The Fellowship of the Light and the Problem of Sin Part 2 - 1 John 1:8-9

1:56This is the message we have heard from him and are announcing to you that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. God is light. There is absolutely no darkness in him whatsoever at all. And because of that, because of that, he deals with our sin in a righteous way. There are several people that we meet that John introduces us to. He introduces us to the liar, the liar. You see the liar there in beginning in verse 6. If we say, if we should be saying that we have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

2:46So the one who lies, the one, the liar is the one who says he or she has fellowship with God, but habitually lives in the darkness or walks according to the dictates of their own. Flesh. Such a person is a living contradiction. But if we walk in the light, as he is himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. So there is the liar, but then there is the remedy to the liar.

3:20If we walk in the light, that is, if we deal with sin in the way that God has prescribed that we deal with sin, we will have fellowship not only with him, but with one another. Sin is that barrier. It is that thing that separates us from fellowship with God and fellowship with one another. So if we say we have no fellowship, yet walk in darkness, we lie. We're liars. But then he introduces us to a second person, and that is the person who is self-deceived. Verses 8 or 9, begin, if we say, if we say we have no sins, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And then he goes on in verse 10 to introduce us to a third person. And this is the person who slanders God, the slanderer. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us. If we say, verse 10, if we say, verse 8, if we say verse 6, marks off three. Three different people. Today, we want to spend our time looking at this self-deceiver. Last time we looked at the liar, this time we want to look at the self-deceiver. I want to ask ourselves the question as we're going through: do you belong to this fellowship of light? Do we belong to this fellowship of light?

4:56And recognizing that as we go through this, John shares this with us, he proclaims all this as verse 3 says, so that we will be part of this fellowship. So, everything that's going to be declared verses 5 and on is about us entering into that fellowship. John writes, so that you and I will be part of this fellowship. There's a lot he's going to say about sin. It's a lot he's going to call, some of us he's going to call liars, some of us he's going to call self-deceivers, some of us he's going to call slanderers, but he's saying all that so that we would abandon that inconsistent way of living, that we might live in the pattern according to God's light and so be part of that fellowship. Well, let's look at the self-deceiver. Verse 8: Are you self-deceived? Do you go around lying to yourself? Well, your attitude towards your sin tells the story about you. What is your attitude toward your sin? Look at Verse 8, if we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Here we meet the self-deceived, the self-deceived.

6:17It's interesting that John includes himself in this. Do you see this? If we say, John says, even if I should be saying this, that I have no sin, I am deceiving myself, and the truth is not in me. John includes himself. And listen, if ever there was a man that had lived a sinless life or perfect or who had matured into sinless perfection, it would have been John. Obviously, Jesus is the only perfect one, but here's John saying, Look, even if I say this, even if I say this, the truth is not in us. So here's an interesting picture.

6:57There is a fellowship of light, and John has included himself among those with sin. So then we really come down to this section of scripture that talks about two kinds of sinners. There are those sinners who fellowship in the light, and there are those who do not. It's an incredible distinction, but John makes this distinction. Sinners. So, how in the world can a sinner fellowship in the light? Stay tuned. He's going to tell us. You see, what self-deceivers do is they deceive themselves.

7:37Self-deceivers are so skilled at lying that they convince themselves. What do they lie about? Well, look back. If we should say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves. The issue is sin. And notice that it's singular. If we say we have no sin, singular. What is John talking about? He's talking about that inherited disposition to sin, that present sinfulness, that principle of present sinfulness. Why do people sin? Well, because they're sinners. Why are they sinners? Because there's this internal disposition to sin.

8:26It's that principle of self-centeredness. You know what the Bible calls evil? Evil, according to the Bible, is doing things your own way. Now, sometimes we think of evil when we see, we think of this grotesque, monster-looking thing, sinister, really mature. That's just a matured picture, perhaps, of evil. But you know, let me tell you what evil really looks like? Or that's where humanity goes, let me put it that way. Let me tell you what evil really looks like.

9:00The Bible depicts it as, no, thank you, God. I'll do this my way. No, thank you, God. I'll go about it the way that seems right to me. That's what the scriptures declare as evil. It's that me first principle. That's evil, according to Scripture. And you know what self-deceivers do, according to this verse? They deny the reality of sin in their own lives. They say in their heart, I do not have a sin problem. Do you have a sin problem?

9:53I didn't ask if you had problems. I mean, I think that's what the self-decei. Oh, yeah, I have problems, but sin isn't one of them. I have a whole host of problems. Listen, I can just go down the list of how many problems I have, but sin isn't among them. In John's day, there were those who were beginning this spread of this Gnostic heresy that believed that sin is a matter of the flesh, not of the spirit, and therefore I could be holy and clean, even though I'm. Participating in all kinds of evil because that's my flesh doing that. I am without sin, even though I, but I have been cleansed, even though I am or I am in, I do not have a sin problem. That's a problem of the flesh, and I am received this knowledge. I am in this higher form of living. Sin doesn't really isn't my problem anymore.

10:57Well, there were certainly those in John's day, but it wasn't just limited to those. In John's day and ours, there are those who argue that they really do not need to be cleansed from sin because they really have no sin. Pretty straightforward. If you deny the existence of sin or the severity of sin, you cut yourself off from the need to be forgiven of it, right? You say, I have no sin, guess what? You're not going to be asking for forgiveness for it. You're not going to be confessing it. And if you're not confessing it, you're not going to be forgiven of it. And if you're not being forgiven of it, guess what's happening? You're not part of the fellowship of light. And I don't care what else your life says about you. That's what John is saying. He's laying it out so clearly so that you can know you have eternal life. Remember, 1 John 5:13, he tells us why, why he wrote. The gospel. He wants us to know.

12:04Now, I think we could probably be sure that these people probably wouldn't deny that there's certain sin out there or that there's certain deliberate acts of evil out there. As he said, if we say we have no sin, that's the issue. If we say we have no sin, it's not necessarily saying that these people are saying, well, there is no such thing as the reality of sin. They're sin or they're evil in the world. They might be able to say in some sort of, they may be able to confess that there are certain acts of deliberate evil in our world, but certainly I am excluded from that category. That's where they're going. Yeah, there's evil in the world, but I'm not really, that doesn't, that's not me. I'm basically pretty good when you get down. I'm pretty swell when you get down to it. That's kind of the idea.

13:03But the result of this is they treat sin lightly. They minimize its devastation, not only in their own life, but in the relationships that they have in our world. Sin is the problem. That's what the Savior came. It's what we celebrate this time about the manger, is that finally one Stepped into the world who would save his people from their sins, from their going astray, from their me first principle. Finally, somebody has stepped on the world scene who will deal with our rebellion, our propensity to cross God's line, to move his boundaries, to define what's right and wrong for ourselves. That is what has laid the earth in devastation.

14:08That's where sin and error are pioneer. Sin is our problem. Are you deceiving yourself? What is your view of your own sin? What is your view of your present condition? Do you see a principle of present sin in your life? A present sinfulness. What do you see as your basic nature? Good or evil? And by evil, keep in mind, I'm saying, no, thank you, God. I'll do it my way. That's what evil is. Where are you?

15:05Well, if you deny your sin, guess what? You're not going to seek forgiveness for it. Guess what? You'll never be part of the fellowship of light. You know, there are many schools of thought today that deny the reality of sin, aren't there? There are many schools that deny guilt before a holy God. We don't like the idea of guiltiness before a holy God, so what do we do? We argue sin away. We redefine God. We redefine sin.

15:49Sin might be defined on organic grounds, right? Maybe my sin isn't sin. Maybe it's a biological condition. Maybe you have some sort of physiological or psychological issue, but your problem really isn't sin. You know what? That's just a clever way to deny the reality of sin. Oh, I don't minimize that there are organic issues, but that's not your primary problem. I don't care what your capacity is, I don't care what your situation may be. There is right and there is wrong, and God calls you to the right standard. And I don't care what your capacity is. The Bible doesn't care what your capacity is. It calls you to His righteousness. And anything else is sin.

16:41No, we'll claim all kinds of illnesses. We'll claim temporary insanity. Yeah, I never would have done that, but you did it. Yeah, but I never would have. Why? Because I was out of my mind. Well, you know why you're out of your mind? Because you're a sinner. We'll even blame society, right? Society is why I'm this way. No, you're a sinner. You're a sinner. That's our fundamental problem: sin. And that's what the Bible deals with from the beginning to the end. That's why Christ stepped into this world to save his people from their sins. It is the problem.

17:28And when we treat it lightly, we deceive ourselves. A society that treats sin lightly deceives itself. And the truth is not in it. Yeah, sin is not only a reality, but the fundamental problem with you and me, the fundamental problem with the world that we're. We live in. It didn't say that Jesus came to save us from our emotional distress, right? He came to save us from our sins. Those who deny the fundamental principle of sin inherent in humanity deceive themselves.

18:31It is the problem. Are you a self-deceiver? What is your attitude toward your sin? Denying sin is the wrong attitude. Excusing it, blaming it, whatever you do, whatever way you get it off your plate is the wrong attitude. So, what is the right attitude? Well, look back at verse 9. If we confess our sins, if we confess, the right attitude is one of agreement and confession, not denying or excusing. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

19:26You know what the truthful do? You know, those who've received the truth. Do you know what they do? They admit their sin and their sins. Notice it's plural. If we confess our sins, you see that? There's a change there, right? Sins. These are the ones who confess specific sins. Those who have the truth abiding in them are in a habitual pattern of confessing their sins. If we confess, it's a present. If we should be confessing, it's an ongoing deal. If we are of that disposition, if we are confessing, then he is faithful and righteous to forgive us, to be forgiving us our sins, and to be cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

20:31This is what we celebrate. Marilyn came up to me after the service, and she, after the early service, and said, You know what? You remember what Howard used to say? That's her husband, for those who don't know, used to be an elder here, preacher, great man of God. He quote often would quote this Appalachian minister that said, regarding sins, I fess them. When I does them, I don't bunch them. I fess them. I confess. Them when I does them, when I do them, I don't bunch them. I don't. And then somebody else, Jackson, came up with a great illustration afterwards. He said, Yes, like the trash. You throw a little bit of trash in there, and if you don't take it out, after a couple days, it can really get foul. I think that's a good illustration. And you can even drive some of your roommates now. Everybody starts. And it gets so bad, you know, just have to get a new house, right? And you just move all because you didn't take the trash out, right? Well, that's the thing. When we let sin, when we are to be confessing the truthful, that is, those who have received the truth, confess their sins, specific ones. They don't just admit that they are sinners. I think it's kind of easy to just admit that we're sinners, right?

21:50A little more difficult when you start having to confess and own up to specific sins. I lied to you. I was angry with you. I said something ugly to you. I stole something from you. I did this. I crossed the line here. I rebelled against your authority. I deceived you here. That is a little more difficult. But I think, at least certainly in our circles, it's easy to say, yeah, I'm sinners. I'm a sinner, right? I remember a youth camp. My friend. Friend was ministering at, and there's one of these with a bunch of young kids, young young kids, and they had one of those nights where they call the kids forward and they give a gospel presentation and been a message about sin and coming and making it right. And so, all these kids came down to the forward and to the altar or to the platform and they were praying. And one kid was just sobbing his eyes out. And my friend, little kid, just crying, crying. And my friend went over to minister to him and said, Why are you crying so much?

23:14I was steeped in sin from birth. I was steeped in sin from birth. And my friend said, Really? Do you know what that means? No, but I was steeped in sin from birth. I think the idea is things worked out well for the kid. But the idea is like it's easy to say, I don't know, but I'm a sinner. That's a little bit easier. I recognize this all the time, especially when you've wronged somebody, especially in those situations when you really need to own up to your wife or to your husband or to one of your children or brother or sister. When it's like, okay, yeah, I'm a sinner, but You need to confess this specifically. Oh, no, no.

24:06There's a pattern. You see, the fundamental quality of a true Christian is confessing and forsaking specific sins as they come to mind. Listen, the Spirit of God is going to bring sins to your mind. And I don't care as you go about your day. I don't care what do you do about these sins of your past that show up in your mind every once in a while. Well, you confess them, move on. Yeah, and you go on with the promise. There's some really good news here. If something comes to your mind, you just confess, go on. You fess them as you do them. You don't bunch them, right? That's the pattern. That's what a true Christian is about. It's about being in this habitual routine of confessing. When sin comes to your mind, you do the right thing about it. That's how sinners, even though they're sinners, sinners such as John, who could admit he has sinned, can walk in the light and talk about fellowshiping in the light because he walks according to the light regarding sin. Sin is a reality. As we grow, as we mature in Christ's likeness, we are going to sin. But he has factored that in. He understands.

25:31Our sin, and he has given us instruction what to do about that sin, and that was true in the Old Testament as well. There is a way to be forgiven of sin, there is a way to be cleansed from sin, and that's what walking in the light is about, even when you're sin. Let me put it this way: especially when you sin. Look at the good news here. Notice the promise. If we confess our sins, if we are confessing, if we should be confessing our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He will forgive. He should forgive, he should cleanse.

26:30Good news. If we're in the habit of confessing our sins, he promises to forgive them all and cleanse us from all wrongdoing, all unrighteousness. Or you could say, all crookedness, all wickedness. Now, think about that. If we are confessing our sins, he is going to be faithful and righteous to forgive them and to cleanse us. This is good news. Why does he do that? Because he is faithful and righteous. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous.

27:19Behold your God. He is faithful and he is righteous. Two wonderful pictures of God. Let our minds, as you go into this Christmas season, let your minds fixate on these thoughts. He is faithful and he is righteous. And this shows up in the person of Christ. But God is faithful. And I just want to look at those just for a moment. Take a moment just to gaze upon God for just a moment. Gaze upon him as the faithful. Gaze upon him as the righteous one.

28:05God is faithful. That means he's trustworthy, dependable. He is faithful. He is faithful to forgive us of our sins. Why? Because he's faithful to do what he said he would do. He said he would forgive sins. The reason he's Telling you about your sins is so that he can forgive you of your sins. If you will confess them, if you will agree with him, he is telling you these things so that you will agree, so that you can receive forgiveness, so that you can be cleansed. He is faithful, so of course he forgives. When you come to him with your debilitating problem, which is sin, your sin, and which shows up in your sins, your sins are indication of your sin.

29:06He understands that is your problem. And he wants you to come to him with your problem so that he can heal you of it. God is faithful to do what he says. He is a covenant-keeping God. Jeremiah 31:34, for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more. That is the covenant. That is the promise that Jesus made in his own blood. And though we are Gentiles, this new covenant is so wonderful, so expansive, that it brings us, we get swept up in it as well. The blood of the new covenant. It was too small a thing for Jesus to be the king of Israel. God appointed him as a light to all the nations. And here is the problem that he corrects: I will forgive their iniquity, their crookedness, their twistedness. I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more.

30:29And then he goes on: the New Testament is about how he specifically does this in the person of Jesus. But anyone and everyone is the problem. If we, if anyone, if everyone who genuinely confesses their sins to him, they will receive forgiveness. Why? Because God is faithful. Faithful. Let your understanding of the forgiveness for your sins rest upon God's faithfulness. He will do what he says. But there's a second element, a second glorious picture of our God that we see. God is righteous. He is faithful to forgive. He is also righteous in the way he does it.

31:26And there are at least three ways that I'd like to point out. That he is righteous in the way he deals with our sins. We could probably sit here and come up with so many, but today I'd just like to mention three: that first of all, he is righteous in the way he receives our confession. He is righteous in the way he receives our confession. When we confess, we can be assured he is not going to be unkind to our vulnerability. When you come in and you confess your sin, you're being vulnerable before a holy God, he's not going to say, aha, finally, you sinner, you've got it. I've been saying this all along, Vermin, finally, thank you.

32:23And do you think that's God? No, thank you. That is not God at all. But sometimes that's how we treat him, right? Somebody came up to Marilyn, as it often happens, people, and rightfully so, come to her. She's such an evangelist. Marilyn, will you share with me how you evangelize? Do you think she says, oh, yeah, it's about time, right? You're falling short in this category. In fact, I need to talk to the pastor about this. I didn't realize you're so far off the mark. I didn't realize. In fact, we need to probably take it before the church just to get this squared up that you don't really know how to evangelize. Is that how she would do that? Absolutely not. But yet, that's how sometimes I think we see God.

33:22We can be vulnerable before Him, right? We can be vulnerable about our sin. We can be very honest about our sins. We can know that as we genuinely confess, He's not going to mock. He's not going to destroy. He's not going to set us up to be unkind to us. In modern terms, He's safe. He's the safe place. Where's the safest place for your sins? In His presence, confess to Him. That's the safe place. You can be vulnerable with Him, He's not going to destroy you.

34:06Second, way He is righteous in the way He deals with our sins is that He is righteous in that He forgives sins. The very idea that He forgives, He is righteous in the very fact that He does forgive. You know, when a person confesses His sin, you know. The right thing to do? Forgive them. Why does God forgive people when they confess their sins? Because it's right to do so. It's righteous to forgive the truly repentant. And God is righteous. Do you see? Not only is He faithful to forgive, he is righteous.

34:54It's right to forgive. You know, I don't care what anybody has done to you, it's right for you to forgive. And sometimes we're slow in learning this, aren't we? I know I have been. When somebody comes before you vulnerable about their sin and they confess their sin, sometimes the first reaction is to get angry. Aha. You did what? Ouch. You know, some of the best things we can do is to start off with this faithful and righteous picture of our God. When we confess, it's easily, we need the first things that need to come out of our mouth is: there's grace, there's forgiveness, our God is good.

36:01There will be consequences, but understand, he is good. And there is grace. How do you forgive? The way you forgive tells all about who you are. Are you really part of this fellowship of light? He is righteous in that he forgives. It is right to forgive one another. That's why, when you have a right relationship with him, as John said in verse 7, if we walk in the light, it shows up with our fellowship with one another. The way you relate to other believers, especially if you're married to another believer, the way it shows up is your fellowship. Are you walking in the light? Are you letting things go? Are you forgiving people? It shows up in the way you relate to one another. That's how you know if you're walking in the light. Your relationship to the church says a whole lot more about you than you realize.

37:10We covered that last time. But there's a third way in which he is righteous in the way he deals with our sins. Number one, he is righteous in the way he receives our confession. Number two, he is righteous in that he forgives in. Number three, he is righteous in that he forgives on the right basis. He is righteous in that he forgives on the right basis. And what is that basis? Well, he's already told us, verse 7, Christ's blood. That's what it's all based on. Sin is a debt that God pardons.

37:55Sin is also that human disorder that he cures. And I mean, it is the disorder. I don't mean to say it's just put it in some category of disorder. It is the disorder. It is the disease. It is the issue. And it is that he cleanses, that he pardons, and he heals. He sends. It's interesting when you look at this word for forgives, it's literally the word for sending away, sending away. Leviticus 16:10, it's the picture of laying the sins on the goat and sending the goat away into the wilderness. That's what he does.

38:40It's in Matthew 5:40. Jesus said, if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, he says this, let him have your cloak also. You know what he says? Literally. If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, send away your cloak as well. That's the idea. Send. It away. It's the same word for divorce. Forgiveness is the same word for divorce. 1 Corinthians 7:10. But to the married, I give instructions, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband. And he goes on to say, and that the husband should not divorce his wife. Do not send your wife away.

39:22Divorce. Forgiveness. In Mark 2:5, you remember that paralytic was let down out through the roof. They couldn't get into the door. They couldn't get into the window. So they went up on top of the roof and they tore a hole in the roof and they brought their friend who was on a pallet down before Christ in the midst. And Jesus said, and when he saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, Son, your sins are forgiven. Literally, what he was saying is, your sins are being driven away. Of course, the Pharisees were right to say, who can do this but God alone? Who has the authority to drive sins away? Christ, God, God alone. But that's the idea. Verse 9 says, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us of our sins. To drive them away, it's interesting. We tend to drive people away, but he doesn't. If you confess your sins, you know what he does? He drives your sin away, he drives the trash, oh, he takes the trash out, he takes the offense away.

40:50That's what he is faithful to do that, he divorces our sins from us. That's what he does. Now, if you want to deny your sin, if you want to deceive yourself and say, I really don't have a sin problem, the Bible calls you a self-deceiver. You're a liar, you're lying to yourself, you're so good at it that you believe your own lie. And if you go down that path, yes, there is coming a judgment day when God will separate the sheep from the goat. But you know what? The driving thing that separates them? Those who are still married to their sin are the ones that go off into eternity.

41:39But here's a God who divorces people from their sins, and he does that because he's faithful and he does it in a righteous manner. So you can be coming before him, confessing them as he does them instead of bunching them. That is. Is the good news of Christmas? But notice, notice a couple things about this. This promise is conditional. It is conditional. Our confession of sin moves God to release us from our sins. There's an if there, if we are confessing. But if you're in the habit of denying, God is still, you are declaring God still to be your adversary. But when you are confessing, guess what? You are declaring God to be God.

42:39And he always meets that with loving arms. So the promise is conditional, but also notice that the promise is comprehensive. Does it say, and he will forgive you? He forgives us from a good bit of our unrighteousness. 90% of it, no, he forgives us from all unrighteousness. All. And the word unrighteous is the word wrongdoing, all iniquity, all unrighteousness. He cleanses. So sin is a debt, an offense that he removes in the blood of Christ. Sin is also a disposition, a disease that he cures by conforming us into the image of his son.

43:42So, question: Do you belong to this fellowship of light? Or your attitude toward your sins? Tell the story. Do you fess them as he does them? Is there a conviction? Listen, the whole reason Christ stepped down, the whole reason God became flesh and dwelt among us, is to change this trajectory. Sin will cause you to grow, denying your sin will cause you to grow in a direction of isolation from God. That is what death is. But confessing your sins, and it begins with the first, it's a disposition. Yes, you have to repent. Yes, you have to turn. Yes, it starts with an agreement with what God says about sins. That is the turning. That is what he is expecting. And if you don't make that turn, you are still married to your sin. Do you see the difference? John, it's clear in his mind.

44:52Start fessing as you do them. What was the purpose of John's letter? 1 John 5:13, These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. You need to know you have eternal life. That's why he wrote the how do you know you have eternal life? Well, you must know before you can know you have eternal life or you're secure in that knowledge, you need to know that your sins are forgiven. How do you know your sins are forgiven?

45:36Well, because he's faithful and he's righteous. So, as we confess them, I promise you, you will be forgiven. But it's not me who makes that promise, it's God's Word, and He is faithful to that promise. So, be confessing, let that be your disposition. If that hasn't been your disposition, confess your sins today. Be agreeing with Him starting now. Well, John said in verse 5, This is the message we have heard from Him and announced to you that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. And because God is light, and because there is absolutely no darkness in Him at all, He forgives those who are confessing their sins.

46:30So that's why we celebrate the manger. To come into the light. Come into the light. Jesus said, everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come into the light. What does that mean? It means you suppress the truth. He says, but he who practices the truth comes to the light. Come to the light. He has revealed your biggest problem is sin. He has revealed how you are to deal with that sin. And he is faithful and righteous. That's the good news. That's why he stepped down. That's why we celebrate the manger.

47:16God's Son has come in order to change our trajectory. From death to life, from growing isolation to growing fellowship, you can be part of this fellowship of light. Let's be confessing our sins. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we come before you just acknowledging the simple truth that you are so faithful in all your ways. You do what's right. You always do what's right. And in that rightness, you have made a provision where sinners can be forgiven and fellowship with you. And Father, we confess we have a propensity to sin.

48:08We also recognize that it shows up in our lives on a routine basis. Forgive us of our specific sins. Forgive us. And Lord, it's knowing the stability of your promise and the wisdom and the righteousness in which you deal with sin that we can know we have eternal life. You have dealt with our sins. You are, have, continue to send away our offenses. We celebrate the manger. Thank you in Jesus' name.