A Sunny Little Psalm - [Psalm 23]

Father in heaven we are so thankful today that we can call you our father and that you're gracious and merciful. Slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. Thank you for being good to us. We're thankful that even though we now as Christians still sin.

You are faithful and just to forgive us our sins. So would you cleanse us this morning father that we might think about you rightly and worship you. We know every sin was taken care of at Calvary past present and future and we stand before you.

Legally as righteous because of our Lord Jesus Christ. But still in our walk we stumble and fall and we don't always love you and love our neighbors. And so we'd ask that you'd cleanse us and wash us.

We're thankful for the righteous robes of our dear Savior Jesus who perfectly loved you and perfectly loved his neighbor. And we stand in his stead today. And so we know you accept our praise and worship and works.

Simply because you accept us and only because you accept the Lord Jesus and we are in him. I do pray for Dave copper today and Maureen in Boston. I pray that there'd be good diagnosis that you would grant them peace.

We know that you've granted them peace with you. That is. They're your friends. They're your children, but also there's that internal peace too that passes all understanding. I pray for any of those in trials and I know some here at the church have even lost their jobs.

I pray that you would help them to fight worry and fret and anxiety. We're so prone to wander Lord as the hymnist said, so would you please help us to to not do that? I pray especially for the doctors with Dave they know exactly what to do.

We're thankful for the testimony of Dave copper and how he Has been a man who's responded to you rightly and he looks to you and he understands your faithfulness. And he realizes you're righteous in all your ways.

May we learn from your handiwork in our dear friend Dave copper bring him back to us quickly and heal him Lord God. So today we pray that you would open our eyes. So we might see wonderful things in your law and we would like to meditate day and night.

So may you bless this word as it goes out via the internet and even to the dear people that are here In Jesus name. Amen. Well, we will deviate one more week from the book of Hebrews, I've been thinking a lot about a particular Section of Scripture well-known section if I were to say to you.

Let's say you go to a wedding. And you say well, there's a particular verse that's read at a wedding a particular chapter. Is there a wedding chapter in other words and you would probably say oh, I know the wedding chapter.

It's first Corinthians chapter what? 13 and so people go. Oh, that's the wedding chapter and it's wonderful to read at weddings. But it's not necessarily in context for weddings. If I were to say to you you're visiting someone with a brand new little baby and they say well.

There's a good Psalm to read when there's a new child born and we're praising the Lord that would be Psalm. What Psalm 139 I call that kind of the child? Psalm those of you who have been trained here at Bethlehem Bible Church for Assurance and how to think about assurance of salvation.

There's a chapter for that. It's the assurance chapter and that would be what Romans chapter 8. But if I were to say to you Where is Psalm 23 often read what kind of Psalm is it? You probably would say it's the Psalm for funerals and while it's fine to read at funerals.

It is not associated Primarily with death. It's a song not of death but of life of peace of comfort. It's a song for the living even with the Anglican Book of Prayer. It wasn't a song for death for funerals until 1928.

Associated with the church for a long time in England. You would read Psalm 39 or Psalm 90 when it was a funeral you would rarely read Psalm 23 yet today. It seems like Psalm 23 is for death and death alone.

It's fine for a funeral, but it's better for life. So I'd like you to take your Bibles and turn to this well-known Beloved Psalm as Alexander McLaren called it a sunny little Psalm. I think we need a sunny little Psalm today.

Psalm 145 we just read but today we're gonna look at Psalm 23. Charles Haddon Spurgeon called this the pearl of Psalms and I think if you understand Psalm 23 through exposition through a frail preacher.

You'll you'll understand not only the text better, but you'll appreciate the Lord God even better. This is a wonderful Psalm. I was teaching it yesterday on the radio. I don't think I've ever cried on the radio Before and if I did you wouldn't know it because you couldn't see it but I was actually tearing up as I was preaching through Psalm 23 on the radio because it is a Balm for the soul.

It is really the sunny little Psalm. Wherever I travel I usually have chapstick with me and there's kind of a fight in our family because I will take any kind of Chapstick, but my wife will only she only likes Carmex right.

And When your lips are parched and you just think you know what it's dry out. And I might and I have to have chapstick with me and when I apply that chapstick. It's just a soothing feeling is it not. It's just a balm for the lips.

Well today whether you're happy or healthy or sick or lonely or elderly or young. This psalm is a perfect psalm for you. Now. Here's what we're gonna do today. I'm gonna give you three Interpretive keys for this psalm so that you can understand the Lord better and appreciate this psalm more.

I love to preach well-known things because there are so many nuggets hidden in there that you will Learn even if you've heard this psalm preached 25 times. So let me give you three interpretive keys for this psalm before we go through it.

And I think it will help you in the end the first interpretive key is the placement. The theological center of the psalm. Do you understand the theological center of the psalm and it is found in verse 4 if you take a look at poetry sometimes you'll see things at the front or at the end.

Will help you as book ends would help you understand something. But here there's a theological center and it's found in verse 4 if you don't understand the theological center. You're going to miss the psalm.

For you are with me if you can understand in verse 4 that this ties everything together. You'll get this psalm better. He starts off as a shepherd. Then he talks about himself as a host and then dwelling in the house of the Lord together.

How can all these things go together with this theological center? You are with me. Let me read you Psalm 23 and let me highlight by adding in this refrain to make my point. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for you are with me.

He makes me lie down in green pastures for you are with me. He leads me beside still waters for you are with me. He restores my soul for you are with me. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his namesake for you are with me.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil for you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me for you are with me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies for you are with me.

You anoint my head with oil my cup overflows for you are with me. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. For you are with me.

This is the unifying Theological theme behind this whole psalm that that the Lord God is with you. I can think of the Lord Jesus and he would say at the Great Commission and behold our low. I am with you always what even to the end of the age.

If you understand this you will grasp this psalm better. Hebrews 13 says I will never leave you nor forsake you. Can you imagine and in the book of Hebrews that language is with about five negatives? There's no way I will ever ever ever ever ever leave you.

Jesus is not the hireling. He's not the shepherd that just runs. He says I'll never leave you. And so whether there are joys or sorrows in your life. This theological center is that God is with us. Emmanuel God with us.

Well secondly to understand this psalm better. I want you to think about where it's placed in the Canon there's a theological center. God is with us and there's a Placement in the Canon and so what do you mean by Canon?

Well as God has arranged the books of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. There are also arranged psalms and the placement of psalms is by no Coincidence no happenstance no chance. Psalm 23 is surrounded by two other psalms that you need to know Psalm 22 and Psalm 24.

These are three psalms that go together and we'll call them a messianic trilogy. We'll call them a shepherding trilogy where we have the Good Shepherd in Psalm 22. We have the Great Shepherd in Psalm 23 and we have the Chief Shepherd in Psalm 24.

Psalm 22 is about the shepherd who dies for his people and I can hear Jesus say John 10 I'm the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. Remember Psalm 22 starts off with my God my God.

Why have you forsaken me? It's a psalm about the Good Shepherd laying down his life for the sheep. Psalm 24 on the other end of Psalm 23 Is about the Chief Shepherd and he's going to return for his people and he's the king of glory and the king has a crown.

And he crowns others and it reminds me of first Peter 5 when the Chief Shepherd appears. You will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away. And so if you've got the Good Shepherd that died and rose in 22 the Good Shepherd That's ascended in 24 and it's going to come back and in the center.

You have the Great Shepherd Jesus Christ himself. Hebrews 13 says brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus the Great Shepherd of the sheep Will equip you with everything good for doing his will. And this is the present care the present comfort the present Protection of the shepherd and so you have Psalm 22 the death of our shepherd.

You have Psalm 24 the return Of the shepherd and in the middle, what is he doing now? He's the Great Shepherd of the sheep. He cares for the people. I don't know if you remember J Vernon McGee. I used to listen to a lot of Christian radio and there was a man with a southern drawl J Vernon McGee.

He was the man that Bill Bryant told me that he showed up at Dallas Seminary Building with a cigar in his mouth. He was not allowed to enter after that, but he put out the scar and then it went in. J Vernon McGee sees this tie-in between 22 23 and 24 with this messianic trilogy of Three great shepherds who were the same the Lord Jesus.

Listen to what J Vernon McGee said without the drawl in Psalm 22. Christ is the Savior in Psalm 23. He's the satisfier and in Psalm 24. He's the sovereign in Psalm 22. He's the foundation in Psalm 23.

He is the manifestation in Psalm 24. Jesus is the expectation in Psalm 22. Jesus dies in Psalm 23. He is living in Psalm 24. He is coming. Psalm 22 speaks of the past. Psalm 23 speaks of the present and Psalm 24 speaks of the future.

It's Psalm 22. McGee says he gives his life for the sheep in Psalm 23. He gives his love to the sheep in Psalm 24. He gives us light when he shall Appear. What a great picture of the Lord Jesus in Psalm 22 23 and 24.

I could say it this way. I dare you to read Psalm 22 23 and 24 without saying that's Jesus. Like Augustine who would say my shepherd is the Lord Jesus. Friends the life death burial resurrection Ascension session and soon return of Jesus changes everything.

You mean to tell me you can look back at the Old Testament and not see Jesus. James Boyce said even if you only use an Analogical application quote to see Jesus as our Shepherd and to apply the lines of the psalm carefully and in detail to ourselves.

Everything changes with Jesus. And so when we look back at the Old Testament, I don't think we say to ourselves. Well, I don't want to read Jesus into too many places he's already there. Let's not read him out of these places.

So I'm 22 23 and 24 three great Psalms that talk about the Messiah the Lord Jesus. Maybe if I had to summarize this theological center and the canon placement it would be with question one of The Heidelberg Catechism, which is essentially derived from Psalm 23.

Kind of theology. What is I only comfort in life and death that I with body and soul both in life and death and not my own but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ who with his precious blood has fully satisfied for all my sins and Delivered me from all the power of the devil and so preserves me that without the will of my heavenly father.

Not a hair can fall from my head. Yea that all things must be subservient to my salvation and therefore by his Holy Spirit. He also assures me of eternal life and makes me sincerely willing and ready henceforth to live unto him.

By the way, I don't know how long that took but that seems like about a good 20 seconds. If you want a hand-washing Forget singing happy birthday when you wash hands, you could do some Bible verses or how about Heidelberg Catechism question one it really Emulates Psalm 23 and then the final thing about Psalm 23 before we dive in not only is the theological center.

You're with me verse 4. Not only do we think about where it's placed in the canon 22 23 and 24 always go together as we see the Messiah Jesus. They're the Good Shepherd the Great Shepherd and the Chief Shepherd.

But also number three the third hermeneutical helper is that there's nothing in here to do. There are no imperatives. There's no law. I love the law. I love God's imperatives. I understand that Jesus was a man born Under law and he kept those laws not for himself.

But for us I get all that and now it's important and even now as Christians We want to use God's law as a guide and try to obey him. I understand all that and it's good but here in Psalm 23 You're not going to see anything except an extolling and praising of who this Great Shepherd is.

Who this Good Shepherd is who this Chief Shepherd. Shepherd is it's about the grace of God and the comfort of God and the character Of God and the promises of God to his people and of course when you see this and when you read it There should be kind of a an eliciting of oh, thank you.

Oh praise you. Oh, I want to respond rightly. I want to believe in this. I want other people to believe in this great truth about this shepherd. But it's not a psalm of duty. Peter Jeffrey said it's a psalm of privilege.

What has God done for his people? He's not saying God. Would you please do this God? Would you do that? Oh God be merciful. It's a psalm about what God has done and he's rejoicing in that. It's a great way to look at this psalm.

Maybe that's why it's so beloved the care of God and the praise of God this psalm Yes invites your praise and trust, but it doesn't demand it. Now let's look at verse 1 with those hermeneutical helpers in mind.

Psalm 1. Psalm 23 verse 1 the Lord Yahweh is my shepherd. I shall not want. Now there's so much to be said even here, but let's just think about a couple words Lord and Shepherd. You have Lord, and if you see it's all capitals there.

This is the personal name of God and you'll notice right away. This is not a we psalm. This is an I psalm. My psalm, this is very personal psalm. The Lord is my shepherd. So you've got the covenant keeping God who keeps his promises to his people who loves his people and he is going to be their shepherd.

Lots of personal pronouns here and I Read this and I think to myself God is triune Yahweh the Father Yahweh the Son Yahweh the Spirit and you should be thinking The Lord Jesus is my shepherd. Now when you think of that word Lord other things should come to your mind.

Remember Moses Meets God himself and God says I am who I am at the burning bush. This is the God who is independent. This is the God who is self-sufficient. This is the God who is of himself. He has a saiety.

He is completely transcendent and different and yet What does he do? He stoops as it were he he bends low to be the shepherd of his people. He shows himself to be Compassionate and kind and full of forgiveness and warm care, even though he's this transcendent.

I am who I am Lord of the universe. Galatians 2 says I've been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me and the life I now live in the flesh present tense. I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me and now David the psalm writer who knows a lot about shepherding.

Understands this God of the universe is his personal shepherd. Jesus is his shepherd. The eternal self-existent covenant-keeping God of Israel is my own shepherd. It's my own personal. Jesus is my shepherd.

He's gonna praise God for that that he would be my shepherd. We talked about Jesus. He's my personal Savior. Yes, he is and the Lord eternal omnipotent self-existent. Self-sufficient says I'm gonna be your shepherd.

I'm your shepherd. I'll take care of you. That's amazing to me Calvin said. It were by a taste of his fatherly sweetness. There is nothing into which we more fall easily than to for have a forgetfulness of him when we are enjoyment an enjoyment of peace and comfort.

Under the similitude of a shepherd he commends the care which God in his providence had exercised toward him. His language implies that God had no less care of him than a shepherd has of a sheep who are committed to his charge.

God in Scripture frequently takes to himself the name and puts on the character of a shepherd and this is no mean token of his tender love toward us. He has a strong affection for like a shepherd does to his sheep and Those sheep then can say he's my shepherd and then can rest and know he's taken care of.

I don't know if you remember, but there were a lot of bad shepherds in Israel and Eventually God had to say this in Ezekiel chapter 34. Behold I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out as a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his Sheep that have been scattered.

So will I seek out my sheep and I will rescue them from all places where they have been Scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. I will bring them out of the peoples and gather them from the countries and will bring them into their own land.

I will feed them on the mountains of Israel by the ravines and in all the inhabited places of country. I will feed them with good pasture and on the mountain places of Israel shall be their grazing land.

There they shall lie down in good grazing land and on rich pasture. They shall feed on the mountains of Israel. Listen Ezekiel 34 I Myself will be the shepherd of my sheep and I myself will make them lie down.

Declares the Lord God. I will seek the loss and I will bring back the strayed and I will bind up the injured and I will Strengthen the weak and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.

All the other shepherds are bad shepherds. So the Lord says I'm gonna have to be the shepherd and we know who that shepherd is the great. I am the Lord Creator God of Israel Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And by the way, when David says the Lord is my shepherd He's saying I trust him. I'm committed to him because he's committed to me and he loves me because of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm part of his flock.

I'm part of this church. Psalm 28 be their shepherd and carry them forever. Psalm 80 give ear Oh Shepherd of Israel. Psalm 95 he is our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

Psalm 100 know that the Lord he is God it is he who made us and we are his we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Revelation 7 for the Lamb is in the midst of the throne and he will be their Shepherd and he will guide them to springs of living water and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Can you imagine the Lord God Almighty the king of the universe has taken up the small task the shepherding task? The menial task of being a provider and protector to us to me to you if you're a Christian.

And when you read the Lord is my shepherd I know you're automatically thinking the Lord Jesus is a good shepherd for his sheep. Of course he is. Suppose one of you had a hundred sheep and loses one of them.

Does he not leave the 99 in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it and when he finds it? He joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says rejoice with me.

I have found my lost sheep. Jesus said I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99. Righteous persons who do not need it to repent the Lord Jesus is my shepherd.

He'll take care of me. He'll take care of you and because he's the shepherd. What's he say verse? One I shall not want. I lack nothing. That's what that means. It doesn't mean I need new things. I'm desiring new things.

I want to have a bunch of new things. It means there's nothing that I need spiritually or temporally. Because I've got a good shepherd. I mean if you had a bad shepherd you probably need water and you need health care and you need this that and the other.

But if you have a good shepherd, there's nothing you need. I shall not be in want the NIV translates it. Since God is such a good shepherd a chief shepherd a great shepherd since the Lord Jesus loves his people won't he Satisfy them won't he provide for them when he protect them?

Left to myself. I Lack everything left to yourself you lack everything, but when the Lord is your shepherd There's nothing that you lack. I don't lack anything because he's a good shepherd. Sheep as you know are helpless animals and They are not self-sufficient they are not Able to take care of themselves, but when the Lord takes care of you You're set.

One writer said the Lord of heaven and earth came for me lived for me suffered for me died for me rose for me Ascended for me praise for me and constantly cares for me. I Don't lack anything. I don't like temporal things.

I don't like spiritual things. What does Ephesians chapter 1 say blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every what? Spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. He takes care of everything true young lions do lack and suffer hungry hunger.

But they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. Jesus is your compassionate Savior who's both a Lord and Shepherd. He's a king who also stoops down low to be a shepherd. So how can anyone lack nothing.

Let me give you two reasons if you want an outline everything so far has been an introduction a Theological centering and then an introduction verse 1 let me give you two reasons Why you're not going to lack anything with this great Lord Jesus.

The first is he's an abundant provider and protector. Now I don't usually do alliteration. But today I'm going to do double alliteration abundant provider and in verses 2 through 4. And then we're gonna see secondly that he's an amazing Proprietor an amazing proprietor.

I don't know if you know this but alliteration comes from the Latin word Latera meaning a letter of the alphabet and in the 15th century an Italian Humanist came up with this idea of literation at least he coined the term.

Giovanni Pantano is the one who did that. It sounds like a racecar driver to me does it not to you so how can Jesus Be such a great shepherd, and we don't lack anything number one. He's an abundant provider and Protector.

Let's take a look at verse 2 and 3 he makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his namesake. Now you can tell without even me saying it that this still has the sheep Shepherd metaphor, it's the similitude of an idea of a pasture and where sheep need to go and what they need to do when it comes to eating and care.

If you live back in those days you would realize that water is not very available. You have to be careful where you go, and there's lots of undeveloped lands in the Bible and not a lot of drinking water.

But this particular sheep These sheep they understand that this shepherds going to take care of them, and they don't have to worry about any of this. God knows his sheep need food and water and clothing and everything else.

The Apostles returned to Jesus and told them all that they had done and taught and he said to them come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest for a while for many were coming and going and they had no leisure even to eat and They went away in a boat to a desolate place by themselves.

Now many saw them going and recognized them and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. When he went ashore he saw a great crowd and he had compassion on them because they were like what?

Sheep without a shepherd and he began to teach them many things. God knows His people need things and he takes care of them. That's the point with the shepherding metaphor. I don't know if you've read the book a shepherd looks at Psalm 23 by Philip Keller.

Keller says this quote. It's almost impossible For sheep to be made to lie down unless four requirements are met. Owing to their timidity they refuse to lie down unless they're free from all fear. Because of the social behavior within a flock sheep will not lay down unless they're free from friction with others of their kind.

If tormented by flies or parasites sheep will not lay down only when free of these pests can they relax? Lastly sheep will not lie down as long as they feel in need of finding food. They must be free from hunger.

And so Keller says whether it's fear friction flies or famine sheep need help and Here we have this great shepherd of the sheep this good shepherd of the sheep the Lord Jesus. He knows everything matter of fact.

He says I'm the bread of life he who comes to me will never go hungry and he who believes in me will never be Thirsty and so what does he give he gives what the text say green pastures? I mean if you were a sheep and you had to pick some place to go you would pick this lush rich green Verdant pasture would you not and that's what this God provides because he's a good shepherd.

He's the Lord God Shepherd. He's our Savior the Lord Jesus. He cares for his people. One man called it a refreshing care for his people and not just physically but spiritually. Does this sound like a good shepherd to you?

Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my load is what?

Light God provides everything and by the way, he also restores. Do you see it in verse 3? He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his namesake. He restores my soul. I don't know if you realize how Ugly and gross and defiling and dirtying and selling and deforming sin is.

But this shepherd he restores he cleanses he grants repentance. He he recovers those who are in the misery of their own sin. That's what that means. He restores my soul in the Old Testament this restoration often means repentance and conversion and It can mean relief and refreshment.

My soul Is tainted by sin and I've sinned this week and what does this shepherd do? Well, you know used to be part of my flock, but you've sinned and now you're out of the flock. No, he restores my soul because if the Lord Jesus says you're my sheep, you'll always be a sheep.

He restores and refreshes. That's what a good shepherd does. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his namesake. I mean a sheep when they go from one place to the next they're going through a certain path.

What kind of path does this shepherd and take them on dangerous path by the presser precipice path? No a path of righteousness for his namesake. He guides us in a way that says this is what I want you to do.

This is how I want you to live in light of who I am. This is how I want you to live a holy life and he guides us in that way. The Lord Jesus who is the shepherd who said I am the way the truth in life Guides us on the right pathway.

So he restores and he guides because he is a good shepherd and we need this kind of shepherd. Isaiah 53 we all like sheep have gone astray. Each of us has turned to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

We need this guidance and God does it for one reason and one reason only. Primarily and that is do you see it in the text for the sake of his name? Why does he do all this? Yes, he loves us and that's a wonderful spillover but this is for his namesake because what if God was not be a good shepherd a providing shepherd a Protecting shepherd and he just said, you know what?

I'm that by name, but I don't really do it. I don't follow through but for the glory of his name for his namesake he acts in a manner that is completely consistent with who he is and He protects to verse 4.

He is an abiding abundant provider and protector. Even though by the way, we're switching gears here from verdant luxury water streams Restoration to now dark terrifying times even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I'll fear no evil for you're with me your rod and your staff.

They comfort me. I mean we go from oh, we're just kind of laying by the water and eating grass to there's a threat. There's a fearful threat and something's going on here and you can just imagine back in the day if there's a shepherd with sheep in real in in Israel and there could be threats of of rain and torrents of Floods there could be wolves and lions and other kind of Ferocious animals after the sheep and Here he says even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.

The Hebrew is very interesting. It's two words shadow and death jam together and it kind of makes up a superlative. It's something like saying he's the king of Kings. He's the Lord of Lords. He's the great great one and here it's kind of like you put these words together God takes care of you and the shadowest shadows.

Is that a word shadowiest? I Look over at my kids the shadowiest. There's danger. Will the shepherd run? Am I on my own? But remember underlying everything the Lord's with me the Lord's with me the Lord's with me.

Whether it's dying moments are danger. Jesus isn't a hireling. He's not going to forget you. What's the problem on earth today if I could summarize everything told myself? I probably wouldn't say the word virus in the sermon, but I just said it the problem is fear.

People are panicked. And of course the ultimate fear is the fear of death. This shepherd here though for all you dear Christians You ought not to fear. The only fear you should have is the fear of the Lord is the beginning of what?

Wisdom and if you fear God properly and reverence him and give him awe and have even a fear fear of him because he's so Great and transcendent yet. You know because of the person and work of the Lord Jesus That the scepter that he's handed to you and extended out to you is one of love and not judgment.