The Lord's Supper: Given for You - Matthew 26:26-30

Matthew 26:26-30 and the Final Passover Meal

And I hope you'll turn with me to Matthew chapter 26. Matthew chapter 26 we're looking this morning at verses 26 through 30 and a passage that thankfully we're blessed to have immediate opportunity for application for that in just a few moments.

Those of us who are in Christ as we partake of the Lord's Supper shortly. So again we're starting in verse 26 we're going to be looking at 26 through 30 this morning of chapter 26. While they were eating Jesus took some bread and after a blessing he broke it and gave it to the disciples and said take eat this is my body and when he had taken a cup and given thanks he gave it to them saying drink from it all of you for this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins but I say to you I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my father's kingdom.

After singing a hymn they went out to the Mount of Olives. Father we thank you for your word we thank you that we are able in it to read the promises you have made throughout the pages of scripture we are able to see the promises that you have kept through your son Jesus Christ.

We thank you that because of your word we are able to we are able to know you we are able to know how to follow you how to worship you rightly how to serve you and obey you that you as Peter proclaimed you have the words of life and in your grace and in your mercy you've given those to us through holy scriptures.

As a father as we as we look at this passage this morning on the Lord's Supper would you would you guide us in all truth would you focus our hearts and our minds literally our eyes on your word our ears on your word and father would you take your word and through the ministry of your holy spirit would you continue doing that work and conforming us into the image of Christ our savior who was obedient unto death on a cross we ask this in Jesus name amen.

The Passover as a Foreshadowing of Christ's Atonement

Last week we saw the disciples celebrating the Lord's Supper or the Passover rather we saw the disciples gathering together we considered how Jesus's atonement was foreshadowed in the Old Testament when we looked at those passages in Genesis and Exodus that the Passover really a foreshadowing of the coming of Jesus of his sacrifice.

We saw that in the provision of the ram that God provided in place of Isaac. We saw this in the Passover lamb that was slaughtered and the blood was painted on the doorpost the lentils of the doors of the homes of the Israelites on the eve of God delivering them out of physical slavery.

We saw Jesus's sovereignty in his provision for the place of the Passover that Jesus miraculously told his disciples go look for this person and that person will lead you to this room. This was not Jesus just being a really good events planner and sneaking out without the disciples knowing and going and arranging all of this.

Jesus told them exactly who to look for that the man would be there at a certain time and he was because Jesus is the son of God. Jesus is the one who caused the loaves and the fish to be multiplied. He's the one who gave sight to the blind who raises the dead to life.

But we also saw that not only did he ordain the the events of of that particular Passover but he also ordained the events that were to come in the following hours that it was not just by accident that that Jesus comes to the city of Jerusalem when he does.

It's not just by accident that Jesus will will be apprehended by the Jewish religious leaders and and be put before first of all the Sanhedrin and then before Pilate in these sham trials but it is God's sovereign plan that Jesus would be offered up as a sacrifice at the feast of Pentecost at the feast of Passover as he hung on the cross on that Passover as the perfect Passover lamb.

Not not one action of of Jesus was unplanned not one word of Jesus was wasted. He perfectly fulfilled the will and the plan of his father. What is to come will be the fulfillment of those promises that were made in the Passover.

What we're going to see over the coming weeks Lord willing in our our remaining study of the book of Matthew is that fulfillment of those promises that were made. And so at the end of this final Passover meal Jesus Jesus just institutes this new meal a new meal for a new covenant.

Throughout our study of the book of Matthew we've seen Jesus as king. That's the theme of the book of Matthew. And that's what we adopted as the as the theme of this sermon series that we've been going through that Jesus Christ is king.

That's that that idea that Matthew has underlying in his entire gospel. But we've also seen that Jesus is not only keen but he also sovereignly and graciously gives gifts to those who come to him in faith.

He gives sight to the blind he gives hearing to the deaf. Let me just mention he gives life to the dead. But more importantly he gives forgiveness to the sinner to the one who comes to him to the woman at the well to anyone who comes to him in faith and has a recognition of their need for him as a savior for that Passover lamb.

And previously in our study of Matthew when we looked at chapter 7 verse 11 Jesus says. If you then speaking to fathers if you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children how much more does your father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask him.

And because Jesus perfectly did the will of his father then it follows that these good gifts ultimately come through they flow through Jesus. And so now as we as we enter the the final hours the end of Jesus's earthly ministry we see Jesus give one other gift to his disciples.

He gives the institution of the Lord's Supper again a new celebration of a new covenant. So today we're going to look at three things that Jesus gives particularly in this passage in which he he gives he ordains he this this ordinance as we refer to it of the Lord's Supper.

And and we're also going to take a look at a couple of additional passages that that help us to think biblically about the Lord's. We have to be careful that we don't take this ordinance too lightly nor do we place an importance on it or rather we place a significance on it that is not in scripture.

We have to be careful that we are being faithful to God's word that what it teaches us about the Lord's Supper. So first of all the the first thing that we see that Jesus gives is he's giving his body to be broken.

The Broken Body of Christ

Jesus takes this bread that was a part of the Passover meal that the disciples are eating. And first of all we see that he blesses it he takes some bread and after a blessing he broke it. There's there's an indication here in Jesus blessing the element what we would consider what we refer to as the element that that there is a there's a recognition that Jesus has sacrificed that what he's going to do is a provision from God.

When we when we say a blessing over our meals that we're acknowledging that this gift that we're eating comes from a father who loves us and who provides for us. And so we see this with Jesus when he's giving this blessing over the bread he's acknowledging for the disciples he's teaching us as his believers as his followers that this sacrifice is a gift from God and then he gives it to the disciples.

There's this sharing there's a participating together in this observance. That's that's why the the the ordinance of of the Lord's Supper is an inherently corporate act. When we meet together when we partake of the Lord's Supper it is in the context of this local body this gathering of believers this family of believers.

Jesus tells the disciples that the bread is a symbol of his body. Luke and his recording of the of the Last Supper and Paul thinking back on Luke's words and his letter to the Corinthians they both specify this is my body given for you.

This is not a it's not a phrase a clause that is in Matthew. But when we read the gospels together we see this this is my body given for you that this is again it is a gift that's given by by God through Jesus to his disciples.

So so why is it that we have the elements of of the bread and the cup we we we understand from scripture the the blood and we'll talk about that in just a minute that that that the shedding of blood was a central part of of the worship of of Old Testament Israel.

But the bread and the cup after all God could have ordained that that that the sacrifice of Jesus could could have happened quickly he could have ordained and he could have willed that Jesus would be be killed quickly and his blood could be shed with a minimal amount of suffering on Jesus's part.

But instead in just a few short hours we're going to read that Jesus is beaten. He's he's scourged he's nailed to a cross. These these sufferings that Jesus faces are are things that lead up to him dying on the cross.

This was not just a mere shedding of blood. Isaiah tells us that he was pierced through for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The chastening for our well-being fell upon him and by his stripes by his scourgings we are healed now.

This is a reminder to us that there was a very real physical intense act of suffering that Jesus went through on our behalf. We can really we can really see his entire life when he takes on the form of a servant he becomes obedient to the point of death on a cross.

That there's this entire life that Jesus has lived where he is known suffering. He's known hunger and thirst. He's known sorrow and sadness. He's known living among people of sin. And so this suffering this breaking of Jesus's body it's it's culminating here in these last few hours of his earthly ministry.

But but his whole life has been a life of suffering and again for what this is my body given for you. So when we see this we were reminded that there was a very real suffering that Jesus went through.

It was a prolonged suffering. It was not something that was over quickly. It was not something where he took an easy way out in giving his life. This is also a counter to the heresy that existed in the early church.

We don't hear about this a lot today although there are some minor groups who claim to be followers of Christ who adopt this heresy but it is called docetism. So it it's basically a heresy that that said and in some cases still says that Jesus when he came to earth he was really a spiritual being.

He wasn't physical. So all the things that happened to him really didn't happen to a physical person. They happened to a spiritual being. This was Jesus not in the flesh but really in spirit bread that Jesus breaks as a reminder to us.

And it's a declaration that he really truly genuinely took on flesh and that he really was scourged and beaten and crushed for my sins and for your sins. This is an important and necessary part of when we come together and we celebrate the Lord's Supper of remembering the body of Jesus that was broken for us.

The Blood of the New Covenant

We also see the gift that Jesus gives of his blood. It was to be shed again. When Jesus takes this cup he gives thanks for it again. There's this idea of God's provision that permeates this ordinance of the Lord's Supper a reminder that his sacrifice is a provision of God.

He instructs the disciples to drink of this cup that represents his blood. Matthew says here he identifies this as as the blood of the covenant. Again when we read Luke's account of of this Lord's Supper Luke adds this adjective.

He says that Jesus calls this a new covenant. And of course that's where we partially where we get this this this this term. When we say new covenant or new testament it is from Jesus's words directly we we can look back to the life of Israel again if we look back to Exodus chapter 24 when when God makes this covenant with the people of Israel what we refer to as the Mosaic covenant and and the the bulls are sacrificed on the altar.

We read in Exodus chapter 24 at the making of this covenant this old covenant with the people of Israel Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people. And he said behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you.

In accordance with all these words there was a sharing of this blood of the bulls that were sacrificed on the altar. The people standing there witnessing this sacrifice had this blood sprinkled on them.

They were literally wearing this blood of this covenant. And so now it is fitting that Jesus calls his disciples to drink of his blood. They're drinking the evidence of the new covenant that he's making later in the old testament we would see Isaiah as he gives the words of of God that the promise that God gives concerning his righteous servant he says.

Thus says the Lord who created the heavens and stretched them out who spread out the earth and its offspring who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it. I am the Lord. I have called you in righteousness.

I will also hold you by the hand and watch over you. And I will appoint you as a covenant to the people as a light to the nations to open blind eyes to bring out prisoners from the dungeon and those who dwell in darkness from the prison God through the words of Isaiah speaking directly and clearly that the suffering servant whom we know to be Jesus Christ would be a covenant to the people.

And the old covenant God commanded that the the blood of bulls and goats be used in the worship of Israel. But we also remember our study from from the book of Hebrews when we looked at Hebrews chapter 10.

And the writer of Hebrews says that the blood of bulls and goats is impossible to take away sins. But this was part of the old testament worship. But these animals were incapable of taking away the sins of the people.

So in this new and better covenant that Jesus is instituting here is not the blood of animals that is being used but it is the blood of Jesus the son of God that is offered once for all. We see really this this sacrifice that Jesus is making being a fulfillment.

It's it's being the the fulfillment of of these foreshadows and these types that were given in the old testament. We see what is promised in the old testament and the giving of the mosaic covenant. And in the prophets it's it's given it's delivered what was promised in the mosaic covenant covenant is given in the new covenant.

Jesus's blood is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. This is a a clear contradiction to those false teachers who deny substitute substitutionary atonement this this this notion that Jesus really didn't die for your sins.

He he died to show his love for you. Well okay Jesus did die to show his love for us. Absolutely 100. But Jesus died to take away the wrath of God that was rightly ours because we were rebellious against God because we had disobeyed God's laws because we are in need of a savior.

Yes indeed Jesus died. He shed his blood so that sinners might be forgiven. And this is the promise that God had made centuries before. In every animal that was all offered on the altar every drop of blood that was shed at the temple at the tabernacle at the other altars that were built prior to the tabernacle these were all done pointing forward to the day that Jesus would come and he would give his life as a ransom for many and so we see this blood that would be shed.

The Feast of the Lamb in God's Kingdom

Third. We see that Jesus also gives the promise of a feast that is to come and saying this fruit of the vine. Here he says in verse 29. I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my father's kingdom.

And in using this word this Jesus is connecting what the disciples are doing here to this feast that he will celebrate with them in the future. And this points forward to this event that we see in the book of revelation.

Sometimes we refer to this as the marriage supper of the lamb or the wedding supper of the lamb. This this ceremony this this feast that will take place in heaven as God brings us brings the people of God into the kingdom and we are united with our Savior for all eternity in the absence of sin and in perfect communion and fellowship with him.

We see in chapter 19 verses 7 through 9 of revelation John relates this vision that he saw let us rejoice and be glad and give glory to him. For the marriage of the lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready.

It was given to her to clothe herself in the linen bright and clean for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he says to me right blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb.

And he says to me these are the true words of God. So as we observe the Lord's Supper we also look not only back to what Jesus has done for us on the cross but we look ahead to that day when we will be in perfect fellowship with him when we will be in unending fellowship with our Savior apart from time apart from sin we see this feast that is to come.

The Meaning of the Lord's Supper and the Nature of the Elements

So so we've considered these elements in the Lord's Supper the things that Jesus gives to us and their significance. And we we've also seen that the Lord's Supper points forward to this unbroken communion that we will have with our Savior that we will have with God in heaven we we're also aware that the Lord's Supper this ordinance is one that unfortunately has been misunderstood and it has been misapplied throughout church history sometimes with a very grievous effect in some in some groups and some movements that that consider themselves to be followers of Christ.

So so it's important when we come to a passage like this to think about what the Lord's Supper is and and what the elements are and what they are not. If we're thinking biblically we're thinking rightly about the Lord's Supper.

So first of all the elements there throughout church history there have been these different views on the elements and some of us may have may have varying levels of awareness of what these views are.

But I think it's important that we talk doctrinally about the Lord's Supper and we look at this bread and when we look at the cup what do we what do we think about those. What what are they what are those substances.

The Roman Catholic and and Eastern Orthodox Church has developed similar views they have different terms for them but but it it essentially follows what the Catholic Roman Catholic Church calls transubstantiation which is this this view that when the when the elements when the bread and the wine are consecrated or blessed by the priest that they really and truly turn into the body and the blood of Jesus again transubstantiation is the term they use.

The Eastern Orthodox Church uses a different term but essentially the views are the same that when the priest blesses the elements they turn into the body and the blood of Jesus. The Lutheran view that came later during the during the during the Reformation the Protestant Reformation the Lutherans developed a view that that is now called consubstantiation and and and they said well it doesn't turn into the body and blood of Jesus but it's like the body and blood of Jesus are above it and and under it and around it and so when you partake of the elements you're simultaneously taking of the bread and of the body or of the wine and of the blood.

So there's this this this position that comes close to it but they say well we're not I mean we're not part of Rome anymore so we can't say that we agree with that particular doctrine. Ehrlich Zwingli a a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland looked at these passages that we've talked about the Gospels and and Paul's words and first Corinthians and when Jesus when Jesus says these words do this in remembrance of me and and and other passages which we'll look at in just a minute he concluded that the Lord's Supper was was to be a memorial of Christ's death.

These elements were symbolic of the bread of the body of Jesus and the cup was a symbol of of the of the blood that was shed. And then finally we we have a view called sometimes the the spiritual presence or the mystical real presence view this was developed by Calvin in response really to the the Lutheran view and the Zwinglian or the the memorialist view and Calvin developed really this view as a as a middle ground between these two there there is basically a period of time where where Calvin is is trying to hold together this coalition in and around the city of Geneva and there are these two groups that are at odds with one another and this was a this was a middle view that in many ways was a compromise of the two and and in this view there's the the idea that in some way that well the elements don't transform they're not changed into the body and blood that there's a special significance to the celebration of the Lord's Supper.

John 6 and the Bread of Life

So so how are we to think about the elements and and the observation that the observance of the Lord's Supper the purpose of it um I think there's a few passages that really help us to think rightly about that and and passages that are given to us not directly at the time of the giving of the Lord's Supper but but definitely ones that that Jesus speaks to in relation to his body and to the blood.

And one of those is in John chapter 6 verses 47 through 58. And John says truly truly I say to you he who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. And the bread also which I will give for the life is the world of the world is my flesh.

Then the Jews began to argue with one another saying how can this man give us his flesh to eat. Jesus said to them truly truly I say to you unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood you have no life in yourselves.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him as the living father sent me and I live because of the father.

So he who eats me he also will live because of me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven not as the fathers ate and died. He who eats this bread will live forever. So first of all Jesus is saying here not that you're going to eat something that turns into my body but he's saying literally.

He's saying actually that you must eat of my bread of my body you must drink of my blood. But he's also giving this analogy. He's tying as the the giving of his of his body as the bread. Back to the giving of the manna in the wilderness.

The manna of course was evidence of God's very real provision for the Israelites. We think back to that to that account that event that time period when the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness and God would give them what they needed for each day no more no less except the day before the sabbath he would give them twice as much so they would not have to gather on the sabbath.

The point of this was to to show the Israelites of their continual daily need for him. Jesus is saying here that to to eat his flesh and drink of his blood is is really whatever happens what happens in the heart of a sinner whenever they come to Jesus for faith in faith for salvation.

That as as I come to Jesus Christ in faith and I recognize my sins and my need for him and I find forgiveness that I am eating of his body and I am drinking of his blood. It's the reason that that Jesus uses this analogy and says look the people people who who eat of my flesh and drink of my blood are not going to be like the Israelites who ate physical bread.

That's the whole point he's making. That's not what is going to convey salvation but it is who comes to me in faith. So Jesus is clearly saying here that it's not that the elements become the body and blood of Jesus.

Nor is it like the Lutherans who say that the body and the blood kind of go over it and under it and around it. But to eat Jesus as the bread of life and to drink his blood means that we have claimed his faith and faith his sacrifice for our benefit.

That Jesus dying in our place. That substitutionary atonement means that Jesus's body was broken for our spiritual nourishment. This nourishment that we we have that we we we need. It's not like this this physical nourishment that we have that we're going to eat today at lunch and then a few hours later we're going to be hungry and ready to eat again this body and this blood that was shed for us poured out for our spiritual nourishment.

1 Corinthians 10 and the Fellowship of the Church

Another passage that's helpful for us to understand the biblical meaning and significance of the Lord's Supper is found in first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 16. Paul's talking to this church at Corinth that had some had some issues always kind of chuckle a little bit whenever I see a church that's named Corinth Baptist Church or Corinth Church I get what they're saying but but Corinth wasn't a church he wanted to be like okay it wasn't going to be like the pastor was going to go around and do all the on the on the speaking lecture circuit right.

Corinth had some issues and one of them was a lack of unity a self-serving and self-seeking attitude that that permeated the membership many of the people in the church Paul is writing to them about specifically their actions during the Lord's Supper and Paul says is not the cup of blessing which we bless.

A sharing in the blood of Christ is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ since there is one bread we who are many are one body for we all partake of the one bread. So in the context of this passage if you read the preceding chapters and the chapters that follow after that Paul is is referring here he's talking about this this fellowship this sharing about the unity that should exist in the body of believers this unity that is or should be on full display in the Lord's Supper.

Oh he's not speaking here really about a a a an unusual sharing or a unique sharing that happens during the Lord's Supper that that could be. But this is not what he's talking about here. He's talking primarily about the fellowship that should be present among believers as they are partaking of the Lord's Supper together.

This word rendered sharing here is is the Greek word which means fellowship. Sometimes it's translated as communion. So again it's inherently corporate this idea this concept that is happening here and again.

The problem for the church at Corinth if you read the preceding chapters and the following the chapters that come after this the problem with the church at Corinth is that they were not observing the Lord's Supper in this spirit.

In this attitude they were. They were basically just eating for themselves. There were factions. The language that Paul uses almost makes it like there was a group over here that was celebrating the Lord's Supper and there's a group over here and there's another group that leaves and goes somewhere else.

That's not what he's saying but this this language he's using makes it very clear that the there's no unity among these believers. And it's for it's for this reason that Paul is saying he and he'll say later on a few few verses down that that some of the believers at the church of Corinth have have gotten sick some of them have died.

It's because of this this grave injury that they are doing in in observance to the Lord's Supper. An observance that should be filled with unity should be filled with worship instead it's it's it's filled with selfishness.

And just as the Israelites partook together of the manna in the home they could go out of their tent and they could see everyone around them going and gathering the manna. They could go to bed that night physically satisfied knowing that they all had been sustained provided for by God himself.

This is the attitude Paul saying that we should be we should experience when we celebrate the Lord's Supper together that that we should we should be able to look around and see our brothers and sisters in Christ and see that as we partake we're remembering that grace that God shed and showed to us that we're able to worship together and rejoice together.

We can remind first of all I can remind myself as I taste of the the bread and the cup but also as we see one another taking of these elements but that also that those who are not believers would see that they would see our fellowship they would see our love for one another they would see this grace that God has extended to each of us and that the gospel in that would be proclaimed.

So this is this is not an act that conveys salvation as we partake of the Lord's Supper. This is not a a case of of the salvation tank running low and so we got to come over here and get a little more before it goes on empty.

That's not what we're doing. This ordinance of of communion of the Lord's Supper has has many times and in some groups has been referred to as a sacrament and and a term that conveys with it that there is some some salvific grace that comes as a part of partaking as a doctrine that's been used by groups like the Catholic Church throughout history to to keep members in line that if you if you disobey the teachings of the Pope then you're not able to take communion.

And if you're not able to take communion then you're not you're not saved you're in danger of damnation. And so it's for this reason that traditionally we as Baptists have referred to the Lord's Supper along with baptism as ordinances not not sacraments.

This was a a terminology or a term that was was first used by Benjamin Keech at least the first reference that I know of to it of referring to this as an ordinance. But again this is in contrast to a sacrament that that implies at least if not directly certainly indirectly that there is some special grace or salvific power that accompanies the partaking of the elements.

Instead as we as we read scripture it's clear that the Lord's Supper first of all is a physical act. It's a physical act using these symbols that that that reminds a believer of the grace that has already been shown first of all already been shown in the sacrifice of Jesus as he died on the cross.

The grace that continues to be shown to those who follow him in faith. And the grace that will be shown in the fullness when we eat of the marriage supper of the lamb with our savior in the kingdom of God.

It's a memorial of Christ's death when he came to earth and suffered and died as we saw in first Corinthians. It's a reminder of what Jesus did when we first came to faith in him and when we first partook of his flesh and his blood as John records in John chapter 6.

It's a reminder of the grace that God continues to show us day after day again going back to John 6 that the the reliance of the Israelites the reliance on God for their literal daily bread. It's the sign of the reliance of the believer that we must have on God for our spiritual daily bread.

That we receive grace upon grace beloved. We don't receive the grace that is represented in the Lord's Supper just once a month. We we don't. We don't need the grace that is represented in the Lord's Supper just once a month.

We don't need it even every Lord's Day. We need the grace that this meal represents every day every evening when I lay down to sleep I need this grace that this meal represents to me. This table is a reminder of the grace that has been shown the grace that is being shown even this very minute.

And the grace that will be shown when our faith is made sight. When our fellowship with God will be perfect it'll be eternal. It will be unbroken by time and unmarred and unspoiled by sin. So ultimately we cannot relegate the Lord's Supper to a simple object lesson that is devoid of any spiritual significance.

It's not a it's not a flannel graph for believers. But at the same time we can't go where scripture clearly does not go and assign some weight or identity to the elements that just aren't in God's word.

We have to be faithful to scripture. We must conclude according to God's word that the observance of the Lord's Supper is a reminder of this grace that is evident in the believer because of the work of Jesus Christ on the cross as we remember his grace in our salvation as we rejoice in his ongoing grace as he continues to sanctify us and sustain us as an adopted grafted in child of God.

And as we look forward with expectation and with longing to that perfect communion feast that is to come. So in just a moment we are going to have an opportunity to celebrate the Lord's Supper. And the natural response to this this passage should should be one of worship and thanksgiving.

We're told that the disciples sang a hymn before they went to the Mount of Olives after they after they shared this Lord's Supper together. This is a place that is in the on the Mount of Olives. The Garden of Gethsemane is at the base of the Mount of Olives and it it faces the city of Jerusalem.

It it's across the Kidron Valley from from that eastern gate. And as they went as they left the room and as they were going they still probably had these words in their minds. We read psalms 116 this morning which is one of the psalms that traditionally was sung after the Passover meal.