It is not a puzzle to put together. It is a revelation about Christ intended to encourage His people in times of persecution and adversity.
Now, we noted last week that there’s a lot of overlap. All the letters are applicable to all the churches, and because there’s so much overlap, I’m going to blend some of the churches together rather than seven messages. Today we’re going to blend Smyrna and Philadelphia. The reason for this is that these are the only two churches with which Christ has no criticism. They receive only encouragement and admonishment and no rebuke.
This is in contrast to the overall condition of the church. Remember what Greg Beal said in a previous message about the seven churches: “The Christian church as a whole is perceived as being in poor condition. Since not only are the healthy churches in a minority, the churches in the worst condition form the literary boundaries of the letters, and the churches with serious problems form the very core of the presentation.” You take the seven churches, and it’s bad, good, bad, bad, bad, good, bad. Most of the churches are not healthy. They’re not strong. They’re not good.
But here, Smyrna and Philadelphia have no words of rebuke or things of that nature. Today I’m combining Acts 1 and 2: Christ revealed through the Old Testament. We’ve noted these introductions of each church to the church. The angel says, these introductions are not only precisely related to the situation of the individual churches but they are also an Old Testament affirmation of who God is. This was very important that Jason brought out this morning.
We’re dealing with God here. This isn’t a good teacher; this is not a wise person whose advice can be rejected or set aside. It is God Himself speaking. And you see this in the letter to Smyrna when He says, “these things says, the words of the first and the last.” He makes two emphases to the Smyrna church, and this is the first of the two. Then he says, “I was dead and I am alive.”
In chapter 1, we notice verse 8: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and last letters of the alphabet, beginning and the end, and everything in between.” Then you saw it in verse 17 of this vision: “Fear not, I am the first and I am the last.” And here with this church, He says to them, “the words of the first and the last.”
Now, this is significant for this church’s need. Notice please the passages from the Old Testament, Isaiah 41:4: “Who has performed and done this, calling to generations from the beginning? I am the first and with the last. I am He.” Note that subtle distinction: “I am first and with the last.” Then Isaiah 44:6: “Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and His Redeemer, the Lord of hosts. I am the first and I am the last. Beside me there is no God.”
This is what Jesus is saying as He begins this letter to the church of Smyrna. “I am God and there’s no one else.” And because I’m God, you don’t have to worry about any of the kinds of things that are going to come against you.
Isaiah 48:12 says, “Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, whom I called. I am He. I am the first and I am the last.” This church needs strength. And he says, this is what’s coming. This is what’s going to happen. The devil is going to test you. Some of you are going to be expected to lay down your lives for me.
How are you going to face that? With the assurance that it is God Himself who is calling them to. It is the church needs strength that can only come through a recognition of who God is. Secondly, they need assurance that in the face of death, they have the assurance that He has overcome death and has risen.
He says to them again, he says, some of you are going to be tested. You’re going to be thrown into tribulation and be faithful to death. Well, how can I stand up and do that? Because I was dead and I’m now alive. He conquered death for us. This is very important.
The church, the church is encouraged to be faithful unto death. Though their earthly life might be forfeit, their eternal life is assured. And this is a lesson that we need to learn in our culture. Many Christians around the world understand this today: Our life is secure in Christ. Not the things of this life but what we have in Christ.
Now, another point that comes through here is that God is sovereign. If you and I, and I’ve got to be careful here, God is sovereign. What does that mean? He’s in control of everything. If you don’t believe that, why do you pray?
Because if He’s not in control, how’s He going to answer your prayer? You either have a viewpoint that says, “I’m somehow contributing power to God,” that my faith empowers God to do something, or you’re acknowledging He’s in control of all things. Listen to Isaiah 46:9 and 10:
“I am God. There is no other. This demolishes all the religions that say there are multiple gods. It demolishes Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Norse mythology, the Middle Eastern mythologies, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mormonism, all the beliefs that there are many gods.
This is devastating by this passage. I am God, and there is no other God out there except for me.”
Now notice what he says: “I am God. There is no other. I am God. There is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose, declaring the end from the beginning.” He’s going to do what He’s going to do.
He’s in control of it all. Now this is a hard doctrine, and I acknowledge that to you. And the reason it’s a hard belief and practice of Scripture is because it doesn’t look like God’s in control. We look around our world, and we see the shambles and the collapse of things, and we think, “You’re telling me God is in control?”
I watch a lot of World War II documentaries and historical, and there’s so much suffering. I don’t want to dictate to you how to think or feel, but the Second World War was unlike anything the world has ever seen.
We worry about the war in Iran and the war here and the war there and the war in Israel. And we have, when you go back to the kinds of battles and the amount of suffering and the people that were killed and the civilians that were bombed daily by both sides, it is horrific. And you watch that and say, “God, how can you be in control?”
And I’ll tell you why it’s so difficult to believe God’s in control because we think we know how it’s supposed to be. We assume it’s not supposed to be like that.
But only if you’re God can you see that. This is why we have such a problem. We assume things, and we say, “Well, the world should work like this.” The situation should be like that instead of the reality. You don’t know that. I don’t know that. Only God knows.
And we have to trust that He’s in control because you’re never going to get any strength from what He says. I mean, if I tell you nothing’s going to happen to you, you’ve got enough sense not to listen to me because I don’t have any ability or power to influence anything in the world.
But when God says it’s going to be all right because I’m in control, you and I can rest in that and believe that and trust in that. So in summary, He, Jesus, as God, has conquered death; therefore death cannot conquer us. And then He applies this principle to the church of Philadelphia.
Notice that in Philadelphia, the identification was “the words of the Holy One, the true One.” These are both terms referring to God in the Old Testament. And then He says, “the one who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts and shuts and no one opens.”
Now you and I have noted these introductory thoughts come from the vision John sees in chapter 1, verse 12 through 20. But here, there’s a slight difference because in the vision, He says, “I am the one who has the keys of death and hell.” Here, He says, “I have the key of David.”
Now, there’s, they convey the same consideration as you will see in a moment, but there is a slight difference. The door is the door, among other things, it is a door of salvation that He opens that no one should shut and nobody else can open. There’s no other way to God except through Christ.
Listen, this passage also comes from the Old Testament. Isaiah 22:20 through 22, and of course, these verses are always abbreviated for space. In that day, “I will call my servant Eliakim, and I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David.” Jesus says, “I have the key of David, the key of the house of David.
He shall open, and no one shall shut, and he shall shut, and no one shall open.”
Now, Eliakim was this Old Testament person who was responsible for Hezekiah’s palace and his throne. And the message, of course, was that you could only get to the palace; you could only get to the king when this guy opens the door.
And this is what Jesus is saying here. As holder of the key of David, he signifies access to the Messiah and His kingdom. Now there’s something really important here: Apparently, if you followed me as I read, you heard this, and I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not but are a synagogue of Satan.
Chapter 3: “I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not.” Now this is not a racist statement. This is not an ethnic issue. The Jewish people opposed the Christian church.
They do not agree with it today because they think this guy that was crucified cannot be the divine Savior, the Old Testament predicted. But what the Jews believed, and apparently here as well because of the reference to the synagogue.
The synagogue was their gathering, but it was more than that. And today, it’s very much like the Amish, really. The Amish, Old Order Middonites. The church is the center of the community.
For most 21st-century American Christians, the church is someplace we go once a week if we’re up to it. But in the synagogue and in the Amish community, the church is the center of the community. And because of that, in that culture especially, you couldn’t live and operate without participation in the synagogue.
You could be excluded and excluding; they shunned you, and you wouldn’t have anything. You wouldn’t be able to buy. You wouldn’t be able to shop. You wouldn’t be able to farm. You wouldn’t be able to call anybody. You were on your own in that setting. And the Jews do this, and they’re still doing it.
At that point, there was still a little bit of confusion about the Jews and the Christians because they were worshiping from the same book. But there was this subtle difference. The Jews said, “we are the real people of God,” and you can’t be saved unless you come to us.
And Jesus says to these two congregations: “I am the one who decides who will be saved, and he will not be saved.” Now the Pharisees of Jesus’ day had this same problem. He says:
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces; for you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.”
They’re actively opposing anyone getting into the kingdom. And this is what’s happening here. And the Jews are saying it, and they had a lot more power socially than the church when it first got started.
And Jesus says, they’re opposing you but don’t let them persuade you to think your salvation depends on participation with them. Your salvation depends on me. And it still depends on this today.
Jesus says this in Matthew chapter 7. It’s a very long passage, and I’ve abbreviated it a bunch, but you’re familiar with it: “Not everyone who says, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
Stop! What is the will of God? Well, Jesus goes on to say: “Whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them. The will of God is do what God says in His Word.” And He says:
“Everyone who does this will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. Stability, unmovableness.”
There’s a passage in the book of Hebrews that talks about Christ having the power of an indestructible life. He cannot be defeated. And because you and I are in Him, we can’t be defeated if we will but do what He says.
He goes on to say: “Everyone who hears these words and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” And everyone who hears these words and does not do them is a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat against that home. Great was the fall of it. Have you ever seen the little news clip, especially when there’s a hurricane, and some house on the beach has been blown away or washed away by the erosion of the beach? You’re built in the wrong place.
It’s amazing that this happens. And Jesus says: “That’s the person who isn’t building on me.” It might look good right now but will collapse after a while. You can put on the front for a period of time if you wish, but unless you’re founded on Him and standing on Him, all that you stand for will be lost.
Now Jesus says this slightly different in the book of John, this same kind of concept: “Jesus said to them, truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door.
If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and go in and out and find pasture.” Slight difference because here in Revelation, he’s saying “I have the key to open the door.”
And in John, He says: “I am the door.” But the end result is the same. Salvation is in Christ and in Christ alone.
And yet the Jews in these two churches opposing them, they’re making it sound like you’ve got to be part of us still. You’ve got to abandon your Christian faith and stay with us if you want to be saved. And Jesus says: “No, no. I have the door. I have the key. I am the door.
And those who come through me will be saved.” Now so much for Acts 1 and 2. Christ revealed; the Old Testament unpacked. How do we apply the truth?
Leon Morris points out six similarities between Smyrna and Philadelphia. They received only praise. They suffer at the hands of the Jews. They were persecuted by the Romans.
They were assured that the opposition they were facing was satanic in origin. They were promised the crown of life. And number six, they were culturally insignificant.
They were culturally insignificant. Now you may ask, where do we draw that cultural insignificance? Well, from first, the poverty of Smyrna. He says: “I know your poverty.” There are two different Greek words for poverty.
One of them means I don’t have any extra money. Living paycheck to paycheck. Any people can relate to that. We live paycheck to paycheck. Nothing extra. Then there’s the other kind of poverty.
There’s no paycheck, no safety net, no welfare system, no plastic, no credit cards, no equity in the home to leverage. Poor. Nothing. No ability to do anything. And he says the same thing here to the church in Philadelphia.
If you remember, He says: “I know that you have little power. You’re not much.” The first church is struck with poverty and the other one has no strength.
Now note this: As you and I should shun what the other churches are doing wrong, we should embrace what these churches are doing right.
These are the only two that Jesus praises and commends. No problems that they have. We ought to want to be like them. So what can we discover about them that they’re doing right?
And the imitation here might begin with this question: “Which results from their apparent cultural insignificance?” What defines a successful church?
What defines a successful church? Jesus is praising these two. I’m going to assume that means they’re successful in His eyes, but what defines that?
In the American, in the 21st-century American religious cultural mindset of what a good church is, these two churches would be considered failures.
The world would look at them and other churches will look at them and say they’re a failure. Grant Osborne, in his commentary on Revelation, where he also combines Smyrna and Philadelphia, asked this question:
“What defines a truly successful church?” Are you ready? Because we’re guilty of this. Not just in our congregation but in the American church.
What defines a truly successful church? Many of us follow a model in which success is defined by size and budget. I want you to think about it.
How many times when you speak of another church, is the first thing you say: “Boy, they’ve got a lot of people that go there.” They’re doing three services now. They just added a new wing.
Money and people. And that’s what we think means success. Now, that doesn’t mean they’re not successful; it means we can’t define it that way because that’s not how Jesus defines it.
Osborne goes on to say: “Many of us follow a model in which success is defined by size and budget. The first thing out of our word of mouth sometimes when we speak of another church is how many people attend, as if that’s the final defining statistic.”
We follow a model in which success is defined by size and budget but that is not the definition Christ provides for His churches here. Smyrna and Philadelphia were the great successes in the eyes of God and Christ, yet they were the smallest of the seven and had the least influence from a cultural, from an earthly perspective.
From this we might rightly infer: God prefers faithful over big. Now we have to be careful. I’ve said this before. I’ll say it again. As soon as I figure out what I did wrong, I’ve got my glasses all skewed out here this morning.
I’ve said this before and I repeat. The church has to grow or it will die. Every civic organization must get new members or it will die. The church must grow or it will die. We don’t want to, we’ve discussed it. There’s an intimacy. There should be an intimacy in the small church.
But you can’t have intimacy in a small church if you don’t talk to the people around you. So that’s a cop-out. But we do understand that when you have 300,000 people in your church, it’s hard to get connected with people.
So we’re not shooting for that. But people, if the church doesn’t grow, it’s going to die. Old people die off. And when they go, we don’t have as many people to carry the load of the physical requirements and we don’t have as much money.
And you know what happens in some of those big churches? They’re just paying somebody to do it all. They pay somebody to do it all.
We need this, so they hire another pastor. Their budget is $10,000 a month or more. I heard of a church one time in Georgia that had the budget was $200,000 a week.
Why? Because they had 500 staff members because nobody would do the work. So we look at that and we think: wow, look at that. Yeah, well let’s start talking about money because that’s the only way you do it to have that kind of a budget.
So we want to be mindful. The church has to grow. We need to be praying for growth. You need to be finding a way to connect with people and invite them to your church and engage with them about the gospel.
Because no matter how much you like me or how much you love the people around you, if the church doesn’t grow, it’s just a matter of time before we’re all out there in another pasture. Now I’m not saying it because we’re in trouble financially.
We’re not. We have almost 50. We have 50 people here this morning, I think. And that’s very good for our congregation. But we do have older people in our congregation who are having health issues and might.
And we’ve also seen that you don’t have to be old to die and leave the church behind. So we have to make sure we understand the church has to grow.
At some point, it has to grow. But we don’t want it to grow for the wrong reasons. And the wrong reason is compromising the Word of God. You need to pray. Not only that people would come to the church but they would be hungry for the truth they hear when they get here.
Because if all they want is fluff and a show, they will not stay. Now listen to this from Albert Moeller in a book called Feed My Sheep. And it’s a set of essays by a number of different prominent ministers about the importance of doctrinal instruction.
He says this: “Rarely do we hear these days that a church is distinguished primarily by its doctrinal proclamations. When we hear people speak about their own congregations or make comparative remarks about other congregations, generally they speak of something other than preaching.”
They might speak of a church’s ministry. They might speak of specialized programs for senior adults, children, or young adult people. They might speak of a church’s music or its reputation for dramatic productions.
Sometimes they speak of things far more superficial. But rarely do you hear a church described first and foremost by the character, power, and content of its doctrinal proclamation.
How many times have we heard it said in our congregation in a humorous sense? “Boy, did you go by the Jehovah’s Witness Church this week?” They’re packing them in there with a shoehorn as if they’re doing something right.
And they’re teaching falsely. There’s just a little bit of difference between us and them. Actually, there’s a lot of difference between us and them. But here’s one big one. You have to go to the Jehovah Witness Church or you can’t get to heaven.
You have to be there; it’s not optional as we view it. It’s not optional for us either but we got the idea somewhere that it was optional. But that’s why their building’s always full because they are taught that if you don’t come into this building, you’re not going to be part of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Let me pause there for just a moment. I’m going to unpack this in the future. But here’s something that’s happened in our culture. I don’t know how it happened or where it happened but somehow we got the idea that the church is separate from the kingdom and that I can pursue the kingdom and be part of the kingdom without the church.
And the church, in fact, is the manifestation of the kingdom now. The fullness of the kingdom is yet to come but the church is part of it. When Jesus says: “I will build my church,” he also says: “seek first the kingdom.” They’re tied together. They’re not separate.
But in our culture today people have come to their conclusion. I don’t have to go to church. I don’t have to be a part of church. Church doesn’t have to be a part of my life because I’m God’s child and that’s all that matters.
The church is the kingdom, and our participation in the church is how we further the kingdom. And I can’t go any further there now.
Let me say something quickly if I have time. Because you’ve heard me say the church today is insignificant. We don’t have any impact in our culture. Little or no impact in our culture. The voices that are most influential from a Christian perspective in this culture are the ones teaching falsehood.
We saw this week that Sarah shared a video. I think Jason and Amber commented on it where a woman pastor in some church got up and said: “We need a New Testament because the Bible is problematic.”
And there’s not a word of comment. Where are we going to get this New Testament? And why should we trust the person who gives us this New Testament? And why are you a minister anyway if you don’t believe this word’s reliable in the first place?
That’s why we have no significance in our culture. These two churches had other issues but our ineffectiveness is because we lost the message. We don’t preach the exclusionary nature of the gospel.
I am the way, the truth, and the life. And no one comes except through me. Well maybe it’s not that way; maybe God will figure something out. Maybe He will. But he does not tell us this in this book. And if we’re going to be Christians we’ve got to go by the book.
And tell the people that there is one name under heaven by which men may be saved: The name of Jesus Christ. Trying to tie all this together, and I don’t know how well I’m doing we must be reminded that there are a host of activities the churches can be involved in but they’re still being eroded from within because the Word is no longer central.
I tried to find it this morning. The churches, and this is not a moral judgment please don’t think that I’m making a point in many of these churches where they’ve got 10,000 people, the pastor is a CEO of an empire and he wears 500 hats and has no time to get into the Word of God.
This is why there are pastors good men good men all over America who go online and buy their sermons for the next Sunday because they have no time to get into the Word of God for themselves. Because we’ve got all these activities all these activities going on that I’ve got to be the director of.
I was trying to find it this morning Sinclair Ferguson who is a Scottish pastor. And for a while, he was pastor of, I think it was First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina. Now talk about culture clash when you have a Scottish brogue in a southern church preaching on Sunday morning very smooth, very slow.
I mean powerful speaker but nothing like your pastor. Just very sedate. Very sedate. But boy he really brings it out. But in this book he says that he had all these responsibilities and he went to the council and he sat down and he said: “I’ve got too much on my plate I need something taken off.” And they said okay well cut back on your speaking and don’t do as much teaching as you’re doing.
So you’ll have time for these other jobs. And we wonder why the church in America is in trouble and it is in trouble when half the people in the church don’t believe in the physical bodily resurrection of Christ. That’s why we’re insignificant today because we’ve lost the message. We’ve lost the message.
Now lest you think this is your pastor in 21st-century America let me read one more comment. We’re almost done. This is from the Understanding of the New Testament commentary copyrighted in 1969, 57 years ago and here’s what it says about this passage of Smyrna in Philadelphia: We hear today too much of crusades campaigns and advances and not enough of keep hold fast stand firm.
All too often more ground is lost by erosion than is gained by these advances. We’re fixated on new people. Our membership is growing we got all kinds of money we’re breaking ground for a new building and meanwhile the people don’t know what they believe or why they believe it and I’m not saying that big successful churches are failing in that I’m saying that’s the danger we want to avoid.
I know you know this but I’ll remind you there is not a building on this planet that’s ever saved a soul salvation is in Christ and an understanding of who He is and what He did for lost humanity. How do we apply this? Quickly at the moment that these letters were written, the churches had the smile of God upon them.
Both of them both of them my family picks on me because both comes out as both I’m a hick okay but Smyrna and Philadelphia were challenged to be faithful and to overcome anything that came their way well done Smyrna well done Philadelphia you’re right where you should be but you’ve got to stay there. You can’t drift away and fall back and lose what you have one commentator said these faithful believers are winning through the victory but they must be all the more vigilant so they can go all the way with Christ.
Listen children there is never a moment in this life where the Christian can say I made it I’ve arrived I got everything I need now. This is exactly the point of failure with the Laodicean church Revelation 3:17 you say I’m rich I have prospered I need nothing my life is good I don’t need God I don’t need the church I don’t need faith I got everything I need and he says he goes on as we will note he goes on to say you don’t even realize you’re blind.
You’re naked. Now in the 21st century America naked is no longer thought of as a shameful thing but originally being naked was a shameful thing. And he says you’re shameful because you’ve got nothing to cover you you’re miserable why? Because they came to a point they lost what they had.
Notice Smyrna getting ahead of myself how do we apply then how do we apply not losing this We prioritize an eternal life with God Far too many Christians our only focus is this life and we don’t think for a moment of the life to come and it’s easy to do in America. It’s easy to do in America everywhere you look everywhere you look I was at Biolife the other week and one of the technicians and I said how are you doing and they said well I was able to go horseback riding ironically over in Fort Valley this past week or two and said I’ve never done that before.
And I just love it. And I’m sitting there and I’m thinking well you know that might be something nice to try someday but then when I go to the beach I see a boat go by and I think boy I’d like to have a boat like that someday and then I go somewhere else and hear oh I would like to do that.
This is America in the 21st century. It’s all there for you. And the consequence is we forget that there is a life that we are going to. And that’s the one that should have our priority. It is not an accident that Joel Osteen shot to popularity with the book Your Best Life Now God wants you to have it all He wants you to have it here and not a mention of the accountability when we get there.
We must prioritize an eternal life with God. The key of David understood as entrance into God’s presence is reminiscent of this passage from Psalm 27 One thing have I asked of the Lord that will I seek after That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.
That’s what I want to do. And that’s what we need to prioritize. If God gives us the rest enjoy it but never let it supplement or be a substitution for God’s beautiful presence Listen Smyrna is promised the crown of life and Philadelphia is encouraged not to lose it now in a week ahead at some point we will deal again with the difference between losing your salvation which I do not believe is possible and losing your reward and to close with that thought I call your attention again to 1st, 2nd John which we used last week Watch yourselves so that you may not lose what we have worked for did you work for salvation No.
Salvation is a gift then what is He talking about losing he’s talking about losing the rewards for a life of faithful service to the kingdom. This is what we can lose and because listen children because He says you don’t want to lose it we need to be mindful in the judgment there will be pain associated with that loss.
If He says I don’t want you to lose it I want you to have it why? It’s important for you to get that how? I don’t know, but it’s not just “oh well at least I’ll be in heaven” – such an attitude reflects indifference to the will of God for your life here and now.
Father God, thank you for this time to reflect on these truths. May they strengthen our resolve to prioritize an eternal life with You above all else.
We must remember that while earthly achievements and possessions may offer temporary satisfaction, they are ultimately fleeting. The true treasure lies in a relationship with Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
Let us not be distracted by the world’s measures of success. Instead, let our focus remain steadfast on living faithfully for God’s glory, knowing that our ultimate reward comes from Him alone.
May we find joy in serving You and in sharing Your love with others, regardless of our circumstances or challenges. Let us encourage one another to remain vigilant and committed to the path set before us, confident in the assurance that Christ has conquered death and offers us victory through Him.
In closing, let’s be mindful of the Laodicean church’s warning: complacency can lead to spiritual blindness. May we continually seek renewal in our faith, asking God to help us see clearly and act accordingly.
Thank You, Father, for Your unfailing love and guidance. Help us to hold fast to what is true and let it shape every aspect of our lives. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
May this message from Revelation continue to inspire and challenge us as we strive to live out the principles laid before Smyrna and Philadelphia—faithfulness, perseverance, and unwavering commitment to Christ.
Let these words resonate within our hearts: “Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things. I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord.”
May we be found worthy at His coming, having served faithfully in love with all the strength He has given us.
Amen.

