Tabernacles, double cure. I'm
going to kind of begin by reviewing this a little bit, see if we
can put the two things together. If we're going to talk about
the double cure, we're going to talk about two things, right?
To review a little bit, last week we talked about the brazen
altar. You remember it was made of incorruptible wood covered
with brass. We talked about as a picture
the two natures of Christ, the God-man. The incorruptible wood
was a picture of his sinless humanity. He's perfect. Thought,
word, and deed. He never sinned. And the brass
is a picture of his deity. Brass is strong. It's a picture
of the strength and power of God. And the purpose of the brazen
altar was to offer sacrifices. They offered to burn offerings,
sacrifices for sin on the altar. And it was a very bloody place.
They slaughtered the animals. Blood would be everywhere. They'd
roast the animal's body on the fire on the altar. It's a bloody
place. They're constantly offering sacrifices
for sin at the brazen altar. And God said, this altar, that's
where I'll meet with you. Showing us God will meet with
men. He'll meet with the holy God.
We'll meet with sinful men at the sacrifice. God cannot be
worshipped. God cannot be approached. apart
from the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what this
altar is telling us. The only way God can be worshipped
is through the sacrifice. Now, Jewish custom was that if
a person, the law was after them, maybe they accidentally hurt
someone, or harmed them, or maybe even killed them, that they'd
have a place of safe refuge if they could come grab hold of
the horns of this altar. That's Jewish custom. And a person,
when they took hold of the horns of the altar, what they're saying
is, I don't want a trial. What I'm pleading is mercy. I'm
pleading for mercy based on this sacrifice dying for me. I deserve
to die, but I'm pleading the power of this sacrifice. And
that's what those horns represent, is power. Now, you know why I
say that? The horns represent power. You
think of those big horned rams, you know, you've got those big
horns. That's their power. If they want to show you how
powerful they are, they lower their head and ring you with
those horns. It's their power. And that's what these horns are
a picture of, is power. For every believer, we believe
Christ, we lay hold on Christ. We're pleading the power of his
person, the power of his sacrifice. I don't want God to deal with
me as I am. I don't want God to deal with me in my sin. I
don't want a trial. I need mercy. based on the power
of Christ's sacrifice. The head's blood can put away
my sin. Now, this altar is just a picture. A person could be taken from
the horns of this altar and be put to death. And you know why?
Because they're guilty. Now, look over at 1 Kings chapter
2. Here's an instance of someone
being taken from the horns of the altar and put to death. Let's see if I can explain that
to you. Exodus 2, verse 28. Solomon, David has died, and
Solomon has become king, and he's dealing with some rebellion
against his throne. In verse 28 of 2 Kings 2, for Joab had turned after Adonijah. He had supported Adonijah, Solomon's
half-brother. He had supported Adonijah to
be king, though he didn't turn after Absalom. He didn't follow
after Absalom's rebellion. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle
of the Lord, and he caught hold on the horns of the altar. Now
it was told King Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle
of the Lord, and behold, he's by the altar. Then Solomon said
to Benaiah, the son of saying, Go, fall upon him. And Benaiah
came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said unto him, Thus
saith the king, Come forth. And he said, No, but I'll die
here. He's saying, If you're going
to kill me, you're going to have to kill me hanging on to this altar. Well, it was
Jewish custom not to do that, so Benaiah brought the king's
word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me. And the king said unto him, Do
as he hath said, and fall upon him. You kill him and bury him,
that thou mayest take away the innocent blood which Joab shed
for me and from the house of my father." Now, Joab was taken. He was hanging on to the horns
of the psalter, but they took him off the horns and they put
him to death. And the reason that they did
that is Joab was guilty. He had killed several men in
cold blood. They weren't his enemy. He acted
friendly towards them, and when they weren't expecting it, he
stabbed them and Joab even killed Absalom, David's son. David loved
Absalom. Absalom was in rebellion to David,
but David loved him. And David told all his men, don't
you touch him. Don't anybody lay a hand on Absalom. Joab killed
him. Even though David said not to,
Joab killed him. He's guilty. Now, David didn't
deal with it right then. At that moment, David didn't
deal with it. But now the time of judgment
has come. Now the time of justice has come, the time of mercy is
over, and Joab was taken from the hanging on to the altar and
killed. Now this brazen altar is just
a picture. Everything we look at in the
Old Testament, we look, I love the Old Testament types and pictures
and shadows of Christ. I just, I love those, they're
such a blessing to me. But now they're just pictures.
That's all they are, and a picture is never as good as the real
thing. We put pictures on Facebook.
Jan, my wife, she puts pictures on Facebook. A lot of y'all talking
about a picture of us when we got signed our marriage certificate. She has, I don't know how they
came up anyway. Well, I saw that picture of her
on the internet. She said, look at this picture.
Everybody's going crazy about this picture. I looked at the
picture, and she said, you know, all that interest is. I got the
real thing. I don't need the picture. The real thing is always better
than the picture. This is just a picture. Christ is the real thing. He's
much, much, much better than this picture. A person could
be taken off the horns of this altar and put to death because
they're guilty. The time of judgment came. The
time of mercy is over. A believer who has laid hold
on the Lord Jesus Christ will never be put to death. Never. You know why? They're not guilty. In Christ,
they're not guilty. In Christ, the day of judgment
will never come because Christ already suffered judgment for
his people. The day of judgment will never
come. The day of mercy will never be over in the Lord Jesus Christ. His blood has put away the sins
of his people. They never have to worry about
being put to death because Christ was put to death for his people.
Now, that's the very first piece of furniture someone would see
when they come in the gate of the tabernacle. They'd see this
altar, a bloody place of sacrifice. Now, we sing the song, Rock of
Ages. Y'all know, I bet we could sing
the song, Rock of Ages, you wouldn't need your hymnal. We all know
the words. to the Songwalk of Ages. And there's a line in that
song. Let the water and the blood from
thy wounded side which flowed be of sin the double cure. Save
from wrath and make me pure. You ever wonder what that means?
You know, there's songs and hymns we sing and words we don't use
anymore. You ever wonder what that means
when we sing about the double cure? Let me see if I can tell
you. What the songwriter means when
he talks about the double cure is he's talking about the blood
and the water that flowed from our Savior's side when that soldier
pierced his side after he had died with a spear. Look in John
chapter 19. This is what I'm talking about.
In this event we read in John chapter 19 is what's pictured
in the courtyard or court of the tabernacle. John 19 verse 31. Now, the Jews, therefore, because
it was the preparation, they were preparing for the Passover,
that the body should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath
day, for the Sabbath day was a high day. They besought Pilate
that their legs might be broken, that they might be taken away.
Now, when a person was crucified, they died a very, very slow,
painful death. Sometimes it would take days
for them to die, and a person, if they're crucified, typically
they would drown, or they would suffocate, because, you know,
what they would do is they'd keep lifting themselves up with
their feet and those nails, letting them get a breath, and then,
you know, they'd slump back down again, and they'd kind of go
through that process for a long time until they finally died.
Well, to make them die quickly, what they would do is break their
legs, so they couldn't lift themselves up and get a breath. So that's
why they were telling them to break their legs so they'd die
quicker, and they'd get their bodies off the Well, verse 32,
"...then came the soldiers, and broke the legs of the first,
and of the other, those two thieves that were crucified with our
Lord. But when they came to Jesus, they saw of his dead already,
and they did break his legs. But one of the soldiers with
a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood
and water." That blood and water that came out of his side, that's
blood. to atone for the guilt of sin,
and water to cleanse from the filth of sin. That's the double
cure. We need both. We need to be cleansed
from the guilt of sin. We also need to be cleansed from
the filth of sin. It's blood to pay for our sin,
and water to keep us clean, to keep us pure and holy. Now, it's
no accident that soldier didn't break our Lord's legs. You know,
they told him, go break the legs of those victims there so they'll
die more quickly. It's no accident he didn't break
the Lord's legs. That was God's eternal purpose.
And he didn't just thrust that spear to the side of our Savior
just for meanness sake, just because he got this wild idea
to do it. That was God's eternal purpose that he fulfilled. In
the Old Testament, our Lord prophesied to the Messiah, not a bone of
him shall be broken. That soldier didn't have that
scripture. But he didn't break our Lord's legs, because that's
the Lord's purpose. And out of him shall flow blood
and water, and that's what's pictured in the court of the
tabernacle, blood and water. One of the writers said Eve was
taken from Adam's side when he was asleep. Remember, the Lord
said it's not good that man dwell alone, so he put him into a deep
sleep, and the Lord took a rib out of Adam. He made Eve out
of that rib. Eve was taken from Adam's side. God's pride was
taken from his side when his side was pierced and out flowed
blood and water. And that's how God's church is
cleansed and born again, blood to remove the guilt of sin, water
to cleanse us from the filth of sin. And I'll show you what
that double cure means. Why is that important? Why do
we talk about this double cure? Why is that important? Well,
I'll tell you why. There are some people, and as
you all grow up, you children grow up, you'll hear people say
this. They'll say they're lying, they're wrong, but this is what
they'll say. A person can lose their salvation. Christ saved
me. His blood saved me. But I sinned
so much. I was such a bad sinner. I lost
my salvation. Well, that's just a single cure,
isn't it? That's just a single cure. And if someone believes
that, here's what they're saying, Christ can save me, but he's
not powerful enough to keep me. He can make me holy. He's not
powerful enough to keep me holy. He gave me His perfect robe of
righteousness. It's spotless, pure white. I
got it dirty because of my sin. He couldn't keep me clean. That's
just a single cure. That can never happen to anyone
in Christ. No one who believes Christ can
ever lose their salvation. The blood of Christ cleanses
us from the guilt of sin. And that water that flowed from
his side is a picture of how he keeps his people clean, free
from the filth of sin. And that's what's pictured in
the court of the tabernacle. The first thing somebody sees
when they come into the tabernacle is the place of sacrifice, the
altar. And then they go past the altar
and they see the brazen labor. Now, look in Exodus chapter 30,
where we started, and we see the instructions. In Exodus 30,
beginning in verse 17, And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, Thou shalt also make a labour of brass, and his foot
also of brass, to wash withal. And thou shalt put it between
the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt
put water therein. For Aaron and his sons shall
wash their hands and their feet thereat. When they go into the
tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that
they die not. Or when they come near to the
altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord. So
they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not.
And it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his
seed throughout their generations." Now, this labor was made of solid
brass. It wasn't wood covered with brass,
it's solid brass. And that shows us God's inflexible
requirement for holiness and perfection. We'll read this in
a little bit, but one of the Psalms says, you must have clean
hands and a pure heart to approach God. Without holiness, without
being cleansed, no man can see the Lord. And you see where this
label was placed? It's right outside the door of
the tabernacle. Before you would go in to the
door of the tabernacle, you had to go past this labor, and you
had to wash before you come in. A sinner like you and me cannot
come into the presence of God unless we've been washed from
all of our sin, from all the filth of our sin. And if any
priest tried to enter the tabernacle without washing his hands and
his feet first, God kill him on the spot. God requires perfect
holiness and cleanliness to be in his sight. God's holiness
is serious business. God's not going to let anybody
defile it. We must be washed. Now, there are no measurements
given for the labor. You know, a lot of the other
things we read about, God gives specific directions, how wide
and how long and how deep to make it. No directions were given
for this labor. We don't even know what it looked
like. It may have looked like this, you know, a stand with
a bowl on top of it. It may have had spouts, you know,
we read about the foot being made of brass. That foot made
of brass may have been a basin that the priests could use to
catch water and they'd wash their feet in it. We don't know what
it looked like, have no idea. But it didn't have any measurements.
And that's a picture of Christ. He's capable of washing every
sinner whoever comes to him free from the filth of their sin.
There's no restrictions. You don't have to be a certain
size sinner. You don't have to be a certain age sinner. No restrictions. Whoever comes to Christ pleading
his sacrifice is cleansed from all of our sin. And there's no
measurements for it. We don't know how big it was.
That's a picture of Christ. He's immeasurable. You can't
measure him. His love? Can't measure. His power saved? Can't measure. He's immeasurable. His holiness?
His righteousness? You can't measure it. He saves,
Christ saves all of his people from all of their sin. Now does
Scripture say in glory there's going to be a number? No man
can number. We can't count. Can't count the people that are
going to be in glory one day. Each one of those people has
an infinite amount of sin. Every one of them. We can't count
the people, much less count their sin-debt. Christ is able, he's
immeasurable, to save all his people from all their sin. Cleanse
the amount of sin, we could never count. That's how immeasurable
Christ is. Now, just like the altar, the
labor is just a picture. It could only hold a certain
finite amount of water. Now, we don't know how much water
that was, but whatever it was, it's a specific amount. You couldn't
put more in it. Christ is better than the picture.
Christ is described as a fountain of living water, not just a basin,
not just a finite amount. He's described as a fountain
of living water that's constantly springing up and will forever
spring up as long as there's As long as there's a sinner who
needs to be cleansed from the filth of their sin, that fountain
will keep springing up. He's an everlasting fountain
of life. And that's very important to
you and me. Because we're sinners. We are what God calls an unclean
thing. And we must be cleansed. We need
to be cleansed. But in Christ, now in ourselves,
we're an unclean thing. In Christ, we're made perfect
and holy. Look at Psalm 24. We're made
as holy as Christ himself. Psalm 24. Now, I've done a lot of reading, and
my voice is getting tired, so I have a volunteer. Would you read Brady, verses
3 and 4 for us, Psalm 24? Good, thank you. Now, who's that
talking about there? Who shall ascend into His holy
place? Well, he has clean hands and
a pure heart. Who's that talking about? I'm not talking about
you and me. It's talking about the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's pure and perfect. But yet that is also talking
about all God's people. In Christ, we have clean hands
and a pure heart, because we're washed in that water that flowed
from His side. Now, the priests, they used to
wash their hands and feet. When they would get ready to
go into the tabernacle, they'd wash their hands and their feet.
That's what God told them to use this labor for. But now Scripture
says sinners must be washed throughly. Not just our hands and our feet.
We need to be completely washed from our sins. Not just our hands
and our feet, our heart, our soul, inwardly, all of us needs
to be washed. Well, look in Titus chapter 3.
That's what God does for his people in the new birth. When
we're born again, we're cleansed. Titus chapter 3, verse 5. Do I have another volunteer?
I know you want to volunteer, Maggie. Okay, read verses 5 and
6 for us, would you? Good, thank you. He has cleansed
us, saved us by the washing of regeneration. by the washing
of the new birth. When a person, a sinner, is born
again, they're washed clean from every sin. Well, then why does
the Scripture tell believers you need to wash your feet? What's
that mean? Our Lord says you have to wash
your feet. Well, if we've been cleansed from every sin in the
new birth, why does He tell us you've got to wash your feet?
You thought you were already washed. Well, you are. You're clean from every
sin. That's a figurative speech our Lord uses. We still have
to wash our feet, because our feet touch the earth as we walk
through the earth, and our feet get dusty and dirty. Just like
the priests. They're clean, weren't they?
They washed, they're clean, but when they began work, they were
clean. But when they handled the sacrifice, they slew that
animal, and they handled the sacrifice and put it on the altar,
their hands are bloody. Their feet were dirty as they
Now, we've got a wood floor here in our courtyard, or court of
the tabernacle. This is just sand in the desert.
Their feet got dirty as they walked all around, slaying those
animals. They walked over, as they began to walk over to the
tabernacle, their hands are dirty with blood, their feet are dirty
with the sand of the desert. They've got to be washed. Now,
they've already been washed, they're clean, but their hands
and their feet must be washed. Now, if you look in John chapter
13, This is where our Lord teaches his disciples what this picture in the courtyard
means. In John chapter 13, verse 8, this is where our Lord
is washing the feet of his disciples. In verse 8, Peter saith unto
him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If
I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter said
unto him, Lord, not my feet only, also my hands and my head, wash
me all over. And Jesus said to him, He that
is washed, and he is not saved to wash his feet, but he is clean
everywhere, and you are clean, but not all. For he knew who
should betray him, therefore said he, you are not all clean.
So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments,
and was set down again, Now, do you know what this is that
I've done to you? And what our Lord is teaching
here is, we won't get into how we're supposed to wash one another's
feet, but, well, now I've said it, so let me, let me, let me
tell you what this, this doesn't mean that we're all supposed
to get together and take off our shoes and socks and wash
one another's feet. I just do not do that. My feet aren't too good looking
and my feet are ticklish, so if you want my, wash my feet,
It would be a mess. I'd be kicking water everywhere.
That's not what our Lord's talking about. When He says we're to
wash one another's feet, you know what He means? We're supposed
to do things for one another to help one another. These men
walked through their world in open-toed sandals. Their feet
were hot and dirty, and it felt good to have their feet washed. It feels good. And that's what
we're supposed to do for one another. to help one another.
Dan, you don't have to put this on the internet if you don't
want to. This is one of the preeminent examples I can ever think of
of somebody washing a believer's feet. After I had back surgery
a couple years ago, I was hurt. You know for over a year I never
one time cut my grass. Never once. Dan Morgan came over
every week and cut my grass. He washed my feet. That's what
our Lord's teaching here about washing one another's feet, but
back to this praise and labor here. When our Lord told them,
you're washed, but not all. You have to wash your feet. You're
cleansed, but you have to wash your feet. This is what he means.
At this time, everybody didn't have showers and bathtubs and
stuff in their house. They had public baths. They left
their house and went down to the place where they had a public
bath, and they took a bath, and they washed. They're clean. They
put the clothes on and walked on. But they walked home in open-toed
sandals. I just took a bath. My feet are
dirty. So when they got home, they washed their feet. Now I'm
clean. That's what our Lord's talking
about. Well, believer has been cleansed in regeneration, been
washed in regeneration. But our feet get dusty and dirty
as we walk through this world. And what this is teaching us
is the need for the daily washing. The daily cleansing of a believer. Don't have to have your soul
washed again. That's already been washed. Don't have to be
born again every day. Again and again and again. Once
is enough. You're clean everywhere. But
we're walking through a sinful world. We handle a sinful world. Our feet walk through a sinful
world. Our feet get dusty. Our hands
get dirty. And we need to wash the filth
and the influence of the world off. How do I do that? It's through God's Word. It's
not by washing one another's feet with a bucket of water.
It's through God's Word. We wash the influence of the
world off by reading God's Word. The world influences us 24 hours
a day. It's just constant influence. And it's easy for the world to
influence that old man. I mean, the world And all the
things of it, the riches of it, the fame of it, the popularity
of it appeals to this flesh. I pray for you children every
day. Every day I pray for you. And
this is one of the things I pray for you. That God will keep you
from this wicked world that you grow up in. And right now you
don't much care about that. The things of the world appeal
to you a lot. being popular at school, having
riches, having the nicest, best clothes, and for too long you
want the nicest, best cars, and all these things. And don't let
anybody fool you, those things that appeal to you, appeal to
us adults too. The flesh does not change. It's easy for the world to influence
that old man. It's just so easy to pull us
to those things away from Christ. how we wash free from that? By
reading God's Word. A new man's not fed by the flesh,
he's fed by reading God's Word. And I want to show you a couple
of scriptures, Psalm 119. You know, most of our problems
are self-inflicted, aren't they? Most of them are self-inflicted. You know, our attitude and our
conduct would be better if we spent more time reading God's
Word. It really would, because this
is the way that we're cleansed. One of the greatest blessings
of going into the pasture at full time is every day when I
get up, I get to read God's Word. That's a blessing. We'd all benefit
from that same blessing, because this is how we're washed. Now,
I'll show you that. Psalm 119, verse 9. How are you going to cleanse your
way? Taking heed according to God's
Word. We're only going to know what
it says if we read it. That's how we're cleansed. Now look
at John chapter 15. John 15, verse 3. Do you have
another volunteer? Okay, Sydney. Stand up and read
a nice amount for us, would you? Good. How are you clean? Through
God's Word. And one more scripture, Ephesians
chapter 5. clean through the Word. Ephesians 5, verse 25. Husbands, love your wives, even
as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that
ye might sanctify it in cleansing with the washing of water by
the Word. Well, how good of a job! can
Christ make us through the washing of water by the Word, that he
might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle
or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish."
We're holy and without blemish through the washing of water
by the Word, by the Word of God. Now, water is used for washing.
It's also used for refreshing. When you're hot and tired, Nothing
refreshes you better than cold water. Ah, it's just so refreshing.
Adam Simpson tells me all the time, I believe I can make it
to Wednesday. I believe I can make it to Sunday
now. Why does he think that? Why does he say that? Because
he just had a refreshing from God's Word. Just like when you
run a long distance race. You run a marathon, 26.2 miles.
Believe me, they can hardly put enough water stops in one of
those things. At least every mile, they've got a water stop.
And you stop, if you're smart, And take your drink, because
you need something to help you get to the next water stop. That's
what the time between when we read God's Word, that's what
that is. We open up God's Word, it's a water stop. It's a refreshing
from God's Word. Now, we won't turn back over
and read this. You can look at it later if you want, Exodus
38, verse 8. This labor was not just made
from just any brass that they just found laying around anywhere.
It was made from a specific brass. Brass that was shined that the
ladies had. It was women that donated the
brass for this labor. You know where they got that
brass? It was brass that shined up real shiny and they used it
as a mirror. This labor is made from brass
that was used as mirrors. That's God's Word. Look over
James chapter 1. God's Word refreshes us, it cleanses
us, but it's also a mirror. If you want to see what you really
are by nature, read God's Word. God's Word will tell us the truth
about who we are. In James 1, verse 22, But be ye doers of the word,
and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any man
be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a
man, beholding his natural face, in a glass, and that glass, he's
meaning there's a shined up piece of brass, just like what was
used to make this labor. He looks at his face in a glass,
where he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway
forgetteth what manner of man he was. Now, if you look into
the mirror, and you see yourself, and then you go away, if Sidney
looks in the mirror, and she sees herself, there's Sidney
in the mirror, and she goes away, and Sidney thinks, I'm six foot
two and I've got real long red hair. Something's wrong. You forgot what you just saw
in the mirror if you think that. Now that's kind of a silly illustration,
but I use that illustration to make this point. If we look in
God's Word and God's Word says, you're sinful. All men are completely
depraved, totally sinful. You can't do anything but sin.
And we go away and think, you know, I'm not that bad. I can
really do some good things. We just forgot what we just saw
in the mirror of God's Word. God's Word says Christ is the
only Savior. There's no salvation apart from
knowing the Lord Jesus Christ. It's all in what he did for his
people. And then we go away and think,
you know, I've done some good deeds. If I do some good deeds,
they'll make me more savable. And then God will save me if
I do some good deeds. We refuse to believe what we just saw in
the mirror about ourselves and about Christ. God's Word says,
the mirror of God's Word says a sinner, like you and me, is
justified through faith in Christ. That we're made without sin by
believing Christ. If we go away and think, you
know, I'll really, I believe I'm made without sin, justified
in Christ, but I'll really be justified. If I keep the law
better than my friends, I'll be more justified than they are.
I'll be better than they are. That's forgetting what we just
saw in the mirror of God's Word, telling us who Christ is and
who we are, and that's foolish. That's what we look in God's
Word, to have cleansing, a regeneration, a new birth, to have a refreshing
from the water of life and the mirror to see who we are and
who Christ is so we'll run to Him for mercy. Now, one last
scripture, Hebrews chapter 2. In the core of the tabernacle,
this is what we see, the double cure. The brazen altar is the
blood of the sacrifice to cleanse from the guilt of sin. And the
labor, the brazen labor, is water to cleanse from the filth of
sin. I'll show you why that's good news. Hebrews 10, verse
21. And having an high priest over
the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart and full
assurance of faith. How can we have a true heart
full of assurance of faith? Having our hearts sprinkled from
an evil conscience. That's having our hearts sprinkled
with the blood of Christ. Having our hearts sprinkled with
the blood from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure
water. Let us hold fast the profession
of our faith without wavering, for He's faithful to promise.
We can only approach, draw near to God, and have this promise. He's faithful to promise. of
the sacrifice and the washing of water that we see in the later.