abraham? He builds
an altar and he sacrifices. He knows he's got to have the
blood of the substitute, the burnt offering. That's how Job
worshipped God. That's how he called upon God.
That's how he sought the Lord. So what is this third absolute
truth? It's this, that the only way that a man can be just with
God is by the grace of God through Christ, the righteousness of
God. Look at Romans 3 again. I read
part of this last message, but we'll read the rest of it. Verse
22. Or verse 21, now you see, for
by the law is the knowledge of sin. Romans 3, 21. But now the
righteousness of God without the law is manifested. That means
without our works, our deeds of the law. Being witnessed by
the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God, that's
what we need. I don't need my own, I don't
need yours, I need God's. And how does that righteousness
of God come? Which is by faith of Jesus Christ. It's by the faithfulness of Jesus
Christ. What was he faithful to do? He
was faithful to obey the law unto death. He was faithful to be about his
Father's business. He was faithful to fulfill all
righteousness. Now what he said in his baptism?
He was faithful to die for the sins of his people. He was made
sin. He was faithful to do that. He
said he'd do it before the foundation of the world. He was made our
surety, our covenant head, our substitute, our redeemer, our
kinsman redeemer. He became incarnate. He was faithful
to condescend to be made like unto sinful flesh without sin. He was faithful in all ways.
And what did his faithfulness result in? The righteousness
of God that we need to be justified. And it's unto all that's preached
unto all, and upon all them that believe. Those who believe show
that the righteousness of God in Christ is upon them. That
means it's imputed to them. It's charged to them. Just like
our sins were charged to Him. His righteousness is charged
to us. And he says there's no difference.
For all sin and come short of the glory of God. How shall a
man be just with God, Bill Dadd? For all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God. Well, verse 24, here's the answer.
Here's the absolute truth, being justified freely, unconditionally,
without cause. You see, it's not even our faith
that justifies it. God justifies His people unconditionally
and freely, and it says, by His grace, undeservedly. And what's
the foundation of it? Because God must be just when
He justifies. It's through the redemption that
is in Christ Jesus. It's through the payment of the
sin debt. that Christ accomplished in his
obedience unto death. Look at verse 25, whom God set
forth to be a propitiation, a satisfaction, through faith in his blood, his
death, which equals the righteousness of God, to declare his righteousness
for the remission of sins that are past, that would include
Job there, that's the Old Testament saying, through the forbearance
of God, to declare, I say at this time, his righteousness.
That's what we declare. that he might be just and the
justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. For God made him sin
who knew no sin for us that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. That's how a man is just with
God. Well, I better quit. Looking at the clock. That's
something, isn't it? I know I didn't get past verse
2. But I'm going to quit, that's enough. How shall man be just
with God? I pray, and I say it this way,
I wish we could get people to even consider that question.
Because I know when I first came to a saving knowledge, well,
before I really came to a saving knowledge, I believe, of Christ,
When that question was posed to me, I know it was posed in
another form. How could God be both a just
God and a savior? But it's basically the same question.
I know it's when the Lord, the way I always describe it is that's
when he took the proverbial two before and hit this old mule
in the head and got his attention. Because that's the question of
questioning. That's the heart of the gospel right there, isn't
it? That's the heart of it. And when the Holy Spirit does
His great work of grace within us, that's where He drives us
to. Just like Job. How shall man be just with God? Not in any way, but in Christ.
Alright.